“Money costs money.” -Bilbo Baggins

It was the best, can't wait for your next Efap

"The world felt like it moved in slow motion as a kid" As someone who's in their 30s now, that statement really resonates with me. It really does feel like time tripled it's speed at some point after I got into my 20s. Every year of being in school felt like an eternity, and each of those years were burnt into my memory with experiences that, for better or worse, meant a lot to me. These days, years pass by so fast that I struggle to distinguish between them when I attempt to recall what I did during a lot of them.

Yes. Console game rentals, deciding if a game is any good based solely on box art, computer game/software piracy on floppy disks, borrowing or copying games from friends, shareware, making boot disks for PC games to work on low-end machines, first mods and early multiplayer over the internet (Doom), playing games at school's computer class, having friends over to play games, couch co-op and vs games, blowing into cartridges, passwords and cheat codes (Game Genie), light gun games on TV screens, gaming magazines (and written game reviews) becoming more popular, playing board games and outside as much as (or more than) video games, Christmases (the time when you actually had a change to get a new game), playing Leisure Suit Larry or other erotic themed games secretly away from your parents' eyes. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

@@Str0b0 I only bought gaming magazines for the cheat codes they often had in them 😅 IDDQD!

Exactly. We were the last generation to know what it's like to not have internet

I hope everyone sees the weight of this sentence. My brother was born 5 years after me, but it was enough of a difference to see him adopt a very different attitude towards technology than I have, simply due to the ease of access to the internet, and what was possible with it.

I say this a lot, except it's even more important when it comes to cell phones. We were the last generation who grew up able to go out and about with no parental contact, no constant expectation to be in touch with anyone at any time, but we also came of age as cell phones started to become ubiquitous. Kids these days can't imagine not having the internet available whenever they want or being out of touch with parents or a significant other. Unlike Gen Z or our parents, we grew up in both worlds and experienced two completely different cultural milestones while we were developing. In a way, it makes us like a mini-generation out of time, but it also allows us to adapt better than many others.

@@jeffreydean7556 I remember not even buying a cellphone until like, Grade 11 or 12, and only because I would stay out late. It was basically just for emergencies. It was a pay-as-you-go too, so no texting plan (although the keyboard sucked for it anyway). No internet because that cost more (and the phone was really not built for it). I used my phone so little that I didn’t even buy a smartphone until like, 5 or so years afterwards because I was flying to another country myself and wanted access to GPS. Otherwise I had no need. I did have an iPad when those first came out as an easier way to check messages, but only around the house. That’s how little I used/use a cellphone.

Exactly. I have been thinking this for a while. I was born in ‘88 so I experienced the best of both or so it seems.

It was an amazing ride!

Yup, kids had a lot more "freedom" back then. Kids actually played outside too.

I feel you man I’m proud to say that I was a 90’s kid. Just sad to see kids nowadays stuck on on their tablets or phones. It was so fun back then going outside after school riding our bikes or playing two hand touch football. Gaming was a lot better especially playing two player.

I agree 100%.....and I feel old now

Only for the 1st world country. But in here Asia the peak was in 2000s.

90s was more like: awesome or radical 😎

1980 the best year. Plus easy to keep track of our ages lol

@@ellestar2306 Yes! 1980 Year of the Monkeys! Easy to keep track of my first Kid's age also, born in 2000!

sure was. i was born in 79 and my dad was an electrical engineer and a huge nerd so we were the first on our block to have a pc with dial up internet. i still remember when he brought home a copy of Doom shareware that he borrowed from a coworker, it absolutely blew my mind. still one of my favorite memories to this day.

@@MrMistermoges redneck rampage, duke nukem, I also seen twisted metal cut scene! So fun! Our kids can have the same upbringing but can consume a childhoods worth of content in a weekend.

