The Time The Government Had To Tell Nintendo Not To Release a Console (Favourite SNES Games)
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So, in relation to Faraway Lucas' story, I was working the entertainment area at a major retailer during the Wii launch. I went in 2h early and filled the pre-orders we had, assigned them all out and notified customers that they could pickup. We sold what was left, and by 10am we were "sold out". I went on my lunch break and came back to the store manager selling the pre-order stock. I was like "what are you doing" he said that he found all this stock. I told him it was pre orders, and dead set, he looked me in the eye, took the attached invoice off one and said "not anymore it's not". I called him a piece of shit and walked out. I got a phonecall that afternoon from complaints in relation an alarming number of complaints to corporate about it since he threw me under the bus, and told them to get the security footage and tell me who's wrong. They terminated the store manager a week later for costing >$50,000 in complaints in
What an absolute douche nozzle good on ya for getting him handled
omg. what was going through his head! Did he pull any other crap like that? Did he not understand "pre-order"?
I was working on the wii release, I had pre-ordered right away, on the day there was a massive line up outside the store. I had to hold up my wiimote promo Keychain thing to get people to move so I could get in to open the store. I immediately grabbed my pre-order put a sticker on it saying it was a pre-paid and stashed it to the side. Called my parents and told them they need to get here to pick it up from the store (as I didn't trust managers). Turns out it was a good thing I did that because at least 2 other employees had their pre-paids sold, let alone customers who didn't get to hide them in the stock room, because management had no back bone or brains.
Selling a preorder or reservation should count as theft imo
I went into a Target when they were selling the PS4 and Marvels Spider-Man combo and asked the lady there if she had any. She told me firmly no that if I want one I have to go online and check what stores have them. I downloaded their app and couldn’t find it online. I went looking for her but couldn’t find her but I did find a guy just coming out the storage room so I asked him where I can check in the app to find which stores have them. He told me he had some in the back and went to the back and got me one. Best feeling ever holding that console and plugging it in. Never finished the Spider Man game it came with. I should get on that.
@@FOXCYBORGNINJA yes
The Target app is not accurate. And I am speaking from many an experience.
@@FOXCYBORGNINJA Or that PS4 had already been sold to someone else. Just like Lucas's Wii
@@HiringHamblin Walmart has specific areas for pre-paid stuff so employees don’t touch it. Most likely it was just in the backstock of electronics, and she was too lazy to do anything about it.
@@369Sigma But they said Target.
Kids who grew up with money will never understand the lengths the rest of us have gone to in order to play the games we love.
I have never been considered rich, but I will say my childhood fell under "comfortably middle class and lucky". That is to say, I was one of those rat bastard unicorns in high school that had both a SNES and a Genesis. I just never knew how different that was until I grew up.
poor old pc, i destroyed it with malware searching up [game] pc free download
@@Erichwanh 😭
@@Mr_Reaps25 that may be the most "privileged" gamer take I've ever heard. It's like 10 years ago saying "I bought a used 360 with a gold sub and all unlockables in every halo." Acknowledge your strife instead of flaunting your gains.
Yeah man I sold my mother to play Mario
Karl: *Talking about the absolute chaos that was the SNES launch*
Light Blue Joycon: It's time to get funkyyyy!
I did the exact same thing as Karl. I bought the cheapest Xbox 360 I could get. I think it came with a 250mb memory.
Came home all excited and remembered that I don't have a game to play on it. I was getting £5 a week for pocket money and lived nowhere near the city to buy a game. So I had to wait for a month to save £20 and then had to wait for my parents to go for their weekly shop so I can go into town with them and get me a bargain bin game. I don't even remember what game it was. But I do remember that a couple of days before I went away. I was talking to my friend about how I had the console but no games on it and he let me borrow halo 2. I never even thought about asking my friends to borrow a game... It actually makes me so glad to know that somebody else is a short sighted is me at times haha
You were young and stupid.
how a company can release a system with no game included, is beyond me.
Finally! Proof that I'm not [just] a freak.
My chat mocks me when I say Snez, but it's how I and all my friends and family said it when i was growing up.
Is it a British thing, or a Midlands thing?
