I was making 5.50 an hour when I filmed this. OT was a whole 7.75! Rent was like 275 car payment 195... Take home was about 375 from a full time job every two weeks... So yeah, 80 dollars was something to film and oggle. I finally did get it, but it was with that OT.
by the time i owned a genesis i was 5 years old, it was 1995, and all of the games were no more than 30 dollars brand new. It was a great time, and it still is. Best console era to date.
Toys R Us used to be so mind blowing when I was a kid. Walk down the isle and drool at the entire wall of games. Anyone remember that show where the winners wore a velcro suit and stuck games to themselves?
I remember being a Toys R Us as a kid in '97. Everything was mysterious and my senses were heightened from the excitement of being there. I bought most of my games used from game stores but I think I had just gotten a Toys R Us gift card. I bought Toy Story for the Genesis because somehow, I learned that it had speech synthesis (I wanted a game that could "talk"). I just remember the Saturn was out and it was weird and looked like something I could never afford. As a matter of fact I got the Genesis in the first place because my mom's (who was a heroin addict) best friend (the city bus driver) felt so bad about how poor we were and how my Atari 2600 from Goodwill had just broken down that she gave us her son's old Genesis since he had just gotten a PlayStation. It was surreal being poor but I would not give it up because I learned to appreciate older or more obscure systems for the time.
A subject overlooked and forgotten, that all carts where not made the same. I remember reading 8 megs! EIGHT of them! And the magazines would go on and one about the massive size of the game. Which made it a must have... at the time.
If anyone is gawking at that $79.99 price tag, keep in mind that after you factor in inflation that same game would have cost over $145 today. Remember that if you ever start to think that games are expensive these days.
Someones playin ghouls n ghosts in the background. Thanks for the nostalgia, i feel sad now because as the song says, thoughs were the best days of my life.
These were the best times....to me 1988-1998 is really the golden era....the days when I could spend forever in the videogame section watching the previews on the kiosks, looking at all the tickets and displays. I didn't have a magazine subscription to anything until the late 90's so going to the store was the only way to see new games back then....every year the innovation grew and grew. It's a shame the time machine does not exist.
Dude, I don't know why, but this is SO awesome. To see a home video from 1990 on the era of old technology that then was NEW technology. "Mommy, please buy me Alex Kidd!" "Daddy, I want to get Shinobi for Christmas!" As short as it is, thank you so much (gregorysharp) for taking me back to the past. It's really beautiful lol.
I wouldn't even know where to start! I have about 200 VHS tapes with random gaming news from TV and stuff I shot with my old Sony camcorder. I started recording some old arcade games in the late 80's, but I felt a bit weird about it and stopped. I wish I didn't care about what other people felt back then! I have a bunch of game commercials too, but they are on SVHS and I don't have a working deck. All things I need to look into ASAP! Thanks for inspiring me with this video. :)
YES. THE GREATEST FEELING when I was a kid in the 90's was when dad took me to Toys R Us to pick out games. Wow I can't believe the prices of the games back then are pretty much the same as now. And holy shit @ SEGA CD MUSIC at the end! Awesome awesome awesome so many memories.
Wow I remember spending countless hours staring at the game wall in Toys R Us… in the next aisle over, the consoles were behind glass cases and the hang tags up above. Like you mentioned, after paying for a game at the register you had to bring the slip over to the corner of the store, which was walled off with a small window, like going to the currency exchange! Then, the guy manning the "game cage" would pull your game off the wire racks and hand it off to you. wow, takes me back big time.
That is so cool. Love how a couple of Turbografx-16 games made the shot to the far right - Alien Crush and Double Dungeon if my eyes are working correctly.
The demo that's playing is Ghouls and Ghosts. I recognize the sounds and the music from that impossibly frustrating level with the stone gargoyles and the weird tongues you have to jump on.
My NES dying was the reason I got and instantly fell in love with the Sega Genesis but holy shit I didn't know how expensive the games were....might call my mom and thank her haha.
Thank you for posting this... brings back so many memories. On top of that being able to see the prices on those games helps me realize that games these days are really not all that expensive. I remember Phantasy Star IV at $120 but I didn't know that PSII was $80. That's crazy.
This video is older than me. Heck, this video was just a year before Sonic the Hedgehog sped his way into everyone's hearts. Thanks for sharing. The Sega Genesis is my all-time favorite console.
