Gaming Facts To Make You Feel Old
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2024
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Nintendo. Xbox. PlayStation. These things, seem immortal.
But alas, they are but new creations by man.
Except nintendo that stuffs pretty old.
Today I want to go over a bunch of things, listing games like halo, like the pokemons, the Marios, even a Fortnite, just to make you feel old.
Now obviously the effect of this will depend on your age.
If you’re just hitting 20, it probably isn’t gonna be nearly as surprising to hear some of this as somebody in their 30s. And so on and so forth.
This is just for fun. Or to make you feel old.
You decide. 
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I just checked and it's just 7 months since I last played war thunder.. gotta go back to feed the snail.. so they can keep feeding yt.. 🐌
wart hunder
Early onset dementia protects me from the psychological effects of the passing of time.
What?
Lucky
i hope you never have to care for a loved one with dementia, because the psychological effects you will encounter would be a modern greek tragedy after leaving a comment like this
On the shoulders of giants. Impossible to not look down on us. Jealous
@@DE-GEN-ART Dark, existential humor is a good thing. It helps people cope with the grim reality of life.
To quote a meme I saw recently,
"You're not a '90's kid, you're an adult in your 30's."
STOP
I hate this so much
[Emotional Damage!]
Just kill me
I'm 37 since 2 days ago. In 3 years I'll be 40.
"Donkey Kong Country Returns Returns" is what got me. We're living in the age of double nostalgia: Being nostalgic for things that originally made us nostalgic for something before that. When will we reach triple nostalgia?
A nostalgception if you will
Fun fact: mid-century modern design was itself a nostalgia for the 1920s. That itself got nostalgia’d in the late-90s early-00s, and people are now nostalgic for _those._ We’ve already hit triple-nostalgia
I'd take it, Returns is a wonderful game honestly
When DKC Returns gets a HD remaster on the Switch’s successor.
Somewhere after all physical releases and non live service titles cease to exist so that we can be sold a subscription service for reactions to lets plays of these old games.
The classical Romans are as old to us today as the ancient Egyptians were to the classical Romans.
This has been your daily "thinking about ancient Rome" moment for the day.
a stegosaur is older to a t-rex, than a t-rex is to us
Dude, Egypt is so old that the midpoint between us and the start of their dynastic history is Darius the Great at the height of the Persian Empire. Rameses II, 3000 years ago, reigned over a country with 2000 years of history.
@@BeaglzRok1and the old chestnut, Cleopatra is less-old to us now than the Great Pyramids were to her
What all that really makes me think of is that for all of that time, up until about 140 years or so ago, the fastest way anyone could travel was a horse.
@@ZeusTheIrritable don't forget Aladdin rug 😂
We're farther away from Portal 2 than Portal 1 was from the N64's debut
stop
@@GG_1318 time doesnt stop
@@ChessedGamon
Comedy = Tragedy + Time
The transition from Germany breaking the treaty of Versai to War Thunder is just funny to me
The idea of a French person being annoyed by your spelling is delicious. Please don’t edit the comment to change it, even if someone else tells you you should
Stuff from 2014-2017 being 9-7 years old is the stuff I see myself and others get tripped over a lot.
2017 just felt like such a modern year in so many ways, it's really kinda surreal for a lot of people to remember all the stuff around the mid 2010s is roughly close to a decade old now.
Just today, I was saying to someone “it’s so weird how the indyref vote was 10 years ago and Brexit’s vote was 8. British politics is still stuck on them, so it feels like it was yesterday”
@@kaitlyn__Lwelcome to America closing in on a decade stuck on Trump lmao
Buddy it's still 2017 for me
My boy, I still think the 2000s were only a decade ago.
The latest New Super Mario Bros game being 12 years old just feels weird. Those games still feel "recent" to me.