I'm from the US, and I mostly say Snez. Sometimes Super Nintendo. Never Super NES or SNES.
I'm from Kent and I say Snez
Welsh and I’ve always said sness (and similarly the NES is the ness).
I'm scouse and it's always been snez
was always sness for me in western canada.
I believe the stores were in charge of the pre-orders, still crazy.
When the Xbox 360 came out, my Dad and I waited outside of a Sears for hours to get one and were the first ones in line (most store like Best Buy or Gamestop had people in line for days but noone thinks of Sears as a place to get video games and we knew they would have some). When the store opened, an employee told us the truck didn't deliver them the day before but took our names and told us the truck was expected later that morning so if we came back at noon, they would have one held for us. When my dad came back at noon, the employees were acting shady and said they had sold them all. When my grandpa found out, he went to the store, told them he knew they had them and had kept them for the employees and said if they sell him one that they could come pick up the new washer, dryer and fridge he had just purchased from them. Needless to say, they magically found one in the back and I had an awesome Birthday :)
I'm probably in a minority but I say it "Super Nintendo". I guess because that what us kids called it when it was brand new. Goddamn I'm old. 😂
We did the same thing here.
dang right.
Me too
Mainly because everyone just called the NES the "Nintendo". When it's your only product, can't really expect anybody to remember the name.
@@davidmcgill1000 You're not wrong. We definitely did just call it Nintendo. Hell, my grandparents still refer to all video games as Nintendo. Lol
The thing about Dragon Quest games not being allowed to release on Fridays is actually a myth, but it's still a cool story: the director of its studio actually refuses to release the games on Fridays because of how it negatively affects the grades of students who would skip the days when it released to play it. There's not legal imposition on them at all, they just don't want kids to skip class when Japanese schooling is as brutal as it already is.
I had a similar thing to Lucas. I’d preordered my Wii with Comet, and on release day they had pallets of games, controllers, and accessories. But no Wii because they hadn’t arrived. I got told to come back the next week.
My parents ended up letting me use my brothers, which they’d ordered for Christmas for him from somewhere else and he was still away at school. They ended up just giving him mine instead, because it came in the day before he came back.
I remember the battery famine of the early 2000's where i couldn't find any batteries for my GBA. Eventually i was able to persuade my dad into buying rechargable batteries that stayed with me through the wii and xbox era.
when reading your comment, at first i was like "battery feminine?" the i realized you meant "famine" and not "feminine"
@@megamegatron99 fixed
For me, the "one and *only!" time I bought a console for myself was the Nintendo Switch, Animal Crossing SE, and I was to go in to pick it up on the day it came out... The same week, same week! That lockdown started here in France! I was devastated not knowing how I would get it, cus I hadn't paid extra for a delivery.
You know the feeling bring hyped for a new game, or present, you can't think of anything else, (specially being ADHD 😅)
Thankfully they did deliver it to me without extra cost, it took a while and I spent a couple weeks not watching anything AC related and was elated when it finally arrived! 🥳🥳🥳
Needless to say, I spent the entire 1st, 3 month lockdown playing nothing but that sweet, sweet game 😆
Also felt the guilt, because helloooo! Pandemic happening, don't be so selfish 🥲
I was a TA at a university when Halo 3 came out my lab class was full of students who had not had any sleep when they rolled in to class the day after release. If it had been something that could be made up or did not count for credit I am pretty sure it would only be me and the female students that day.
Things I've learned about gaming. It's ok to wait a year to buy a new game or console. Don't buy a console without a pack in game unless it's backwards compatible. Good games stand the test of time. The only thing better than a good game is a good game that you got on sale.
I still remember when we got the NES. I'm still gaming, and love your content.
I’ve still got my Sega Genesis and Sega Genesis Nomad sitting in a box in my closet.
My first family NES was an Xmas gift 3 days after I was born - I literally grew up on Nintendo.
Getting a NES was like birthday and Christmas rolled up into one. Been a gamer ever since.
Same. Got my NES in 1987. I was 7. It was magic.
