My uncle Tony got me the NES one when I was a kid and it was awesome. I later got one for the SNES and Genesis...no video game collection is truly complete without its Game Genie.
@@GenerationGapGaming He was a really good uncle and a really good man. He also got me Super C and the Mutant League games for the Genesis. RIP Uncle Tony.
I remember renting games solely based on what codes there was for that game. If it had stuff like unlimited lives and health i knew it would be a game i could actually beat as a kid. I do remember making my own codes too, it’s been so long but i recall mostly all you had to do was change the first letter on a bunch of codes. I have a bunch of final fantasy codes written down somewhere that was better than what was in the book from hours of experimentation
My sister and brother in law got the Genesis version for my birthday in 1993. It helped me immensely in Sonic 2, Splatterhouse 2 and Rocketknight Adventures
I remember the night my older brother got the game genie, I spent hours looking at the code book reading all the codes for every game, even ones I never had.
I left for work at 7:30am and just got home at 9:30pm. I’m grumpy. Until I get to watch your video! Duuuuude you changed my day. My grandma bought a game genie for her house. Loved going to her house to play games in her Nintendo with the GG! Thanks for the video man. Bringing back memories.
My grandma had one. But us kids weren't allowed to touch it lol. My grandma was a gamer. She had an Atari in the basement with Centipede in it. The console never got shut off, turned off, she made sure her scores weren't going anywhere lol
Some games I would use Game Genie so that I could beat them, and then later I would find I could beat the game without Game Genie's assistance. Beating a game with Game Genie took the pressure off so you could learn the game without getting frustrated. Pretty sure this is how I learned to beat Nightmare on Elm Street.
Tyler, I was so excited to see you had posted a new video! You are my favorite video game channel. Being born in 1979, I relate to your takes on games. Hope all is well and keep up the great work!
@@GenerationGapGaming I grew up in a small NC town and would rent games from a convenience store so when you mentioned you renting from a mom and pops grocery store it reminded me of doing that, had totally forgot that was a thing.
For a select few games, it was a valuable asset. It helped me greatly with TNMT (Orly way to pass the dam levelanddefuse the bombs) Dizzys Adventure & a couple others including Zelda 2. Unfortunately, it didn’t help with Day's of Thunder. Still couldn't beat it . I also had the Gameboy version. The makers of the Game Genie made great games as well. But that thing went in SNUG.
Glad to see that you’re back, Tyler! I never had a Game Genie but plenty of my friends did. It definitely was a fun add-on and I thought it was even more fun to try and make the game do bizarre unexpected things with codes. Btw I love the LEGO Mario TV. My son and I built one during lockdown.
Infinite Lives Code for Contra and Super C! It was the only way to play back then as a busy kid who didn't have time to get good. Some games didn't have codes. Other games had broken codes. But some were perfection. Excuse my tired old man mind, the examples I can think of are Darkwing Duck and Kung Fu Heroes. Of course our Game Genie stopped working after my brother bent the prongs and spilled soda on it. Such is nostalgia. Best to you bud!
The game genie changed my life. Not because of all its cool features but because it made my nintendo games work and i didn’t have to blow into the cart and insert and pop it up and down holdling reset while pushing power 😂
I made custom codes for Street fighter 2 for SNES. I was obsessed for a time as a youngster. I figured out All kinds of weird changes: All fireballs that hit you made you catch on blue fire and fall back like how Dhalsim's flame does to you. Mid air special moves. Freakish distortions of graphics that made characters look like they had multiple hands and arms. Endless Shoryukens that allowed you to be invincible as long as you keep doing the motion repeatedly. Hahahah good times! Great video! Liked and shared. Godspeed.
My cousin would always get very angry with me if I used the game genie. Him and I grew up playing video games since the first Atari and he hated anything with cheat codes. So, I had to do it at my house on the weekdays. Ah, this video took me way back to the fun times of growing up with all things Nintendo. Thanks, Tyler.
About freaking time you dropped a new vid! I loved the Game Genie because it allowed us to take revenge of the insane NES difficulty, which was usually artificially increased for US players. I always hated when games I wanted to beat had pointless codes though...like "start with 0 lives" or "one hit deaths"
I loved playing Nintendo games, but I was never all that good at them. The game genie made them enjoyable again after hours of frustration with the notorious difficulty of some NES games.
Agreed. I love those little code books too that fit in the portable game genies. The Game Gear one seemed a little better designed. The Game boy one was a little top heavy. I did like how you could place the sticker of the codes on the cartridge. Don't care for it as a collector now though lol. Thanks for sharing.