I guess you could say "new"
Pong is 52
52 years before Pong, Warren G Harding was elected US president
Even older than that? Spacewar is 62, 62 years before that was the year 1900-Theodore Roosevelt wasn’t president yet, Oklahoma wasn’t a state yet, and A Trip to the Moon hadn’t released
Duck Hunt is closer to the lifespan of Hitler than to today
I have the OG Xbox that I got when I was 12 sitting in my living room. I am 32 now....Jesus. What really messes me up is that I spilled some orange juice on the controller when I was 12 and never fully cleaned it up. The D pad still sticks sometimes...like...THERE'S STILL OJ IN MY CONTROLLER FROM WHEN I WAS LIVING A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LIFE 20 YEARS AGO. ...wow
I still have mine too but the fan is so loud and obnoxious I avoid playing it.
@@playlistenthusiastmaybe you should clean it?
Sweet little baby boy
My sticky D-pad is the gnarled-up thumb grip on my Gamecube controller, which sometimes falls-off in heated play.
For some reason (probably the autism tbh) I chewed it a lot from the ages 10-12. Especially in loading screens.
Once it fell off the first time I switched to more-appropriate chew toys, so it’s not gotten any worse! It’s just a perpetual reminder of, where I was in life back then.
@@personaslates That comment feels kinda wrong 💀
Fuck. I'm replaying Fallout 4, and in my head it's a new game..
FO4 and GTAV are my cutoffs. If a computer can run them, it can run the rest of my PC library. That's an enormous game selection.
::Fallout: New Vegas enters the chat::
Fr I got it for Christmas in 2015 and only played it for like an hour that night. It’s still sitting in my drawer idk why I never played it.
The matter of fact is that innovation in graphics and gaming tech isn't as apparent as the leaps that were being made pre 2010's
I think the reason why it seems so insane for gaming in particular besides the obvious you are older now and perceived time moves faster the older you get is that games take so much longer to release now. Back in the day you'd get a new game in a series every 3 years or so in the 2000s and even every 1 to 2 years in the '90s. Now a new game in a series takes at least 5 years, often going up to 6 to 8 years. Thats one game a console generation if you're lucky.
The majority of gamers still play at 1080p. Graphics just aren't major selling points anymore since most people don't really care about whether or not we can see the sweat pores on a character model's face.
Sealab 2021 takes place in the past at this point.
Once I got past feeling old, what is interesting is how it seems like seeing technology crawl relative to 15-20 years ago. Maybe more than technology, it shows the impact that extended development times for games and I think that changes my perception of how time has passed. Going from 1984-2004 to 2004-2024 really shows how steep the curve was back then, which isn’t obviously isn’t a new observation but this video really drives the point home for me.
I also found it interesting how Covid impacted my perception of time. Anything that came out after 2020 feels like it released yesterday, but anything from before that feels much older.
Part of that has to do with crypto farming and mining. Demand from farms led to higher end components being in short supply and driving market prices high. Shortages led to manufacturers continuing to only offer 8 to 16 GB of RAM for a long time out of necessity, but now that crypto hype has died down a bit and the parts are more available, the inflated prices are the limiting factor. A discount desktop from 2010 had 8 GB of RAM. Why the heck does a middle-of-the-road PC these days offer the same amount?
I think the reason why it seems so insane for gaming in particular besides the obvious you are older now and perceived time moves faster the older you get is that games take so much longer to release now. back in the day you'd get a new game in a series every 3 years or so in the 2000s and even every 1 to 2 years in the '90s. Now a new game in a series takes at least 5 years, often going up to 6 to 8 years. Thats one game a console generation if you're lucky.
@@Pepperham04that’s interesting. It’s affected my sense of time but differently. 2019 still feels like yesterday, so the fact it was 5 years ago sneaks up on me.
It was also around that time that all the new startups were becoming about crypto. A bunch of new tech was all focused on Crypto and NFTs, a bunch of companies basically looked into how to implement NFTs into stuff like video games, and anything and everything. The metaverse was getting hyped. Then the most obvious market crash in history happened. It's weird to think how Crypto just wiped away a few years of human progress. People poured their savings into nothing.@@OtakuUnitedStudio
Everytime I hear “2008” or “2018”, I always think to myself “ah, so just last year”. Which one depends on the context of why the year was brought up.
If it’s video games or anime, I think “oh, 2018, just last year.”
