Haha!!! Thats an awesome story Joel, cant wait for more vids!!! I still can't believe I just happened to be there when you were demoing the unit let alone got to play pilotwings on it!! Even worse, my mum had just got back from Hong Kong and saw them for sale everywhere but didnt know what they were so instead bought me back some 20 in 1 cartridges for my NES (that never worked) and a disk drive for my C64. 😵😵
Great story Joel, looking forward to hear the next part. Super Nintendo is my all time favourite console and Super Mario World just blew me away. Super Castlevania IV has to be my fav game for the console, still get goosebumps when I hear some tracks from the game.
Just after beating Death in the game, walking down the hallway with the torches lighting up, on your way to the final battle was no bone chillingly good!
the super nintendo was awesome i bought one out of my savings and i remember everyone that played it got a horn for nintendo . 1995 was really when people were breaking down doors for snes to get their hands on donkey kong country.. amazing times . .
I used to import videogames from Honk Kong around 90-91 when i was around 15-16 years old. My dad imported a lot from Honk Kong back in the day through his company, so he often had these huge catalogues from different Wholesalers that sold electronics. I bought a lot of Megadrive and Famicom games back then, i even sold some machines and games to friends and family.
Just like you I was a massive Sega fan, I didn’t want to have anything to do with Nintendo until one day I walked into Andrews grey import store here in Brisbane and he had a Japanese Super Famicom with Super Mario World & F Zero. Super Mario World changed my view in Nintendo from that day on and I could wait to get my hands on the SNES when it was released here. Then playing Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past was amazing even to this day it’s one of my favourite games of all time. Loving story mode Joey, your bringing back so many memories for me
SUBSCRIBED.... I'm an 80s baby and watching some of your content was like a nostalgic trip down memory lane! Kids nowadays don't understand how magical the 80s and 90s were when it came to Video Gaming , being able to basically take home the Arcade experience and re- live it on your TV !!
I have to say, i love how you open up these story mode chapters with music from the years you are telling the story from. Really does set the mood Great Work Joel.
This channel, and especially Story Mode, is becoming one of my favourite things on UA-cam. My only criticism is that this episode was too short! Can’t wait for the next installment!
Idk of its just being a kid at the time but why is everything so much more memorable back then? Your time capsules at the start of everyone of these is like a trip down memory lane. Love it. 🍻
Another great video Joel. Myself and my brother got a SNES to play Streetfighter 2 and it became my all time favourite console. Still have it, along with streetfighter 2 turbo in its silver box. Thanks for the memories!
Found memories of the NES. My first console. Still sits proudly in my house with everything I unwrapped at Christmas. Got to love a bit of AC/DC, Brian Johnson was weirdly dating my friend's Mam for a bit as he's from my neck of the woods. Great video as usual, the movie clips at the start really just drove it home for me how much better the films were back then. Practical effects FTW.
It amazes me how vivid your memories are. I’ve got a lot of great video game memories myself but nothing as detailed as yours. Keep up the awesome work. Your work is truly appreciated.
Hey Joel yeah around that time I also got into the SNES - friend brought it over and got me hooked showing me "Super Mario World" and of course "Contra and my favorite SNES game "Super Castlevania IV" The music and the way all the games played was simply amazing. Till this Day - Super Nintendo has yet to top any of the Nintendo Systems!
Fun fact, I was born the day the first Ninja Turtles film came out and grew up as a fan. And Super Nintendo is still my favorite classic system. I can put in almost any game into that system and I feel 5 years old again.
Ahhhh.. the Super Nintendo. I loved my Genesis. But of course I got EGM magazine in the states.. and saw the announcement for the SNES and Super Ghouls and Ghosts. Who could resist the charm of Super Mario World? I was too young to work, totally reliant on my Mum. I begged for the SNES for my next birthday and got... an arcade stick for my Genesis. I never got a SNES. Sad story really.. It wasn't until years later that I swapped consoles with my friend for a few months that I really got to spend time with the SNES. Super Mario World, Pilotwings, F-Zero, Super G&G.. just amazing games.. some of my favorites to this day.
Being only slightly younger than you, SNES (UK) was my first console. Amazing early memories of playing it with my brother and cousins. To this day, Super Mario World is probably one of my favourite games of all time. Great video Joel, keep them coming!