Ah the Game Genie. I was a teenager when it was released and very proud of my NES skills and the many difficult games I had beaten. To me the GG was a fun novelty that I used sparingly. My younger brothers however considered it the Holy Grail and abused it without shame. This led to a lot of arguments since I told them that any game they beat while using it was cheating unless they could prove to me they could finish the game without it. Most of the time they didn't accept the challenge but those arguments were fun. Thank you for the memories. 😁
I had the Game Genie myself when I was like, eight. The "create your own code" section, while I barely understood it at the time, was the very first spark of my path into computer science. It was a way to issue POKE-type commands to the NES hardware decades before emulators would eventually become a thing. It still remains the most straightforward way to do it on actual hardware.
The Gane Genie was awesome. I owned the Genesis and NES versions. It allowed you to replay games in different ways. So I never viewed it as cheating. Also it helped me beat one of the toughest games on the NES Battletoads.
A lot of those early NES games were ports of quarter guzzlers. Games designed to kill you and make you spend another quarter to keep playing. The Game Genie was a welcomed equalizer to those games. And since these were, mainly, single player games even if it was cheating the point was just to have fun so who cares as long as you got personal enjoyment from it?
Aweome Channel and well put together keep up the great work! “Hi I’m Tyler, and if you like gaming as much as we so at GE, well you are in for a treat”
Awesome story! I love hearing stories like that. We got a game genie. It’s amazing we got half the stuff we did cause we were dirt poor. I personally thought it spiced up the games for a short time. It would make it so you could see new levels or areas you’d never seen. Problem was, that grind to get to those hard to reach areas was what made the games worth it. Once the game genie came in and we’d beat a game, we’d never go back to the original
I think one of the first times i had used the game genie was on Zelda 2. Yeah, if there was ever a game that almost needed the game genie, it wqs that one. Lol. I enjoyed using the Game genie for the nearly impossible games that i loved to play just to finally beat something that was hard as balls.
I definitely loved the Game Genie. It allowed my brother & I to actually be able to beat & experience many of these almost impossible to beat games. We were only able to beat Super Mario Bros. 3, the Adventures of Bayou Billy, TMNT3: The Manhattan Project, all 3 Ninja Gaiden Games, etc., because of the Game Genie! Those games were all pretty damn hard to beat, without the Game Genie, & those turned out to be many of my favorite games, as a kid, because we got to see & experience the whole game. Punch Out too. Only was able to beat that one, also, because of Game Genie. However, even with Game Genie, we still were never able to beat Battletoads, LMAO!
WELCOME BACK!!! Thank you for making these videos. It reminds me of the good times in my life when I was younger. AWESOME VIDEO!!! I remember not being able to afford Game Genie. My brothers and I couldn’t wait for the weekend to rent it from our local video game store.
We had a game genie for the SNES, and it was tons of fun. It was so much fun to put in random codes and see what was going on. I remember one code that would change Yoshis color pallet in Super Mario World. It messed up all kinds of other things, but it was cool having a weird colored Yoshi. The manual in the SNES version did a really good job explaining how it worked and how to alter codes.
I still have my NES game genie, liked using it to help complete the tougher games, creating my own codes, but mostly just to help with loading games, I had a moody spring too but even if I wasn't using cheats with the game genie in it was never an issue loading games
Good to see you back! I remember renting NES games and movies at our grocery store too! I don’t remember exactly when I got my game genie but I do know I used it every time I played after I got it. I just wish we had something for modern systems. I don’t get very far on the classics on my switch. Haha
A wild G3 has appeared... what do you do? Pfft, obviously watch the video! Glad to see you uploading again, my dude. A friend of mine who lived a few houses up the street had the Game Genie and then got the other books in the mail. If I remember correctly, instead of purple, the books you got in the mail were red and white. We used to do like you did and hooked the Genie to a game that wouldn't load up properly and it'd work a lot of the times. The worst was taking the time to put all the codes in and when you pressed Start, the game would be all glitched and you'd have to start all over again haha
My cousin's dad was a dentist that made good money and he was one of those kids who had EVERYTHING and would always get things before I even knew it existed. I remember going over to his house in 1990 and him explaining the concept of Game Genie and my mind was blown. I was only 5 at the time so I wasn't very good at games obviously and as helpful as the magazines were this gave me the real Nintendo Power I was looking for. Like someone else in the comments mentioned I subscribed and received many smaller update booklets in the mail for newer games which were much thinner and red & white in color if I remember correctly. Later I got the Game Genie for both SNES and Genesis and my cousin even had the one for Game Boy which was a very strange contraption lol. I never had the Pro Action Replay or the later Game Shark for disc based systems but I will always love Game Genie...it was well worth the money for me.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience with the Game Genies. Sounds like you were a big fan. Yes the Gameboy one was nuts. Always felt top heavy too. I did love the little code book though lol.
