I remember back in the 90s when you could get demo compilation disc's in magazines. My brother and I were PC gamers and were super stoked when we came across a free copy of Jazz the Jackrabbit in a magazine, and I'm still obsessed with that series to this day.
Yep. I had ST Format cover disk demos. I remember playing Sensible Soccer from one of them and there was a way to basically get an unlimited game, so you could score as many goals as you liked until you got bored.
I really miss the old physical game guide books. Not for walk through, but for all the lore they would have. Like the Rouge Sqaudron book that went into full detail on every mission and every ship in the game
I miss the old instruction manuels giving you some backstory or insights into the game's world, like Sonic telling you all the Levels, or Dungeon Master II sharing a little side story set jus before the game starts! Assassin's Creed II had memos from between the modern day characters as well!
That's how I felt when I saw TLOU2 and initially Cyberpunk 2077 (my dad preordered me the PS4 version for Christmas and we know how that went) The 2 disk thing died and then came back and I wouldn't be surprised if it comes back again late in the PS5s life
I remember doing that with FFVII (original) when it came out. If you told me way back then that one day I would have a copy of that game on my mobile phone that I could play, I wouldn't have believed you. I still have my old official game guide for FFVII too, in good condition, which I was amazed about when I realized how old it was when Remake came out. 😅
The thing i miss the most, is the physical guide book you always had for mainly rp games. i kept some of them because it reminds me of how my grandpa sat in his armchair reading the guide to me and i was playing the whole day. i think of him every day i play at the console. good times
I remember when I would get a guide book I would read it when i would go to the restroom. Read it and started playing afterwards to finish what I was stuck on. Miss those days.
Great list. It reminds me that I've been gaming for 35 years even though I'm 55. I've forgotten some of these things. Being an adult when I started made some things easier, i.e. no issue having someone turn off my console or not being able to get memory cards (I still have my PS2 and all my cards with saved files from back in the day). But I do remember pondering whether I really needed a new one or were hoarding saves. And I did leave my PS1 on all day while at work to save my practice qualifying from the night before on F197 and do the race when I got home because you couldn't save through about 3-4 hours of gameplay if you tried to do a full race weekend. Somehow I never killed that original Playstation, in spite of leaving it on 24/7. Or more sometimes. Also, there were a few old Sega 16-Bit games that, yeah, I just got stuck on and could never figure out how to progress past. Maybe even a few PS games too. Clocktower and Silent Hill come to mind. Some games just broke in the middle and couldn't be patched, or you'd scratch a disk and be unable to progress (with odds increasing of unplayable damage with multiple disk sets). People complain a lot, but we have it really good these days. Games are just incredible; they're marvels of technology. The accessibility is insane and in general, the quality has improved in ways we couldn't imagine 25 years ago. Back then, sometimes just trying to figure out how to play the game was the objective of playing, rather than enjoying the experience. We're almost at Star Trek holodeck simulations now. There's always a lot that can be improved and that has degraded the experience, but we have a lot to be thankful for as gamers too.
My dad bought a Pong console in 1977. I remember bugging my dad for Pacman in 1980 for Atari and he shelled out $40 at Sears for it. Dad was the Best and he loved Arcade Games also. He loved Donkey Kong and I loved Asteroids.
What would you say are your favorites and if their old ones, and new/newer ones. I'm not that old but it still amazes me how we have all of stuff inside and it's somehow able to play these beautiful games. And how we somehow came so far in so little time. I would love to hear your opinions about games and some new ones and old ones, that you've played or would like to play and try sometime. Games you love and games you hate, even if I don't personally agree with you, as that's fine and no big deal as it's just opinions and shouldn't be taken so seriously. Or if you would like one recommendations of games, like The Evil Within, what remain of Edith Finch, or the resident evil series or any others as my game collection is huge and has a wide variety.
@@PublishedLeaf interesting question, thanks for asking. It's hard for me to say what my favorites are since my tastes have changed based on what's been technically available, plus I find that what I might have thought was fun 20-30 years ago maybe isn't so much anymore for whatever reason. And I don't remember a lot from my old Sega days, so long ago. Probably Outrun on Sega 16-Bit and definitely early Madden titles got the most traction on Sega Genesis (I've probably never been as good at any game as those). I got my first PC spec'd to support a racing sim called Grand Prix Legends in 1997, which still holds up today when modded. From there with Playstation, it's pretty boring. Gran Turismo 1&2, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil 1&2 are the big titles. Hulk Ultimate Destruction and the Marvel Ultimate Alliance are memorable, but I have a stack of games here for PS2. Past that, it's been all PC and I've gravitated more towards pseudo open world games like OG Tomb Raider first teased; Half Life 1&2, Oblivion, Skyrim, Witcher3, Arkham, Assassin's Creed (Black Flag and Origins are my favorite), Cyberpunk, etc. I really like the ability to not need to play the game and to just be able to just explore in my game worlds (RDR2 stands out, where I just went on mapping expeditions for days irl without touching any quests). Mass Effect gets a special nod given I rate it every bit as highly of a sci fi/fantasy franchise as Star Wars or Star Trek, and also Diablo 2 in the RPG space. I've always been into sim racing and have tried most of them but Project Cars 2 really stands out as an accessible title on par with GT. AAA titles get a lot of complaints directed towards them, but I think they're AAA for a reason and it seems I gravitate to them on reflection here. Each one I mentioned is something I can go back to and have fun with on any given day, and I do fairly frequently! But honestly, I've played more than I can remember and I know I'm leaving out many that I've enjoyed very much. Fun question. What are some of yours?
@@F1jones Sorry it took my so long to answer. I have 184 games so I cant name them all. Some of the games I love, I know people dislike and thats okay. My favorite game right now is the Evil Within 1, Its really chaotic and fun and will get you to ask the he'll is happening or whats going on every second. Another close second is What Remains of Edith Finch, its a game where its all about the story and your just walking around and its a cinematic masterpiece. Dying Light 2 is a game where I have over 200 hours in it and Im still coming back to play it. Its not a gamer for everybody, but I can stop playing it for 6 months and come back to it and have a blast. Another of my favorites is Mafia 3 and its Definitly not for everyone, peoplr have said a lot of the gameplay id repetitive, but the story is great. I actually really enjoy thr gameplay though. Outlast is the greatest horror gane ever made, enough said. I really enjoy lego games and have every lego game made by travlers tales except two of them. Watch dogs is a game 1 is a game I have played with my sister since we were younger and we just drive around and shoot people. I know it can disappoint people, but it cant with me as I have a blast playing it. Dishonered is a classic of either butchering people or being a good person. It's a game where you kinda get to chpice your own path or route. Resident evil games are always awesome, but Resident Evil 7 is my favorite and how I got into the series. Sleeping dogs and Far Cry Primal are game that are do satisfying to me. Dont think I need to tell you about minecraft as it gives me freedom to build my crappy houses. Assasins Creed blag flag is my favorite AC game. I play some Cod and my favorite is Cod Bo3 for the zombies. Dark souls makes me wish I was never born for a second time. The dead Island games (not di2, I havent played it yet) are just so good to goof off and not take seriosly if you need a break. Grand thedt auto 4 and 5 are still some pretty great games, even if rockstar is Satan. With Gta 4 being my favorite game of theres. The Last of us 1 and 2. TLOU2 is not a game for everyone and people are allowed to feel disappointed and mad. Not me though as I really enjoyed it and the story. I hope people can spread some positivity even if you hate the game, dont be a jerk to those who love the game. Lastly Hades is a game that is so addicting and one you can come back to even after you beaten it 20 times. These are just some of the games I have, but theyre my favorite to play and come back to. Some of these games are not for everyone, but that doesnt matter to me as I just have fun playing them. Excuse and spelling mistakes. I'd reccomend you check out Evil Within, What remains of Edith Finch. Abd if your heart can take it, outlast.
Ps2? I remember needing a memory pack for the n64...I'm getting old. The ps1 had a multi memory card with a digital display that had 30 cards worth of memory to pick from..then all my ff7 saves were gone when the card stopped working.😢
I always thought it was bizarre that internal storage was such a hurdle. I think nintendo was real snake bit by having so many solutions before tech caught up. Theyre still using memory sticks
As an older gamer, I remember many games that had over 10 disks, some as many as 15. Back then, pre-CD floppy discs only held 1.4 MBs. In modern standards, Black Ops Cold War would take over 170,000 of those discs.
