Putting a disc into the console and it instantly plays. No updates, no asking to sign in to the online mode, just “here’s the game, now play it.”

No DLC's ,No Microtransactions. Full package games that you pay for.

Opening the manual and having lore characters and cool art

The move to HD was nice, but the move from PS1 graphics to PS2 graphics was even way more impressive. Also 2000s.

That PS2 startup noise literally made me go "Oooh" in tandem with Rob in sync with Rob lol

Playing split screen multiplayer games with 4 people and a multi tap

Gamers don't age. We just gain exp.

8) No microtransactions or DLCs 9) Developers/Publishers were trustworthy 10) You got what you paid for.

Costumes were earned in game for *Free*

Can we have a moment of silence for the old Cheat Code Central Walkthrough page. 🙏

I remember the first time my friend played Final Fantasy X. It was on my home system because it was the best one available at the time. There were three of us present and we were all blown away by the opening cutscene. After it was over we let the character stand there for nearly five minutes because we didn’t realize that the cutscene had ended. Titus still looked like Titus instead of a pixelated 16 bit version of himself.

I never heard anyone saying the year 2000 as “early naughties”. 😅

not only are the 90s finished, not only are the 00s finished, but the decade after the 00s is now almost finished wtf is going on!?

Best part of my Friday is coming home to Rob's Friday Features.

That HD part is completely true. I couldn't believe how CLEAN it looked

My favorite memory of things that takes me back to 00s was when I was 15 years old. Early in 2002 a friend of mine helped me get my hands on a PS2. I managed to afford getting a used console from a pawn shop and I also got a single controller, the A/V cable, power cord and two games. I couldn't wait to get home and play, and in my excitement I forgot a key item to have especially considering the only two games I now owned. I was the proud owner of Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The key item I was missing, a memory card. My 15 year old mind was smart enough to realize I wasn't going to be able to really enjoy FFX without the ability to save but was just dumb enough to think MGS2 would be easy enough to do without it. So I played the game on Normal mode and found myself happy and spiteful of my ignorance as it took me 36 hours straight of playing (mixed with food and washroom breaks) to beat MGS2. Every death making me angry I wanted to quit combined with the idea of starting over from the very beginning built my own personal hell while I sat there internally screaming obscenities in my head for my foolishness and jumping for joy at my successes when I made it further after every death. To this day the idea of playing games you need to save manually to progress (Nier: Automata for example) take me back to that moment I was 15 and being ignorant enough to think "I don't care I can't save, I need to play this As soon as possible!"

25 seconds in...this video is going to make me feel old isn't it 😂

You're not alone. Our first DVD player was also the PS2.

Oh god the FAQs, the wonderful FAQs! Got me through all the Final Fantasys, Legend of Dragoon, and many more! Good times

I still have a tower with 500+ dvd's lol I can never let them go, so many movies I have that are stupidly hard to find online to watch.

I miss manuals, devs got lazy not making them anymore!

Printing the entire walkthrough for Kingdom Hearts 1 because the internet is too slow to bother looking it up everytime

Hearing the PS2 opening theme just hit me with a wave of nostalgia. Playing games on the PS2 was literally my entire entire childhood until I got a PS3. Good times.

Fully developed games that didn't need day one patching.

Ugh.. The orange button. How it betrayed my hopes and dreams of being a pretend guitarist.

Loved buying the latest magazine for a demo disc lol

The good ole days when my mom made me stay off the computer all day because my grandfather was having surgery, and we had to keep the phone line open... to this day the it is still longest day of my life. P.S grandfather was fine.

I'm in my 30's. This made me so happy. We've been through a lot of changes. This was a badass Friday feature. No doubt. Thank you.

Some people forget Delsin Rodent....but not us

The switch from AV input to HDMI input. It was like opening your eyes for the first time

Rob went straight into 1080? I started on 720p and stayed there for years, at the time 1080 TVs were insanely expensive.

I never would've started playing real guitar if I'd never picked up Guitar hero, and for that I will always treasure the series.

Reasons I am a subscriber: 1-Rob. 2-Because I love the content and the guys and girls are amazing. 3-Rob.

I know I've played too much Guitar Hero when I can tell the song at #5 is Slow Ride without even hearing it.

90's and 00's gamer here and i remember it all

The accuracy of this video makes me feel insanely old.

I'm not the only person who did that with the discs

He's wearing Kojima productions jacket! 🥰🖤

I always had tons of respect for the people that put all of that time and effort into writing those guides. This episode really did give me the warm fuzzies.

I worked at a Blockbuster during the long slow changeover from VHS to DVD. I feel old now.

