Imagine looking outside your local Bob Evans and seeing a guy in a lawn chair

Scott: *gets Pokémon Shield* Also Scott: *plays Pokémon Sword*

Only midnight release I will attend, will be the release of the Scott The Woz: The Video Game!

I remember being a senior in high school when Halo 4 was coming out. Right at 4:03pm when school let out, me and a friend drove to a GameStop where we had preordered the game to wait outside for the midnight release. We set up our folding chairs, and were the first two people in line. Soon after that people started lining up until eventually there was a line all the way down this strip mall where the GameStop was located. It was a literal sidewalk party, and people were playing music from their cars, and ordering pizza. It was an awesome experience. Really though besides the midnight release we also went for the exclusive gifts. Since we were the first two in line, my friend and I got these master chief display cards. Then they came out with some stickers that we and the next few people behind us also got. Finally they came out and gave my friend a huge poster of the games cover art. We all knew though that there was a life size weapon replica in there for the first person in line, that was the real prize. So the moment of truth is approaching, and a GameStop worker comes outside and tells everyone to make a formal line. Right after he comes to front of the line and asked for our pre order receipt so he can mark them. My friend was first but on his receipt the guy marked a 2, and I was second but on my receipt he marked a 3. We were confused by this but whatever we knew we were first in line.... then right midnight.... An employee comes to the door, and a minivan pulls up to the front of the store, and some little kid (probably 7 or 8) comes running out of the car, with a receipt that has a big fat 1 on it. He gets to the door, and only he is allowed in. They don’t even ring him up or take his receipt, they just give him the big weapon and a copy of the game and he runs out of the store in front of us, and jumps back in the car..... we were shook... definitely one of the biggest upsets ever.

I love the fact that somewhere in the world, this was a _midnight release_

" I don't even like Pokémon." - Scott 2019

Nintendo: *cuts ekans from Sword/Shield* Scott: "got my snake bite kit"

Is anyone going to talk about the fact how Scott went out in the cold darkness to film outside of a closed Best Buy?

"This guy stood foot on the Moon and this guy stood on line for the Kinect" I lost my shit at that point

"I hope the bug spray repels the snakes" - Scott the Woz

Midnight release of Smash Ultimate was actually magic. They had a screen showing the game awards. I've never heard a crowd louder than when Joker was revealed.

Can we just appreciate the simpler times when we can wait in line without having scalpers to take literally every gaming system

Shoulda released this at midnight, Scott. I’m disappointed.

I had a dream last night where Scott had his own line of breakfast cereals. I met him while shopping in a grocery store. We shook hands and talked about his cereal. Nothing else. Just his cereal. I didn't get to try it, but I have good faith that it was meh.

"The launch of a hotly anticipated game is a magical thing." *shows Jumanji: The Video Game footage* See, it's the visual comedy that really helps keep this show fresh.

2:06 THAT BLONDE IS MY MOM GETTING A WII FOR ME AND MY SISTER WTFFFF

This dude looks like every Peter Parker ever all mashed up into one

i like how you left the tags on everything because you're clearly going to return it.

I legitimately cackled at “I don’t even like Pokémon”

"A pregnancy!" LMAO

Meanwhile, there’s other people who are like: “Yeah, I’ll just get it tomorrow morning.”

"A lawn chair and an open schedule" My favorite

This is my new favorite scott episode. It just feels so cozy while Scott talks about the crippling anxiety and terror of midnight launches

I remember the late night release of Kingdom Hearts 3. My town is pretty small and i’d never assumed it’d have many KH fans but there was a surprisingly long line. They even played KH music over the speakers in the store and there was a guy at the door dressed up as Sora.

I’m mad that this wasn’t released during midnight.

"The memorable kind of sleep deprived." Oh so my entire life then?

5:13 this is honestly one of the most underrated Scott skits, especially the fish maps

Imagine being at the midnight release for Anthem or Fallout 76 XD

"What do you think this is, waiting for an excruciating amount of time in possibly some of the worst conditions imaginable all for something you have no idea is worth it or not? A PREGNANCY"

Me: “So Dad what was your childhood like?” Dad: “Oh well my friends and I played football in the spring through fall, played D&D, swam in the ocean, and stayed out all day playing baseball in the summer till dark, what was your like?” Me: “I stood online for Rare Replay for the midnight release”

“It’s the memorable kind of sleep deprivation.” -Scott 2019

"I hope the bug spray repels the snakes" ~Scott "will eventually look at the first megaman game" Wozniak (working title)

This lad... Just sat in a chair, outside a freakin ALLSTATE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT What A MadLad Edit: jeez this blew up overnight (3:06 is the time stamp if ur curious)

The whole time I’m like “I thought Scott didn’t like Pokémon 🤔” 😂

Scott's stash : "I hope the bug spray repels the snakes.. x 274 times

Yeah, the experience is whats the most important, even for movies. I went to Endgame on premiere at my local theater, and I cant enjoy that movie as much as I could the first time watching it. The community made it for me. My entire theater was so pumped. I even made a few friends.

