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GenerationGapGaming technically mullet boy is at 10:23 You can’t fully see mullet boy until 10:23, however 10:21 is when the next cut scene shows. Maybe we can have a double shout out? :) G3 Out
Tyler, saw 2 different Rygar runs back to back done by the same guy during a GamesDoneQuick marathon. Your run was good but, this guy had key strats i think you could use to up your game QUITE A BIT. Dude's name was DarkWindDuck or something like that.
What i used to do if it was a real bad game I'd bring it back and say it didn't work. They would give me a new rental But you wouldn't want to do that too often.
I don't know if I go as far as PTSD, but, the one game that no matter how many times my best friend in myself rented it, denied us a victory, was Ninja Gaiden on NES. I had to be almost 24 years old and, by then I had purchased it, before I finally beat it.
Two words: Power Glove. I saved up my allowance for weeks to buy this thing, later that week the shop that sold it to me went out of business, it was so bad my mom felt sorry for me and gave me the value of it back.
Biggest disappointment for me was renting "Back to the Future" on NES. I loved that movie and was so excited to play a video game about it. We didn't have a lot of money so renting was pretty much my only way to play new games. After a weekend of trying and trying to get anywhere in the game...I got to the diner stage (which is practically the beginning)...and died before I even knew what was happening. I didn't even know what I was supposed to do because there were no instructions. I was so mad that I got in trouble for yelling at the TV and upsetting my younger sister lol. Years later I saw AVGN review that game and I got angry all over again. Great video as always.
A friend of mine showed me a game that was so bad that I was begging to play Back to the Future. It was called Dragon Power. I have nothing good to say about that game.
Back in 95’ on a military base I knew a guy who had the game gear tv tuner. He jacked the cable tv line into it and BAM! We had cable tv on a late night desk watch at hq. So it did work but I guess you need to tinker a whole lot.
My biggest disappointment in retro gaming was the Game Gear. I already had a Game Boy at the time which I enjoyed greatly. But the lack of color and backlit screen as you mentioned made me wonder what I would be like to have a Game Gear. So it took a lot of begging and pleading with my parents but I finally got on for Christmas of 1994. It came with Sonic 2 and I was greatly satisfied that I could play portable games without having to be under a lamp. What I didn’t realize though and probably the reason why Nintendo didn’t make the original Game Boy with a colored and backlit screen is how much it drained batteries. I kid you not I had to go through at least five sets of batteries within the first two weeks of owning the Game Gear. And yeah I know there was a battery pack for it. But at that point I was so frustrated and disappointed that I actually apologized to my mom and dad for begging them to get it for me in the first place. 😄
Man Game Gear was sweet! I think the original Sega Genesis was the most quality system and games during that time. Really great stereo sound too that nes lacked.
I had the same experience with Mario is Missing. I saw this at blockbuster and was shocked to find a Mario game I didn't even know existed. Got it home and was so mad that it was an educational game! I wanted the game gear tuner so bad, I'm glad to hear it didn't work. Also, my game gear was black, but in video game magazines at the time, you could order a white version. I would have killed to have one of those.....
Found your channel a few weeks ago! Great Job dude! This is the type of content I look for! Not just an opinion of the games but actually gameplay talk! Looking forward to more secrets revealed vids!
Thanks so much man and I am glad you are here at the channel! I try to make good quality videos for you to enjoy with authentic personal experiences I've had with gaming so it is very rewarding to hear comments like yours. I already know what I am gonna do for my next secrets revealed video but it may take a few weeks cause it is a daunting game lol. I appreciate your patience lol.
I had the Game Gear TV tuner and it worked 60 miles as the crow flies from the nearest TV station. You must have gotten a dud, because mine worked great and I loved it. I lived in the middle of the country a long way from any big city. The Game Gear TV tuner was awesome!
Rise of the Robots was a Big letdown. The developers must have forgot to stick an actual game in there before they released it. It didn't even look that good either.
The TV Tuner for the SEGA Game Gear worked 100% for me. In fact, my brother used to get pissed at me for taking his Game Gear all the time so I could watch what I wanted to on TV.
Been a while since I played Myst, but I remember both brothers warning you not to open the third book, which I found suspicious enough to investigate just because neither of those dudes seemed trustworthy.
NBA Jam home versions were missing the 3 most popular players at the time: Jordan, Shaq, and Barkley. But it made sense the most popular players had their own video games and likeness licensed already. At least David Robinson was in NBA Jam despite being in his own Genesis game.
Surprised this channel has under 50K subs. I suspect that will change in time. Very good content, well produced and edited. Watching your vids is like stepping back in time to my childhood. Thanks for making this content, hope you get the success you deserve.
No the Lynx did not come out before the Gameboy. It came out after but is the 1st color portable. Yeah it is pretty decent but I still got a Game Gear and Gameboy before I got it. FYI I am in America so perhaps I am wrong if you are from another country
@@hungerforhorror well sorry if I made you feel bad. My memory isn't as sharp lately either . Just hoping I start forgetting more that I wish I could forget and less of which I can't
I remember buying Battletoads for Genesis, thinking it was a new Battletoads, and not a port of the NES game I'd already played to death. I was too young to know any better.
Game rentals need to be #1, those were constant and left me sooooo pissed. Biggest disappointment at a rental store was The Uncanny X-Men. What an 8-bit turd!!!
