EDIT: Violet Berlin did NOT present Games Master. It was Bad Influence. Apologies. Anyway, please enjoy this episode. If it helped your day, help mine and give it a share Oh and the TMNT handheld in the thumbnail… it’s from 1989 but I played wildly played it in the 90s
I was about to mention that Violet Berlin was on Bad Influence. Did you know she was a character in Micro Machines 2 Turbo? There was an episode on Bad Influence about it
The 90's were the absolute peak of video games in every aspect. The revolution/evolution that the 5th Gen gaming brought was mind blowing and there will be nothing like that ever again.
I can recall the local chip chop having Double Dragon, and the Arcade floor in Trocadero, Piccadilly Circus in the late 80s, which was like heaven on earth. Friends had consoles and computers. I got my Amiga in 88 and loved it. I gave up gaming in 96, when the N64 came out. I realised I'd done nothing for months but play Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64 for months on end! I took up clubbing full-time. Been enjoying a Retrostick of late!
Same here . I've had many computers and consoles in my childhood . But when it hit the mid 90s building a pc become cheap so I got into that also . I still have many retro consoles today .
You were really bringing back memories with this one Gemma! As a soon to be 42 year old, I remember loving gaming so much in the 90s, especially with my Genesis. It was such an amazing time back then! In fact, the first time I ever played a video game online was back in the 90s with the XBand modem on Genesis. I really miss those days.
Loved getting home to watch GamesMaster and Bad Influence with all thr new info, reviews, cheats then sharing that experience with ya mates the next day. Collecting for the 90s/80s gaming really brings happiness to my life to this day due to the nostalgia. I remember calling a helpline for the Death Egg Zone in Sonic and Knuckles 50p a min. I see a youtuber has upscale episodes if GM and Bad Influence. Loved this video Gemma really took me back to the good ok days 😊
1994 was thirty years ago! Oh the music, games, films etc. It really was a golden age. I mourn for those times some days. The monthly wait for sega power magazine, half an hour of gaming T.V. a week, going to Leeds to buy the latest single you have anticipated. And maybe renting a game and a VHS from the video shop. It's too overwhelming nowadays! We had just enough to be content and not a spoil of media to overindulge in.
I remember playing games in school and between my friends sharing secrets and cheats for games from magazines we had read, purchased or discovered ourselves, written down on scraps of paper taking home and trying. Its much more rewarding than being able to google anything these days.
As a fellow teenage gamer girl in the 90s, I remember there was a show on channel four called Bits which I think launched right at the end of the decade and featured an all-female presenter line up. Think it only ran for 2 or 3 series but I loved it.
Gaming in the 90s was just phenomenal wasn't it? The consoles, TV shows, arcades, reading Digitiser on Teletext with Mr Biffo😂I really miss those times. Great video as always Gemma
I assume you know about Digitiser's/Mr Biffo's RUclips channel? There's a new series he's releasing weekly at the moment, just as mad as the teletext pages ever were!
I'm the same age as you (you don't look a day over 30!) so can relate to everything you are saying - what a time it was and video games were a huge part of it. My favourite game of all time is the Secret of Monkey Island and still play it to this day. Thanks for this video!
Great times! Yep, I'm in my 40s as well and remember the brilliant 90s fondly. Mean Machines was my magazine of choice, still have a few at home (also used to like Super Play as well) 🤙
I remember wanting our family to get Sky TV to watch Games World with Big Boy Barry, I'd only occasionally see it at my aunties house, and I can remember wanting us to get a TV with teletext so that I could read Digitiser, that was only at weekends at nan and grandads that I could read up on that. There used to be a bloke come around every week in a sooty van that did videos and game rentals, I can remember playing Dune 2 on the Megadrive with my mate, and it would be left on pause all day while we went to school so we didn't loose progress. It still makes me laugh now when I think back and can remember his dad though that PAL games were 2 player ones that you could play with your pal!
What a wonderful vivid memory you have and passion is so cool to see and here. I have very fond memories of mario all stars so much content on one cart. Brilliant times.
Im 40 and a Key memory for me was being something like 8 or 9 and buying Terminator on the mega drive. Me & and parents would always go to little woods for a fry up breakfast and I remember just being really excited I'd brought it. Many weeks like that awesome days.
I'm in the same boat as you (I'm 41) and game'd hard in the 90s too. I always thought our generation was the first actual gaming generation and as a result we've grown up along side with gaming. I mean, think about it... In the 80s, we were little kids and that's when gaming blew up and went mainstream. The games back then was targeted to little kids like us (Super Mario Bros, Alex Kid, Pacman etc). As the 90s rolled in, we turned into teenagers and gaming grew up too with the likes of the Playstation and the more mature games it brought. Like I said, we didn't just grow up with gaming but along side it.