When Scott uploads a video, we should all say "Hey Scott, all here."

Dude, I worked at a game store in the UK called Gamestation from around 2004 - 2010 and we used have midnight launches all the time. The best I can remember is when Halo 3 released. We hired a Master Chief costome for one of the staff to wear and everyone was hyped beyond belief. About 300 people turned up for that one. Resi 5 was good one too, we stood in red paint and walked around the store leaving bloody footprints to follow for the queue and all dressed up as zombies and resi characters. Awesome times

I think the old days of hanging out with your best buds waiting for a game release is a thing of the past in this digital era of video games. I remember Skyrim's midnight release at my old hometown GameStop on 11/11/11. The GM there brought out cardboard boxes, tape, and string and had a contest of who can make the best Skyrim theme costume before midnight, and the best 3 would get to pick up their copy first. My friends and I made a set of dragon armor and a sword, we won first place! Best memories.

"I got a snake bite kit..... It's a Pokemon launch." You could interpret that joke a thousand different ways and it's still funny. Well done.

scott buys a physical copy of shield and a digital of sword. "I don't even like pokemon" - Scottthewoz

Midnight releases give people a taste of what it's like to be homeless.

6am launch for SNES Classic here! 5:50 @ WalMart: "What are you guys waiting for?" "SNES Classic!!" "Oh. Uh, I don't think we have any of those." "... To Target!"

I remember waiting for the Wii. It was November of 2006. Me and my best friend called our local Walmart countless times confirming where we needed to be to wait in line for the Nintendo Wii. They originally told us the garden center but we ended up in layaway. We brought blankets, our DS's, tons of warm clothes, food drinks, the works and we ended up in a heated building instead. Anyway, we got there at 6am. We were told they had 19 Wiis. We were 3rd and 4th in line respectively. They had us sign on a sheet. Essentially they did role calls from the list at random times and if you weren't there you lost your name from the list (they did it to avoid people wandering around). I remember talking with all the other people waiting. Discussing the games and what we thought the Wii would be like. As the day went on it got more and more chaotic. Not only were tons of people waiting for the Wii, lots of people were being turned away due to the list and reserve list being full. The most shocking thing was towards 7pm or so, one of the wealthier looking woman bought pizza for everyone waiting. She bought a bunch of pizzas and Walmart even got in on the action and gave us free cupcakes and rolled in a TV with a movie playing. They said they were rewarding us for being such a cooperative and calm crowd. That feeling of getting my Wii, games, and accessories was unmatched. I mowed lawns that whole summer to save up. My brother and his friend picked me and my buddy up at midnight. I remember there were people offering me $500 in cash for my Wii. I ignored all of them and felt so amazing. I went to bed and woke up at 6am the next day to play Zelda. Then an hour later I was back in bed with what appeared to be food poisoning. Ahhh good times indeed. Scott you are too young to experience what that was like. I was a freshman in high school, but I'll never forget it. You didn't do this video justice due to lack of experience as you as just a young lad.

Scott talks about video game releases like how most talk about his uploads

You can see the effort and the magic he puts in his videos, they’re all perfect. You’re the best Scott.

The halo 2 midnight release was definitely my favorite. I was working at EB games, and was in college. Before the store closed we went out to get beer and pizza. We closed the store and got to play for 3 hours until midnight. After we closed again a few of us hung out and played for a couple of hours. It was so much fun.

"The first game i bought on midnight release was super mario 3d world" *yeah that is truly no sex for you scott*

“This beef stew ain’t that bad” -Scott the Woz 2019

Waiting for the GameCube all night (got there at 9pm Target opened at 7) was one of the best nights of my life ever. My cousin and I were one and two in line and we just skateboarded in front of the store, played GTA with the tv we powered with a generator. The third person in line didn’t even get there till about 3am. It was a blast though. Would do it again.

