My great Nephew just hit 11 1/2 months old, and got a toy trike, so I felt it all over again as I also have 3 nieces, and a nephew who are in their teens, and the oldest of the 3 nieces in her 20's. my step daughter is 17, but me, and my fiance are trying for a boy, so it won't be long again lol!
Even though they're referred to as cartridges, the Switch game carts are a completely different thing than those old cartridges. From a technical standpoint, they are much more similar to discs.
1992. I got a sega genesis with sonic the hedgehog. When I plugged it up, and started it, it said "sega". My whole family was like, "what the hell was that?" ...video games weren't known for talking a whole lot at that time.
Ya i got mine in 95, it was already taped up around the psu and the volume slider was broken at max. I didn't care I would go to the pawn shop and get a new $5 game every week at the pawn shop once I started going to school and getting good grades.
@John O'Brien he buys them and reviews them expecting the videos to get a high number of views, which they do. And they remain evergreen, continuing to get views months and years after being released
@James Kozeluh I worked with a Jim Kozeluh for a few years. I don’t think it’s that common of a last name; you’re the only other person I’ve heard of that has it. Most of our coworkers couldn’t pronounce it
I remember when I first opened the box of my N64 at 8 years old...it was filled with socks. I of course was disappointed until I went into the other room...all set up on the old CRT...perfect elation!!
I never got one for some reason. But Capcom did send me a promotional video for Street Fighter 2 Turbo on Super Nintendo back in 93. I was convinced that it was the actual game at first but quickly examined the box's vhs like shape. Such my naive self 🙃
Many years ago my dad got me a Wii for Christmas I was so excited, but he took everything out of the box and wrapped it up separately even the batteries for wiimotes, it took me 30 minutes to unwrap it all so much fun
The biggest issue I had with the Wii is that they didn't bother to produce accessories for the American market. They were just the same ones for the Japanese market and failed to take into consideration that Americans are generally larger than the Japanese. I'm not even talking about obesity here, trying to play some of those Wii sports titles with that understized step pad was a nightmare. The physical size of the thing was smaller than my pelvis making it virtually impossible to play.
I remember at the time our family had a Sega Genesis that we played a ton. Often times though my much older brother (10 years older) wouldn't let me play so my dad wanted to get me something I could play. Christmas 1998 I got a Game Boy Color. I was so excited to have games that were mine and that my older brothers couldn't play GBC games since they had original GBs still. At the time, my dad had been laid off at IBM so I didn't think we would have any large gifts that year but my dad worked low paying jobs often 12 hours or more a day to make the extra money to get it for me. It was and still is the best gift I have received.
I remember when the Nintendo 64 came out. I already had a Playstation and I'm a big fan of Nintendo so I bought the 64. It ended up becoming my ABSOLUTE favorite gaming machine of all time! I still to this day have my Nintendo 64 with all my favorite games and still play the shit out of it! I love my Nintendo 64....
My wife got me a GBA Micro! It’s the Famicom 25th anniversary edition. I am still in shock I finally got one of these, all these years later! You should do a tech wave with a Micro!
My grandma in Japan used to send us a really big parcel to Canada once every few years. We were always excited, lots of cool candy, magazines, stationary. One year was different, one year we opened that package and inside was a Nintendo 64. We had no clue what it was, it wasn’t released in Canada yet and being a kid with no internet word didn’t really get around. I remember my first game, Japanese Mario 64. Hours and hours I played the game, not speaking a word of English but I managed, must have beaten it over 200 times not including the DS release. Then a year later it got launched in Canada and finally realized what I had lol. Got a gameboy colour the same way. Turns out the one she sent me was a rare Lawson edition gameboy which is hard to find now. So many memories with Nintendo as a kid. That’s not even including the hours spent skipping high school to play smash melee at my friends house.
I remember opening my N64. Me and my brother flipped out! This year, my game gifts were Fire Emblem: Three Houses and The Witcher 3 for the Switch. I’ve got W3 on PS4 but being able to take it on the go when I travel for work is too good to pass up. The packaging and extras really were a nice touch by CD Projekt Red.
Ahhh Great memories of going to Target, TRU, Sears, BB, Kmart and others to check availability of systems and accessories. Reading the magazines, looking at the pictures and imagining you had the console and all those cool games. Exciting trips to the 5 stores that rented games in our town. Hoping the clerk would let you to through the stack of games behind the counter that had been returned but not placed on the shelves yet.
I gave my childhood 64 system to my older sister this Christmas. She wanted a 64. I couldn’t find another one. It was tough for me. Just seeing her happy made me happy.
Ill never forget the christmas of 99 when my mom told me she was going to the north pole to get the 64 form santa lmaoo and i believed it. When she got back like 2 hours later, she had a box. And i was like woaaaah! it only took 2 hours mommy!? She was like yeah i flew there! (Again, i believed it) I opened up that wrapping paper, and that bad boy was there. Bundled with 2 controllers (grey and atomic purple). And my first game she handed me was a brand new copy of Bomberman hero, of all things. I loved it to death and played it everyday! Good times...