Imagine a 23 year who had never played consoles, only the Amiga.. who had £1000 to spend every month, imported a 3DO, PS1, N64, Neo Geo CD, Saturn, Dreamcast and PS2 (late 99). Not only did I get great gaming experiences, but I got a social network of friends around it, went to gaming shows like ECTS, met Miyamoto, Bruce Lee's daughter among other devs. We were all single, all excited about the next game didn't matter what it was. We had BBQ's and David Cox of Konami come round with Goeman 64, Symphony of the night and Silent hill before it was even released in Japan. There is nothing today that compares to those times. It was amazing and If I could go back today I would. It wasn't just consoles, we did Trocadero in London, Sega World, Namco Wonderpark.. we did it all.. Its right what they say, the journey is better than the destination, now we have everything nothing feels special anymore. I think it was Bad influence where at the end there were lots of tips and cheats in the credits that whizzed past very quickly and they said "Start your VHS recorder now" so you could pause or slow mo it on playback. One time in 1999 someone wrote into teletext and asked "Why is the dreamcast so small?", and the reply was "because it didn't need to be any bigger". I got several letters published in Edge magazine between 1995-1998. Great times. Its a shame games were so expensive back then, everyone had 1 or 2 games, not 954 games like we have now.
What… they had an xcopy room 😱 why did I not know this… was this Harwoods at the top of Vernon Hills or when they moved to the unit pretty much behind the market ?
Started in 1995. Running to the shop every month to get the latest Playstation magazine with that iconic black demo disc because it meant new games. Damn. Back in the day i got new games only for my birthday or for Christmas so those demo discs meant the world to me
I agree. We'd get the Amiga magazine back in the 90s with your free floppy demo disc attached and I remember playing them on summer weekends. Alot of the games we had on the Amiga were bootleg copies off the car boot sale for a few pounds but they ran fine so was able to have a nice little collection. I still have my mortal Kombat 2 demo disc.
A fantastic vid! I have 8 years on you so I was in high school during the 90’s but man that was a fantastic time with gaming, music and movies! Even stores were so much better, game stores would have so many playable kiosks and would try to out do each other with displays. Demo discs and samplers were a thing and yes the gaming magazines!!!
Nearly finished the video - thank you for jogging my memory even more than I thought I already had to date about these times. Those magazines, they were magical when I think back on how it felt to look at them. So authoritative, and trying to imagine what the game would be like from those tiny screen shots. And I would keep them around and they would still retain their wonder for a long time after - even after we had a SNES, I still would look at, for example, an advertisement for Abadox on the NES in one of my older magazines and wonder what the heck it would be like to play that wacky looking game... knowing someone somewhere was playing these mysterious games - there was a feeling of prestige thinking about what it would be like to own any one of these amazing games, knowing you were likely only going to see a certain selection in your brief experiences with the rental options, and what you'd afford to buy and what your friends would have. I love the way you describe these kinds of feelings in your video!
I love the 90s playing plok donkey Kong country zelda mario kart and etc and I love watching cartoons like donkey Kong country mario and captain N and I miss the good old days and I love Ur channel and have a good day
Picked up a copy of Sega Power in Easons in Dublin, 19,65,9,17 for Sonic 2 level select with 4,1,2,6 for Super Sonic, memorised that the whole way home & couldn’t believe it worked!
I remember emulating FF5 in English in 1998 on a 486. I remember having my blown when I heard Sonic 1's music through headphones in 1993 or 1994. I remember destroying a map of the world while playing Uncharted Waters 2 on my Genesis.
The 80s for me was the pinnacle of existence! And i loved that Nintendo magazine, my favourite was Mean Machines as it covered every console even the Neo Geo which at the time was only affordable to rich kids - how I dreamt of owning one!
Fantastic nostalgia fuelled video Gemma, took me right back to those days when i used to look forward to the TV gaming shows like Bad Influence and Gamesmaster as a kid at high school. Swapping megadrive and snes games with my mates at school and being excited to get home and play the new game. Spending pocket money at the local paper shop on sega power magazine or zzap64 etc. Fantastic times and great memories of playing video games with a couple of mates for hours in our bedrooms on the various systems we had during those years, C64, MegaDrive, Snes, Amiga. Love the channel, keep up the great work for us to enjoy.