A tear almost came out cause these was some of the best years of gaming. This is when developers took chances, make new ips...everything wasn't a shooter. Man this takes me back.
@mokos23 I worked at a Tilt! Arcade, I filmed the machines there in 1991. Should I upload that? Turbo Grafix 16 rocked. I wish I was more persistent with filming. I filmed this for bragging rights to friends. Posting videos was a thing of distant future. But I was proud of working at Tilt!. Street Fighter 2 turbo was new...
@AlirazaVideoGames the camera was about a foot long six or so inches tall... Meaty looking with a shiny Sony lable on it. It cost about $1,499.00 or so in 1989. for roughly 180 lines of resolution. Upscaled in this video of course.
I think what some don't realize looking back at this is that the higher prices usually were dictated by manufacturing costs. Any cartridges with a higher storage capacity or custom chips cost more to make and the costs were always passed on to the consumer. The popularity or demand for the game played a factor as well. For 1990, $80 sounds about right for an 8 Megabit Phantasy Star II cart that also had a 110-page hintbook and map. Heck, I paid $100 for the 24 megabit Phantasy Star IV in 1995.
And to add on to that: Phantasy Star IV (24 megabit + battery backup) and Virtua Racing (16 megabit + SVP chip) were the most expensive Genesis games, retailing for $99.99 when they first came out.
Phantasy Star II - $79.99. I remember paying $69.99 for the CARTRIDGE ALONE in 1994. It's still pretty damn expensive if you want the box and goodies. Best. JRPG. Ever. (Also, Square ripped off Aeris' death from it, too. No, you can't argue. It's blatant fact.)
LOL...WOW, By you posting this...This just brought sooooo much memories. I remember going to TRU almost every wk just to hang out and look @ the new hardware and games.......again,Thank you.....for posting this.
That store clerk that stopped you disliked this video. Wow! Total flashback for me. I really miss those days of going to toys r us. Thanks for posting this :)
@KomicTurtle True. But, I was trying to prove a point. We grew up having to pay $60-80 for a game. Gamers today are so lucky that it's not funny. That's why when I see a game I want, I don't hesitate or bitch about the price. I'm just so tired of seeing younger people these days complain that they had to pay $60 for a game, especially when they have things not available to us back then....like reviews, editorials, and rentals.....
Up until a few years ago, the exterior of that Toys R' Us looked just like that...I bought my copy of Super RC Pro-Am for the gameboy at that store... and I definitely remember the Sega isle. Don't remember what we were doing in Sac (I was 8 at the time) but I burned up all my birthday money on that game and one of those hard plastic carrying cases.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEESSSSSSSOOOOOMMMMMEEEEEE I love those old cards. You could read about a game then pick up a ticket without waiting on someone and carry around a piece of paper until you were ready to check out instead of carrying around a heavy plastic case until you were ready to check out.
It's The Sega CD boot up music - Specifically it's the from the ver. 2.00 bios which was used in the top loader version AFIK. The front loader version had a different melody and the logo's bounced around more. -- For bonus points I'm also pretty sure that's Ghouls'n Ghosts playing in the background during the pan. 3rd stage. Possibly from the attract demo which features the cpu grabbing two bonus point things before getting turned into a duck. WHY DO I REMEMBER THAT!?
I bought a copy of Phantasy Star II off of Ebay. It's complete, with the world map and the hint book it came with originally. It's in near mint condition and cost me $60.00. It is the pride and joy of my collection. :)
The majority of Genesis games back in 1990 were 4 megabit carts. Phantasy Star II was a 6 megabit game w/ battery backup to save your games. Ghouls 'N Ghosts was 5 megabits. Strider, Genesis' first 8 megabit game, sold for $79.99 when it first came out.
I've been looking everywhere for some sort of image or video of an aisle from a retail store from the 90's that had the tickets that you took to the front desk in the electronic department for your game, mainly Toys R Us. Missed that sort of thing. My memory might be off a bit, seeing as I was only maybe 5, 6, or 7 at the time, but I think ours were in the laminated slips, similiar to what you'd see for the bikes. That system seemed to work better than today's glass cases.
look at the prices for ghouls n ghost.......$54.99.......wow that was alot back then.and $59.99 for golden axe 1 and $79.99 for phantasy star 2.......crazy. genesis games were never that expensive in my area.i think th emost expensive i ever saw a game was $49.99.