More like Contra FARCE. That was a huge disappointment but, apparently they paid a bunch of people to say it was good. I dont know what game they were playing
Atari 2600 Pac-Man was my first experience with the game and I greatly enjoyed it. I always perceived arcade games as a special treat rather than seeing the console versions as inferior. It's funny how much perception affects enjoyment. I also used to think Michael Jordan was omitted from NBA Jam so it wouldn't be too unfair. LOL
Double Dragon 3 in the arcade really pissed me off. It changed the format and graphics of the first two side scrolling gems of DD 1 & DD2. MOST DISPLEASING.
Mario Is Missing hits home for me. I rented it one night based on the box art on the back. I got conned. You really summed up that experience being tricked into renting this turd nicely.
As soon as I saw Mario is Missing on the thumbnail I was enraged. Much like you I saw the box art and I thought it was like SMW for the SNES but unlike you I didn't rent it, that was the game I chose for my 9th birthday and boy was I upset. Great video man! Ohhhh and Letssss Goooooo!
The model 1 Gameboy Advance hands down. Brilliant games, fantastic ergonomics, but a screen that's so dark it makes Mario look like an Undertaker Funko Pop. I really didn't discover how great the library for the Advance was until a year later when I picked up a used DS Lite. I think growing up in the 80s, and with a C64, the licensed titles were often the most disappointing. The C64 versions would often be rushed to release in time with the movie or show they were tied in to so you got things like the C64 version of Robocop, which to this day I have mad nostalgia for, but you can't complete without a cheat code because you can't finish the drug factory level thanks to a game breaking glitch. Good job Ocean. Solid effort. I mean I can't beat Robocop on the Gameboy either, but at least that's because I suck, not because it's inherently unfinishable.
As a kid, I knew the activator, uforce, even the power glove weren't gonna work. I stayed clear of even thinking about purchasing those items. It was to good to be true.
When the original Tetris came out for the NES I was about 6 years old, and I had absolutely NO IDEA that Tetris and Arkanoid WERE NOT the same game. In the advertisements for this "new" game I've never heard of, and totally mistook it for something similar to Arkanoid, and that's all I wanted for Christmas that year. Well, I got it, opened it up, and found out real quick that they are NOT in fact the same games in any way! I'm a new sub to the channel, and I really am enjoying your work! We seem to be of a similar age, so watching your videos is a real trip down memory lane, and we share A LOT of disappointing moments in retro gaming history! Keep up the great work, and thanks for the memories!!!
Great video! I'm sorry that you got ripped off by the U-Force, I remember seeing the ads for it but I didn't believe it would really work and decided against it. However, I do remember very clearly when Pac-Man came out for the 2600. We pre-ordered it and I went to the store with my mom to pick it up. It was $38 which was quite a bit of money back then. My mom hesitated on the price and asked the clerk if it was like the arcade and he assured her it was. I was about 6 and I remember looking up at the guy and I knew he was lying. We got home and were quite shocked when we saw how crappy it looked. My best friend called and his entire family was angry...his mom went back to the store and yelled at them until they refunded their money. I remember my dad coming home from work and he took one look at the game and said "what the heck is this? Did they forget to finish programming it?". My parents were both really upset and as kids my siblings and I were all upset. We barely played the game and Atari surely took us for a ride. Oh well, live and learn I guess!
I had a Sega CD growing up, but my parents swerved through the good games and instead got a bunch of those crappy FMV games like Sewer Shark. I did have Sonic CD, but that was it.
Sonic CD had a kick ass opening segment video and music but.. the gameplay itself was just another sonic game and that's fine if you like Sonic.. but still.
44 developers of those lousy products disliked this video, lol. Great video as usual man. This is back in 2018, and my first time watching this video. I remember renting Clu Clu Land to a great disappointment lol wasn't very fun. And yes, the Game Boy Advance SP was cool with the front light. I didn't know they had another SP model with a back light. I have two now. :)
You talk about disappointment with Myst, for a bad ending, my disappointment with Myst was for what ever reason my game would just crash when you tried to launch it.
If I remember correctly, Mario is Missing was Daisy's secret video game appearance. It was well defined in the SNES port even though the coloring of Daisy was the same as the title screen of NES Tournament Golf.
I remember having to pull off a little lie to my dad after going to Blockbuster. dad this copy of zelda 2 wont work and then you would have to hope that was the only copy so they cant just exchange it for another copy lol. also This is seriously is one of the best channels on RUclips keeps making me tap into my best childhood memories I love it. You're doing a great job man I love the passion you have for old school video games.
#3: I had that but I loved it. The TV tuner worked OK at best, but I wasn't a kid when I got it so my expectations weren't as high. I ended up using it as a monitor for camerawork in one of my production classes. The instructor was impressed with how well I composed my shots. Also, just cuz you're near a TV station doesn't mean you're near the transmitter. The tower and transmitter for my local TV station was about 20 miles away from the city so they could reach over the nearby mountains and serve the rest of the county.
Sega TV! Had all theses games but only a few would actually play. Still enjoyed myself. But could remember sitting in front of the tv for hrs trying to play certain games.
10:23 for mullet boy! Full picture of mullet boy anyway. You might be able to start to see him at 10:22. Depends on how picky you are! Super fun game! Left upper screen.
Mine is related to one of your picks but has extra disappointment attached- I asked for an NES Advantage joystick and my dad found that they didn't have any at the store he went to, but the guy there apparently said "hey, we have this other new controller you might like instead." And so, my dad came home with the U-Force. Didn't take long before he took it back for a refund.
I too was (and still am) an Orlando Magic NBA Jam aficionado. There was nothing like draining threes from the top of the screen with Shaq in the arcade, and while I love all forms of the home NBA jam franchise, the missing Big Aristotle was a disappointing omission. Spot on!!
the moment you upgrade your commodore 64 to IBM to realize you need a whole desk for the cpu and you can't use your color tv, instead you need to buy a monochrome (orange black or green black) IBM screen...