@@GenerationGapGaming - Yes that little code book was so cool. I've spoke to you before but it's been about a year and I just wanted to say again that I love your videos man. I'm from KY and I believe you said you were from WV so it's cool to see someone from our neck of the woods covering this awesome stuff we grew up with. The music jingles you use along with your knowledge and personality just works like magic imo. I always look forward to your vids and I hope all is well with you and your family.
Still have my GGs for NES, SNES, and Genesis. Still use them. GG makes games fun. You should be able to just go through a game, enjoying the graphics, music, characters, action, etc., and not have to worry or stress like "oh, this one level, or room, or boss is coming up". I do have games where I enjoy the challenge, and not use GG, but there are games that I still won't touch without it.
Kids today don't understand the trials we had to go through getting a game. 99% of the time, if it was a popular game, unless you reserved a copy, you were SOL. The only alternative was renting the game. Where I lived, you could only rent a New release title for 3 days at a time. So, unless you binged for 40 hours grinding in Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy, you had no where near the time to complete the game you rented. Even then, games back then WERE janky AF. Take Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for example. Anyone remember that "electrified seaweed level? Those hit boxes were a joke for my 9 year old brain. The creation of the game genie allowed people to access a bigger amount of content within the time limit you had. It along with the Action Reply and Gameshark were all great items that no one should be ashamed of using.
My main memory of the Game Genie was renting it from a family video store, and I clearly recall being so excited, then getting home and there was no manual or codebook, anything lol. I was so confused and bummed out. We returned it to the store and even they had no idea what happened to the book lol.
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@@GenerationGapGaming absolutely! While making up my own codes I totally hosed up whatever game I was playing. Always had to restart & start all over with a new code
I remember the first time I saw it in person and thought it was the strangest thing it stuck out of the NES. Back then people would blow in the game before inserting it (which apparently did nothing I’m told) I would use the game genie a lot even if I wasn’t actually using it because games seemed to work better first try turning on.
I never actually owned one of these, but my friend did. Our favourite uses of it were just piling on the wacky cheats to make the game crazy. I recall one fun birthday party where we played Super Mario Bros 3 with a permanent hammer suit, unlimited lives, and ability to space jump. Nowadays in my 40s, I tend to cheat with more modern means like rewind, save assist, etc, but I try and be careful not to overuse them.
I had the SNES game genie and loved it! I remember using it to beat the special levels in Super Mario World. Great to get a new vid from you on Zelda day!
I really enjoyed the Game Genie. You could get codes for other games too in the EGM. Also, on Super NES, game genie was awesome! You could really upgrade your Street Fighter 2 :)
I had a Game Genie for my Game Gear back in the day. I used it all the time for Sonic 2 and Deep Duck Trouble (I still remember the latter had cheats for invincibility).
Great story. That would have been an awesome surprise. There were people who don't like the Game Genie? I thought that was just Nintendo because they hate every other company. Wait... you can create your own codes?
Holy shit I was just watching your videos the other day because I watched Friday the 13th and I thought of your play through. saw it had been a long time since you posted. I was bummed thinking you stopped doing videos. Then bang here you are coming in clutch like the game genie back in the day.
I used the Game Genie with Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road on the NES. Just hooking the cartridge into the Game Genie (no codes) seemed to make the game MUCH easier. I can't say it wasn't a placebo effect after all these years, but I always did it.
My uncle Tony got me the NES one when I was a kid and it was awesome. I later got one for the SNES and Genesis...no video game collection is truly complete without its Game Genie.
Sounds like uncle Toney is a cool dude!
@@GenerationGapGaming He was a really good uncle and a really good man. He also got me Super C and the Mutant League games for the Genesis. RIP Uncle Tony.
I remember renting games solely based on what codes there was for that game. If it had stuff like unlimited lives and health i knew it would be a game i could actually beat as a kid. I do remember making my own codes too, it’s been so long but i recall mostly all you had to do was change the first letter on a bunch of codes. I have a bunch of final fantasy codes written down somewhere that was better than what was in the book from hours of experimentation
Yes! Changed the game, no pun intended, for approaching rentals. Thanks for sharing your memories.