I actually called the SNES just super Nintendo as a kid. I was like 18 when I learned the SNES was actually the same thing as a "Super Nintendo"
My dad got me a Wii a couple months after it released. He bought it from a scalper off ebay. That gift brought me endless happiness and I am so grateful to my pops for getting me that thing. As an adult I would never want to buy from a scalper, but maybe I'd feel different if I was in my pops position. Thanks pops
When I worked during black friday, a woman had preordered a PS4 and came in pissed that other people managed to buy it off the shelf while her preorder wasn't ready. The thing is, she ordered it for a couple days after the fact, it wasn't ready because she came early thinking it didn't matter
When I was a kid we all just called it "Super Nintendo" or occasionally "Super NES". I don't recall anyone ever referring to it as "SNES" with either pronunciation.
I remember when assassin's creed 3 released, there was a midnight release at the eb games in my area and when I got home I played the game from start to finish for around 16 hours and ended up not going to school the next morning
Little anecdote from a guy I met through work. The UK had an extra problem with Wii supplies because Nintendo were upset with the GameCube having been dropped in price to the ridiculously low 80 quid. The dude worked in procurement Currys who were the first to do it apparently then because they had all the other retailers followed suit. In retaliation Nintendo put UK Wii shipments on lowest priority.
I still have my Wind waker special edition GameCube I bought the day after that price drop.
My parents and I went to a midnight release of the wii while we were on vacation just for a shot at it and didn't get it. Then when we got home they spent weeks lurking outside gamestop seeing if any wins got unloaded off the trucks.
We got one for Christmas
Yeah I would like to see a "tattoos of the channel" episode.
I was lucky I was trying to get a Red Mario edition Wii and the worker at the gamestop got me one the box was a bit through the ringer but the console is still going strong.
I remember going to the special midnight release of Black Ops 2 and then having a week off using my annual leave just to play it for a week straight. Good times😀
In 1987 I wanted to get Sword of Fargol for the commodore 64. I saved my tiny allowance for 5 weeks to get it. Finally went to the store to purchase it and all of the commodore/IBM\Tandy\ and Atari pc games were all completely gone. The video game section of the store was completely gone. I think it was either a Target or K-Mart. But ya, broken heart. Never got to play it with
that reminds me of the launch of FINAL FANTASY 3 (yeah, SNES 3, Super Famicom 6)
~older brother and I (8 years old at the time, he had a car) went to every single retailer we knew of... EXCEPT THE TINY WAL MART CLOSEST TO OUR HOUSE. To this day I remember how defeated he was, he wasn't even going to stop... I begged him, like "dude...WHAT IF THEY HAVE JUST ONE COPY?" ...they still had 6 copies in stock...
My biggest mistake ever is that I've sold my N64 with all my games and stuff as a teenager. 10 years or so later I bought another one on ebay with a couple of games in worse condition for double the price.
That is how I got my TurboDuo. I saved birthday and lawn boy money. Then traded in my TG-16 with the booster pack that let you save games to get the turbo duo. I was originally trying to get the cd add on but the guy at TZD told me about the duo all as one unit for only like 50$ more. So I got that instead. Man I wish I hadn't lost all that stuff.
I remember my first system was my moms old SNES. Clocked a lot of hours playing Dream Master.
I lined up at retail stores to get (Usually Target) the Wii, WiiU, Switch and Xbox Series X. I was able to preorder the Xbox One since I worked at GameStop at the time.
I had to get to Target at 10PM the night before the Wii release and was still 13th in line. Luckily there was over 40 available but they were all accounted for as soon as the store opened. That was the craziest one. The Series X was a little easier, checked opening times for stores and Covid caused a big change in people waiting for console releases.
I still have my original NES bought in 1985. Still works too.
I wanted a Atari 2600 in 1979 so I started saving in 1978. I was graduating High School in June of 1979 so I had birthday, Xmas, and Graduation money all accumulating. The price from Sears was $180($818 Today) but I was only able to scrape together $160 and time ran out as I was scheduled to go into The Marines at the end of June. I had bought 1 game for the Atari so for a year I had a game but no console to play it with. Finally that Fall I was able to buy the Atari on the day I graduated from Boot Camp Sept 14th 1979.