I would get two new snes games a year back then. One for my birthday and one at Christmas. This is the reason I rented games and told my parents exactly what I wanted lol.
Awesome video, love the reminiscence. I'll never forget playing Pokemon for hours into the night on the original gameboy underneath the various lamps in my parent's house trying to evolve into Blastoise or the monumental Christmas morning when I awoke to an N64 and Ocarina of Time. I had no idea on that morning twenty-one years ago that my life was going to change forever.
i cannot express how relatable your journey towards acquiring the 64 system years, after release, was for me. After the gamecube launch, we ended up with one of our cousin's N64 and game library for a few years. Then i think in 2005, as a 6 year-old, I hyped up my dad so much to buy the Mario Party 7 & Gamecube bundle at $99 specifically from Target. Was elated with that for another year or two until the Wii lol
This is good to hear. The lack of a picture for a second hand item on any website is a big red flag for me, especially for GameStop because they’ll never tell you if it comes in a case or not.
Same with me in 98. Was the first non obsolete hand me down console I ever got. I treated that thing like the hope diamond. Still have it. Only drawback was I got clock tower with it because my step dad didn't know any better. Game scared the shit outta me.
From memory, I got mine in 1998 (year after it released in Australia). I remember going into a retailer and playing Mario 64 on a store setup, long time before I got it. I also remember trying Diddy Kong Racing as well at another store and I thought Conker was Tales lol. Actually, it's criminal that no one has done another Diddy Kong Racing either. So 1998 Christmas I had the stock standard N64 under the tree and Diddy Kong Racing. My mum let me read the Diddy Kong Racing manual before Christmas (I knew what I was getting). After Christmas we picked up Mario 64 at Toys R Us with my Christmas money. I remember that day, it was a muggy, cloudy and rainy day here in the tropics.
I remember the first year my mother worked for TWA and had to work on Christmas day. I was bummed out, but she let me open a gift before she went so I would have something to tide me over until she got home that night. And the gift I opened turned out to be Bad Dudes for the NES. Not the greatest game, sure, but it was very special to me in that moment. My eyes widened and she managed to get a photo of me with child like excitement on my face. And that was the Christmas I spent saving the president's daughter.
Ahhh 1999. I remember sitting at my uncle's house watching him playing Ocarina of Time. He let me play it and I fell in love. I begged my parents to get an N64 with Ocarina of Time. I got one. John is right though, times were more simple back then. I remember the last game I rented from Blockbuster was back in '06 was Dirge of Cerberus. Still one of my favorite games to this day. The days of just coming home doing homework and then playing some video games...I miss them.
When I got my switch back in August 2019 ,two weeks before my 20th birthday, my hype to open the box threw me back to Xmas in 06 when I got my first Nintendo DS lite and how out of this world hyped I was to play Mario kart, super Mario Bros, super Mario 64, Mario & Luigi partners in time, animal crossing wild world
Loved the explanation of the RAMBus design :) Nice to know people are still interested in knowing about the context of 64 development. Love these videos man.
I will never forget the christmas of 1988, when me and my older sister got the NES, with the light gun and power pad. Also included was super mario bros/duck hunt/world class track meet. We played it all xmas day.
I still remember the Christmas I got the 64 I was home for break and my mom had to go to work so I opened it and closed it everyday making sure to put the tape back very carefully.
My parents surprised me with a Nintendo Switch 2 Christmases ago-needless to say, I was NOT expecting that! I also got Breath of The Wild along with it. I’m greatful that I got it and I’m thoroughly enjoying it!
I'm 43, just got my first Wii, refurbished from gamestop, my mom got it for me. Works good, the sensor bar I have to be within 3'-4' of it or my cursor jumps around. Also the battery compartment cover looks like someone took sandpaper to it.
I remember calling Nintendo about the DD and the agent I talked to on the phone told me about plans of having Bowser as a playable charactor on Mario 64. I didn't get a 64 until late 97 and I traded way too much for one.
I miss all the n64 history back in the old days. Game magazine's revealed a lot of information of the Ultra 64. Later the N64DD, Zelda Ura, Prototype Mario 64 Beta, even the large N64 Cartridges & a lot more.
I remember Christmas 1997 i was 6 years old at the time and i remember my father saying “that’s the last Christmas gift you’ll ever get” He wasn’t lying
What a way to end 2019 spawn really took me back to those days. Have to agree one of my favorites were pokemon puzzle league with it's amazing music & mario party of course.
I remember getting my first ever video game. Mario kart DS on my DS in 2008. We’ll it wasn’t on Christmas when I got it, it was basically the start of most of my childhood. Me and my brother would play countless hours on the system and we would ask everyone around us if they had a DS so we could play with them. Those were the days.....
Back in 2007, I got the white Star Wars PSP. I remember that I was so excited to get it. I still have it to this day, and I still bring it out from time to time to play.
@KJ HX ok no. Gamestop is an evil scumbag of a company. This guy is cool; therefore he is nothing like gamestop. Check out the youtube page camelot331 if you would like to learn all about why gamestop is an evil company then check that page out.
I was one of the lucky few mentioned that got a N64 on Christmas in 1996. I still have that system today. This video makes me want to go get it out and play some Oot.