If it’s movies or video game hardware, I think “oh, 2008, just last year.”
We are now in the future of Jet Set Radio Future.
I remember being a little kid and my parents introduing me to old Atari and Arcade games through Plug-and-Play consoles and being so enamored by retro gaming. Now it's weird realizing the DS I played is viewed the same way by kids today.
Not just the DS, but also the first three iPhones. Super disorienting. Those crappy cameras are now sought-after among teens for The Aesthetic
Thanks for reminding me that I have more yesterdays than tomorrows. Time is like toilet paper, the closer you get to the end of the roll the faster it goes.
Is that why it always smells like shit?
It's hard for me to accept that Xbox 360 and PS3 games can be considered "retro" gaming now...
Any console with dedicated 3d hardware, or any game that requires it will never be retro to me. Now get off my lawn. Cough cough wheeze.
@@ainlLeek N64 is pretty definitely retro though
Early PS4/3DS games could arguably be considered retro even.
People considered SNES games retro in the early 2000s and such, and we're past a decade of the PS4/3DS'a early years.
Retro is such a undefined subjective term in many ways, surreal to think about all these things.
they technically can't though. they are old, sure, but not retro. that generation left CRT TVs behind, adopted wireless controllers, widescreen, digital games, game updates, widespread netplay. they are fundamentally different to what came before. I don't think you will have such a difference ever again, unless games are directly played in our brains or something.
@@Bajolzas
Thing is, Retro as a term doesn't have a clear cut definitive ruleset of what is and isn't retro,
You could argue in favour of these things being retro,
It's a subjective openb interpretation in a number of ways.
I'm taking psychic damage from this information. Thanks cant wait for more.
Ocarina of Time 3D is as old now to the OG OoT to the 3DS Remake.
The Guitar Hero and Appetite for Destruction comparison is what really got me holy cow
This year the Ocarina of Time remake on 3DS will be as old as the original Ocarina of Time on N64 was when Ocarina of Time 3D released
No wonder the joypads rubber on my 3DS is disintegrating.
Bought the thing because I though that Pokémon B&W were going to be for the 3DS.
Now I am just afraid of using it.
@@KimFareseedPokémon Black and White predate the 3DS tho...
I kept sinking further into my recliner the more this video went on LOL. I’m 36
Same, man, same.
Edit: I'm 36 as well. We are both just a few years away from being halfway to our deathbeds, statistically. I don't usually feel old, but this video makes me feel old.
@@DefaultFlame Fun fact, doctors and scientists today are estimating that with continuing development of healthcare and the prevalence of insurance coverage, our generation will have the first people who will live to be over 125 and the largest percentage of centenarians ever - 50 will be the new 40 for us, and we'll be in generally better health well past retirement age. Whether you believe any of this or not it entirely up to you. Personally, I'm going to live like the current national average is going to be my finish line, but keep living like it's not until I can see it on the horizon.
I am 2 days away from being 37.
@@daniel_rossy_explicahow's it like being 37 now
@@OtakuUnitedStudio I'd have agreed with this until, can't remember when but in the last few months, read a news article about how the average life expectancy has fallen across most of the world.
Plus living in the UK and watching the Tory government strangling the NHS to death makes me think things are just gonna get worse.
At this point I'm convinced the world actually ended in 2012 and this reality is just the fizzling remains of human consciousness attempting to cobble together some semblance of meaning before we fade away completely into the void
me before this video: it can't be That bad...
bloodborne is 9 years old
me: Dear god
Still waiting for Bloodborne for PC so i can finally play it.
And it'll never happen. I enjoy every year when people predict a Bloodborne remaster and it doesn't happen....
At 22 years, we are equidistant to the 2002 release of GTA Vice City, a game which encapsulates the 1980s, as the release date of that game is to the very start of the 1980s. By that logic, a game which is based in the early 2000s would be just as appropriate today as Vice City was to its release date.
I'm calling it now that Ubisoft will announce a Watch Dogs prequel set in 2003 and make the aesthetic all about early 2000s nostalgia. 2003 because that's when that massive blackout that the original Watch Dogs had made a serious effort to connect to its story happened.