When I was a kid I won a PSX on a TV show with a mail in answer. Next day, I grab my money, and go and buy what seemed like the perfect game back then, Bushido Blade, assuming the PSX was already on the mail. It took them 6 months to ship me the PSX... I must have read Bushido Blade's manual a hundred times, and stared at the shinny black disk a hundred more. I'd practice the moves on an imaginary controller.
Not tech, but Jim Butcher recently released a new 'Dresden Files' novella, but only as an audio book and e-book. The only hard copies available were 2000 signed copies, which were obviously sold out pretty instantly.
So many people were asking for a hard copy on social media, and they just kept sending people to the already sold out signed ones.
Wow I feel privileged now. I had the NES when it came out thanks to my grandfather buying one with all the games.. yes I had Mario and gyromite… robot included. But, I also had the SNES as soon as it came out.
I had preordered Twilight Princess for my birthday (meaning I didn’t get a present on my birthday that year), but Game “forgot” to set one to the side. I had to go in and get the number for customer support (cause it’s 2006 and I don’t have internet cause I live in the countryside). I had to call them, tell them what happened and they sent my mum a refund and I ended up having to wait an extra month for my copy of TP so they could get it back in stock. In conclusion, frick you Game I want a free GameCube.
Karl: "Where do you fall on the SNES or snes?"
Me: "Super Famicom."
Chrono Trigger is a wonderful game for the SNES. Never found another game that sparked such wonder in my eyes on any console quite like it before or after!
legit
I had a prepaid for a Wii with Twilight Princess, the store I got them from got three copies of TP in on the first day. Thankfully the staff knew that was the primary reason for buying the system, and the staff hooked me up. I showed up and was told not to open my bag and just leave while a mother was screaming at the staff about not getting the game.
"Are you sure you don't have more in the back?"
Ah, yes, let me step through my wizard portal into the Infinite Inventory Dimension.
I went to go pre-order monster hunter four Ultimate's collector's edition, at Gamestop, because I really wanted to get that Gore Magala figure for my brother's birthday and I was told by someone who worked there that they wouldn't accept pre orders for it and told to buy it on the day of. I went to go buy the collectors edition the day of and that SAME person who told me I couldn't pre order it, smugly smiled at me, like they won something or got payback(For what I don't even know) as they paid for it right in front of me saying it was for their cousin, they clocked out just minutes before even though they should have still been working that whole day.
(fixed some of my spelling errors because recalling this just gets me fuming.)
Close on why the US does Tuesday launches on media. It allows product to be shipped to warehouses over the weekend. Then product is shipped to the stores on Monday to be ready for Tuesday (or shipped overnight courier to arrive on Tuesday morning).
“I feel old saying that my favorite game is the first season of Fortnite”
There are so many things wrong with that statement…
I will say yes I was very "oh so thats what it is" but mostly as a curiosity. I figured it was a random assortment of things, not specifically Metroid.
Untitled Side Channel special out of the studio episode where you show off your finish tattoo at the tattoo parlor and talk about random tattoo related facts and experience with the tattoo artist.
Like what's the weirdest tattoo they've done or did they ever had to refuse a customer or even kick them out.
Ive always called it the Nes 2
cuz i thought it was funny
It’s not exactly true that Dragon Quest isn’t allowed to be release any other day of the week. Enix did so voluntarily to avoid issues of people skipping work or school but despite rumours to the contrary there was never a law about the release date.
the SNES was released when i was just 13, man do i feel old now
While I prefer pronouncing it as each letter (Ess Enn Eee Ess), an official statement from Nintendo a few years back said that it is pronounced "Snes" the way Karl does.
I bought a ps4 when it first came out and I had to wait to buy/upgrade my tv so I can actually use it as my old one didn't have hdmi.
Mine was actually a game.
I went in on release day for Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, took the deluxe edition to the counter, they took it out back to get a disc and put it in a bag, no problem whatever.
I stepped out the shop and grabbed my new game out the bag... it was the standard edition, but they'd charged me for the deluxe.
Ok just pop back in, tell them what happened.
