Third VideoGame Generation Recap - NES (Famicom) - Adam Koralik
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2015
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This is a discussion topic video about the third generation of videogame consoles. This will be part two of my five part mini-series. This will be a video about the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Hope you like it! - Ігри
It's funny how the NES had strict quality control yet the NES is the most covered console on AVGN lol.
dude you lay down knowledge like a boss and your humor is much appreciated
Thank you sir.
true
I wonder if the NES would rank even higher on the most units sold list if you could count up all the pirate versions and clones of it sold in China, Taiwan, South America, Eastern Europe, etc. Hell, they're probably still doing business selling some in low-income parts of the world, blowing peoples' minds with pirated versions of Arkanoid, SMB1 and Excite Bike. Which is kind of a cool thought in a sense.
It also occurs to me that in its way, Duck Hunt especially was a sort of Wii for its time. The average dad would never try Super Mario Bros on their kids' system, but shooting pixel ducks with a toy gun was immediately accessible. The first time me and my brother played with our NES, we ended up having an impromptu Duck Hunt tournament between a dozen different family members, because everyone wanted a go.
nope, only official consoles from the actual maker count....
we can sorta gauge conmtinued popularity by the retrons and designer consoles but I wouldn't count the knock off's as anything but a rip off, a doorstop and nothing more lol
though I wonder if in a few years someone will do a Retron like console for PS3 and PS4 and what not lol
I honestly think modern games are kinda frakked for that cus think about it, PS3 wouldn't even run the game if you didn't have a profile, the X360 would let you run an offline profile no prob and IDK how PS4 does it cus i never tried to play without a profile, I was unable to run anything without the update though lol gotta love that man, even the consoles this gen weren't finished before they shipped and required an update LMAO
NES we can just pop a game in and if the console works it'll play, newer consoles there's issues attached LMAO
I really enjoy the experiences you share. It gives me a new way to look at these consoles.
+Rabid Thanks for watching!
Adam blesses us with another video. :')
praise lord gaben
+Sunderland Gaming In this context, praise lord Adamk
+Sunderland Gaming Wrong gaming community since "Lord Gaben" is a fat ugly sloth who the Pirate Cheapskates Disaster Race Virgin community worships. Plus those who worship "Gaben" hates console gamers & console gaming in general.
+The Ninja-X³ twas a joke man chill
Sunderland Gaming Alrighty...lol
I really liked Super Mario 2. Probably because it was different than all the rest. I also agree with Mario Bros 3 being one of the best games for the NES and 3rd generation as a whole. Many Many hours sunk into that.
That was the 1st Mario game I ever played. I played it on my blue GBA.
Shane Singleton Yeah,Mario 3s kind of my least favorite of the three.Its more of a rehash of part one,and I find the world map pretty annoying,as are the little side games,because it slows down all the platforming.Also you can choose between four characters in part 2.Which I really liked.
I don't think saying Super Mario Bros. 3 is the greatest game of the era is very controversial--- that's a pretty widely regarded opinion, and the game typically ranks #1 of all-time on top NES games lists. I actually had one major gripe with the game (which was fixed on the All-Stars remake): The game was huge and yet there was no save feature.
+Motorheadache95
*Warp whistles to the end*
Woo! Thanks Adam. Your generation recaps are one of my favorites series on youtube! Keep up the awesome content.
I'm an Australian. And, honestly, I have no childhood or even teenage memories of the NES. Back in the day, we owned a Sega Master System and a Sega Mega Drive. In fact, all my relatives and friends owned at least one of those two Sega consoles. Absolutely not one person I knew back then or even now owned an NES. Not one. Granted, I have friends from the United States who owned an NES back in the day and I've been told countless times how popular it was in the US at the time. But I can't say for sure if the same is true for Australia. I've seen a second hand NES on display at Gametraders, so I know they were at least sold here. But I don't know if it was even well known down here. I never even heard of "Nintendo" until I received a VHS copy of Toy Story as a gift and the advertisement for Sega Mega Drive and Super Nintendo tie in came on before the movie. I guess the Sega Master System was for the Australian population what the NES was for the American population.