Fantastic vid Gem! Great to see your love of the 90s! For me the 90s feels like a decade of 2 halves, almost like there are 2 decades in 1. From 1990-1995 it feels very much like as you describe. I was very much a Nintendo boy but also played Sega MegaDrive with friends. SF2 is may favourite game of all time, heck I even dressed as Ryu for Halloween fancy dress party. I always remember my parents and I went to my friends house after party for drinks while me and my friend went to her room to play SF2 on the Mega Drive, 1996-1999 feels like a completely different era. My friends and I had moved to PC gaming and the big change was...The Internet. Quake (or Quakeworld) really defined that part of the decade especially with online multiplayer. We initially used services like Kali and BT Wireplay as well as direct dial modem for games of C&C Red Alert, accidentally misdialled and some confused a pensioner by modem playing weird sounds to them( I phoned and apologised). FPS games were the main things (Quake, HL, Counter-Strike, etc). However other games like X-Wing vs Tie Fighter were awesome. Hardware was awesome like 3Dfx Voodoo graphics and MS Sidewinder controllers were fantastic, I loved the Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro. I was even a content creator with my website on Geocities, with the great title of "Andrew's Star Trek Site." Those were the days 🙂
Superb video Gemma, I'm the same . Huge nostalgia for the 90s Music,Film ,TV and Video Games . Went from the BBC Acorn Micro at the start to the Dreamcast by the end,what an amazing time it was . Loved Games Master and Bad Influence,and the Big Breakfast had Ben the Boffin talking about video games.I've always lived in the countryside,but going into the city and arcades was so immense.Fantastic times
Great video. I’m 4 years in front of you, and I also miss the 90s. I wish younger gamers could experience what it was like back then. Games master with epic. Including the magazine. I want to cry 😢
Gaming in the 90s was awesome thanks to Nintendo, Sony and Sega. I would always watch Movies, games and videos every Saturday morning to see the new game releases
I'm only 35 years old and my 1st console was N64, which came with launch title Super Mario 64. Later I got GoldenEye 007, Quake 64, Forsaken, Yoshi's Story... I didn't have much racing games, but I remember owning Top Gear Rally. All those games I got between 1997-1999. In September 1999 I got PS1, but most games for it in year 2000.
I was born in the 90s but not until 1997 so I didn't really see a lot from the 90s but what I did see was a lot of cool games I have brothers that are a bit older than me so they showed me a lot of cool games I missed but now get to go back and play
90s gaming rocked!!! Born 82 first gaming experience was zx speccy match of the day game then obvs nes onwards etc love gaming full stop but back then more than now.
Born the same year as you buddy so fully relate - I was addicted to the Spectrum ZX and have great memories playing it and waiting for the cassette to load. Still have the games but need to get the console back again but the joy! 😁😁
It was awesome, bring back the days where you could plug a cartridge in and just play a game, not having to worry or wait for the game to download, no Internet connection, no silly updates etc etc. And what about the awesome instructions you used to get with each game, just awesome.
Back in the 90s, I was still playing games on the Amiga. I started with an Atari Video Pinball console in the mid 70s, then got an Atari 2600, then a Commodore 64, an Intellivision, an Amiga 500, an Atari 7800, an Atari 5200m and then finally a Windows 98 system around 2000. I never owned any Nintendo, Sega, NEC, or Sony consoles back then.
Great episode! you’ve literally described my childhood! Arcades in the 90’s was also a big deal for me. My local, Combat Zone housed all the beat’em up titles, MK, SF2, TMNT, Golden Axe. What I’d give to relive that era!
I'm a couple of years older than u and I remember everything u talked about ❤️ apart from ringing the premium games master number my mum would have rinsed me 🤣🤣
I remember going to GamesMaster Live at the Birmingham NEC. Allegedly I was spotted in an episode of GamesMaster when they were showing footage from the event. Also, the magazine ad you showed for Special Reserve. Remember ordering games from them. They’d advertise games as available WAY before any official release date and I was gutted to have to actually wait.
The Gebs24 great videos like this one l had game gear 1993 still have original still working but l had capped 2012 l same age has you l turned 40 last year in July
40 years old.....my god. I remeber when I was 40 🤣 interestingly considering I have a good chunk of 80s memories as well everything from the early 90s to the early 00s are my core memories. Especially for gaming. God do I miss £1 pints and 5er enrys .......I mean cheap crisps not enrys forget that last part. The 90s was the pinnacle transitional period for videogames when they went from 2d sprite based to 3d polygonal. I had a few letters heavily edited and published in superplay magazine. But I couldn't for the life of me tell you what particular issues they showed up in
Aww looking at those adverts was a bit nostalgic 6:19 A Young Craig Charles there, that was just after I attended the everyman theartre for my acting skills and I actually met him in a night club a few times also he was a good lad 😊 I mean come on who doesn't like Red dwarf haha, oh and Robot wars I actually owned the Terminator van they used for transporting their gear in good vid 😊
Gaming was so much more exciting in the 90's and I don't really say that in the sense of just being an older gamer. It just really was, the internet was not so prevalent, obtaining a game was more difficult than a download, word of mouth, rumors, the whole atmosphere. I do think we probably are in the golden age of gaming as a whole, but what made games special then was really that there just were not a ton coming out every day, week, month, they meant more then than now.
I remember ringing the hotlines to get cheats mum went ape shit when she found out it was quid a minute 😂 i also remember the magazines had things like who can complete Rainbow Road on Mario Kar 64 for example in the fastest time and they would print it on the back page with your name was awsome
My favourite series of GamesMaster was season 2 when they were on the "oil rig" so I was a bit disappointed to find out recently that host Dominic Diamond really hated doing season 2, Mostly because of the red jacket he had to wear. "Red Dwarf" fans have probably noticed they filmed a few episodes at the same location.