"Yeah we ran out of deluxe versions so you'll have to have the standard", it took another 5 minutes just to get them to refund me the difference since they'd charged me for the wrong version, I was mentally destroyed and just gave up.
Every time I play Black Flag I think of that coat I was too late to get, on the day the game came out.
The GameCube was one of the first consoles I bought out of pocket. Had it two days and someone stole it, walked into a consignment shop two weeks later and found it on sale for $25.
@@FOXCYBORGNINJA bought it back, never found out who stole it.
can you imagine how crushing the sales figures could have been if they made chips in house. that and the killer pr of being able to use surplus for things like hospital equipment and the like.
bugger me sideways with a teabag the assumption that certain components will always be cheap and available is quite out there
I just got my copy of lady’s choice! And I got a copy of “maybe gent is vampire”! Cant wait to play with friends
“I sold Devil may cry 3” I felt that in my soul. We all make regrettable sacrifices lol.
Took me 18 months to get a PS5 under $700USD. It was so random that I went to Walmart to pick up my glasses and a guy walks out with two. I asked how much and he said $550 and I sprinted through the store and got it, paid and left without picking up my glasses!🤣🤣🤣
oof karl oof, that hurts. honestly there must be so much regret for lost ps2s in general but ow that hurts to hear.
was point blank forbidden from games consoles myself so even if i had saved for one it was going to be on the end of a sledgehammer so ps2 was a friend time only thing.
much feels many mood oi vey
In my childhood my brothers and I knew a kid who was straight up spoiled. Any game he wanted or console he was getting it and worsen as he aged. He one time told us that we were too poor to ever get a good console. We appreciated what we could afford, our mom was single while taking care of a house and 3 kids.
We felt bad and eventually shared it with our mom...she was upset. Through that fury she asked where we could a nintendo wii. We were confused since we had to beg just for the store. We got a wii and she said on the next visit to tell the kid about how fun much we were having...we didn't hesitate.
It's not tech, but I remember the year Jurassic park came out. I got the VHS for Christmas, and the whole family sat down to watch it. The screen was black. It always is at the very start of a VHS, but we fast forwarded for about 20 minutes before realising that some how, they had sold a blank tape.
And then the shop were it had been bought weren't open again until like 4 days later.
4 days might not sound long, but for me as an autistic kid obsessed with both dinos and Jeff Goldblum, those 4 days felt like an eternity. And our Christmas Eve family movie night were a big disappointment, think we watched some stupid comedy my brother had gotten.
When Nintendo released the NES Classic Mini, it was similarly impossible to find. Each Wal Mart only got 2. One night, around 1 am, I noticed Walmart was freshly stocking their electronics department. I asked about the console and they actually had the 2. My wife and I were able to get both, because they were limited to 1 per customer. As we were pushing our carts away, another customer came up and inquired about the sold out systems and complained that we got two- but we both paid separately. Fortunately, we left the store quick enough to not have any issues. Felt like mission impossible though.
Nintendo is notorious for under production. Look at what they did with the NES and SNES classic. When those were released there was a mad scramble for them and a lot of people didn't get them. Not sure why they did more runs of them a few years later, but they did.
I crumbled to dust when Lucas said he was younger than the Snes, while I'm older I didn't acctually have one when they were current as my first console was the Saturn as before I'd been given retired PCs from family workplaces and beig I spent half my year around arcades it was the right choice, I remember my Uncle telling me about the Christmas the Dreamcast came out, he was working delivery for a department store and every order had one on it even random ones where it was just a washing machine or a fridge and a Dreamcast.
I did a similar thing to Karl with the original Xbox although I got luckier as it was a used special pack with Halo and Midtown 3, that was all I hd for ages though and I had to borrow TVs to play it.
I literally thought he was talking about a shortage in hot chips for a good 5 minutes
My only story regarding anything like this, was when Battlefield 4, and COD Ghosts came out (I believe they were the same sort of release date). Unfortunately, I only had a second hand PS3 at the time, which for whatever reason refused to play Battlefield 4, even with a mates borrowed disc.
