Donkey Kong Country is my all time favorite game and I totally have the nostalgia cranked to 11 on it. My neighbor had it and I watched him play for a few minutes and remember being blown away by the graphics. A little while later, for my 9th birthday, my mom saved up enough to get me the SNES bundle (my fav console box too). I sat around playing for hours with my mom and have really fond memories of that. Such a great game and soundtrack!
I enjoy your episodes. Just a suggestion: Can everyone(and I mean everyone) get in the room and talk about our bad ass experiences at an ARCADE! I enjoy gaming at home, especially with the newer systems; Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch. But, there is nothing like friends, a couple rolls of quarters, a big gulp and the lights and sounds of an ARCADE. It would be cool to hear the stories of machines, game challenges and all around smack talk from the group! I will start it off. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Xmen, Mortal Combat, Tekken, Street Fighter and Star Wars Pinball, BRING IT SON!
I loved the arcade as a kid even though I was intimidated by all the high school kids that went there. i got to play games like double dragon, 1945, centipede, tron and lethal enforcer
I remember being at the Arcade, which i believe was called Jupiter, in the college area of the University of Cincinnati called Clifton. I was around 8-9 and there was a huge crowd around Super Mario 3. It is one of the most prominent memories when it comes to video games.
There was a game called Rastan at a small store called Tucker’s market near the projects were I grew up. As a family we received food stamps so I would take a food stamp dollar and buy a 5 cent piece of bubble gum and take the change and play this game. The best childhood ever even being poor !!!
I remember when the story broke about Mike Tyson's punch out being banned and replaced by just Punch Out, it was an all out scramble to the store to try to find a copy of the Mike Tyson version lol!
There was a lot of NES games I missed out on due to my rental store not having them. Over time I got to play Shatterhand and Journey to Silius, which I would have loved back then.
Best games that came out during the right era but I never played at the time. 5) Rondo of Blood 4) Super Metroid 3) Chrono Trigger 2) Monkey Island games 1) SNATCHER!
I was born in 89 so sadly I missed the majority of the NES, SNES and Mega Drive (I’m also Australian) but I remember playing Donkey Kong Country for the first time in the early 2000’s through emulation and even though by that stage I was already addicted to my PS2, I knew that I was playing an amazing game. My 12 year old mind was blown.
My nostalgia with dk country is when , during the under water level, my brother who's younger than I am...I was...16 he was 14, said this is porno music! And I looked at him like, how do you know? Lmao.
Yo Billy, I get the whole nostalgia. I truly do, but it seems you are avoiding the opportunity to create new memories that will become just as great as your childhood memories in the long run. I have a strong attachment for Donkey Kong Country 1, & 2 as I played them as a kid, plus they are fantastic platformers, but I believe in the future I'll also think of Secret of Mana very fondly because I played it with my gf and it's one of our new favorite games of all time, it'll turn into a great memory in the long run. Same as you, I also missed on Super Metroid but I know in the future I'll think about it like that one time I finally tried it after years and I used to live in [insert place here]. You get my drill? Hope you have a great rest of the day o/
Can really relate to how much godness was missed back in the day! Guess many of them missed because of as a kid you had ONE "system" to play with and games were relatively expensive as a kid. You had what you had and sometimes traded in games you already beaten or didn´t like. Really liked watching the video! Stay awesome, thumbs up from Sweden
I don't have nostalgic attachment to any of these either lol. Grew up at the end of the nes/beginning of snes era but mostly stuck with mario, mortal kombat, etc. Like you said, can't deny they're great though. The super nes classic's made me a big sup metroid fan
Hell yeah DKC was the game that came bundled with the SNES that I got for Christmas. Finally after being stuck with an atari and an NES for 8yrs or whatever!
I remember playing Donkey Kong Country (or maybe one of the sequels) on an SNES store demo. I wanted an SNES so bad just for that game, but I never got one. To this day I have never bought one. They are usually way out of my price range and often the really yellowing ones which I'd rather not have. I'll find my SNES someday, though. Someday.
I feel the same about Rondo of Blood and was able to finally experience it all the way through a few years ago. What an amazing game. I only had heard about it as being "Dracula X Rondo of Blood" from magazines as a kid, and was so disappointed when I played the SNES version of Dracula X.