I can only imagine what it must have felt like to load up F zero for the first time in 1990... still a thrill to this day hearing that mute city theme blast through the speakers as you take to the track!
love the intro, 80/90s film, movie and music was amazing ,love still today , ) I need to get a snes it's one I'm missing and had so many amazing games ;)
Joel your stories are amazing! The best part is, not only do you tell them so well, but you produce them in great video form! I'm finally subscribing - keep up the great work!
Super Nintendo was the first console I played being born in the 90s, such a great console! Recentlyy getting into playing super famicon games on my snes mini.
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence. Probably in my top 5 all time favourite songs. I am so glad that you love it as well. I'm loving the content Joel. I'm looking forward to the next instalment. :D
I never owned an Nintendo until last year, well, except a GameBoy. (which I loved, and still love) I remember the SNES came though, I did want one, and seeing all the commercials in some of the comics I read did not help. It was Mario World that looked so fun! One time we rented a SNES for a weekend, and it was very fun. Back then I cannot remember so much Nintendo vs SEGA arguments, all the new stuff was just cool. In Europe we did not have any of those "Nintendont" commercials. Most people did not have many games either, since they were so expensive, except computer games though...
I watch every video patiently waiting for you do a dreamcast one. It's my favorite console of all time every modern thing I enjoy doing in games I did first on dreamcast. Play games online, voice chat online. I got into racing and arcade games on dreamcast. They had the best sport games imo too. Just a really awesome system.
I'd love a mega cut of these when we catch up to 2020 or whenever we catch up. Love listening to the story. The channel in general is a beautiful and thoughtfully presented one. Back with a bang Joel thanks for the uploads.
Back in the day I made a decision that still haunts me now, and it was getting a Game Gear for my birthday instead of the SNES. But my school had a terrible boiler which would always break in the winter and we would get sent home for a week or two. I loved being off school but even more, I loved that I would always go to my fiend's house and we would play F-Zero for hours. It's cool that you demoing that game at Myer came full circle. Definitely a small world.
I was the opposite, a Nintendo fan boy having gotten the NES and SNES before jumping ship when my girlfriend got a job at SEGA Canada. I was able to get hardware at cost and she was allowed to sign out games from their in-house games library to bring home on weekends. It wasn't long before I got the SEGA CD attachment to go along with my Genesis.
Im born 1986. I got to experience NES and it didnt click with me that well, but SNES? It was the golden era of 2D and a beautiful goodbye letter before we left for 3D gaming with N64 and Ps1. I mean, for people who wasnt kids back in the 90´s... going from Super Mario World in 2D to Super Mario 64 in 3D is the biggest jump in gaming technology I ever seen in my 33 years alive on this planet. Here in Sweden we also had the pal SNES that looked like the japanese SNES... so that was great as well :) btw, Super Mario World today, even in 2019, is probably one of the best 2D platformer out there. Also the graphic, because of 2D, is timeless. It still looks beautiful 27 years later.
I remember the discussions wether you were a nintendo poofter or a sega real mans games.I was a sega boy,but secretly i liked the Nintendo,but would never admit it.Another great story,thanks for sharing.
I too was, am, a SEGA fan. I had the Megadrive, my mate up the road had the NES which I used to play but never had my own then. I got the SNES months before it came out in the UK here, getting the US purple brick model... And then realising I had to get a new 14" telly to hook it up to! Costly, you know that was birthday and Christmas combined that year. But to have the SNES then was great, getting my US SNES import games and my Jap Megadrive import games from the same North London game specialist shop... Good times 👍
Likewise! I have issues from 1 to 50 (going from memory, perhaps even more) in a box in storage. They were something I never felt right to part with... who would have thought they would be valued some 30 years later!!!
Super Mario world. My favourite Mario game of all time. Loved pilot wings, super tennis, contra. The list goes on! Stand out memory was Sim city. A friend and me stayed up all night building a huge city to Megalopolis level. His brother came in and switched the SNES off as I don’t think you could save them, we lost the whole thing. Devastated 😭
Great story. I love this series. My Super Famicom came from Telegames, too. I didn’t buy it from there but the original owner did. I got it second hand in 1991, and the SNES hadn’t yet launched in the UK at that point. It seemed expensive at the time but compared to what you were paying it was really cheap; £280 for a boxed system with 10 games. I still have eight of them; only Actraiser and Ultraman have been sold from that original bunch. Many of the games you mentioned in the video are in the eight I still have but unfortunately Final Fight isn’t one of them. I think I’ll have to add that to the collection soon. I also have that first copy of Mean Machines. It was a great mag and definitely one of my favourites. I’ve also got a couple of compilation magazines they published that had their best reviews in them. Watching this video has made me want to get them out of storage to have a read of them again.