"Hello you've caught me feeling nostalgic about the naughties!" - oh dear, the naughties? I'm getting old aren't I....... "First on our list.......DVDS....lolz who remembers those!" - 😭😭😭

I was born in 95' so I relate some to the 90s videos but this one really hit home!

Full backwards compatibility (if you had a PS2), no remasters, no patches, no live services, no dlc, no lootboxes, no installation times (the console would load the game from the dvd), music CD and movie DVD players, cheat codes rather than p2w, studios would release high budget - polished games quicker, more resistant controllers, a lot co-op games and you can still play 99% of the library today because they all released physically and/or are archived by the internet. The negatives: Many games lacked auto save, region lock and extremely blurry/pixelated resolutions. However, let's speak about the negatives of the mid 10s for a comparison's sake. Zero backwards compatibility, filled with remasters you have to pay for again, large patches/live services/dlcs/lootboxes by greedy publishers who release broken or unfinished games for full price, no cheat codes, taking forever to release new titles, hardly any co-op, a couple of the games released this generation are already gone forever due to them being always online, yearly sequels (remasters on steroids) of already established franchises rather than betting on new ideas, paid online, ruined story/offline mode of some games by trying to shove American politics and heavy censorship. But don't worry guys, the 2020s will be worse thanks to streaming. You won't even own the broken game releases anymore! And then some people say gamers are toxic, the fact that we downgraded in everything except graphics is really telling of the current generation.

When you brought up EyeToy, I had a surge of memories. Me and my mate Blake. I miss him. I had completely forgotten it even existed and then the mere mention of it has loaded my brain with things I thought I had forgotten.

Wait a sec is that footage of Rosie playing the on the eye toy?

That demo with T-Rex on it omg I forgot about that one. It also had Hercules and Abe's Oddesey on it. I played the shit out of that demo.

I personally preffered those old game guides with the ASCII art

I remember starting Mass Effect on my old box TV. There was a radar/map in the bottom corner with coloured blobs for the objective points. Half way through my play through I bought my first HD TV. It was only after playing it in HD that I realised that the coloured blobs were actually intricate symbols. My old TV just handle the detail.

Man....that exact FFX guide on GameFAQs....I'm pretty sure I used that SAME. EXACT. ONE....

Instant like for mentioning the Eye Toy. That was truly mindblowing back in the day.

The transition from pressing a power button on the console and picking up the wired pad, to pressing a button on your wireless pad and your console just coming to life; without you needing to move. Like magic.

Watching DVDS on a 4K TV, there's only one word to describe Rob's dad, LEGEND!

Now at the ripe age of 31 nostalgia has taken on a whole new meaning......I love gaming.....and Dragons Dogma......Game on young ones, game on.

This list just made me realize I'm eligible for a senior discount

Those cutscenes in games like ffx and ffxii where the graphics quality jumped up to the most beautiful things I’d ever seen are still some of my favorite things, even though everything remotely new looks better than they ever did. It’s just not the same

Those exact online walkthroughs helped me through Fatal Frame and Silent Hill and thus became the mortar solidifying my love for horror games

ESL scrub here, and this is the first time I hear the term noughties. Yes, though you were saying naughties 😈

I know millions of people say this every generation but damn I feel old. I remember playing super Mario 64 at a circuit city. Things aren’t so simple anymore

This is the first time I have ever seen a video talking about this part of my life, I feel very old. The HD topic in particular really brought me back. My first HD TV was a 19-inch Samsung, and I distinctly remember downloading movie trailers (Tallegeda Nights ftw) from the store to watch. Truly mindblowing. To think that within a year or two we had HD gaming and online play. I'll never forget playing GTA4 online for the first ever time and having to wrap my head around how it was possible that there were other human beings running around the open world with me.

Ive been nostalgic for the 00’s since 2013, its was the best decade. I remember saving up money mowing lawns in the LA heat all summer to blow it all on FFXI with a 20GB hard drive and network adapter for $250 just to play the one game. Zero regrets, staying up late with a keyboard plugged into an extension cable to my PS2 using crude translation keywords to communicate with the Japanese players, I had a special Red Hot Chili Peppers mix CD I always listened to while playing.

Got a wee shiver up the back of my neck at that start up sound, thanks Rob! 😍

Speaking of downloading trailers, though obviously not PlayStation related, I remember when Nintendo released a Wii Channel (that is, a downloadable program for the Wii) specifically for viewing the trailer for Metroid Prime 3. That was literally the Channel's only function.

I loved those walkthroughs! And like you, Rob, they helped me out with FFX and those pesky side quests and hidden coordinates from the airship. I miss those times. But more than anything else I just miss buying a complete game.