This video is legit, I miss the midnight launches. Halo 3 was my favorite. Me and a couple friends waited, some didn't even buy the game just chilled with us. Afterwards we went back to my place and all played multiplayer on the same screen! Those were the days

5:26 Scott the Woz is now cancelled, you can't just get political like that

My first midnight release was an experience. I was finally old enough for my parents to let me go to one. It was the midnight release for black ops at a gamestop inside a mall and the line extended all the way down the mall, then went outside and looped all the way around the mall. It had Sooo many people and It was great to chat with all these people with the same interests. We all cheered on and clapped for the person first in line once he got started walking out with the ultimate edition. I was so exited to do it again for MW3 and black ops 2 but I noticed less and less people showed up to these releases so when I arrived to the release of COD Ghosts at literally the same mall in the same gamestop, maybe only 3 other people showed up. I came to a very sad conclusion that Midnight releases aren't going to be as popular and die off soon. Makes me feel old, I miss those days.

The pure irony of Scott going to a release of Pokémon makes this video so much better

Brawl was my first ever midnight release and it was awesome. A Melee tournament, awesome fans, and free freaking pizza. Oh yeah it was fantastic.

*Broke:* Attending a midnight release. *Woke:* Standing outside overnight until the store opens in the morning.

I went to a Fallout: New Vegas midnight launch with around 60 other people, and when the guy said "our only pre-order for PC!" I had never felt so alienated.

I always come back to rewatch episodes after Scott uploads the bloopers and outtakes for that episode.

6:45 the cowboy hat is flipped upside down. Which means scott has proper cowboy etiquet, because you always flip a cowboy hat upside down to prevent the brim from going flat whenever you rest it.

"It was a bad night to wear flip flops" What a great first sentence of a detective story!

when scott got the balance board he seemed so proud of himself like a kid who just buttoned up his jacket for the first time

When smash ultimate came out last year my friends and i went to Gamestop and the capacity of the store was filled. They had a tournament going on with money and prizes and as a young boy in middle school waiting for halo 4 to drop was one of the best memories of that time. I've gone to maybe like 4 different midnight release and they have all been wonderful

my first and only midnight release was for Halo 4. at 11:59:50 my friends and I started counting down from 10 and a lot of people joined in with our countdown. then the doors opened and they started handing out everyone's copies. great memories.

When I was in my 20s my girlfriend (wife now) and best friend and I use sit outside gamespots for games. Was cool back then, you use to get merch. Now I'm old (33) and buy all games digital.

I was never so early on a Scott video I must say something to be remembered for future generations... OH SH*T YOU GOT FLINGSMASH?

I can truly say that Smash Bros. Ultimate was my first early release experience of a game and you're right! It was made good by the sense of community

Midnight releases of the XBOX360 and more Halo 2 are still some of my favorite memories. Biking home with my buddies with backpacks full of next gen goodness, or Master Chiefs new addictive drug, shot gunning mountain dew with strangers in the parking lot... what more can you want.

"If I gotta fish, I gotta fish." -Scott the Woz, 2019

“IS THE PS3 WORTH TAKING A BULLET FOR?” 💀

Going back and watching vids posted just before covid hit and seeing people go into stores without masks feels like an alternate reality ngl

I remember the first video game anything I waited in line for was the Wii. Before that I couldn't be bothered with midnight esque releases but I gotta say I dont regret my decision as a teen one bit cause I played wii sports non stop with my friends and family until I realized there were other games on the console lol.

"It was camo, nobody could see it, that's right." I think this is the first time Scott has said a genuine, non-video game related meme out loud in a video.

“Everything’s frozen! My legs. My ears. My asssssspirations.”

Great! I'm now picturing Scott standing in a massive line at the Pokémon release to buy a freaking balance board.

I have very fond memories of midnight releases back in 2006-2010. Good times man

Scott: Ohio has a ton of snow Me: *Laughs in Canadian*

Scott: *releases video about midnight releases* Also Scott: *releases the video at 8pm*

Man all these videos are so rewatchable. There is so much hidden humor in these videos. The best one was "the release of a hotly anticipated video game" and he shows the jumanji game

I've been to three midnight releases in my time, but the only one I actually attended for myself was the launch of Fallout 4 and I do not regret it. The sense of hype throughout the line and the store being decorated from wall to wall was super wholesome. The second was being bribed into standing in line with a friend for the midnight release of Black Ops III (I got free McDonalds out of it, okay?) and the third was unknowingly wandering into the midnight release of FIFA 16 at a supermarket after me and a couple buddies had been out having a drink. We saw a group of people from our college near the front of the line and they called us over and let us stand with them, so we ended up all grabbing our own copies too.