Really great to hear a fellow Aussie perspective of this era. I grew up in an all-Sega town, and like you wouldn't touch Nintendo. Also like you, Mean Machines convinced me it was time to try out "the enemy". Funny how it's almost the reverse in the US on the Sega/Nintendo fandom front.
That's an amazing story Joel, I started off with Sega as well during the 16-Bit era, I had a Mega Drive and my best friend at the time had a SNES so I feel like I mostly got the best of both worlds, it wouldn't be until a good few years later that I'd buy a SNES of my own, working backwards from when I got an N64, that's probably when I got properly into game collecting and it was a lot cheapr to do in the Nineties compared to now. I remember Mean Machines as well! In our school library we had a Mean Machines catalogue containing loads of reviews, I used to read through that so many times over, so much so in fact that when it was time for them to get rid of some of the old books, I was allowed to keep it or purchase it at the time... one of the two, I still have it to this day. Good timing with the Super Famicom video, you can now play a load of those games on the Nintendo Switch Online SNES or Super Famicom service, there are some great games on there too, sometimes though you just can't beat playing it from the original cartridge, it's still the best way to experience these games if you have the original hardware to do so. I'm already looking forward to the next video, all the best. Sam.
Love it...SNES is probably my fave console. I had a Mega drive with Sonic...thought it was great until a friend brought around his imported SNES with final fight...I was hooked and kept chasing the supposed NZ official Nintendo importer up re: when are they getting it in lol. A Kiwi fan loving the Vids.
Super cool episode is all I can say. I to was a Sega fan boy and also got a super fam later on then the NES. Looking forward to next weeks installment .
Thanks for the Videos. Growing up in country N.S.W it was a case of playing any game I could get my hands on. If a freind had a Amega or C64 I over there place like a shot.
The SNES is just undeniable... well, and the NES before it, well, and the Mega Drive two years before it, well, and the PC and Game Boy around the same time. But, you know what I mean. The SNES is crazy and ahead of its time in 1990-1992 (worldwide). So many games. So much power. So unified and utterly genius. So many buttons. So many series. So many Rare titles and creations. So much sound and colour. So much... Nintendo! (Still waiting for the 16-bit glory of GoldenEye on the SNES; though, not sad it was the N64, in the end. Not sad at all. My childhood right there. FPS is always best in 3D.)
Good on ya for eventually deciding to cut out the middle man and turning it into a profitable import business. I remember first seeing an ad for Super Nintendo in an American comic or magazine in 91 and being intrigued by it but had no way of looking up more information on it. I was preoccupied with super mario 3 at that time anyway. But then one day the landscape shifted overnight when the local Toy World replaced the demo NES unit with a demo SNES with super mario world and I was hooked. All plans to get a mega drive were abandoned and a Super Nintendo became the object of desire. Unfortunately for me at that time I was just a little kid so unable to get a part time job and having managed to convince my mum to get a second hand 8 bit console late in the game (a Sega master system when a NES was what I really wanted) the 16 bit era came at a bad time for me. I was behind the 8 ball in a major way. Unable to catch up on the 8 bit games that interested me on NES (master system just didn't do it for me) while being a bystander for all the glory of the 16 bit era it was a difficult but still memorable during my formative years. By the time I managed to convince my mum to get me another console it was the Nintendo 64. So I was to play catch up once more when I was able to get a part time job and managed to find a few cheap second hand SNES games including terranigma which I still have but that hunt was put on indefinite hold when I learned about emulation on pc and then became super busy with balancing tertiary study with part time work. Which is a shame as I also missed the best time to get those games on eBay before they prohibitively expensive. Nevertheless I managed to get back into collecting properly in 2015 and haven't looked back and have reshaped my collecting aesthetic to fit with the current landscape compared to when I last was a collector
I was always a Sega person as well. I virtually despised the NES although I owned one (along with a Sega Master System). As soon as the Genesis came out in the U.S. I abandoned the NES. I also bought the SNES as soon as it came out and I liked it a ton more than the NES, but I did then and always will have a soft spot in my heart for Sega. Another great video Joel!!!