My friend's birthday is 24th dec. Everyone decided (without me knowing) to buy him a Wii when it released, and since I was the only one with savings that could actually buy it, it fell to me to get it. They told me this the morning of the 24th... I still managed to get it, but holy hell was that a challenge.
Regarding the chip shortage, I think some major car manufacturer has been buying out washing machines because their vehicles just happen to use the same chip that's in the washing machines.
That's dumb, should just pay a premium for the chips from the washing machine manufacturer. Saves both companies a lot of money. The washing machine company doesn't have to build machine and ship it, the car manufacturer doesn't have to transport the washing machines, rip out the chip and toss the now useless machine away.
@@callak_9974 I agree, someone should tell the car manufacturer
I didn't call it either of those, to me it was simply "The Super Nintendo"
Your story of doing everything in your power to get a console speaks to me. I did that to buy a game cube on launch day.
my first system was a SNES and the only games i asked for was bust a move tetris and doctor mario because those are the only games my sisters could play competitively. my mother got really into bust a move and got pretty good too.
my first purchase with my first check was a ps2 not only could i start my own collection of games but also it was our DVD player so i could rent the new movies and watch them with my roommates.
also when my grandpa got old and could no longer go to his bowling league i got him a wii with the bowling and the other stuff. the grand kids would come and create there little avatar then sword fight, tennis and the like.
The *ONLY* time I decided to trade in a console, was with the switch, and the *ONLY* reason I traded in my console, was because it was the Wii U that I was trading in.
So... the most garbage console I'd ever had my hands on as well as the games I had for it, ended up shaving 50% off a Switch, including limited edition breath of the wild.
Now that's a good trade.
Karl’s story reminds me of my own experience I don’t remember how old I was but it was around the release of the ps2 and I got it for Christmas but my grandparents bought me what they thought was a basketball game
But was dvd of NBA all stars and dunk contest 😆 so for a few weeks I just watched it over and over
I spent 3 weeks waiting for my pre-ordered Dark Souls 2: Black Armor edition to arrive after launch because I was apparently the only person to pre-order a copy at that store and thus they never got one thinking it was an error
12:01 I wonder how many people have no clue what the sound he's making means. I know what it means because I had a disc do the same thing in an xbox 360, and I also know what red ring of death means. Gosh, we have such an interesting and colorful history with the xbox 360. Who remembers putting pennies underneath the motherboard to try and fix red ring of death?
I vote for S-NES. The third pronunciation!
Reminds me of my old days, I bought a single second hand Atari cartridge, but we were so poor that the first console I could afford was a second hand PS1... For years I could only look at my cartridge and imagine what type of game was in it...
i can't stop staring at that joycon that's phasing in and out of reality
Me, having worked at Nintendo of America when Wii came out: ".... Yeah, that tracks" 😂
I got Final Fantasy 7 for the Playstation 1. The store was sold out of ps1 on release day. I had to borrow my friend's mom's Playstation to play and beat the game. Then lend her the game once I was done (took about a week during school time).
I remember the SEVERAL iterations of PS3, only separated by HD size, skin and an eight digit differentiation... X and S is far more manageable.
FFXIV 1.0. I preordered with Best Buy in the US for the early collector's edition. Best Buy opened, said they didn't have it in any of the stores. Apparently, someone at corporate f*cked up the order and it was being delivered late. The early edition (with early access and a bonus item), they said, will be in store in a week and a half. The early access was for people to access the game 2 weeks before the official release date. Best Buy made some sort of weak apology like 2 days after the release date, by finally admitting they f*cked up and offered a coupon or something to their store. Which is like going "we fucked up, please buy more stuff from us." Never bought anything from Best Buy ever again.
Oh, I ended up calling around town and was able to find 2 copies (My wife and I both pre-ordered) that day.
I have a mate who's purchased two Ps5 games, Miles Morales and Ratchet and Clank. He still can't get ahold of the system no matter how hard he tries.
The first (and thus far only) console I’ve ever pre-ordered was the PS4. I put money down on it soon as the pre-orders went live about 4 months before launch I think, and I preordered about half of the launch titles with every paycheck I got. Then the week before release day, I requested the day off from my job but got sick the day before. So even though I had the system at home finally, I was still sick and miserable with the flu. It made going to be up the console a challenge lol
I did the exact same thing will twilight princess! Got the game for my birthday in november, but didnt get the wii until christmas lol
1:50 yeah I can’t get good chips anywhere. Like I one time I went to a restaurant and none of the burgers has chips with them. It was ridiculous.