I remember getting mine on Christmas as well. The best was the year I got Zelda Oot. I would stay up till midnight and open gifts once I was do e I stayed up all night playing it. I still remember that feeling seeing link get out of bed and shuffle along the bed. That was a great memories.
i still remember the release of the N64 in fact a game store near my home had a Japanese imported n64 with a copy of mario 64, this was MONTHS before the actual release and i ended up finishing mario 64 before it was released lol
I got the Dreamcast for Christmas when it came out with Resident Evil: Code Veronica. I was dang happy. I specifically wanted the dreamcast just for RE when I was growing up.
I once dropped a ~30 inch CRT on my N64 while helping my dad move. The TV was thrown out a few years later in another move I wasn't involved in and I kept the N64. In fact, I now play on it with an Everdrive and a Rumbler controller. Feels odd playing of a widescreen, though.
I remember my mom and dad telling us years later that the weeks leading up to christmas they would unbox it, play mario kart all night long, and then box it back up every night.
I felt that excitement as a 22 year old unwrapping Zelda Breath Of The Wild on Christmas this year... I casually brought it up in a conversation with my mother weeks beforehand. I just said something like oh im going to get this game for my switch soon and was wondering if she ever played the og version or had heard of the legend of zelda as a teenager (she used to love gaming herself, she got me into it as a kid) I was soooooooo surprised she even remembered the name of the game, and also somehow got the correct one..... Not links awakening, it honestly took me for a shock and i was like a little ten year old again, unwrapped it and straight away into the switch.......
My mom would have gotten something completely different and probably not even zelda related. When I was a kid she asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I said " a psp". Christmas came and I got a 3ds...I was so heartbroken, I already had a Wii to play super mario, zelda, kirby, mario kart, etc and she got me something I didn't want. She knew what a psp was ironically
I bought BOTW almost 1 year ago and it's hands down my favorite game of all time, almost 200h in and still have 15 shrines to complete before beating Ganon. Good choice and I'm glad you got such an amazing (and expensive) game as a gift!
For Christmas in 1995, my parents got me a yellow GameBoy along with Kirby's Dreamland 2, back when Nintendo had the Play It Loud rerelease with all the different colors. They thought the screen was colored but I knew better lol. But that was a special moment for me as it was the first game system that I could call my own and I feel in love with it. I didn't have many fantastic holidays but it was the most memorable Christmas for me!
I remember wanting a n64 so bad when it was first coming out. My IFL teacher in 7th grade used to rub it in our faces that she was the last one to buy one and they couldnt be found anywhere! My parents really made me feel they wanted to but just couldnt find one. So I accepted it and moved on. Well Christmas came and I got one that year!! The only problem was my tv needed an rf modulator and we had to wait until the next day and driving around to different places and ended up in radio shack finally getting one and it was so amazing! There were so many cool games but ocarina of time ended up being my favorite game actually of all time for me. Thanks for the video man.
The N64 Jumper Pak was actually a termination card. The N64 uses RD-RAM for the 4 megabyte memory and given the expansion slot, the jumper pak had to be made to terminate the RD-RAM "signal". It was merely an arrangement of circuitry rather than containing an integrated circuit. Old PCs, such as Socket 423 Pentium 4 systems used RD-RAM and had these termination cards in the RAM slots if not all RAM slots were occupied with actual RAM. Great video!
When I was 12-years-old I got Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almnia for Nintendo DS. I came from a poor family so this was a big deal for me. I opened it Christmas Eve, I technically got 2 gifts cause my sister tried opening a 2nd one and it was a DS case. Lol I played that bad boy none stop until I beat it. I loved it. It's one of my favorite memories.
My favorite gift ive ever gotten was my yellow gameboy and red version. I loved my gameboy. I got mine in 98 and did the same but i had to get up and go to school or i couldnt rent a game. 😅
I got my n64 Christmas 1999 too!!! Super Smash brothers was my brother and my first game. We wrote a letter to my mom to get one, promising that we would do the dishes and all these chores. We would rent one all the time so we really wanted one of our own. We got it! And then that March my little brother got his own from his Grandma with no letter!! Lol, but at least we had extra controllers and access to more games! Thank you for this video which marks the anniversary!
I wasn't even around when it released, but i still have fond memories of it. one of my friends had one and we played it quite often. and recently I got my own with a couple of games.
Pokemon snap 2 on switch would be an amazing opportunity, and I dont imagine it would take much power to keep the visuals amazing even in handheld mode since it's a completely closed world game
Ahhh, those days. Consoles and games were my 1990's Christmas wish too. Loved mu NES, Saturn, and N64! With Doom 64. Doom 64 was my fave. Amd Mario 64.
The N64 was my first game system. I was three or four when we got one. My brother and I mainly played it together - Tony Hawk, Smash Bro’s, Mario Party... we’d be late to school because we missed the bus while playing. My brother passed away this year, but whenever I play my N64 I think of him ❤️
I was obsessed with EGM magazine Back in the mid 90s when I was 10 years old and I remember reading about “ultra 64” and being so incredibly excited around the time before it came out I ended up getting a Saturn and then I finally got it a 64 in ‘96 and eventually got the PS one if you years later but yeah those were really fun times the console wars back then great video
I remember not being able to get this one . So me and my 15 year bf pooled our money together and rented the whole Fn system from blockbuster. Good times man.
