After all those years spent watching others play Game Boy, now you get thousands of people watching you play it. Kid you would be so proud.

“You don’t deserve to Donkey Kong” is now a household phrase in my house. Glad to see it make an appearance! 😂

I love your humor. I can just imagine what your neighbors think when you shoot these outdoor/street scenes and it makes me laugh.

That banana throw wrecked me, lol. I'm still giggling at that

I was gonna write a comment about how you don't deserve to Donkey Kong but you were already two steps ahead of me. Some days I'll just be living my life and that line just floats into my head. "You don't deserve to Donkey Kong."

“Trust me weaponizing things I love is not a battle you wanna start with me” *banana attack*

"Can I have a turn? Yes I can." Very good. A+

Strangley enough, its your last comment on how Nostalgia supports our adult minds that really hit me hard in this one. Honestly i would be a really misrable old fart if i didnt have my nostalgia. Especially for my Sega Genesis among others. This video is going on repeat. This is comfort food and a reminder why im still in this hobby 30+ years on now.

My favourite thing now is exploring all of the titles I couldn’t afford as a kid. I’m in my 40s now so I really grew up in the 90s which meant 8 and 16 bit era. I love taking things slow, and picking a random title to play for a weekend. I treat it like my own personal rental store. Fridays before supper I read the game manual, and once the little ones go to bed I plug in for a bit :)

You throwing stuff against your fence is just the best! 😂😂😂😂😂

7:53 dude, same thing. Everything you said. All my friends had an N64 too, and almost nobody I knew had a PS1. It was weird, looking back at it now.

this guy owns friday night. the perfect replacement for blockbuster/hollywood video

this gave me nostalgia for the first time you said "you don't deserve to donkey kong"

I remember the time when I remembered how much I loved the 16-bit era. What a time to be alive 😊😊😊

Babe, wake up, retro bird has uploaded a new video.

Your banana jokes were in top form this episode.

The condition of the items in your collection reflects the time/care you've put in to acquiring them. Well done Bird 👏

I lol'ed both times you threw the banana at the fence. Thanks for the chuckle.

Gameboy (pocket) and N64 for me. The gameboy was the first gaming console I ever owned, and the N64 I received not too long after. A beautiful moment in time for this 90's kid.

5:34 “you don’t deserve to Donkey Kong” I don’t know if you realize how close to home this feels and how hilarious it is at the same time. Bravo on the video again.

Another awesome video! Also the "you don't deserve the Donkey Kong" cracked me up again 😂

No.1 for me easily goes to the NES. Playing Castlevania and Mario/ duck hunt at my uncle’s house before we got our own NES are core memories for me. And much like your SoR story, I was convinced for YEARS that my memories of playing Monster Party as a kid were just a wild fever dream. But no, the game is actually just as strange as I remembered it.

My Nostalgia runs huge during December. My parents were against video games so i knew each Christmas was not going to be waking up happy. All i wanted as a kid was my own console & i knew that wasn't going to happen. So Christmas for me was not that huge. So during my Christmas Breaks growing up i hung out at all my friends house who had there own home console! Playing the NES the whole month of December which really consisted of one game, Castlevania. That is my Nostalgic game: the original Castlevania on the NES.

The console I feel most nostalgic for is the ps2. I remember the first time I played games on it. Rotating the camera was such a trip for my child brain, and I remember playing ps1 games on it like spyro, and just spending hours listening to the autumn plains theme. My dad had a arcade game collection on it, and I remember playing gauntlet with him. It's one of the few memories I have of my dad after my mom divorced him, and moved out of state. I would say nostalgia is good thing. like a warm comfy blanket it protects me from the coldness of the outside world.