As a teen, I begged my parents to upgrade our 486 with a cdrom, only to discover that I couln’t use it and the sound board simultaneously, totaly negating tge interest of that expensive equipment,
I was grounded from playing games more often than not, so that startup sound was a real fear of mine every late night playing FF Tactics. Also I do kinda miss the memory cards. I only had a console of my own later, but thanks to a personal memory card I had saves I could keep with me from my buddy's place, without worry of overwrites. Those things also could go through the washer and survive, which impressed me too!
Yeah the PS2 memory cards used flash, so they didn't have any onboard power, there was no chance to short them out if they aren't plugged in. As long as you make sure it's dry before you plug it back into your console, you should always be fine with those. Many electronic circuit boards can be washed underwater so long as there's no charge in the capacitors and has no battery attached to it.
Man the phone startup sound was so long and loud that even if I manage to start turning down the volume would be busted before it got to a lower volume.
Back in the 90s, I knew a guy who made his own water cooled PC with a copper plate, some tubing, a fish tank pump, and a 5 gallon bucket. It worked great and he was able to overclock that thing pretty hard.
Back in the late 90s I went to a friends house who’s younger brother, he was maybe 12-13, built his own PC and he had one he showed me that was operated by remote control. That blew me away and now it’s so common that it’s hardly as amazing as it was then.
Back when there were some graphics cards you could muck about with to overclock them, one of my mates had a water cooled system that the now heated water would be pumped into his tropical fish tank. Then pulled out into a filtration system, to let the water cook down, then pumped back through the computer. It was an overly complicated setup, but it worked.
So grateful to be able to watch videos like this in 2023 and get that hit of nostalgia with my fellow aging gamers. I definitely love the newer generation of players and seeing them experience their own “discovery” phases we also had, but something just hits different being able to resonate with other gamers about downloading and printing a 50-page walkthrough from Gamefaqs back in the day and getting chewed out by your folks for using all the printer ink
I feel like the early days of gaming the hearing of easter eggs(happy easter btw to everyone who sees this comment), glitches and bugs from rumors, friends and strangers really cemented those things as legends and made looking and testing for them exciting and gave an air of mystery. I specifically remember the Missing No. from pokemon as being one of the most prominent and arguably the MOST popular glitch in gaming history.
there was more community as you had to physicaly be present to talk games. Those electronics shows he mentioned for instance. You didn't just go there for the parts you needed. You went to talk to OTHER people who where 99% likely to be into what you are into. Thats why they are there. I graduated highschool in 2009. I lived for mornings and lunch times. Where I got to sit down with like 10 or 15 other dudes and talk magic the gathering and smashbrothers.
Episode Suggestion: Old-school to fairly-old games that couldn't have fixes, debugs, or updates having those flaws or once thought all of as permanent errors fixed today.
I was actually thinking about this today. I feel like games were more challenging back in the day, not just from the lack of guides but also a lack of access to those guides. If you got stuck on a puzzle, you had to figure it out or wait till a buddy figured it out. Which also created some friendly competition.
Not just that, but originally games were designed for the arcade, then ported to home consoles. Harder games were just more profitable for arcadrs, they called them quarter eater games for a reason.
The worst was always that friend who would straight up lie about the cool things they did to unlock stuff and wasting time trying to replicate it. I say worst, but looking back even that was quite fun. Nowadays if a puzzle takes me more than a few minutes I'll look up a guide, back then we had to solve it or just never finish it
That and older games especially for the original Xbox and PlayStation 1 & 2 were just harder. I like to dl original Xbox games and even with a guide, these games can be tough even on normal difficulty. You really had to “get good” and develop skills/learn the patterns of the enemies. Unlike today where a lot games are intentionally designed to be more forgiving to not burnout casual gamers right away.
I think you missed the exploration aspect of old gaming (specially the PC ones). I still remember using a graph paper to create the maps of SSI gold box games or building maps for Sierra’s Hero’s Quest. So much nostalgia 😅
I remember my brother and me trying to finish FF7 without a memory card. We used to type down everything (how to do things in the game) in a notebook so that the next time we played we knew how to do it in the game. We managed to finish the game in one sitting after about 1 year of trying.
I had a friend with PS1 with no memory card, so we played games from a beginning on every gaming session. The measurement of a skill was "how much time you will waste to get to the point where you had finished the last time" ) Means, faster you get there - more time to enjoy a new content that's further in a game
Did that for Rick Dangerous on Atari STE with infinite lives over a full WE. I still don’t understand how anyone could have beaten that vicious game fairly.
Saving your game progress is probably one of the biggest QOL improvement in gaming. Unlike today where seeing a game's end credits is more or less a sure thing, finishing a game way back then was a big achievement. You have to struggle through limited "lives"/retries plus no way of saving your progress. I also remember the pain of old consoles just randomly rebooting due to faulty power adapters.
Of course nowadays developers seem to be allergic to allowing you to save anywhere, its all checkpoints. And we're well past the point where the devs should know better than to put the checkpoint _before the cutscene_
@@leonidas14775 Or you made all the right choices, but you missed the two pixel wide bobby pin on the library's checkerboard floor and didn't pick it up so now you can't pick the lock on the jail cell.
@@pimphandduke8447 It's part of a growing trend of developers deciding they can force people to play a game in one specific way, settling their egos by making sure players have only the EXACT experience they intended, and nothing else. In this case, they're trying to eliminate save scumming. People who have lives and responsibilities be damned. You're either going to have the time to to beat this 40 minute mission in one go with no breaks, or you're not going to play our game, because some people might choose to abuse saving/loading and wouldn't have exactly the experience we wanted them to. Can't have that. Imagine if other artforms tried to restrict their bases that way. "You can only listen to this song three times, and the file will self-erase, because I only want people to hear it three times each so it doesn't get old." "If you interpret my painting in any way aside from what I intended, this mechanism will paint over it in black."
Fixed angles could be cool sometimes when done right. The PS2 God of War games, had great camera setups that made for really cool fights, and freed up the right stick for additional movement options. That was some classic gameplay that feels satisfying even today. I can easily go back to them and not miss camera controls from modern games.
Silent Hill games were the goat with fixed camera angles. Still damn scary to this day. Not sure the remake is going to be as scary with its modern free camera set up
I did not like the fixed camera in God of war 3 when it realesed. I played it not long ago on my ps5 and still dont like it. I mean the fixed camera doing a good job but it feels so wrong now when you played alot of games with free camera movement and takes a little while to adjust. Otherwise the game is amazing and still looks really good. I just wished i could rotate and see the eyecandy.
Right in the feels, dude.... 😢 I'm in my 40s, and this hurts. Memory cards... multiple disks ( FF7), and CheatCC... Spent alot of time on CCC looking up stuff. That and paper guide books, both game specific ones or the large collection books. And, least we forget Game Genie and Game Shark.
My little sister managed too somehow not hide delete my saves but the memory card itself need to be reformatted. I still to this day don't know how she did that. She must've only been four or five
I was actually waiting to hear something about "not having to blow dust out of a cartridge." That used to be the Bane of my existence. Even after cleaning the dust, I would still cross my fingers and pray when I put the game in the cartridge slot.😂
@@michaelridley3676 Nah, I would say blowing in the cardridge was always a last resort. Meaning your game doesn´t work and the options would be buying a new one or blowing in, heck I would take a leaf blower to blow that cardridge.
PC gaming, especially starting with DOS games, was how I learned so much about computers back in the day. I still have the old book I bought on how to manage IRQ settings. I miss all the hint books and guides as well. The most fun ones to use were the ones for the Sierra games, well, until you lost the red film thing that allowed you to read the hints.
On the part of cheat books and guides. Sometimes your friend would only give you the book for a few hours or days so you had to spend hours on end to write down the cheats in an exercise book.
Man flatscreens have been revolutionary. Remember the old days when you had to carry your big old screen to a LAN party? It was like the heaviest thing to carry at 13 yrs
Or when one person switched on their monitor and all monitors in the row flickered? Or flickering because someone had their mobile next to a monitor and got a call..
Duuude having original guides - magazines/books were so freaking special, those were the OG gaming days. And figuring out cheat/exploits was truly rewarding and special
Oh man, I miss the game guide books. I loved having it to accompany my games. Especially for those large open world RPG games. I have boxes full of old ones. I used my Final Fantasy VII one so much it pretty much disintegrated. That thing is word for word imprinted on my brain.
