Says you!!?? I lived back in those days, and I did go down into someone's basement. And I tell you what, it was a mistake that I would not make again. My bum was sore for two weeks.🥴😭
Yep, also, I thought he was around 30 now, how old was he when he started his youtube channel? And also, he looks and sounds considerably older, must be how tall he is. One last thing, most people that are into tech, are or have been at least in their formative years, are into video games, it's strange how he's not.
I remember the day my mom came home and told me, "I bought you a Nintendo!" I ran out to the car only to find she had bought me an Atari (much older system). I didnt have the heart to tell her what it actually was and hugged amd thanked her. It had a joystick and a single button on the controlled. I played the game it came with until it froze, which I was convinced meant I finished it. So I just told myself, "I guess I flipped it over", which meant I passed the whole game. I ended up getting a Super Nintendo years later. Memories
@@protocat21 if I remember correctly, she brought it to me in a plastic bag. My mom wouldnt have known the difference between consoles. This was back in the early 90's.
He looks older than me.. I'm 23 and anybody with a gameboy back in the day just knows that's a big no no, at least he didn't take the cartridge out while it was on right?...
Haha. Definitely not. 😁 But I guess if it is probably one kid telling another kid and they are buddies, then maybe it is not so scary. But yeah all the same, let the game be in the living room not basement. 🙂
@@mambomambo5 to be fair, newer machines wouldn't have this requirement. You can be powered on, stick the game's media in the machine and select it. Coming from newer tech and checking out older machines tends to give people different tendencies when it comes to how we interact with it. Those of us who came from those older machines simply have different notions of how to interact with a device by default, through our experience.
Hahaha. Amazing comment. I checked the same thing - that was completely inappropriate. If I remember well, one “Cheat mode” between games were accessible only switching cartridges with the system turned on - maybe something related with Sonic and SuperMonaco GP - I read that in a magazine from the 90s when I was a Kid. The advise from the magazine was “It could severely damage the cartridge or the console” - great trick to teach the kids!
Yes...! The icon of the character sound,when we began to turn power on,after we insert A cd games to that portable video games. Yes....! I still remember that.
So much memories too. I was born at 1972 so i remember a lot of tech from ZX Spectrum, commodore 64, atari..... Sega Genesis (Sega mega drive), Super Nintendo (SNES) and many more. I was experience all of them and some other cool things (like first VR in 90-s)
Liu kang was my favorite character, never got tired of doing that dragon fatality 😁 I had a snes too but I don't remember many street fighter codes, my go to character was always ryu... I used to learn all the tricks from gaming magazines or through friends since the internet as we know it wasn't around yet, good memories...
It was a epic achievement from the sega team at that time. Funny thing is, the 3 years younger super famicom could not process such speed on screen. Alot of people have forgot this. Sonic also made the genesis succesfull. I can remember every teenager wanted one, then again alot of parents found it too expensive. As kid i daily visited a toy store where they had a megadrive demopod, staring at aliensyndrome, altered beast golden axe, knowing i would never own one (my parentd did not have much money) I believe it was like dutch F499,- (like ps5 now) games F129,- My own son got a ps5, switch lol Payback time for my youth.
@@kaminari-Ife When someone says "level design is soooo bad" about any Sonic 2D title, you already know that said person has an IQ lower than room temperature in celsius.
I can’t believe everyone always skips over sega Saturn when they talk about the genesis and the Dreamcast, the sega Saturn was outrageously underrated...
I was a Genesis kid. That console shaped my childhood. I recently found the console while helping my parents move and I'm 10 all over again. We even had sega channel because my dad worked at the cable company.
Since everyone is commenting about how premium is now worth it I feel like I also want to put in my 2 cents. I think everyone likes this show because one Marques takes a lot of pride in what he creates so he wouldn’t allow himself to release mediocre videos and two I feel like a lot of other premium shows try too hard to be good in the sense that they try to find a topic that’s relatively mainstream to get views as people ride the wave. Also, for myself and probably plenty of other people this series taps into things that we didn’t even know we real it missed. Brings back memories that make us happy and in a time like 2019-2020 that is very much needed. Props to Marques. Very well done show!
I know you guys love this dude but to be honest I don't see this as that great. The whole thing feels more like a thing that will attrack a viewer that just watches for the hell of it but not really about making a great small documentary into Genesis. Like a poser Genesis video than a real one if you get my drift. Good camera, clean image, even going and finding people to talk in a big studio with variable lighting but a bit soulless to be honest and not very informative ether. I have seen other RUclipsrs do a lot better with a lot less.
@@SIPEROTH It's not an amazing show/masterpiece but it's also not bad. It's just good. And that's ok. (Kind of like how Patrick (H) Willems sad in his last video)
The sound output through the headphone jack was just next level. It sounded completely different and awesome compared to the sound coming out of the TV speakers.
i was readying myself into the moment when that poor genesis or that poor sonic cartridge would sort themselfs out from that abuse. but then i remembered that those things were build like tanks, and even after nuclear strike those 80's and 90's cartridge consoles would still work like new.
It wasn't ahead of it's time, it was dead before it got off the ground. People like me and my friends had just got done dropping hundreds of dollars on the 32x and the Saturn. They were both terrible investments. We were all done wasting our money on Sega products by the time the dreamcast arrived. Sony had already been killing it for years.
Brad Strawn Ok, but you're not really talking about the dreamcast any, the dreamcast was indeed very revolutionary, with its arcade perfect ports and all due to being based off of the sega naomi arcade hardware. It was the start of the 6th generation a whole year and a half before the Playstation 2, it spawned a new but short lived proprietary format, GD-Roms. The VMU's were pretty neat too. It was also the first console to standardize online play, it blew the competition out of the water when it came out in terms of technical capabilities
@@SK91NO I would expect the first console of the next gen to blow away the competition. Just like the Genesis was miles ahead of the NES. That's not ahead of its time. It didn't fail because consumers didn't understand it (which is what ahead of its time implies)it failed because Sega had been churning out half baked consoles for years.
it’s so crazy watching this video in 2021, when we’re now seeing things at 4k, 2180p, possibly 240hz. to see how video games and graphics have advance from 8 bit pixels to cinematic type graphics is truly amazing
I still remember the day when i got my sega clearly because my father played sonic for 4 hours straight until i was even allowed to get close to the console but that made me realize that sega was something awesome...never seen adults behave like that before... man ...running home with my brother after school to play Mortal Kombat ll ...i miss the 90s 😢
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 What was wrong with Saturn? They had a lot of amazing games, I remember when it first came out it was a game changer, so many great 3D games, like clockwork night, bug, Batman was great, the racing games were incredible...why does it get so much hate?
You can't talk about the Sega Dreamcast's failure without talking about the Saturn so it's a shame that wasn't mentioned. It's also worth mentioning the Dreamcast has a pretty substantial cult following. Overall though it was a great video about it's legacy
Exactly, what "killed" Sega was the Saturn, they rushed it because Sony was coming up with the Playstation, it was too expensive (400$ vs 300$ of the PS1) and way to hard to program for, plus, the first games that came out looked awful compared to the PS launch titles which had a lot of 3D games (and then the N64 with Mario 64). When they released the Dreamcast they were already in a financial hole, they had GREAT games, but 3º party support wasn't there and the DVD player on the PS2 (major selling point at the time) was the final kick for Sega. I Still love the Dreamcast, what an amazing system, just thinking that it had Online gaming in '99, that would not become a common thing 'till the xbox live came out 3 years later (i know both the PS2 and GC had internet, but they were add-ons that never got much attention).
Sega Genesis was my childhood. I literally couldn't see myself playing games on a Super Nintendo even now. Sega was raw, unhinged and didn't fuck around. Seeegaaaaaa... for life!!!!
Nintendo kept delaying the Super Nintendo that's why Sega had time to improve their games for Genesis. The SMS was actually good but failed because Sega wanted all game development in house.
@@ballstothewall38 Yeah Sega back then did not want third party companies to make games for the SMS because they thought they would lose revenue and let another company make money off their system. Nintendo realized there were many companies that produced great games and realized they could sell more systems if they got third party titles. Nintendo also got a percentage of the third party companies game sales revenues.
So, you played it when you were in the age range of 2-4 max. And "Growing up with something" after the product is already outdated, which in the case of the Genesis is 1995 after the launch of the Sega Saturn doesn't count.