What made Metroid 2 so alluring to me was the Kool aid points. I had the prize book and I forget how many points you needed but the Metroid game was one of the prizes. As a kid a usually $50 game was out of the question except during Christmas but the chance to save little squares and mail them off made it see so accessible. I had no idea what the game was really I just wanted it.
My most devastating moment - it was the day after Christmas, maybe 1987/1988. I had returned something to Kay-B Toys, and I saw this gorgeous box art for Deadly Towers from behind the counter. I bought it right away, sight unseen. Got it home and the game was utter crap. Confusing mazes, the most blocky, chunky, plodding character imaginable, etc. I just envisioned that this game was going to be the most amazing RPG ever (yeah I'm one of those "RPG Guys" :-)). I did finish this game on my own by discovering some things completely by accident a couple of years later though. Honorable mention for Atari 2600 pac-man. I too loved the Arcade Pac-Man and when I powered this on the disappointment was painful. The ghosts weren't even different colors!
oh man number 10....I remember being at a friend's with his older brother renting Mario is Missing and being so amped...for the first 10 seconds..then we realized we wasted our weekend rental on something that we wouldn't play for more than 10 minutes. We ripped it out and put the old go-to in, with that being Contra, and playing that for the rest of the night. That was the first time we beat the game without the code.
It's not that Nintendo didn't understand that the backlight was necessary, it's because they wanted you to be forced to buy a system without it so they could later sell you a model with it, doubling hardware sales. They put out a backlit GameBoy Pocket in 1998 and they still pulled the same stunt with the GBC, GBA and DS. It's called creating demand, and yeah, it's shady.
Did you know that an American Dad episode stole the plot to Mario is Missing? It's one of the episodes where they spoof James Bond and the schools principal runs a bunch of hair dryers to melt the ice caps.
The TV Tuner worked fine. You were either in a bad area, or did not have strong TV signals nearby. A buddy of mine had the GG and TV Tuner; I had a Gameboy. After school, we would trade and play the other's console. One time, I tried the TV Tuner and watched the Jetsons. It came in perfectly.
I'm totally with you on the Game Boy Color. I was so mad when I turned it on and it was still not backlit. I didnt care as much about battery life as I did performance and the Game Gear blew every 90s incarnation of Game Boy out of the water.
Oh man, the Sirrus/Achenar thing genuinely disturbed me when I was playing Myst as a middle schooler. I too eventually made use of the strategy guide and then felt incredibly dumb for not figuring out that ending myself....
Hot digity dog!!! I’m a 1982 baby to. We did get the best of gaming. I’m still a fan of table arcade cabs. My grandma took me to get pizza and gave me 5 bucks to play games. I miss when 5 bucks lasted forever.
Atari Pac-Man was only a best seller because they made it the pack-in cart, personally I preferred Combat and wish that they'd have kept that as the pack-in cart since it was a great demo of what the system could do well and a damn fun game to boot!
I remember playing Myst. I never finished playing it though. I remember trying to get the NES robot as a kid. It was always sold out. One day I saw one, but my mom didn’t want to buy it for me. I guess I lucked out as there were only two titles that worked with the robot.
it was needed for some games honestly... and for a very tiny select few, it broke..as in if you had it installed you could no longer play them, but they were such obscure titles no one cared. But for those games it wasn't needed for (most of them) t did nothing because no programmer ever added code into their games that would trigger if it detected more ram.
I had the same experience with Mario Is Missing. I was around 10 or so, and I saw it in a K Mart. I begged my mamma to get it because it appeared to be an 8bit version of Mario World. I didn’t have very many games and this new one was $50. My mamma caved in and bought it for me. When I got home and realized what it was, I felt SO bad. I still told my momma that I loved it and that I was happy. Deep down, I felt sick that I had squandered my mamma’s money and a rare chance to get a new game.
I remember begging for the Sega Saturn when I got to play a demo of Virtua Fighter. While that game was fun, the console itself got immediately dwarfed by the PlayStation and finding even decent games after was hard to do.
I was VERY surprised to see you and I have the same #1 disappointment. I think it may have actually been the greatest disappointment of my childhood. Christmas 1993 when I was seven years old getting the activator...man, I had dreams about that thing! I had a popcorn stucco ceiling, so we tried hanging a white bedsheet up there to reflect the beams. Let's just say the sheet stayed up there longer than the activator stayed out of the junk closet.
As it relates to “Mario is Missing” I never understood why Bowser wouldn’t just execute Mario when he gets the upper hand and kidnaps him. I guess this would be considered “too dark” for that era in gaming. Maybe the developers thought “we’ll imply that this is what happens should Luigi fail to rescue Mario in time.”
The closest thing I can think of that's close to a disappointment is my trying of Pushmo when it was practically forced on my 3DS. It bored me almost to tears. I'm not even disappointed in my PlayStation Classic!
Ahhhhh Myst was amazing! I was too young to understand what was happening tho so I mostly just walked around and clicked on things for a bit and then just followed my step dad’s notebooks from when he played through it the real way years before lol -Ratter Tatter
Fist of the North Star was so disappointing to me for the NES. Heh, nice to see i wasn't the only one pissed that Shaq wasn't in the home versions of NBA Jam. And I too, loved the Sega CD. Sewer Shark was my game. Wish there would be a remaster release for today's gen like they did with Night Trap.
Damn.... I was 8 years old when you were born. Now I really feel old. Pac Man 4k is a great remake of the Atari abomination. It really shows what could have been if they didn't rush it, and knew more about the hardware.