I didn’t play the original Legend of Zelda until I was an adult. I still don’t know the ins and outs of the game like I do with the NES games I had when I was a kid.
Great list. I prefer retro because of my childhood, they're fun games and while they're difficult they're much more simple than today's games. At least to understand how to play.
Oh yeah, I can't think any of the top of my head but I have passed on some that everyone else said I was missing out on, same thing happened with toys, now I just try to get everything I can get my hands on 😁
The sad existence of us small town folk, your limited to the local rental store. And I couldn't imagine my parents buying me a game and expansions on top of it multiple times lol. Got two games a year and could pick up some occasional pawn shop goods.
Yo Billy, the vid for super metroid wasnt actually the snes game footage , just sayin, i think its something else , still love all your videos and I'm a HUGE fan!
For me I gotta be in the right invierment right mind set to enjoy these types of games don't get me wrong I love these games. But I just can't pick up and play like I said right invierment right mind set lol great video by the way.
well nostalgia can make a bad game, good or at least something you have fun with regardless and a great game amazing, just gives it that extra boost. and super metroid has always been my fave game ever, ff7 came close but i stil go back to super metroid, which is why i enjoyed the sequel, metroid fusion so much, it was a great follow up in the same vein.
I missed out on Zelda too. I played Link to the Past before Zelda on the NES. Haha. LttP was so awesome though. I was just more into side scrollers as a kid.... 🤷🏻♂️
Hey Billy did you got a hacked supermetroid or something? The footage was weird and not from the original game i know since i've played it like a zillion times.
I went through the same thing as far as castlevania and a lot of other games go.... I cant even explain it.... I was gaming at the time and somehow theres a horribly long list of great games that I just didn't play somehow
Always drop a like for the GameChasers but c'mon Billy, King Hippo is like the Spark Mandrill of Punchout. He has the easiest exploit. You just punch him in the gut when he barks and his pants fall down and you keep punching him lol
i played zelda and got nowhere as a kid, i dont think i even did the first dungeon. played less than an hour for sure. i only got into zelda when i got ALTTP
Sega Genesis, N64 , PS2 and Xbox 360 i had the most nostalgic memories with. This current gen sucks or maybe I'm just getting older and feel i have less memories with ps4 and xbox one
IDK, I have like 10 on the PI for recording. I just picked one because I couldn't get the real one to load. Was hoping no one would notice...although that's dumb because it's obvious. I guess I meant I was hoping no one would care haha.
I didn't play Rondo of Blood until I was 20. I bet everyone here missed out on it when they were kids...unless they are young enough to have been kids when the PSP and Wiiware versions came out in the late 2000's.
Yeah, I don't think many of us had a turbo grafx cd back then, it's one of my favourite games, hence my thumbnail pic, but I only played it a couple years ago,
i missed out on basically the entire NES and SNES libraries because my older brothers sold them to get an N64 when i was like 3. but luckily my mom bought me a sega genesis model 2, so i got to experience the sega games at least.
Funny how Rondo of Blood is featured right before an ad for Castlevania Requiem (which contains Rondo of Blood). It's a solid game, and worth buying, but the ad blended into the video. It doesn't matter, just seems odd.
@@TheGameChasers That makes sense. Also I fully advocate buying a copy of Rondo of Blood regardless of whether ads push it or not. And for whatever it's worth I intentionally disabled adblock on RUclips so channels like yours can get that money.
Great topic!! Do you mind if I do something similar for my own channel?? By the way Punch-Out is just amazing, it still kicks my ass. That's longevity! I had a similar experience, my dad rented and I would watch him play. I did find it fascinating, but not enough to pull me from the latest Megaman :) I played it here and there ever since and I grew to love it over the years. Similar experience with Castlevania too, I didn't get into the classics (pre-SotN) until my adulthood. A lot of these games you mention have aged like fine wine. Super Metroid was love at first sight for me. Definitely my favorite game ever for more than a decade. I still have a hard time getting into the original Zelda, but I do see the appeal and it's definitely a quality game. I mean to this day, I don't have the nostalgia goggles for it either and only completed it in my adulthood. I feel like LttP kind of blew it away, but I can't deny that it's a more linear experience and a big part of the appeal of the original is how open ended it is. It's such an open-ended game, makes me wish they would have done something similar for Link to the Past. I think there's a hack for that....
as a retro gamer i have always thought snes was the best console of all time. i have to say ps4 has some of the best games i have ever played. i believe later on in life i will look back and think ps4 was the goat.