Lalfred I think he means that during his childhood that’s the console he had and enjoyed playing it, hence why he said he grew up playing with it. Makes sense to me
Genesis came out 2 Years before I was born so when I was maybe 5 I was playing genesis and snes and didn’t play ps1 til maybe 1998. We couldn’t afford the latest and greatest
@@aaronwalakay Yeah, but the fact that your experience came later means that Marques probably didn't experience it because it was pretty much out by the time he was 2.
Are you talking about the 32X? That was s--- back then and it's s--- now. The only good thing about it is that it has a miniscule library so it's easier to collect for, but then all the boxes are cardboard and most of the games stink! The Mega CD add-on had more appeal, but not much. A slow consumer-grade CD drive with a library of 90% FMV crap like Sewer Shark, Corpse Killer, Night Trap and Double Switch. The only decent games on the platform were Snatcher, Keio Flying Squadron and Sonic CD. Not exactly worth the exorbitant price tag.
@The Retro Speculative Silpheed, Shining Force CD, and Ecco the Dolphin CD were pretty good as well; but I agree that most of the Sega CD library was trash. That being said, the CD add on, made way more sense than the 32 x. What Sega should have done was just upgrade the graphics with a chip in the cartridge, similar to Nintendo; or with pre-rendering, as they did for Vectorman. The 32x was completely unnecessary, considering these options.
I'm glad I grew up with the Sega Genesis. It was my first gaming console, and made video games a lifelong passion of mine. They certainy played a part in shaping the gaming industry at that time.
@@kylegordy113 no I mean DVD player. The reason the PS2 was one of the best selling consoles of all time, was due to the fact that it could play DVDs. Consumers didn’t see the need to buy a stand alone DVD player when they could get a gaming console that plays movies for the same price. This is one of the big reasons the Dreamcast lost so many sales to the PS2. Was because Sega opted to not put one in, since it was for gaming.
@@fossil-bit8439 it would have been impossible in 1998. But Dreamcast didn't really lose any sales to the PS2 overall because Sega pulled the plug 6 weeks after the PS2 launched in the West. Sad but true DC had no path to success due to Sega's earlier follies and arcade revenue collapsing in a perfect storm.
You are by far my favorite youtube creator. I mean, you got it all. Within your channel we get new tech reviews, old tech flashbacks and more. Combine that with really smooth editing and a personal approach... No wonder you are killin' it. Rock on Marques!
Same boat but it sounds like you had to be broke to enjoy these systems in hand me down form. I felt the same way about the gameboy video when he says he’s never played one. I remember being ten and buying one for $5 with a bag full of games at a yard sale. Circa 2004 good times, a year later I bought a new in box n64 with games at another yard sale for what would be considered dirt
This guy not knowing how to work a Genesis is heartbreaking. What a missed childhood. I grew up at the perfect time, born 1986! I’ve been exposed to every system ever made and what a journey it’s been!
I feel like you guys should at least put someone who understands the history, consoles and peripherals with them. The Activator, for instance, you need to understand that around that time it wasn't common having fluoroscent lights inside the house, but incandescent light bulbs. This sort of thing should be explained so it makes sense for the time those items were sold. Nice series but it could be a little bit more informative. (when he turned the Genesis on without the cartridge I wish someone corrected him, or showed the way it was supposed to be done)
I think the competition was between the Nintendo N64, the Playstation PS1, and the Sega Saturn. I remember playing Power Rangers on my friend's N64 in the late 90's and i was like whoa! how can i convince my parents to get me one coz i had just started playing on a Sega Mega Drive 2. My fave game on Sega was Mortal Kombat MK3 Ultimate which to me is still the best MK game ever made. Then i got my hands on the PS1 and it was game over from there. Still a fan of PS to this day even though i dont game much. Last console i had before i gave it away to my younger cousin was a PSP 3000
Dreamcast was 1999. It actually faced PS1 and 64 as competitors for longer than it faced Xbox PS2 and Gamecube. It's power, however, was much more on par with the later generation.
@@h3ck774 the people who had a Dreamcast loved it but sega ran out of money and the ps2 came out and a bunch of other things that didn’t really have to do with people not liking the Dreamcast
I had the Sega Genesis. I am still nostalgic for it. I loved Batman and the Batman game was my first on the console. I never thought about it being edgy, consciously , but it was dark, literally, set in Gotham city with edgier comic characters.
Yup same, not courtesy an older sibling, just generally the only games I played till I was 8 and then I discovered PC gaming and I guess the parents got rid of my genesis and games, so many games. :(
Bro you are disappointing me with your knowledge of your "older brother aged" tech. You have to turn off the system before inserting or removing the cartridge.
@@MACTEP_CHOB you probably read the manual or had an older sibling or parent do it for you. after they showed you a few times, you never forgot it and because it seems so obvious now, your memory probably can't recall that you didn't actually know how to do it at first either. also, marques doesn't read instruction manuals. barely anyone does for tech nowadays. anyone would assume that if they can work the tech of today, one from 30+ years ago would be simple to figure out. gotta say, i cringed at the blowing the cartridge part. you're not supposed to do that. most of the stickers on the cartridges even used to say that.
Dreamcast was the dopest underrated console ever. It had more potential and better graphics than the Ps1. It was absolutely beautiful. The games were epic
I still have a Dreamcast and still play it to this day (I've probably completed dino crisis 20 times by now). It belonged to my older brothers (10 yrs older than me). My brothers moved on and got PlayStations and Xboxes so my sisters and I got the Dreamcast. By this time Wii was just starting to become a thing, so my sisters got a Wii, but I couldn't let my parents get rid of the Dreamcast. Besides, I love having people come over to play games and just having them be like 'what the hell is that???' I can't tell you how many times I've had a friend get angry because of the 'awful' controls. It's weird though cause Dreamcast and I are technically the same age, 1999.
@@kquote03 My main gripe is the fact that they even bothered to bring the Dreamcast up, yet neglected to mention the Saturn and the other failures SEGA did. (and yeah, really stupid of them to do a whole segment about accessories and not have the CD/32X there)
The Nintendo NES was released to US in 1985. The Sega Genesis was in 1989. If you were ten years old when the NES was available, that meant you were born in 1975. This MKBHD retro vid was published in 2019. So some simple math: 2019 - 1975 = 43. Meaning the minimum age of the people he's interviewing should be in their early to late fourties. No way the people in this vid are that old. Plus they're talking about video arcades and donkey kong too. That's even earlier!
The dreamcast was the true next gen arcade experience brought to home, sadly ps2 was around and there was no way they could beat sony there.... mainly I think cos the psx did so well in it's life circle and that home market changed a lot looking at more cinematic experienced games rather then just a pass time arcade experience.
For a "retro tech dude" seems not to know that much about retro tech until they do their research. I'm 27, I think Marques is about 1 or 2 years younger then me but I vividly remember playing Sonic and Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis. If anything, they should definitely remember the Sega Dreamcast.
That’s how most kids are nowadays. Experts that require doing research on topics. No idea about life before their existence. Kinda lazy. Also, I think the Genesis was too risqué for him as a kid. Seems he lives a sheltered life
I'm over 40. My favorite games for the Sega Master System and the Genesis were: Space Harrier (1986) Stryder (1990) MUSHA (1991) Revenge of Shinobi (1989) Alex Kidd In Miracle World (1987) R-Type (1987) Golvellius (1987) Mystic Defender (1990) Alien Syndrome (1989) Zillion II (1988) Wonder Boy (1988) Kenseiden (1988) Alex Kidd had potential to be Sega's mascot before Sonic, but Alex just wasn't as well known.