I'm 90's kid (nostalgic term for old geezer nowadays) from Poland, so after fall of communism we had limited access to western consoles. Most of kids had this cheap south-asian NES ripoffs (which was great for us at that time) but I will never forget the feeling when I was visiting my friend's older cousin and he had PS1. I was astonished by the capabilities of this magnificent magic box. Imagine actually skipping one generation of consoles (SNES, Genesis) and jumping from Mario Bros. straight to Crash Bandicoot! And those shiny, rainbowy CDs instead of cheap plastic dusty cartridges? It was some Star Trek stuff for us at that time. Although my all time favourite console would be PS2 or PS3, I still have enormous amounts of nostalgia towards PS1. Just old geezer's thing 🥲

My top 5 nostalgic consoles are NES, SNES, N64, GB, and GBC. Nintendo sure knew how to make one's childhood glow like the sun! Great video as always RB!

Nothin like crackin open a nanner and poppin in a fresh retrobird joint

The Super Nintendo is my most nostalgic console by a long shot - I rented so many games growing up, and the handful of games we had were all really special in their own way - Star Fox, Super Metroid, Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country...such an iconic line-up of games and so many more I discovered as an adult. It really has an amazingly colorful library of games and hidden gems.

I grew up with an Atari 2600, ColecoVision, NES, Game Boy, SNES, and N64. I’ve always been grateful to have been born at the beginning of home consoles and see how video games have evolved over the course of my life.

Something I love about nostalgia is that it can make you appreciate a game that's actually pretty bad. Almost like you get to see the good intentions behind it and thus have a secret way to experience the game that is unfortunately difficult for others.

6:35 - I know this feeling. My neighbor barely let me play his Genesis. To be honest, it never healed and I remember the games I wasn't allowed to play to this day. Why did you brought this up?? I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS RETRO BIRD. THERAPY IS EXPENS... Oh, nice video as always!

You know what is weird? I am 30 now but I'm already nostalgic to my early Switch games when I bought the console in 2019. Super Mario Odyssey, Arms and Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. The Switch is my first console I bought and because of the Pandemic those first games helped me to not go insane when everyone was stuck at home.

Peak nostalgia for me is probably the N64 and PS1, and specifically going on GameFAQs every day for walkthroughs and secrets back when GameFAQs was the hot thing.

My PS3 gets a lot of nostalgia. My early adult life absolutely loved playing the new COD's and Assassin's Creeds. Another for me was the Saturn. Didn't have a lot of games, but I did have Mega Man X4 and I loved playing it and still do.

My biggest nostalgia is tied to the original Shinobi arcade machine. The local fast food restaurant in my area had one and it did have a huge sign above the cabinet that said no one under the age of 16 was allowed to play the game. So what I always did was watch the young men play the game until I almost knew it by heart. That nostalgia was refreshed when my local video game store in Germany had a Pc Engine on display with the game running all day long. But guess what, nobody was allowed to play it because at that time the console was so expensive that the owners were afraid of anyone breaking it. It felt like heaven on earth when I received my own Pc Engine as an adult and got my copy of Shinobi. Only to find out later that it was missing a lot of content of the arcade machine. Words can not describe how happy I was, when M2 ported the arcade game to the Nintendo Switch... : ) Thank you for the great video! MUCH LOVE

The humour and writing in these videos is seriously becoming S tier

Definitely most nostalgic for the SNES. It was the first console I bought for myself. I was only 10, but I lucked out and got a gig as an extra on the Highlander TV show when they were filming an episode in my home town. I used the money from that day and some savings from when I managed to not blow my entire allowance on candy to buy a used SNES. Best decision ever. Also have a lot of nostalgia for the PSX. I'd upgraded to delivering newspapers by that time so I bought it myself as well. I was originally going to buy an N64, but between delays, FF7 coming to Playstation, and renting one and playing Resident Evil, I changed my mind. N64 was cool, but I think I made the right decision. I especially loved the OPM demo disks. Good times, man.