People always seem to whine about game prices, but I remember getting Star Fox 64 at Toys R Us back when I was ... hell if I know. Seven or eight, and it was $60+. People complain that games are $60 now, but really, they've never been cheap. It is stupid that the prices are so high given that they're discs (and sometimes digital) and not cartridges, but that's the price you pay for entertainment -- and inflation. Nice video. I was born in '91, but it looked pretty much the same in the mid-90's.
Oh man this video is like a priceless treasure. I still have some of the price cards. Toys r us was way cooler back then everything hardware was behind glass and treated like gold from egypt in a musem the games was these cards then you went to the stock room and they brought it out. I had the SNES tg16 and genesis and bought tons of games from there like sonic 2 sonic 3.
Yes, minimum wage I think was 4.25 US dollars an hour. And if you openned it and it sucked you where stuck with it. No store to trade it in. You could sell it at a yard sale or when you sell at a Flea Market. But overall, it sucked. I'd get my mother going in there raging to get my money back. Worked just a couple times.
Oh yes, definitely!! It was the largest game at the time, and producing large games at the time was expensive, especially an RPG game that size. I've been playing this game for a week, and still have a lot more to go, and it is certainly one of the greatest games out there! Most Genesis games could be easily beaten in one sitting, but this game is quite different, and used a lot more space than the average game, thus the price increases.
I miss those days! I loved to "wish shop" and pick up the little tickets for all the games I wanted and then beg my parents to let me have them...it hardly ever worked, but it was fun. :)
@WebVManReturns .....and you had to go to the back of the store(or front in my case) where they took your ticket and got the game out of the back. You could see systems and games in those reinforced windows, sometimes going BACK to the game aisle because you saw that something was just released. That's how I got a FEW games like Tiny Toon Adventures, WWF Royal Rumble, and Castlevania Bloodlines. Great times...great times....
@TheChaos5000 to, and you can basically get a copy of Fear 3 for less than $20 now, and it hasn't even been released a year ago, and that is partly because the material used to make games nowadays is so much cheaper than what they used back then, but I really hope cartridges comeback, because the cost of memory has gone down a lot in 20 years, and it would be a great way to ship games ever since they are more reliable and are not ruined by mere scratches, cartridges FTW!!! :)
No problem! You definitely should try it, as it was one of the first RPG games to have a sci-fi plot with extreme plot twists and a good variety of characters with real personalities.
@TwinFami It was expensive back in the day because they are using "CARTRIDGES", which were expensive in itself. Same goes for N64 games- they were more expensive than PS1 games because they were using cartidges, whilst PS1 games we commonly cheaper since they used discs instead.
How nostalgic... It's a shame that little slices like this just aren't very commonplace due to the technological constraints of the time. On the other hand, we're going to have tons of things to remember the late 2000's and onwards since practically everyone has a phone with a camera. ...but geez, 80 bucks... that was something I remember all too well.
wow the good old days at toys r us.i miss these days.nothing like the game demos and endless aisles of game tag displays.the best part was being able to read these and get decent screen shots of the game before buying it.everytime i went to toys r us for something back then i would be up and down these aisles for an hour looking over everything and making notes on what i wanted to get.nowadays its just pitiful and not as big.not even worth mentioning
It was in Arden Someone near the top said that this toys r us isnt around anymore. I beg to differ I was just in arden not too long ago and they still have a toys r us.
Honestly idk why all it was was a look into the past at video gaming but it made me feel special back in the day cuz not everyone played it like the latest fps maybe ive always liked special clubs that werent for everyone maybe thats why i like homestuck
Lmao. The good old days. I bet the store clerk stopped you from filming because you walked into the store with a huge VHS camcorder. Nowadays, people could just film everything with their tiny smartphones.
WOO! Seen Forgotten Worlds up there! This was the Golden Era of Gaming imo! At those prices I had to consult Gampro or EGM cause buying a 60 dollar game that sucked was the definition of MADDENING!
ah yes, the stage where you have to go up an elevator and you had to fight the knights which acted like the torso of the T-800 Terminator once they hit the ground, and the "Galaga Bats" which as the nickname implicates, alludes to their behavior being similar to the insects in galaga.
