Frank fruter, that's a rough one, I was trying to get to the third night on Majora's Mask so I left the game on and fell asleep and apparently thirty minutes later my grandma cut it off while I was sleeping
having to mess with the cartridge, pushing it at different angles, blowing into it, to get it to work. The worst part was the "Game Genies" those little cartridge addons, you would put it into the NES then have to use NASA's power tools to get the damn thing out.
I started playing Link's Awakening DX recently and it does that. And for some reason, Nintendo did not enable save states on the virtual console release. I have them for Oracle of Seasons/Ages, but not a game where you can't actually save without a lot of hassle.
Auto saves kind of took the fun out of games like resident evil. I’m glad they at least kept one mode classic in the remake hopefully they do the same for the 3rd
This really only became a thing once Autosaves where introduced and devs decided "you know what would be amazing, if the player was not allowed to also choose to save"
my dad's logic: If anything is loading, even for a bit, i have to let it think so it doesnt get jammed. Sometimes, like if i type so fast, he points out that: You're doing it so fast it doesnt understand. When will he understand it's not the 80's?
When you go to the store and think "oh cool a game!" and buy it only to notice in small writing it said "Expansion Pack!" and you needed the original game that was never in the same store.
I busted the A/V input on my PS3 because of that. Was charging the controller while playing, leaned back and it fell about 3-4 feet. Twice. Now I have to only use HDMI, as the A/V has a bend in it.
I remember being at my best friends house playing ps2 getting to the end of Tony Hawk Underground and his mother kept asking him to turn it off because it was bed time. Just as we finished the game she was EXTREMELY mad because she had been asking for a good 45 minutes and as we were saving the game she comes up and rips the plug out. We thought nothing of it seeing as she was absolutely fuming until the next morning when we woke up to find that the memory card with 15+ completed games including Simpsons hit and run, God of War, Final Fantasy X, GTA San Andreas, Etc. got COMPLETELY wiped because she unplugged it as we were saving... I've still not forgiven that wretched woman...
I remember hooking up a Sega my dad brought back from Japan. Had to connect the VCR to a COAX adapter to UHF, turn the dial to 3 on the TV, and tune the VCR to channel 95 or something to play it on the TV.
Morrius07 day One patch do not work like that , even if they postponed the game you would still get day 1 patches because the game was already in gold one month before
I was playing a game and just about to beat tohe game and then I heard my mom say "we definitely won't lose power" then the power went out, you double jinxing bitch
That’s why I use a energy save power bar, so if the power goes out while your saving it’ll give you a little bit of more time for the save to finish before shutting off the console.
And then there’s Skyrim, that game just chooses when and where to autosave by itself. There was one time my game didn’t autosave for 2 hours and I died and I just stopped for the day
Skyrim's system is literally the best. You can quick save where ever you please as often as you please. More games should do this instead of only relying on auto save.
The worst thing in my lifetime playing games was when you had the ps2 and everytime you put a game in there you hope to God that it didn't say, " please enter a disk " or " this game is unreadable "
how about having to have specialized "Boot" disks to push everything into "extended Memory" to squeeze out as much as you can from the 640k conventional memory pool games would use to run on. (im looking at you kings quest series LOL)
Ob. yes, QEMM was the one that was able to mama 634 kB of lower memory available with carefully calibrated driver loading that required a couple of reboots. And some DOS games (Cannon Fodder comes to mind) wouldn't even attempt to run with less than 630, even though there was megabytes of extended or expanded memory available. Yes, you also had to sort out extended and expanded memory for programs that could use it. Real mode applications could only address 1MB of memory, and 360 I think was ROM (BIOS routines, ...). So there was only 640 kB of RAM available, some of which was taken by DOS. For accessing more memory you needed to use protected mode, don't really know the details, but most programs needed memory managers, e.g. HIMEM or QEMM, that provided easier access to memory. Most programs using extra memory demanded extended memory, some were happy with expanded memory, and very few were able to use the memory directly. Windows 3, for example, wouldn't load without a memory manager. Windows 95 would, as it would wipe DOS and everything from memory and use it all directly for itself. Where Windows 3 had the "exit" option to go back to DOS, Windows 95 didn't (for obvious reasons), you had to reboot is so DOS was reloaded etc.
I remember having an attachment for my old game boy that had a lens and shined light on it. It was big and clunky but it served it's purpose. It did however need it's own batteries... 😒
toughluck8012 I was like that for all the Jak games. Staying up till the sun came up and eating all the hot Cheetos and drinking Mountain Dew. good ol days
did tht with Megaman legends on PS1. lol only takes me just the entire day to reach the final boss.....then die. lol thts y i sometimes prefered N64 ver of the same games for free save files. Game feels short if it takes just 1 day. :P
11: Having to untangle an unholy mess of controller cords. The more siblings and systems you had, the struggle got exponentially worse. Nothing like having to unplug everything and look at your brother like.... HOW DID THIS EVEN HAPPEN?!
Xehemoth exactly! However for a retro gamer/collector like me this still fucking exists in fact for alot of us in the hobby it does an it seriously is infuriating like "what in the actual fuck how in the name of ass did everything get tangled into what resembles a fucking circulatory system?!"
Well I meant more like sometimes you would rather not save because you feel a boss fight is coming up and your super low on everything, THEN IT SAVES, and your stuck trying to beat that boss with nothing.
IdealIdeas100 games like Fallout 4 and Skyrim have this feature where they might auto save after you enter/exit an area and if there's an enemy on the other side that's especially powerful you're pretty much f***ed. Load and enter open area, get 1 shot by enemy, die then rinse and repeat. Then you'll have to play the mini game of pressing the pause button inbetween the time you load the area and the time you die to reload a past save. It gets even worse when you mod the game with things like modern weapons mods that do 500+ damage.
I remember stickers "hugs not drugs" on arcade machine's. I always thought as a kid. Just cause it rhymes doesn't mean it make sense, the hugging eventually led me to a dealer.
Messing with AV cables and composite cables. Remember having to connect up to 5 plugs? White and red for your stereo sound, yellow for video if not HD, or RGB cables for HD. Now we have HDMI, which gives us one cable to rule them all.
Remember having to plug everything in through Cable so when it messed up on the back of the television u couldn't just switch to av or HDMI u had to stand there and wiggle the cable and the port or have another TV LMFAO
And destroying the disc in the progress with a good old deep circular scratch. This happened to me with my PS2 and I swear it did something to the loading times with every game since.
My ps1 got destroyed when my dads dog, ran across the room and hit pulled the controller cable while I was playing Spiderman. I'll never forget seeing the console fly for the shelf and bounce across the floor.
Old games didn't need dlc and they couldn't just add new content, meaning gamed were published FINISHED and no microtransactions. Also manual saving is fun to me. So.
Several games did release add-on content though. The difference was that it was actually added content, not just stuff they stripped from the base game and locked behind a paywall. The most notable one I remember was GTA 1, which had a London expansion pack released on a second disc. I also remember the command and conquer series had a few on PC. I personally like games that use autosave, but also allow manual saving. Manual saving is a great way to experience all endings to a game with multiple ending scenarios.
Only ea does this today they usually fix bugs when they find them back then you just had to deal with it yourself also Holiday themed stuff some games even give you free stuff on you're b day I prefer modern days
The real struggle is when you complete a game, go to bed, get up the next morning to go play it some more, just to realize/figure out your save battery died. Has happened to me way too many times...
armgidion games having season passes doesn't automatically mean that the game was incomplete most really games are complete and the season pass adds longevity to the game
The games of today have more than 100x the content, just because some missions, skins, or cars get locked out doesn't mean you have to whine. So ungrateful....