With all the data privacy scares going on, I can take solace knowing that after all that, Google must be doing a terrible job on collecting data on my viewing habits, if it's taken 10 years for it to recommend me your channel. Subscribed.
The 90's was probably the best time to be a teenager. There was plenty of new technology coming out, loads of new and exciting types of music and people still actually went outside to meet up with friends. One could go out and not have to worry about parents tracking your every move with an app or calling you every 5 minutes to remind you to be home on time. Best of all it was possible to go out and do silly things and make mistakes without going viral to millions of people!
Im a bit younger I started school in the 90s my sister had a Megadrive I remember Sonic 1 and 2, my friend at school,had a PS1, Spyro, Grand Turismo, Crash Bandicoot and so on. I didn’t have my console until the 2000s with the PS2. But have memories of the late 90s Games, TV shows like Rugrats and music 🎶
Hi,have you got the games master mag with the earthworm Jim flexing his muscles.....I remember drawing it in bic Biro and would love to re draw it again please?
Well I hope you you were reading Super Play and I don't think the mainstream media ever did justice to the real 90s experiences of Zelda on the SNES and N64. Gaming was not given the credibility it deserved but it was growing fast
Goodness, yes! I phoned the Nintendo helpline for Zelda: A Link to the Past, as a frustrated 11 year old gamer, sweating because I didn't have my parents permission (would've said a firm "no") - I think it was £1 a minute! 😮 😂
Was about to say that violet did bad influence with Andy crane. Dominique diamond did gamesmaster. I actually preferred bad influence, way better information, exclusives,reviews etc.
I thought all you guys across the pond were still playing with the ole Speccy. Actually didn't think too much about the games there, maybe just about the "European" style platformers you guys were probably playing. These were usually lacking in quality control AND generally had this same kinda feeling and design. Like some kinda liquid dropping on you for damage, always with the damn drops. 🤬 That Amiga style and computer never really made it here in the US
EDIT: Violet Berlin did NOT present Games Master. It was Bad Influence. Apologies. Anyway, please enjoy this episode. If it helped your day, help mine and give it a share Oh and the TMNT handheld in the thumbnail… it’s from 1989 but I played wildly played it in the 90s
I'm working on collecting blockbuster DVDs or rented games. Some day I feel like they'll be rare and desirable.
I was about to mention that Violet Berlin was on Bad Influence. Did you know she was a character in Micro Machines 2 Turbo? There was an episode on Bad Influence about it
The 90's were the absolute peak of video games in every aspect. The revolution/evolution that the 5th Gen gaming brought was mind blowing and there will be nothing like that ever again.
I remember WH Smiths passive aggressive signs on the shelves saying this isn't a library, purchase magazines if you want to read 😂
Omg I'd forgotten about those signs! It felt like rebellion to go against them 😂
I can recall the local chip chop having Double Dragon, and the Arcade floor in Trocadero, Piccadilly Circus in the late 80s, which was like heaven on earth. Friends had consoles and computers. I got my Amiga in 88 and loved it. I gave up gaming in 96, when the N64 came out. I realised I'd done nothing for months but play Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64 for months on end! I took up clubbing full-time. Been enjoying a Retrostick of late!
I know it’s weird to say but this is one of your best videos I mean seeing your smile and your eyes light up like that it’s so heart warming love it❤😀
I started in the 70's with Pong where you had several games on the machine and you put clear plastic overlays on the TV screen for each game .
I was a 80s child and a 90s teenager. I love you enthusiasm talking about those years, I can relate!❤ subscribed!
Same here. Grew up as a teen in the 90's and in my head I never left!
Same here . I've had many computers and consoles in my childhood . But when it hit the mid 90s building a pc become cheap so I got into that also . I still have many retro consoles today .
Thanks for showing some clips of the shop! Looks so clean and different!! Amazing. Thanks for always supporting.
You were really bringing back memories with this one Gemma! As a soon to be 42 year old, I remember loving gaming so much in the 90s, especially with my Genesis. It was such an amazing time back then! In fact, the first time I ever played a video game online was back in the 90s with the XBand modem on Genesis. I really miss those days.
I ❤Gebs! Great description of 90s gaming!
Loved getting home to watch GamesMaster and Bad Influence with all thr new info, reviews, cheats then sharing that experience with ya mates the next day. Collecting for the 90s/80s gaming really brings happiness to my life to this day due to the nostalgia. I remember calling a helpline for the Death Egg Zone in Sonic and Knuckles 50p a min.
I see a youtuber has upscale episodes if GM and Bad Influence.
Loved this video Gemma really took me back to the good ok days 😊
Loving your enthusiasm :D
We lived through the golden era of videogaming, definitely.
1994 was thirty years ago! Oh the music, games, films etc. It really was a golden age. I mourn for those times some days.