Literally every generation says this. :P

also movis

@@EntropicEcho yea but the truth is 90s was peak of everything

its true, and it goes so much deeper than just that. it was a time of peace and freedom, cold war ended and war on terror and everything that followed with it not yet started. it is a true blessing that we could have experianced this outstanding decade. me, play games since popolous, i startet with ibm pc´s and i was lucky. mate, thank you for your comments, i miss it too, never will come back but also never will leave our hearts. we are, what we are, because of that time. thats my honest believe

@@ShrineOfLife Amen to that bro

lol not me

1984 here as well. Damn I am getting teary eyed thinking about me and my friends, sticking EGM and Gamero inside our Literature Workbooks, so we could read them. After school going to "The rich friends house" cause his parents kept him stocked with all the sweet bullhsit you could think of, as well as leaving to go on trips over the weekend so we had their huge house to out selves. No bills, no worries, no time restraints, it was just fun all day everyday (I can still smell the unique smells of my local Arcade, and the Local Discovery Zone I frequented).... Sigh.... it truly takes living thru hard times, to realize how great old times truly where. All I wanted as a youth was to turn 16 and get a car, then at 18 move out. Now, if some sort of time travel tom foolery occurred and I was whisked back, I would be savoring everyday, so much more. Any friend ever says "Can't wait till I am old enough to move out" I would do like Billy Maddison, and grab them by the face screaming "NOOO DON'T SAY THAT DON'T EVER SAY THAT! STAY HERE AS LONGGG AS YOU CAN!!!" lol

I feel you on that.

"my only limit is time to play them" It hurts to think about it!

84 baby checking in

92 I was lucky

I was a Nintendo kid (never had a PS1) and grew up happily immersing myself in the worlds of Zelda and Mario games, so I absolutely hear you. I got a job teaching in Japan and moved right after university. What you wrote, about it being the closest you can get to being a different world . . . in all these years I've never thought about it in quite that way, but this is exactly what it was. I'd actually become fascinated with Noh and Kabuki during uni, as it suddenly opened my mind to what a vastly different place Japan was, and by extension how much there was to explore and experience in the big world out there. We're probably pretty close in age from the sounds of it, so despite any money or marital problems or otherwise, I hope you've had some adventures and an amazing ride with life so far.

I was 24 when Spyro came out and I too loved the game.

Dude… I totally forgot about West Coast Video! Thanks for unlocking a core memory lol

I made my own pokedex. XD Whenever they revealed a new pokemon online, I printed the data on glued it on paper XD I also drawn my own video game magazine with own game ideas XD

@@toongrowner1 heck yea! Did you save it?

@@julians7268 sadly no. Had to throw away a lot of childhood drawings cause I just draw way too much that we could not transport everything when we moved to a new apartment. Wish I could get my old drawings back honestly, just to see how I improved over the years and maybe redraw some old ideas. :(

It's a wonder what we create as kids like that. I meticulously created 100+ custom Pokemon Cards regularly in Elementary school for fun that would statistically work fine in the actual cardgame. Still bummed all my pokemon Cards were thrown in the trash by my mom and never recovered due to a minor grievance my parents had. "I used to play with them all the time". They never intended to throw all of them away but we both forgot they were there until it was too late and someone took the bag out...

​@@toongrowner1😮 that's so awesome

I'm an '83 man myself. Yeah them were the good ol days! We would watch Saturday morning cartoons then go outside and play then we would come in and play a little bit on the ol nes or the genesis. Our lives weren't wrapped around a game people are so out of touch with having a social life these days. Friends don't come over they just chat online and play games online. They don't never call and check in with you they text. We had it made dude.