+Jarrah White Yeah it was, the predominant company in Australia was Sega because their distributor Ozisoft did a far better job of marketing and selling to the local market. Mattel had the licences for here and parts of Europe (including the UK) and in all regions Mattel had, the console(s) did poorly. The high price of NES and SNES in Australia was a factor in that. I know at least one person who owned a NES, possibly more. Nintendo made far more inroads once they took over distribution/marketing.
+Jarrah White Yeah, Nintendo pretty much owned Japan and North America. Europe and Australia was Sega's market. In fact, as a kid, the NES was so popular in America to the point where Nintendo became the name for video games. Kids used to say I'm playing Nintendo" rather than saying "I'm playing video games". Parents who didn't know the difference between consoles used to call everything a "Nintendo". Come to think of it, I don't think I even saw a Master System console until my older brother bought one at a yard sale in the late 90's.
The same could be said for Britan or for my country Hungary where the C64 was the most popular thing ever.
it's like reading history from a paralell universe hehehe, I'm in uruguay, the first sega thing that existed here was megadrive, nobody knew master system existed, in fact, over here it came out AFTER megadrive, i remember tv ads and brand new master systems for sale in stores even by 1998. hahahaha.
oh, by the way, like 8 out of 10 people had famicom instead of the north american NES, it was a lot cheaper and cartridges were cheaper too, the same game on nes format costed twice what it costed on famicom format. what we all did was having famicom consoles and getting a cheap adaptor to play nes cartridges.
MrNorbert1994 nah, Sega and Nintendo were more even in the UK/Europe with Nintendo edging them out.
I remember playing Super Mario Bros 3 for the first time. I had never heard of it at the time, never knew it was out. My brother told me a friend was coming over and bringing it over. I was so happy to be playing a new Mario game....I played the hell out of the first one...no matter what games we had for the NES, i'd still pop in Super Mario Bros on a regular basis.
Ahhh, finally!! You're the greatest! Been waiting for this 3rd Gen recap forever!
thank you for this video! I've been hoping you would make an nes video eventually and there it is. I applaud this video
Hey Adam once again great video man, when you showed Castlevania. I had a little bit of a flashback of me playing that game with my dad. The thing is that was the only game that I can remember that he would actually sit down and play with me he loved it for some reason. Lol. and I had totally forgotten about that till now. I think that's part of why your videos are so great.you never know what fond memory can surface that you totally forgot about. I found myself checking the time on the video. not cuz I was in a rush for it to end. but the opposite I wanted it not to end, and that's priceless. so just wanted to thank you for the great video.
My most favorite game console of all time. Another excellent video, Adam! Always look forward to these in my sub box.
+ABH Thanks for watching!
My favorite kind of video, YOUR personal relationship with the console is what I want to hear. Great video as always man
+andy ehmann Thanks dude.
Another excellent video Adam! The NES was my introduction into video games and holds a special place in my heart. I think it's awesome you actually have the same system you first saw as a little kid!
+Jon Barrett Thanks for watching!
Me and you both saw the same console first. When I was 4 I saw my brother play super Mario Bros 1 and Tetris. Awesome memory. Thank you Adam for doing these awesome videos..
These recap videos are so good
Paperboy is great. I loved playing it back in the late 1980s and on occasion now. In my opinion it stands the test of time.
While the NES is the reason I am a 38 year old collector who consists his collection more of a library than a museum, the 2600 was my first (before the 86 nes launch...my parents actually feel for the "fun is back" campaign and bought me a jr, not knowing it was the same system as my woodgrain vcs lol), and sega holds my heart. And I always had both consoles so it wasn't the "what I had" effect. I actually bought a Saturn in 96 and a Dreamcast at launch. I loved Sega. Still do.