My sister and brother in law got the Genesis version for my birthday in 1993.
It helped me immensely in Sonic 2, Splatterhouse 2 and Rocketknight Adventures
Sweet! You have a cool sister!
I remember the night my older brother got the game genie, I spent hours looking at the code book reading all the codes for every game, even ones I never had.
I hear ya. Sounds like great memories. Thanks for sharing.
I left for work at 7:30am and just got home at 9:30pm. I’m grumpy. Until I get to watch your video! Duuuuude you changed my day. My grandma bought a game genie for her house. Loved going to her house to play games in her Nintendo with the GG! Thanks for the video man. Bringing back memories.
Awesome! Great the video and GG memories turned your day around. Work can be so mentally and physically exhausting at times.
My grandma had one. But us kids weren't allowed to touch it lol. My grandma was a gamer. She had an Atari in the basement with Centipede in it. The console never got shut off, turned off, she made sure her scores weren't going anywhere lol
You had an epic Grandma!!!
Grandma a G
You can actually daisy chain game genies and input more then three codes.
Ayyy welcome back man! 🎉😁
Thanks Danny! Good to be here again
Game Genie saved me so much time and was fun to tinker with!
Exactly! Pure joy on the GG.
Still have my game genie, still use it all the time!!!
Awesome!
Some games I would use Game Genie so that I could beat them, and then later I would find I could beat the game without Game Genie's assistance. Beating a game with Game Genie took the pressure off so you could learn the game without getting frustrated. Pretty sure this is how I learned to beat Nightmare on Elm Street.
That's a great approach. Definitely good to start at a level or spot in a game to practice instead of taking time to get back there all on your own
Tyler, I was so excited to see you had posted a new video! You are my favorite video game channel. Being born in 1979, I relate to your takes on games. Hope all is well and keep up the great work!
Thanks so much for the kind words. Means a lot that you enjoy the videos. Helps continue to encourage me to do more.
@@GenerationGapGaming I grew up in a small NC town and would rent games from a convenience store so when you mentioned you renting from a mom and pops grocery store it reminded me of doing that, had totally forgot that was a thing.
For a select few games, it was a valuable asset.
It helped me greatly with TNMT (Orly way to pass the dam levelanddefuse the bombs) Dizzys Adventure & a couple others including Zelda 2.
Unfortunately, it didn’t help with Day's of Thunder. Still couldn't beat it .
I also had the Gameboy version.
The makers of the Game Genie made great games as well.
But that thing went in SNUG.
Thanks sharing your memories. Agreed it did fit snuggly lol
I bought one for my Sega Genesis when I got back into retro gaming and it absolutely enhances some really difficult games
Exactly!
The game genie also gave new life to my NES, I had several games that wouldn’t work, ran them with the genie and they worked!
Oh that's awesome. I have TWO Commando games that do not work. Need to try that.
Exactly! Same happened with me
Hey G3 ! . We are so glad that youre back !!
Thanks so much! Good to be back
Awesome to see a new video from G3!
Thanks Matt! Hope you and yours are well. Good to hear from you
I was just looking you up over the weekend and watched your NES Golf video. Love your channel!
Thanks! I enjoyed making the golf video
Glad to see that you’re back, Tyler! I never had a Game Genie but plenty of my friends did. It definitely was a fun add-on and I thought it was even more fun to try and make the game do bizarre unexpected things with codes. Btw I love the LEGO Mario TV. My son and I built one during lockdown.
Thanks! Good to be back. Yes the Lego Mario TV is pretty sweet. Glad you guys had one to put together too!
If you think about it, it was the first major mod platform. I loved typing in random codes and sometimes you'd get some crazy effects or artifacts
Yeah I never got lucky with random codes. Would be cool to see something changing by some randomness though lol
I was OBSESSED trying to find the Game Genie after it came out. Once I finally got it I was a tad unimpressed 😂 But boy was it exciting!!!
Sometimes the thrill of the hunt is better lol. Thanks for sharing
Infinite Lives Code for Contra and Super C!
It was the only way to play back then as a busy kid who didn't have time to get good. Some games didn't have codes. Other games had broken codes. But some were perfection. Excuse my tired old man mind, the examples I can think of are Darkwing Duck and Kung Fu Heroes. Of course our Game Genie stopped working after my brother bent the prongs and spilled soda on it. Such is nostalgia. Best to you bud!