Exactly! It was unbelievable

Let's go '83! I just turned 40 and got the PS5. Still try to do some gaming when life's responsibilities don't get in the way haha

1983 was hands down the best birthyear one could hope for... the others were just too soon or too late to fully comprehend and apreciate all those technical jumps we witnessed on a somewhat regular basis. Like going from 256 colours 8 bit games to massiv 16,8 milion colours 3D brainmelting experiences... I might have exaggerated a bit there, but man, we had it all

May 1983 here! Also agree! Wow, we had the best opportunity to see so much. Our knowledge and understanding of gaming is contained in our memories and very hard to describe to younger kids growing up today. We just had the best of several worlds. We could be gone from the house for hours without our parents needing to know where we were, as long as we were home when the street lights came on. Parents didn’t have to worry about what we were watching because they could see all the books, magazines and games by going into our rooms and checking the shelves and lifting the mattress. I saved up for a long time to buy a sega genesis and loved every minute of it, might be my favorite all time console(for me).

I only played videogames and tabletop RPGs.

Me and everyone I knew pretty much did nothing but play video games in the 80s and 90s. Once in a while we might go swimming in the pool, ride the go cart or bikes or something but for any average day it was pretty much all video games all the time. Guess you guys just didn't have enough of them.

Oh it's definitely is more as an era. I've discussed this with many people from all ages and most agreed in this. Late 80s was the start of entertainment, 90s was the enchantment of the entertainment and 2000s was the closest to the peak of our human civilization.... until 2010 or to be more accurate, 9/2011. After that things gone to shit. Those elites and corporations who took over and calling the shots to this days are selfish and they are corrupting anything they touch, games, movies, music... everything has to be according to the boomer ESP scores of theirs, minimalistic, sanitizer and controlled. Now they try to steal from the consumers...they also refuse to make place from the younger CEOs, just check what happened to Capcom allegedly, the boomer father gave control for a while to his son who made some banger games and the father was waiting for an excuse to seize back the company ( I would assume out of jealousy) and what he did? Be breaking their consumer's privacy with the DRM ENIGMA which not in all countries is legal what he did. Ubisoft said we should be comfortable not owning anything and so on... Inflation, injustice, millennials and Zoomers getting bashed in due to the projections of the older generations despite being dealt with the worst cards due to their selfishness... I don't want to live anymore with where we're going.

The only things defining the 00s 10s or 20s (if defined by anything at all) have been negatives. The 90s had it all.

79 for me. Parents didnt want to spend on nintendo or master system when I hit 7 or eight so it was the Atari 2600 for a few years. Good memories though. The video game crash had destroyed the atari market share (which I didnt know at the time) so I could buy the games with my 3 dollar weekly allowance lol

81 for me. Got a commodore 64 at the age of 10, then a Sega Master System 2 and then a SNES. So many fond memories of all the games, even with their crippling difficulty levels, the single player campaigns, mates coming over for 2 player, the industry has changed beyond belief now with online gaming and all these streamers who believe they are something special. Glad we grew up in the 80s and 90s, think we had the best of both worlds in terms of gaming and real life 👍

80 here. I was born in Ponce, PR and I think I was the only kid in the barrio with an Atari 2600 that my grandpa bought me, we would get together at the house periodically when we weren't being savages outside. We were big on remote controls too for some reason. Standout games were some type of Star Defender, a wrestling game, Centipede, F1 pole position I believe and Pitfall. Didn't get an NES til I moved to the states and I remember the day my father bought the NES as a surprise and set it up on the tv. I played Duck Hunt forever until I started to learn how to play Mario Bros. Didn't realize how expensive it was relative to salaries back then until this documentary. Gives me a little perspective, my parents and grandparents loved me so much they were willing to sacrifice to make me happy even though I was a snot nosed kid and we were mostly poor. Thank you for this documentary it was spot on and found myself laughing many times, so many memories I'll never forget, Cheers!

C64, C128, IBM, NES, SNES, etc for me. Good times, but still I certainly spend almost as much time in sports clubs than geeking out with friends over games. We certainly did call us gamers already, because nobody was a nerd. Only Geeks, Gamers and self-proclaimed Otakus (the weebs liked to call them self that back in the 90s) ;-)

Absolutly. Kids today don't understand not being able to enter your house on the weekends, if you want a drink their was a water hose on the side of the house. Parents didn't give a damn where I went as long as I was home in time for school Monday morning.