I think to a lot of people, the NES was the first system they ever own that was marketed for them. I remember playing the Atari 5200 before getting a NES but the 5200 was my parents system that I was allowed to play on. The NES was my system and while my dad did buy it for himself, I was the one asking to get games on it while the 5200 I never asked games for it. I was born in 82 so I have a lot of great memories with it and even remember buying it with my dad. It also had to be during the time that the school yard culture also helped. Every kid I knew had a NES and we'd all take time in the afternoon after school to play it at each others house. It was also everywhere, cartoons, shirts, cereal, books, even movies for just Nintendo and only Nintendo. It was OUR video game console and was the only console for kids that was directly marketed towards kids so we just grew up with it.
I was so looking forward to your review of the third gen and the nes specifically. I have been watching your recaps starting with current gen and going backwards. I really like your stuff and I know you a busy man but I hope you spend some quality time with nes sometime and make another video. Thanks
Great vids and I'm hype for your vid about the third year of wii u
Adam I love your videos. I, like you, am a 30+ years gamer and grew up with the NES. And a fellow Chicagoan. Keep up the good work.
+George Nelson Thank you.
New fav channel. Thank you
I loved hearing about your first experience with the NES because it resonated SO MUCH with me.
My very first memory ever is when I was 3 (I was able to confirm this with my mother lol)
My older brother (6 at the time) is losing his mind with excitement over this weird grey box.
It's in front of our big wooden-cabinet floor-bound CRT.
I'm mesmerized watching him jump on mushrooms and shooting fireballs.
I remember him handing me a controller because it was my turn, and I got to be the green one.
The timing is a little different, as this was 1991. I didn't even know 'other' game consoles existed until 1994 when we moved and a neighbor kid showed me his Sega Genesis and Sonic 2 and BLEW MY MIND lol. Fast forward a few years and I'm soliciting my body to science for the 300$ I needed to get a Dreamcast, Sonic Adventure, and a VMU - the rest is history. Pretty much my whole life has gone the direction it has because of the influence video games had on me.
Thank you so much for doing this generation!
+jeremy van hise Thanks for watching!
+AdamKoralik Wow this vid was really interesting. I know you collect stuff like more recent xbox/ps games and such, but this is so interesting compared to that in my opinion. It's crazy that they sort of released the NES so timidly and tested the waters too. Also I never even thought about the strange "VCR" way you put cartridges into it and why it's so awkward to begin with when you could have a design that's much more straight-forward and reliable.
I wish I had my childhood console, they are lost to time!..Alas!...Great coverage, Hella fascinating!😁
awesome series adam!
+Lisandro Brasolin Thanks!
Awesome video, with your helpful videos on cleaning the nes an getting rid of the lock out chip i was able to get an nes for 10 bucks. Thanks for all you do Adam an i consider super mario 3 my favorite nes title as well.
+Christopher Flynn Thanks for watching!
I spent hours playing mario 3 man. definitely a part of my collection atm.
great video by the way
I remember an uncle bought it with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/track n field and literally being soo blown away. I was crying once he packed it up and took it home. Literally. I also was 6 years old. Adam, you must be younger since you never experienced the NES at it's peak. Cause to me, it was the chet. Of course the SNES put me on a natural high for months.
Awesome video. Although this was not my first console, it was certainly the one I've played the most. I know you don't talk about the stuff you don't have but I feel that the video was not complete without mentioning the ridiculous amount of accessories this thing had. The Roll N Rocker, the LaserScope, the Power Glove, the Power Pad, the U -force, just to name the ones I had, were just crazy and years ahead of their time. I could care less about what critics say about them. Many of my fondest childhood memories are of me and my friends playing Punch Out with the U -force and knocking the thing off the table and other things like that. My favorite games for it were the Dragon Warrior games, the Final Fantasies, Megaman, Contra, BattleToads (hardest game ever), Turtles II, and the list goes on...
+AdamKoralik one thing I've found very fascinating about Famicom/NES history is how many different versions there were. The NES had the European, Mattel, Spanish (or Italian? I forget, but one for a very specific region), along with a Hong Kong and Asian version. Additionally, the Famicom had three known versions: the Japanese version, Hong Kong version (and a HK Disk System, which seems to be the same model # as the Japanese one, as the HK Famicom has a dif model number) and a Taiwanese version, which wasn't really known till the past five years and still is quite vague.