I got Celeste collectors edition for switch, and Turok 1 and 2 from Limited Run Games.... im 30 years old, lolol. I bought them myself and wrapped them to save for Christmas. I really re-created that excitment that you are talking about in this video! It was awesome!!
here's the thing, a good game is a good game, doesn't matter the console. that's why I think that the best thing you can do if the budget is low, get a last gen console, it will have tons of good games
"He got a truck"
As a father of 3, my soul felt that
I felt it too as an uncle of 6 nephews and neices
My great Nephew just hit 11 1/2 months old, and got a toy trike, so I felt it all over again as I also have 3 nieces, and a nephew who are in their teens, and the oldest of the 3 nieces in her 20's. my step daughter is 17, but me, and my fiance are trying for a boy, so it won't be long again lol!
A father of three trucks?
As a fasther of four boys, I winced at the memories (they're all in their late 20s now)
💔
"The fact that there's not a Pokemon Snap 2 is insane!"
Ahhh, the ignorance of the past, isn't it delightful?
Yup
And yet again Nintendo puts new in the title, like it will be new forever lol
There is one coming out
Carter Johnson I
Glad I’m not the only one here after the Snap announcement. I loved that game. Can’t wait for New Snap
Your sons laughter in the background was so adorable. I got my N64 after also. Thanks for the look back.
I see his son inspired you to buy a n64.😂
His open disdain for that sound was super heart warming.
@@cavemanben LOL I thought he hated children!
7:02 Actual unboxing starts here.
Jesus thank you
Thx 😂😂
Gracias!
Thx to
Thank you
12:38 "Nintendo admitted that cartridge were not the future"
Also Nintendo : Switch now had 64gb cartridges
I mean, there was no other way for it to have the same form factor if it used discs
i mean they kinda had to why would u want a heavier systems vecause u had a dvd or mini dvd slot (Plus that was 20 years ago with much larger tech)
Aren't the cartridges just SD cards?
@@AscendedBeyond pretty much but im pretty sure they are a bit diffrent (all i know is they are not exactly but they use sd card tech as data storage)
Even though they're referred to as cartridges, the Switch game carts are a completely different thing than those old cartridges. From a technical standpoint, they are much more similar to discs.
1992. I got a sega genesis with sonic the hedgehog. When I plugged it up, and started it, it said "sega". My whole family was like, "what the hell was that?" ...video games weren't known for talking a whole lot at that time.
Ya i got mine in 95, it was already taped up around the psu and the volume slider was broken at max. I didn't care I would go to the pawn shop and get a new $5 game every week at the pawn shop once I started going to school and getting good grades.
Title: "I Bought A GameStop Refurbished Nintendo 64...And This Is What They Sent Me"
Me: "Did they send you a Nintendo 64? Because you ordered one"
Ronture Gamestop is infamous for selling garbage and damaged “refurbished” systems.
@@notrandomtypek Yet he keeps buying and reviewing them expecting different results
@John O'Brien he buys them and reviews them expecting the videos to get a high number of views, which they do. And they remain evergreen, continuing to get views months and years after being released
John O'Brien also I’m pretty sure it’s funded by his Patreon.
@James Kozeluh I worked with a Jim Kozeluh for a few years. I don’t think it’s that common of a last name; you’re the only other person I’ve heard of that has it. Most of our coworkers couldn’t pronounce it
I remember when I first opened the box of my N64 at 8 years old...it was filled with socks. I of course was disappointed until I went into the other room...all set up on the old CRT...perfect elation!!
N64 brings back memories! :D Still remember when Nintendo sent us a promotional vhs tape about the n64 for some reason LOL!
I still have my vhs but no player. I played that sucker on repeat!!!
I never got one for some reason. But Capcom did send me a promotional video for Street Fighter 2 Turbo on Super Nintendo back in 93. I was convinced that it was the actual game at first but quickly examined the box's vhs like shape. Such my naive self 🙃
Nintendo sent me four VHS videos over a couple years.
I know this is Nintendo 64, remember Donkey Kong Country VHS that was sent out to some. lol This was the SNES at the time.
@@projectfreedom9510 Yup, I got the same VHS sent to me. Of course it was for SNES. DKC is by Nintendo.
"He got a truck" lmao
My favorite Spawnwave moment by far haha
That Tony Hawk level just brought back memories.
Nintendo went with cartridge so players didn’t have to deal with loading time.
Many years ago my dad got me a Wii for Christmas I was so excited, but he took everything out of the box and wrapped it up separately even the batteries for wiimotes, it took me 30 minutes to unwrap it all so much fun
The biggest issue I had with the Wii is that they didn't bother to produce accessories for the American market. They were just the same ones for the Japanese market and failed to take into consideration that Americans are generally larger than the Japanese. I'm not even talking about obesity here, trying to play some of those Wii sports titles with that understized step pad was a nightmare. The physical size of the thing was smaller than my pelvis making it virtually impossible to play.