So, Im ungrateful for having to pay for more things on top of $60? your usage of ungrateful doesn't seem to align with what you're saying. It's differen't when they give them for free, but not charge their players/fan base.
+GerryMOTO For one, now games even with DLC cost less than a single game back then (roughly 90~100$). And that's not to mention how much money gamers spent at the arcades. Second, you'd be surprised how many games had various microtransactions back then as well, from smaller ones, like designing parts of the game so that you MUST buy a guide or official magazine to clear certain points (blowing up a specific unmarked wall in Zelda 1 or the whole Castlevania 2 tornado thing) to bigger ones like additional discs with bonus content and expansions (which even costed more than DLC since it had to be sold on a separate physical disc). Third, the most evil money-grubbing dickmove of all, satellite and cable game services... an obscure take on online play, through either satellite broadcast (Nintendo Satellaview) or cable TV (Sega Channel), both of which were not very good, both time restricted, meaning you could only play certain games during specific time sof the day, and the worst part, the cost for said services was astronomically high. The Sega Channel was a cable service, so no hardware was needed, but you had to pay a 25$ activation fee and a 15$ monthly subscription PER GAME (which changed to 20$ for all games later on), while the Satellaview was an add-on that costed around 140~180$ and had a 30~40$ monthly subscription for all games. As you might have guessed, it didn't last really long and the game library for both was very low.
Lol, no. You're ignoring inflation, mixing various game systems, not mentioning a date and adding arcade players (?! wtf) into the mix. Also, I don't think the OP was talking about money but since you are... Games, and especially consoles, were globally cheaper yesterday compared to today and this will be true in the future as well as long as inflation rises and if the base game price doesn't drop below 40$. You can do a simple google research to learn about inflation and prices of games in time. Not to mention we're even luckier nowadays as we have sales, rental services, second hand markets and even media libraries that lends software/games for free. All this makes it possible to play almost any game that ever came out with any budget. On a side note : DLC is the only piece of shitty software that doesn't have much, if any, variation in price unless you get it bundled with a specific edition of the game which makes it even shittier ( in rare cases) like Darksiders 2 and it's updated edition that is more jerky and buggy. Which means that most console games out there with DLC have an expiration date on part of their content that will be locked up forever once the service selling it goes down or decides to disable/delete the hosted data. Even if you're willing to pay for it.
Now you have 1 CD but instead of just inserting the disk and playing, you have to wait while it updates (and even a brand new game will have like a day 1 patch because they rushed the game and use the first buyers as free beta testers) and even then you might have to jump through even more hoops like making you sign up for something online before it lets you play. Then there's free DLC that comes with the game: "You got this exclusive item. You just have to go to this website, create an account, confirm your email address and fetch three goats from the well in the woods and drink milk from all of them, except the third one because he's evil, to prove you're human and get the item in-game".
Loosing a CD key. Back in the day before cross platform DRM like Steam has. Oh, and having to have the CD physically in the tray to even launch the game. While I enjoy having hard copies in the event digital copies are pulled from stores due to licensing running out, I do like the ability to buy a game, and then play it on any of my computers without having to fuss with CDs and especially CDs that tracked and limited the number of times a key could be used, preventing you from installing a game you own on your own computer.
Yes! That last one got my friend, once. He'd bought a new game right before coming to my house. He was too excited to wait until he got home to play it, so we installed it on my computer in the mean time. When he tried to install it at home, later that day? Guess what? DENIED! LOL
yeah i miss em too .. luckily my retro collection fills the void , especially with the older games from the major companies which had some major packaging :-)
Noooooooooo!!!!!!!! But honestly, its a really low possibility for that to happen, a lot of players live in places that don't have a strong internet connection, also with disks, you can lend it to a friend or sell it.
@@travailier What are you talking about? Downloads are way cheaper than the physical discs. I haven't bought physical discs in years just because it's cheaper to get download key from online.
@@hamzaayaz7482 You don't need to have strong connection... Like 30-40mb/s is already good enough and even lower than that is bearable and pretty much everywhere in 4G areas there is at least 10-20mb/s... Ofc wireless is not as stable as cable but still it is enough. (I used to live in bad connection area still 6 years ago before they made upgrades there and we got at that time anything between 8-25mb/s depending on day and time of day etc. and it worked okay)
GTA 3 for PS2 would act weird after some time no matter what. It would start to not load parts of the city and such. Most of the time the game would just freeze, but once in a while you could get a good laugh out of a crazy glitch.
GTA 3 for PS2 would act weird after some time no matter what. It would start to not load parts of the city and such. Most of the time the game would just freeze, but once in a while you could get a good laugh out of a crazy glitch.
I remember leaving my gba on for 3 days just to beat harry potter where saves didn't work. I ended up beating the game twice in a row before i finally stopped playing.
You missed trying to squeeze out enough "conventional memory" in DOS, to run some games. That was ART! :D himem.sys emm386.exe devicehigh and loadhigh autoexec.bat config.sys ah the memories... and agony.
i was playing ow and i just here my sis-pause the game and let's go get smoe food. me:I cant pause, just order! sis:yes you can it's not like the bots won't follow the rules.... me:these are real people around the wrold *puts team chat on* you suck widow blah blah balh
I lost one of my ps2 memory cards when my family traveled overseas. I found it in a random suitcase like five years later and got all my saves back. It didn't mean much in retrospect because I played them all again, but it made me chuckle
When you got stuck in a game, you had to figure it out yourself or get a help from a friend because UA-cam didnt exist so you couldnt get help from a walkthrough.
Omfg, the first silent Hill...that damn piano puzzle, I had no idea wtf e or f or anything was, it took forever, and I remember getting it by luck once and heading through the door just to die having not saved!!
Not unless you were playing on a GameCube and had a "16x" memory card. I swear, those things did not run out of space. But it would be annoying when you'd start up a game and get a message that your memory card is corrupted and you had to reformat the entire thing.
Aimela I dont know about the GC ones, but I know that with the PS1/2 mem cards, you just had to figure out what save was corrupted and just delete that one save, and then the corrupted data
Yeah, leaving the NES on all night. The only game I really remember doing that with was SMB3. Of course, there will be tears when you inevitably lose power some day...
I used to have my NES on floor. I was trying to beat Megaman 2 while my brothers were wrestling in the same room. Game freezes becuase someone gets body slammed.
playing ps2 games at night in a dark room and having everyone trip over the controller cable because they couldn't see it. shoutout to wireless technology
i get this but sometimes you forget to charge it or you think your charging it so you leave it charging overnight and then you get up and find out sits not done it and you can't use it or the controller runs out of battery half way through a super important part that makes you lose the game. i'm gonna stick to wired.
Great video as always. Lol. This nostalgia. haha. The days when that mouse ball gets filled with sticky dirt, I dont know why I miss those all of a sudden.
"Immersion is important" No, "FUN" is most important. whether that fun is dying repeatedly to the skeletons outside the first area in dark souls and working out how to beat them or playing an easy puzzle game.
I cannot imagine what could eliminate lag entirely. Computers still have to communicate with eachother. Devises plugged in, such as your mouse, still has to communicate with YOUR computer. Distances between people or servers are always going to be a thing. So idk how you would ever have near instant communication on both sides of the connection to allow virtually no lag whatsoever.
@@shawnwolf5961 we can't get rid of lag completely but playing on a U.S. East server when you're in Australia or vice-versa and getting only 40 ping is the dream for many.