Remember that if the disk was scratched too much or damaged in any way the only way to fix it was to buy a whole new disk(or set) to get the game. (PC) 2, 3 or 4 discs was needed to install the game and then after the last disc we had to enter the first disc again just to play the game. Flash drives were only 256MB to 500 MB so every time we wanted to share a game we could only do it one game at a time. PS: I used to be one of those gamers who had start again all over from the start when there was no SD card to save the game progress. I didn't want to but i was forced to.
In my small town, we only had 1 day rentals, so we'd try to rent a game as early as we could on Saturday morning to maximize the time before we had to bring it back by 6 on Sunday.
I still have the cheats written on a sheet of paper for the gta trilogy. It was so much fun back then making whole cheat sheets for different consoles.
Ironically, my controller untangling skill became integral to part of my business. I did live sound, and no matter how hard you worked to keep everything wrapped up nice and organized, it would always still wind up a jumbled up mess somehow. You think 6-10' of controller wire is a hassle, just try untangling 50-100' of various kinds of sound cabling.
You sometimes get crazy mofos that somehow tangle up socapex cables together just to pack up fast. Back in the warehouse untangling those are just a pure workout.
Not a gamer specific one, but I remember the old mice that had the rolls and that ball in the middle. You had to open them and clean the rolls from time to time. Or trying to play games online and your mum shouting you to disconnect bc she wanted to use the phone. We are old, man.
Number 7 really had me there. The last real big game release that I had to wait in line for was Red Dead Redemption 2. All of us were standing in the bitter cold, soaking in the rain. Definitely felt nostalgic.
Hate to break it to you, but you didn't have to wait in line for that one. It was released well after the point in time he was talking about. Real halo 2 og's know.
@@lolmanyeah1 I didnt own a PS4 at the time so it was a bundle at purchase. Im fine with taking my time with things. Was definitely an experience nonetheless.
I remember the joy of playing the legend of zelda on the NES and being completely floored that you could save your progress because the cartridge had an on board battery to keep the memory on board active.
some games on SEGA had it too. the problem is often (50/50 in my cases) on not-so-original cartridges there was no memory chip at all. Even if it was, no fact it'd work. also one time the battery failed and I lost a month of progress.
On games being finished on release: Programming languages and game dev tools are easier to use today than the past so it’s very hard to cause data corruption, but AA/AAA games today are much more complex than games made in the past and QA on the gameplay is much harder to get right than before.
although the sad thing about #3 is that we do have the advantage of being able to get glitches fixed unlike the past, we now have the disadvantage of companies releasing the games prematurely at subpar quality knowing they'll just patch it later. quite an interesting double edged sword really
Not necessarily. In the past we had to wait years and years for releases. Just wait 1 year after release today and you get a much cheaper and better game. Often with DLC on top for no extra charge.
I still remember when my uncle printed the whole walkthrough for RE: Code Veronica for Dreamcast. It was huge! I think things like that made me the gamer I am today.
Kinda funny that the ps2 startup sound is actually the sound of a piano smashing on the ground after being thrown off of a building xD . There's a video of it. ...and yes it has gotten me in trouble when I was younger haha
My mother is a huge Zelda fan and I remember her constantly calling the Nintendo hotline for tips and cheats for the first two games. Now in her 60's she has 100% BOTW and is awaiting the next instalment.
The days of trekking across my house to pull up cheats and guides on my dial up internet are fortunately long gone. Kids these days don't realize how good they have it. 😂
Number 10 I felt in my soul. That was my childhood: second hand/used consoles and no memory card. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I played the beginning of Final Fantasy VII, being only allowed an hour or two on the weekends, having to share with my brother, and having to put the Playstation up (same with Gamecube). It ended up being turned into "how far can I get before my time is up?" type of game while playing games XD I actually did manage to complete a few ps1 games this way: the Disney's Dinosaur game, Rugrats and the Search for Reptar, and I think one other that I can't remember.
Regarding #6, technically some games still have multiple discs. RDR2, for example, came with two discs. Luckily the first one was only needed during the installment process and after that you only ever needed the second disc. However, I did regularly insert the wrong disc, because I didn't pay attention to which disc I took from the box.
Can't believe you left out online passes. Those infernal things that kept you from accessing the online portion of the game without inputting a unique code. If you bought the game used it was pretty much guaranteed that the access code included with it had been redeemed by the original owner, and you had to pay $10 for a new one.
Consoles now a days are super loud too. My Xbox One sounds like a blender when I change up a game. The fans go super loud for like 1 minute and there's no turning volume down. Thankfully, I'm the dad now and my kid just doesn't give a crap about those loud noises 😂
I think that game devs being able to apply bug fixes, hotfixes and other patches after a game has already released has been more of a DETRIMENT to gaming as a whole. Because it has allowed game devs to have the mentality of "we'll fix it later" and has lead to games being released unfinished and incomplete, even allowing them to force gamers to be the "game testers" for them. I love that games are now more connected online with friends and all, but the internet has actually allowed games to become WORSE rather than better. Back in the day a game dev had to MAKE SURE that their game was 100% complete and finished with zero bugs BEFORE they ever released it, because they had ONE chance to make a good game and that was it, after it was released if it sucked, then it sucked FOREVER.
Oh those are the good old day. With playground rumors and stuff like that I remember I had a friend who was playing my pokémon game and use the master ball on a level 5 pokémon on the first route. I was mad as hell.
Honestly I love that I'm not alone in the existential drift of life and this video and the nostalgia did bring some peace to my mental. Playing without a Playstation memory card to beat Drakengard and Resident Evil 4 in one go and having power cuts and losing my mind but restarting like it was nothing. The multiple discs immediately brought FF7 to mind, said Gamefax the second Jake said look up guides and cheats. Remembering the tv volume set to 100 as a trap by my parents in case i turn on the PS2. I'm thirty now somehow and don't know where the time or our shiny little eyes and smiles went but it feels good to know we all made it this far, you guys take it easy and good luck figuring out the rest of life. P.S Hope this vid gets a part 2 .
I remember playing THPS on ps1 and keeping my playstation running for days because I didn't have a memory card and didn't want to lose my progress. Definitely a problem I'm glad is gone today
I remember having no ps2 memory for a solid 2 years and my brothers and I just got use to playing the game as far as we could 😂 when we finally got a memory card it was glorious we finally got to see what the rest of most games looked like and actually got to hit load game instead of new game!
I feel like I miss number 7 for that feeling and excitement. Something about getting something physical was a treat. Wether or not it was a long wait etc.
My first attempt of an all nighter as a kid, since my mum needed to sleep early was blown by the ps3 startup sound. Seriously though, have you heard that thing at a high volume💀
Having to troubleshoot a variety of hardware / software issues when installing PC games for DOS / Windows on my own systems taught me a lot ...such as how to optimize conventional memory usage (best I ever got was 604K free), how to (re)configure sound card settings (which became even more fun w/ each sound card upgrade), how to resolve IRQ & other system resource conflicts (which got increasingly frequent as I got further & further into video card & other component upgrades) among other issues. I think the craziest thing I had to troubleshoot was a new CD-ROM drive upgrade -- as soon as I installed the thing, the PC refused to boot up. Turns out, screwing in the mounting screws caused the entire system to "short to ground" ... so I had to go out & buy non-conducting nylon screw replacements to get everything working again. Oh, the myriad delights we had back then!
I definitely feel that memory card issue. I had a PS2 with no memory card and I would always play Jak and Daxter from the beginning and try to beat it all in one sitting each time 😂 ...I would always make it up to the mine section in Jak and Daxter before I would fall asleep and my dad would turn off the PS2 while I was sleeping. I finally beat the whole game when they released the collection.
The memory card issues were big back in the days , i never could find a ps1 memory card back in Africa during the early 2000s,matter of fact I've never seen a ps1 memory card to this day. At least the ps2 memory cards were less rare but were sold at high prices
Two things: for no.5, my wife shared with me that they used to have to call a phone line where game tips helped you get through certain levels. And with no.2, I remember my mother taking out a credit card so we could get a fully decked out PC in 1998 (she bought us a $5K computer that came with speakers, monitor, etc).