Billy, I had that same issue where I wasn’t a big fan of the transition from 2d to 3D back when the N64 was coming out. I had stopped gaming a little while, but once it smoothed out and I found some good 2d games did still exist and the PlayStation was making some better 3D games, I got back into it
Anyone else seen how fucked up Billy's beard was on his chin it look like on the left side it was only growing. on his left cheek it look like he took a razor and fucked it up ...cant stop looking at it 😂😂
Well i think the Psx/N64/Saturn generation to the most visually unappealing. The Atari has primitive graphics. But i still think that looks better. Not that there wasn't any great games from 5th generation.
Yes, dark times for graphics. 3D was possible and impressive, but it didn't look as good as sprites. It didn't help that when the 2D stuff that did come out in that era like Metal Slug 3 & Guilty Gear X looked so damn good by comparison.
Donkey Kong Country is my all time favorite game and I totally have the nostalgia cranked to 11 on it. My neighbor had it and I watched him play for a few minutes and remember being blown away by the graphics. A little while later, for my 9th birthday, my mom saved up enough to get me the SNES bundle (my fav console box too). I sat around playing for hours with my mom and have really fond memories of that. Such a great game and soundtrack!
Anyone else get the ad for SOTN/Rondo of Blood Remaster right after Billy finished talking about Rondo?
Get A Life Bros haha I was just about to comment this same thing
Get A Life Bros I got an ad for floor cleaner 😐
Are you sure they're remasters? I think they're just making a collection and putting it on PS4. No remastering happening.
Ad? What's an ad? *strokes ad blocker*
I enjoy your episodes. Just a suggestion: Can everyone(and I mean everyone) get in the room and talk about our bad ass experiences at an ARCADE! I enjoy gaming at home, especially with the newer systems; Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch. But, there is nothing like friends, a couple rolls of quarters, a big gulp and the lights and sounds of an ARCADE. It would be cool to hear the stories of machines, game challenges and all around smack talk from the group! I will start it off. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Xmen, Mortal Combat, Tekken, Street Fighter and Star Wars Pinball, BRING IT SON!
Sidebar: I grew up playing Pac-man, Centipede, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, etc... All were amazing and I had great memories.
I loved the arcade as a kid even though I was intimidated by all the high school kids that went there. i got to play games like double dragon, 1945, centipede, tron and lethal enforcer
Turtles and X-Men are classic. There is a Golden Axe arcade game that I didn't know existed until I saw it in the arcade. Wish I got to play that.
I remember being at the Arcade, which i believe was called Jupiter, in the college area of the University of Cincinnati called Clifton. I was around 8-9 and there was a huge crowd around Super Mario 3. It is one of the most prominent memories when it comes to video games.
There was a game called Rastan at a small store called Tucker’s market near the projects were I grew up. As a family we received food stamps so I would take a food stamp dollar and buy a 5 cent piece of bubble gum and take the change and play this game. The best childhood ever even being poor !!!
I was legit too stupid for Zelda as a kid haha. Played through it when I was probably 19 or something, and loved it.
I completely missed Star Tropics as a kid. Considering how into NES I was in 1990, i have no idea how I never at least rented it.
Oh it's Friday night!! 🎵🎤 yeah!!! As always, editing on point Billy and can identify with the bloopers hahaha 😂😄👊 Achoo!
You guys are killing it on the backdrops. I absolutely love them.
I remember when the story broke about Mike Tyson's punch out being banned and replaced by just Punch Out, it was an all out scramble to the store to try to find a copy of the Mike Tyson version lol!
I recently replayed Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2 [3 will be played soon!] and I was really impressed by how well they both held up!
I will never get tired of that top 5 Friday song.. pure gold
Billy love u bro awesome vid as usual, I liked the Pac-Man vid too 👍✌️
There was a lot of NES games I missed out on due to my rental store not having them. Over time I got to play Shatterhand and Journey to Silius, which I would have loved back then.