I have a lot of nostalgia for Sonic even though I never had a Genesis. Just would play it here and there at friends house. But I did watch the cartoon. I got my Game Boy in 1990. Never had the pocket or light or the others until the Game Boy Advance SP. This reminds me back in the 80's that I found out one of my good friends from school had been living in the house behind me and I never knew it. All of our backyards were fenced in. Found out after we got a slide playset thing built and I was on top and saw him over the fence in his backyard one day.

I definitely do have a lot of nostalgia for the games I grew up with. It may be one of the reasons why I often go back to just playing classic games with the switch online instead of playing the new games that I have for the switch. Although that might also have to do with the fact that I'm familiar with those classic games and feel like I just have more time to play them compared to other games because I just don't find them as time-consuming as the new stuff. As an adult I just have a busy work life and I just don't feel like I have much time to play the new games that have so much jam-packed into them. It's not that I don't play any new games I definitely enjoy new games, it's just the old and familiar is just easier to get back into when I have a busy schedule

I remember going to a neighbor's house and they had a birthday party for a kid (he must have been like 10 or so) and he let us play Super Smash Bros Melee. It blew me away because I didn't know that game existed and I fell in love with it right away. He let us kids take turns on trying to beat the first level in adventure mode on very hard difficulty. After that he opened his gift and it was Kingdom Hearts 1. I remember seeing him play some parts of it and was also blown away by that game. Fortunately I ended up getting both these games later on with my very own PS2 and Gamecube that me and my brothers shared. So it was a happy ending and didn't remain as a tease. But that sure was a nostalgic memory for me.

I missed so many awesome games as a kid. So happy to find new gems I knew I would have loved!

I grew up a little later with the PS3 and 3DS, but I still have nostalgia for those too. It's interesting, when I was younger I didn't know anybody with a console, everyone I met had a PC (even at the age of 7 or 8). I think I knew one other person who had a 3DS.

Being 9 years old and playing the Defense of Hoth level in the Snowspeeder in Shadows of the Empire was incredible. Nothing felt like that at that time.

Can you get nostalgic for a console you never had? Let me explain: as a child I dreamed of N64 but I couldn't have it due to its high cost. I had to wait 25 years to enjoy the gems of the console catalog, on my notebook with emulator, CRT filters and N64 USB controller. I feel like I implanted memories in my mind (like in the movie "inception") of things I didn't experience as a child but was able to enjoy as an adult. Maybe it's because after the 8 and 16-bit generations I never had another console, I remained a video game "virgin" for 25 years waiting for the long-awaited N64. That's why today the graphics still dazzle me and I prefer them to any modern hyperrealism. They have a unique magic and charm, and I've loved them for so long that I enjoy them more than anything else. Man, I love your channel and your content. Thank you!

I had a Saturn in 1996. That plus Boy Meets World, Hangin with Mr Cooper, and WCW Saturday Night were happy times.

One of the strangest things about getting older are the many stages, levels and types of nostalgia you eventually experience. And the ability to even predict which things you’re presently experiencing you know you’ll feel nostalgic for later in life. Like you said, when you’re a kid and everything is new and exciting, not only are you too young to experience it, but the concept is unknowable so you never even consider it until it happens. I’m old enough now to know that at some point your channel and this very video will give me that nostalgic sensation. I remember watching old AVGN videos and thinking about how weird it was to fell nostalgic for those! That really made me feel old. I’d say for many it first hits the hardest in the mid to late 20’s. Some experience it sooner and at different intensities & intervals. But the true experience of nostalgia sets in around a time where you’ve been away from college long enough to miss fun, notice the lack freedom fatigue and have been assimilated into the workforce long enough to truly realize how much longer you’ll have to endure it. While simultaneously realizing how fucking horrible being an adult really is. You don’t just miss the simpler times but start longing for them more regularly. Sadly, these compartmentalized periods of your life just keep stacking up compounding the nostalgia. All those memories and fondness you have for your childhood, the 80’s, the 90’s, teenage years/high school, different interests, music and phases, college, early 30’s… Man, I can’t wait to experience 40’s nostalgia! 😟 😔

I was the same with N64. I was around 8 when it came out and I think every gamer kid in my class went from SNES/Gensis to N64. I didn't even know Playstation 1 was the winner of the generation til I was in high school! I played MGS and Castlevania: SOTN on PS3 PSOne classics. And was like "oh, this is insane, way better than N64". But I still love the differences between each system back then, every console felt unique and had its own strengths.