Me : "that's enough youtube for today"
Spawn Wave : "Buying a Refurbished N64 from gamestop"
Me : "Who needs sleep"
Same honestly
Who needs sleep? Its 3am here dude
2:45 AM gang
7pm here I'm just waking up from a nap lol
@@cloudstrife293 f you
Enjoying a Super Nintendo while everyone had an N64 was super relatable.
“There’s not a Pokemon snap 2”
His voice has been heard
Oh man, that must be some intense trucking your child is doing
That was RGT.
fcukugimmeausername Gold comment
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@@fcukugimmeausername RGT?
Big rigs over the road racing
I remember at the time our family had a Sega Genesis that we played a ton. Often times though my much older brother (10 years older) wouldn't let me play so my dad wanted to get me something I could play. Christmas 1998 I got a Game Boy Color. I was so excited to have games that were mine and that my older brothers couldn't play GBC games since they had original GBs still. At the time, my dad had been laid off at IBM so I didn't think we would have any large gifts that year but my dad worked low paying jobs often 12 hours or more a day to make the extra money to get it for me. It was and still is the best gift I have received.
I remember my gameboy i held one recently and the screen is so much smaller Than what i remember
Your dad truly loves you, that’s a great story
My dad always makes excuses
My dad gave me an ass whooping for Christmas
I remember when the Nintendo 64 came out. I already had a Playstation and I'm a big fan of Nintendo so I bought the 64. It ended up becoming my ABSOLUTE favorite gaming machine of all time! I still to this day have my Nintendo 64 with all my favorite games and still play the shit out of it! I love my Nintendo 64....
remember renting that green Toy soldier game and hated it first 5 min lol
john s yes I rebought it last year lol
It really only sucked because of single stick controls. If, for some reason, the N64 had 2 analog sticks, it wouldve been 100x better :)
My wife got me a GBA Micro! It’s the Famicom 25th anniversary edition. I am still in shock I finally got one of these, all these years later! You should do a tech wave with a Micro!
Nice man. Not only did you get a Micro, but you got the best looking one!
Micros are so underrated. Love mine
HECK YES Micro! I have one with a damaged charge port that I have to baby in order for it to not break worse, but I play the tits off of it anyway.
My grandma in Japan used to send us a really big parcel to Canada once every few years. We were always excited, lots of cool candy, magazines, stationary. One year was different, one year we opened that package and inside was a Nintendo 64.
We had no clue what it was, it wasn’t released in Canada yet and being a kid with no internet word didn’t really get around. I remember my first game, Japanese Mario 64. Hours and hours I played the game, not speaking a word of English but I managed, must have beaten it over 200 times not including the DS release.
Then a year later it got launched in Canada and finally realized what I had lol.
Got a gameboy colour the same way. Turns out the one she sent me was a rare Lawson edition gameboy which is hard to find now.
So many memories with Nintendo as a kid. That’s not even including the hours spent skipping high school to play smash melee at my friends house.
das one cool grandma 👵
Lawson edition Gameboy? What's that?
I remember opening my N64. Me and my brother flipped out! This year, my game gifts were Fire Emblem: Three Houses and The Witcher 3 for the Switch. I’ve got W3 on PS4 but being able to take it on the go when I travel for work is too good to pass up. The packaging and extras really were a nice touch by CD Projekt Red.
Ahhh Great memories of going to Target, TRU, Sears, BB, Kmart and others to check availability of systems and accessories. Reading the magazines, looking at the pictures and imagining you had the console and all those cool games. Exciting trips to the 5 stores that rented games in our town. Hoping the clerk would let you to through the stack of games behind the counter that had been returned but not placed on the shelves yet.
I gave my childhood 64 system to my older sister this Christmas. She wanted a 64. I couldn’t find another one. It was tough for me. Just seeing her happy made me happy.
You didn't try very hard....
@@nexxusty what?
Ill never forget the christmas of 99 when my mom told me she was going to the north pole to get the 64 form santa lmaoo and i believed it. When she got back like 2 hours later, she had a box. And i was like woaaaah! it only took 2 hours mommy!? She was like yeah i flew there! (Again, i believed it) I opened up that wrapping paper, and that bad boy was there. Bundled with 2 controllers (grey and atomic purple). And my first game she handed me was a brand new copy of Bomberman hero, of all things. I loved it to death and played it everyday! Good times...
Love this story!
Chr0mePisto1a thank you 🙏🏻😊
The beginning of the video was pure awesomeness! Love that laugh. You got 3 SNES games for Christmas? Spoiled as a kid I see. 3 games... wow.
I would get two new snes games a year back then. One for my birthday and one at Christmas. This is the reason I rented games and told my parents exactly what I wanted lol.
Awesome video, love the reminiscence. I'll never forget playing Pokemon for hours into the night on the original gameboy underneath the various lamps in my parent's house trying to evolve into Blastoise or the monumental Christmas morning when I awoke to an N64 and Ocarina of Time. I had no idea on that morning twenty-one years ago that my life was going to change forever.