I was first in line to get the Wii at my local Walmart back in 2006. Today is actually exactly 13 years since the day I got in line! Back then midnight releases weren't a thing, and instead you had to wait all night until 7am when the store finally opened to get your prize. Being a Canadian November, it was well below 0 with howling winds that night, but I look back fondly on the experience now. There were probably almost a hundred others in the line along with me. We spent the night talking about how excited we were for the Virtual Console, and how it would make owning any other Nintendo console completely irrelevant. How we'd finally be able to play Twilight Princess after it'd been delayed what felt like a million times. How the motion controls looked super cool (ah how naive we were, flash forward to one Kinect and one PlayStation Move later and we'd be cursing Nintendo for the curse they brought about gaming). So after somehow surviving the night I finally managed to get my hands on the Wii, along with Twilight Princess , a Classic Controller, and a 2000 Wii Points card. I went home, set up the console, tried each of the Wii Sports games, played Twilight Princess for about an hour, and then crashed to sleep. I woke up almost 20 hours later, just in time to get ready for school the next day (Grade 9 at the time). Midnight releases have kind of eliminated this sort of adventure, so I couldn't be happier that as silly as it may seem, I was part of the madness that was the Wii launch.

“If I gotta fish I gotta fish” I felt that

Best moments of gaming history, halo 3 the hype and midnight release was legendary

Did something similar at a GameStop for the PS5 two days before Christmas, except it wasn’t technically midnight. There’s definitely something fun about waiting with other people for something you all value so much

I went to the Pokémon ORAS midnight release with my sister in 2014 and it was such a great experience. The EB games (Australian game stop) was in a mall so it was enclosed and not freezing, the crowd was about 20 people give or take, and the EB Games staff were fantastic. They’d host games of celebrity where one person would pick a Pokémon and the crowd would ask them yes or no questions until we guessed the right Pokémon, plus they sold little exclusive pins and extra preorder items. The crowd was really nice too, everyone was pretty talkative but also well behaved. It was just a really nice time, thanks for reminding me of it.

I’ll honestly never forget going to the midnight release of Halo 3

(0:50) I remember the days where I did order games online to get them on release. They made sure that I would get it on release, so I got it one day early. Every time I made an order, it came one day earlier. It was nice that way. Screw waiting for the midnight release, I got to play it half a day in advance! - Nowadays I don't buy them on release no more, and just wait until I'm interested in a game, and buy it at a reduced price.

one of my favourite scott videos so far :)

“ A pregnancy” - Scott 2019

The midnight launch for Kingdom Hearts 3 was amazing best midnight launch I've ever been a part of

Every game having to be installed and updated really kills all the hype of getting a new one. It's like staring at the box in mom's car on the way home from gamestop except it lasts 5 hours

Went to a midnight release of MK11 recently and got it on switch so while people were still in line I was able to hand them a joy con and we played while they waited. It was a good time, great community

“I hope the bug spray repels the snakes.” -Scott

“Were back at Best Buy with bug spray and no camouflage hat” -Problably some guy 2019

Rewatching most of the Scott the Woz episodes and I can say that this episode has some of the funniest live action segments in the series

The whole comment section: Scott should’ve uploaded this at midnight. Portugal and Greenland: I guess you guys are just living in the wrong time zone. Edit: So, I looked it up, and it’s not the main land mass of Portugal that it would’ve been midnight for, when Scott released the video, it’s just a Portuguese island far off the cost, and I didn’t realize that until now. But yeah. Most of Portugal 🇵🇹 is not in that time zone.

Me: about to go to sleep Realizes I have to wait till Scott’s video comes out

"A Pregnancy" easily Scott's greatest punch line, go on and @ me

Man the nostalgia! All those midnight releases for the WoW Expansions over the years... especially vanilla thru MoP launch

I like how you include Walmart as a midnight release spot. We haven't done that since the 360. Sometimes you'll find an overnight person or a manager that will let you get a game at midnight but generally they're not supposed to.

Miss the days when me and the boys would meet at LameStop (wasn’t as lame back then unlike now) for the midnight release of halo 2 now that was a launch release. Miss those days! Kind of feel bad that kids now a days won’t experience it.