People should go to stores and film the games they have now, so we can show it sooner when this gen is dead. this is amazing. i wish there was footage of SNES games too.
@Sonic8000 Looks like Phantasy Star II. RPGs were expensive as hell back in the day because the cartridges needed better hardware to accommodate such big games. I remember picking up Final Fantasy III/VI new for $83.
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Phantasy Star 2 was 79.99? Holy crap, that was a good christmas present. Thanks dad!
I wish we had more videos like this on RUclips. It's like traveling back in time.
I was making 5.50 an hour when I filmed this. OT was a whole 7.75! Rent was like 275 car payment 195... Take home was about 375 from a full time job every two weeks... So yeah, 80 dollars was something to film and oggle. I finally did get it, but it was with that OT.
by the time i owned a genesis i was 5 years old, it was 1995, and all of the games were no more than 30 dollars brand new. It was a great time, and it still is. Best console era to date.
Toys R Us used to be so mind blowing when I was a kid. Walk down the isle and drool at the entire wall of games. Anyone remember that show where the winners wore a velcro suit and stuck games to themselves?
I remember being a Toys R Us as a kid in '97. Everything was mysterious and my senses were heightened from the excitement of being there. I bought most of my games used from game stores but I think I had just gotten a Toys R Us gift card. I bought Toy Story for the Genesis because somehow, I learned that it had speech synthesis (I wanted a game that could "talk"). I just remember the Saturn was out and it was weird and looked like something I could never afford. As a matter of fact I got the Genesis in the first place because my mom's (who was a heroin addict) best friend (the city bus driver) felt so bad about how poor we were and how my Atari 2600 from Goodwill had just broken down that she gave us her son's old Genesis since he had just gotten a PlayStation. It was surreal being poor but I would not give it up because I learned to appreciate older or more obscure systems for the time.
Ahhh, how I miss the days when you could go to Toys R Us and buy a brand new Genesis cartridge : /
its hard to even think about sega before sonic
A subject overlooked and forgotten, that all carts where not made the same. I remember reading 8 megs! EIGHT of them! And the magazines would go on and one about the massive size of the game. Which made it a must have... at the time.
I was bored and Googled toysrus video game aisle 1990s and this came up! Great memories. Used to love walking down that aisle. Thanks for the vid.
If anyone is gawking at that $79.99 price tag, keep in mind that after you factor in inflation that same game would have cost over $145 today. Remember that if you ever start to think that games are expensive these days.
Someones playin ghouls n ghosts in the background. Thanks for the nostalgia, i feel sad now because as the song says, thoughs were the best days of my life.
These were the best times....to me 1988-1998 is really the golden era....the days when I could spend forever in the videogame section watching the previews on the kiosks, looking at all the tickets and displays. I didn't have a magazine subscription to anything until the late 90's so going to the store was the only way to see new games back then....every year the innovation grew and grew. It's a shame the time machine does not exist.
Dude, I don't know why, but this is SO awesome. To see a home video from 1990 on the era of old technology that then was NEW technology.
"Mommy, please buy me Alex Kidd!"
"Daddy, I want to get Shinobi for Christmas!"
As short as it is, thank you so much (gregorysharp) for taking me back to the past. It's really beautiful lol.
I wouldn't even know where to start! I have about 200 VHS tapes with random gaming news from TV and stuff I shot with my old Sony camcorder.
I started recording some old arcade games in the late 80's, but I felt a bit weird about it and stopped. I wish I didn't care about what other people felt back then!
I have a bunch of game commercials too, but they are on SVHS and I don't have a working deck. All things I need to look into ASAP!
Thanks for inspiring me with this video. :)
Thank You for sharing!
Great Memories!
I hear Ghouls 'N Ghosts being played in the background.
Thanks for the video :) pure nostalgia.
YES. THE GREATEST FEELING when I was a kid in the 90's was when dad took me to Toys R Us to pick out games. Wow I can't believe the prices of the games back then are pretty much the same as now. And holy shit @ SEGA CD MUSIC at the end! Awesome awesome awesome so many memories.
Wow I remember spending countless hours staring at the game wall in Toys R Us… in the next aisle over, the consoles were behind glass cases and the hang tags up above. Like you mentioned, after paying for a game at the register you had to bring the slip over to the corner of the store, which was walled off with a small window, like going to the currency exchange! Then, the guy manning the "game cage" would pull your game off the wire racks and hand it off to you. wow, takes me back big time.