@@DustinBarlow8P 💯 dame here to the t dawg uk in 80 - 90s so dam real

Yes be proud. You worked hard to be born then.

@@DustinBarlow8P damn. Same thing haha

Nothing can make you feel like that I assume

I can still hear Mario 2 Yoshi Island music playing as my friend came over to spend the night,

Life was better without the internet and we don't wanna admit it.

A lot of the adult I am today was thanks to some of the stuff DT talks about. I used to play Shadows Over Mystara in the arcade, I became friends with some guys who happened to play pen and paper D&D so they invited me to play, I was 13. And that decision to play D&D shaped most of my adult life lol

Eyy np

Yes it does. Makes me feel old.

Those demo disks were just the best at the time; totally agree.

Playstation Underground! I begged my parents for a stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut to get that disk lol. It took me so long to understand what a demo was. I thought I had a CD with a bunch of short games on it until I got my hands on the full copy of Metal Gear Solid and it made so much more sense. I spent so much time on that demo disk!

Thank u brother

Yes totally the golden era of gaming, and life in general was just better

Nice 81 here.

You’re the same age as my older sister. She was born in 1989. I was born in 1997

I don't remember what my first game I played, but I have a flash memories about game fighting soulcalibur and game airplane called raiden from local arcade. Is that game from 80'sor 90s?

Im an 89, super mario world was the bomb, probably im never going to experience a moment like that

Idk how many times I wrote down codes, or looked up GameFAQS maybe you had a printer! Maybe you got the magazine that detailed how to beat it, or you just played over and over because you only had this game or one other Abd you weren’t getting one till your birthday or Christmas. Maybe your rent one but you won’t finish it. Maybe someone at school has a rumor on how to find this secret! Maybe there’s a Game Genie/Shark that lets you beat the game but it might totally corrupt your one game you have left one because there’s no save system in this one!

And if you really really couldn’t figure it out, call the Nintendo hotline. I have called it once for Ocarina of time. It was a great time.

Kid you not. It was the peak time to be a "boy". 1997 to 1999, videogames, monday night wrestling and sports.

​@@Iam1nsane facts 🔥

Stick your Gamepro in your Literature Book and almost shit yourself when the teacher calls on you to read the next part.

Yeah...long live the class of 82!...

82 kid here, this all sounds very familiar. "buying games from a store and having no idea what they are" 😂 then reading the manual in the car all the way home.

@@GenjuroKibagami Curious, what was your route in consoles throughout the past 40 years? Mine was: Atari Turbo Graphics 16 Sega Genesis Playstation PS2 Xbox 360 Wii Switch (still have) Xbox Series S (still have) And, of course, multiple computers.

@@Ironica82 mine was Atari Nintendo Super Nintendo Sega PlayStation PS 2 PS 3 PC PS 5 that I bought for my son Time flies

Oh and we had a wii and switch in there

Yup! I was born in 90 and we really did live in the dawn of the golden age of gaming. It brought us the start of the biggest platforms.

Oh, boy, what a great time we had back then just with game demos. I'm born 1988 and I had a great time in the 90s and 2000s. I remember playing the hell out of the Demos of games like Jagged Alliance 2, Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun or Age of Empires for literally weeks because they had so much replay value for me. My PC time was limited to one hour a day which did its part to that stretch the time out. One hour back then felt like 3 hours nowadays which makes me think about the perception of time throughout life and our appreciation of that precious thing named time.

For me because of my older bros the first time I laid eyes on a true sandbox was when my biggest shock came with gta 3. I had seen 3D before hand with his PlayStation 1 and those games were like wow to me but for me the biggest wow moment was definitely gta 3 as someone who was born in 91.

A dozen lines with a dozen n64 consoles at toys r us to play 20 minute demos all day it was packed. Well maybe less than a dozen it's been a while... haha

U bet your ass it was

Nope, old games are a drag, unless they get remastered, some remakes and all of them need online play... Hardcore Veteran gamer since 1988, no pun Andre. Ickatina.