Dude, my little brother bought Myst, when we were both under 10 years old and that thing spent maybe 2 hours total in our Nintendo. We had no clue what to do. We thought the game was defective or something... sat in the bottom of a shoe box the rest of the time.
Dr. Chaos was mine. I was taken in by the amazing cover art and had JUST rented the movie House from the video store a few days before. When I looked at the back of the box I noticed a few of the monsters from the movie seemed to be in the game! I thought surely this must be a game based on that awesome horror comedy. Well...it has a lot of the elements of it. But the confusing nature of the game prevented me from figuring out exactly what to do, as there is a 100% linear pattern you must take in the beginning of the game despite it seeming to be a nonlinear adventure. Never figured out how to quite play it until I was an adult and at that point I wasn't into video games anymore.
When my parents and I (age 5) came back from overseas, one morning we had to stop by Sears. It was the day Pacman was released. People were lined around the store before opening. Later on I finally saw a demo at another store. It may have been the first time said "what the hell?!" I then laughed and felt sorry for all the dumb schmucks who had waited in line first thing in the morning that day.
Back to the future part 2/3 and indiana jones and the temple of doom...i remember my 10 year old self being hyped up after finally being able to rent those... I still feel the dissapointment 30 years later...
My older cousin rented a SNES one Christmas along with Mario Is Missing. It was a big letdown. Thankfully, he also rented Super Mario Kart, and thus Christmas was saved.
My most disappointing moment was back in the 90s, Nintendo held a contest on one cartridge and the first person to beat it without cheating would be given a code. But if you cheated or beat it without reading all the way through, you lost. I got all the way through and finished and immediately turned the console off. I wonder how close I was because the game was insanely hard!
@@jeremiahthomas8140 they had no clue about the tuner. We were allowed to have a Game Gear or Gameboy, but weren't allowed to have a television in our barracks.
@@donkique956 I assume that is a pretty long training period. In 1999 we were not allowed anything for our 7 weeks for 13F. Also have combat arms vs. support differences too.
the Activator was originally designed to have three heights that the ring could sense. So, imagine being able to do a low kick, medium kick, and high kick pointing in the same direction. Sadly, that didn't make it to the finished product. I assume they found a few problems with that. Price, complexity, and hardware limitations.
The tv tunner for the game gear worked fine here until recently, I live in Portugal. A few years ago all the analog signals were shut down, still didn't try but I guess it will not work anymore unfortunately, unless I could connect it to digital signal
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GenerationGapGaming technically mullet boy is at 10:23
You can’t fully see mullet boy until 10:23, however 10:21 is when the next cut scene shows.
Maybe we can have a double shout out? :)
G3 Out
Tyler, saw 2 different Rygar runs back to back done by the same guy during a GamesDoneQuick marathon.
Your run was good but, this guy had key strats i think you could use to up your game QUITE A BIT.
Dude's name was DarkWindDuck or something like that.
Not sure if i asked you this question already but...are you going to play and or review Resident Evil 2Remake?
Not sure if i asked you this question already but...are you going to play and or review Resident Evil 2Remake?
What i used to do if it was a real bad game I'd bring it back and say it didn't work. They would give me a new rental But you wouldn't want to do that too often.
I still have PTSD from failed game rentals as a kid. Your whole weekend was riding on that selection.
I don't know if I go as far as PTSD, but, the one game that no matter how many times my best friend in myself rented it, denied us a victory, was Ninja Gaiden on NES. I had to be almost 24 years old and, by then I had purchased it, before I finally beat it.
My mom would let me pick again if we took home a shitty game.
YES!!!! Nothing could fuck your wkend up like a bad game rental...lol
Yeah bro, that was the wrost!
Lol...that's facts
Two words: Power Glove. I saved up my allowance for weeks to buy this thing, later that week the shop that sold it to me went out of business, it was so bad my mom felt sorry for me and gave me the value of it back.
But it’s rad!
Oh, god, yes... the Power Glove basically did nothing. I felt rather ripped-off, and it just turned into an expensive prop
Wow you know something was wack when your mom refunds you money you never paid her in the first place. Man, the power glove.
So bad.
😂 😂 😂
Believe it or not, the power glove can do amazing things(air instruments), just not with your nintendo games.....
Biggest disappointment for me was renting "Back to the Future" on NES. I loved that movie and was so excited to play a video game about it. We didn't have a lot of money so renting was pretty much my only way to play new games. After a weekend of trying and trying to get anywhere in the game...I got to the diner stage (which is practically the beginning)...and died before I even knew what was happening. I didn't even know what I was supposed to do because there were no instructions. I was so mad that I got in trouble for yelling at the TV and upsetting my younger sister lol. Years later I saw AVGN review that game and I got angry all over again. Great video as always.
Thanks again Matt! I got duped by that game too back in the day lol. It does suck horrendously.
At least Tell Tale games redeemed Back to the Future as a video game.
Me too, my friend, me too
A friend of mine showed me a game that was so bad that I was begging to play Back to the Future. It was called Dragon Power. I have nothing good to say about that game.
Glad I wasn't the only one who lived through that diner scene
Back in 95’ on a military base I knew a guy who had the game gear tv tuner. He jacked the cable tv line into it and BAM! We had cable tv on a late night desk watch at hq. So it did work but I guess you need to tinker a whole lot.
Most impressive. I would have loved to have seen that.
I remember getting the acclaim wireless NES controller as a kid and being super pissed at how terrible it was.