@@shawnwolf5961 - Well, electrons travelling with a certain speed. Light on the other hand... Also yes, lag is ethernal, but technology is evolving much faster than human senses. Sooner or later we will have tech that feels instant because the delay will be less than what people can notice.
never being able to enjoy singleplayer games because your brother was always screeching "IT'S MY TURN!!" and/or your parents wouldn't let you rent any games from Blockbuster that weren't multiplayer
Where as I hate that most games are single player or online multiplayer.other than dumb party games theres next to no decent multiplayer games these days,I miss the old multiplayer games
Battletoads. I've finished it several times but it was always a dedicated session. No saves, no passwords, and one of the toughest games on the system. lol
Oh, I remember when games would come with a freaking sweet instruction book. Some had color pictures and they were so cool. Lol. Some of them had that telephone number that you could call for help but you had to pay per minute usually to talk to a "PRO" gamer. Thankfully I didn't have to call anyone. :p
Yeah... the non-existent instructions are more like a problem for old-school gamers who still game now. Some of those manuals had a lot of work put into them and you could tell.
Those instruction books were awsome especially because most of them had note sections so you could easily remember something specific for the game like passwords and glitches
Always check for extra batteries around the house before buying them yourself. Try and explain to dumbfounded parents later that they bought bad batteries to explain why they ran out so fast. Hahahahahaaaah! I'm evil. >:-D
brought to school to play during recess ... and then sneakily played in class, then the teacher caught you and took the gameboy away with power turned on and you did not save ...
By far the worst thing I remember was scratches on CDs before games could be fully downloaded. If there was a scratch on that, the game was almost certainly ruined.
And I literally mean screw using a screw driver because the TV was so old it didn't have the normal 1 screw and you needed a piece with the two wire prongs.
That cannot be true... You would've given up trying to complete games since it would be impossible to always prevent interruptions... (Unless your parents were really chill and let you keep the console on...)
The first game I ever played was either Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario Bros. 3. And 3 didn't even have checkpoints. And I never had games with save batteries. I never cared.
That's what I did with my PS1 for 4 weeks once. I was really into a game called Jade Cocoon and some how my memory card ended up in my dads bags and he was gone for the whole month. I had my PlayStation on for an entire month.
I never bought cheat books. I just looked in the magazine section at the grocery store every Sunday after church and would write down the cheats I wanted.
When you used to own a Spectrum 48k with a tape drive, spent 20 minutes loading a game only for it to crash before it loaded up, yeah that was early rage that was
I've never come across an older game that had any game-breaking bugs, probably because companies actually had to make sure that there weren't any, because they couldn't afford to use updates like a crutch, like they can now...
Updates and patches are predominately a good thing in this age. Conversely, the devs are being pushed harder and harder by their publishers to release these games within a certain time frame (look at Christmas). I'm looking at you, fucking Ubisoft.
Yeah, they can be good, but not when they are relied on like they are, there is a problem with how developers are being treated, sure, but I don't think punishing the consumer by forcing big updates and such on them is the answer. The ways things currently are would only benefit the publishers, and even then, I don't think it is most of the time. There has to be a better solution out there.
Auto save death loop. Since you've JUST beat that really hard boss and walked out of the room and the game saves you're pretty happy. But since you decided to roll out of the room in celebration, you don't see the cliff that you fall off of and die. Just to reload, mid roll, into your perpetual demise.
Never happened to me, but I have a similiar issue for games that keep your current health and inventory when you load. Like when it checkpoints at a certain spot where I'm near dead and almost out of ammo or something else you have to manage in the game. And you keep loading into the same spot, and beating a simple enemy wave turns into the hardest boss fight. Or worse! When it happens right before an actual boss fight!
Draken ancients gates. This same thing happened to me but without an autosave. I saved mid jump only to realize i wasn't going to make it past that cliff edge.
Not an autosave one, but I know the feeling..In FF13 I had saved right before a boss I wasn't levels up enough to beat (the giant machine that you have to beat each limb before the body will take damage), and the room before it was paths you have to activate. Well, I didn't know they all DEACTIVATE once you start it up again..So there's no going back to grind, and no going forward..Softlocked in a fucking RPG..
Lichtgestalt Kruemel yup. Get off the tv they said. However, it was all history after i saved up money mowing yards and selling candy to make the money to buy an 80 dollar tube tv. Which my parents took from me when theirs broke. Was soo sad to see my super nintendo without a tv. Luckily someone had 1 in a trash pile a month later down the street. It had no power button. I litterally stuck my finger inside the hole where the power button used to be 2 hit the button inside of it
David Daivdson, I got my uncles OLD tv, pretty sure if was a Magnavox or something, but I remember it had a little yellow stick that was behind a little door that folded down on the base of the tv and you had to use that to tune the channels to which all dials TO TUNE were also behind the little door. I think they did it like that was cause so there were no tuning knobs protruding out the front. I got the tv cause my uncle broke one of the dials cause he lost the little sick and he tried using something else. The stick had like 2 or 3 little prongs on it, the whole thing wasn't much bigger than match stick. Plus the tv only had like 8 channel BUTTONS peroid, you couldn't of watched cable on it if you wanted to.
I remember having to purchase books for games. The problem was with some of them was the accuracy of the information provided especially if the books is providing passwords for various games which were inaccurate or providing information that was incorrect.
Having all my cds getting scratched so easily cause I was a careless child who didn’t understand the importance of of disc management and the proper maintenance required to have a scratch free disc. Now I’m either smarter or discs are harder to scratch
In my opinion, having your memory card get corrupted is worse than having it get lost. Because if you lose your memory card, there's a chance you might find it again, but if the memory card gets corrupted, then that's it. All your saves are gone. Forever. Start over.
That's the worst! That happened so many times to me because I always turned my systems off wrong when I was younger. But the worst time that happened was when it happened to my GameCube memory card.... I miss you animal crossing save... the amount of hours... the amount of bells... all gone.... and all my chao save data from sonic adventure two! Oh man the feels....
pdiddyrocks101 when I was younger the power outlet was by my bed so I would rip it out instead of probably turning it off, maybe that wasn't the reason why It got corrupted but that's what I think caused it lol and before you say it yes I realize how much of an idiot I am, I take better care of my systems now thank god lol
pdiddyrocks101 when I was younger the power outlet was by my bed so I would rip it out instead of probably turning it off, maybe that wasn't the reason why It got corrupted but that's what I think caused it lol and before you say it yes I realize how much of an idiot I am, I take better care of my systems now thank god lol
We used to have games with no pause menu and now we have games with overlays that dont actually pause the game. We used to only have to save at certain points and now we have games that use auto save so we cant revert to an old save to a fix a mistake.
or the memory card ran out of juice and the data were lost (cant remember what device got those kind of memory cartridges with some little battery keeping the progresss till it died out).
leaving the NES on during school, then coming home to find your parents turned it off....
This is way to funny hahaha :)))
frank fruter Always happened to my gamecube lol
Frank fruter, that's a rough one, I was trying to get to the third night on Majora's Mask so I left the game on and fell asleep and apparently thirty minutes later my grandma cut it off while I was sleeping
Happened to me 3 times on my PS2 while I was playing Dragon Quest 8. I've played the remake ever since.
having to mess with the cartridge, pushing it at different angles, blowing into it, to get it to work. The worst part was the "Game Genies" those little cartridge addons, you would put it into the NES then have to use NASA's power tools to get the damn thing out.
When a parent says pause it but ur on a online game
you explain why you cant then they say oh ok, pause it
Zombie that happens to me all the time when I play clash Royale
yep. so you hit pause and someone kills you and you auto respawn thanks to force respawn and it's basically a murder train on your ass.
Zombie riiiiiiight
Zombie someone finally understands that bs parents say
You forgot the times when some games only had a "save and exit" option instead of a "save and continue" option. I'm looking at you Diablo 2.
That's because it's disappointed in you for not playing hardcore mode.
or because you didn't loot the countess like there's no tomorrow. My fav part of this game so far.