Soda,.....the Game Genie killer lol. Great memories for you I'm sure. Thanks for sharing
Welcome back! GG and GGG. Hell yeah!
Thanks so much! 👊
The game genie changed my life. Not because of all its cool features but because it made my nintendo games work and i didn’t have to blow into the cart and insert and pop it up and down holdling reset while pushing power 😂
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Yes! Same issue with my NES that the GG fixed.
I had so much fun just putting in random codes. And even trying to spell words. Just to see the randomness to create.
Exactly. Making random words and spamming letters was surprisingly fun lol
You’re back!! Awesome vid.
Thank you sir! Glad to hear from you.
A new video! Welcome back!!
Hope you enjoyed it! Thanks for the kind words.
Game Genie was awesome. Being an oblivious kid, I just thought it was an official Nintendo product.
Exactly. Same here! I thought Nintendo just did it all lol
46 y.o, and to this day, I'm a cheat addict. I actually get more enjoyment out of a game and play it far longer. If I'm on PC, then it's an editor.
Sweet! As long as you have fun
I made custom codes for Street fighter 2 for SNES. I was obsessed for a time as a youngster. I figured out All kinds of weird changes:
All fireballs that hit you made you catch on blue fire and fall back like how Dhalsim's flame does to you.
Mid air special moves.
Freakish distortions of graphics that made characters look like they had multiple hands and arms.
Endless Shoryukens that allowed you to be invincible as long as you keep doing the motion repeatedly.
Hahahah good times!
Great video!
Liked and shared.
Godspeed.
Sounds like you got the most out of your GG. Thanks for sharing your memories
My cousin would always get very angry with me if I used the game genie. Him and I grew up playing video games since the first Atari and he hated anything with cheat codes. So, I had to do it at my house on the weekdays. Ah, this video took me way back to the fun times of growing up with all things Nintendo. Thanks, Tyler.
Just as long as you got your own game genie time in lol. Glad it brought back some good memories for you.
I'm glad you're doing good these days.
About freaking time you dropped a new vid!
I loved the Game Genie because it allowed us to take revenge of the insane NES difficulty, which was usually artificially increased for US players. I always hated when games I wanted to beat had pointless codes though...like "start with 0 lives" or "one hit deaths"
I know. Why would you want 1 hit deaths lol.
You got some cool parents. The game genie was so good. Beat so many impossible games with that thing. Friday the 13th for one lol
Agreed. My parents are amazing. Wonderful people. Yeah Friday the 13th back in the day was a mess, but you and I both loved it apparently lol
I loved playing Nintendo games, but I was never all that good at them. The game genie made them enjoyable again after hours of frustration with the notorious difficulty of some NES games.
Awesome! I mean what's the point of playing if it isn't fun
Welcome back. I absolutely loved the GG... conversely However, I could never get into the game shark or action replay
Glad to see you back here again. Thank you!
I also never knew you could make your own codes either. I found out a few years ago.👍🏻🇺🇲
Borrowed the nes gg from my buddy Chad and soon after got the game boy gg with the tiny code book stored in the back.
This was mind blowing!!
Agreed. I love those little code books too that fit in the portable game genies. The Game Gear one seemed a little better designed. The Game boy one was a little top heavy. I did like how you could place the sticker of the codes on the cartridge. Don't care for it as a collector now though lol. Thanks for sharing.
Zelda 2 was the only game I couldn’t beat…even with the Game Genie! 😢
I totally understand that one. Zelda 2 has a few parts that are wayyy too cryptic!
Man, I didn't think codes for Zelda 2 existed back then. I missed out!
Good to see you again brother! I shamelessly use the Game Genie to this day!
Thanks Zach. Good to hear from you too!
Welcome back!! Looking good!!! Hope you and your family are well!
Thanks so much! The family and I are great. Thanks for asking. Hope you and yours are well too
Ah the Game Genie. I was a teenager when it was released and very proud of my NES skills and the many difficult games I had beaten. To me the GG was a fun novelty that I used sparingly. My younger brothers however considered it the Holy Grail and abused it without shame. This led to a lot of arguments since I told them that any game they beat while using it was cheating unless they could prove to me they could finish the game without it. Most of the time they didn't accept the challenge but those arguments were fun. Thank you for the memories. 😁
Glad you had fun arguing 🤣🤣. Thanks for sharing with us.
Who told you you could take a vacation man, you've been missing in action!