My biggest disappointment in retro gaming was the Game Gear. I already had a Game Boy at the time which I enjoyed greatly. But the lack of color and backlit screen as you mentioned made me wonder what I would be like to have a Game Gear. So it took a lot of begging and pleading with my parents but I finally got on for Christmas of 1994. It came with Sonic 2 and I was greatly satisfied that I could play portable games without having to be under a lamp. What I didn’t realize though and probably the reason why Nintendo didn’t make the original Game Boy with a colored and backlit screen is how much it drained batteries. I kid you not I had to go through at least five sets of batteries within the first two weeks of owning the Game Gear. And yeah I know there was a battery pack for it. But at that point I was so frustrated and disappointed that I actually apologized to my mom and dad for begging them to get it for me in the first place. 😄
It was so hard to tell back then cause sometimes the box looked amazing but then the game blew or it didn’t have a manual
Instantly earned my subscription with #10. You just brought 35 year old me right back to one of my biggest childhood disappointment rentals lol
Man Game Gear was sweet! I think the original Sega Genesis was the most quality system and games during that time. Really great stereo sound too that nes lacked.
I had the same experience with Mario is Missing. I saw this at blockbuster and was shocked to find a Mario game I didn't even know existed. Got it home and was so mad that it was an educational game! I wanted the game gear tuner so bad, I'm glad to hear it didn't work. Also, my game gear was black, but in video game magazines at the time, you could order a white version. I would have killed to have one of those.....
Found your channel a few weeks ago! Great Job dude! This is the type of content I look for! Not just an opinion of the games but actually gameplay talk! Looking forward to more secrets revealed vids!
Thanks so much man and I am glad you are here at the channel! I try to make good quality videos for you to enjoy with authentic personal experiences I've had with gaming so it is very rewarding to hear comments like yours. I already know what I am gonna do for my next secrets revealed video but it may take a few weeks cause it is a daunting game lol. I appreciate your patience lol.
I totally agree! Each video he makes is well done, and tells the viewers his thoughts about the games. Another awesome video bud!
Thanks Nick! Thanks for taking time to say that man.
I had the Game Gear TV tuner and it worked 60 miles as the crow flies from the nearest TV station. You must have gotten a dud, because mine worked great and I loved it. I lived in the middle of the country a long way from any big city. The Game Gear TV tuner was awesome!
*How AWESOME is this friggin Channel?!*
Thanks man!
Rise of the Robots was a Big letdown. The developers must have forgot to stick an actual game in there before they released it. It didn't even look that good either.
The TV Tuner for the SEGA Game Gear worked 100% for me. In fact, my brother used to get pissed at me for taking his Game Gear all the time so I could watch what I wanted to on TV.
Been a while since I played Myst, but I remember both brothers warning you not to open the third book, which I found suspicious enough to investigate just because neither of those dudes seemed trustworthy.
NBA Jam home versions were missing the 3 most popular players at the time: Jordan, Shaq, and Barkley.
But it made sense the most popular players had their own video games and likeness licensed already. At least David Robinson was in NBA Jam despite being in his own Genesis game.
Shaq behind that tree had me dyin omg.
Surprised this channel has under 50K subs. I suspect that will change in time. Very good content, well produced and edited. Watching your vids is like stepping back in time to my childhood. Thanks for making this content, hope you get the success you deserve.
The Lynx came out before Game Gear and Game Boy. I love it and still play with it often. The games are great too.
Hunger for Horror I also love my model 2 Atari Lynx I used to have a model 1 but now I have a model 2 Lynx
No the Lynx did not come out before the Gameboy. It came out after but is the 1st color portable. Yeah it is pretty decent but I still got a Game Gear and Gameboy before I got it.
FYI I am in America so perhaps I am wrong if you are from another country
Nah you're probably right I was going off my memory which isn't what it used to be
@@hungerforhorror well sorry if I made you feel bad. My memory isn't as sharp lately either . Just hoping I start forgetting more that I wish I could forget and less of which I can't
I remember renting “Taboo” on the NES. That’s a mistake you only make once…
I remember buying Battletoads for Genesis, thinking it was a new Battletoads, and not a port of the NES game I'd already played to death. I was too young to know any better.
Game rentals need to be #1, those were constant and left me sooooo pissed. Biggest disappointment at a rental store was The Uncanny X-Men. What an 8-bit turd!!!
My biggest disapointment in mid 90´s? The "classic" known as Contra Force
More like Contra FARCE. That was a huge disappointment but, apparently they paid a bunch of people to say it was good. I dont know what game they were playing
Atari 2600 Pac-Man was my first experience with the game and I greatly enjoyed it. I always perceived arcade games as a special treat rather than seeing the console versions as inferior. It's funny how much perception affects enjoyment. I also used to think Michael Jordan was omitted from NBA Jam so it wouldn't be too unfair. LOL
Double Dragon 3 in the arcade really pissed me off. It changed the format and graphics of the first two side scrolling gems of DD 1 & DD2. MOST DISPLEASING.
Mario is Missing, I fell for that one. Your description of it being click bait, 1993 style is spot-on!
Really appreciate how thoughtful your lists are. Brings me back to the glory days lol
Mario Is Missing hits home for me. I rented it one night based on the box art on the back. I got conned.
You really summed up that experience being tricked into renting this turd nicely.
As soon as I saw Mario is Missing on the thumbnail I was enraged. Much like you I saw the box art and I thought it was like SMW for the SNES but unlike you I didn't rent it, that was the game I chose for my 9th birthday and boy was I upset. Great video man! Ohhhh and Letssss Goooooo!