I started playing Link's Awakening DX recently and it does that. And for some reason, Nintendo did not enable save states on the virtual console release. I have them for Oracle of Seasons/Ages, but not a game where you can't actually save without a lot of hassle.
Still a thing in "My Summer Car"
@@iwanttocomplain nope, there's nothing wrong with not playing on hardcore mode.
With autosave, you can mess up hard and can't go back.
Artificial Idiot unless if you have more slots for autosave and also you are able to save the game too at any point you want.
That's why you turn autosave off sometimes
The autosave function only saves at safe times. You never need to worry about a compromising position with this.
That's a side effect of auto save.
Auto saves kind of took the fun out of games like resident evil. I’m glad they at least kept one mode classic in the remake hopefully they do the same for the 3rd
when games don't have a are u sure option accidentally presses the new game button
Golden Dragons freakin zelda on snes....it took for ever to boot up and when you get to the main menu u accidently hit new game.....freakin hated that
Golden Dragons WE'RE ALL LOOKING AT YOU SONIC GENERATIONS
Golden Dragons omfg so true
Golden Dragons stil happens today
This really only became a thing once Autosaves where introduced and devs decided "you know what would be amazing, if the player was not allowed to also choose to save"
my dad's logic: if it's downloaded, it's a virus!
but i understand him because he's like 62 y/o
i can relate
M3RKPH4NT0M If I search for something on my computer and the result is not what is expected, it's hacked!
M3RKPH4NT0M same xD
my dad's logic: If anything is loading, even for a bit, i have to let it think so it doesnt get jammed. Sometimes, like if i type so fast, he points out that: You're doing it so fast it doesnt understand. When will he understand it's not the 80's?
When you go to the store and think "oh cool a game!" and buy it only to notice in small writing it said "Expansion Pack!" and you needed the original game that was never in the same store.
That happened to me with the original SIMS game
This really confused me as a kid
Waking up your parents with the PS2 start up at 2:30 am.
gotta mute that shit, lol
@@DragonfruitEdits fucking spot on
Hey youngblood, you mistaking the ps2 for the ps1.
@@kineticstarno the ps1 is BWAAAA NI NI NI NI DAAAAAA
Nothing compared to the Xbox one x start up
When your controller had a cord and you accidentally walked by it and pulled the whole console down and hitting the ground smh.
I busted the A/V input on my PS3 because of that. Was charging the controller while playing, leaned back and it fell about 3-4 feet. Twice. Now I have to only use HDMI, as the A/V has a bend in it.
Yeah, my cousin knocked he's ps2 about 5 feet that thing survived lol.
PixzelByPixzel I knew a kid that had his nephew do that to his PS2 and the disc tray snapped right off when it hit the ground lol
Oh, the memories lol.
Or if you had a pet they would get caught by the cord or chew it off lol.
I remember being at my best friends house playing ps2 getting to the end of Tony Hawk Underground and his mother kept asking him to turn it off because it was bed time. Just as we finished the game she was EXTREMELY mad because she had been asking for a good 45 minutes and as we were saving the game she comes up and rips the plug out. We thought nothing of it seeing as she was absolutely fuming until the next morning when we woke up to find that the memory card with 15+ completed games including Simpsons hit and run, God of War, Final Fantasy X, GTA San Andreas, Etc. got COMPLETELY wiped because she unplugged it as we were saving...
I've still not forgiven that wretched woman...
man, that sucks... still have such amazing memories of those games though!
I..cannot fathom such a loss
I've lost whole games at a time but that just sounds like a personal hell T.T
gg, rip in peace
How could she know? you better forgive her.
forgiveness is for the weak. hold that grudge!
This is the internet, where people get blamed irrationally by irrational people. Get your preachy ass silenced, because nobody's gonna listen anyway.
"Losing internet connection when the phone rings"
Still happens to me. Venezuela.
Daniel Gonzalez ahahahhahahha lol
poor guy
Same (South Africa)
Well that's because you have a government that turned your land into a shithole country.
sorry, man
SniperXY 97 excuse me wtf
When the N64 cartridge was dirty and you'd have to blow into it until you were 5 seconds away from passing out
Nes cartridges too, I found that a worn in basting brush that was super clean worked really well
good times, good times
Which did precisely nothing. It has been proven
Blow dont spit
tolga1cool
fuck you, let live my life in blissful ignorance
Tuning a tv station to the console and having parents get mad that the tv doesn't work afterwards.
Tathagata Buddha story of my childhood
That's literally my nan and the WII now...
I remember hooking up a Sega my dad brought back from Japan. Had to connect the VCR to a COAX adapter to UHF, turn the dial to 3 on the TV, and tune the VCR to channel 95 or something to play it on the TV.
Tathagata Buddha it was horrible when the tv remote was the only way to use auxiliary channels xD
hahahhahaha lol
Biggest problem now: microtransactions , overpriced DLC, Season pass etc...
or needing a code for certain in game things........FFS
day one patches they could've postponed the game for a few days to fix.
Morrius07 day One patch do not work like that , even if they postponed the game you would still get day 1 patches because the game was already in gold one month before
Add "People who complain about everything" to that list
taksuya so true :^/
RIGHT WHEN YOURE ABOUT TO SAVE AND THE POWER GOES OUT
I was playing a game and just about to beat tohe game and then I heard my mom say "we definitely won't lose power" then the power went out, you double jinxing bitch
That’s why I use a energy save power bar, so if the power goes out while your saving it’ll give you a little bit of more time for the save to finish before shutting off the console.
My sibling did that when I was playing Harvest Moon, I was so mad.
WHEN YOU'RE SAVING AND THE POWER GOES OUT SO THEN YOU HAVE TO START *COMPLETELY* OVER BECAUSE YOUR SAVE FILE'S CORRUPTED
I feel that pain.
And then there’s Skyrim, that game just chooses when and where to autosave by itself. There was one time my game didn’t autosave for 2 hours and I died and I just stopped for the day
Skyrim's system is literally the best. You can quick save where ever you please as often as you please. More games should do this instead of only relying on auto save.
@@jep1st Not on console.
I remember I went to check and it had like 50 autosaves and I was wondering if it ever overwritten any of them.
The worst thing in my lifetime playing games was when you had the ps2 and everytime you put a game in there you hope to God that it didn't say, " please enter a disk " or " this game is unreadable "
OverXRun still happens to me
When the red smoke came up, you know something fucked up.
Happened to me a lot in the past :(
i used to think if the dots went a certain way, the disk would not read
the sound effects still haunt me at night....
When you put a disc in the PS2 and wished for luck
resurfacing ps1 discs to 50 times to get a game to work again... kinda... w/ no sound
...aaaand
Disc read error.
worst optics ever... you could literally kill it with a written cd and few hours of game...
THE ps2 BLUE DISKs Curse them all
I also had one where it would read dvd disks vertically only and cd roms horizontally only.
MS-DOS gaming where you have to remember which sound card you have every time you install a game, and also which IRQ, DMA you set those jumpers to.
how about having to have specialized "Boot" disks to push everything into "extended Memory" to squeeze out as much as you can from the 640k conventional memory pool games would use to run on. (im looking at you kings quest series LOL)
Ob. yes, QEMM was the one that was able to mama 634 kB of lower memory available with carefully calibrated driver loading that required a couple of reboots. And some DOS games (Cannon Fodder comes to mind) wouldn't even attempt to run with less than 630, even though there was megabytes of extended or expanded memory available. Yes, you also had to sort out extended and expanded memory for programs that could use it.
Real mode applications could only address 1MB of memory, and 360 I think was ROM (BIOS routines, ...). So there was only 640 kB of RAM available, some of which was taken by DOS. For accessing more memory you needed to use protected mode, don't really know the details, but most programs needed memory managers, e.g. HIMEM or QEMM, that provided easier access to memory. Most programs using extra memory demanded extended memory, some were happy with expanded memory, and very few were able to use the memory directly.