Great story...the SNES had so many great games. I'm glad it expanded you to Nintendo.
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Wow i also looked at that same magazine here in England and wanted the Super famicom, never had an interest in the NES. Lucky for me here in the UK i had no need for mail order as my city had loads of import shops. I saw the Super famicom in the shop window running Final fight and after a few months got one. Got it home, plugged it up via RGB scart and my 21" tv only supported the console in black and white. Had to go to the local tv store and get a new tv that supported colour NTSC over RGB scart. After that the Megadrive was still good but damn the new machine with mode 7 and it's sound was something else. I paid £50 for new Super famicom games and UK official Megadrive games were £40 so import games were not really much more.
Hey please no cliffhanger endings! Love the episode, though a bit short but very enjoyable indeed. Can't wait for the shop story, that is going to be really exciting.
I was the same. Wasn't interested in the SNES until I saw Super Ghouls and Ghosts and Mario All Stars (Having all 3 Mario games with updated graphics was a huge deal back then)
I was staunchly a Sega person until the late 90s when emulation was a thing and played Most SNES games on my Mac with snes9x. I did borrow my friends SNES for a weekend once. Only Mario world and Street Racer appealed to me (I though and kind of still think it’s better than the OG Mario Kart). The Mega Drive was still king. Sonic was my favourite platformer, Streets of Rage me favourite brawler, and Super Monaco GP my favourite racer and I thought RPGs were boring. Eventually we got Street Fighter 2, so that fixed a lot of things. Today I think both are great! You wouldn’t hear me say that 1995, when I thought both were crap compared to the PlayStation.
Haha!!! Thats an awesome story Joel, cant wait for more vids!!! I still can't believe I just happened to be there when you were demoing the unit let alone got to play pilotwings on it!! Even worse, my mum had just got back from Hong Kong and saw them for sale everywhere but didnt know what they were so instead bought me back some 20 in 1 cartridges for my NES (that never worked) and a disk drive for my C64. 😵😵
Great story Joel, looking forward to hear the next part. Super Nintendo is my all time favourite console and Super Mario World just blew me away. Super Castlevania IV has to be my fav game for the console, still get goosebumps when I hear some tracks from the game.
When Simon & his too-good whip arrived in THIS Belmontian installment in OUR sharehouse TWAS left on just soundtracking for DAZE
Just after beating Death in the game, walking down the hallway with the torches lighting up, on your way to the final battle was no bone chillingly good!
the super nintendo was awesome i bought one out of my savings and i remember everyone that played it got a horn for nintendo . 1995 was really when people were breaking down doors for snes to get their hands on donkey kong country.. amazing times . .
Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode...BIG TUNE JOEL!!!
I used to import videogames from Honk Kong around 90-91 when i was around 15-16 years old. My dad imported a lot from Honk Kong back in the day through his company, so he often had these huge catalogues from different Wholesalers that sold electronics. I bought a lot of Megadrive and Famicom games back then, i even sold some machines and games to friends and family.
Just like you I was a massive Sega fan, I didn’t want to have anything to do with Nintendo until one day I walked into Andrews grey import store here in Brisbane and he had a Japanese Super Famicom with Super Mario World & F Zero. Super Mario World changed my view in Nintendo from that day on and I could wait to get my hands on the SNES when it was released here. Then playing Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past was amazing even to this day it’s one of my favourite games of all time. Loving story mode Joey, your bringing back so many memories for me
SUBSCRIBED.... I'm an 80s baby and watching some of your content was like a nostalgic trip down memory lane! Kids nowadays don't understand how magical the 80s and 90s were when it came to Video Gaming , being able to basically take home the Arcade experience and re- live it on your TV !!
Thanks you and welcome 😊
I have to say, i love how you open up these story mode chapters with music from the years you are telling the story from. Really does set the mood Great Work Joel.
This channel, and especially Story Mode, is becoming one of my favourite things on UA-cam. My only criticism is that this episode was too short! Can’t wait for the next installment!
Idk of its just being a kid at the time but why is everything so much more memorable back then? Your time capsules at the start of everyone of these is like a trip down memory lane. Love it. 🍻
Another great video Joel. Myself and my brother got a SNES to play Streetfighter 2 and it became my all time favourite console.