I had an older cousin with a Genesis and Mortal Kombat. Have some memories of asking him to do the blood code for me and getting a thrill of seeing pixelated red stuff for the first time... Fun times. Think I was 5 then.

I still have a lot of nostalgia for the Atari 2600. So many fun games.

We had a saying that was developed through my college party days haze called “banana wamma” which involved playfully hitting someone with a banana. You have taken the banana wamma to a whole other level. Don’t mess with this man!

I’m one of those weird people who has nostalgia for the TurboGrafx 16. Had one as a kid and traded it and 10-15 games in for a SNES with one game. I finally just acquired a TG-16 again and am working on rebuilding the collection.

As a retro gamer of the younger generation, I feel very lucky to have parents who introduced me to SNES and N64 games at a young age. It's a funny thing to have nostalgia for the same things as those much older than me! Looking forward to be able to give my own kids the retro treatment as well 👍

That guidance counselor sounds like the enemy !

I really admire your channel, particularly for its consistency. I don’t understand how you don’t have sponsors yet! Come on, where’s the Chiquita sponsorship already?

Magazines made it so that i’m SO nostalgic for games I didn’t have. Reading all the strategy articles, seeing the ads…we got to be a part of that culture. it’s a joy to play them now, but it’s almost as if I played them then if that makes sense 7:15 I was so envious of my friend who got a red GB Pocket and Pokémon Red in 97…the tables turned next year when I FINALLY got a clear purple GBC the next year! Thanks KMart layaway

I was N64 and GameCube as a kid but remember playing Sonic for the first time at a mates house. Was blown away by it and just got my first copy of Sonic on the Megadrive. Weird mix of first time and nostalgia! Love it

Your video hits the nail on the head. I enjoy games for nostalgia of games I played as a kid, but ALSO for this weird nebulous nostalgic feeling for games I saw advertised or also craned my neck in schoolyards to see that I never got to play. For instance, the Game Gear! A friend/bully of mine had one when I was a kid and he'd let me watch but rarely play. Now I have one and am checking through all the Game Gear classics I missed, with much enjoyment!

Why does "You don't deserve to Donkey Kong" sounds so much like that guy from the Home Alone TV who went, "Ya Filthy Animals" I can't break the association.

The consoles you grew up with and liked. So for me the C64, Master System, Mega Drive and Dreamcast are most nostalgic for me. The C64 was something the family played, while I was still very small. We had a few cartridges and a lot of games on cassette. Waiting for the game to load, the typical music (sometimes while loading), so many games. I needed to get used to the expensive games when we got a Master System at home and later the Mega Drive. For the Master System my older brother helped choose the games, but fot the Mega Drive I was old enough to decide for myself. I often rented games too or borrowed from several neighbours. The Dreamcast was the first console I actively saved up for and really loved when I was fifteen. I did buy a PlayStation two years earlier with my own money, but that didn't hit home with me so much.

I had a vhs tape that was a promotional movie for the N64. Watched it every day of my life until launch. My parents got me a ps1… which ended up having some of my favorite games on it anyway. Then I wanted a ps2 and got a Xbox instead, which halo blew my mind as a young teen .