I remember when I first played Tomb Raider...for others may be another game, for me it was Tomb Raider that made me go "wooooooow"...suddently, we were "inside" the games...

VR and AR are the next technological jump

@@akangsuki I personally don't see it. Vr is cool but it's not something anyone can do and the games we get are barely worth it, I see it more useful as a tool personally. I'll admit I don't know anything about AR except for phone games

@@akangsuki when 2D to 3D happened, it changed *EVERYTHING* and every new game that was successful with it made more contributions to the industry. VR has been around for decades and only recently were getting "ok" games. The best one I experienced was resident Evil 7 and it was just the camera controls. There has yet to be a VR that COMPLETELY changes everything and makes it a must have

The next jump will be when you can type a video game idea into AI and it will spit out a custom made video game for you. lol ... basically the industry (and life as we know it) is doomed lol

My dad would ask the clerk and 9/10 times it was an incredible game. Meanwhile child me was a moron and wanted licensed videogames on my favourite cartoons, movies and shows, which were rife in the 90s and suckered so many kids and parents into buying awful games. Also buying off the boxart and back of box screenshots was still a big thing. Going to a friends house to play all the games you didn't own was worth it every time.

Sorta feel we where the last generation to experience gaming at it's purest and most innocence. Want's Micro transactions and Loot Boxes started happening, a piece of gaming died in all of us.

Having lived through a bit of pre-ubiquitous-Internet / cell phones / social media and now pre AI really gives the older millennials a very unique life perspective. Keep enjoying life and savor whatever you have, good or bad, because it's real and it's your moment.

@@DustinBarlow8P agree, same with the internet - it was so fresh and exciting, now the wonder is intermingled with mundane and even toxic elements.

Yeah. You don’t realize that at the time, don’t you?

I remember going to the Albertsons and renting games from there a lot. They had a video/game section and sometimes had better deals than Blockbuster. I miss going out to rent a movie or game.

I was born in 84 too I feel you brother on every note it's crazy lol

Yeah, even though there was 14 copies of it, and every one was rented out.....but sometimes, just sometimes, if you came in just after the return due time, you would wait by the rack and see what games the clerk put back. I scooped up many cool games soon after release by timing when I would go rent the games. Early sneaky bird gets the worm.

@@bean420man I started collecting VHS movies and picked up a good vhs player, I love it. Watched The perfect storm 2 times already, almost 30 year old cassette and video player, and still works as good as when it was new, very cool!

Ah man so many titles rented out like aw man.... then you'd pick some obscure knock off title and find out it was incredible.

I agree. Some of the games I grew up loving apparently got bad ratings. But as a lower middle-class kid, you're lucky if you got 3 SNES games in one year. I still have my collection today. Just played lion king last year for the first time 😂

your mother made you miss Chrono Trigger!?

Panzer Dragoon didn't exist on the Genesis.

@@davidaitken8503 I'm well aware of that. I was saying that I was a Sega kid after I was given a Genesis, so those games that I mentioned after were some of the many I played on the Sega platforms I owned (like the Saturn, Game Gear and Dreamcast) after becoming a Sega kid.

METAL GESR SOLID! I had to wait 2 full years to play it because i had a pc not a ps1. Blew my mind right off! Still one of the best games ive ever played.

Greetings generation! 😀 I still like to play that old games too! It's like some time machine that brings me to the 90's. I recently installed GTA 2 😁 There's simply no thrill in this new games.

Thats why God invented blockbuster!!

Everyone had only a few games but between you all had quite a few. Thus, we all shared and borrowed each others... we all waiting our turns

Exactly.

The uk felt a little different are games wasn't as expensive they was in the usa but I think that's because we got into the gaming world a little sooner and cheaper as government laws was different we have a RRP price that companies could not sell things above that set price. We also had a massive used gaming market by the 90s and all game shops would sell used games for around £5 for a mega drive game even when the ps1 came out the used game market was already in place. All shops head every gaming magazine were you could get walk-through cheat codes and demo games on the front.