That is so cool. Love how a couple of Turbografx-16 games made the shot to the far right - Alien Crush and Double Dungeon if my eyes are working correctly.
Ahh,the good old days. I can remember staring at these cards in the store and wanting every damn game lol
Oh my god thank you so much for this video! It's so rare to find this kind of footage!
I would love to go back in time and buy all these games sega nintendo etc sealed and keep them and sell them now .. Would be a millionaire for sure .
The demo that's playing is Ghouls and Ghosts. I recognize the sounds and the music from that impossibly frustrating level with the stone gargoyles and the weird tongues you have to jump on.
That's gouls and ghost in the background, lol my gosh what and era
My NES dying was the reason I got and instantly fell in love with the Sega Genesis but holy shit I didn't know how expensive the games were....might call my mom and thank her haha.
Thank you for posting this... brings back so many memories. On top of that being able to see the prices on those games helps me realize that games these days are really not all that expensive. I remember Phantasy Star IV at $120 but I didn't know that PSII was $80. That's crazy.
One of the coolest videos on RUclips!
This video is older than me.
Heck, this video was just a year before Sonic the Hedgehog sped his way into everyone's hearts.
Thanks for sharing. The Sega Genesis is my all-time favorite console.
The game you hear playing is Ghouls n' Ghosts.
A tear almost came out cause these was some of the best years of gaming. This is when developers took chances, make new ips...everything wasn't a shooter. Man this takes me back.
I remember them slips :D
You had to take one to some game department person, they go in the back to look for the game...
Kinda miss those days..
Wow! This sure brought back a ton of great memories lol :)
thank you for this post because this brought back good old memories. Those were the days before Best Buy and Games stop.
@mokos23 I worked at a Tilt! Arcade, I filmed the machines there in 1991. Should I upload that? Turbo Grafix 16 rocked. I wish I was more persistent with filming. I filmed this for bragging rights to friends. Posting videos was a thing of distant future. But I was proud of working at Tilt!. Street Fighter 2 turbo was new...
@AlirazaVideoGames the camera was about a foot long six or so inches tall... Meaty looking with a shiny Sony lable on it. It cost about $1,499.00 or so in 1989. for roughly 180 lines of resolution. Upscaled in this video of course.
I think what some don't realize looking back at this is that the higher prices usually were dictated by manufacturing costs. Any cartridges with a higher storage capacity or custom chips cost more to make and the costs were always passed on to the consumer. The popularity or demand for the game played a factor as well. For 1990, $80 sounds about right for an 8 Megabit Phantasy Star II cart that also had a 110-page hintbook and map. Heck, I paid $100 for the 24 megabit Phantasy Star IV in 1995.
And to add on to that:
Phantasy Star IV (24 megabit + battery backup) and Virtua Racing (16 megabit + SVP chip) were the most expensive Genesis games, retailing for $99.99 when they first came out.
Phantasy Star II - $79.99. I remember paying $69.99 for the CARTRIDGE ALONE in 1994. It's still pretty damn expensive if you want the box and goodies.
Best. JRPG. Ever. (Also, Square ripped off Aeris' death from it, too. No, you can't argue. It's blatant fact.)
Brings back a flood of memories.
Thanks.
Brings back memories
Awesome video man! I love the Ghouls N Ghosts music in the background! :)
LOL...WOW, By you posting this...This just brought sooooo much memories. I remember going to TRU almost every wk just to hang out and look @ the new hardware and games.......again,Thank you.....for posting this.
That store clerk that stopped you disliked this video. Wow! Total flashback for me. I really miss those days of going to toys r us. Thanks for posting this :)
Thank you so much for posting because this is how I remember toys r us !
Used to live for those times, great vid, thanks for posting.
Thank you so much for posting this. I remember they had game slips that you would have to take to the counter. Such great times, I miss them.
@KomicTurtle True. But, I was trying to prove a point. We grew up having to pay $60-80 for a game. Gamers today are so lucky that it's not funny. That's why when I see a game I want, I don't hesitate or bitch about the price. I'm just so tired of seeing younger people these days complain that they had to pay $60 for a game, especially when they have things not available to us back then....like reviews, editorials, and rentals.....