The model 1 Gameboy Advance hands down. Brilliant games, fantastic ergonomics, but a screen that's so dark it makes Mario look like an Undertaker Funko Pop. I really didn't discover how great the library for the Advance was until a year later when I picked up a used DS Lite.
I think growing up in the 80s, and with a C64, the licensed titles were often the most disappointing. The C64 versions would often be rushed to release in time with the movie or show they were tied in to so you got things like the C64 version of Robocop, which to this day I have mad nostalgia for, but you can't complete without a cheat code because you can't finish the drug factory level thanks to a game breaking glitch. Good job Ocean. Solid effort. I mean I can't beat Robocop on the Gameboy either, but at least that's because I suck, not because it's inherently unfinishable.
As a kid, I knew the activator, uforce, even the power glove weren't gonna work. I stayed clear of even thinking about purchasing those items. It was to good to be true.
When the original Tetris came out for the NES I was about 6 years old, and I had absolutely NO IDEA that Tetris and Arkanoid WERE NOT the same game. In the advertisements for this "new" game I've never heard of, and totally mistook it for something similar to Arkanoid, and that's all I wanted for Christmas that year. Well, I got it, opened it up, and found out real quick that they are NOT in fact the same games in any way! I'm a new sub to the channel, and I really am enjoying your work! We seem to be of a similar age, so watching your videos is a real trip down memory lane, and we share A LOT of disappointing moments in retro gaming history! Keep up the great work, and thanks for the memories!!!
I think mine was either playing Taboo: The sixth sense, or renting Rise of the Robots
Great video! I'm sorry that you got ripped off by the U-Force, I remember seeing the ads for it but I didn't believe it would really work and decided against it.
However, I do remember very clearly when Pac-Man came out for the 2600. We pre-ordered it and I went to the store with my mom to pick it up. It was $38 which was quite a bit of money back then. My mom hesitated on the price and asked the clerk if it was like the arcade and he assured her it was. I was about 6 and I remember looking up at the guy and I knew he was lying. We got home and were quite shocked when we saw how crappy it looked. My best friend called and his entire family was angry...his mom went back to the store and yelled at them until they refunded their money. I remember my dad coming home from work and he took one look at the game and said "what the heck is this? Did they forget to finish programming it?".
My parents were both really upset and as kids my siblings and I were all upset. We barely played the game and Atari surely took us for a ride. Oh well, live and learn I guess!
Browser's lives in a castle full of lava and breathes fire, but ...but he needs hair dryers to melt ice. Brah! ❄️🔥🦖
I had a Sega CD growing up, but my parents swerved through the good games and instead got a bunch of those crappy FMV games like Sewer Shark. I did have Sonic CD, but that was it.
I love sonic CD and the cheesy FMV games lol. I love the cinematic part of it but I can see where it would annoy people too.
Dude I actually have a copy of ground zero Texas a few months back after a friend recommended it. I need to try it out. Thanks for reminding me
Sonic CD had a kick ass opening segment video and music but.. the gameplay itself was just another sonic game and that's fine if you like Sonic.. but still.
@@xenxander Eh, better than a lot of the Sonic games we're stuck with today. And back before it was flooded with useless side characters.
44 developers of those lousy products disliked this video, lol.
Great video as usual man. This is back in 2018, and my first time watching this video. I remember renting Clu Clu Land to a great disappointment lol wasn't very fun.
And yes, the Game Boy Advance SP was cool with the front light. I didn't know they had another SP model with a back light. I have two now. :)
You talk about disappointment with Myst, for a bad ending, my disappointment with Myst was for what ever reason my game would just crash when you tried to launch it.
If I remember correctly, Mario is Missing was Daisy's secret video game appearance. It was well defined in the SNES port even though the coloring of Daisy was the same as the title screen of NES Tournament Golf.
Truly enjoyed the video, brought back memories playing games with my old man as well.
I remember having to pull off a little lie to my dad after going to Blockbuster. dad this copy of zelda 2 wont work and then you would have to hope that was the only copy so they cant just exchange it for another copy lol. also This is seriously is one of the best channels on RUclips keeps making me tap into my best childhood memories I love it. You're doing a great job man I love the passion you have for old school video games.
Thanks for the kind words man. Glad you enjoy the videos 🙏
#3: I had that but I loved it. The TV tuner worked OK at best, but I wasn't a kid when I got it so my expectations weren't as high. I ended up using it as a monitor for camerawork in one of my production classes. The instructor was impressed with how well I composed my shots. Also, just cuz you're near a TV station doesn't mean you're near the transmitter. The tower and transmitter for my local TV station was about 20 miles away from the city so they could reach over the nearby mountains and serve the rest of the county.
I broke my ankle on the Sega Activator but I got a trial lawyer involved and got a big settlement from Sega.
Sega TV! Had all theses games but only a few would actually play. Still enjoyed myself. But could remember sitting in front of the tv for hrs trying to play certain games.
3:43 I PREFER no map.
Makes it feel more isolated....that you are on a hostile, alien world, and the locals do NOT want you there.
10:23 for mullet boy! Full picture of mullet boy anyway. You might be able to start to see him at 10:22. Depends on how picky you are! Super fun game! Left upper screen.
Mine is related to one of your picks but has extra disappointment attached- I asked for an NES Advantage joystick and my dad found that they didn't have any at the store he went to, but the guy there apparently said "hey, we have this other new controller you might like instead." And so, my dad came home with the U-Force. Didn't take long before he took it back for a refund.
For the record, the TV tuner worked amazingly well for me.