It definitely did define if you were older and hardcore about "kid's toys", or if you were a kid obsessed with video games.

Along with a balance of people still played outside!

You know, the 50-60s had kids just being Goonies instead of watching goonies, because Suburbs and America was not so car centric and kids actually had quite a lot more range of independence than a quarter mile radius. Sure, compared to today, a quarter mile seems like a quarte mile more than todays kids have. But kids used to have double digit miles of radius around their homes. And in Europe they have had this in the 90s, but independence of kids in the states is constantly shrinking. Less physical space avaible for them and less mental too, considering how much surveillance equipment American parents are using these days. Makes 70s Bond movies look like lacking in equipment.

@@Joshua-wp2ci People would still play outside if there was anything outside to do and American laws actually allowing kids to go outside alone. They certainly still go outside in the rest of the world. Parks and playgrounds are full with kids this summer again, maybe even more so than they had been before COVID.

..... they still do.

No mobile phones or internet until late 90’s which meant, people interact with each other face to face. Everything was new and exciting!

Right on the nose and is what I remember ❤❤ so true about writing on actual paper, I bet a lot of kids today don't even know how to do that, these are strange times indeed 😮

Eh, even socrates complained about kids not needing to remember stuff now that it was hip to rely on clay tablets for written words instead of memorising things. People have always. Always complained or worried about the new generation not having or getting to experience what their parents have. Guess what kids these days will tell each other in 30 years... You're absolutely right that it's interesting to belong to a generation that has seen the rise of the internet though! I'm from 86 and we got our first internet connection when I was about 11 years old.

"society is sick and we need to turn back"

It is spot on only if you were barely teenager at 2000 , on the other hand if you were a teenager at 1990 it is a whole different story than the one on this video.

when you say iPad parent, i have to say my heart bleeds for the many Asian-American children i see in Chinese restaurants who actually sit in the restaurant all day while their mom/dad slave making that ohh so delicious crap, but seriously, the one closest to me that i periodically go into (called HONG KONG restaurant no less) has a young lad who im seeing growing up since being an infant, watched by a girl, who was a child too, to a young boy throwing his giant lego's all over the restaurant and being a hazard to patrons, to now about six years old and watching Pokemon related videos from KZfaq influencers on his iPad! i feel bad that despite having little myself growing up, it was 1000 times better than what that young boy is living now. As an adult man myself, I see to it to pass on a bit of good humanity and social ness his way, i mean, not in a weird way, i still like Pokemon (from the nineties and should have been mentioned) and ill go up to the young lad and small talk about what he's watching while my Bourbon chicken and rice cooks! like I said, Delicious crap!

Rock on!

Same age here

@@snkfan7506 Hey man! I hope life is treating you well. Take care!

@@georgezachos7322 thanks. You too bruh

Born in 73' beat adventure on atari in early 80s just beat elden rang how far we have come.

Ah thanks dawg

U got it jazzy

Same here 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

I know what you mean. I grew up in a village in Wales, and my nearest store was 30+ minutes by car. Didn't have much money, didn't have easy access, and nobody in my village really cared for games. I was literally 1 of maybe 3-5 people who played games regularly in that place. A long walk up the hill to my friends house in order to play multiplayer on a PS1/PS2. Similarly to you, my mind would be blown when I took a vacation to England or a major city area, and I would see video game merchandise and be completely shocked at the concept of an arcade etc. A lot of good memories too.

Surely you had heaps of Lego though being from Denmark? But yeah, it was a simpler time.

The first time I saw Super Mario 64 was at my friend's house. He didn't even go into a level, he just ran Mario around outside the castle for about 45 seconds and my MIND WAS BLOWN.

exactly! damn how much i loved playing resident evil as a child xD

With the lights off was legit scary af!