Windows 3, for example, wouldn't load without a memory manager. Windows 95 would, as it would wipe DOS and everything from memory and use it all directly for itself. Where Windows 3 had the "exit" option to go back to DOS, Windows 95 didn't (for obvious reasons), you had to reboot is so DOS was reloaded etc.
You don't need the mouse driver you know. Unless it's a mouse game...
Oh those graphics card hardware conflicts were a nightmare.
That's what I'm talking about. Sound blaster 16, port settings lol if you don't set it you've got no sound
I remember having an attachment for my old game boy that had a lens and shined light on it. It was big and clunky but it served it's purpose. It did however need it's own batteries... 😒
Rubber banding book lights was the Jerry rigged way haha 😄
its*
its*
@@PANZERFAUST90 hey guess what no one cares so fuck off.
I had one of those ! Ah, the good old days !
Mine did too!
When you didn't own a memory card so you would always try to beat the game in one sitting 😂😂😭
jak9777 I left my Playstation on all night
jak9777 lmao
jak9777 lol ya I had a 8mb ps2 card and it was full so I would try to get through jak 3 at one sitting lol
toughluck8012 I was like that for all the Jak games. Staying up till the sun came up and eating all the hot Cheetos and drinking Mountain Dew. good ol days
did tht with Megaman legends on PS1. lol only takes me just the entire day to reach the final boss.....then die. lol thts y i sometimes prefered N64 ver of the same games for free save files. Game feels short if it takes just 1 day. :P
My moms logic: if I buy something online all my money will be stolen.
SebSOP now I've heard It all
SebSOP LOL
Oh my gosh, I hate that.
she's not completely wrong lol
Same..
all of these are 90's problem. and i remember every single one of em!!
The game boy problem is and early 2000’s
I do too!
11: Having to untangle an unholy mess of controller cords. The more siblings and systems you had, the struggle got exponentially worse.
Nothing like having to unplug everything and look at your brother like.... HOW DID THIS EVEN HAPPEN?!
Xehemoth exactly! However for a retro gamer/collector like me this still fucking exists in fact for alot of us in the hobby it does an it seriously is infuriating like "what in the actual fuck how in the name of ass did everything get tangled into what resembles a fucking circulatory system?!"
Idk, Autosave can be a blessing and a curse.
IdealIdeas100 yep I can tell some $/-/!Ts about to go down when an auto save happens.
Well I meant more like sometimes you would rather not save because you feel a boss fight is coming up and your super low on everything, THEN IT SAVES, and your stuck trying to beat that boss with nothing.
Or if there is an awesome moment that you want to replay.
IdealIdeas100 games like Fallout 4 and Skyrim have this feature where they might auto save after you enter/exit an area and if there's an enemy on the other side that's especially powerful you're pretty much f***ed. Load and enter open area, get 1 shot by enemy, die then rinse and repeat. Then you'll have to play the mini game of pressing the pause button inbetween the time you load the area and the time you die to reload a past save. It gets even worse when you mod the game with things like modern weapons mods that do 500+ damage.
IdealIdeas100 Thats why there exist Manual Saves.
Don't you hate it in class when a girl says "video games are a waste of time" but you know damn well she watches 6 hours of Netflix a day
or spending hours on makeup
or anime or my little pony
Teh Submarine especially on there periods
Emre Yapıcı i like anime
i do both
I remember stickers "hugs not drugs" on arcade machine's. I always thought as a kid. Just cause it rhymes doesn't mean it make sense, the hugging eventually led me to a dealer.
Smart kid!
Lmaoooo
Mouse's balls and lost memory cards: thanks to whoever made them gone.
Once my friend stole my ps2 memory card. He wasnt my friend the next day
lol
happened to me too bruh.
My cousin stole my PS2 memory card once. I can't "un-cousin" him though.
Foxx 22 I had that same experience... I was so pissed
Foxx 22 as an April fools day prank my brother hid my power cables so I got back at him by using window seal to stick his phone to the floor
just remember being a kid and my friend running in with a folded piece of paper with 5 cheat codes and we all freaked out.
"buy me some chips and the canteen and I'll let you copy them" heard that shit so many times 😂
I many little slips of paper or whole notebooks full of them!
Messing with AV cables and composite cables. Remember having to connect up to 5 plugs? White and red for your stereo sound, yellow for video if not HD, or RGB cables for HD.
Now we have HDMI, which gives us one cable to rule them all.
I still do this. Lol
Somewhere between them RGB cables and HDMI I used s-video
Remember having to plug everything in through Cable so when it messed up on the back of the television u couldn't just switch to av or HDMI u had to stand there and wiggle the cable and the port or have another TV LMFAO
you just helped me find my crash bandicoot I check in my old final fantasy disk case and I found it thanks
LyricsManBat Killa cant wait for the remake in a few days!!!
There are two kinds of people in this world:
People that put games back in there cases (where they belong)
and people like you.
aaron s i do the first one
lol
LyricsManBat Killa I left my Final Fantasy 7 disc 2 disc in my Crash Bandicoot case.
When siblings went to save their game and overwrote your save file...
Boy oh boy I remember that happening to me...
Happen to me
Happen to me 2 dame that make me sad and so mad :(
Happened to me on my Nintendo Wii and all my Lego Star Wars stuff. Literally, couldn't stop crying.
Oh my god a hated that
I still got my old memory cards from the 90s never know when I might go back and finish a old save!
Maybe the data on it is wiped out cause you don't use it often enough
Today the problem is "oh no! The game DID save!"
Yeah I hate that
For me it's like : "Oh yeah, OH I DIDN'T WANNA DO THAT- NOOOOOOO! IT SAVED NOOO!"
Someone catching the controller cord on their foot or something and yanking the console right off of what you have it sitting on.
My anxiety spiked just reading this...
And destroying the disc in the progress with a good old deep circular scratch. This happened to me with my PS2 and I swear it did something to the loading times with every game since.
Trying to pause the game when both players have the button and it's just like
AAAAAAAAAAAAA
JUST PRESS IT
I'M NOT TOUCHING THE BUTTON ANYMORE.
My ps1 got destroyed when my dads dog, ran across the room and hit pulled the controller cable while I was playing Spiderman. I'll never forget seeing the console fly for the shelf and bounce across the floor.
Hell yeah
Turning your tv to channel 3 so your games would work
DFeucht32 ahahahaaa true
Or 4. Lol
I dont get it... can someone explain xd
I still don’t know why that works but it’s true, and we somehow all knew to do that.
@@budj1 in the old days u had 2 put ur tv to channel 3 to play the game , it wouldn't show up on the t.v. til u put the t.v. on channel 3.
When you'd buy a cheat code book,get it home, then realize it was the wrong one lmfao
Or the code was complete garbage!
Who remembers playing the gameboy advance with the light that flips up
Me!
When you need to go eat dinner but you need to go to a certain spot in a game to save it
Momo45867 ! No Just NO
And your mom is yelling at you to come eat
Unfortunately Kingdom Hearts has never changed this.
Momo45867 ! Yea ikr but most of them have like 'jump to save house' in their (i dont know about the other games but they r there in nfs)
Momo45867 ! When you commit suicide becouse you liked roblox
When you booted your PS2 and prayed to god you wouldnt get that scary red screen?
Thomz which is why I stopped playing my PS2 as a kid.
i never got it what does it mean
When a disk wasnt readable instead of the blue intro with the towers you took a majestic trip to fucking hell, thats what it meant.
Oh yes that horrible unreadable disk error. I dream of a day when I will never see a cd again
get a driveless pc join steam and gog and you'll have that reality.