I got a REFURBISHED CHILD from GameStop, this is what I got 🤔
Lol
Funny
@Johnny Guillotine this is no childs play
Let’s take him apart and see what’s been done at the refurbishment center
Cursed
i was lucky and got a 64 on release day, my dad found a store in a tiny town near where i lived in nor cal, it was the last one they had
also got it quite early and played the shit out of Mario64. That game was my life for quite a while.
@@BatLB yea i also had mario and played it like no other
A was the first at my local toyrus and only 2 other people where there
How old are you sir?
i cannot express how relatable your journey towards acquiring the 64 system years, after release, was for me. After the gamecube launch, we ended up with one of our cousin's N64 and game library for a few years. Then i think in 2005, as a 6 year-old, I hyped up my dad so much to buy the Mario Party 7 & Gamecube bundle at $99 specifically from Target. Was elated with that for another year or two until the Wii lol
3:50 - Then God said, "Let there be 'Ocarina of Time!'".
And Super smash bros and Goldeneye!!
“And he saw that it was good,” 😂
This is good to hear. The lack of a picture for a second hand item on any website is a big red flag for me, especially for GameStop because they’ll never tell you if it comes in a case or not.
1997 i got my playstation and i legit cried...i was 9 at the time and played a bunch of wcw vs the world and some demos.
Jay Arre I thought those wcw games sucked smack down was good tho
@@justthisguy1948 yeah they didnt do well on ps1. N64 was the go to for good wcw games
Same with me in 98. Was the first non obsolete hand me down console I ever got. I treated that thing like the hope diamond. Still have it. Only drawback was I got clock tower with it because my step dad didn't know any better. Game scared the shit outta me.
@@jdwarden2157 Hahaha. That's awesome.
Honestly I liked to play Playstation 2 again
From memory, I got mine in 1998 (year after it released in Australia). I remember going into a retailer and playing Mario 64 on a store setup, long time before I got it. I also remember trying Diddy Kong Racing as well at another store and I thought Conker was Tales lol.
Actually, it's criminal that no one has done another Diddy Kong Racing either. So 1998 Christmas I had the stock standard N64 under the tree and Diddy Kong Racing. My mum let me read the Diddy Kong Racing manual before Christmas (I knew what I was getting).
After Christmas we picked up Mario 64 at Toys R Us with my Christmas money. I remember that day, it was a muggy, cloudy and rainy day here in the tropics.
I remember the first year my mother worked for TWA and had to work on Christmas day. I was bummed out, but she let me open a gift before she went so I would have something to tide me over until she got home that night. And the gift I opened turned out to be Bad Dudes for the NES. Not the greatest game, sure, but it was very special to me in that moment. My eyes widened and she managed to get a photo of me with child like excitement on my face. And that was the Christmas I spent saving the president's daughter.
Ahhh 1999. I remember sitting at my uncle's house watching him playing Ocarina of Time. He let me play it and I fell in love. I begged my parents to get an N64 with Ocarina of Time. I got one. John is right though, times were more simple back then. I remember the last game I rented from Blockbuster was back in '06 was Dirge of Cerberus. Still one of my favorite games to this day. The days of just coming home doing homework and then playing some video games...I miss them.
I was so excited when my dad got me my PSP!! I really enjoyed it!
Same
When I got my switch back in August 2019 ,two weeks before my 20th birthday, my hype to open the box threw me back to Xmas in 06 when I got my first Nintendo DS lite and how out of this world hyped I was to play Mario kart, super Mario Bros, super Mario 64, Mario & Luigi partners in time, animal crossing wild world
Loved the explanation of the RAMBus design :)
Nice to know people are still interested in knowing about the context of 64 development.
Love these videos man.
I will never forget the christmas of 1988, when me and my older sister got the NES, with the light gun and power pad. Also included was super mario bros/duck hunt/world class track meet. We played it all xmas day.
Little dude said “I don’t care about your silly Nintendo, dad. I got a truck.”
My girlfriend bought me a Sega Genesis nostalgia overload.
Hope you married her cause my ex girlfriend would get me dumb shirts like "Today isn't my day" for Christmas
You were able to get your hands on one of the rarest SNES games for Christmas!?
I’m impressed
use your head. at the time, it wasn't considered rare, it was new.
I still remember the Christmas I got the 64 I was home for break and my mom had to go to work so I opened it and closed it everyday making sure to put the tape back very carefully.
I did that with my Game Gear and my SNES.
I wish I didn't do it. Definitely made my Mom sad.
She knew. Yours did too.
My parents surprised me with a Nintendo Switch 2 Christmases ago-needless to say, I was NOT expecting that! I also got Breath of The Wild along with it. I’m greatful that I got it and I’m thoroughly enjoying it!
That’s nice!!
20 years! Dang are we getting old! Great video!
I'm 43, just got my first Wii, refurbished from gamestop, my mom got it for me. Works good, the sensor bar I have to be within 3'-4' of it or my cursor jumps around. Also the battery compartment cover looks like someone took sandpaper to it.
I remember calling Nintendo about the DD and the agent I talked to on the phone told me about plans of having Bowser as a playable charactor on Mario 64. I didn't get a 64 until late 97 and I traded way too much for one.