I played the hell out of Donkey Kong Country growing up. Love that game and the others in the series.
Go to the arcade was the greatest.it was a great way to see your friends and meet girls
Best games that came out during the right era but I never played at the time.
5) Rondo of Blood
4) Super Metroid
3) Chrono Trigger
2) Monkey Island games
1) SNATCHER!
I was born in 89 so sadly I missed the majority of the NES, SNES and Mega Drive (I’m also Australian) but I remember playing Donkey Kong Country for the first time in the early 2000’s through emulation and even though by that stage I was already addicted to my PS2, I knew that I was playing an amazing game. My 12 year old mind was blown.
I love top 5 Fridays
My nostalgia with dk country is when , during the under water level, my brother who's younger than I am...I was...16 he was 14, said this is porno music! And I looked at him like, how do you know? Lmao.
HAHA
Yo Billy, I get the whole nostalgia. I truly do, but it seems you are avoiding the opportunity to create new memories that will become just as great as your childhood memories in the long run. I have a strong attachment for Donkey Kong Country 1, & 2 as I played them as a kid, plus they are fantastic platformers, but I believe in the future I'll also think of Secret of Mana very fondly because I played it with my gf and it's one of our new favorite games of all time, it'll turn into a great memory in the long run. Same as you, I also missed on Super Metroid but I know in the future I'll think about it like that one time I finally tried it after years and I used to live in [insert place here]. You get my drill? Hope you have a great rest of the day o/
Can really relate to how much godness was missed back in the day! Guess many of them missed because of as a kid you had ONE "system" to play with and games were relatively expensive as a kid. You had what you had and sometimes traded in games you already beaten or didn´t like. Really liked watching the video! Stay awesome, thumbs up from Sweden
I don't have nostalgic attachment to any of these either lol. Grew up at the end of the nes/beginning of snes era but mostly stuck with mario, mortal kombat, etc. Like you said, can't deny they're great though. The super nes classic's made me a big sup metroid fan
Nice, welcome to the enlightenment.
Hate to say it but I didn’t play the first Zelda until my 20’s And Super Metroid in my 30’s. Right there with ya Billy
Hell yeah DKC was the game that came bundled with the SNES that I got for Christmas. Finally after being stuck with an atari and an NES for 8yrs or whatever!
Batman, Adventure Island 2 & 3, Gremlins 2 for the NES.
Castlevania Bloodlines and also Super Metroid for me too.
Great video!
I remember playing Donkey Kong Country (or maybe one of the sequels) on an SNES store demo. I wanted an SNES so bad just for that game, but I never got one. To this day I have never bought one. They are usually way out of my price range and often the really yellowing ones which I'd rather not have. I'll find my SNES someday, though. Someday.
I feel the same about Rondo of Blood and was able to finally experience it all the way through a few years ago. What an amazing game. I only had heard about it as being "Dracula X Rondo of Blood" from magazines as a kid, and was so disappointed when I played the SNES version of Dracula X.
I played Zelda and Punch-out as a kid but never owned them. Didn’t play the other 3 until I was an adult
I didn’t play the original Legend of Zelda until I was an adult. I still don’t know the ins and outs of the game like I do with the NES games I had when I was a kid.
Great list. I prefer retro because of my childhood, they're fun games and while they're difficult they're much more simple than today's games. At least to understand how to play.
I look forward to this every Friday 😁
Great stuff. You have to figure out a way to go back to your childhood and play Punch Out. Also, you need to beat Tyson as an adult. No excuses lol.
Oh yeah, I can't think any of the top of my head but I have passed on some that everyone else said I was missing out on, same thing happened with toys, now I just try to get everything I can get my hands on 😁
The sad existence of us small town folk, your limited to the local rental store. And I couldn't imagine my parents buying me a game and expansions on top of it multiple times lol. Got two games a year and could pick up some occasional pawn shop goods.
Yo Billy, the vid for super metroid wasnt actually the snes game footage , just sayin, i think its something else , still love all your videos and I'm a HUGE fan!
For me I gotta be in the right invierment right mind set to enjoy these types of games don't get me wrong I love these games. But I just can't pick up and play like I said right invierment right mind set lol great video by the way.