The monthly wait for sega power magazine, half an hour of gaming T.V. a week, going to Leeds to buy the latest single you have anticipated. And maybe renting a game and a VHS from the video shop. It's too overwhelming nowadays!
We had just enough to be content and not a spoil of media to overindulge in.
I remember playing games in school and between my friends sharing secrets and cheats for games from magazines we had read, purchased or discovered ourselves, written down on scraps of paper taking home and trying. Its much more rewarding than being able to google anything these days.
I love being a gamer in the 90s so many great games
As a fellow teenage gamer girl in the 90s, I remember there was a show on channel four called Bits which I think launched right at the end of the decade and featured an all-female presenter line up. Think it only ran for 2 or 3 series but I loved it.
love this glad i lived thru it too ill be 40 this year
Gaming in the 90s was just phenomenal wasn't it? The consoles, TV shows, arcades, reading Digitiser on Teletext with Mr Biffo😂I really miss those times. Great video as always Gemma
I assume you know about Digitiser's/Mr Biffo's RUclips channel? There's a new series he's releasing weekly at the moment, just as mad as the teletext pages ever were!
@@Vonobox1 Oh I'll have to check that out thank you
I'm the same age as you (you don't look a day over 30!) so can relate to everything you are saying - what a time it was and video games were a huge part of it. My favourite game of all time is the Secret of Monkey Island and still play it to this day. Thanks for this video!
Great times! Yep, I'm in my 40s as well and remember the brilliant 90s fondly. Mean Machines was my magazine of choice, still have a few at home (also used to like Super Play as well) 🤙
I miss the 90s so muchb
@@TheGebs24 I know, great times, early 90s for the gaming, late 90s for the raving 😃 great Chanel by the way, enjoy the weekend! 🤙
I remember wanting our family to get Sky TV to watch Games World with Big Boy Barry, I'd only occasionally see it at my aunties house, and I can remember wanting us to get a TV with teletext so that I could read Digitiser, that was only at weekends at nan and grandads that I could read up on that. There used to be a bloke come around every week in a sooty van that did videos and game rentals, I can remember playing Dune 2 on the Megadrive with my mate, and it would be left on pause all day while we went to school so we didn't loose progress. It still makes me laugh now when I think back and can remember his dad though that PAL games were 2 player ones that you could play with your pal!
Big Boy Barry! I remember Games World too. And Digitiser.
That Turtles LCD in the thumbnail.... 💙
It’s from 1989 🤫 🤣 But I played it in the 90s 🤩
What a wonderful vivid memory you have and passion is so cool to see and here. I have very fond memories of mario all stars so much content on one cart. Brilliant times.
Im 40 and a Key memory for me was being something like 8 or 9 and buying Terminator on the mega drive. Me & and parents would always go to little woods for a fry up breakfast and I remember just being really excited I'd brought it. Many weeks like that awesome days.
Thank you for sharing this. I also have similar memories of gaming in the nineties, mainly around the Amiga - good times.
I'm in the same boat as you (I'm 41) and game'd hard in the 90s too. I always thought our generation was the first actual gaming generation and as a result we've grown up along side with gaming.
I mean, think about it...
In the 80s, we were little kids and that's when gaming blew up and went mainstream. The games back then was targeted to little kids like us (Super Mario Bros, Alex Kid, Pacman etc). As the 90s rolled in, we turned into teenagers and gaming grew up too with the likes of the Playstation and the more mature games it brought.
Like I said, we didn't just grow up with gaming but along side it.
Imagine a 23 year who had never played consoles, only the Amiga.. who had £1000 to spend every month, imported a 3DO, PS1, N64, Neo Geo CD, Saturn, Dreamcast and PS2 (late 99). Not only did I get great gaming experiences, but I got a social network of friends around it, went to gaming shows like ECTS, met Miyamoto, Bruce Lee's daughter among other devs. We were all single, all excited about the next game didn't matter what it was. We had BBQ's and David Cox of Konami come round with Goeman 64, Symphony of the night and Silent hill before it was even released in Japan. There is nothing today that compares to those times. It was amazing and If I could go back today I would. It wasn't just consoles, we did Trocadero in London, Sega World, Namco Wonderpark.. we did it all.. Its right what they say, the journey is better than the destination, now we have everything nothing feels special anymore. I think it was Bad influence where at the end there were lots of tips and cheats in the credits that whizzed past very quickly and they said "Start your VHS recorder now" so you could pause or slow mo it on playback. One time in 1999 someone wrote into teletext and asked "Why is the dreamcast so small?", and the reply was "because it didn't need to be any bigger". I got several letters published in Edge magazine between 1995-1998. Great times. Its a shame games were so expensive back then, everyone had 1 or 2 games, not 954 games like we have now.
From one old raver to another, thanks for this, I'll see you down Gordon Harwood's this weekend in their secret X-Copy room ;-)
Haha beautiful 🤩🤩
What… they had an xcopy room 😱 why did I not know this… was this Harwoods at the top of Vernon Hills or when they moved to the unit pretty much behind the market ?