Thanks for an awesome video! ^_^
I've really been into the NES/Famicom lately. The NES was before my time, I'm almost 25, but I do have a lot of nostalgia for it. I remember going over to family friend's house and playing Duck Hunt, Mario 1, and The Legend of Zelda. Those are the 3 first games I ever played.
Great video as always.
In addition to the well known first party Nintendo games and Konami/Capcom stuff, the NES has tons of weird/quirky games of varying quality that are fun to discover. Modern consoles of course have their shovelware titles, but there's something about even the terrible NES games that makes them charming.
+MrLeo34 Thanks!
I do love this console and it is either my fourth or fifth favorite. Ironically though, my two favorite games are actually for the Famicom, those being Mother 1 and Final Fantasy 3; third is of course SMB 3. I do love it, and the Famicom, and still play both to this day. I can always just throw in SMB 1 and speed through to World 7 or so and then shut it off or throw in SMB 3 and speed through the first 3 worlds and feel just really good afterwards. It has charm all it's own.
Nice vid man, I believe the NES was the first console I ever saw too because my brother had one when it was a new console.
I'm glad I'm old enough to have grown up in the 80's and played NES....great console IMO
best games I played:
Battletoads
Blades of Steel
castlevania
castlevania 3
Double Dragon 2 The Revenge
Dr Mario
Gradius
Ikari Warriors
Low G man
Mendal Palace
Metal Gear
Metroid
Mike Tyson's Punch Out [not the altered Punch Out version]
Mission Impossible
Ninja Gaiden
Paperboy
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario 3
Tetris
Tiger Heli
Wizards & Warriors
Wizards & Warriors 3
Zelda
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I'm likely forgetting a lot but these were the majority of my fave NES games
Cool videos, man. Subscribed!
+Shiggy Miyamo Thanks.
great video!. one of my favorite consoles, one of the best consoles, one of the best libraries, it's still great to play, lots of fun.
in my case I have a famicom (with RCA output, not RF), and I use one of those 72 pins adaptors to play nes cartridges on it, so I have both famicom and nes cartridges. I have it plugged on a CRT tv so it looks right and I can use the zapper :)
Great video as always.
+Para Soul Thanks!
I love these quick shoot series video game history
The first video game console I ever saw was the Sega Genesis. Great stuff Adam.
+Justin'sMovies/Games Thanks for watching!
Hi Adam! It's amazing that you can remember the first game and console you saw in your life. I can't remember mine, I think it should be Sonic or Alex Kidd for the master system. I was born in 1990 and here in Portugal was all about Sega. I knew Mario just because of the game boy. I didn't even know of the NES existence like until the late 90s.
Great video Adam :)
+Jelster64 Thanks!
My favorite console. Thank you for doing this video.
+Wheels8504 Thanks for watching!
+AdamKoralik You're welcome. Ever thought of doing videos on handhelds?
+Wheels8504 Maybe eventually.
+AdamKoralik That's cool. Just thought I'd ask.
similar story I own my cousins ZED-ECKS spectrum...THE very one I used to go round and play with when I went over to see him as a children. He 'threw it out in adulthood' Nice video keep up the good work. still perfer the SNES to NES myself, snes is the one I feel the e-motional attachment too
Awesome and touching video.
+symphoniez Thanks.
This was my very first game system ever. My dad when me my older brother and sister had the NES because my dad bought the top loader with a bunch of games to go with it, games I remember were Mario 1 2 and 3, Megaman 6, Zelda Metroid, Jaws, and Ducktales just to name a few. This was in the early 90s. I never even knew about SNES, Genesis or any other system but NES. Until 1996 when we got Nintendo 64. Holy crap did Mario 64 blow my mind when I was a kid.
It was a nice system, indeed but picking it another time would be a money killer, I suppose.
Playing SMB1, Kid Icarus and Gauntlet however was fun back then.
Great video again, Adam.
Still got my ROB the robot too, gave him a polish only yesterday with all this spring cleaning. :D
No Contra, Double Dragon or Mega Man? Aww...
