Holy Schitt......lmaooooooo......right on the money.....with the exception of 1 more remedy for Nintendo cartridges that didn't run......chuck them schitts in the freezer for a couple hours.....lol......brilliant video.....legit had my old ass laughing.....

Hey! He was talking about video games. I liked what he had to say.

hahah

Good one. I would let anyone use 3rd party too

Not even a retro gamer but I hated getting the 3rd party N64 controller

I had a third party N64 controller that, for whatever reason, allowed me to move an turn faster in GoldenEye. Believe me I never let anyone else use it.

rsreston i remembered that also, and as a kid i was always getting the best controller and always first to play :) when i was at my friend who had nes i was best at super mario bros, battletoads, megaman and castlevania, at friend with genesis i was best at sonic, last battle, shadow dancer, with playstation i was best at tekken 2, 3, parasite eve, dead or alive, etc and yeah there was always someone that was worst at games and getting to play with crappy controller 🤣 that was awesome times....not to mention playing on real arcade machines

Dragon Warrior II for me. Until I got my own copy that is. I think the third time I rented it my save had been erased.

Used to piss me off and there really is no worse feeling than when your parents let you rent a game again so you go to the local movie rental store and the only copy of a game was gone fuck i can't tell you how many times it happened with Donley kong 64 that shit pissed me off

Never had a blockbuster in my town but we had a store called the video den and i rented games there from the 90s until around 2007 or so they closed down

Or if you rent it again and you get a different copy (If they had multiple copies)

@@catsaregovernmentspies I once put a little dot with a sharpie on the back of the cartridge before for that reason lol

Oh wow! Multiple times? Lucky you. Everyone I ever met at an arcade was a jerk.

Slightly before my time as I never had this happen but that's awesome! Arcades always seemed lonely in my experience. This is mid to late 90s. I'd guess that's around the time they started disappearing or I just went to crap arcades. Lol

Yes. Get that "O" and "0" trash out of here!

@@RetroBirdGaming Oh, Faxanadu had an entire FONT worth of trolling on the password screen lmao!

You're absolutely right. Word of mouth was huge, not just for how to beat games but gaming news in general (and of course those pesky rumors I mentioned!)

@@RetroBirdGaming Yes, you are right. Video game rumors were very much a school yard/neighborhood thing prior to mainstream internet usage. I fell for a few rumors back in the day: The iguana being an unlockable character in NBA Jam, unlocking Shaq in NBA Jam, too many to mention Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 rumors, and the most enticing of them all - there was a code that put Lara Croft in less/no clothing.

There was a kid named Jimmy in every neighborhood who know a code or a trick or knew how to beat a hard boss.

Definitely! Not being able to look up help online is a big difference.

Nice. All I ever really had was Nintendo Power, but I would always love looking at the other ones when I got the chance.

I'm with you, Axel. It was always great to look out the window and see one of my gaming mags sitting in the mail box. Good times.

Tips & Tricks

"Classified Information"

Hahah. I intentionally chose that code to set up my joke because I knew it would likely register incorrectly in people's brains.

Hahah the game that is a parody of itself!

+ people who got into retro games later

Yeah, some of these things retro gamers have picked up on who got into it later. But Console Collector is right.. there's just a certain understanding us older gamers have since we lived through it :)

@@RetroBirdGaming Yea I'm sad I couldn't have been around :'(. Mainly because I know no one who likes retro games.

That's too bad. I actually don't have many people in my own personal circle who care for retro games either. That's part of why I started this channel. So I could talk retro games with all of you!

@@RetroBirdGaming :)

magazines with demo cd-rom for pc games were awesome!

Those were the days indeed!

Funny that with cloud gaming this is true again. Thanks Stadia for no more waiting for downloads, upgrades or worrying about storage space. It's like old times! 😍

@@RetroBirdGaming As a modern gamer I disagree with things you think are "better" than things today but I'll give you that one waiting for a game to download is annoying.

That’s only if you buy digital (of course), or buy from companies like Ubisoft. I don’t think I’ve ever had a physical game that didn’t contain the game, the download was just for bug fixes and free extra content.

@@nintendoboy3605 lemme hit u with a truth bomb that u might not understand till your older... these games your playing now (I'm assuming your a young person) are the games your growing up with... in 15-20 years time games will be way beyond what we can imagine but you will still have a place in your heart for the ones u grew up with.. in saying that I can also see where your coming from because you don't have the nostalgia of the older crowd when it comes to pixilated 2d graphics that look like garbage compared to today's graphics but this again is where we part ways because imo graphics don't make a good game like take ff7 original ps1 looks like shit, but is one of the best games of all time, honestly I see where your coming from too but I'm also guessing you're not the one paying for the DLC for every little skin and gun camo or dance move or maps or pay to win weapons or extra characters.... I could go on and on about DLC but in the end it all boils down to opinion mines not better than yours, and yours is just as important as anyone's and in the end we're all gamers and we've all banged everyone mom lol take care and take this it's dangerous to go alone 🎮

Hahah the stuff we would fall for.

Ahhh, it was just so true though :)

Hahah. That's in line with some of the things I've talked about before. You're right. For some people, sitting through long introductions and tutorials might as well be torture.

X men 2 on the genesis comes to mind no title screen NOTHING just BAM straight to the gameplay you don't even get to pick a character it randomly picks one for you for the 1st stage

Great example!