I can very well imagine early/mid 2000s nostalgia being the new hot thing in media in the 2020s tbh
Us 2000s kids are now in our 20s and late teens and old enough to feel nostalgia for our childhoods, much like 80s and 90s nostalgia fueled the 2010s
Those “remakes after 10 years” examples just goes to show that basically anything from that point on doesn’t really need to be remade. Or that more time would have to pass to be worth it, just because of the diminishing returns of technology.
Crazy Fact: Meet the Robinsons was made in 2007 (When I was born btw) and takes place in the year 2037. We are now closer to 2037 than we are to 2007. Damn.
Thinking back, I was a huge fan of that movie as a kid and I never even noticed the time frame
Some days you have good one. Others your perception of time is shattered, stomped, even spat on. This is one of those days. Thanks Whimsu!
THE UNSTOPPABLE AND UNYIELDING MARCH OF TIME IS NOT ONLY MY GREATEST FEAR BUT AN INESCAPABLE DEATH SENTENCE
I'm saved from some of this just because I was born in 2001 and got to experience lots of these games years after release. Still rough info to have though. The Wii should not be as old as it is
I'm 36 I saw the electronic sign that says you must be born on or after 2-1-2003 to buy cigarettes. I'm thinking damn that was 18 years ago only to realize the new age is 21 years old. I know people my age that had kids in high school and those kids are old enough to buy alcohol and cigarettes. :((
Not to mention, considering you knew people who had kids in high school, some of those kids probably have kids by now.
Cool, I hadn't planned any existential crisis for today.
Yet, here we are!
Thanks!
I do this shit in my head all the time. Never thought I'd see a video of it. You're a lad after my own heart. I started Pokemon with Red and I feel like I clump every game after diamond and pearl into a "new pokemon games" category.
I dunno If I’m “allowed” to feel old at only 17 but damn is it strange for the 90’s to be 30 years ago now. I was so used to it being 20 years ago. And things like the PS4 being 10 years old just feels odd and New Super Mario Bros. U being 12 years old is just odd.
I'm 25 and I've already had like 8 midlife crisis lmao
Covid meant people didn't come to terms that the 2020s had started and we're nearly halfway through them. Time spent under lockdown was just a bubble. Like how people thought about the depression era 1930s, and the boom era of the 1950s, but the 1940s was just a time bubble where "The War" happened and not it's own decade in other ways.
@@theonebman7581if you've already hit eight midlife then your closing in on your only end life crisis
@@theonebman7581 I'm 36... I turn 37 in December and I can feel the encroaching dread of that 3 becoming a 4. I've felt ancient ever since in 2016 I learned that the original Jurassic Park was as long ago as the first man on the moon was to that film and now 2016 is almost 10 years ago...
It boggles my mind that this young man is less than a year away from being legally allowed to drink and he was born in 2006/7? Kids born in 2010 are only 4 years away from being able to drink.
Bring it on. I'm nearly 40 years old and have to wear knee braces to move comfortably. Nothing you can do can hurt me.
Have you seen that picture of a person who took a picture of their car's dashboard displaying Blink 182's All The Small Things on an oldies station?
Britney and Christina are now eligible to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Whimsu you have succeeded in making me feel old as hell.... Here's to another year of gaming that won't beat my nostalgia of every year from 2001-2007 or so....
There’s gotta be some consolation, right? I feel like fewer games are releasing these days, and the longevity of games has increased?
There are A LOT more new games now than before
@@jdg1251 If you count indies, yes but there is definitively less AAA and AA releases.
Why this is all so crazy is because of how technology grew for video games and began to slow down by the last 20 years. Games 20 and even 10 years before 2004 is way different in terms of power graphics and techniques that they are 20 and 10 years ago
For the longest time, you could remake a game from the previous generation and it’d look wildly new. If they remade a PS3 game on PS5, it’d barely be noticeable without a side-by-side comparison. It’s just not enough to be worth it.
@@mrshmuga9 you say "if" like it didn't happen already. tlou is the prime example.
@@Bajolzas Also Demon Souls, which I realized after. But it just further proves my point.