I too was (and still am) an Orlando Magic NBA Jam aficionado. There was nothing like draining threes from the top of the screen with Shaq in the arcade, and while I love all forms of the home NBA jam franchise, the missing Big Aristotle was a disappointing omission. Spot on!!
the moment you upgrade your commodore 64 to IBM to realize you need a whole desk for the cpu and you can't use your color tv, instead you need to buy a monochrome (orange black or green black) IBM screen...
I had a 32x too. Simular note i loved my Turbographix16 but i still dont know what the turbo booster add on for it actually did
I dodged almost all that gimicks and man am i thankful. Great vid.
What made Metroid 2 so alluring to me was the Kool aid points. I had the prize book and I forget how many points you needed but the Metroid game was one of the prizes. As a kid a usually $50 game was out of the question except during Christmas but the chance to save little squares and mail them off made it see so accessible. I had no idea what the game was really I just wanted it.
I remember how shocked i was that nba jam didnt feature Shaq. I was so mad i pooped my bestfriends pants
My most devastating moment - it was the day after Christmas, maybe 1987/1988. I had returned something to Kay-B Toys, and I saw this gorgeous box art for Deadly Towers from behind the counter. I bought it right away, sight unseen. Got it home and the game was utter crap. Confusing mazes, the most blocky, chunky, plodding character imaginable, etc. I just envisioned that this game was going to be the most amazing RPG ever (yeah I'm one of those "RPG Guys" :-)). I did finish this game on my own by discovering some things completely by accident a couple of years later though.
Honorable mention for Atari 2600 pac-man. I too loved the Arcade Pac-Man and when I powered this on the disappointment was painful. The ghosts weren't even different colors!
Man. I always wanted that Game Gear TV tuner. But if it wasn’t good then I don’t have to feel bad. Thanks and great video.
I do like the 32X though.
oh man number 10....I remember being at a friend's with his older brother renting Mario is Missing and being so amped...for the first 10 seconds..then we realized we wasted our weekend rental on something that we wouldn't play for more than 10 minutes. We ripped it out and put the old go-to in, with that being Contra, and playing that for the rest of the night. That was the first time we beat the game without the code.
It's not that Nintendo didn't understand that the backlight was necessary, it's because they wanted you to be forced to buy a system without it so they could later sell you a model with it, doubling hardware sales. They put out a backlit GameBoy Pocket in 1998 and they still pulled the same stunt with the GBC, GBA and DS. It's called creating demand, and yeah, it's shady.
Did you know that an American Dad episode stole the plot to Mario is Missing? It's one of the episodes where they spoof James Bond and the schools principal runs a bunch of hair dryers to melt the ice caps.
The TV Tuner worked fine. You were either in a bad area, or did not have strong TV signals nearby. A buddy of mine had the GG and TV Tuner; I had a Gameboy. After school, we would trade and play the other's console. One time, I tried the TV Tuner and watched the Jetsons. It came in perfectly.
I'm totally with you on the Game Boy Color. I was so mad when I turned it on and it was still not backlit. I didnt care as much about battery life as I did performance and the Game Gear blew every 90s incarnation of Game Boy out of the water.
Oh man, the Sirrus/Achenar thing genuinely disturbed me when I was playing Myst as a middle schooler. I too eventually made use of the strategy guide and then felt incredibly dumb for not figuring out that ending myself....
Hot digity dog!!! I’m a 1982 baby to. We did get the best of gaming. I’m still a fan of table arcade cabs. My grandma took me to get pizza and gave me 5 bucks to play games. I miss when 5 bucks lasted forever.
Atari Pac-Man was only a best seller because they made it the pack-in cart, personally I preferred Combat and wish that they'd have kept that as the pack-in cart since it was a great demo of what the system could do well and a damn fun game to boot!
I remember playing Myst. I never finished playing it though. I remember trying to get the NES robot as a kid. It was always sold out. One day I saw one, but my mom didn’t want to buy it for me. I guess I lucked out as there were only two titles that worked with the robot.
that was a spectacular mullet LOL!
Haha totally forgot about the U-Force... You're right!! That thing was a hot pile of garbage!!
Rewatching these videos and my gosh, I forgot how much I freaking love this channel 🤍
Don't forget about the N64 expansion pack!!! I never noticed a difference in the games after I bought it!!
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it was needed for some games honestly... and for a very tiny select few, it broke..as in if you had it installed you could no longer play them, but they were such obscure titles no one cared.
But for those games it wasn't needed for (most of them) t did nothing because no programmer ever added code into their games that would trigger if it detected more ram.
Those commercials, though. Classic. Thank you for the memories!
I had the same experience with Mario Is Missing. I was around 10 or so, and I saw it in a K Mart. I begged my mamma to get it because it appeared to be an 8bit version of Mario World. I didn’t have very many games and this new one was $50. My mamma caved in and bought it for me. When I got home and realized what it was, I felt SO bad. I still told my momma that I loved it and that I was happy. Deep down, I felt sick that I had squandered my mamma’s money and a rare chance to get a new game.
I have to say mine was Wolverine and Quicksilver and X-Men as a huge comic book fan as a child and playing these games saddened me.
I remember begging for the Sega Saturn when I got to play a demo of Virtua Fighter. While that game was fun, the console itself got immediately dwarfed by the PlayStation and finding even decent games after was hard to do.
I was a NES kid growing up never had a sega I wanted all those add ons. So glad my mom told me no sega swindled the hell out of there customers
I was VERY surprised to see you and I have the same #1 disappointment. I think it may have actually been the greatest disappointment of my childhood. Christmas 1993 when I was seven years old getting the activator...man, I had dreams about that thing! I had a popcorn stucco ceiling, so we tried hanging a white bedsheet up there to reflect the beams. Let's just say the sheet stayed up there longer than the activator stayed out of the junk closet.