I miss all the n64 history back in the old days. Game magazine's revealed a lot of information of the Ultra 64. Later the N64DD, Zelda Ura, Prototype Mario 64 Beta, even the large N64 Cartridges & a lot more.
That intro is the prime example of how Christmas should be. It warmed my heart.
I remember Christmas 1997 i was 6 years old at the time and i remember my father saying “that’s the last Christmas gift you’ll
ever get”
He wasn’t lying
8:55
**trumpets playing** "so here i am"
The sound of a happy child is something that just makes your heart fill with joy ❤️
Bill Cook the child wasn’t screaming and isn’t a baby. Your inability to tell the difference is the first problem you have.
@@MichaelsPwner bingo
@baerleon *[police sirens intensify]*
Yep
ya mean *_WII U WII U WII U WII U_*
What a way to end 2019 spawn really took me back to those days. Have to agree one of my favorites were pokemon puzzle league with it's amazing music & mario party of course.
I remember getting my first ever video game. Mario kart DS on my DS in 2008. We’ll it wasn’t on Christmas when I got it, it was basically the start of most of my childhood. Me and my brother would play countless hours on the system and we would ask everyone around us if they had a DS so we could play with them. Those were the days.....
I freaking love this channel man it just gives me such good vibes
0:02 sounds of happiness
One of my favorite "big" Christmas gifts was a 13-inch color TV. I played tons of TI99/4A, NES, and Super NES on it.
Back in 2007, I got the white Star Wars PSP. I remember that I was so excited to get it. I still have it to this day, and I still bring it out from time to time to play.
20 years ago.. that’s nuts. I feel like an old man
I can't be alone in saying that this is my favorite channel on UA-cam
@KJ HX he's white
@KJ HX You shouldn't use racial slurs, he is also White
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I'm Commander Shepherd and this is my favorite UA-cam channel
Yeah, spawn wave is fantastic. Hope his channel continues to grow.
I was one of the lucky few mentioned that got a N64 on Christmas in 1996. I still have that system today. This video makes me want to go get it out and play some Oot.
I remember getting mine on Christmas as well. The best was the year I got Zelda Oot. I would stay up till midnight and open gifts once I was do e I stayed up all night playing it. I still remember that feeling seeing link get out of bed and shuffle along the bed. That was a great memories.
i still remember the release of the N64 in fact a game store near my home had a Japanese imported n64 with a copy of mario 64, this was MONTHS before the actual release and i ended up finishing mario 64 before it was released lol
If you still had that it would be worth alot
I got the Dreamcast for Christmas when it came out with Resident Evil: Code Veronica. I was dang happy. I specifically wanted the dreamcast just for RE when I was growing up.
It's unfortunate that the dreamcast didn't last long. The only game i had for it was loony tunes space race. Oh lol and shenume
I got crazy taxi, shemue, and the Japanese version of shemue 2 I own a North American and Japanese console
I once dropped a ~30 inch CRT on my N64 while helping my dad move. The TV was thrown out a few years later in another move I wasn't involved in and I kept the N64. In fact, I now play on it with an Everdrive and a Rumbler controller. Feels odd playing of a widescreen, though.
I remember my mom and dad telling us years later that the weeks leading up to christmas they would unbox it, play mario kart all night long, and then box it back up every night.
Got a Sega CD and Lunar The Silver Star for Christmas this year. Felt like I went back in time.
OMG that was one of my favorites!!!!
@@benboyd3082 I absolutely adore that game. I had childhood level excitement when I opened it again.
I felt that excitement as a 22 year old unwrapping Zelda Breath Of The Wild on Christmas this year...
I casually brought it up in a conversation with my mother weeks beforehand. I just said something like oh im going to get this game for my switch soon and was wondering if she ever played the og version or had heard of the legend of zelda as a teenager (she used to love gaming herself, she got me into it as a kid)
I was soooooooo surprised she even remembered the name of the game, and also somehow got the correct one..... Not links awakening, it honestly took me for a shock and i was like a little ten year old again, unwrapped it and straight away into the switch.......
man, that's so great. i love hearing stories like that. i can't wait to give my kids precious memories like that :D
My mom would have gotten something completely different and probably not even zelda related. When I was a kid she asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I said " a psp". Christmas came and I got a 3ds...I was so heartbroken, I already had a Wii to play super mario, zelda, kirby, mario kart, etc and she got me something I didn't want. She knew what a psp was ironically
I bought BOTW almost 1 year ago and it's hands down my favorite game of all time, almost 200h in and still have 15 shrines to complete before beating Ganon. Good choice and I'm glad you got such an amazing (and expensive) game as a gift!
The large plastic casing you got it in was definitely the Costco/Price Club bundle. I remember seeing it at least 4 times in the store.
For Christmas in 1995, my parents got me a yellow GameBoy along with Kirby's Dreamland 2, back when Nintendo had the Play It Loud rerelease with all the different colors. They thought the screen was colored but I knew better lol. But that was a special moment for me as it was the first game system that I could call my own and I feel in love with it. I didn't have many fantastic holidays but it was the most memorable Christmas for me!