Well, Super Mario Bros. 3 is definitely the best. 18 million people can't be wrong. Takashi Tezuka, the level designer for the Super Mario Bros. series, even said that it is his masterpiece. I've seen plenty of people in the game industry say that if you want to get into level design: play and take inspiration from Super Mario Bros. 3.
It's because of Super Mario Maker, I'm starting to realize how subtlely brilliant Super Mario Bros. is.
Why empty blocks floating in mid air? Why not stairs? Well if you had that area blocked off, it would be like being told no when you really want to go somewhere. Less options means less fun.
Why a bottomless pit? Why not spikes? If you had spikes then that would mean the artist would have to spend extra time drawing a sprite, then a programmer would have to code it and color it in and then it would just eat up more memory. Why not just have nothing there? I've seen tons of ROM hacks and levels that stick spikes/munchers in without a thought or care in the world and they look so bad.
Super Mario Bros. is the Star Wars of our generation.
Hideo Kojima said that he wanted to be a film director because of John Carpenter. At a Sony press conference or some gaming event I forget, when asked by a fan what his favorite game was he replied Super Mario Bros. The Sony reps looked so angry at him for saying that but then they made a face like, "Well, he said it already." It was so awkward and amusing.
Just like him and a lot of other people, Super Mario Bros. inspired us to get into gaming. It truly was the genesis of the modern video gaming era.
Well dam your cousin reeks of awesomeness for giving you all that nes stuff!
My first video game memory was the NES. My mother bought one and was playing Dragon Warrior- I still have the original console and cart.
Hey man, awesome video as always. Will you do a video on the Amiga 500? Loved that computer!
You know, after watching this video, a memory suddenly came back to me. I actually remember seeing Paperboy for the NES somewhere when I was very young. I don't remember if somebody was playing it or if I was playing it, but I vaguely remember it.
+N64Lain Glad I could help. :P
Woo-hoo! My first 3rd gen console gets some covering! I still have it to this day.
Very interesting your feelings with the Nintendo NES, I am older than you and I had at the time exactly the same feeling with this machine, I never owned it and I never wanted to press the start button on ... I have better memories of the Master System andl my first console was ... a Super Nintendo which I thought was awesome. I also agree with you regarding Mario All Stars, I loved this game as a kid, still great after playi Super Mario World.
Very interesting, thank you.
I had an NES around 1996 and loved playing North v South
I just wanted to thank you for all these videos you put out regarding all these game generations, retro gaming, video quality, system maintenance, and personal stories. Your videos were perhaps one of the main reasons I have delved into video game collecting across generations 3 and up (I now have 16 consoles and 250+ games). Fun note: I've just started to break into Sega games/systems (recently got a Master system, Genesis, Saturn, and of course the Dreamcast) :)
Also do you have an XRGB-Mini? Since you have a strong focus on video quality and upscaling it would be awesome (if possible since it's expensive) to really delve in to the device. Even though it was pricey that device has REALLY helped organize/centralize/simplify my entire setup between RGB, Component, and HDMI based consoles and I'm sure it could do the same to yours :) You can go into 21pin vs Euro Scart, settings, and getting a large amount of systems hooked up to it.
14:25 I was trying to go to sleep while watching the video and this came up... thanks a lot
Muhahahaha....sorry.
weird tho. I never had a master system as a child. never heard of it but I had an nes. later I bought the master system and honestly the colors and graphics are wayyy better and it had amazing games. mind you I'm a lover of all systems. I personally as a kid was very impressed with the turbografx 16. I remember I lived in Los Angeles and there was a shop where you can pay by the hour to play game systems. they have Sega Genesis nes Super Nintendo you name it. that the first time I saw a turbografx and in Master System and they both blew my mind. I remember being the only kid in there playing the turbografx with the hue cards thinking this was the most futuristic thing ever. two very underrated consoles in America. also Adam I love your videos please continue to make as many as possible. you have made my shopping to upgrade video quality on my retro systems the best.
I can't wait for part 2, about Master System... that was a huge success here in Brazil (believe or not, you can still find some strange versions of it in stores!). I even found for sale in Europe (Portugal) a lot of cartridges that are produced in Brazil... I don't know why, maybe for the language in the manuals or whatever. Ah, the 80's/90's...