Sega Mega Drive Will forever be my fist true love❤️ It was like having an arcade machine at home and later it was my trusty back up, when my Windows 95 PC gave me the fourth or fifth BSOD within 10 minutes😅 I also have the first gen Gameboy, SNES, PlayStation 1 and 2 as well as the N64 and Dreamcast and a PS3 to round things off, but the old Sega Mega Drive is still the the first one😊

We grew up with the Master System and the NES (Deluxe Set, without SMB). For me, aside from the games I grew up with, the experience of playing it in its original hardware, on a CRT (as I get older I can tolerate the sound the TV emits lol) and the little things as the sounds of fiddling around the drawer for a cartridge and the sound of putting the cartridge in the console. I know there are alternatives such as upscalers that do an admirable job, but for me, the nostalgia comes from the complete experience, and I try my best to replicate it :)

I just recently discovered and downloaded Rocket Knight Adventures on my Genesis emulator and I love it. I dunno how I missed this game growing up.

Admittedly I'm very nostalgic for the original XBOX and the 360 specifically because I _didn't_ have those consoles in their heyday but I remember all the kids from school talking about everything Xbox all the time. Now as an adult, I'm reliving all the experiences I missed out on. Thankfully I didn't miss out on massive Halo LAN parties with said kids from school, those were the absolute best.

Gameboy pocket was my system of choice as a kid and Pokemon Red/Blue was my favorite game by a lot. Finally got a ps1 well after its release. GBA was huge for me too. Handheld games were where it was at for me 😊

I remember seeing Donkey Kong Country for the first time at a block buster I was blown away by the graphics on the box. When I got home I couldn’t believe how fun the platforming was it was right up there with super Mario world and the music…. I still listen to the ost in my car.

I have nostalgia for basically any/all consoles I owned since I was a kid, but the one I have the most nostalgia for wasn't a console at all... but it almost should have been because of the quantity of games made for it... the Commodore 64. I still play C-64 games to this day... emulated... but I do also still own my original system. That computer was a treasure trove of fun and it will possibly forever be my favorite.

My personal nostalgia spot would be the Atari 2600, the NES, the SNES, and the Genesis. Past that, while I absolutely love the N64, Saturn, and Playstation, they'll never have that sweet, comfy blanket feel the older consoles have to me.

8:05 man, that long string of bananas trailing from the back of the cart was perfection lol (and nostalgic) what were they thinking by not including that in Mario Kart 8.

Had 4 brothers and so played multiplayer games on N64 a lot more then single player games. Except Zelda OOT and Donkey Kong 64 was an event where we would use our combined brains to solve dungeons and difficult parts of DK 64. So much nostalgia for the N64!

I am nostalgic for the Atari 2600 and NES. I spent many, many hours playing on my Atari. Back when I first got the 2600, I thought I was in gaming heaven. Now I could have an arcade experience without having to bring a pocketful of quarters. Come to think of it....I am kinda nostalgic for arcades. Funny how that works... As for the NES, it was the console of choice when I got together with my friends. We would play Tecmo Bowl tournaments....fun times!

8:15 - I had the same experience as you. Everyone around me had an N64. I only remember 1 of my friends owning a Playstation where we played THPS2 over and over again but the N64 was our go-to console for multiplayer.

For me, the most nostalgic ones are: 1. NES, as it was my first one, 2. SNES, as it was the tournaments one (Street Fighter Alpha 2, Mario Kart, Killer Instinct etc.) and 3. Dreamcast, for the same reason (Street Fighter Alpha 3, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, etc.).

Bro this LITERALLY describes me . All the details and such. Great minds think alike I guess!!!! I'm 40. Much much love from L.A......lower Alabama

Love the humor, silly faces and skits, subbed for those. Just mentioning Sega Genesis (was Mega Drive in EU), brings back a ton of memories, so many overheated power adapters, terrible games with cool cover art, and few gems here and there. :D

I have nostalgia for Nintendo 64, GameCube and PlayStation 2. • WWF WrestleMania 2000 (N64) • WWF No Mercy • WCW vs nWo World Tour • Star Wars Episode 1 Racer • Conker's Bad Fur Day • GoldenEye 007 • Cruis'n USA • Super Smash Bros. • WWF WrestleMania X8 • WWE WrestleMania XIX • Super Smash Bros Melee • Def Jam Fight for New York (GC) • Mortal Kombat Armageddon (PS2)

Ah, nothing quite like discussing great Genesis games with the music from Mario Kart 64 playing softly in the background. Yeah, I saw what you did there.