It's unbelievable that this guy never played SEGA Genesis before, Well i played Genesis as a kid and I have so much nostalgia with it, Gosh I really missed my old times.
poorly produced video. they didn't do their research because they aren't actually gamers. mkbhd is a tech guy, not a serious gamer like happy console gamer or avgn who knows the history. pathetic
In actuality, the Genesis, was designed in 87, and released in 1988 in Japan as the Mega Drive. Mine still works perfectly, and the beautiful thing about it is, the quality was top notch. The plastic didn’t wear badly like the SNES and NES, which, even when well kept, looks like it’s been brushed with a coat of grayish yellow paint. It also looks incredible natively with an RGB to HDMI converter, compared to the SNES which had better RCA out, but terrible RGB out. The headphone port also allowed for a nice Stereo output which could be blended with the mono out to a TV. Also, current ports like Mortal Kombat Arcade Edition, which runs on the native hardware, prove that not only were the original devs doing the least they could imaginable, given that Arcade Edition has all of the sound samples, animations and the correct colors, but like the original port, it plays better than the SNES version. Now the bad thing here is the lack of 6 button pad. The OG Genesis pad looks stylish, but it feels terrible. The D pad wasn’t the legendary floating D pad found on the 6 button pad, or the Saturn S pad that’s fantastic for fighting games. The buttons felt bad too by comparison. The only downside is the smaller size of the 6 button pad by comparison. Sega changed gaming in the arcades more so than in home consoles, being at the forefront of graphics from their first arcade systems up until the release of Virtua Fighter 5. They were the first to introduce forward scrolling with proper Sprite scaling and rotation. They were the first to release a fighting game with the original Championship boxing arcade machine that was grayscale. They were the first to use true 3D glasses with blinking to create 3D images with SubRoc 3D. They were the first to use fully rotational arcade machines, they were the first to use true 3D accelerated, motion captured 3D. Tekken 1 and 2 used hand animation for their move sets. They were the first to push 180,000 polygons, the first to push 300,000 polygons, Tekken 2 only pushed 120,000 in arcades, and 100,000 on the PS1 port. They were the first to push 1,000,000 polygons in a racing and fighting game, in 1996, with Scud Race and Virtua Fighter respectively. Nintendo claimed the n64 could push 1,000,000 polygons, the max it pushed was less than 300,000 with AI and game logic. The highest polygon counts on PC games were well bellow 1,000,000. In 96 it was 350,000. In 1999 Quake was finally pushing 900,000 on PC to put this into perspective. They were the first console developers to push 1 million and 2.5 million polygons respectively, with Soul Caliber and Dead or Alive 2 on the Dreamcast. If the 2.5 million number is doubted, it’s been confirmed by Beyond 3D. They were the first to do 60 fps with texture mapping in Daytona USA. They were the first to push for 60 fps in a fighting game with a Virtua Fighter 2. They were the first to push well over 14 million polygons at 640x480 with Antialiasing, in Virtua Fighter 4. The Individual character polygon counts were higher than in any console at the time including the original Xbox and the PS2 port of Virtua Fighter 4 which less than halved the player model polygon counts. They were the first to use 3D variable terrain in a fighting game with Virtua Fighter 3. They were the first to push over 50,000 polygons per character in Virtua Fighter 5 Arcade. The console ports were lower than this with lower resolution textures and backgrounds as well. The polygon record was set in the Guinness Book of Records, surpassing even Crysis 1 on PC in terms of polygon counts. They were the first to create a fully explorable open world game with Shenmue, they were the first to create an online MMO RPG with Phantasy Star Online. They were the first to release a game globally in every major territory on the same day with Sonic 2. They were the first to create an arcade game with location based hit detection with Virtua Cop. They were the first to create a truly cell shaded game with Jet Set Radio on the Dreamcast. They were the first to create a motion gamepad for a console with the Sega Bass Fishing Rod. The Bass Fishing Rod gyroscope worked with Soul Caliber on the Dreamcast in 1999 making it the first fighting game to be playable with a gyroscopic based gamepad. They were the first to create a multi-monitor 3D game with Ferrari Challenge, using 3 screens that showed the side views of your car. They were the first to have a racing game that used real world weather systems in 3 world locations that were accurately mapped using an internet connection with Metropolis Street Racer. They were the first to mass produce graphics systems that were used primarily to calculate visuals in 3D games with Virtua Racing. They were the first to pioneer several different views that are now standard in every racing game with Virtua Racing. Sony admitted that without Sega’s Virtua Fighter, the PS1 would’ve primarily been a 2D console. Without Sega’s push to have Capcom port Street Fighter 2, the multiplatform release, which prior to that port, was largely different for each console, would’ve never taken off as soon as it did. Sega’s aggressive marketing of the Genesis made it hard for Capcom to deny its ability to make them more money than the exclusive deal they had with Nintendo would allow. The deal was so strict that they couldn’t port the original Street Fighter 2, they had to port the Championship Edition since Nintendo signed a life long deal for Street Fighter 2 exclusivity. Sega was the first game company to have a beat em up with more than a small handful of moves with Streets of Rage 2. Sega’s logic was the lack of a Street Fighter 2 port at the time, so they encouraged the devs to add a large move set per player to give gamers more choice over how they played beat em ups to add more replay value to them. Without Sega, gaming graphics would’ve taken longer to evolve than they did. They literally changed the game, though, as noted, this was largely in arcades than on the home console front.
Yeah, Sony had them covered on the "disc" gaming. I don't think I ever saw a Saturn commercial. But what I did see was a commercial for Dreamcast. Blitz football 2000 was amazing!!! The only football game you could comeback from a two TD deficit and win by a two TD lead with only 10 seconds on the game clock! So many fights over that when I was young..lol... I've got friends still salty about some games, me included.. haha
@@lakasngamatzko4523 NOOB? Not really. He has his research and facts right and very thoroughly. But most people seem to prefer watching some hipster instead who invites people that tell nonsense with such confidence that it must be right..., Right?
@@s.hendricks9930 MKB is a Tech HIPSTER and ANYONE can look up the news and REITERATE the news to sound informing. Compare the brains of MKB to Linus/Gamer Nexus....MKB is a NOOB.
I remember back in 1990 me and group of friends went back to one our friends house, to play on their SEGA - we had all been drinking and some people had been smoking pot, we put on a boxing game. That particular evening stands as one of the most memorable of my later teen years. It was hilarious, people fought each other through the game and took turns with the winner of each bout, when it came to my turn my boxer weighed 400 stone and had a punch the same as an elephant gun, the on screen boxer could hardly move and it too ages to throw a punch, his opponent was a super featherweight who was impossible to corner or punch, the knockout moment was just too funny, bear in mind that the graphics were blocky and clunky with none of the finesse of PS4 or 5. It was a memorable evening - every time SEGA is mentioned it sends me right back to then. Thank you SEGA!
I was a gamer in the 90’s and I chose the Genesis over the Super Nintendo. It was just a cooler console to have. You had blood in mortal combat on the sega, but not on the snes haha
@@cantagiousca5220 Yissir✌️ I never got one by myself but if you're talking bout oldschool gaming you cant talk about these rich kid consoles which nobody couldnt afford in the hood. C64 is tha shit. Everything else only for hipsters.
@@Winklarson420 100 percent agreed,I remember owning an einstein too,chuckie egg,les flicks,disco dan,oh mummy,kung fu in Las Vegas,yie ar kung fu,le mans etc
Genesis was peak Sega. Everything went downhill from there. And I say this as someone who bought the Dreamcast day one and loved it. So we gonna skip the 32X, the Sega-CD, the Saturn, and go straight to the Dreamcast? Like all those failures didn't cause their demise, it was just Sony? Come on, man......
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30 years ago, saying "Come to my basement and ill show you something cool" didnt sound bad
Haha
That was a good one!
🤣🤣
Says you!!?? I lived back in those days, and I did go down into someone's basement.
And I tell you what, it was a mistake that I would not make again. My bum was sore for two weeks.🥴😭
BoxHead 42 umm... I am afraid to ask but why?
Dude, this is the first youtube premium show I'm actually into.
RIGHT?!? XD
Me two!
Cobra Kai is up there
Aditya venkat That’s the reason I felt like joining. (:
If anyone is in college they can get it for 4.99 instead 9.99
What a pain it was not being able to save the progress in Sonic, countless times we started from the beginning.
Until you found the music track cheat and you were able to skip to the last level :) ...
Sonic 3 had save slots
Minimal Red you could have just left the console on
@@Theoldfishcake up up down down up up up. Used to turn the controller to the side so i could punch in rhe code before the sega logo finishes lol
@@Drummerstik *G A M E O V E R*
As an older millennial, this just plastered a smile on my face. Thank you for bringing back so many memories!
"I think the victors is obvious. Its us. Its the gamers" - Such a beautiful way to put it
ikr
on point statement
Fantastic statement and completely true.
This show is just MKBHD telling everyone he interviews how young he is
Yep, also, I thought he was around 30 now, how old was he when he started his youtube channel? And also, he looks and sounds considerably older, must be how tall he is.
One last thing, most people that are into tech, are or have been at least in their formative years, are into video games, it's strange how he's not.
its almost as if telling someone your age helps them get a general understanding of your familiarity with technology of certain era. weird.