My cousin gave me a memory card with his PS2 so I was hooked up from the get and my first console was the first Xbox....which we should really be able to call the Xbox one 😤 Microsoft naming scheme is dog shit
ahh yes, I remembered the sound of my ps2/ xbox 360 really triggered my mother from the other part of the house walking straight to the living room just unplugged the console, and started scolding me for weeks about the fact that I tried to video game at night. What a memory.
All those things that u just talked about definitely was pain or an obstacle for gaming experience but after seeing them here I’m really missing them. Because all this things are very nostalgic. Loved ur content there.
The New GEN Gamers have no idea how real the struggle really was in our generation 😫 ! I'm an 80s baby but but a 90s kid and man how I love the nostalgia tho! Because these lists are spot on 100% haha man how I miss the 90s tho! Game shark & I miss my games gear magazine I used to get. That's how we found out about games coming out or with the demo disc in another game/magazine.
Wow, you really hit it home for me with number 8. It is cheesy, but I remember my brother and I waking up at 3am to play 007: night fire on our ps2. And one night we forgot to turn it down and the ps2 loading sound went off so loud, we just turned it off and went back to bed
About the guides, I remember I had a physical guide for Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, and I remember looking at it constantly because I had missed a chest and I wanted to get them all. I don't think I would've been able to do it without those guides as a kid
I remember years ago when GOW Chains of Olympus came out on the PSP. I didn't have a memory card and only realized I could save after an hour into the game. I lost my progress and spent the entire night trying to beat the game. I finally beat the game and went to bed. Not having enough storage on my PSP to save games really hurt when I was young.
When I was little my friend spent the night and brought over his Genesis. We thought we'd be sneaky and get some midnight gaming in. That was quickly thwarted by the blaring fanfare of "SEEEGAAAAAAA!!!"
9:55 Jake... I miss the Computer Show and Sale that came through every few months. I found games and things there that other stores never even heard of. All mostly before the internet, of course, but it felt like such a frontier some days. You never knew what you would find.
I remember picking up a second hard drive that was ~1 GB so I could store EVERYTHING on it. It was 1080 MB and it cost just over $500. I can now walk down to the Walmart here in town in less than 30 minutes and pick up a 64 GB thumbdrive for $9. I love looking at at things like that sometimes.
FF13 having 3 discs on the 360 was a weird nostalgia trip. Also I'm very surprised to see a cheatcc mention. Seemed like a far less known guide/cheat site from the early 2000's
I dont really know if its dead now, but getting a cracked game to work was always like alchemy to me. Trying to find the correct file for the crack to work or the virtual drives... This takes me back.
One that I think is underappreciated. The fact that online gaming has taken away the worry to a lot of people of having other people to play your favourite game with
Needing a map or code that came with the game pamphlet inside the disc holder. We had the Island of Dr. Brain and one of the 1st puzzles used a longitude/latitude map in the pamphlet. If I couldn't find that pamphlet, I wasn't playing that day lol.
I remember lining up to buy GTA4 at midnight with some friends. It was a fun evening. The best part about those days were that scalpers couldn't bot buy entire stock lists like they can now. They would have to get in line like everyone else. So although buying online is great and convenient, I think we can all agree that the scalpers that came with it hasn't been great.
I think we should also mention the fact that your disk/game cartridges can stop working from getting scratches or rust. Or the fact you can lose a whole ass games.
on #3. Another reason that I don't like devs patching games now days is because some of those bugs were just fun to mess around with, even if they did unbalance the game. However, I'm here to have fun with the game, and as long as the bug is avoidable under NORMAL means, I think they should just stay in games.
The trade show was definitely a big thing when I was younger. I still remember purchasing a 386 CPU at one, in order to upgrade my old 286. We played a lot of Wolfenstein, Doom and Space Quest in those days.
The multi-disc thing was basically like having distinct chapters, which is cool! I've seen a couple of modern games do it and it's still cool imo. Sword and Sworcery was the last ones I played that did it, and those fades back to a title/chapter screen with some Jim Guthrie music blasting away were epic. And the fixed camera angles, yeah I think they need to come back! Or not necessarily fixed, but more scripted, curated camera angles. There is a lot of artistic benefit to them that is being neglected in modern games. I mean there is a reason why movies and TV don't just constantly show an over the shoulder or first person view of all their characters.
went out & bought a PS2 gran turismo pack back in the day, got home played it for a few hours, then realised I had to have a memory card to save the game, so had to race out 20 miles back to the shop before they closed to get a memory card. Its criminal that they didnt include something that is essential in the box. I have never once queued up outside a shop to buy anything, i dont get it. For games you could just pre order & have it posted through the letterbox the morning of release as far back as i can remember.
I remember back in the 90s when you could get demo compilation disc's in magazines. My brother and I were PC gamers and were super stoked when we came across a free copy of Jazz the Jackrabbit in a magazine, and I'm still obsessed with that series to this day.
Those were the bomb. Nope'd out of many a bad game purchase because the demo sucked.
Yep. I had ST Format cover disk demos. I remember playing Sensible Soccer from one of them and there was a way to basically get an unlimited game, so you could score as many goals as you liked until you got bored.
Had the demo for Need for speed Underground. Its was only a few races was still sick
The good old days. Thanks blockbuster
Jazz JackRabbit 2 was my first video game. Epic Games sure has come a long way.
I really miss the old physical game guide books. Not for walk through, but for all the lore they would have. Like the Rouge Sqaudron book that went into full detail on every mission and every ship in the game
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I miss the old instruction manuels giving you some backstory or insights into the game's world, like Sonic telling you all the Levels, or Dungeon Master II sharing a little side story set jus before the game starts! Assassin's Creed II had memos from between the modern day characters as well!
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As for the multiple discs, when you opened that package up and found three or four discs, there was an actual ping of excitement. "This game is HUGE!"
Grand Theft Auto 5 is indeed HUGE.
(4 DVDs)
me when i emulated MGS:
That's how I felt when I saw TLOU2 and initially Cyberpunk 2077 (my dad preordered me the PS4 version for Christmas and we know how that went) The 2 disk thing died and then came back and I wouldn't be surprised if it comes back again late in the PS5s life
I remember doing that with FFVII (original) when it came out. If you told me way back then that one day I would have a copy of that game on my mobile phone that I could play, I wouldn't have believed you.
I still have my old official game guide for FFVII too, in good condition, which I was amazed about when I realized how old it was when Remake came out. 😅
For goodness sake, I have Skyrim on my Samsung Smart Fridge. I also have it on my Tesla, so I can play video games on my way home from the bar.
The thing i miss the most, is the physical guide book you always had for mainly rp games. i kept some of them because it reminds me of how my grandpa sat in his armchair reading the guide to me and i was playing the whole day. i think of him every day i play at the console. good times
I remember when I would get a guide book I would read it when i would go to the restroom. Read it and started playing afterwards to finish what I was stuck on. Miss those days.
They still get made for some games! I see guide books in walmart from time to time. Also book stores have lots.
Great list. It reminds me that I've been gaming for 35 years even though I'm 55. I've forgotten some of these things. Being an adult when I started made some things easier, i.e. no issue having someone turn off my console or not being able to get memory cards (I still have my PS2 and all my cards with saved files from back in the day). But I do remember pondering whether I really needed a new one or were hoarding saves. And I did leave my PS1 on all day while at work to save my practice qualifying from the night before on F197 and do the race when I got home because you couldn't save through about 3-4 hours of gameplay if you tried to do a full race weekend. Somehow I never killed that original Playstation, in spite of leaving it on 24/7. Or more sometimes. Also, there were a few old Sega 16-Bit games that, yeah, I just got stuck on and could never figure out how to progress past. Maybe even a few PS games too. Clocktower and Silent Hill come to mind. Some games just broke in the middle and couldn't be patched, or you'd scratch a disk and be unable to progress (with odds increasing of unplayable damage with multiple disk sets). People complain a lot, but we have it really good these days. Games are just incredible; they're marvels of technology. The accessibility is insane and in general, the quality has improved in ways we couldn't imagine 25 years ago. Back then, sometimes just trying to figure out how to play the game was the objective of playing, rather than enjoying the experience. We're almost at Star Trek holodeck simulations now. There's always a lot that can be improved and that has degraded the experience, but we have a lot to be thankful for as gamers too.