Saved up for the limited edition Halo Reach Xbox 360. Still got it. Still play on it. Best purchase I ever made.
I remember the golden Zelda cartridge was the Holy grail as a kid, I found one in a trash bin and took it home cleaned it up and played it for days.
Then the game genie came out and that was the end of gaining legit records and high scores.
Hey new here! Love the channel!
Feeling...old?
I played Pong in arcades and Pizza Hut.
I'm happy being a lifelong gamer, though. I run over 80 pencil and paper RPGs (never all at once, I do have a life) and play when I can.
My dad plays games now that he's retired, and my kids do as well.
Gamer family FTW.
:)
I got a rented console for X-Mas.
The Christmas the Nintendo 64 came out my parents couldn’t afford one but they knew how much I wanted one. All they could afford at the time was a basic stunt plane game called Pilot Wings. When I opened the wrapping and saw that big green “N” I was so excited. Then they told me it was a rental from Blockbuster & we’d have to return it in two weeks. Didn’t phase me. Had a blast playing it for those two weeks regardless
Eventually we bought one and I got Super Smash Bros 😎
The first game I remember playing was a ps2 Scooby doo game
Yeah when the Xbox 360 came out I had pre-ordered it and it came out in November and I believe I ended up waiting until February or March before I finally got my 360 because of the stock shortages back then and at that time I was old enough that I had started working at Dairy Queen here in the United States so I had the whole thing paid off for months and I'd had an extra controller and games at the house that I had nothing to play it on
Best snes games. Chrono trigger, final fantasy 6, Evo, Mario paint, Mario all-stars, earthbound, secret of mana, breath of fire 2, castlevania 4, donkey Kong country 1 and 2, man I could go on and on about how good all these games are and I didn't do it in any particular order, but it's apparent I have an rpg bias
You didn't mention secret of evermore, it needs more attention everyone talks about mana.
@@bdp4 mana is subjectively better, but I did get down to some evermore. Truthfully I forgot it exist
I used to work at a Sprint store in the mall and on the day the iPhone 5 released we had to come in at like 2am and walk past a long line of people waiting for the new iPhone. We had 3... We just opened the gate told them we had only a couple, pulled in the first 3 customers in and had to drop and lock the gate to keep the frothing iphone zombies from breaking in.
I feel like you guys are missing an option. Because I would totally just call it the Super Nintendo. No acronym required
Not limited tech, but I'm a huge warhammer 4000 fan, a while ago they announced this huge box to celebrate the new edition of the rulebook, I was prepped and saving up for ages to get this box, I woke up on the day st stupid o'clock in the morning to wake up my mum, had the webpage up, refreshing the screen every few seconds, It becomes available, I go through the payment process as quick as possible, get to finalising the payment and it's unavailable, within 4 minutes of this box going up its already sold out
I just got Mortal Kombat 2 on eBay for my SNES..it’s the original console that my parents got me when I was 7..they don’t make them like they used to.
I didn’t have a lot of money but had finally saved up to buy a Nintendo 3Ds and a couple of games with it. Later that same week the announcement for the Nintendo switch came out..
I had the same experience with xbox 360. The only game I had at launch was Need for Speed: Most Wanted. I plugged in the console and loaded up the game. The console was upright, and I was worried about the cat knocking it over, so I moved it from upright to prone, while it was still on… The disk drive made a sound that I can only describe as a dying chainsaw, then the game stopped working. I looked at the disc and there was a circular scratch about 1/4 of the way in from the center, and about 1/4 thick. That game was toast. I never put my Xbox 360 upright after that
When I got my PS4 I only got 1 game( the last of us remastered) and couldn't afford another, so I went back to play on my Xbox 360 and the first time I played it after I got my PS4, I got the red ring of death and I was so heartbroken about losing my Xbox that it took me 2 years to sell my Xbox games