I finally got a Pokémon Sword and Shield Switch Lite so damn happy! Super Pokémon fan couldn’t ask for anything better ❤️
Enjoy your Switch Lite!
I have a living Pokédex if you need any of the version exclusives or ones that have a 1% appearance rate... 🙂
Enjoy.
Yo that's insane I dont remember asking
@@codywilt6158 no need to be a dick about it.
Dededededed Everyone look how cool this guy is! So cool.
I remember when I got off the school bus and my mother surprised me with the N64.. I still play on this console from time to time and I'm in my 30s 🙌
I remember wanting a n64 so bad when it was first coming out. My IFL teacher in 7th grade used to rub it in our faces that she was the last one to buy one and they couldnt be found anywhere! My parents really made me feel they wanted to but just couldnt find one. So I accepted it and moved on. Well Christmas came and I got one that year!! The only problem was my tv needed an rf modulator and we had to wait until the next day and driving around to different places and ended up in radio shack finally getting one and it was so amazing! There were so many cool games but ocarina of time ended up being my favorite game actually of all time for me. Thanks for the video man.
The N64 Jumper Pak was actually a termination card. The N64 uses RD-RAM for the 4 megabyte memory and given the expansion slot, the jumper pak had to be made to terminate the RD-RAM "signal". It was merely an arrangement of circuitry rather than containing an integrated circuit. Old PCs, such as Socket 423 Pentium 4 systems used RD-RAM and had these termination cards in the RAM slots if not all RAM slots were occupied with actual RAM. Great video!
When I was 12-years-old I got Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almnia for Nintendo DS. I came from a poor family so this was a big deal for me. I opened it Christmas Eve, I technically got 2 gifts cause my sister tried opening a 2nd one and it was a DS case. Lol
I played that bad boy none stop until I beat it. I loved it. It's one of my favorite memories.
When you are rich, you don't appreciate or enjoy things as much.
@@VagueMemory True. It was one of my favorite memories.
Awwwww that’s so cute with all the screaming hahahahaha. Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and have a great 2020!
I got the PS1 on christmas of 1999,
I was born in 1998, let that sink in
r/hmmm
It was a present for you....r dad
My favorite gift ive ever gotten was my yellow gameboy and red version. I loved my gameboy. I got mine in 98 and did the same but i had to get up and go to school or i couldnt rent a game. 😅
I remember that clear casing it came in. Im like 90 percent sure it was from Costco
I got my n64 Christmas 1999 too!!! Super Smash brothers was my brother and my first game. We wrote a letter to my mom to get one, promising that we would do the dishes and all these chores. We would rent one all the time so we really wanted one of our own. We got it! And then that March my little brother got his own from his Grandma with no letter!! Lol, but at least we had extra controllers and access to more games! Thank you for this video which marks the anniversary!
I wasn't even around when it released, but i still have fond memories of it. one of my friends had one and we played it quite often.
and recently I got my own with a couple of games.
the touhou baka Same here. But my sister had one and I used it. Sort of along those lines
Pokemon snap 2 on switch would be an amazing opportunity, and I dont imagine it would take much power to keep the visuals amazing even in handheld mode since it's a completely closed world game
It would be awesome with Labo VR support.
So THAT'S why they call it the "jumper" pack! It's a literal jumper.
Ahhh, those days. Consoles and games were my 1990's Christmas wish too. Loved mu NES, Saturn, and N64! With Doom 64. Doom 64 was my fave.
Amd Mario 64.
7 minutes into the video and now he’s just opening the box
I remember when I got my N64 for Christmas, good times...
Unboxing starts at 7:00
The N64 was my first game system. I was three or four when we got one. My brother and I mainly played it together - Tony Hawk, Smash Bro’s, Mario Party... we’d be late to school because we missed the bus while playing. My brother passed away this year, but whenever I play my N64 I think of him ❤️
7:10 is when he finally opens the box
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I remember one christmas my cousin gave me his gba sp, and it had yoshi's island.
Thumbs up for that little backstory in the beginning. I love those!
I was obsessed with EGM magazine Back in the mid 90s when I was 10 years old and I remember reading about “ultra 64” and being so incredibly excited around the time before it came out I ended up getting a Saturn and then I finally got it a 64 in ‘96 and eventually got the PS one if you years later but yeah those were really fun times the console wars back then great video
I remember not being able to get this one . So me and my 15 year bf pooled our money together and rented the whole Fn system from blockbuster. Good times man.
My first console at age 10 on the Christmas day best memories of my childhood
Mario 64 bundle
Still working ☺️👍
@06:32 that really REALLLLLLLY aged well. Lol
I got Celeste collectors edition for switch, and Turok 1 and 2 from Limited Run Games.... im 30 years old, lolol. I bought them myself and wrapped them to save for Christmas. I really re-created that excitment that you are talking about in this video! It was awesome!!
here's the thing, a good game is a good game, doesn't matter the console. that's why I think that the best thing you can do if the budget is low, get a last gen console, it will have tons of good games
At Christmas I got a nintendo switch deluxe system case