My dad bought a Pong console in 1977. I remember bugging my dad for Pacman in 1980 for Atari and he shelled out $40 at Sears for it. Dad was the Best and he loved Arcade Games also. He loved Donkey Kong and I loved Asteroids.
What would you say are your favorites and if their old ones, and new/newer ones. I'm not that old but it still amazes me how we have all of stuff inside and it's somehow able to play these beautiful games. And how we somehow came so far in so little time. I would love to hear your opinions about games and some new ones and old ones, that you've played or would like to play and try sometime. Games you love and games you hate, even if I don't personally agree with you, as that's fine and no big deal as it's just opinions and shouldn't be taken so seriously. Or if you would like one recommendations of games, like The Evil Within, what remain of Edith Finch, or the resident evil series or any others as my game collection is huge and has a wide variety.
@@PublishedLeaf interesting question, thanks for asking. It's hard for me to say what my favorites are since my tastes have changed based on what's been technically available, plus I find that what I might have thought was fun 20-30 years ago maybe isn't so much anymore for whatever reason. And I don't remember a lot from my old Sega days, so long ago. Probably Outrun on Sega 16-Bit and definitely early Madden titles got the most traction on Sega Genesis (I've probably never been as good at any game as those). I got my first PC spec'd to support a racing sim called Grand Prix Legends in 1997, which still holds up today when modded. From there with Playstation, it's pretty boring. Gran Turismo 1&2, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil 1&2 are the big titles. Hulk Ultimate Destruction and the Marvel Ultimate Alliance are memorable, but I have a stack of games here for PS2. Past that, it's been all PC and I've gravitated more towards pseudo open world games like OG Tomb Raider first teased; Half Life 1&2, Oblivion, Skyrim, Witcher3, Arkham, Assassin's Creed (Black Flag and Origins are my favorite), Cyberpunk, etc. I really like the ability to not need to play the game and to just be able to just explore in my game worlds (RDR2 stands out, where I just went on mapping expeditions for days irl without touching any quests). Mass Effect gets a special nod given I rate it every bit as highly of a sci fi/fantasy franchise as Star Wars or Star Trek, and also Diablo 2 in the RPG space. I've always been into sim racing and have tried most of them but Project Cars 2 really stands out as an accessible title on par with GT. AAA titles get a lot of complaints directed towards them, but I think they're AAA for a reason and it seems I gravitate to them on reflection here. Each one I mentioned is something I can go back to and have fun with on any given day, and I do fairly frequently! But honestly, I've played more than I can remember and I know I'm leaving out many that I've enjoyed very much.
Fun question. What are some of yours?
@@F1jones Sorry it took my so long to answer.
I have 184 games so I cant name them all.
Some of the games I love, I know people dislike and thats okay.
My favorite game right now is the Evil Within 1, Its really chaotic and fun and will get you to ask the he'll is happening or whats going on every second.
Another close second is What Remains of Edith Finch, its a game where its all about the story and your just walking around and its a cinematic masterpiece.
Dying Light 2 is a game where I have over 200 hours in it and Im still coming back to play it. Its not a gamer for everybody, but I can stop playing it for 6 months and come back to it and have a blast.
Another of my favorites is Mafia 3 and its Definitly not for everyone, peoplr have said a lot of the gameplay id repetitive, but the story is great. I actually really enjoy thr gameplay though.
Outlast is the greatest horror gane ever made, enough said.
I really enjoy lego games and have every lego game made by travlers tales except two of them.
Watch dogs is a game 1 is a game I have played with my sister since we were younger and we just drive around and shoot people. I know it can disappoint people, but it cant with me as I have a blast playing it.
Dishonered is a classic of either butchering people or being a good person. It's a game where you kinda get to chpice your own path or route.
Resident evil games are always awesome, but Resident Evil 7 is my favorite and how I got into the series.
Sleeping dogs and Far Cry Primal are game that are do satisfying to me.
Dont think I need to tell you about minecraft as it gives me freedom to build my crappy houses.
Assasins Creed blag flag is my favorite AC game.
I play some Cod and my favorite is Cod Bo3 for the zombies.
Dark souls makes me wish I was never born for a second time.
The dead Island games (not di2, I havent played it yet) are just so good to goof off and not take seriosly if you need a break.
Grand thedt auto 4 and 5 are still some pretty great games, even if rockstar is Satan. With Gta 4 being my favorite game of theres.
The Last of us 1 and 2. TLOU2 is not a game for everyone and people are allowed to feel disappointed and mad. Not me though as I really enjoyed it and the story. I hope people can spread some positivity even if you hate the game, dont be a jerk to those who love the game.
Lastly Hades is a game that is so addicting and one you can come back to even after you beaten it 20 times.
These are just some of the games I have, but theyre my favorite to play and come back to. Some of these games are not for everyone, but that doesnt matter to me as I just have fun playing them.
Excuse and spelling mistakes.
I'd reccomend you check out Evil Within, What remains of Edith Finch. Abd if your heart can take it, outlast.
If you remember the PS2 days you know the memory card was a pain
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And the CD as well. If that lens got a little dust on it you had to pray the gods and wait to see that logo turn on.
Memory cards were the best
Ps2? I remember needing a memory pack for the n64...I'm getting old. The ps1 had a multi memory card with a digital display that had 30 cards worth of memory to pick from..then all my ff7 saves were gone when the card stopped working.😢
I always thought it was bizarre that internal storage was such a hurdle. I think nintendo was real snake bit by having so many solutions before tech caught up. Theyre still using memory sticks
As an older gamer, I remember many games that had over 10 disks, some as many as 15.
Back then, pre-CD floppy discs only held 1.4 MBs.
In modern standards, Black Ops Cold War would take over 170,000 of those discs.
5 floppy discs for Tie Fighter.
You could get 2mb High Density floppies but yes most were 1.44mbs.
I don't know you. But I know you... Different era.
@@cmdr.jabozerstorer3968 a whopping 2mb, wow!
As a teen, I begged my parents to upgrade our 486 with a cdrom, only to discover that I couln’t use it and the sound board simultaneously, totaly negating tge interest of that expensive equipment,
I was grounded from playing games more often than not, so that startup sound was a real fear of mine every late night playing FF Tactics. Also I do kinda miss the memory cards. I only had a console of my own later, but thanks to a personal memory card I had saves I could keep with me from my buddy's place, without worry of overwrites. Those things also could go through the washer and survive, which impressed me too!
My ps2 memory card went through the washer about 20 times and still works to this day with some repairs throughout the years.
Yeah the PS2 memory cards used flash, so they didn't have any onboard power, there was no chance to short them out if they aren't plugged in. As long as you make sure it's dry before you plug it back into your console, you should always be fine with those. Many electronic circuit boards can be washed underwater so long as there's no charge in the capacitors and has no battery attached to it.
Man the phone startup sound was so long and loud that even if I manage to start turning down the volume would be busted before it got to a lower volume.
I feel all of these to my core. The one thing I miss is a complete game at launch on a physical device is you can play it right away and offline.
Back in the 90s, I knew a guy who made his own water cooled PC with a copper plate, some tubing, a fish tank pump, and a 5 gallon bucket. It worked great and he was able to overclock that thing pretty hard.
Back in the late 90s I went to a friends house who’s younger brother, he was maybe 12-13, built his own PC and he had one he showed me that was operated by remote control. That blew me away and now it’s so common that it’s hardly as amazing as it was then.
Back in the 90s, I was in a very famous…
@@whatdoesthisthingdo very famous?
Back when there were some graphics cards you could muck about with to overclock them, one of my mates had a water cooled system that the now heated water would be pumped into his tropical fish tank. Then pulled out into a filtration system, to let the water cook down, then pumped back through the computer.
It was an overly complicated setup, but it worked.
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So grateful to be able to watch videos like this in 2023 and get that hit of nostalgia with my fellow aging gamers. I definitely love the newer generation of players and seeing them experience their own “discovery” phases we also had, but something just hits different being able to resonate with other gamers about downloading and printing a 50-page walkthrough from Gamefaqs back in the day and getting chewed out by your folks for using all the printer ink
yooo ur an og fr never heard that one 💪🏾
I’m only 22 and I remember this lol I caught the end of the ps2 era, quit gaming for a few years and only got back when I was like 16 I think
I had printed a guide from mk3 ultra with all fighters and moves on it. I used it all the time.