Wow. Trip down memory lane... Thanks for posting this!
its like Sega Genesis pr0n... especially that slo-mo...I love it!
nice, i wish there was more vintage footage like this around.
Up until a few years ago, the exterior of that Toys R' Us looked just like that...I bought my copy of Super RC Pro-Am for the gameboy at that store... and I definitely remember the Sega isle.
Don't remember what we were doing in Sac (I was 8 at the time) but I burned up all my birthday money on that game and one of those hard plastic carrying cases.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEESSSSSSSOOOOOMMMMMEEEEEE I love those old cards. You could read about a game then pick up a ticket without waiting on someone and carry around a piece of paper until you were ready to check out instead of carrying around a heavy plastic case until you were ready to check out.
The best days of my childhood were when I walked up to that aisle and could pull one of those fuckin tickets down.
It's The Sega CD boot up music - Specifically it's the from the ver. 2.00 bios which was used in the top loader version AFIK. The front loader version had a different melody and the logo's bounced around more. -- For bonus points I'm also pretty sure that's Ghouls'n Ghosts playing in the background during the pan. 3rd stage. Possibly from the attract demo which features the cpu grabbing two bonus point things before getting turned into a duck. WHY DO I REMEMBER THAT!?
I bought a copy of Phantasy Star II off of Ebay. It's complete, with the world map and the hint book it came with originally. It's in near mint condition and cost me $60.00. It is the pride and joy of my collection. :)
The majority of Genesis games back in 1990 were 4 megabit carts. Phantasy Star II was a 6 megabit game w/ battery backup to save your games.
Ghouls 'N Ghosts was 5 megabits.
Strider, Genesis' first 8 megabit game, sold for $79.99 when it first came out.
I've been looking everywhere for some sort of image or video of an aisle from a retail store from the 90's that had the tickets that you took to the front desk in the electronic department for your game, mainly Toys R Us. Missed that sort of thing. My memory might be off a bit, seeing as I was only maybe 5, 6, or 7 at the time, but I think ours were in the laminated slips, similiar to what you'd see for the bikes. That system seemed to work better than today's glass cases.
look at the prices for ghouls n ghost.......$54.99.......wow that was alot back then.and $59.99 for golden axe 1 and $79.99 for phantasy star 2.......crazy.
genesis games were never that expensive in my area.i think th emost expensive i ever saw a game was $49.99.
People always seem to whine about game prices, but I remember getting Star Fox 64 at Toys R Us back when I was ... hell if I know. Seven or eight, and it was $60+. People complain that games are $60 now, but really, they've never been cheap. It is stupid that the prices are so high given that they're discs (and sometimes digital) and not cartridges, but that's the price you pay for entertainment -- and inflation. Nice video. I was born in '91, but it looked pretty much the same in the mid-90's.
Ahhhh, the Genesis .. .loved that little black box. Rocket Knight FTW!
Oh man this video is like a priceless treasure. I still have some of the price cards. Toys r us was way cooler back then everything hardware was behind glass and treated like gold from egypt in a musem the games was these cards then you went to the stock room and they brought it out. I had the SNES tg16 and genesis and bought tons of games from there like sonic 2 sonic 3.
hell yeah i remeber those tickets it was fun taking that and giving it to the retailer!
Yes, minimum wage I think was 4.25 US dollars an hour. And if you openned it and it sucked you where stuck with it. No store to trade it in. You could sell it at a yard sale or when you sell at a Flea Market. But overall, it sucked.
I'd get my mother going in there raging to get my money back. Worked just a couple times.
That $79.99 game in 1990 would be $145.64 in 2013 dollars. And we think games are expensive today...
A little glimpse was all needed, awesome!
Oh yes, definitely!! It was the largest game at the time, and producing large games at the time was expensive, especially an RPG game that size. I've been playing this game for a week, and still have a lot more to go, and it is certainly one of the greatest games out there! Most Genesis games could be easily beaten in one sitting, but this game is quite different, and used a lot more space than the average game, thus the price increases.
i would like to have all thos sega genesis games
i collect sega genesis games
i am trying to get a copy of every sega genesis game that came out
I miss those days! I loved to "wish shop" and pick up the little tickets for all the games I wanted and then beg my parents to let me have them...it hardly ever worked, but it was fun. :)
I didn't realize how Expensive Genesis games were back in the day. I Guest cause I was not the one paying for then!
i remember this store its now a thrift store now. dennys still there tho..