I hate cutscenes, it makes me want to care about the game I purchased. Like, I have to plot out a time slot for a game. One reason I am enjoying my Series X is I can hop right back into where I was playing a few days ago. My car is still sitting on the test track in Forza 7. lol

I hadn't thought of that before, but that is actually huge. That'd be the sole reason I'd ever use Quick Resume. I always felt it was a huge joke whenever they'd demonstrate the feature, jumping between games on the fly. No, I don't juggle between 5 - 6 games, like ever, especially when they require such an ordeal just to get going. But stopping in the middle of something and Quick Resuming later, like opening a DS from sleep mode, that is a real practical benefit right there!

It's a great game. Classic Sega goodness :)

I fondly remember playing Halo on Xbox and Mario Kart Double Dash on GCN using local LAN play. Screaming at each other in the same room and different rooms in the same house. It was such good times.

Glad to hear. So many things we can all relate to :)

Yep!

@Gynvael Gláeddyv good times, good times.... 😂

I love my CRT and refuse to play my consoles on anything else; aside from ps3 or newer.

@@nickparsons337 I agree. My sony CRT has component inputs so I have a 360 and a ps3 with HD retrovision cables hooked up to it.

@@onetwo6039 Nice. My Sanyo CRT is so old I have to use the inputs on my Sony VCR; ( yeah, I said VCR lol) just to be able to play games on it. But damn that tv is a champion.

Ahhh yes the demo discs.

Especially in the UK where the NES/Master System weren't quite as popular and many kids had 8-bit computers where the games would take up to ten minutes or so to load from audio cassette!

Thank you for watching as always. Glad you liked it.

And you couldn't just grab your phone and take a picture of the password like today. 😅

@@amuzulo hahaha, agree it was very hard without a cellphone

It reminds me the password for the original Metroid. Horrible Good video

Hahah those rumors had no limits :)

Let's hear it for the '90s!

Remember EGM2? I liked Game informer the best. Their magazines were huge.

Hahah you really strung him along. I feel like I remember getting screwed in a similar way by some of the Pokemon game rumors back then.

Lion King on SNES is so good for example. Or NES Ducktales

Glad you enjoy it! I try to have fun :)

Glad you liked it!

hahah

Nothing breaks up the monotony of a really fun game like a crappy water level. Ice levels too.

Placing your quarter to indicate you had the next game is something I never saw first hand, but I've heard SO many people say they have that I accept it as a thing that happened!

Definitely!

Glad to hear that you're into retro games. Stick with 'em!

I'm 11 and I love retro games I have the gba and for my birthday im planning to get the n64.

Funny enough, quite a few NES games had unlimited continues.

Marvel VS. Capcom 2 in order to unlock all 56 characters all you had to do was play the game and save up points from winning fights. Same with skins and stages.

Ah yes, the accessories for 4-player multiplayer. Good times.

Yeah, feels like local multiplayer mostly died after the Wii. 😭

I always thought putting your quarter up when you were next was a weird thing, but it was definitely a thing nonetheless!

I've heard this! It must make the pins more conductive or something. Also, welcome to the channel!

Welcome aboard!

Glad you like it and glad to have ya!

Renting games was huge! I remember getting so excited to pick out a game.

Gotta love the arcades. I miss 'em.

I'm only a couple years older than you and I feel ya on the couch co-op. SNES was my first system and Turtles in Time was always one of my favs to play with my brother. House of the Dead and The Simpsons Arcade were my jams for Arcade games back in the day. Damn I miss arcades

From the eyes of a child of the era, though, that is how we perceived them. We weren't programmers yet back then, and since some games had shorter passwords than others, we thought "why does this game use 25 digits when that game only needs 6?" We didn't know any better. XD

I remember Swords & Serpents for the NES. It was kind of a dungeon crawl RPG type of game. You had a password for each of your 4 characters and a 5th password for your game progress. And it's almost certain you write down one of them wrong.

Hahah so many people had that problem right when they got their system :)

I still don't understand why local co-op basically vanished from modern gaming. Why wouldn't you wanna play with your buds right next to you where you can give each other shit in a more natural way lol Speaking of the PS2, getting a multi-tap and popping in Gauntlet: Dark Legacy are still some of my best gaming memories. Good times...

@@AfroPear I guess developers don’t want to put the time in to make local co op anymore that’s one thing I hate about modern games some games still have it but most don’t

@@grandgojira8182 It's such a shame. So many memories at family/friend get-togethers playing co-op that newer generations just aren't gonna get to experience

Not the same, but convenient. Let's also just be happy that some "kids" can experience retro games through the, for example, Nintendo Switch VC. But I agree with you.

@retro game fan 1 Yeah, I was like that for a long time too but for me playing on original hardware is half the fun. Im finally to the point in my life where having a collection worth a couple thousand isn't a big deal.

Soldering in batteries seems more intimidating than it is. I guarantee you've done more difficult things. I thought it seemed gnarly when I first learned, but it turned out to be way easier than I thought.

I agree that people playing by whatever means necessary is better than not at all. I worry about younger generations disregarding retro games.

@retro game fan Same here. I do that nowadays when I take my laptop outside.

And what you picked out was super important!

And there were some games that were strictly blockbuster exclusives. Heck yea 🤙🏼🍻

I dunno bout block buster but my local game rental place you could only rent for one night unless you payed extra but they were closed on sundays so if ya rent on Saturday you got it till Monday and you could play it for about an hour after school before it was time to take it back