Too often with the start up chimes 🤣😭
Complete facts lol
I feel like the early days of gaming the hearing of easter eggs(happy easter btw to everyone who sees this comment), glitches and bugs from rumors, friends and strangers really cemented those things as legends and made looking and testing for them exciting and gave an air of mystery. I specifically remember the Missing No. from pokemon as being one of the most prominent and arguably the MOST popular glitch in gaming history.
@Mr Flawless Happy Easter
there was more community as you had to physicaly be present to talk games. Those electronics shows he mentioned for instance. You didn't just go there for the parts you needed. You went to talk to OTHER people who where 99% likely to be into what you are into. Thats why they are there. I graduated highschool in 2009. I lived for mornings and lunch times. Where I got to sit down with like 10 or 15 other dudes and talk magic the gathering and smashbrothers.
Episode Suggestion: Old-school to fairly-old games that couldn't have fixes, debugs, or updates having those flaws or once thought all of as permanent errors fixed today.
i remember that you could save on the original zelda for the nes
happy easter
I was actually thinking about this today. I feel like games were more challenging back in the day, not just from the lack of guides but also a lack of access to those guides. If you got stuck on a puzzle, you had to figure it out or wait till a buddy figured it out. Which also created some friendly competition.
Even just reading this gave me nostalgic and happy vibes like back in the day. God bless you
Not just that, but originally games were designed for the arcade, then ported to home consoles. Harder games were just more profitable for arcadrs, they called them quarter eater games for a reason.
The worst was always that friend who would straight up lie about the cool things they did to unlock stuff and wasting time trying to replicate it. I say worst, but looking back even that was quite fun. Nowadays if a puzzle takes me more than a few minutes I'll look up a guide, back then we had to solve it or just never finish it
@@eigengeistt boomer millennials gotta stick together lol
That and older games especially for the original Xbox and PlayStation 1 & 2 were just harder. I like to dl original Xbox games and even with a guide, these games can be tough even on normal difficulty. You really had to “get good” and develop skills/learn the patterns of the enemies. Unlike today where a lot games are intentionally designed to be more forgiving to not burnout casual gamers right away.
I think you missed the exploration aspect of old gaming (specially the PC ones). I still remember using a graph paper to create the maps of SSI gold box games or building maps for Sierra’s Hero’s Quest. So much nostalgia 😅
Or Sierra's "Empire Earth" with the best cheat code.
"All Your Base Are Belong To Us".
I remember my brother and me trying to finish FF7 without a memory card. We used to type down everything (how to do things in the game) in a notebook so that the next time we played we knew how to do it in the game. We managed to finish the game in one sitting after about 1 year of trying.
I had a friend with PS1 with no memory card, so we played games from a beginning on every gaming session.
The measurement of a skill was "how much time you will waste to get to the point where you had finished the last time" )
Means, faster you get there - more time to enjoy a new content that's further in a game
Oops, all roguelikes
Thankfully one of my favorite PS1 games Machine Hunter had passwords
Games like final fantasy were a pain without memory cards I left my ps1 on for a week after finishing CD1
Should have gone out and bought one one day haha
Did that for Rick Dangerous on Atari STE with infinite lives over a full WE. I still don’t understand how anyone could have beaten that vicious game fairly.
Saving your game progress is probably one of the biggest QOL improvement in gaming. Unlike today where seeing a game's end credits is more or less a sure thing, finishing a game way back then was a big achievement. You have to struggle through limited "lives"/retries plus no way of saving your progress. I also remember the pain of old consoles just randomly rebooting due to faulty power adapters.
Or adventure games that don't tell you till hours later that you made the wrong choice and the game is unwinnable.
Of course nowadays developers seem to be allergic to allowing you to save anywhere, its all checkpoints. And we're well past the point where the devs should know better than to put the checkpoint _before the cutscene_
@@leonidas14775 Or you made all the right choices, but you missed the two pixel wide bobby pin on the library's checkerboard floor and didn't pick it up so now you can't pick the lock on the jail cell.
@@pimphandduke8447 It's part of a growing trend of developers deciding they can force people to play a game in one specific way, settling their egos by making sure players have only the EXACT experience they intended, and nothing else.
In this case, they're trying to eliminate save scumming. People who have lives and responsibilities be damned. You're either going to have the time to to beat this 40 minute mission in one go with no breaks, or you're not going to play our game, because some people might choose to abuse saving/loading and wouldn't have exactly the experience we wanted them to. Can't have that.
Imagine if other artforms tried to restrict their bases that way. "You can only listen to this song three times, and the file will self-erase, because I only want people to hear it three times each so it doesn't get old." "If you interpret my painting in any way aside from what I intended, this mechanism will paint over it in black."
@@ledumpsterfire6474 This arogance about making the user do things only one way is common in the tech industry.
Fixed angles could be cool sometimes when done right. The PS2 God of War games, had great camera setups that made for really cool fights, and freed up the right stick for additional movement options. That was some classic gameplay that feels satisfying even today. I can easily go back to them and not miss camera controls from modern games.
yeah like Tormented Souls which is made fixed angle on purpose.
And classic Resident Evil games wouldn't have worked as good without those fixed cameras.
Silent Hill games were the goat with fixed camera angles. Still damn scary to this day. Not sure the remake is going to be as scary with its modern free camera set up
It works alright in games like Put Put and Pajama Sam
I did not like the fixed camera in God of war 3 when it realesed. I played it not long ago on my ps5 and still dont like it. I mean the fixed camera doing a good job but it feels so wrong now when you played alot of games with free camera movement and takes a little while to adjust. Otherwise the game is amazing and still looks really good. I just wished i could rotate and see the eyecandy.
You showed a clip of Radioshack... That brought back so many memories.
Right in the feels, dude.... 😢
I'm in my 40s, and this hurts. Memory cards... multiple disks ( FF7), and CheatCC... Spent alot of time on CCC looking up stuff. That and paper guide books, both game specific ones or the large collection books. And, least we forget Game Genie and Game Shark.
I lived through every one of these experiences. Glad we’re past a lot of them, but this definitely brought up
Good memories.
Not sure if it made the list, but not having to sacrifice quality for a handheld experience is a huge one for me.
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That's so true, but it was still amazing to take the game with you to play in your free time.
My little sister managed too somehow not hide delete my saves but the memory card itself need to be reformatted. I still to this day don't know how she did that. She must've only been four or five
Huh? You still have to sacrifice plenty of quality for a handheld experience... just look at any Switch game vs PC or PS or Xbox.
@@CasepbX steam deck, AYA neo, etc
I was actually waiting to hear something about "not having to blow dust out of a cartridge." That used to be the Bane of my existence. Even after cleaning the dust, I would still cross my fingers and pray when I put the game in the cartridge slot.😂
Dust was never the issue, it was contact with the pins. Blowing into it just corroded it and caused another issue.
I remember blowing into Gameboy Advance cartridges when it didn't work and it works every time 😅
@@michaelridley3676 Nah, I would say blowing in the cardridge was always a last resort.
Meaning your game doesn´t work and the options would be buying a new one or blowing in, heck I would take a leaf blower to blow that cardridge.
PC gaming, especially starting with DOS games, was how I learned so much about computers back in the day. I still have the old book I bought on how to manage IRQ settings. I miss all the hint books and guides as well. The most fun ones to use were the ones for the Sierra games, well, until you lost the red film thing that allowed you to read the hints.
sierra lode runner, dangerous dave, supaplex, digger.. what a memories!
On the part of cheat books and guides. Sometimes your friend would only give you the book for a few hours or days so you had to spend hours on end to write down the cheats in an exercise book.
Man flatscreens have been revolutionary. Remember the old days when you had to carry your big old screen to a LAN party? It was like the heaviest thing to carry at 13 yrs
Or when one person switched on their monitor and all monitors in the row flickered? Or flickering because someone had their mobile next to a monitor and got a call..
This would be a good one to add to the list, how big and bulky old monitors were, just to get 1024x768 res
Or someone daisy chained their surge protector from yours and the breakers flipped! God I hated when people did that.
@@1IGG holy throwback. I totally forgot that
Duuude having original guides - magazines/books were so freaking special, those were the OG gaming days. And figuring out cheat/exploits was truly rewarding and special
Those still exist, they're just worse than googling it and cost like $40 lol.