The intro kills me 😂
well nostalgia can make a bad game, good or at least something you have fun with regardless and a great game amazing, just gives it that extra boost. and super metroid has always been my fave game ever, ff7 came close but i stil go back to super metroid, which is why i enjoyed the sequel, metroid fusion so much, it was a great follow up in the same vein.
I honestly feel sorry for anyone that didn't have a chance to grow up with the Donkey Kong Country games.
You didn't grow up playing Beat 'Em And Eat 'Em on Atari 2600? I'm shocked!
I missed out on Zelda too. I played Link to the Past before Zelda on the NES. Haha. LttP was so awesome though. I was just more into side scrollers as a kid.... 🤷🏻♂️
Thanks for putting out these great videos.
I never played legened of Zelda too.Same with both of the 64 versions.I did however love the gb and snes version.
Dodongo needs to appear in more videos.
Hey Billy did you got a hacked supermetroid or something? The footage was weird and not from the original game i know since i've played it like a zillion times.
I went through the same thing as far as castlevania and a lot of other games go.... I cant even explain it.... I was gaming at the time and somehow theres a horribly long list of great games that I just didn't play somehow
Agree with why retro gaming is fun.
Kool Aid Man game in the background: wtf?
Always drop a like for the GameChasers but c'mon Billy, King Hippo is like the Spark Mandrill of Punchout. He has the easiest exploit. You just punch him in the gut when he barks and his pants fall down and you keep punching him lol
Well yeah, I was just saying the first name that popped in my head. I more so meant I just get my ass handed to me around that time in the game.
@@TheGameChasers hahaha im just joshing ya. I been a big fan of the channel for a few years now. Thanks for replying
never had punchout as a kid I was graced with "world champ" where I used to just get the fuck punched out of me and be ko in minutes
Great video Billy!
You have my same taste in games. I avoided maze games and rpgs back in the day.
i played zelda and got nowhere as a kid, i dont think i even did the first dungeon. played less than an hour for sure. i only got into zelda when i got ALTTP
You need an RGB mod on that TurboGrafx!!
Sega Genesis, N64 , PS2 and Xbox 360 i had the most nostalgic memories with. This current gen sucks or maybe I'm just getting older and feel i have less memories with ps4 and xbox one
Explianed in another thread
Just sold my signed copy of Mike Tyson on the nes. Regret has set in but adulting sometimes sneaks in :(
I really enjoy Friday nights with Billy
What's the name of that Super Metroid hack shown in the video?
IDK, I have like 10 on the PI for recording. I just picked one because I couldn't get the real one to load. Was hoping no one would notice...although that's dumb because it's obvious. I guess I meant I was hoping no one would care haha.
@@TheGameChasers It looks cool. I'll hafta do some digging.
@@NefariousWes I THINK it was "eris"
@@TheGameChasers Thanks, man. I like playing hacks on the Retron 5.
@@NefariousWes I think I have more hacks than real games on my PI. Some are so bad...others are damn good.
I didn't play Rondo of Blood until I was 20. I bet everyone here missed out on it when they were kids...unless they are young enough to have been kids when the PSP and Wiiware versions came out in the late 2000's.
Yeah, I don't think many of us had a turbo grafx cd back then, it's one of my favourite games, hence my thumbnail pic, but I only played it a couple years ago,
That Super Metroid footage was tingling my spider sense. Dat ain't real SM! Rom hacks of that game have been very good though.
The song grows on you.
i missed out on basically the entire NES and SNES libraries because my older brothers sold them to get an N64 when i was like 3. but luckily my mom bought me a sega genesis model 2, so i got to experience the sega games at least.
Love you game chasers guys
Funny how Rondo of Blood is featured right before an ad for Castlevania Requiem (which contains Rondo of Blood). It's a solid game, and worth buying, but the ad blended into the video. It doesn't matter, just seems odd.
Probably got the ad because of Rondo being in the tags
@@TheGameChasers That makes sense. Also I fully advocate buying a copy of Rondo of Blood regardless of whether ads push it or not. And for whatever it's worth I intentionally disabled adblock on RUclips so channels like yours can get that money.
@@JFlickinger82 That helps, especially since everyone's earnings went down this year.