@@PhillwithadoubleL Lamer ;-)
The 90s was the absolute top of the pops 😅❤
Also a banger show
@@TheGebs24 A classic 👌
Started in 1995. Running to the shop every month to get the latest Playstation magazine with that iconic black demo disc because it meant new games. Damn. Back in the day i got new games only for my birthday or for Christmas so those demo discs meant the world to me
I agree. We'd get the Amiga magazine back in the 90s with your free floppy demo disc attached and I remember playing them on summer weekends. Alot of the games we had on the Amiga were bootleg copies off the car boot sale for a few pounds but they ran fine so was able to have a nice little collection. I still have my mortal Kombat 2 demo disc.
Haha brilliant. So many memories...
Great times we all seemed to have more fun going arcades get excited about new games
Awesome video Gem. Literally everything in this video is how I experienced the 90's. It's brought back some great memories.
A fantastic vid! I have 8 years on you so I was in high school during the 90’s but man that was a fantastic time with gaming, music and movies! Even stores were so much better, game stores would have so many playable kiosks and would try to out do each other with displays. Demo discs and samplers were a thing and yes the gaming magazines!!!
Nearly finished the video - thank you for jogging my memory even more than I thought I already had to date about these times. Those magazines, they were magical when I think back on how it felt to look at them. So authoritative, and trying to imagine what the game would be like from those tiny screen shots. And I would keep them around and they would still retain their wonder for a long time after - even after we had a SNES, I still would look at, for example, an advertisement for Abadox on the NES in one of my older magazines and wonder what the heck it would be like to play that wacky looking game... knowing someone somewhere was playing these mysterious games - there was a feeling of prestige thinking about what it would be like to own any one of these amazing games, knowing you were likely only going to see a certain selection in your brief experiences with the rental options, and what you'd afford to buy and what your friends would have.
I love the way you describe these kinds of feelings in your video!
Ahhhh sweet nostalgia. Great video 😊
I love the 90s playing plok donkey Kong country zelda mario kart and etc and I love watching cartoons like donkey Kong country mario and captain N and I miss the good old days and I love Ur channel and have a good day
Picked up a copy of Sega Power in Easons in Dublin, 19,65,9,17 for Sonic 2 level select with 4,1,2,6 for Super Sonic, memorised that the whole way home & couldn’t believe it worked!
I remember emulating FF5 in English in 1998 on a 486.
I remember having my blown when I heard Sonic 1's music through headphones in 1993 or 1994.
I remember destroying a map of the world while playing Uncharted Waters 2 on my Genesis.
The 80s for me was the pinnacle of existence! And i loved that Nintendo magazine, my favourite was Mean Machines as it covered every console even the Neo Geo which at the time was only affordable to rich kids - how I dreamt of owning one!
Fantastic nostalgia fuelled video Gemma, took me right back to those days when i used to look forward to the TV gaming shows like Bad Influence and Gamesmaster as a kid at high school.
Swapping megadrive and snes games with my mates at school and being excited to get home and play the new game. Spending pocket money at the local paper shop on sega power magazine or zzap64 etc. Fantastic times and great memories of playing video games with a couple of mates for hours in our bedrooms on the various systems we had during those years, C64, MegaDrive, Snes, Amiga. Love the channel, keep up the great work for us to enjoy.
The 90’s was always became part of my childhood.
Fantastic vid Gem! Great to see your love of the 90s!
For me the 90s feels like a decade of 2 halves, almost like there are 2 decades in 1. From 1990-1995 it feels very much like as you describe. I was very much a Nintendo boy but also played Sega MegaDrive with friends. SF2 is may favourite game of all time, heck I even dressed as Ryu for Halloween fancy dress party. I always remember my parents and I went to my friends house after party for drinks while me and my friend went to her room to play SF2 on the Mega Drive,
1996-1999 feels like a completely different era. My friends and I had moved to PC gaming and the big change was...The Internet. Quake (or Quakeworld) really defined that part of the decade especially with online multiplayer. We initially used services like Kali and BT Wireplay as well as direct dial modem for games of C&C Red Alert, accidentally misdialled and some confused a pensioner by modem playing weird sounds to them( I phoned and apologised). FPS games were the main things (Quake, HL, Counter-Strike, etc). However other games like X-Wing vs Tie Fighter were awesome. Hardware was awesome like 3Dfx Voodoo graphics and MS Sidewinder controllers were fantastic, I loved the Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro.