As it relates to “Mario is Missing” I never understood why Bowser wouldn’t just execute Mario when he gets the upper hand and kidnaps him. I guess this would be considered “too dark” for that era in gaming. Maybe the developers thought “we’ll imply that this is what happens should Luigi fail to rescue Mario in time.”
The closest thing I can think of that's close to a disappointment is my trying of Pushmo when it was practically forced on my 3DS. It bored me almost to tears. I'm not even disappointed in my PlayStation Classic!
You mean you didnt play as Bob Dole in NBA Jam!? Haha great moments man. I dont think I've even heard of some of these Sega add-ons
Ahhhhh Myst was amazing! I was too young to understand what was happening tho so I mostly just walked around and clicked on things for a bit and then just followed my step dad’s notebooks from when he played through it the real way years before lol
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Fist of the North Star was so disappointing to me for the NES. Heh, nice to see i wasn't the only one pissed that Shaq wasn't in the home versions of NBA Jam. And I too, loved the Sega CD. Sewer Shark was my game. Wish there would be a remaster release for today's gen like they did with Night Trap.
Damn.... I was 8 years old when you were born. Now I really feel old. Pac Man 4k is a great remake of the Atari abomination. It really shows what could have been if they didn't rush it, and knew more about the hardware.
You're not that old lol. Never heard of pac man 4k. I will have to check it out
...and what consoles is that available for? I never heard of it.
Nice Golgo 13 pic. 😎
I was 9 lol. All of these whippersnappers don't realise that Atari was high tech when we went to that after years of playing kick the can.
I was 6 and had og 2600
Dude, my little brother bought Myst, when we were both under 10 years old and that thing spent maybe 2 hours total in our Nintendo. We had no clue what to do. We thought the game was defective or something... sat in the bottom of a shoe box the rest of the time.
i bought the power glove back then just after the movie with fred Savage.....damn that glove made me angry....^^
The wizard.
@@davidcronin5689 lol thank s ^^
Dr. Chaos was mine. I was taken in by the amazing cover art and had JUST rented the movie House from the video store a few days before. When I looked at the back of the box I noticed a few of the monsters from the movie seemed to be in the game! I thought surely this must be a game based on that awesome horror comedy. Well...it has a lot of the elements of it. But the confusing nature of the game prevented me from figuring out exactly what to do, as there is a 100% linear pattern you must take in the beginning of the game despite it seeming to be a nonlinear adventure. Never figured out how to quite play it until I was an adult and at that point I wasn't into video games anymore.
The Mullet Boy is an interesting, fun and unique idea. I've seen it done in magazines, but never videos. Kudos for the creativity.
Thanks so much. I thought of it while editing our last video and wanted to introduce it in this one. I hope everyone has fun with it.
I actually find Mario is Missing to be a very fun game, but I can see how it would be disappointing if you were expecting a normal Mario platformer.
When my parents and I (age 5) came back from overseas, one morning we had to stop by Sears. It was the day Pacman was released. People were lined around the store before opening. Later on I finally saw a demo at another store. It may have been the first time said "what the hell?!" I then laughed and felt sorry for all the dumb schmucks who had waited in line first thing in the morning that day.
Back to the future part 2/3 and indiana jones and the temple of doom...i remember my 10 year old self being hyped up after finally being able to rent those...
I still feel the dissapointment 30 years later...
My older cousin rented a SNES one Christmas along with Mario Is Missing. It was a big letdown. Thankfully, he also rented Super Mario Kart, and thus Christmas was saved.
My introduction to Metroid was on the Gameboy.. you had to remember the cave you have been too.. after a while I beat it with in 3 hours.
My most disappointing moment was back in the 90s, Nintendo held a contest on one cartridge and the first person to beat it without cheating would be given a code. But if you cheated or beat it without reading all the way through, you lost. I got all the way through and finished and immediately turned the console off. I wonder how close I was because the game was insanely hard!
Subscribed. This content was good. I loved the Sega CD. And I love the 32x for the Star Wars game.
My Sega TV Tuner got me through Advanced Individual Training back in 1992. The drill sergeants had no clue.
Had no clue about the tuner or no clue you snuck a Game Gear in?
@@jeremiahthomas8140 they had no clue about the tuner. We were allowed to have a Game Gear or Gameboy, but weren't allowed to have a television in our barracks.
@@donkique956 They let you have a portable game system in AIT! What was your MOS?
@@jeremiahthomas8140 I was at Fort Belvoir, training as a 52D.
@@donkique956 I assume that is a pretty long training period. In 1999 we were not allowed anything for our 7 weeks for 13F. Also have combat arms vs. support differences too.
we had the plug in light for the GB color, oh wait that was a pain to use to, game gear was ahead of its time.
the Activator was originally designed to have three heights that the ring could sense. So, imagine being able to do a low kick, medium kick, and high kick pointing in the same direction. Sadly, that didn't make it to the finished product. I assume they found a few problems with that. Price, complexity, and hardware limitations.
I got Mario is missing in the summer time as a “gift” I immediately yelled “This is a school game”!!!! I got swindled.
I definitely got duped on the Mario missing game and this brought back that exact memory of how mad I was after 5 mins into the game lol.
The tv tunner for the game gear worked fine here until recently, I live in Portugal. A few years ago all the analog signals were shut down, still didn't try but I guess it will not work anymore unfortunately, unless I could connect it to digital signal
Nothing beats saving up and paying full price for the NES version of X-Men! 🙂