Still have it, along with streetfighter 2 turbo in its silver box.
Thanks for the memories!
Found memories of the NES. My first console. Still sits proudly in my house with everything I unwrapped at Christmas.
Got to love a bit of AC/DC, Brian Johnson was weirdly dating my friend's Mam for a bit as he's from my neck of the woods. Great video as usual, the movie clips at the start really just drove it home for me how much better the films were back then. Practical effects FTW.
YOU HAD ALL THOSE CONSOLES AND I COULDNT GET A PC-ENGINE BECAUSE OF YOU, COULD I JOEL?!?
LOL. Cmon Man he was only looking out for you, he saved you 1000s of dollars.
It amazes me how vivid your memories are. I’ve got a lot of great video game memories myself but nothing as detailed as yours. Keep up the awesome work. Your work is truly appreciated.
Hey Joel yeah around that time I also got into the SNES - friend brought it over and got me hooked showing me "Super Mario World" and of course "Contra and my favorite SNES game "Super Castlevania IV" The music and the way all the games played was simply amazing. Till this Day - Super Nintendo has yet to top any of the Nintendo Systems!
Fun fact, I was born the day the first Ninja Turtles film came out and grew up as a fan. And Super Nintendo is still my favorite classic system. I can put in almost any game into that system and I feel 5 years old again.
Ahhhh.. the Super Nintendo. I loved my Genesis. But of course I got EGM magazine in the states.. and saw the announcement for the SNES and Super Ghouls and Ghosts. Who could resist the charm of Super Mario World? I was too young to work, totally reliant on my Mum. I begged for the SNES for my next birthday and got... an arcade stick for my Genesis. I never got a SNES. Sad story really.. It wasn't until years later that I swapped consoles with my friend for a few months that I really got to spend time with the SNES. Super Mario World, Pilotwings, F-Zero, Super G&G.. just amazing games.. some of my favorites to this day.
Being only slightly younger than you, SNES (UK) was my first console. Amazing early memories of playing it with my brother and cousins. To this day, Super Mario World is probably one of my favourite games of all time. Great video Joel, keep them coming!
I can only imagine what it must have felt like to load up F zero for the first time in 1990... still a thrill to this day hearing that mute city theme blast through the speakers as you take to the track!
love the intro, 80/90s film, movie and music was amazing ,love still today , ) I need to get a snes it's one I'm missing and had so many amazing games ;)
Yeah the games aren't cheap for this system now espically vgood + boxed condition
Joel your stories are amazing! The best part is, not only do you tell them so well, but you produce them in great video form! I'm finally subscribing - keep up the great work!
Super Nintendo was the first console I played being born in the 90s, such a great console! Recentlyy getting into playing super famicon games on my snes mini.
Awesome video as always. Your taste in music is just as good as your taste in videogames! MC Hammer and Depeche Mode. Sega and Nintendo. Awesome.
The music in PilotWings is the perfect soundtrack to put on for a romantic candlelit dinner at a five star restaurant.
Hahahahah.. that's great.. so true!
#ITStheVIBEofTHEthing totallyWOULD transport player mentally typo tuneage innit
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence. Probably in my top 5 all time favourite songs. I am so glad that you love it as well.
I'm loving the content Joel. I'm looking forward to the next instalment. :D
What a cliffhanger you left us on Joel! Can't wait to hear about what happened next. Much love and support from the 🇺🇸. Keep up the awesome videos!
I never owned an Nintendo until last year, well, except a GameBoy. (which I loved, and still love) I remember the SNES came though, I did want one, and seeing all the commercials in some of the comics I read did not help. It was Mario World that looked so fun! One time we rented a SNES for a weekend, and it was very fun.
Back then I cannot remember so much Nintendo vs SEGA arguments, all the new stuff was just cool. In Europe we did not have any of those "Nintendont" commercials. Most people did not have many games either, since they were so expensive, except computer games though...
I watch every video patiently waiting for you do a dreamcast one. It's my favorite console of all time every modern thing I enjoy doing in games I did first on dreamcast. Play games online, voice chat online. I got into racing and arcade games on dreamcast. They had the best sport games imo too. Just a really awesome system.