I know how dare I lol. It's good to be back
Really glad to see you back
Thanks Clay!
I had the Game Genie myself when I was like, eight. The "create your own code" section, while I barely understood it at the time, was the very first spark of my path into computer science. It was a way to issue POKE-type commands to the NES hardware decades before emulators would eventually become a thing. It still remains the most straightforward way to do it on actual hardware.
It is a fascinating topic to find out today. At the time, it would have blown my mind lol
So awesome to see a new video from you. Missed your content lots.
That makes me happy to hear. Sorry it took so long
@GenerationGapGaming no worries, hope all has been well
Great to see a new video from you pop up in my feed!
Thanks! I really like your name and logo btw. Cool stuff
@@GenerationGapGaming thanks bud
The Gane Genie was awesome. I owned the Genesis and NES versions. It allowed you to replay games in different ways. So I never viewed it as cheating. Also it helped me beat one of the toughest games on the NES Battletoads.
A lot of those early NES games were ports of quarter guzzlers. Games designed to kill you and make you spend another quarter to keep playing. The Game Genie was a welcomed equalizer to those games. And since these were, mainly, single player games even if it was cheating the point was just to have fun so who cares as long as you got personal enjoyment from it?
Exactly. GG brought nothing but a good time to video games for me. Thanks for sharing your thoughts
Yep. I love it. Heck I used it recently for the first two dragon warrior games so I didn't spend hours grinding. Good stuff
Hey Hunter! Hope all is well with you my friend. Thanks for commenting. Good to hear from you.
@@GenerationGapGaming you as well sir.
Glad to see you back!
Thank you sir!
I like the Game Genie and the first game i used it on was Double Dragon 2 The Revenge🐉🐉👍👍😎😎
Sweet! I loved the commercial for Double Dragon 2.
I got one for the NES one year for Christmas and I absolutely loved it.
Sweet!
This video made me press subscribe. I never got my own game genie, but i rented it a lot. I loved the game genie.
Yay! You do an amazing job as a narrator of such an amazing era that many of us cherish. I hope to see more from you!!! Glad you’re back!
Thank you much much! Great to hear from you again man
Welcome Back !!! ❤
Good to be back. Thanks for the kind words and taking time to comment!!!
Aweome Channel and well put together keep up the great work!
“Hi I’m Tyler, and if you like gaming as much as we so at GE, well you are in for a treat”
Thank you for the kind words sir!
slxplovs infinite lives in mario 3 lol I used to use the skywalker code too and just jump all the way through the levels.
Yes! Great codes
Awesome story! I love hearing stories like that.
We got a game genie. It’s amazing we got half the stuff we did cause we were dirt poor. I personally thought it spiced up the games for a short time. It would make it so you could see new levels or areas you’d never seen. Problem was, that grind to get to those hard to reach areas was what made the games worth it. Once the game genie came in and we’d beat a game, we’d never go back to the original
It definitely spiced old games up. Completely agree!
Missed your vids!
I missed making them. Glad you enjoy!
Welcome back!!
Thanks man! 🙏
I think one of the first times i had used the game genie was on Zelda 2. Yeah, if there was ever a game that almost needed the game genie, it wqs that one. Lol. I enjoyed using the Game genie for the nearly impossible games that i loved to play just to finally beat something that was hard as balls.
Zelda 2 was definitely insanely difficult back in those days. No shame in using the GG.
I definitely loved the Game Genie. It allowed my brother & I to actually be able to beat & experience many of these almost impossible to beat games. We were only able to beat Super Mario Bros. 3, the Adventures of Bayou Billy, TMNT3: The Manhattan Project, all 3 Ninja Gaiden Games, etc., because of the Game Genie! Those games were all pretty damn hard to beat, without the Game Genie, & those turned out to be many of my favorite games, as a kid, because we got to see & experience the whole game. Punch Out too. Only was able to beat that one, also, because of Game Genie. However, even with Game Genie, we still were never able to beat Battletoads, LMAO!
I completely agree. Yeah Battetoads is a force to be reckoned with even with a GG. I still love that game though
WELCOME BACK!!! Thank you for making these videos. It reminds me of the good times in my life when I was younger. AWESOME VIDEO!!! I remember not being able to afford Game Genie. My brothers and I couldn’t wait for the weekend to rent it from our local video game store.
Thank you sir! You are the second person to say they were able to rent a Game Genie. That's awesome! I would have loved that opportunity.