Old games didn't need dlc and they couldn't just add new content, meaning gamed were published FINISHED and no microtransactions.
Also manual saving is fun to me. So.
Several games did release add-on content though. The difference was that it was actually added content, not just stuff they stripped from the base game and locked behind a paywall. The most notable one I remember was GTA 1, which had a London expansion pack released on a second disc. I also remember the command and conquer series had a few on PC.
I personally like games that use autosave, but also allow manual saving. Manual saving is a great way to experience all endings to a game with multiple ending scenarios.
Only ea does this today they usually fix bugs when they find them back then you just had to deal with it yourself also Holiday themed stuff some games even give you free stuff on you're b day I prefer modern days
what about expansion packs?
NEO Nate yeah, graphics were shit, storyline was shit snd basically everything was shit. so.
The real struggle is when you complete a game, go to bed, get up the next morning to go play it some more, just to realize/figure out your save battery died. Has happened to me way too many times...
I remember when you bought a game, it was a complete whole game, non of this paid DLC season pass bullshit.
armgidion games having season passes doesn't automatically mean that the game was incomplete most really games are complete and the season pass adds longevity to the game
armgidion But the games of today have more content.
The games of today have more than 100x the content, just because some missions, skins, or cars get locked out doesn't mean you have to whine. So ungrateful....
armgidion ameen
So, Im ungrateful for having to pay for more things on top of $60? your usage of ungrateful doesn't seem to align with what you're saying. It's differen't when they give them for free, but not charge their players/fan base.
now you have 1% game and 99% dlc
+GerryMOTO
For one, now games even with DLC cost less than a single game back then (roughly 90~100$). And that's not to mention how much money gamers spent at the arcades.
Second, you'd be surprised how many games had various microtransactions back then as well, from smaller ones, like designing parts of the game so that you MUST buy a guide or official magazine to clear certain points (blowing up a specific unmarked wall in Zelda 1 or the whole Castlevania 2 tornado thing) to bigger ones like additional discs with bonus content and expansions (which even costed more than DLC since it had to be sold on a separate physical disc).
Third, the most evil money-grubbing dickmove of all, satellite and cable game services... an obscure take on online play, through either satellite broadcast (Nintendo Satellaview) or cable TV (Sega Channel), both of which were not very good, both time restricted, meaning you could only play certain games during specific time sof the day, and the worst part, the cost for said services was astronomically high. The Sega Channel was a cable service, so no hardware was needed, but you had to pay a 25$ activation fee and a 15$ monthly subscription PER GAME (which changed to 20$ for all games later on), while the Satellaview was an add-on that costed around 140~180$ and had a 30~40$ monthly subscription for all games. As you might have guessed, it didn't last really long and the game library for both was very low.
Lol, no. You're ignoring inflation, mixing various game systems, not mentioning a date and adding arcade players (?! wtf) into the mix. Also, I don't think the OP was talking about money but since you are...
Games, and especially consoles, were globally cheaper yesterday compared to today and this will be true in the future as well as long as inflation rises and if the base game price doesn't drop below 40$.
You can do a simple google research to learn about inflation and prices of games in time.
Not to mention we're even luckier nowadays as we have sales, rental services, second hand markets and even media libraries that lends software/games for free. All this makes it possible to play almost any game that ever came out with any budget.
On a side note : DLC is the only piece of shitty software that doesn't have much, if any, variation in price unless you get it bundled with a specific edition of the game which makes it even shittier ( in rare cases) like Darksiders 2 and it's updated edition that is more jerky and buggy.
Which means that most console games out there with DLC have an expiration date on part of their content that will be locked up forever once the service selling it goes down or decides to disable/delete the hosted data. Even if you're willing to pay for it.
GerryMOTO agreed
1% game 15% bugs 15% abandoned features 69% dlc
Now you have 1 CD but instead of just inserting the disk and playing, you have to wait while it updates (and even a brand new game will have like a day 1 patch because they rushed the game and use the first buyers as free beta testers) and even then you might have to jump through even more hoops like making you sign up for something online before it lets you play. Then there's free DLC that comes with the game: "You got this exclusive item. You just have to go to this website, create an account, confirm your email address and fetch three goats from the well in the woods and drink milk from all of them, except the third one because he's evil, to prove you're human and get the item in-game".
Loosing a CD key. Back in the day before cross platform DRM like Steam has. Oh, and having to have the CD physically in the tray to even launch the game.
While I enjoy having hard copies in the event digital copies are pulled from stores due to licensing running out, I do like the ability to buy a game, and then play it on any of my computers without having to fuss with CDs and especially CDs that tracked and limited the number of times a key could be used, preventing you from installing a game you own on your own computer.
Yes! That last one got my friend, once. He'd bought a new game right before coming to my house. He was too excited to wait until he got home to play it, so we installed it on my computer in the mean time.
When he tried to install it at home, later that day? Guess what? DENIED! LOL
Remember the PS2 memory card that had a mic for memos and had like 10 cards built in. I was the cool kid on the block
I actually miss game manuals. It's what you took the bathroom before cell phones.
robertdwilkinson88 ...
Before cell phones, I just pooped.
yea, back then bathroom literature was actually a delima, game manual or porn. now its pretty much just porn.
yeah i miss em too .. luckily my retro collection fills the void , especially with the older games from the major companies which had some major packaging :-)
nothing like rubbing one out to a crash bandicoot prima guide xD
"Your memory card is corrupted and must be formatted"
Words that tore me apart
When you stare blankly at the console in a blind rage....
the last gasps of a broken man!
RiP 400 hours of ToS gameplay ;-;
one of the lucky one's i see
My life was ruined when i got that message
The video froze when talking about the internet being disconnected when someone called you.
Pretty soon having a physical copy of a game will be on a list like this.
Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!
But honestly, its a really low possibility for that to happen, a lot of players live in places that don't have a strong internet connection, also with disks, you can lend it to a friend or sell it.
They should at least make the download cheaper than the physical disc... which they don't.
So will owning a physical console
@@travailier What are you talking about? Downloads are way cheaper than the physical discs. I haven't bought physical discs in years just because it's cheaper to get download key from online.
@@hamzaayaz7482 You don't need to have strong connection... Like 30-40mb/s is already good enough and even lower than that is bearable and pretty much everywhere in 4G areas there is at least 10-20mb/s... Ofc wireless is not as stable as cable but still it is enough. (I used to live in bad connection area still 6 years ago before they made upgrades there and we got at that time anything between 8-25mb/s depending on day and time of day etc. and it worked okay)
When your mom tells you to pause the game and you're online
its not extinct yet
you're*
Even my wife has told me this.
My brother knows that.
+neoroxx are you dumb? it litteraly says there ''you're'' -.-
not a problem going extinct, but i really miss the demo discs from the e.g. playstation magazine
those discs were awesome!
KingHoliday demo disc ? That was a thing omg that sounds awesome
Yeah on certain games you'd get a demo of a different game before it actually came out.
omg the times i had with the demo disc you don't even know...
I loved buying the old PSX Magazines back in the day and getting the monthly demo discs. Pocket money was well spent on those!!
Starwars the force unleashed 1, I bought a cheat code book, we didnt have internet . . .
Those things were the best, I kinda miss the days of trading them with ya mates
I had both of those.
"Not enough free conventional memory" ;)
UGH!
the discs not getting lost but scratched up enough to not work
Fuxk you
+jack chettri why?
Just
GTA 3 for PS2 would act weird after some time no matter what. It would start to not load parts of the city and such. Most of the time the game would just freeze, but once in a while you could get a good laugh out of a crazy glitch.
GTA 3 for PS2 would act weird after some time no matter what. It would start to not load parts of the city and such. Most of the time the game would just freeze, but once in a while you could get a good laugh out of a crazy glitch.