16bit era - best time in gaming! 👍😎
I'd love a mega cut of these when we catch up to 2020 or whenever we catch up. Love listening to the story. The channel in general is a beautiful and thoughtfully presented one. Back with a bang Joel thanks for the uploads.
Currently playing through ghouls and ghosts on the snes collection on the switch...thank god for the rewind feature on it.
Back in the day I made a decision that still haunts me now, and it was getting a Game Gear for my birthday instead of the SNES. But my school had a terrible boiler which would always break in the winter and we would get sent home for a week or two. I loved being off school but even more, I loved that I would always go to my fiend's house and we would play F-Zero for hours.
It's cool that you demoing that game at Myer came full circle. Definitely a small world.
So cool. You really live and breathe Video Games. Waiting for the next episode!
Fantastic! Arguably the best system launch titles ever, and those first year releases were absolutely magical, what a time for gaming.
Well done mate. Always enjoy your content. Such a lovely chap.
Nintendo was huge in the USA. Started playing Super Mario in the arcade back in 85.
I was the opposite, a Nintendo fan boy having gotten the NES and SNES before jumping ship when my girlfriend got a job at SEGA Canada. I was able to get hardware at cost and she was allowed to sign out games from their in-house games library to bring home on weekends. It wasn't long before I got the SEGA CD attachment to go along with my Genesis.
Love these story modes Joel can't wait for the next episode
cliffhanger or what joel... :-) Great video yet again. Loving this series so far. Keep em coming.
So impressed how you keep everything.. and your memory is amazing. I know the year I graduated.. And my birthday.. That's about it..lol
Love how u mention music,movies and culture around that time at the start of story vids...nailed it with Depeche Mode as well...that is a classic...
Im born 1986. I got to experience NES and it didnt click with me that well, but SNES? It was the golden era of 2D and a beautiful goodbye letter before we left for 3D gaming with N64 and Ps1. I mean, for people who wasnt kids back in the 90´s... going from Super Mario World in 2D to Super Mario 64 in 3D is the biggest jump in gaming technology I ever seen in my 33 years alive on this planet. Here in Sweden we also had the pal SNES that looked like the japanese SNES... so that was great as well :) btw, Super Mario World today, even in 2019, is probably one of the best 2D platformer out there. Also the graphic, because of 2D, is timeless. It still looks beautiful 27 years later.
It's incredible the amount of stuff you had done before you were even legally classified as an adult. I wish i had the sort of drive you do/did
I remember the discussions wether you were a nintendo poofter or a sega real mans games.I was a sega boy,but secretly i liked the Nintendo,but would never admit it.Another great story,thanks for sharing.
I too was, am, a SEGA fan.
I had the Megadrive, my mate up the road had the NES which I used to play but never had my own then.
I got the SNES months before it came out in the UK here, getting the US purple brick model... And then realising I had to get a new 14" telly to hook it up to!
Costly, you know that was birthday and Christmas combined that year.
But to have the SNES then was great, getting my US SNES import games and my Jap Megadrive import games from the same North London game specialist shop... Good times 👍
The story is gonna end like Goodfellas
When the cops come knocking,
Joel started pointing
That Mean Machines cover is so good I took a screen shot!
I remember going to brunos shop on holiday back then. Gotta love this trip down memory lane
I have every issue of MEAN MACHINES, my original copies too from back in the day.
I love that magazine!
Likewise! I have issues from 1 to 50 (going from memory, perhaps even more) in a box in storage. They were something I never felt right to part with... who would have thought they would be valued some 30 years later!!!
Super Mario world. My favourite Mario game of all time. Loved pilot wings, super tennis, contra. The list goes on! Stand out memory was Sim city. A friend and me stayed up all night building a huge city to Megalopolis level. His brother came in and switched the SNES off as I don’t think you could save them, we lost the whole thing. Devastated 😭
This is when I bought a Japanese Megadrive in England, even though it was just about to release officially in Europe. I was 12 and I loved it!
Thank you for sharing your memories!
SNES/SFC is still one of my favorite game consoles of all time! So many great games and some of the best RPGs ever!
Joel, your stories are so darn good! I wish some of these were a tad bit longer. One can dream :)
Great Video! I look forward to the next episode of story mode!
God I love your history man, so much depth and knowledge...can't wait for the next one!
I love the your story mode Joel, you present these great.