Can't wait for the SMS Video
I have a lot of respect for the NES. When I was 9 I went to a mall one day and saw someone playing Contra and I thought it looked badass. My Mom bought me an NES clone console that had 30 games on it. My favorites were Duck Hunt, Contra, SMB, Mappy, Balloon Pop, Ice Climbers, and Muscle. Compared to the Gamecube it was just something fun to pass an afternoon. Over time I played NES games on emulators, but like you I never owned an actual NES until as of 3 months ago. My local retro shop was selling it for $45 and and I bought it right away.
Beautiful Adam just beautiful
+Diego Arenas Thanks!
i fucking love that comment you made best comment during the whole vid its the one were you mention the vcr concept adapted to the nes visual design over the original famicon design.
I've got like 5 CRT's laying around. #Melee4Lyfe
+RealNigga19 He must be buff because those things can be fucking heavy.
RealNigga19 There are plenty of kids at my school who do that. I just bring a controller and play with them.
+ThePokemaniacZach I use a CRT... PC monitor. CS at 160Hz for dirt cheap ftw.
I'd never thought about how the NES was styled to look like a VCR until a few months ago when I saw an early 80's NEC betamax player at a goodwill that looked EXACTLY like a NES.
My first game console was the Famicon, man i loved it, my mother stressed the hell out with me, because my life was around it.
Couple years later i saved a bunch of money and since i was always moving, i bought the Sega Game Gear, man, it sucked so much, what a disappointment, few games launched, 6 AA batteries that lasted for like one hour, shit, i hated it, i ended up trading the Sega Game Gear for a Game Boy with a bunch of games, and... i loved it, a ton of cool games, batteries lasted for ever, had so much fun with it.
After some years, my next console was the Sony Playstation, it was offered by a cousin of mine, because it read burned games (piracy all the way), played music Cd´s, since i was in another town because of the University, that was cool, i could listen to my music without bringing whole stereo with me, and plus i could play games (burned), i had a ton of games, played the hell out, but it was not that great, it was ok, the game magic was lost, i thought that it was because of my age...
I bought the PS2, just because it was the cheapest DVD player at that time, the guy that sold me the console (he worked for sony) he was my friend, and when the console was launched, he inserted the chip on it, and i could read burned games, i used it mainly for movies and gave up on consoles...
So a couple years back, i bought a Nintendo 2DS for my daughter, and bought also the game New Super Mario Bros 2, and, bam, i had the same feeling back when i played the Famicon... I bought another 2DS for me and the New 3DS XL also, and every game i buy, and every game i play, i have the same feeling back in the famicon time, boy what a company Nintendo is...
Sure, there are more powered consoles on the market, more enhanced games graphics wise but, Nintendo is my favorite gaming company...
Are you Japanese?
I was born into the late 5th gen, pretty much around the same time you first bought and owned one. But it's funny because it's the first console I actually saw and played as well. Since my Dad was cool enough to have it with the classic Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt Cartridge with the gun and all. We also found TMNT at a garage sale, I didn't really like it though lmao. That was the only game console my Dad really played at length, and the game he played the most was Legend of Zelda. He never really picked up and played a game after that.
I started playing video games at age 5 (1988). I didn't know many people who owned more than a few games for their system. We mostly rented games from the same place you rented movies. There wasn't much information on when new games were going to come out, no previews or much hype with the exception of Super Mario 3. Most games couldn't save either, so my friends and I would have a notebook with passwords from all the games we rented. Some of the passwords were really long and complex, and if anything was off or wrong it wouldn't work.
Yes Super Mario 3 is the best game of that generation and perhaps of all time.
Mario 3 was my first game and the one I got after getting an NES. I still have both.
i have a similar story, my first console i ever saw and play was the NES and then after the gamecube and i was 4 years old,
Hey Adam,
What are your thoughts on the Analogue Nt? It's not exactly an emulator, but rather its the original hardware from a NES and Famicom taken apart and put together as one single unit. I don't have one, but from what I've read it supports PAL and NTSC NES games as well as Famicom games, it can also output through component or HDMI.