@@mrshmuga9 Hey now that graphics have plateaued video games can now focus on being aesthetically diverse or have more than like 3 different gameplay styles right?
@@crunchbuttsteak8741 If only...
Crazy Fact: The very first video game ever, the Cathode-Ray-Tube Amusement Device (1947) at 77 years old is closer to the construction of the Eiffel Tower (1889) than to now or just as far away as 1870 was then. In other words it’s closer to the publishing of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1871) than to today and closer to the Old American Wild West as well.
that also makes it closer to the victorian age than to us. holy shit
what I really notice more and more is that progress or just bigger changes in gaming seem to be happening slower and slower
PS1 being 30 years old this year, wow time flies when your having fun
Yesterday I was watching a playthrough of undertale when they mentioned the game being a bit old. I was shocked and appalled to learn it's almost 10 years old when I consider it one of the latest games
This does blow my mind, trying to imagine being a kid growing up today, who's seeing all these games that were very competent actually being very old. For me, old games when I was a kid meant that they were *just* getting to the kind of graphical fidelity that pixel art was becoming pixel art and not just a few ugly sprites to represent a thing.
All this stuff being said, PS2 feels squarely vintage to me now though. PS3 to an extent as well.
Pacman calls out to us through time. "time for war"
I think the reason why it seems so insane for gaming in particular besides the obvious you are older now and perceived time moves faster the older you get is that games take so much longer to release now. back in the day you'd get a new game in a series every 3 years or so in the 2000s and even every 1 to 2 years in the '90s. Now a new game in a series takes at least 5 years, often going up to 6 to 8 years. Thats one game a console generation if you're lucky.
“LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga released seventeen years ago”
Holy shit. holy shit… that one got me…
The moment you realize Pong (1972) is closer to the fall of the Ottoman Empire than to now.
Man, Mario Odyssey turning 7 this year does make me feel old. It came out a few days before my 17th birthday and my Dad got me the switch bundle. To this day thats the closest to launch I ever got a console. It felt so cool playing in handheld and showing my friends all the gimmicky gyro features.
It’s crazy how time just moves on without you noticing, until you look back like, “that was a decade ago??”
In 1985, Sega launched the Master System (as the Mark III) in Japan. In 2001, 16 years later, Sega stopped manufacturing the Dreamcast. It's been 23 years since then.
I am so relieved to see that *someone* else does this stuff too. Time is just interesting like that.
I think the greater cause of this shock of how much time's past, reflects the stagnation if the industry as a whole. In the span between GTA 6 set to release and GTA V released, the entire GTA franchise was released the 15 years prior.
The last original console Mario Kart was a decade ago, before that we had almost 4 mario karts the decade prior.
Games and console cycles are lasting longer, as companies exploit different tactics (never ending remasters, live service, etc) to squeeze more money out of the consumer while providing far less than they did the decades before. I'm afraid the golden years of gaming are firmly in the rearview mirror now folks...
I feel like this surprise people feel by realizing how old some games are is partially due to games having a longer lifespan than they would have in the past thanks to modding, DLCs, online gaming, etc. and also because graphics have sort of stagnated, for the last decade or so, there hasn't been great graphic improvements simply because there isn't much more that can be improved.
The moment you realize Pong (1972) is closer to the Great Depression than to now.
I can accept that I'm old and that 2002 was a good year in the city was a long time ago. Hearing Metal Gear Solid 5 is nearly a decade old hurt. Like, it just came out, man. MGS4 came out 10 years ago.
The one that kills me is that NES SMB and Mario 64 was around a decade. Sonic 1 and Sonic Adventure was less. Time flew fast with rapid exciting new consoles and games every year. A decade in gaming now? Your 1080p game is now re-released as 4k. Yay.
The reason games feel so weird at this particular moment is because we basically had 50 years of figuring out what was possible, then the PS4 era came along and it's finally leveled out.