Yes! Depeche Mode - best band in the world!
Try dM songs by 8-BIT OPERATORS. I did
As Ive said before, god i love your channel! And keep them coming.
Another great episode with great content Joel. Hard to believe that this is real life!
Due to my interest in these videos, and my constant anticipation for the next, I would like you to release them every half hour please.
wow! the story dives deeper. Cant wait to hear the next story. A+ delivery
Great story. I love this series.
My Super Famicom came from Telegames, too. I didn’t buy it from there but the original owner did. I got it second hand in 1991, and the SNES hadn’t yet launched in the UK at that point. It seemed expensive at the time but compared to what you were paying it was really cheap; £280 for a boxed system with 10 games. I still have eight of them; only Actraiser and Ultraman have been sold from that original bunch. Many of the games you mentioned in the video are in the eight I still have but unfortunately Final Fight isn’t one of them. I think I’ll have to add that to the collection soon.
I also have that first copy of Mean Machines. It was a great mag and definitely one of my favourites. I’ve also got a couple of compilation magazines they published that had their best reviews in them. Watching this video has made me want to get them out of storage to have a read of them again.
Wow so similar:) it’s good it got you to get mean Machines out, that’s the aim of these videos :)
Really great to hear a fellow Aussie perspective of this era. I grew up in an all-Sega town, and like you wouldn't touch Nintendo. Also like you, Mean Machines convinced me it was time to try out "the enemy". Funny how it's almost the reverse in the US on the Sega/Nintendo fandom front.
I played a ton of Super Ghouls and Ghosts growing up. One of my all time favorites. It's still very difficult to beat.
Best Representant for 80 s and all Gaming
I had Sega and Nintendo. I loved them both.
That's an amazing story Joel, I started off with Sega as well during the 16-Bit era, I had a Mega Drive and my best friend at the time had a SNES so I feel like I mostly got the best of both worlds, it wouldn't be until a good few years later that I'd buy a SNES of my own, working backwards from when I got an N64, that's probably when I got properly into game collecting and it was a lot cheapr to do in the Nineties compared to now. I remember Mean Machines as well! In our school library we had a Mean Machines catalogue containing loads of reviews, I used to read through that so many times over, so much so in fact that when it was time for them to get rid of some of the old books, I was allowed to keep it or purchase it at the time... one of the two, I still have it to this day.
Good timing with the Super Famicom video, you can now play a load of those games on the Nintendo Switch Online SNES or Super Famicom service, there are some great games on there too, sometimes though you just can't beat playing it from the original cartridge, it's still the best way to experience these games if you have the original hardware to do so.
I'm already looking forward to the next video, all the best. Sam.
The cliffhanger though! He got us
The Golden Supermarket Hong Kong still exists today though it's the golden computer market. It;s my 1st stop in HK. Awesome story
Great story. Got my Snes a little late but still enjoy the games.
No way, I had that copy of Mean Machines :) Great Nostalgia!
Love it...SNES is probably my fave console. I had a Mega drive with Sonic...thought it was great until a friend brought around his imported SNES with final fight...I was hooked and kept chasing the supposed NZ official Nintendo importer up re: when are they getting it in lol. A Kiwi fan loving the Vids.
I still have my original SNES as well.
Super cool episode is all I can say. I to was a Sega fan boy and also got a super fam later on then the NES. Looking forward to next weeks installment
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I love this story's they are so interesting is just like the world stops and I get into the story so much in
Thanks for the Videos. Growing up in country N.S.W it was a case of playing any game I could get my hands on. If a freind had a Amega or C64 I over there place like a shot.
The SNES is just undeniable... well, and the NES before it, well, and the Mega Drive two years before it, well, and the PC and Game Boy around the same time. But, you know what I mean. The SNES is crazy and ahead of its time in 1990-1992 (worldwide). So many games. So much power. So unified and utterly genius. So many buttons. So many series. So many Rare titles and creations. So much sound and colour. So much... Nintendo! (Still waiting for the 16-bit glory of GoldenEye on the SNES; though, not sad it was the N64, in the end. Not sad at all. My childhood right there. FPS is always best in 3D.)