We had a game genie for the SNES, and it was tons of fun. It was so much fun to put in random codes and see what was going on. I remember one code that would change Yoshis color pallet in Super Mario World. It messed up all kinds of other things, but it was cool having a weird colored Yoshi. The manual in the SNES version did a really good job explaining how it worked and how to alter codes.
That's awesome for the SNES version. I didn't have the SNES or its GG growing up so its great to hear stories about it. Thanks!
I remember exactly where I was when I used the game genie to finally beat Zelda II
Awesome! Zelda II is no joke, even with a GG. So cryptic at times
TYLER!!!!! BRO WELCOME BACK!!!!
Hey, there you are!! 🎉
I'm finally back on here Dan! 🤣. Great to hear from you man.
Love my Game Genie! I still have it, the book, and I subscribed and have all the printed book updates.
That's great to hear Lance! Thanks for sharing your memories.
@GenerationGapGaming you should check out the Game Action Replay - it allowed you to have save states and you could use it with the Game Genie.
It's good to see you again!
Thanks Joe! Same to you
I still have my NES game genie, liked using it to help complete the tougher games, creating my own codes, but mostly just to help with loading games, I had a moody spring too but even if I wasn't using cheats with the game genie in it was never an issue loading games
Exactly! I used it mostly to get the games to just work lol
Game genie blew my mind when it came out. Loved messing with it and it revitalized games I grew tired of.
Perfectly said!
Good to see you back!
I remember renting NES games and movies at our grocery store too!
I don’t remember exactly when I got my game genie but I do know I used it every time I played after I got it. I just wish we had something for modern systems. I don’t get very far on the classics on my switch. Haha
GG was life saver for sure. Browsing games and movies at the grocery store was a blast back then. Thanks for taking time to share your memories.
A wild G3 has appeared... what do you do? Pfft, obviously watch the video! Glad to see you uploading again, my dude. A friend of mine who lived a few houses up the street had the Game Genie and then got the other books in the mail. If I remember correctly, instead of purple, the books you got in the mail were red and white. We used to do like you did and hooked the Genie to a game that wouldn't load up properly and it'd work a lot of the times. The worst was taking the time to put all the codes in and when you pressed Start, the game would be all glitched and you'd have to start all over again haha
Very cool that you got to experience the additional mail in code books!
Welcome Back! Woohoo!
Thank you my friend! 👊
My cousin's dad was a dentist that made good money and he was one of those kids who had EVERYTHING and would always get things before I even knew it existed. I remember going over to his house in 1990 and him explaining the concept of Game Genie and my mind was blown. I was only 5 at the time so I wasn't very good at games obviously and as helpful as the magazines were this gave me the real Nintendo Power I was looking for. Like someone else in the comments mentioned I subscribed and received many smaller update booklets in the mail for newer games which were much thinner and red & white in color if I remember correctly. Later I got the Game Genie for both SNES and Genesis and my cousin even had the one for Game Boy which was a very strange contraption lol. I never had the Pro Action Replay or the later Game Shark for disc based systems but I will always love Game Genie...it was well worth the money for me.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience with the Game Genies. Sounds like you were a big fan. Yes the Gameboy one was nuts. Always felt top heavy too. I did love the little code book though lol.
@@GenerationGapGaming - Yes that little code book was so cool. I've spoke to you before but it's been about a year and I just wanted to say again that I love your videos man. I'm from KY and I believe you said you were from WV so it's cool to see someone from our neck of the woods covering this awesome stuff we grew up with. The music jingles you use along with your knowledge and personality just works like magic imo. I always look forward to your vids and I hope all is well with you and your family.
Yoooo the homie Tyler glad you back bro , we missed you 💯
Bruce! Great to hear from you man. Hope you are well. It's been a minute.
Still have my GGs for NES, SNES, and Genesis. Still use them. GG makes games fun. You should be able to just go through a game, enjoying the graphics, music, characters, action, etc., and not have to worry or stress like "oh, this one level, or room, or boss is coming up". I do have games where I enjoy the challenge, and not use GG, but there are games that I still won't touch without it.
Sounds like you have the right attitude towards the GG. I agree with you completely.
I remember getting it for Christmas, what a great memory. Thank u for reminding me.
Sounds like an awesome Christmas man!!!!