I love doing this stuff! It's awesome to see a whole video dedicated to it
Whimsu, I’m not sure what it is exactly about your style of video but you are one of the most entertaining people to watch on RUclips, I think personally you’re up there with like OverSimplified or Sam O’Nella for how easy it is to get me to tune in. Thank you
I’ve got a couple more for you. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D for 3DS (June 2011) is now the same age that the original N64 version of Ocarina of Time (November 1998) was when 3D first released. Also, the release of Pong (1972) is midway between the start of Prohibition (1920) and the present day.
The moment you realize we’re closer to 2028 than we are to 2019.
What messes with me the most is that Vice City was set 16 years prior to its release in 2002. Vice City came out 22 years ago.
Bruh... Better start looking for those senior discounts.
to be honest, the gaming world seems to embrace more and more every era of gaming, almost making each phase their own sub genres of gaming. It seems like people are willing to pick up and play almost anything as long as it has merit and historicity 👍🏻
When he said halo 5 was released 9 years ago that one really hit me.
I was born in 2004 and I remember going over ot my friends house the day it released to play with him (he always invited me to play halo with him, idk maybe he had a crush beats me)
And we were both livid walking to GameStop for a refund cause it had no split screen.
I heard that statement and went “oh nooooo, I feel old 😂”
You should have included Minecraft (2009) which is 15 this year. As old as Super Metroid, Donkey Kong Country, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and the PS1 were then.
GTA Vice City was a 2002 game set in 1986. If a game came out this year with that year difference it would be set in 2008 and Taylor Swift could be on the radio.
Fun comic book fact kids, this is the 40th anniversary of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who debuted in their self titled comic book from Mirage Studios! That comic introduced the Turtles, Splinter, Shredder, and The Foot! Pabong the bedrock for a worldwide phenomenon
For me I think its partially the fact the 2015-2016 does not feel like it was that long ago, but also I feel it is much more difficulty to notice differences between the era's with the stagnation in graphics.
I never thought that Shrek 2 would get me this far in life.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The entire video only works if you're over 30, as someone younger I have no concept of how old 80s things are (or early 90s)
my 1200 hours on MKWii beg to differ (i'm 19 and i will never accept my favorite game is 16 years old now)
Appetite of Destruction featuring such hits like Welcome of The Jungle and Sweet Child for Mine
The reference that always gets me: When I was a kid, the Fred Savage show The Wonder Years seemed like such a different time. It was set in the late 1960s, or 20 years before I watched it in 1988. So for kids today, if they had a similar show, it would be set in 2004. Listening to their mp3 players. Signing up for something new called The Facebook.
What's really crazy is how little games have progressed since 04 vs 84-04
And you could argue that in the last 10 years or so games have gotten worse by leaps and bounds instead of getting better, because instead of these games being passions projects now they're all cash grabs with the least amount of effort possible
As far as remasters go, the outer worlds got a "remaster" 3 years after it's launch
Though it somehow only looks worse kmao
windows vista being 17/18 years old is what fucks with me most
I would argue that while the difference between the fourth and fifth generation of games are similar to when movies went from silent and black and white to color and sound, the difference between the sixth and ninth barely affects gameplay and so is unnoticable to most.
I just had my 27th birthday this past weekend, which means that the gap between now and when I turn 30 is the same amount of time between GTA III and GTA San Andreas.
I don’t think games should use returns or new in a title cause it really just ages a title
Yesterday, I purchased a PS5. I bought it nine and a half years after I bought my PS4, which I bought back in 2014. That was some 9 years after I bought my PS2, my first gaming console, at age 5. Yesterday, I felt old
As someone who's in their 30s I hated these facts, but I loved your video.
The only one these that really made me feel old was the Mario Odyssey one.
The Switch was the first console I ever bought with my own money. Wow.
I was playing Metroid Prime yesterday and it got me think, holly... this game it's 20y old and still looks this good!
Halo 5 releasing almost a decade ago honestly fucked me up ngl
Already making me feel old with that sponsor at the beginning 💀
This was a 9 minute video of me just yelling at my monitor to impede time.
Damn that angry birds one got me
That last fact rooted me, ruined the whole rest of the video tbh, my immersion is gone, and reality makes sense 😢
Don't forget, Mertoid Zero Mission, A GBA remake of was then an 18 year old game, is now 20 years old, in 2 years time, Metroid as a series will be 40.