I was even a content creator with my website on Geocities, with the great title of "Andrew's Star Trek Site." Those were the days 🙂
Superb video Gemma, I'm the same . Huge nostalgia for the 90s Music,Film ,TV and Video Games . Went from the BBC Acorn Micro at the start to the Dreamcast by the end,what an amazing time it was . Loved Games Master and Bad Influence,and the Big Breakfast had Ben the Boffin talking about video games.I've always lived in the countryside,but going into the city and arcades was so immense.Fantastic times
Great video. I’m 4 years in front of you, and I also miss the 90s. I wish younger gamers could experience what it was like back then. Games master with epic. Including the magazine. I want to cry 😢
Computer Gaming World was my mag of choice back in the day (80s and early 90s).
i loved the demos with the mags and cheatcodes i loved gamesmaster
I was on the internet in 1995 used to take me hours to download pictures of Buffy the vampire slayer 👍😁
I did the same with Friends and X Files and put them on a good old floppy disc!
Gaming in the 90s was awesome thanks to Nintendo, Sony and Sega. I would always watch Movies, games and videos every Saturday morning to see the new game releases
My first jump from 16bit to 32bit was Tomb Raider 1. The T Rex appearance both blew my mind and terrified me.
Yoshi, he was not 😂
I'm only 35 years old and my 1st console was N64, which came with launch title Super Mario 64. Later I got GoldenEye 007, Quake 64, Forsaken, Yoshi's Story... I didn't have much racing games, but I remember owning Top Gear Rally. All those games I got between 1997-1999. In September 1999 I got PS1, but most games for it in year 2000.
I'm 39 so I get it yea 90s was dope real special everything about the 90s was amazing music games TV it's just not the same anymore I miss it
My son will be 6 on the 23rd. His favorite game is revenge of shinobi (via the switch online). All he wanted was the pixel 3d art for shinobi!
Sonic 2 was the first multi-player game I played. My best friend would alwaya cry when we had to go home
I remember phoning the code masters helpline for the coins in fantasy world dizzy.😅
I was born in the 90s but not until 1997 so I didn't really see a lot from the 90s but what I did see was a lot of cool games I have brothers that are a bit older than me so they showed me a lot of cool games I missed but now get to go back and play
90s gaming rocked!!! Born 82 first gaming experience was zx speccy match of the day game then obvs nes onwards etc love gaming full stop but back then more than now.
Born the same year as you buddy so fully relate - I was addicted to the Spectrum ZX and have great memories playing it and waiting for the cassette to load. Still have the games but need to get the console back again but the joy! 😁😁
It was awesome, bring back the days where you could plug a cartridge in and just play a game, not having to worry or wait for the game to download, no Internet connection, no silly updates etc etc. And what about the awesome instructions you used to get with each game, just awesome.
Back in the 90s, I was still playing games on the Amiga.
I started with an Atari Video Pinball console in the mid 70s, then got an Atari 2600, then a Commodore 64, an Intellivision, an Amiga 500, an Atari 7800, an Atari 5200m and then finally a Windows 98 system around 2000.
I never owned any Nintendo, Sega, NEC, or Sony consoles back then.
Loved this video, took me right back! One of my biggest memories was actually PS1's Demo One disc that came with it! I loved me a demo disc!
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@@TheGebs24 absolutely love this! Literally grinning from ear to ear watching it back ❤️
I love the old PlayStation magazine because of the demo discs it came with those were the days 😍😍 as always brev brilliant video ❤❤
My first proper console was the Atart 2600 back in the 80s. I loved that thing so much ❤
Great episode! you’ve literally described my childhood! Arcades in the 90’s was also a big deal for me. My local, Combat Zone housed all the beat’em up titles, MK, SF2, TMNT, Golden Axe. What I’d give to relive that era!
Awesome video thanks for sharing your thoughts on the 90s i remember it well ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great episode! I'd love to go back to 1994 but only for a week or so because I'd miss modern living (and games).
I used to take NES and genesis books out at the library in the mid 90s, that had walk throughs and cheats
I'm a couple of years older than u and I remember everything u talked about ❤️ apart from ringing the premium games master number my mum would have rinsed me 🤣🤣
Love your energy, in my opinion you would fit in great as a cameo on the PlayStation Access RUclips channel.
I remember going to GamesMaster Live at the Birmingham NEC. Allegedly I was spotted in an episode of GamesMaster when they were showing footage from the event.
Also, the magazine ad you showed for Special Reserve. Remember ordering games from them. They’d advertise games as available WAY before any official release date and I was gutted to have to actually wait.
WOW that is so cool! Mind you, us Often folk are pretty cool right? ;)
I hope you're well
@@TheGebs24 absolutely. Prospect street massive ✌🏼
@@PhillwithadoubleL “Let’s rock” ~ Vasquez
I'm only a year older than Sonic 🤩😁
PS I was at the 80s Video Shop again this past Saturday. I can't keep away! 😂
The Gebs24 great videos like this one l had game gear 1993 still have original still working but l had capped 2012 l same age has you l turned 40 last year in July
Lots of nostalgia here, keep it up G!
Yeah lady, I'm on the same trip! Rather jealous of your magazines though. Aah well, back to my March issue of Amiga power!