I feel bad that they wouldn't let you have a turn with their Gameboy as a kid. I also faced that problem too when I was a young kid. I experienced that a lot with kids I was friends on the street. These kids were vastly different than high school friends. I remember when they played Super Mario Bros 2. This was a game I really liked as a kid, wanted to play it & they would never let me play it. Also I had friends where I was watching them play games the whole day because they wouldn't let me play. Other times it was like oh we're playing board games today or they would play Sim City on their computer at the time. I was watching the whole. Then I wasn't friends with them anymore. I started hanging out with high school friends who were a lot nicer & considerate.

Damn. Put this man on the Reds pitching staff.

I emulate everything now so I'm nostalgic for the boot sound of ps2 and gamecube. N64 and gbc were my consoles growing up. N64 was THE multiplayer experience.

I'm nostalgic for PS1 and N64 and Gameboy color mostly as a kid playing games with friends but also the dreamcast and GameCube as I got older going to cousins house and playing PSO and double dash

I totally get your nostalgia for the GameBoy! I had a similar experience with the N64. I actually never had one as a kid but it was present everywhere around me. I had friends that owned it and brought the Nintendo magazine all the time to school. I also went often to a mall close to my place just to play some N64 (often the stand was occupied and I had to wait for my turn). The moment I finally got a N64 as an adult was magical and just today I played some Mario 64 with my two kids 😊

your experience with the gameboy reminds me a lot of my experience with the ds. during its prime, it felt like everyone else had one and it wasn't until well into the 3ds' lifespan that i finally got a ds of my own (specifically it was a black ds lite that i got for my 12th birthday in 2015)

Ahhh yes, a freshly released Retrobird video after the Mavs beat the Clippers 😌 It's Friday 🎉

My wife would say that my nostalgia has been weaponized against our bank account. 😂 😟

I've owned almost every game console from the Atari VCS in 1977 to the PS3. My nostalgia is therefore quite vast AND quite costly!

I swear I lived in that same bubble. Everyone I knew had an N64, and I only got a PS1 because I found out I could play burned games on it! And we got serious miles out of those consoles, running them till they overheated lol

I feel as though I grew up at the perfect time as far as gaming is concerned. I got to experience the tail end of the NES, grew up with SNES and Genesis, then PS1/Saturn/N64, followed by the Dreamcast/PS2/Gamecube era. No nostalgia whatsoever for the PS3/Wii era, for whatever reason. Switch and PS4 are too new yet to feel anything for, but I probably will eventually. I suppose my only regret was not having any access to the more obscure consoles like TurboGrafix, 3DO, Jaguar etc. They were not at all common where I lived so I missed any good games on them.

I now have nes & genesis systems only(born in 83), but regarding Nostalgia, man.. n64 is it. I think it was the 8th grade thru high school time period, friends, new tech, late 90s magic! Bk then, it wasn't "early primitive 3d grafics, it was simply "new, current & exciting". Games like 1080 with all that drum & bass in the soundtrack.. come on now!!!

I knew more people that owned a Nintendo 64 than PS1 growing up myself, but when looking at regional sales figures it isn't too surprising: PS1- Worldwide 102 million, North America 40 million N64 - Worldwide 32 million, North America 20 million It was the rest of the world where the N64 sold comparatively poorly. Heck, in Japan, even the Saturn outsold it. And yeah, being beaten in one region 2:1 isn't small by any means; but with how spread out geographically people are in the continent, there could easily be areas where the PS1 was relatively scarce. For myself, perhaps growing up near the Nintendo of America & Microsoft headquarters is why I knew so many people with a N64/GameCube/Xbox.