I like to think about these time frames because it allows me to see how nostalgia blinds each generation. I remember that, in the late 2000s, the trend was to imitate the 8-16 bit era because most of the kids who played it were already young adults by then. I even remembered people discussing about how gaming was already dead, and that the "current gen" was the worst yet.
Nowadays, people of my age say that the PS2/360 gen was "the best era of gaming" just because they were kids at the time. And I'm pretty sure that kids who grew up in the early years of Fortnite, Pokémon Go, or Switch release are also pretty nostalgic for those years right now.
Man I was out here playing LittleBigPlanet 1 and 2 in 2012 and now I'm almost a grown ass man 💀
Burnout Paradise City is my cutoff for if a game was 'before my time' or not. Given it came out in 2008, 16 years ago... That means it's as old to us now as Street Fighter 2 was to it.
As someone born in 2007 who’s currently 16 some examples of games I grew up with include Super Mario 3D World (2013) which is now as old as Mario Sunshine (2002) was then. Pikmin 3 (2013) which is closer to Pikmin 2 (2004) than to Pikmin 4 (2023) or now (2024). The Wii U (2012) is now as old the PS2 (2000) was then. Epic Mickey 2 (2012) is now closer to the GameCube (2001) than to now. The 2DS (2012) is closer to the OG Xbox (2001) than to now. Splatoon (2015) is now as old as the OG Wii (2006) was then. Captain Toad Treasure Tracker (2014) is now as old as Pikmin 2 (2004) or GTA San Andreas (2004) were then. RDRI (2010) is now as old as Super Mario 64 (1996) was then. RDRII (2018) is now closer to GTA V (2013) than to now. GTA V (2013) is now as old as GTA Vice City (2002) was then. When GTA VI comes out in 2025 they’ll be kids younger than GTA V playing it, as if they weren’t kids already younger than GTA V playing it now. Mario Kart 7 (2011) is now as old as the Dreamcast (1998) was then. Super Mario Maker (2015) is closer to Super Mario Galaxy (2007) than to now. Mario Kart 8 (2014) is now as old as the DS (2004) was then. The Switch (2017) is now closer to the 3DS (2011) than to now). Breath of the Wild (2017) is now closer to Skyward Sword (2011) and Skyrim (2011) than to now. Super Mario Odyssey (2017) is now as old as Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010) was then. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018) is now as old as the Wii U (2012) was then. Super Mario Maker 2 (2019) is now as old as Captain Toad (2014) was then. The PS5 (2020) is now as old as the PS4 Pro (2016) was then. The Xbox Series X|S (2020) is now closer to the Xbox One X (2017) than to now. Elden Ring (2022) is now as old as Cyberpunk 2077 (2020) was then. TLOZ: Tears of the Kingdom (2023) is now as old as Elden Ring (2022) was then. Since it’s 2024, we are halfway between the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S (2020) and the PS6 and the next Xbox (2028). Think about that. As of the writing of this comment it’s February 3, 2024 and the next Nintendo Direct is likely to occur on February 7, 2024 so only in 4 days. We could literally be only 4 days away from the Switch 2’s announcement. Absolutely insane to think about.
I still feel like the hype around release of the 8th gen consoles and their initial line-up was less than a year ago. People were still hyped about gaming, GoT was all the rage, breaking bad had just ended and the net was crazy about it, tlou and gta5 were the pinnacle of gaming, every kid had frozen merch and that song was everywhere, twitch was getting traction, and everyone was complaining about battlefield 4 bugs and glitches. Good times
I ain't gonna lie, i don't get none of these time comparisons. But i like the way the diagrams look😂
...I don't think you can invoke "Germany's breaking of the treaty of Versailles," then smash transition back into a war thunder ad read. there has to be a law against that, lol
I think the shocking part is seeing how game advanced up to 2010~2013, and how stagnant the scene got since then.
Tennis For Two released 66 years ago
66 Years before 1958 would be 1890, 4 years after Coco-Cola first came out
As a historian I enjoyed this video a lot.