40 years old.....my god. I remeber when I was 40 🤣 interestingly considering I have a good chunk of 80s memories as well everything from the early 90s to the early 00s are my core memories. Especially for gaming. God do I miss £1 pints and 5er enrys .......I mean cheap crisps not enrys forget that last part. The 90s was the pinnacle transitional period for videogames when they went from 2d sprite based to 3d polygonal. I had a few letters heavily edited and published in superplay magazine. But I couldn't for the life of me tell you what particular issues they showed up in
Aww looking at those adverts was a bit nostalgic 6:19 A Young Craig Charles there, that was just after I attended the everyman theartre for my acting skills and I actually met him in a night club a few times also he was a good lad 😊 I mean come on who doesn't like Red dwarf haha, oh and Robot wars I actually owned the Terminator van they used for transporting their gear in good vid 😊
Gaming was so much more exciting in the 90's and I don't really say that in the sense of just being an older gamer. It just really was, the internet was not so prevalent, obtaining a game was more difficult than a download, word of mouth, rumors, the whole atmosphere. I do think we probably are in the golden age of gaming as a whole, but what made games special then was really that there just were not a ton coming out every day, week, month, they meant more then than now.
Games master was unreal
Toys R Us was my favourite.
I remember ringing the hotlines to get cheats mum went ape shit when she found out it was quid a minute 😂 i also remember the magazines had things like who can complete Rainbow Road on Mario Kar 64 for example in the fastest time and they would print it on the back page with your name was awsome
90s, everything felt new and exciting. There was a magic that has since been lost
No... the magic is not lost, is just you... you got old and become a boomer. 😁😁
My favourite series of GamesMaster was season 2 when they were on the "oil rig" so I was a bit disappointed to find out recently that host Dominic Diamond really hated doing season 2, Mostly because of the red jacket he had to wear. "Red Dwarf" fans have probably noticed they filmed a few episodes at the same location.
With all the data privacy scares going on, I can take solace knowing that after all that, Google must be doing a terrible job on collecting data on my viewing habits, if it's taken 10 years for it to recommend me your channel. Subscribed.
Wow what a comment! Welcome to the Team Dom. Have a lovely day my friend 👍
@@TheGebs24 It's two positives in one 😆 glad to finally be here
The best gaming days.
The 90s was when i started gaming, Game Pass would have absolutely blown my mind back then as i was onle 1 of 2 people i knew who had Sega Channel 😂
The 90's internet for Amiga owners was jiffy bags caked in packing tape, Arrrrrrrr 😛
Great memories. Will you be covering the Tomb Raider Remasters at all?
The 90's was probably the best time to be a teenager. There was plenty of new technology coming out, loads of new and exciting types of music and people still actually went outside to meet up with friends. One could go out and not have to worry about parents tracking your every move with an app or calling you every 5 minutes to remind you to be home on time. Best of all it was possible to go out and do silly things and make mistakes without going viral to millions of people!
Im a bit younger I started school in the 90s my sister had a Megadrive I remember Sonic 1 and 2, my friend at school,had a PS1, Spyro, Grand Turismo, Crash Bandicoot and so on. I didn’t have my console until the 2000s with the PS2. But have memories of the late 90s Games, TV shows like Rugrats and music 🎶
I can still feel the slap on the side of my face I received when my parents got the phone bill after phoning gaming hotlines
Hi,have you got the games master mag with the earthworm Jim flexing his muscles.....I remember drawing it in bic Biro and would love to re draw it again please?
Well I hope you you were reading Super Play and I don't think the mainstream media ever did justice to the real 90s experiences of Zelda on the SNES and N64. Gaming was not given the credibility it deserved but it was growing fast
We use to hammer mario 6 golden coins ❤❤❤❤ just the game boy alone got hammered... the crippling anxiety of asking for batteries 😂😂😂😂 fuck sake 😂😂😂😂😂
Goodness, yes! I phoned the Nintendo helpline for Zelda: A Link to the Past, as a frustrated 11 year old gamer, sweating because I didn't have my parents permission (would've said a firm "no") - I think it was £1 a minute! 😮 😂
How do you keep on living when you know the peak of existence has already happened?
Was about to say that violet did bad influence with Andy crane. Dominique diamond did gamesmaster.
I actually preferred bad influence, way better information, exclusives,reviews etc.
Haha.....
Games Master
Bad Influence
Cyber Zone
3 UK staples in the 90's
HI Who remember's Games world sky one 1998 ??
Did Violet Berlin even present Gamesmaster?
No! It was Bad Influence WTH 🤣🤣
Came for the TMNT handheld in the image, left disappointed 😢😢
19, 65, 09, 17
YES!!!
I thought all you guys across the pond were still playing with the ole Speccy. Actually didn't think too much about the games there, maybe just about the "European" style platformers you guys were probably playing. These were usually lacking in quality control AND generally had this same kinda feeling and design. Like some kinda liquid dropping on you for damage, always with the damn drops. 🤬 That Amiga style and computer never really made it here in the US