The number of times I destroyed my PS2 by tripping over the damn 10 ft controller cord is ridiculous
Ethan or someone passes by and does it for u😥
My PS2 is 16 Years Old, still working.
I Broke my PS2 like 6 Times tripping too....
I think that could apply to any console game controller with those cords.
This only happened to me 2 times and it was so loud both times. But it somehow survived
atleast you don't have to worry of your controller running out of batery
I remember leaving my gba on for 3 days just to beat harry potter where saves didn't work.
I ended up beating the game twice in a row before i finally stopped playing.
@Michael Foley right, it was gba sp left plugged in for 3 days straight
You missed trying to squeeze out enough "conventional memory" in DOS, to run some games. That was ART! :D
himem.sys
emm386.exe
devicehigh and loadhigh
autoexec.bat
config.sys
ah the memories... and agony.
=O for real....
Mom I can't stop this, it's an online game, I am stitting here playing with 24 other real people to clear this RAID!
i was playing ow and i just here my sis-pause the game and let's go get smoe food.
me:I cant pause, just order!
sis:yes you can it's not like the bots won't follow the rules....
me:these are real people around the wrold *puts team chat on* you suck widow blah blah balh
My mom would INSIST that I pause the game no matter how many times I tried to explain that it's online.
the gaming vlog I honestly would have blown a gasket and slammed my door in her face
I used a ball mouse to draw.
pure hell.
ouch..
I think the "used mouse to draw" would be hell by itself.
Apparently it's possible (I have a tablet now) but when I was younger I used a ball mouse :'|
Scarlet Rose burn in hell ball mouse
i remember those. remove ball, clean ball, clean the little rolls... and do it again a few weeks later.
BECAUSE I GREW UP WHEN YOU EITHER "COULDN'T SAVE" OR HAD TO "FIND SAVE POINTS", NO MATTER AUTOSAVE, IM STILL MANUALLY SAVING!!!!!!
I lost one of my ps2 memory cards when my family traveled overseas. I found it in a random suitcase like five years later and got all my saves back. It didn't mean much in retrospect because I played them all again, but it made me chuckle
When you got stuck in a game, you had to figure it out yourself or get a help from a friend because UA-cam didnt exist so you couldnt get help from a walkthrough.
Dark Fire Nintendo had a tip line, but it was a toll call.
I love those old online document walkthroughs.
You know the ones; with the ascii art titles!
TheOneLichemperor gamefaqs are forever.
and it's a timing level too
Omfg, the first silent Hill...that damn piano puzzle, I had no idea wtf e or f or anything was, it took forever, and I remember getting it by luck once and heading through the door just to die having not saved!!
kids today will never know the horrors of having a memory card
Well said brother.
Not unless you were playing on a GameCube and had a "16x" memory card. I swear, those things did not run out of space. But it would be annoying when you'd start up a game and get a message that your memory card is corrupted and you had to reformat the entire thing.
Aimela I dont know about the GC ones, but I know that with the PS1/2 mem cards, you just had to figure out what save was corrupted and just delete that one save, and then the corrupted data
breaker throws=memory card resets
Jploui93 J kids will also never know the joy of having a game that works out of the case.
Yeah, leaving the NES on all night. The only game I really remember doing that with was SMB3. Of course, there will be tears when you inevitably lose power some day...
I used to have my NES on floor. I was trying to beat Megaman 2 while my brothers were wrestling in the same room. Game freezes becuase someone gets body slammed.
i hope lag gets extinct.
Well if you live in Australia, it never will :(
I know that too well.
FคƬคL k It never will
lag is rare now. if you have a good ping
America! Oh, wait, never mind, still have lag here, too
playing ps2 games at night in a dark room and having everyone trip over the controller cable because they couldn't see it. shoutout to wireless technology
Beautiful isn't it
wireless....0% baterry = useless
i get this but sometimes you forget to charge it or you think your charging it so you leave it charging overnight and then you get up and find out sits not done it and you can't use it or the controller runs out of battery half way through a super important part that makes you lose the game. i'm gonna stick to wired.
I forgot all about that. The controller would get disconnected, too.
Great video as always. Lol. This nostalgia. haha. The days when that mouse ball gets filled with sticky dirt, I dont know why I miss those all of a sudden.
"Immersion is important"
No, "FUN" is most important.
whether that fun is dying repeatedly to the skeletons outside the first area in dark souls and working out how to beat them or playing an easy puzzle game.
One day lag will be on one of these lists
I cannot imagine what could eliminate lag entirely. Computers still have to communicate with eachother. Devises plugged in, such as your mouse, still has to communicate with YOUR computer. Distances between people or servers are always going to be a thing. So idk how you would ever have near instant communication on both sides of the connection to allow virtually no lag whatsoever.
@@shawnwolf5961 we can't get rid of lag completely but playing on a U.S. East server when you're in Australia or vice-versa and getting only 40 ping is the dream for many.
@@shawnwolf5961 - Well, electrons travelling with a certain speed. Light on the other hand... Also yes, lag is ethernal, but technology is evolving much faster than human senses. Sooner or later we will have tech that feels instant because the delay will be less than what people can notice.
No it wont
Play at a lan.
never being able to enjoy singleplayer games because your brother was always screeching "IT'S MY TURN!!" and/or your parents wouldn't let you rent any games from Blockbuster that weren't multiplayer
dafamsid Redbox asked Blockbuster if they wanted to buy em'.
They said no. and now they're six feet under!
😂
Garuu Spike omg I can relate
Garuu Spike ugh I hated that and they were always like the takes yo much power and the system will break IT STILL WORKS TO THIS DAY YOU IDIOT GRANDPA
Where as I hate that most games are single player or online multiplayer.other than dumb party games theres next to no decent multiplayer games these days,I miss the old multiplayer games
Farmer Dingus
Iirc Blockbuster also got an offer to buy Netflix for some 600k, and they refused
Battletoads.
I've finished it several times but it was always a dedicated session.
No saves, no passwords, and one of the toughest games on the system.
lol
You're a TRUE gamer !
@@SquirrelChupacabra An old gamer
lol
having to return the game but it rains outside, and you walk with the umbrella and the game in the other hand
Oh, I remember when games would come with a freaking sweet instruction book. Some had color pictures and they were so cool. Lol. Some of them had that telephone number that you could call for help but you had to pay per minute usually to talk to a "PRO" gamer. Thankfully I didn't have to call anyone. :p
I remember when they decided to start removing them, cheap bastas!
Matt Bunch now at best you get a two page instruction booklet smh
Yeah, a 2 page booklet if you're lucky that has VERY basic hud/control nfo, as well as technical support info and health safety recommendations.
Yeah... the non-existent instructions are more like a problem for old-school gamers who still game now. Some of those manuals had a lot of work put into them and you could tell.
Those instruction books were awsome especially because most of them had note sections so you could easily remember something specific for the game like passwords and glitches
the battery on a game boy dying before you save hours of progress
EmHo uuuuuuuuuugh
Mr B i would hi jack the ones from the tv remote , and get yelled at later.
Always check for extra batteries around the house before buying them yourself. Try and explain to dumbfounded parents later that they bought bad batteries to explain why they ran out so fast. Hahahahahaaaah! I'm evil. >:-D
oh the pain ...
brought to school to play during recess ... and then sneakily played in class, then the teacher caught you and took the gameboy away with power turned on and you did not save ...
By far the worst thing I remember was scratches on CDs before games could be fully downloaded. If there was a scratch on that, the game was almost certainly ruined.
Two letters
AV
(I know this isn't a problem, but it's nostalgic)
RF
@@ckSage RF adapters you had to screw into the back of your tv.