More game chasers!!!
Dracula X: Rondo Of Blood
Tales of Destiny
Super Metroid
Silent Hill
Secret of Mana
I 100% agree with LoZ!
i can really relate to this list
Bless you!
We love your gaming content and quality of videos. Would love to send you some of our gaming skins to test out! :)
I want to hear your top 5 hated consoles
Anyone else miss Punchout! being a $5 common?
Great topic!! Do you mind if I do something similar for my own channel??
By the way Punch-Out is just amazing, it still kicks my ass. That's longevity! I had a similar experience, my dad rented and I would watch him play. I did find it fascinating, but not enough to pull me from the latest Megaman :) I played it here and there ever since and I grew to love it over the years.
Similar experience with Castlevania too, I didn't get into the classics (pre-SotN) until my adulthood. A lot of these games you mention have aged like fine wine.
Super Metroid was love at first sight for me. Definitely my favorite game ever for more than a decade.
I still have a hard time getting into the original Zelda, but I do see the appeal and it's definitely a quality game. I mean to this day, I don't have the nostalgia goggles for it either and only completed it in my adulthood. I feel like LttP kind of blew it away, but I can't deny that it's a more linear experience and a big part of the appeal of the original is how open ended it is. It's such an open-ended game, makes me wish they would have done something similar for Link to the Past. I think there's a hack for that....
You dont need our permission to talk about any subject. There is no copyright on free thought.
FYI 0073735963 is cheat code to fight Tyson. Stuck in my memory like the Konomi code.
Wow wtf you missed Metroid? I’m sorry you missed out on it big time but you still played it now and enjoyed it soooooo whateva
5 games I never played back in the day
1} all of sega catalog
2}any of the mega man x series
3}smash bros melee
4}star fox 64
5}kirby's adventure
Bless you
Great topic, lerv ert!
Why use a hack for the Super Metroid footage?
Bless you =: P
Well said sir \m/
as a retro gamer i have always thought snes was the best console of all time. i have to say ps4 has some of the best games i have ever played. i believe later on in life i will look back and think ps4 was the goat.
I have never played Super Metroid or SotN...
Bless ya!!
Billy, I had that same issue where I wasn’t a big fan of the transition from 2d to 3D back when the N64 was coming out. I had stopped gaming a little while, but once it smoothed out and I found some good 2d games did still exist and the PlayStation was making some better 3D games, I got back into it
How’s the next Game Chasers episode coming?
tom They still make Game Chasers episodes.
Sorry if I have a new baby and its The worst time of year to look for games in texas. My bad.
That was to Tom, not you Jackson
The Game Chasers It’s all good! Just wanted to see how you were doing 😄 Congrats on the baby!
hmmm I've never played a Starfox game in my life
Try Starfox 64, maybe the 3DS remake of it. Pretty popular entry and for good reason.
super metroid was my favorite game of all time until i played the last of us
Top 5 friday toniiightt...
Bald Bull for me...fucking bull charge!!
Bless you.lol
Anyone else seen how fucked up Billy's beard was on his chin it look like on the left side it was only growing. on his left cheek it look like he took a razor and fucked it up ...cant stop looking at it 😂😂
I can gush about Super Metroid.
...But I just...don’t...care for Donkey Kong Country.
5:25 that doesn't look like any Super Metroid level I remember... What gives?
Well i think the Psx/N64/Saturn generation to the most visually unappealing. The Atari has primitive graphics. But i still think that looks better. Not that there wasn't any great games from 5th generation.
Yes, dark times for graphics. 3D was possible and impressive, but it didn't look as good as sprites. It didn't help that when the 2D stuff that did come out in that era like Metal Slug 3 & Guilty Gear X looked so damn good by comparison.
Yes i didnt like mike tysons punch out in the beginning than watched Rocky 4 than was locked
Wait Zelda too? Omg I love you bro, and I send my condolences. You failed childhood, and should repent lol
Take the beanie off its making you stumble your words
Super Metroid is the best 16 bit game ever made. Zero flaws...
a link to the past is a maze game ...
Not the whole thing
@@TheGameChasers the same thing can be said about super metroid
#chode?🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️. ❤️
Lol yolo console