Probably the only game I had to turn off at regular intervals because it was so scary 😂

100000% agree with you here. Whilst nostalgia is a thing and has to factor if you were an 80s child you rode the wave tech from 8bit NES 1983, Master Sytem 1985, 1988 Mega Drive/Genesis 16bit, 1990 SNES 16bit, 1994 Sega Saturn 32Bit, PS1 1994, 32 Bit, 1996 N64 64Bit, 1998 Dreamcast 128Bit, 2000 PS2 126Bit and on.......Despite PS2 being the best selling console ever the biggest tech leap happening between 1983 and 1998....even now the gap between the ps3 and PS4 is negligable

My gaming journey could’ve began in the 80s, 90s or 2000s and I would’ve been a happy person either way! All 3 were FAR better decades to be a gamer than the 2010s-now! Even if I was around for the Video Game Crash of 83, I’d still swear by my Atari, Intellivision and/or Colecovision and get a good few more games in the fire sales, and/or maybe even import a Famicom from Japan!

Not only was gaming in the 90s awesome but cartoons,tv shows, music, being able to play outside with your friends and using your imagination. That's when being a kid was really being a kid during those times.

@@adultmoshifan87 indeed man, wish i have a time machine to go back and stay there forever

@@AmariMarvelous being kid back then, damn so much memories and awesomeness adventures.

@@adultmoshifan87 I’m not going to tell you your wrong for feeling this way as I’m young as hell. But even then living in the 2020s now, not only do you have access to all of those games thanks to pirating, you have more than 1000+ newer games to play that will keep coming.

certainly true, german here, and I also grew up on piracy, my step dad had a whole cd full of mega genesis emulator games with pretty much all the classic sonic games XD Also got into final fantasy 7 this way XD

I grew up in the Netherlands and literally every town with 15,000 people or more had a serious arcade hall. Germany sucked though. They barely had arcades due to strict 'gambling' rules. Here in the Netherlands Amiga was popular too and Sega was more popular than Nintendo.

​@@drunkensailor112 that's kind of insane, the only time I stumbled upon arcade machine in Sweden were old ones found in shady local pizzerias. My experience of them was really on the ferries between Sweden and Germany, I remember playing Golden Axe and Outrun! Great times, especiallt being completely floored of the graphics compared to the often lousy home PC ports. During the mid 90's we had one quite small and short lived arcade hall called "Tilt" in Malmö. Keep in mind this is the 3rd largest city in Sweden, with 300K people. I wonder if it had something to do with gambling laws similar to Germany. It feels like Arcades were not illegal, but probably (?) unprofitable here.

@@PixelShade where there strict any gambling rules in Sweden too? I know this is why Germany had almost none, but here and all countries to the south and uk had them in the thousands

I’m from Portugal and piracy was a pretty normal thing, specially in the 90s and early 2000s. Games were (and are) very expensive for such a poor economy. I knew no one in my family or circle of friends that could afford actually buying games regularly. You’d be lucky if you’d get an original game in your birthday. I think it was only Steam that actually started to change that.

Similar story, 87 here. My snes came with A Link to the Past and that motivated me to learn how to read. Remember having a “Zelda club” with 2 other kids during recess that had also played the game. We made little member cards out of construction paper with the items from the menu drawn on them 😂 simpler times but man that’s how you made friends back then, playing the same games was an instant bonding experience, friend sleepovers, birthday parties all of that. When N64 came out, it was MarioKart , Starfox, and Goldeneye until Smash came out.

It was for me too

Yea, I remember Neo Geo and Sega Saturn being out of my price range.. and dying to play it at my one friend's house, the kid who had all kinds of new and neat toys. Remote control cars and long range walkie talkies.

Thanks for sharing

Yeah totally, pretty much the same concept!

I shoulda pointed that out honesty good point dawg

1992: Wolfenstein 3D 1993: Doom

the internet gotta love it, i have spoken to russians, polish people, americans, africans, french and countless others. all through our love of games and the internet.

I enjoyed every moment of this video, a shame it wasn't longer 😂