The ultimate flex
Retro Doc ok boomer
@@imnotacat5299 Aaahhh I see what you were going for there. Lol
When RUclips premium is finally useful
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I remember the day my mom came home and told me, "I bought you a Nintendo!" I ran out to the car only to find she had bought me an Atari (much older system). I didnt have the heart to tell her what it actually was and hugged amd thanked her. It had a joystick and a single button on the controlled. I played the game it came with until it froze, which I was convinced meant I finished it. So I just told myself, "I guess I flipped it over", which meant I passed the whole game. I ended up getting a Super Nintendo years later. Memories
Wtf man , this is not a super nintendo console review , sorry pal , wrong video
@@Reaga_artz c'mon man let the guy tell his story
im surprised your mom didn't read the box and casually said: yeah its a nintendo. eitherway hoped you liked the atari
@@protocat21 if I remember correctly, she brought it to me in a plastic bag. My mom wouldnt have known the difference between consoles. This was back in the early 90's.
You and your mom sounds like awesome people.
MKBHD the type of guy to put a cartridge in with the genesis already on.
Lol bruh I was literally screaming at the video
😂💀 he a baby he don’t know wtf he doing you know the new shit you can cut it on without the game in it 😂😂😂💀💀💀
He looks older than me.. I'm 23 and anybody with a gameboy back in the day just knows that's a big no no, at least he didn't take the cartridge out while it was on right?...
Words cannot describe how upset I am rn
All the old people here are pissed. I’m old people.
"Come to my basement and check this out."
No, thanks.
Haha. Definitely not. 😁
But I guess if it is probably one kid telling another kid and they are buddies, then maybe it is not so scary. But yeah all the same, let the game be in the living room not basement. 🙂
The world was innocent then. Kids even played with their joysticks in the basement.
😂😂😂
We had these days, I'm 23
Alex McCaffrey “with their joystick” woah let’s not go that far buddy
That sweet chime of "seeeegaaaa" transported you instantly into a new world. Thank you Sega.
And they still continued to make revolutionary crazy games like Alien Isolation
Oh shit, so it didn’t say….never mind lmao
@@Kalmar5567 ?
He put the game in with the console on. He’s lucky he didn’t damage the cartridge. lol
Does that actually damage it? I do it quite often and nothing has happened
@@mckicks nah.
Exactly... Dude is all about tech and does the dumbest thing... Incredibile...
@@mambomambo5 to be fair, newer machines wouldn't have this requirement. You can be powered on, stick the game's media in the machine and select it. Coming from newer tech and checking out older machines tends to give people different tendencies when it comes to how we interact with it. Those of us who came from those older machines simply have different notions of how to interact with a device by default, through our experience.
Hahaha. Amazing comment. I checked the same thing - that was completely inappropriate.
If I remember well, one “Cheat mode” between games were accessible only switching cartridges with the system turned on - maybe something related with Sonic and SuperMonaco GP - I read that in a magazine from the 90s when I was a Kid. The advise from the magazine was “It could severely damage the cartridge or the console” - great trick to teach the kids!
Hearing that “SEGAAA!” Brings up memories
Yes...! The icon of the character sound,when we began to turn power on,after we insert A cd games to that portable video games.
Yes....! I still remember that.
Yeah.....saaayyygaaaa. I always imagined a choir in white robes holding controllers and singing with babies with wings in the air.
So much memories too. I was born at 1972 so i remember a lot of tech from ZX Spectrum, commodore 64, atari..... Sega Genesis (Sega mega drive), Super Nintendo (SNES) and many more. I was experience all of them and some other cool things (like first VR in 90-s)
SegaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaqaaqqaaqqqffddghsdsudfhesh sonic
@@asepsandi8302 78km
I'm 34, I can't remember what I did yesterday but I clearly remember how to do most of the MK2 fatalities!
Haha i know exactly what you mean. ⬇️ ➡️ ⬅️ ⬅️ high kick. Liu Kang🤣
Liu kang was my favorite character, never got tired of doing that dragon fatality 😁 I had a snes too but I don't remember many street fighter codes, my go to character was always ryu... I used to learn all the tricks from gaming magazines or through friends since the internet as we know it wasn't around yet, good memories...
Lol
You gave me manly tears yo
B,F,D,F, LP ..... Baraka Wins ...... 🩸 🩸 🩸 FATALITY!
The original Sonic still impresses me to this day.
It was a epic achievement from the sega team at that time.
Funny thing is, the 3 years younger super famicom could not process such speed on screen. Alot of people have forgot this. Sonic also made the genesis succesfull.
I can remember every teenager wanted one, then again alot of parents found it too expensive.
As kid i daily visited a toy store where they had a megadrive demopod, staring at aliensyndrome, altered beast golden axe, knowing i would never own one (my parentd did not have much money)
I believe it was like dutch F499,- (like ps5 now) games F129,-
My own son got a ps5, switch lol
Payback time for my youth.
@@eventhorizon2873 lol
You ever try sonic mania? It plays like sonic 2
@Johnny Kix you are trying to hard to make people mad
@@kaminari-Ife When someone says "level design is soooo bad" about any Sonic 2D title, you already know that said person has an IQ lower than room temperature in celsius.
I can’t believe everyone always skips over sega Saturn when they talk about the genesis and the Dreamcast, the sega Saturn was outrageously underrated...
Yea too right. I remember playing it for the first time thinking how is thing not even heard of? Sad that it didn’t take off well.
Yeah the sega Saturn saw way expense and ps1 dropped and killed it.But sega Saturn is losted gem in history of gaming
💯 Truth
I had the Saturn
Yes. Resident Evil, Sega Rally and Nights Into Dreams were my main jams. Great times
“ WhEn YoUtUbe PrEmIum iS nOw UsEfuL “
Me: I’m not paying for it...but I’m still watching this
I believe 2 weeks after it's release, non premium people can watch. Just get ads.
Nice
Same
I'm watching in youtube vanced (android app). No ads. It's awesome you guys should try.
I had to get premium because I wanted to binge watch it, but getting to watch free a little late is a good deal
I was a Genesis kid. That console shaped my childhood. I recently found the console while helping my parents move and I'm 10 all over again. We even had sega channel because my dad worked at the cable company.
Dude!!!! I forgot about Sega Channel!!!!
I just came to see if they’d mention sets channel.
It is the example I’ve always used to show I was a spoiled child.
I had one. Bought it when it came out. Got a Super Nintendo 3 years later.
@@user-or6yn8pm3c cool story bro
@@AndrewDavid84 Back then I was always looking forward to something better. Not so much now. I enjoy the Switch way more than the PS4 and PS5.
I was really expecting to hear "SEGAAAAAA" at the very start of this video.
Dangit, the "SEEEGAAAA" made me teary-eyed immediately. Oh nostalgia, you are so strong.
Miss the streets of rage and super shinobi
Since everyone is commenting about how premium is now worth it I feel like I also want to put in my 2 cents.
I think everyone likes this show because one Marques takes a lot of pride in what he creates so he wouldn’t allow himself to release mediocre videos and two I feel like a lot of other premium shows try too hard to be good in the sense that they try to find a topic that’s relatively mainstream to get views as people ride the wave.
Also, for myself and probably plenty of other people this series taps into things that we didn’t even know we real it missed. Brings back memories that make us happy and in a time like 2019-2020 that is very much needed.
Props to Marques. Very well done show!
Check out could you survive the movies by Vsauce3. Also a great premium show.
I know you guys love this dude but to be honest I don't see this as that great.
The whole thing feels more like a thing that will attrack a viewer that just watches for the hell of it but not really about making a great small documentary into Genesis.
Like a poser Genesis video than a real one if you get my drift.
Good camera, clean image, even going and finding people to talk in a big studio with variable lighting but a bit soulless to be honest and not very informative ether.
I have seen other RUclipsrs do a lot better with a lot less.
@@SIPEROTH It's not an amazing show/masterpiece but it's also not bad. It's just good. And that's ok. (Kind of like how Patrick (H) Willems sad in his last video)
@@SIPEROTH I don't know but I been told.
A big legged woman ain't got no soul 😅
Biggie:
‘Super Nintendo Sega Genesis’
‘When I was dead broke man I couldn’t picture this’
Yeahhh 💯
I was think about this throughout the video lol
2:15 Felt like throwing my TV across the room when he tried putting in the cartridge with the power already on.
cringe worthy much LOL
Me: see’s that happen
The comments: Everyone disliked that
Yeah, I said “don’t do that!” Out loud while watching
Fr fr 😂
😅😅😅😅
The sound output through the headphone jack was just next level. It sounded completely different and awesome compared to the sound coming out of the TV speakers.