And I literally mean screw using a screw driver because the TV was so old it didn't have the normal 1 screw and you needed a piece with the two wire prongs.
@@fredspofford pull out the knob to turn the tv on days, fuck those things were heavy too
"oh damn, I've did something wrong! Luckilly I haven't saved it yet"
*You game has been saved*
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I hate it when real life does this
That is so annoying dude! "Oh, I just lost a bunch of weapons and ammo, glad I haven't saved it yet!" (Auto saving....) "Dammit!"
Nfan364 usually when this happens i unplug my console or pc from the wall
JR SmileyFace Sometimes pulling real life's plug is a viable option also
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well when I was 8 I had no memory card on my ps2 so I just had to beat all my games in a single run
I had a sad childhood
That cannot be true... You would've given up trying to complete games since it would be impossible to always prevent interruptions... (Unless your parents were really chill and let you keep the console on...)
over00lord Unknown a lot of ps2 games you could beat in like 4 hours lol
Depends on how many games he had, lol
The first game I ever played was either Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario Bros. 3. And 3 didn't even have checkpoints. And I never had games with save batteries. I never cared.
That's what I did with my PS1 for 4 weeks once. I was really into a game called Jade Cocoon and some how my memory card ended up in my dads bags and he was gone for the whole month. I had my PlayStation on for an entire month.
I never bought cheat books. I just looked in the magazine section at the grocery store every Sunday after church and would write down the cheats I wanted.
When you used to own a Spectrum 48k with a tape drive, spent 20 minutes loading a game only for it to crash before it loaded up, yeah that was early rage that was
At least old games and consoles didn't need to update.
Yeah, at least game breaking bugs remained in old games.
I've never come across an older game that had any game-breaking bugs, probably because companies actually had to make sure that there weren't any, because they couldn't afford to use updates like a crutch, like they can now...
Updates and patches are predominately a good thing in this age. Conversely, the devs are being pushed harder and harder by their publishers to release these games within a certain time frame (look at Christmas). I'm looking at you, fucking Ubisoft.
f*ck updates, we just want to play :)
Yeah, they can be good, but not when they are relied on like they are, there is a problem with how developers are being treated, sure, but I don't think punishing the consumer by forcing big updates and such on them is the answer. The ways things currently are would only benefit the publishers, and even then, I don't think it is most of the time. There has to be a better solution out there.
Auto save death loop. Since you've JUST beat that really hard boss and walked out of the room and the game saves you're pretty happy. But since you decided to roll out of the room in celebration, you don't see the cliff that you fall off of and die. Just to reload, mid roll, into your perpetual demise.
That shit still happens to me in Skyrim nowadays haha
Never happened to me, but I have a similiar issue for games that keep your current health and inventory when you load. Like when it checkpoints at a certain spot where I'm near dead and almost out of ammo or something else you have to manage in the game. And you keep loading into the same spot, and beating a simple enemy wave turns into the hardest boss fight. Or worse! When it happens right before an actual boss fight!
Draken ancients gates. This same thing happened to me but without an autosave. I saved mid jump only to realize i wasn't going to make it past that cliff edge.
Have 3 manual saves in addition of the auto save, then always overwrite the oldest of the 3 saves.
Not an autosave one, but I know the feeling..In FF13 I had saved right before a boss I wasn't levels up enough to beat (the giant machine that you have to beat each limb before the body will take damage), and the room before it was paths you have to activate. Well, I didn't know they all DEACTIVATE once you start it up again..So there's no going back to grind, and no going forward..Softlocked in a fucking RPG..
Call waiting on the dial up internet connection was nice... Listening to angry people leaving messages 😂😂😂
When your dad told you to go out but you on a middle of live match
Not having your own TV and playing "A Link to the Past" inbetween the few hours your parents didnt wanna watch TV....
Lichtgestalt Kruemel omg I still face that
Lichtgestalt Kruemel OMG yes. That was an issue for me a lot later. I had my own PC though
Totally understand
Lichtgestalt Kruemel yup. Get off the tv they said. However, it was all history after i saved up money mowing yards and selling candy to make the money to buy an 80 dollar tube tv. Which my parents took from me when theirs broke. Was soo sad to see my super nintendo without a tv. Luckily someone had 1 in a trash pile a month later down the street. It had no power button. I litterally stuck my finger inside the hole where the power button used to be 2 hit the button inside of it
David Daivdson, I got my uncles OLD tv, pretty sure if was a Magnavox or something, but I remember it had a little yellow stick that was behind a little door that folded down on the base of the tv and you had to use that to tune the channels to which all dials TO TUNE were also behind the little door. I think they did it like that was cause so there were no tuning knobs protruding out the front. I got the tv cause my uncle broke one of the dials cause he lost the little sick and he tried using something else. The stick had like 2 or 3 little prongs on it, the whole thing wasn't much bigger than match stick. Plus the tv only had like 8 channel BUTTONS peroid, you couldn't of watched cable on it if you wanted to.
Love all your videos, the humor is on point
I remember having to purchase books for games. The problem was with some of them was the accuracy of the information provided especially if the books is providing passwords for various games which were inaccurate or providing information that was incorrect.
I miss and don't miss having to blow in to the game cartridge in order to get it to work
Ok
@@kyoto3695 oh no
That’s like the modern equivelent of cleaning a blu ray disc to get it to read
@@bluepeng8895 how is blowing into a cartridge modern
@@kyoto3695 dust would build up on the cartridge slots and it wouldn't read properly and would have to blow into the slot to clean it.
You could tell if a scratched game was gonna work or not depending on how long it took the PlayStation logo to clear
Every time you mention something new I just got a bunch of agueda thinking about the times I've had
Having all my cds getting scratched so easily cause I was a careless child who didn’t understand the importance of of disc management and the proper maintenance required to have a scratch free disc. Now I’m either smarter or discs are harder to scratch
That and mostly everything is also available online
In my opinion, having your memory card get corrupted is worse than having it get lost.
Because if you lose your memory card, there's a chance you might find it again, but if the memory card gets corrupted, then that's it. All your saves are gone. Forever. Start over.
That's the worst! That happened so many times to me because I always turned my systems off wrong when I was younger. But the worst time that happened was when it happened to my GameCube memory card.... I miss you animal crossing save... the amount of hours... the amount of bells... all gone.... and all my chao save data from sonic adventure two! Oh man the feels....
I've had that happen, it was pure hell. So many hours lost of Star Ocean.
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pdiddyrocks101 when I was younger the power outlet was by my bed so I would rip it out instead of probably turning it off, maybe that wasn't the reason why It got corrupted but that's what I think caused it lol and before you say it yes I realize how much of an idiot I am, I take better care of my systems now thank god lol
pdiddyrocks101 when I was younger the power outlet was by my bed so I would rip it out instead of probably turning it off, maybe that wasn't the reason why It got corrupted but that's what I think caused it lol and before you say it yes I realize how much of an idiot I am, I take better care of my systems now thank god lol
We used to have games with no pause menu and now we have games with overlays that dont actually pause the game.
We used to only have to save at certain points and now we have games that use auto save so we cant revert to an old save to a fix a mistake.
Addonexus TheDeestoyer Exactly. Made a terrible decision? Oh! Who cares! Auto save.
I think you just described dark souls
DKGille i played gta5 story 100% so i dont save at all to keep my gta storymode money
That Family Guy Kool Aid play was spectacular 😅
I'm regards to the old-school mice: it wasn't the dirt so much... it was the dog hairs...... x.x
Let's stand in silence for people who lost there memory card
* their* memory card
or the memory card ran out of juice and the data were lost (cant remember what device got those kind of memory cartridges with some little battery keeping the progresss till it died out).
Freddy Perdomo RIP
Freddy Perdomo oof
Rip me