I didn't know what Rocket Knight Adventures was until I you started talking about it in your vids. Console I am most Nostalgic for would be the Sega Genesis. I remember this was the console where I was socializing a lot with my high school friends. Playing games like NHL 93-96, Golden Axe, Mortal Kombat, Street fighter 2 & many other games. The Socializing with couch coop or vs was a thing I used to do every Friday at a friend's house back in high school. Now I work & my friends won't hang with me or with the group anymore. Yeah really sad gaming has come to this.

NEO GEO 4 LIFE!!! It was the system I never had as kid. But I collect for now as an adult.

Classic gaming in general gives me some nostalgia vibes. Unfortunately, my gaming abilities are waning as I'm starting my 50's and that makes me sad. On the bright side , my son will eventually get my entire gaming collectiong going back to the C64 and atari 2600 up to most modern gaming systems so if I have grandkids in the future they will get to play all the classics on original hardware while I cheer them on.

Awesome video, Retro Bird! Nostalgia is definitely a powerful thing. I have several nostalgic systems. One is my Game Boy Color, my grandfather got me the yellow Pikachu edition for my birthday. As well as a few games such as Pokemon (also Pikachu edition), Scooby Doo, Super Mario, and etc. The days of playing my Game boy til i needed more batteries. My Nintendo DS & 3DS. I had my DS in Middle school, 3DS in high school. Playing games like Nintendogs, Cooking Mama, Miitopia, Tomodachi Life. What fun days!

Great vid! Always have the nostalgia bubbles for NES. So many consoles I picked up and played a lot later in life. You introduced me to Rocket Knight 😂

Don’t feel bad. All of my Game Boy experience was also watching other, cooler kids play theirs 🤣 Maybe one day, I’ll finally have one of my own..

Nostalgia for retro gaming bit me hard a few years ago. I went from owning maybe a dozen original 16- and 32-bit games and no systems to owning near 240 games and 6 systems. And i picked up most of the mini systems...

The consoles I have the most nostalgia for are the ones my brother and I had growing up (Genesis, Game Boy and Game Boy Pocket, PS1, and GBA), along with a few that we didn’t have but played quite a bit with friends (Game Boy Color, N64, GameCube, and the OG Xbox). I had one single friend who had a Dreamcast and I always wanted to play it more but only got the chance once or twice. Still feel a lot of nostalgia for it, though. And even though I love consoles like the SNES and Turbo Grafx-16 now, I don’t have the same nostalgia for them because I just never really played them growing up. All that to say, I think I have a ton of nostalgia for the games/consoles I played even just a little bit compared to the ones I didn’t play or even know about

For me, it'll always be the N64. That was my first console i owned as a kid. But enough time has passed where im nostalgic about the 360 and Wii U. And those times in my life. The 360 was my gaming machine for almost a decade of my life. While the Wii U was my main console when I met my now wife. We played Mario Kart 8, Mario 3D world, Yoshi and more back then. Great times

Love your sense of humour, and I can relate so much to your observations since I recently played through the Monster World series on the Genesis and loved it despite having no nostalgia for it at all given how I was unaware it existed when I was a kid with a Super Nintendo. As someone who grew up with a PS1 and is still excited to play PS1 games that I missed out on back in the day, I completely agree with what you have expressed here. With that being said, I do think that you can also feel nostalgia for a specific time of your life that makes you appreciate things that came from that time more, regardless of whether you experienced them at the time or not. In terms of how this relates to video games, this can go well beyond graphics and move deeply into how games were designed at the time, what developers were trying to "shoot for" with the game, length, level design, and all kinds of other things that are hard to pin down on their own. This is the explanation I would give to younger gamers if they were to ask me why Shovel Knight doesn't feel like a classic retro game, despite it looking like it could pass for one on the surface to people who weren't around at the time when NES/SNES games were being made.