Seeing how he first turn in ON and THEN plug the cart in I shout: "NNOOOOO!!!!"
i was readying myself into the moment when that poor genesis or that poor sonic cartridge would sort themselfs out from that abuse.
but then i remembered that those things were build like tanks, and even after nuclear strike those 80's and 90's cartridge consoles would still work like new.
Hahahaha… exactly! Me too, I was shouting “stop! stop! For the love of God, switch the damn thing off! kkkk
I LITERALLY went to the comment section just to see someone point that out, Thank you.
I almost died seeing that lol
The dreamcast was ahead of it's time. It's sad that it wasn't a success, it should've been.
Thean Kotze want to start a gofundme and bring it back? I have so many ideas. Literally dream of this at night.
It wasn't ahead of it's time, it was dead before it got off the ground. People like me and my friends had just got done dropping hundreds of dollars on the 32x and the Saturn. They were both terrible investments. We were all done wasting our money on Sega products by the time the dreamcast arrived. Sony had already been killing it for years.
Brad Strawn
Ok, but you're not really talking about the dreamcast any, the dreamcast was indeed very revolutionary, with its arcade perfect ports and all due to being based off of the sega naomi arcade hardware.
It was the start of the 6th generation a whole year and a half before the Playstation 2, it spawned a new but short lived proprietary format, GD-Roms. The VMU's were pretty neat too. It was also the first console to standardize online play, it blew the competition out of the water when it came out in terms of technical capabilities
Thean Kotze
It was a success, popular for its time, the problem was the PS2 took away all of its popularity
@@SK91NO I would expect the first console of the next gen to blow away the competition. Just like the Genesis was miles ahead of the NES. That's not ahead of its time. It didn't fail because consumers didn't understand it (which is what ahead of its time implies)it failed because Sega had been churning out half baked consoles for years.
This is the first thing I've ever watched in RUclips premium. More of this
Same
Mindfield is also cool
Cobra Kai?
Mind Field is awesome
The king of tech on RUclips "did I put it in backwards?"
it’s so crazy watching this video in 2021, when we’re now seeing things at 4k, 2180p, possibly 240hz. to see how video games and graphics have advance from 8 bit pixels to cinematic type graphics is truly amazing
Sadly better graphics did not produce better games. MK3 is still best game ever, Rock-n-roll racing still best racing game.
Play elden ring and say that
@@chartedtravel1776
I was very content with my SNES
@@Jakef100f Phantasy Star 3 and landstalker
@@chartedtravel1776 The amount of fun I've had playing newer games like COD and GTA with my friends far surpasses any of the older ones
I still remember the day when i got my sega clearly because my father played sonic for 4 hours straight until i was even allowed to get close to the console but that made me realize that sega was something awesome...never seen adults behave like that before...
man ...running home with my brother after school to play Mortal Kombat ll ...i miss the 90s 😢
90s was the greatest times ever. Everything was cheaper. $100 you was able to do alot with it. Hell $20 was enough in the 90s
I miss the 90s also. What a time to be alive. Wish I would have been an adult in the 90s to tell the truth. Like I feel everything was simpler then.
😂😂😂😂
@@jimchrisiton6159 Yes!
Mortal Kombat, Sonic and Fifa 97 were my favorites. I can still feel my "all-new" 6 button controller in my hands. Good old days...
I mean, Sega licenses new ones that have USB or wireless with Retrobit if you really want one. They also do Saturn ones, too.
Mine's Mortal combat, mighty fighters, Monaco gp, Mario, double dragon and street fighters. I had bunch of cartridges but these were my favs 🖤
Had to have a 6 button
The genesis was amazing. Saturn too..... despite the lack of games. The Dreamcast was however, the legend
DC was their best, Genesis 2nd, Master System 3rd, Saturn 4th 😆
@@britishwordplay4335 yeah Saturn was what ruined Sega. That system should've been amazing but they butchered it.
I don’t get why Saturn gets so much hate, I remember it being earth shattering back then, the 3D graphics were amazing!!
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 What was wrong with Saturn? They had a lot of amazing games, I remember when it first came out it was a game changer, so many great 3D games, like clockwork night, bug, Batman was great, the racing games were incredible...why does it get so much hate?
@@jaredchampagne2752 Probably because it killed the company.
You can't talk about the Sega Dreamcast's failure without talking about the Saturn so it's a shame that wasn't mentioned. It's also worth mentioning the Dreamcast has a pretty substantial cult following. Overall though it was a great video about it's legacy
Exactly, what "killed" Sega was the Saturn, they rushed it because Sony was coming up with the Playstation, it was too expensive (400$ vs 300$ of the PS1) and way to hard to program for, plus, the first games that came out looked awful compared to the PS launch titles which had a lot of 3D games (and then the N64 with Mario 64). When they released the Dreamcast they were already in a financial hole, they had GREAT games, but 3º party support wasn't there and the DVD player on the PS2 (major selling point at the time) was the final kick for Sega.
I Still love the Dreamcast, what an amazing system, just thinking that it had Online gaming in '99, that would not become a common thing 'till the xbox live came out 3 years later (i know both the PS2 and GC had internet, but they were add-ons that never got much attention).
They also didn't mention the Super Nintendo, which a lot don't know actually outsold the Genesis.
@@as-ei3sy people actually know that
@@mayzilla1174 Really? Not from my experience. I feel like most people don't care about that stupid shit.
Lalfred pretty much due to Mega Man X which was godly
Sega Genesis was my childhood. I literally couldn't see myself playing games on a Super Nintendo even now. Sega was raw, unhinged and didn't fuck around. Seeegaaaaaa... for life!!!!
Nintendo kept delaying the Super Nintendo that's why Sega had time to improve their games for Genesis. The SMS was actually good but failed because Sega wanted all game development in house.
Yess, best console of that era..
@@ballstothewall38 Yeah Sega back then did not want third party companies to make games for the SMS because they thought they would lose revenue and let another company make money off their system. Nintendo realized there were many companies that produced great games and realized they could sell more systems if they got third party titles. Nintendo also got a percentage of the third party companies game sales revenues.
😎💯❤️
I'm just a couple of years older than him and I grew up with Genesis
Aaron Warren same i cant believe he’s never played Genesis
So, you played it when you were in the age range of 2-4 max. And "Growing up with something" after the product is already outdated, which in the case of the Genesis is 1995 after the launch of the Sega Saturn doesn't count.
Lalfred I think he means that during his childhood that’s the console he had and enjoyed playing it, hence why he said he grew up playing with it. Makes sense to me
Genesis came out 2 Years before I was born so when I was maybe 5 I was playing genesis and snes and didn’t play ps1 til maybe 1998. We couldn’t afford the latest and greatest
@@aaronwalakay Yeah, but the fact that your experience came later means that Marques probably didn't experience it because it was pretty much out by the time he was 2.
“Ready to play a sega genesis game for the first time” - the disappointment
This dude turned the Sega on before putting in the cartridge.. That's a big no no and the reason it didnt work at first
“I’d rather play a genesis is it has better graphics” they don’t change do they
Nice vudei
and unlike today .. he also liked it because it was 'Bigger'.
Well actually super Nintendo has better graphics and came out at the same time as the Genesis
I'll take Genesis and Sonic and it costs a lot less.
Still Super Nintendo is still better
"I remember playing mortal combat at blockbuster"
Oldest sentence ever
Think the oldest sentence is "ooga booga o o o "
@@Maoilios lol
KOMBAT
F-Zero on N64 at toys R Us... that was the real scene
@@jasoncrandall5320 a thousand times this...
Judging older tech with a modern mindset isn’t giving these products their due. During the time, the add ons were dope
Are you talking about the 32X? That was s--- back then and it's s--- now. The only good thing about it is that it has a miniscule library so it's easier to collect for, but then all the boxes are cardboard and most of the games stink! The Mega CD add-on had more appeal, but not much. A slow consumer-grade CD drive with a library of 90% FMV crap like Sewer Shark, Corpse Killer, Night Trap and Double Switch. The only decent games on the platform were Snatcher, Keio Flying Squadron and Sonic CD. Not exactly worth the exorbitant price tag.
@The Retro Speculative Silpheed, Shining Force CD, and Ecco the Dolphin CD were pretty good as well; but I agree that most of the Sega CD library was trash. That being said, the CD add on, made way more sense than the 32 x.