@WebVManReturns .....and you had to go to the back of the store(or front in my case) where they took your ticket and got the game out of the back. You could see systems and games in those reinforced windows, sometimes going BACK to the game aisle because you saw that something was just released. That's how I got a FEW games like Tiny Toon Adventures, WWF Royal Rumble, and Castlevania Bloodlines. Great times...great times....
man what game song was that at the end of the video
Wow! You brought back some classic memories.
@TheChaos5000 to, and you can basically get a copy of Fear 3 for less than $20 now, and it hasn't even been released a year ago, and that is partly because the material used to make games nowadays is so much cheaper than what they used back then, but I really hope cartridges comeback, because the cost of memory has gone down a lot in 20 years, and it would be a great way to ship games ever since they are more reliable and are not ruined by mere scratches, cartridges FTW!!! :)
Stupid store employee, breaking up our nostalgia trip! They were probably Lynx fans..
No problem! You definitely should try it, as it was one of the first RPG games to have a sci-fi plot with extreme plot twists and a good variety of characters with real personalities.
why do stores hate fliming???
@TwinFami
It was expensive back in the day because they are using "CARTRIDGES", which were expensive in itself. Same goes for N64 games- they were more expensive than PS1 games because they were using cartidges, whilst PS1 games we commonly cheaper since they used discs instead.
Phantasy Star 2 for 80.00??? Worth it.
How nostalgic...
It's a shame that little slices like this just aren't very commonplace due to the technological constraints of the time. On the other hand, we're going to have tons of things to remember the late 2000's and onwards since practically everyone has a phone with a camera.
...but geez, 80 bucks... that was something I remember all too well.
wow the good old days at toys r us.i miss these days.nothing like the game demos and endless aisles of game tag displays.the best part was being able to read these and get decent screen shots of the game before buying it.everytime i went to toys r us for something back then i would be up and down these aisles for an hour looking over everything and making notes on what i wanted to get.nowadays its just pitiful and not as big.not even worth mentioning
@AFXAcid37 You mean Video Power featuring "Johnny Arcade"?
It was in Arden
Someone near the top said that this toys r us isnt around anymore. I beg to differ I was just in arden not too long ago and they still have a toys r us.
Honestly idk why all it was
was a look into the past at video gaming but it made me feel special back in the day cuz not everyone played it like the latest fps
maybe ive always liked special clubs that werent for everyone
maybe thats why i like homestuck
Lmao. The good old days. I bet the store clerk stopped you from filming because you walked into the store with a huge VHS camcorder. Nowadays, people could just film everything with their tiny smartphones.
WOO! Seen Forgotten Worlds up there! This was the Golden Era of Gaming imo! At those prices I had to consult Gampro or EGM cause buying a 60 dollar game that sucked was the definition of MADDENING!
Now a days they don't even have to notice if you are filming a video!
Man I remember those games.
Wow... did you go back in time to record this? 1:13 of memory lane entertainment! Thank you!
When could this be filmed? Around august/september 1990 maybe?
ah yes, the stage where you have to go up an elevator and you had to fight the knights which acted like the torso of the T-800 Terminator once they hit the ground, and the "Galaga Bats" which as the nickname implicates, alludes to their behavior being similar to the insects in galaga.
@gregorysharp u dont have any footage from 1993 - 2000? of toys r us game section?
God...I totally remember this. I miss the tickets system!
Dude theres no renovation games, i mean wich date the company was founded? i think late 1990 as far i know
Loved Revenge of Shinobi and Phantasy Star II. My two favorite Sega Genesis games besides the 1990 Batman game.
People should go to stores and film the games they have now, so we can show it sooner when this gen is dead. this is amazing. i wish there was footage of SNES games too.
@TheChaos5000 Phantasy Star II. Yeah, great game. KI Gold for N64 was $79.99 as well.
@Sonic8000 Looks like Phantasy Star II. RPGs were expensive as hell back in the day because the cartridges needed better hardware to accommodate such big games. I remember picking up Final Fantasy III/VI new for $83.
People are always complaining about video game prices. 60 dollars was even more back then!