Good on ya for eventually deciding to cut out the middle man and turning it into a profitable import business. I remember first seeing an ad for Super Nintendo in an American comic or magazine in 91 and being intrigued by it but had no way of looking up more information on it. I was preoccupied with super mario 3 at that time anyway. But then one day the landscape shifted overnight when the local Toy World replaced the demo NES unit with a demo SNES with super mario world and I was hooked. All plans to get a mega drive were abandoned and a Super Nintendo became the object of desire. Unfortunately for me at that time I was just a little kid so unable to get a part time job and having managed to convince my mum to get a second hand 8 bit console late in the game (a Sega master system when a NES was what I really wanted) the 16 bit era came at a bad time for me. I was behind the 8 ball in a major way. Unable to catch up on the 8 bit games that interested me on NES (master system just didn't do it for me) while being a bystander for all the glory of the 16 bit era it was a difficult but still memorable during my formative years. By the time I managed to convince my mum to get me another console it was the Nintendo 64. So I was to play catch up once more when I was able to get a part time job and managed to find a few cheap second hand SNES games including terranigma which I still have but that hunt was put on indefinite hold when I learned about emulation on pc and then became super busy with balancing tertiary study with part time work. Which is a shame as I also missed the best time to get those games on eBay before they prohibitively expensive. Nevertheless I managed to get back into collecting properly in 2015 and haven't looked back and have reshaped my collecting aesthetic to fit with the current landscape compared to when I last was a collector
Oh love it Joel! Cliffhanger!!!! 😁👍
Amazing! Loved it!
That was a great year Joel 👍
I was always a Sega person as well. I virtually despised the NES although I owned one (along with a Sega Master System). As soon as the Genesis came out in the U.S. I abandoned the NES. I also bought the SNES as soon as it came out and I liked it a ton more than the NES, but I did then and always will have a soft spot in my heart for Sega. Another great video Joel!!!
Another belting story mate, i hope you opened a rival business ;)
I like these videos so much that it drives me crazy at how SHORT they are.
They will be longer soon
Great story...the SNES had so many great games. I'm glad it expanded you to Nintendo.
Wow i also looked at that same magazine here in England and wanted the Super famicom, never had an interest in the NES. Lucky for me here in the UK i had no need for mail order as my city had loads of import shops. I saw the Super famicom in the shop window running Final fight and after a few months got one. Got it home, plugged it up via RGB scart and my 21" tv only supported the console in black and white. Had to go to the local tv store and get a new tv that supported colour NTSC over RGB scart. After that the Megadrive was still good but damn the new machine with mode 7 and it's sound was something else. I paid £50 for new Super famicom games and UK official Megadrive games were £40 so import games were not really much more.
Ah!!! Cliffhanger hyped for next episode please tell buying final fight buying arcadeboard story
Love these true storys :)
Top episode....it was an amazing game era....now when do we get to see the next episode?
I usto buy mean machines, still have some of the issues. It was a UK based publication, I never knew it sold overseas. Good times to be a kid :)
Great episode as always. Love that Willow music ♥️
(Marcel)
Hey please no cliffhanger endings! Love the episode, though a bit short but very enjoyable indeed. Can't wait for the shop story, that is going to be really exciting.
I was the same. Wasn't interested in the SNES until I saw Super Ghouls and Ghosts and Mario All Stars (Having all 3 Mario games with updated graphics was a huge deal back then)
I still need to explore Famicom further. I've dabbled. Heard theres some cool differences from PAL ones
Great console, great video ! Merci Joel ! ;)
I was staunchly a Sega person until the late 90s when emulation was a thing and played Most SNES games on my Mac with snes9x. I did borrow my friends SNES for a weekend once. Only Mario world and Street Racer appealed to me (I though and kind of still think it’s better than the OG Mario Kart). The Mega Drive was still king. Sonic was my favourite platformer, Streets of Rage me favourite brawler, and Super Monaco GP my favourite racer and I thought RPGs were boring. Eventually we got Street Fighter 2, so that fixed a lot of things. Today I think both are great! You wouldn’t hear me say that 1995, when I thought both were crap compared to the PlayStation.
Totally enjoying your story
You have amazing taste Joel and will even forgive how you pronounce “Depeche Mode” ;-)
Joel probably went to the dM concert with me .... Oh no w8up it got cancelled& everybody missedout cos Dave
Awesome story mode. I love to find one
Same here. Final FIght made me buy a Super Famicom. I already had the mega drive at home. But i knew it probably wasnt coming to the mega drive.