Always love taking these trips down nostalgia lane with you guys. Thanks for all the videos and hard work you people put into them.

Playstation acces is the perfect break for my job, thank you guys!

oooh, remember that time the world ended? Lots of fireworks that day, it was pretty amazing..

I waited to get an HD TV and cable to get MGS4. The first moment I saw my favorite game series in HD was something I'll never forget. I played that game in 12 hour shifts.

I wrote a detailed walkthrough once, and I do mean WROTE. Resident Evil 4 on GameCube, 64 pgs., handwritten with pen and college-rule paper. I still take notes on complex games, but never since did I write a full walkthrough. I should clarify, that was 64 sheets, fronts and backs, so, effectively 128 pgs.

Another Friday, another Rob Video. 13:19 minutes of greatness x)

Damn, when you showed kh, I thought you were gonna say unskippable scenes

Oh man This made me laugh and smile. Being 31 and seeing how far we’ve come. Some bad, some good. Thank you for this. I needed it

Oh the nostalgia! Awesome trip down memory lane. Thank you, Rob 😁

When Rob said Scart lead I actually got hit with mad nostalgia

Rob's early 00s internet usage: 90% walkthroughs, 10% hentai

His accent made it sound like he was saying naughtys🤣🤣🤣

Oh my so much nostalgia. I remember looking up FAQ/Walkthrough guides. Such a good Feature thanks Rob

As a 35 year old....I can relate to ALL OF THIS!

10:50 "The Ethernet cable currently plugged into my laptop-" Younger viewers, Laptops never used to have wireless.

I used to play Mirrors Edge on an old CRT tv for the longest time and when I was finally able to plug my PS3 into a 22" 720p monitor my life changed. The jump was almost as huge as the jump from 2D to 3D in the 90s. I will never forget that.

This video takes me back...going to a store trying to look up game magazines (or that ever so handy FFx text guide you mentioned) when stuck on some point and Dial up internet especially lol

4:59. Yeah. Sure thing, Rob. "90%".

I miss the Guitar Hero/Rock Band days.

I could watch these videos all day long. They’re so entertaining! But this video had me laughing so hard because I could relate to all of this!!! Especially when you brought up gameFAQS. That site was a lifesaver!! 😂😂😂

Loved those FAQS. I still use them today and a number of them were so witty and well written that they were even fun to read!

Aaah Eyetoy the memories Ya that old school faqs were amazing

As I'm watching this my internet is playing up big time. 10/10 maximum immersion

I still have the 100% completion guide for FFX-2 that I printed from GameFAQs somewhere here in my room... I reduced the page breaks, made the font smaller and printed on both side of the papers to make the bundle somewhat thinner. Haha those were the days.

Those written guides are well etched in my memory. I could always rely on the table of contents leading me to the exact part I needed help on.

To bad we can’t change our PS4 bootup screen to mimic the classic PS1 bootup screen

I never played Guitar Hero, never wanted to. However my first bit of serious gaming was on PS2, and it was Drakan The Ancients Gates, and that game made me a gamer. Also my first HD gaming was on PS4 and the game was WWE 2K16.

being born in '85, I'm right there with you, sir. between trying to get my Dreamcast to go online, without an ISP mind you, and the first time I was able to utilize the "HD" in that of the HDMI ports of my XBox360 and my HD TV. I knew there was a reason why I loved this channel! :-D

I love this channel and this segment especially. Thanks Rob.

Lol...that FFX walkthrough....I had so many flashbacks when that came on screen I almost fell on the floor and had a seizure.

Rob talking about his past it's like looking in a mirror. A dark evil mirror of my own past.

I've lived through video game arcades in the 80's, the rise of Nintendo and the fall of Sega, the move from cartridges to DVD's, but I have to say the HD clarity thing stuck with me as well. When my wife and I bought our first flat-screen TV after all channels went digital, I was stunned at how everything looked. The first thing I saw I plugged it in was a golf tournament. The grass were so green and the sky was so blue it was ridiculous! Then I put on "Catherine" on my PS3 and was absolutely incredulous! Good times, man!

My EyeToy window washing technique was just windmilling a tea towel, it was unbeatable! My brothers hated me. 😂

You know you played too much Guitar Hero when you can recognize the song by it's chart; Slow Rideeee!!!

ff 10 on psp You can now play it anywhere and you can play ff7, ff9 on your phone

I do and don't miss the old guides, it is sooo easy now, yet there was a craftmanship about the old ones that should have been appreciated more.

im in my 20s now, pretty much all of these hit close to home. Especially the ps2 online bit, I remember being 7 years old and hooking it up directly to my router, call of duty 3 multiplayer was amazing to me at the time.