Kids today don't understand the trials we had to go through getting a game. 99% of the time, if it was a popular game, unless you reserved a copy, you were SOL. The only alternative was renting the game. Where I lived, you could only rent a New release title for 3 days at a time. So, unless you binged for 40 hours grinding in Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy, you had no where near the time to complete the game you rented. Even then, games back then WERE janky AF. Take Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for example. Anyone remember that "electrified seaweed level? Those hit boxes were a joke for my 9 year old brain. The creation of the game genie allowed people to access a bigger amount of content within the time limit you had. It along with the Action Reply and Gameshark were all great items that no one should be ashamed of using.
I couldn't have said it better myself. GG changed the concept of renting for me too
My main memory of the Game Genie was renting it from a family video store, and I clearly recall being so excited, then getting home and there was no manual or codebook, anything lol. I was so confused and bummed out. We returned it to the store and even they had no idea what happened to the book lol.
Very cool you had the option to RENT one! Would have loved that. Yeah and no manual is INSANE!!!!!🤣
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Thanks for the kind words. Yep I'm not just dropping by. Plenty of ideas in the works.
By the time I got mine I had already beat most of my games. I liked using it just to see what all I would do!
Exactly! You brought new life to the games!
@@GenerationGapGaming absolutely! While making up my own codes I totally hosed up whatever game I was playing. Always had to restart & start all over with a new code
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I remember the first time I saw it in person and thought it was the strangest thing it stuck out of the NES.
Back then people would blow in the game before inserting it (which apparently did nothing I’m told) I would use the game genie a lot even if I wasn’t actually using it because games seemed to work better first try turning on.
No doubt! Saved me so much time getting a game to start too
Excellent video ☘️☘️☘️
Thank you sir! Glad you enjoyed and took time to comment
Dang.. a new vid after almost a year! Welcome back!
Thanks. Sorry it took so long. Plan to be better about it lol
The Game Genie crawled so that modding could run.
True!
I love the Game Genie because I can leave it in my NES and avoid bending the pins when I insert a cartridge.
No freaking doubt! Definitely made the system more reliable
Good to see you, Tyler!
Thanks! Good to be back on here. Appreciate you taking time to comment
good to see you man! been busy with work/school and haven't been retro gaming on consoles much but can't wait to get the carts out soon!
I feel ya on the busy with work and life stuff. Hard to fit in the gaming. Thanks for commenting!
O man i had one of these for my NES as a kid!!
I even tried making my own cheat codes for it!
Awesome! Hope it brought back some great memories.
I never actually owned one of these, but my friend did. Our favourite uses of it were just piling on the wacky cheats to make the game crazy. I recall one fun birthday party where we played Super Mario Bros 3 with a permanent hammer suit, unlimited lives, and ability to space jump.
Nowadays in my 40s, I tend to cheat with more modern means like rewind, save assist, etc, but I try and be careful not to overuse them.
I remember the space jump too lol. Thanks for sharing
I had the SNES game genie and loved it! I remember using it to beat the special levels in Super Mario World. Great to get a new vid from you on Zelda day!
How did it being Zelda day slip my mind 😳. Great to hear from you Eric! Hope you and yours are well.
@@GenerationGapGaming Doing great! Same to y’all!
I used to have one of those. Didn't use it very often because it made some games way too easy.
I hear ya. Sometimes it did take the challenge away.
This was definitely amazing for renting games you could beat them and go on to the next
Exactly! A dream for rentals
I really enjoyed the Game Genie. You could get codes for other games too in the EGM. Also, on Super NES, game genie was awesome! You could really upgrade your Street Fighter 2 :)
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed the GG too
I had a Game Genie for my Game Gear back in the day. I used it all the time for Sonic 2 and Deep Duck Trouble (I still remember the latter had cheats for invincibility).
Game gear Sonic games were great! I loved the Game Gear.
Great story. That would have been an awesome surprise.
There were people who don't like the Game Genie? I thought that was just Nintendo because they hate every other company.
Wait... you can create your own codes?
It was a great surprise. Blessed with two wonderful parents for sure. Yeah I've heard a few rag on GG for sure. Can't please everyone lol
Holy shit I was just watching your videos the other day because I watched Friday the 13th and I thought of your play through. saw it had been a long time since you posted. I was bummed thinking you stopped doing videos. Then bang here you are coming in clutch like the game genie back in the day.
Thanks for the kind words. Feels great to be back.
I used the Game Genie with Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road on the NES. Just hooking the cartridge into the Game Genie (no codes) seemed to make the game MUCH easier. I can't say it wasn't a placebo effect after all these years, but I always did it.
Super Off Road was awesome! Loved the NES and the arcade version.