What Sega should have done was just upgrade the graphics with a chip in the cartridge, similar to Nintendo; or with pre-rendering, as they did for Vectorman. The 32x was completely unnecessary, considering these options.
and he aint even using a crt tv
Someone's written 'Genesis' on all those Megadrives
What a Vole this comment deserves more love
Hell yes
True
Americans ruin everything.
How very American of them to not mention console variations across the world and talk about the ESRB like it’s an international body.
Totally glossed over the SEGA Saturn which was released in 1994.
because it was a dog turd
@@lol-un6nl no it was a misunderstood dog turd💩
@@lol-un6nl devs sega Saturn was better than sega cd 💿
@@GozUnlimited well yeah of course
“Ohhhhhhhhh!! THAT’s why you talking to me like that.” 😂😂😂
I'm glad I grew up with the Sega Genesis. It was my first gaming console, and made video games a lifelong passion of mine. They certainy played a part in shaping the gaming industry at that time.
Super Nintendo was mine
Nope. Nintendo SAVED the gaming industry from falling. Learn REAL HISTORY OF GAMING.
"SEEEGAAAAAAA!" ah... The sound of my childhood.
I always get chills down my spine.Sega was my chilhood.
Congrats
That sound is not in Mortal Kombat either!
The Dreamcast was actually very well received! It was piracy and the lack of a DVD player among some other issues that was its demise.
Dvd player? U mean CD Drive?
@@kylegordy113 no I mean DVD player. The reason the PS2 was one of the best selling consoles of all time, was due to the fact that it could play DVDs. Consumers didn’t see the need to buy a stand alone DVD player when they could get a gaming console that plays movies for the same price. This is one of the big reasons the Dreamcast lost so many sales to the PS2. Was because Sega opted to not put one in, since it was for gaming.
@@fossil-bit8439 dreamcast came out 2 years earlier and ps only had a cd drive but ya.
@@fossil-bit8439 it would have been impossible in 1998. But Dreamcast didn't really lose any sales to the PS2 overall because Sega pulled the plug 6 weeks after the PS2 launched in the West. Sad but true DC had no path to success due to Sega's earlier follies and arcade revenue collapsing in a perfect storm.
@@kylegordy113 it had a unique gdrom drive :)
Seeing all those cord hookups and old tv made my heart flutter. That was a good sleep over Friday night and Saturday morning.
You are by far my favorite youtube creator. I mean, you got it all. Within your channel we get new tech reviews, old tech flashbacks and more. Combine that with really smooth editing and a personal approach... No wonder you are killin' it. Rock on Marques!
Sees Hannibal on the thumbnail:
*Instant Click*
“Ooo that’s why you talking to me like that “” lol 😂🤣
too funny
Marques: I'm 25, it was before my time
Me, 24: I had so much fun as a kid playing Sonic and Alex Kidd and Toejam & Earl on my Genesis and-
Same here.. like wtf before his time 😃😃
Same boat but it sounds like you had to be broke to enjoy these systems in hand me down form. I felt the same way about the gameboy video when he says he’s never played one.
I remember being ten and buying one for $5 with a bag full of games at a yard sale. Circa 2004 good times, a year later I bought a new in box n64 with games at another yard sale for what would be considered dirt
@@davetaylor5119 öi
and Fantasy Zone, Shinobi... Yeah. Sonic the hedgehog 1 + 2 music was just great.
22: Grew up with the NES, SNES, and Genesis at age 7.
This guy not knowing how to work a Genesis is heartbreaking. What a missed childhood. I grew up at the perfect time, born 1986! I’ve been exposed to every system ever made and what a journey it’s been!
Same. 1983 for me
@Joey Bones my very first gaming system was the Atari with Pole Position
When my father brought me this system I was 5 he was on heroin at the time and I’m still thankful he pulled the money together to have bought me this
That's crazy bro...
God bless......
Dats Tuff
🤝🏾💯
Catchin that faaaaaade
I feel like you guys should at least put someone who understands the history, consoles and peripherals with them.
The Activator, for instance, you need to understand that around that time it wasn't common having fluoroscent lights inside the house, but incandescent light bulbs.
This sort of thing should be explained so it makes sense for the time those items were sold.
Nice series but it could be a little bit more informative. (when he turned the Genesis on without the cartridge I wish someone corrected him, or showed the way it was supposed to be done)
This is supposed to be entertaining, not informative
Well said ,i thought same thing with the lights also , they needed someone from the era tryin em out
@@TheBigDean18 you're being a troll and you know it
Skippy 4077 nope
@@TheBigDean18 case and point, goodbye
Before the Dreamcast, there was the Saturn, that was in competition with the Playstation. Dreamcast was with the Playstation 2 and the original Xbox.
Dreamcast also was best console Sega ever made. I had Dreamcast and love it just like Sega Genesis, SegaBoys - we are 30+ now)
I think the competition was between the Nintendo N64, the Playstation PS1, and the Sega Saturn. I remember playing Power Rangers on my friend's N64 in the late 90's and i was like whoa! how can i convince my parents to get me one coz i had just started playing on a Sega Mega Drive 2. My fave game on Sega was Mortal Kombat MK3 Ultimate which to me is still the best MK game ever made. Then i got my hands on the PS1 and it was game over from there. Still a fan of PS to this day even though i dont game much. Last console i had before i gave it away to my younger cousin was a PSP 3000
Dreamcast was 1999. It actually faced PS1 and 64 as competitors for longer than it faced Xbox PS2 and Gamecube. It's power, however, was much more on par with the later generation.
Isn't the original XBOX supposed to be next gen Dreamcast? XBOX have several Sega exclusive games back then
The Dreamcast died in 2001. The Gamecube competed with the PS2 and X-Box
Playing on Genesis in ARCADE VERTION of Mortal Kombat) That's RUclips guys!
“The dreamcast was not well received”
Lady, you couldn’t be more wrong.
Yeah this whole video is F’d up with so much misinformation
@@BMitts I don’t know what universe you guys lived in but that was segas last console for a reason
@@h3ck774 the people who had a Dreamcast loved it but sega ran out of money and the ps2 came out and a bunch of other things that didn’t really have to do with people not liking the Dreamcast
I'm hoping they made a dreamcast episode like this, we wouldn't have online gaming w out dreamcast and the home console finally surpassed the arcade
@@jhsrt985 I don’t want them to make one cuz they’d never do it justice but plenty of people have made videos on the Dreamcast that are great
"I'm 25"
"Oooo that's why your talking to me like that"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Mortal Combat"??? Really???
Hi dude. Who are you?
Oh yeah I think you made a video about raspberry pi 400
It’s mortal Kombat you cock
@@LoveBoA4Life bruh
abacabb
I had the Sega Genesis. I am still nostalgic for it. I loved Batman and the Batman game was my first on the console. I never thought about it being edgy, consciously , but it was dark, literally, set in Gotham city with edgier comic characters.
Im 25 and I played mortal combat on sega before. 😂 feeling lucky that i had older brother who allowed me to experience that.
I'm also 25 and I've played them all. And I'm the first born
@@macmanuelodumeru3708 ....Yeah that was kind of shocking. Who hasn't played MK? It's like foundation of video games.
Yup same, not courtesy an older sibling, just generally the only games I played till I was 8 and then I discovered PC gaming and I guess the parents got rid of my genesis and games, so many games. :(
@@Novastar6 of games in general? Not at all. Of violent video games, yes. Without MK we wouldn't have the adult games we have now.
Dummy, you never played. The 2nd controller is always unplugged
Dude has never played MORTAL KOMBAT before? Woooow!
I didn't play Mortal Kombat either
@Master Of puppets i am a gamer i had ps i never played mortal kombat but we use to play Tekken
ikr it’s totally not kool
@Master Of puppets please play it. The sega genesis has the "blood code" of "abacabb" at the title screen, whereas the SNES never allowed it.
@@Baddawg_313
It’s one of those games that I wanted to play but something happens so I never played after 12+ years
Bro you are disappointing me with your knowledge of your "older brother aged" tech. You have to turn off the system before inserting or removing the cartridge.
Didn't he say several times he never played or used it before 😒
@@Ex_Nihilo777 I wonder how we being kids of 8 knew what to do? Nobody ever teached us.