10 years from now you're going to wish you had hard copies of your media, if you're not already.
Still have my O.G. copy of GTA V for PC on 7 DVDs
Lol people have been saying that for many years y’all are just a bit dramatic about that stuff
There is enough evidence that shows that they aren't.
It’s great for collectors but everything is going all digital and there is no going back.
Not if emulators have anything to say about it
Oh man, I miss the game guide books. I loved having it to accompany my games. Especially for those large open world RPG games. I have boxes full of old ones. I used my Final Fantasy VII one so much it pretty much disintegrated. That thing is word for word imprinted on my brain.
Remember that if the disk was scratched too much or damaged in any way the only way to fix it was to buy a whole new disk(or set) to get the game.
(PC) 2, 3 or 4 discs was needed to install the game and then after the last disc we had to enter the first disc again just to play the game.
Flash drives were only 256MB to 500 MB so every time we wanted to share a game we could only do it one game at a time.
PS: I used to be one of those gamers who had start again all over from the start when there was no SD card to save the game progress. I didn't want to but i was forced to.
I remember going down video store to rent games for the week or weekend and having to try and complete them before they where due back
In my small town, we only had 1 day rentals, so we'd try to rent a game as early as we could on Saturday morning to maximize the time before we had to bring it back by 6 on Sunday.
I still have the cheats written on a sheet of paper for the gta trilogy. It was so much fun back then making whole cheat sheets for different consoles.
Ironically, my controller untangling skill became integral to part of my business. I did live sound, and no matter how hard you worked to keep everything wrapped up nice and organized, it would always still wind up a jumbled up mess somehow. You think 6-10' of controller wire is a hassle, just try untangling 50-100' of various kinds of sound cabling.
You sometimes get crazy mofos that somehow tangle up socapex cables together just to pack up fast. Back in the warehouse untangling those are just a pure workout.
The fact that all of these have once been a problem of mine is now beginning to enlighten me that I am not as young as I thought.
Not a gamer specific one, but I remember the old mice that had the rolls and that ball in the middle. You had to open them and clean the rolls from time to time. Or trying to play games online and your mum shouting you to disconnect bc she wanted to use the phone.
We are old, man.
I absolutely do not miss those shitty mice.
I had the opposite: I wanted to go online (whether it was for games or just simply to check email!) but my brother would always hog up the phone.
It was my ex, not my parents, to whom I had to try to explain that you can't pause an online game. I'd have had better luck talking to the dogs.
Ah, the fun of having dialup back then.
Number 7 really had me there. The last real big game release that I had to wait in line for was Red Dead Redemption 2. All of us were standing in the bitter cold, soaking in the rain. Definitely felt nostalgic.
Hate to break it to you, but you didn't have to wait in line for that one. It was released well after the point in time he was talking about. Real halo 2 og's know.
@@lolmanyeah1 I didnt own a PS4 at the time so it was a bundle at purchase. Im fine with taking my time with things. Was definitely an experience nonetheless.
I remember the joy of playing the legend of zelda on the NES and being completely floored that you could save your progress because the cartridge had an on board battery to keep the memory on board active.
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some games on SEGA had it too.
the problem is often (50/50 in my cases) on not-so-original cartridges there was no memory chip at all. Even if it was, no fact it'd work.
also one time the battery failed and I lost a month of progress.
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On N64 it was typically first party games that had on cart saves and 3rd party carts that didn't.
Being 40, I experienced all of these except the last 2. Never had a pc as a kid. This list def hit home! 💯
Remember the good old days of not needing to download a game? I remember when we had local connect play between many consoles
Damn it I miss that being the norm.
On games being finished on release: Programming languages and game dev tools are easier to use today than the past so it’s very hard to cause data corruption, but AA/AAA games today are much more complex than games made in the past and QA on the gameplay is much harder to get right than before.
although the sad thing about #3 is that we do have the advantage of being able to get glitches fixed unlike the past, we now have the disadvantage of companies releasing the games prematurely at subpar quality knowing they'll just patch it later. quite an interesting double edged sword really
This is definitely one of those things that has gotten worse.
Not necessarily. In the past we had to wait years and years for releases. Just wait 1 year after release today and you get a much cheaper and better game. Often with DLC on top for no extra charge.
@@1IGG True, but it also opened the doors for such trash mechanics as loot boxes and NFTs instead of worthwhile content.
I still remember when my uncle printed the whole walkthrough for RE: Code Veronica for Dreamcast. It was huge! I think things like that made me the gamer I am today.
Kinda funny that the ps2 startup sound is actually the sound of a piano smashing on the ground after being thrown off of a building xD . There's a video of it.
...and yes it has gotten me in trouble when I was younger haha
Wait really?!
@@MrSpartan993 yessir
Having a cheat or guides for certain things inside the disc case. I miss how games don't even have manuals or anything in them now
The thing I liked about switching disk was the intentional story beats built around it.
My mother is a huge Zelda fan and I remember her constantly calling the Nintendo hotline for tips and cheats for the first two games. Now in her 60's she has 100% BOTW and is awaiting the next instalment.
Definitely gotta do a part 2 for this.
Will do
@@gameranxTV dope 👌 🙌 can't wait.
@@gameranxTV Tank Controls in survival horror games. Is that even still a thing?
The days of trekking across my house to pull up cheats and guides on my dial up internet are fortunately long gone. Kids these days don't realize how good they have it. 😂
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 + CheatCC was half my waking childhood.
Number 10 I felt in my soul. That was my childhood: second hand/used consoles and no memory card. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I played the beginning of Final Fantasy VII, being only allowed an hour or two on the weekends, having to share with my brother, and having to put the Playstation up (same with Gamecube). It ended up being turned into "how far can I get before my time is up?" type of game while playing games XD I actually did manage to complete a few ps1 games this way: the Disney's Dinosaur game, Rugrats and the Search for Reptar, and I think one other that I can't remember.
Regarding #6, technically some games still have multiple discs. RDR2, for example, came with two discs. Luckily the first one was only needed during the installment process and after that you only ever needed the second disc. However, I did regularly insert the wrong disc, because I didn't pay attention to which disc I took from the box.
Can't believe you left out online passes. Those infernal things that kept you from accessing the online portion of the game without inputting a unique code. If you bought the game used it was pretty much guaranteed that the access code included with it had been redeemed by the original owner, and you had to pay $10 for a new one.
Battlefield did that to me
@@damedusa5107 They were the norm from around 2010-2013
Consoles now a days are super loud too. My Xbox One sounds like a blender when I change up a game. The fans go super loud for like 1 minute and there's no turning volume down. Thankfully, I'm the dad now and my kid just doesn't give a crap about those loud noises 😂
I think that game devs being able to apply bug fixes, hotfixes and other patches after a game has already released has been more of a DETRIMENT to gaming as a whole. Because it has allowed game devs to have the mentality of "we'll fix it later" and has lead to games being released unfinished and incomplete, even allowing them to force gamers to be the "game testers" for them. I love that games are now more connected online with friends and all, but the internet has actually allowed games to become WORSE rather than better. Back in the day a game dev had to MAKE SURE that their game was 100% complete and finished with zero bugs BEFORE they ever released it, because they had ONE chance to make a good game and that was it, after it was released if it sucked, then it sucked FOREVER.
Oh those are the good old day. With playground rumors and stuff like that I remember I had a friend who was playing my pokémon game and use the master ball on a level 5 pokémon on the first route. I was mad as hell.
RIP Master Ball
Honestly I love that I'm not alone in the existential drift of life and this video and the nostalgia did bring some peace to my mental. Playing without a Playstation memory card to beat Drakengard and Resident Evil 4 in one go and having power cuts and losing my mind but restarting like it was nothing. The multiple discs immediately brought FF7 to mind, said Gamefax the second Jake said look up guides and cheats. Remembering the tv volume set to 100 as a trap by my parents in case i turn on the PS2. I'm thirty now somehow and don't know where the time or our shiny little eyes and smiles went but it feels good to know we all made it this far, you guys take it easy and good luck figuring out the rest of life. P.S Hope this vid gets a part 2 .