@@MACTEP_CHOB you probably read the manual or had an older sibling or parent do it for you. after they showed you a few times, you never forgot it and because it seems so obvious now, your memory probably can't recall that you didn't actually know how to do it at first either.
also, marques doesn't read instruction manuals. barely anyone does for tech nowadays. anyone would assume that if they can work the tech of today, one from 30+ years ago would be simple to figure out.
gotta say, i cringed at the blowing the cartridge part. you're not supposed to do that. most of the stickers on the cartridges even used to say that.
@@Ex_Nihilo777 Doesn't matter, that's how almost all retro consoles work
Joy to watch. Great insights, guests and brought a whole heap of good memories back. Thank you.
Dreamcast was the dopest underrated console ever. It had more potential and better graphics than the Ps1. It was absolutely beautiful. The games were epic
It was a quality console, just didn't have the games to compete.
Shenmue
I still have a Dreamcast and still play it to this day (I've probably completed dino crisis 20 times by now). It belonged to my older brothers (10 yrs older than me). My brothers moved on and got PlayStations and Xboxes so my sisters and I got the Dreamcast. By this time Wii was just starting to become a thing, so my sisters got a Wii, but I couldn't let my parents get rid of the Dreamcast. Besides, I love having people come over to play games and just having them be like 'what the hell is that???' I can't tell you how many times I've had a friend get angry because of the 'awful' controls. It's weird though cause Dreamcast and I are technically the same age, 1999.
Of course it was better than the ps1, it was two generations ahead and competed with the ps2.
Flexing RUclips premium here
😂 😂 😂
Flexing not having RUclips premium here
I use to want the mega CD so bad. Didn't even get a mention here.
And they straight up skipped the 32X and Saturn??? What???
@@snowowl4506 I mean were they wrong to do so ?
Tho I do agree, the CD should have had at least a mention.
@@kquote03 My main gripe is the fact that they even bothered to bring the Dreamcast up, yet neglected to mention the Saturn and the other failures SEGA did. (and yeah, really stupid of them to do a whole segment about accessories and not have the CD/32X there)
Peter Bate Right? You can't talk about the Genesis without talkkng about the add-ons
I still have the megacd and 32x add on at home
The Nintendo NES was released to US in 1985. The Sega Genesis was in 1989. If you were ten years old when the NES was available, that meant you were born in 1975. This MKBHD retro vid was published in 2019. So some simple math: 2019 - 1975 = 43. Meaning the minimum age of the people he's interviewing should be in their early to late fourties. No way the people in this vid are that old. Plus they're talking about video arcades and donkey kong too. That's even earlier!
The Virgin Nintendo console vs the Chad muscular Sega Genesis
But Nintendo won the 16 bit war
@@joikcgjfig427 you do have a point
@@gmrn3014s stop feeding into Jann, you used to be cool
@@araisannanoda3688 only in 1995 when play station released but not for long
Joi Kcgjfig what
I'm only one minute in and I'm already crying from nostalgia !!!!!! This was the best console ever
Dreamcast was fantastic. PSO, Crazy Taxi, Soul Caliber, Shenmue, JSR had a lot of great games
Driver
Yup, in the later years. Games was easy to rip. I only buy the very good one, even if I had a rip copy.
The dreamcast was the true next gen arcade experience brought to home, sadly ps2 was around and there was no way they could beat sony there.... mainly I think cos the psx did so well in it's life circle and that home market changed a lot looking at more cinematic experienced games rather then just a pass time arcade experience.
power stone series, skies of arcadia, marvel vs capcom . i still have mine thankfully !
daytona was great to
Dam bro, your videos are always dope, but this is top tier!!!! My childhood came rushing back!!
For a "retro tech dude" seems not to know that much about retro tech until they do their research.
I'm 27, I think Marques is about 1 or 2 years younger then me but I vividly remember playing Sonic and Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis.
If anything, they should definitely remember the Sega Dreamcast.
@@Skilly_ahh wth did he do in his childhood then lol
@@Skilly_ahh man i cant tell if your being satirical or not lol
O L
By the time he was old enough to play video games, Xbox, PS2, and the GameCube would’ve been the recent consoles.
That’s how most kids are nowadays. Experts that require doing research on topics. No idea about life before their existence. Kinda lazy. Also, I think the Genesis was too risqué for him as a kid. Seems he lives a sheltered life
"I think I'm ready to play a Sega Genesis game for the first time."
Thanks for making me feel old at 37!
Same here I’m 40 this year lol.
I'm over 40. My favorite games for the Sega Master System and the Genesis were:
Space Harrier (1986)
Stryder (1990)
MUSHA (1991)
Revenge of Shinobi (1989)
Alex Kidd In Miracle World (1987)
R-Type (1987)
Golvellius (1987)
Mystic Defender (1990)
Alien Syndrome (1989)
Zillion II (1988)
Wonder Boy (1988)
Kenseiden (1988)
Alex Kidd had potential to be Sega's mascot before Sonic, but Alex just wasn't as well known.
To be fair, I don't think that Alex had the potential to be a long time mascot for Sega. The gameplay just wasn't recognizable enough (at least IMHO)
Nobody even mentioned comix zone and strike series here..
Super Nintendo Sega Genesis, when I was dead broke man I couldn't picture this
"Yo, came into my basement and check this out" sounds like the start of a horror movies
The reset button worked because the cartridge had to be in before power on, not after. Genesis is forgivable, but did you even N64, Marques? :P
He had no idea how the old video games works. What a shame.
yeah that part was painful to watch
Yea this guy is a total chode
Yeah that was pretty cringe worthy. My 10 year old self would have roasted him big time lmao! What a time it was in the 90s
N sixty poop
I remember writing codes for 'brutalities' and 'fatalities' in Mortal Kombat and sharing with friends in school !!
Oh the good old days !! 😄
Writing down cheat codes from magazines at the store too lol...
babeality (1st use thought it would strip sonja was lied too turned into a baby) ,animality best finisher
Would you press A B A C A B B during opening warning to enable hardcore mode?
It's unbelievable that this guy never played SEGA Genesis before, Well i played Genesis as a kid and I have so much nostalgia with it, Gosh I really missed my old times.
*This is a video that deserves all the Appreciation!* Mutual Respect, Love and World Peace from Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
Wasn’t expecting Jake. “You look like it’s your birthday party” is such a good description.
20:42 they just totally ignored the Sega Saturn and went to the Dreamcast after the Genesis
32x, Sega CD. But Playstation took saturn out...Dreamcast was one of the most underrated game systems ever
poorly produced video. they didn't do their research because they aren't actually gamers. mkbhd is a tech guy, not a serious gamer like happy console gamer or avgn who knows the history. pathetic
@@StreetFighterIIFeb someone got out of bed on the wrong side.
@@StreetFighterIIFeb Don’t forget the Gaming Historian. His stuff is really well researched.
I couldn't stop laughing.
They must of ignored the Saturn intentionally.
In actuality, the Genesis, was designed in 87, and released in 1988 in Japan as the Mega Drive. Mine still works perfectly, and the beautiful thing about it is, the quality was top notch. The plastic didn’t wear badly like the SNES and NES, which, even when well kept, looks like it’s been brushed with a coat of grayish yellow paint. It also looks incredible natively with an RGB to HDMI converter, compared to the SNES which had better RCA out, but terrible RGB out. The headphone port also allowed for a nice Stereo output which could be blended with the mono out to a TV. Also, current ports like Mortal Kombat Arcade Edition, which runs on the native hardware, prove that not only were the original devs doing the least they could imaginable, given that Arcade Edition has all of the sound samples, animations and the correct colors, but like the original port, it plays better than the SNES version. Now the bad thing here is the lack of 6 button pad. The OG Genesis pad looks stylish, but it feels terrible. The D pad wasn’t the legendary floating D pad found on the 6 button pad, or the Saturn S pad that’s fantastic for fighting games. The buttons felt bad too by comparison. The only downside is the smaller size of the 6 button pad by comparison. Sega changed gaming in the arcades more so than in home consoles, being at the forefront of graphics from their first arcade systems up until the release of Virtua Fighter 5.