There was something cool standing in line with a bunch of people who loved Madden like you do
Yep
I remember playing THPS on ps1 and keeping my playstation running for days because I didn't have a memory card and didn't want to lose my progress. Definitely a problem I'm glad is gone today
I miss the old manuals you got in the disk box
I remember having no ps2 memory for a solid 2 years and my brothers and I just got use to playing the game as far as we could 😂 when we finally got a memory card it was glorious we finally got to see what the rest of most games looked like and actually got to hit load game instead of new game!
I feel like I miss number 7 for that feeling and excitement. Something about getting something physical was a treat. Wether or not it was a long wait etc.
Leaving the ps2 on because you didn't have a memory card, oh its first on the list lmao, gameranx knows
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My first attempt of an all nighter as a kid, since my mum needed to sleep early was blown by the ps3 startup sound. Seriously though, have you heard that thing at a high volume💀
Having to troubleshoot a variety of hardware / software issues when installing PC games for DOS / Windows on my own systems taught me a lot
...such as how to optimize conventional memory usage (best I ever got was 604K free), how to (re)configure sound card settings (which became even more fun w/ each sound card upgrade), how to resolve IRQ & other system resource conflicts (which got increasingly frequent as I got further & further into video card & other component upgrades) among other issues.
I think the craziest thing I had to troubleshoot was a new CD-ROM drive upgrade -- as soon as I installed the thing, the PC refused to boot up. Turns out, screwing in the mounting screws caused the entire system to "short to ground" ... so I had to go out & buy non-conducting nylon screw replacements to get everything working again. Oh, the myriad delights we had back then!
Ah yes, Extended Memory in DOS games. Fun times. I also remember adjusting swap file size to get games to run too.
I definitely feel that memory card issue. I had a PS2 with no memory card and I would always play Jak and Daxter from the beginning and try to beat it all in one sitting each time 😂 ...I would always make it up to the mine section in Jak and Daxter before I would fall asleep and my dad would turn off the PS2 while I was sleeping. I finally beat the whole game when they released the collection.
Also, nothing worse than loading up a game and being told that the game had not saved, etc, or the memory card was corrupted.....
1:18 which game ?
One of my favorite Easter eggs is in metal gear 4 when otacon tells you to insert disk 2 and snake goes what are you talking about.
Multiple disks...yeah. When I bought Falcon 4.0 for my PC, I had to load fourteen 3.5-inch diskettes to install the game. Took forever.
I remember when the Xbox 360 and PS3 came out that you could turn the consoles on and off while using the controller. This was a true game changer lol
Oh yes
I still use GAME FAQs. Lol.
Same!
The memory card issues were big back in the days , i never could find a ps1 memory card back in Africa during the early 2000s,matter of fact I've never seen a ps1 memory card to this day. At least the ps2 memory cards were less rare but were sold at high prices
Two things: for no.5, my wife shared with me that they used to have to call a phone line where game tips helped you get through certain levels. And with no.2, I remember my mother taking out a credit card so we could get a fully decked out PC in 1998 (she bought us a $5K computer that came with speakers, monitor, etc).
My cousin gave me a memory card with his PS2 so I was hooked up from the get and my first console was the first Xbox....which we should really be able to call the Xbox one 😤 Microsoft naming scheme is dog shit
I remember running to read a metroid prime game guide at blockbuster one time because I was stuck. It had metroid prime and fusions guides included.
ahh yes, I remembered the sound of my ps2/ xbox 360 really triggered my mother from the other part of the house walking straight to the living room just unplugged the console, and started scolding me for weeks about the fact that I tried to video game at night. What a memory.
All those things that u just talked about definitely was pain or an obstacle for gaming experience but after seeing them here I’m really missing them. Because all this things are very nostalgic. Loved ur content there.
The New GEN Gamers have no idea how real the struggle really was in our generation 😫 ! I'm an 80s baby but but a 90s kid and man how I love the nostalgia tho! Because these lists are spot on 100% haha man how I miss the 90s tho! Game shark & I miss my games gear magazine I used to get. That's how we found out about games coming out or with the demo disc in another game/magazine.
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True tho
Me too I’d go back to the 80’s and 90’s today if I could.
@@BrandonGavin_EDC OH absolutely 💯
Me too lol we’ve been apart of every one of these changes. Crazy to look back on it!
Wow, you really hit it home for me with number 8. It is cheesy, but I remember my brother and I waking up at 3am to play 007: night fire on our ps2. And one night we forgot to turn it down and the ps2 loading sound went off so loud, we just turned it off and went back to bed
About the guides, I remember I had a physical guide for Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, and I remember looking at it constantly because I had missed a chest and I wanted to get them all. I don't think I would've been able to do it without those guides as a kid
Hearing the words Cheatscc unlocked some tucked away nostalgia.
The lack of the 18+ rating for games in Australia. I am so glad they sorted that out.
I remember years ago when GOW Chains of Olympus came out on the PSP. I didn't have a memory card and only realized I could save after an hour into the game. I lost my progress and spent the entire night trying to beat the game. I finally beat the game and went to bed. Not having enough storage on my PSP to save games really hurt when I was young.
When I was little my friend spent the night and brought over his Genesis. We thought we'd be sneaky and get some midnight gaming in. That was quickly thwarted by the blaring fanfare of "SEEEGAAAAAAA!!!"
9:55 Jake... I miss the Computer Show and Sale that came through every few months. I found games and things there that other stores never even heard of. All mostly before the internet, of course, but it felt like such a frontier some days. You never knew what you would find.
I remember picking up a second hard drive that was ~1 GB so I could store EVERYTHING on it. It was 1080 MB and it cost just over $500. I can now walk down to the Walmart here in town in less than 30 minutes and pick up a 64 GB thumbdrive for $9. I love looking at at things like that sometimes.
FF13 having 3 discs on the 360 was a weird nostalgia trip. Also I'm very surprised to see a cheatcc mention. Seemed like a far less known guide/cheat site from the early 2000's
I literally had the loud console start up yesterday with my xbox series x!😂
I dont really know if its dead now, but getting a cracked game to work was always like alchemy to me. Trying to find the correct file for the crack to work or the virtual drives... This takes me back.
One that I think is underappreciated. The fact that online gaming has taken away the worry to a lot of people of having other people to play your favourite game with
Needing a map or code that came with the game pamphlet inside the disc holder. We had the Island of Dr. Brain and one of the 1st puzzles used a longitude/latitude map in the pamphlet. If I couldn't find that pamphlet, I wasn't playing that day lol.
You gave me full blown nostalgia, I used to have a green cheat code book that kept everything sorted by name and console
I remember lining up to buy GTA4 at midnight with some friends. It was a fun evening. The best part about those days were that scalpers couldn't bot buy entire stock lists like they can now. They would have to get in line like everyone else. So although buying online is great and convenient, I think we can all agree that the scalpers that came with it hasn't been great.
The loud starting sound is still a problem. Don’t want to wake the kids up!
I think we should also mention the fact that your disk/game cartridges can stop working from getting scratches or rust. Or the fact you can lose a whole ass games.
on #3. Another reason that I don't like devs patching games now days is because some of those bugs were just fun to mess around with, even if they did unbalance the game. However, I'm here to have fun with the game, and as long as the bug is avoidable under NORMAL means, I think they should just stay in games.
Game magazines! For my part it was Edge Magazine! I was always looking forward to the next one back in those days! Now I got Gameranx! 😃
The trade show was definitely a big thing when I was younger. I still remember purchasing a 386 CPU at one, in order to upgrade my old 286. We played a lot of Wolfenstein, Doom and Space Quest in those days.
The multi-disc thing was basically like having distinct chapters, which is cool! I've seen a couple of modern games do it and it's still cool imo. Sword and Sworcery was the last ones I played that did it, and those fades back to a title/chapter screen with some Jim Guthrie music blasting away were epic.
And the fixed camera angles, yeah I think they need to come back! Or not necessarily fixed, but more scripted, curated camera angles. There is a lot of artistic benefit to them that is being neglected in modern games. I mean there is a reason why movies and TV don't just constantly show an over the shoulder or first person view of all their characters.
I really like the fixed camera angles in RE, it added to the atmosphere
went out & bought a PS2 gran turismo pack back in the day, got home played it for a few hours, then realised I had to have a memory card to save the game, so had to race out 20 miles back to the shop before they closed to get a memory card. Its criminal that they didnt include something that is essential in the box. I have never once queued up outside a shop to buy anything, i dont get it. For games you could just pre order & have it posted through the letterbox the morning of release as far back as i can remember.