They were the first to introduce forward scrolling with proper Sprite scaling and rotation. They were the first to release a fighting game with the original Championship boxing arcade machine that was grayscale. They were the first to use true 3D glasses with blinking to create 3D images with SubRoc 3D. They were the first to use fully rotational arcade machines, they were the first to use true 3D accelerated, motion captured 3D. Tekken 1 and 2 used hand animation for their move sets. They were the first to push 180,000 polygons, the first to push 300,000 polygons, Tekken 2 only pushed 120,000 in arcades, and 100,000 on the PS1 port. They were the first to push 1,000,000 polygons in a racing and fighting game, in 1996, with Scud Race and Virtua Fighter respectively. Nintendo claimed the n64 could push 1,000,000 polygons, the max it pushed was less than 300,000 with AI and game logic. The highest polygon counts on PC games were well bellow 1,000,000. In 96 it was 350,000. In 1999 Quake was finally pushing 900,000 on PC to put this into perspective. They were the first console developers to push 1 million and 2.5 million polygons respectively, with Soul Caliber and Dead or Alive 2 on the Dreamcast. If the 2.5 million number is doubted, it’s been confirmed by Beyond 3D. They were the first to do 60 fps with texture mapping in Daytona USA. They were the first to push for 60 fps in a fighting game with a Virtua Fighter 2.
They were the first to push well over 14 million polygons at 640x480 with Antialiasing, in Virtua Fighter 4. The Individual character polygon counts were higher than in any console at the time including the original Xbox and the PS2 port of Virtua Fighter 4 which less than halved the player model polygon counts. They were the first to use 3D variable terrain in a fighting game with Virtua Fighter 3. They were the first to push over 50,000 polygons per character in Virtua Fighter 5 Arcade. The console ports were lower than this with lower resolution textures and backgrounds as well. The polygon record was set in the Guinness Book of Records, surpassing even Crysis 1 on PC in terms of polygon counts. They were the first to create a fully explorable open world game with Shenmue, they were the first to create an online MMO RPG with Phantasy Star Online. They were the first to release a game globally in every major territory on the same day with Sonic 2. They were the first to create an arcade game with location based hit detection with Virtua Cop. They were the first to create a truly cell shaded game with Jet Set Radio on the Dreamcast. They were the first to create a motion gamepad for a console with the Sega Bass Fishing Rod. The Bass Fishing Rod gyroscope worked with Soul Caliber on the Dreamcast in 1999 making it the first fighting game to be playable with a gyroscopic based gamepad. They were the first to create a multi-monitor 3D game with Ferrari Challenge, using 3 screens that showed the side views of your car. They were the first to have a racing game that used real world weather systems in 3 world locations that were accurately mapped using an internet connection with Metropolis Street Racer.
They were the first to mass produce graphics systems that were used primarily to calculate visuals in 3D games with Virtua Racing. They were the first to pioneer several different views that are now standard in every racing game with Virtua Racing. Sony admitted that without Sega’s Virtua Fighter, the PS1 would’ve primarily been a 2D console. Without Sega’s push to have Capcom port Street Fighter 2, the multiplatform release, which prior to that port, was largely different for each console, would’ve never taken off as soon as it did. Sega’s aggressive marketing of the Genesis made it hard for Capcom to deny its ability to make them more money than the exclusive deal they had with Nintendo would allow. The deal was so strict that they couldn’t port the original Street Fighter 2, they had to port the Championship Edition since Nintendo signed a life long deal for Street Fighter 2 exclusivity. Sega was the first game company to have a beat em up with more than a small handful of moves with Streets of Rage 2. Sega’s logic was the lack of a Street Fighter 2 port at the time, so they encouraged the devs to add a large move set per player to give gamers more choice over how they played beat em ups to add more replay value to them. Without Sega, gaming graphics would’ve taken longer to evolve than they did. They literally changed the game, though, as noted, this was largely in arcades than on the home console front.
Bro they literally didn't even talk about the saturn, the main reason sega's share of the game market tanked.
Sega genesis
Well at least Video Game Historian had it covered.
Yeah, Sony had them covered on the "disc" gaming. I don't think I ever saw a Saturn commercial. But what I did see was a commercial for Dreamcast. Blitz football 2000 was amazing!!! The only football game you could comeback from a two TD deficit and win by a two TD lead with only 10 seconds on the game clock! So many fights over that when I was young..lol... I've got friends still salty about some games, me included.. haha
Zuffin - there Sega Saturn was a straight flop I remember playing it in toys r us and they had Tekken as one of the games to play
I remember playing vigalante 8 on the Dreamcast omg I loved it
Gaming historian on RUclips does a deep dive into the Sega Genesis
Joel Stuart and with much more arguments why sega flopped than just “Playstation” appeared
Gaming Historian? Lol No. He's NOOB. But a great RUclipsr
He is the real deal.
@@lakasngamatzko4523 NOOB? Not really. He has his research and facts right and very thoroughly. But most people seem to prefer watching some hipster instead who invites people that tell nonsense with such confidence that it must be right..., Right?
@@s.hendricks9930
MKB is a Tech HIPSTER and ANYONE can look up the news and REITERATE the news to sound informing. Compare the brains of MKB to Linus/Gamer Nexus....MKB is a NOOB.
Lmao he managed to make me feel like a dinosaur turning on the Genesis before putting the cartridge in.
I remember back in 1990 me and group of friends went back to one our friends house, to play on their SEGA - we had all been drinking and some people had been smoking pot, we put on a boxing game. That particular evening stands as one of the most memorable of my later teen years. It was hilarious, people fought each other through the game and took turns with the winner of each bout, when it came to my turn my boxer weighed 400 stone and had a punch the same as an elephant gun, the on screen boxer could hardly move and it too ages to throw a punch, his opponent was a super featherweight who was impossible to corner or punch, the knockout moment was just too funny, bear in mind that the graphics were blocky and clunky with none of the finesse of PS4 or 5. It was a memorable evening - every time SEGA is mentioned it sends me right back to then. Thank you SEGA!
I was a gamer in the 90’s and I chose the Genesis over the Super Nintendo. It was just a cooler console to have. You had blood in mortal combat on the sega, but not on the snes haha
The snes version of mortal kombat had a cheat to reenable it
@P Nis Jeez dude you dont have to be a jerk,no one needs that negativity here.
The snes is cool
@Buchi
Its Kombat, with a K
@@JULIO-C10hmmmm...nope
Before: Sega vs Nintendo
Now: Xbox vs playstation
Stadia😂
fucktheswine prolly virtual reality versus augmented reality.
It's Nintendo who is winning the war now
Nah its more like sony vs nintendo cuz Microsoft dont know what to do with their xbox console.
Kutay Cosar why y’all insulting this dude, it’s literally a comment.
I’m on free trial just for this
You don't need premium to watch this
True. You don’t need premium you can watch 2 weeks after the initial release.
Each and every line said in this video is so true ! Thank you for making this video, I was so emotional and happy after remembering good old days. ❤️
Except the part where they said the sega genesis alone was responsible for the esrb...
I remember when I got my Sega Genesis for Christmas. I screamed down the whole neighborhood, I was so excited. Loving this show.
they forgot to talk about Sega Saturn who "forced" Nintendo to create the Nintendo 64!
The 64 was an amazing system
Sony does that Sega peaked with Genesis, its downhill after
They were all shit,if you never had commodore 64,or zx spectrum you are half a gamer
@@cantagiousca5220 Yissir✌️
I never got one by myself but if you're talking bout oldschool gaming you cant talk about these rich kid consoles which nobody couldnt afford in the hood.
C64 is tha shit.
Everything else only for hipsters.
@@Winklarson420 100 percent agreed,I remember owning an einstein too,chuckie egg,les flicks,disco dan,oh mummy,kung fu in Las Vegas,yie ar kung fu,le mans etc
Always loved the Sega intro when the console powered up “Sega”!
Loved these retro tech episodes. Should do some more
You’re killing me man! Put the game in with the power off then flip the power switch. Great series keep it up!
Genesis was peak Sega. Everything went downhill from there. And I say this as someone who bought the Dreamcast day one and loved it.
So we gonna skip the 32X, the Sega-CD, the Saturn, and go straight to the Dreamcast? Like all those failures didn't cause their demise, it was just Sony? Come on, man......
lol literally everyone forgets the Saturn, it’s hysterical how that period of time is just ignored
Segata Sanshrio
Somehow even SEGA themselves seem to forgot about the Saturn. It's strange since it was their most successeful console in Japan.
@@marciopinho6100 "Sega Saturn is not our future!" LMAO
One of my friends has one and it blew my mind cuz I had only heard of its existence never actually seen it.
I had a Saturn, worst system I have ever owned. I remember an NBA Live title they release on it that was dang near unplayable.
Lol! Did he turn on the console & then put the cartridge in & expected it to work? 😆