+Jarrah White The silver box that costs like $500?
Yeah, that. It certainly looks better built than the faulty VCR style loading system of the original NES and has better AV outputs.
+Jarrah White That's one of the few "clone consoles" that actually seems like it's not a turd. Which it better be for that price. But no, I haven't used it.
+AdamKoralik There seems to be a cheaper option than the Analogue Nt. Retro-bit made what they call a "RetroPort adapter". You insert an NES game into the top and then insert it into the top of the cartridge slot on the SNES. Unfortunately it doesn't output through the SNES, it has it's own AV cable that you plug into the side of the adapter. It's only outputs composite, but if you were using an original NES that was the best you got anyway. Again, this adapter eliminates the flimsy VCR style design of the original console. What are your thoughts on this adapter?
I think that's cool that you own the first console you saw I wish I still own that Genesis
I pretty much skimmed over the video game crash in 83 and didn't even know it was happening at the time. I grew up, as a kid, during the 2nd gen. Our first console as a family was the Atari 2600, and then eventually my dad just gave it to me, so it was sort of a hand-me-down console. After that though, instead of buying a 5200 or Colecovision, I bought an Atari 800XL computer which was basically a resigned Atari 800. Much of the games I had for that were basically identical to the 5200 except I could attach a floppy drive, a modem, and a printer to it. I use to use log on to Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) back then. (pre-internet) I eventually bought a used C64 along with a couple boxes worth of floppy disks with games an other software. So that's basically what I was playing with during the 80s. I've played NES games at my friends house a few times but I wasn't that impressed with it enough to go by one. In 90 or 91 I bought any Atari ST along with a bunch of games for that. It wasn't until I played Sonic the Hedgehog on a friend's Sega Genesis that I got back into console gaming. And then evetually I also bought a SNES but similar to your experience, I when to a local Funcoland and they selling used NES systems for like $20 so I finally did get one but by this time the Saturn was already out and the Playstation was about to be released. Sorry if this comment is long but your story with the NES was almost similar to mine.
Nes was the first system I've ever played, was about 3 or 4 yrs old and my brother was playing Mario. it was awesome at the time. One of the first games I got was Robocop.
uploaded in my birthday \o/ yay!
+Brunn0121 Happy birthday.
@Jarrah White not at all correct. I'm also Australian, had an NES, everyone I new had an NES. I knew only one kid with a master system. The NES was definitely dominant, I'm not sure if you remember shops at the time, BigW etc, but NES was everywhere, much easier to find games for today aswell. Not the same with Megadrive obviously, it was huge, maybe bigger than SNES, not sure on that but I knew roughly the same number of people who had Megadtive vs SNES.
The Legend of Zelda is the first game I ever remember seeing and playing :). Also the story of the Back to the Future game reminded of your story about your friend putting 50 hours or more into the Shrek game on the Xbox. LOL
Wish I still had my original Nintendo counsel which I regretfully abandoned. Can't believe you went that long without playing those two Zelda games btw.
Nice video, Adam! I'd love to have an NES, but a lot of the games for it are incredibly expensive.
Oh wow loved Metal Gear when it came out it was amazing
Hey Adam! I have my old "retro" (I say retro in quotations because many people have different versions of the word, mine definition is any system that received arcade points, first being the 2nd gen, last being the dreamcast, with the rest of the 6th gen not getting ports.) systems hooked up to CRT TVs, giving an exception to the DC, as the whole VGA part makes me put it on a HD TV. I was wondering if there were RGB Scart CRT TVs so that I could keep the 80/90s feel of a CRT without losing the video quality of RGB Scart. If such a thing does exist, I do imagine that shipping prices would be high because of CRTs being giant lead cubes with lights and electricity.
I'll never forget unwrapping an NES for Christmas. It was, by far, the best Christmas I ever had.
Yup Mario 3 was amazing played that shit for hours even when I had my Genesis. I miss my nes I a little older then you and it was so much fun and was a good part of my child hood.
YAAAASSSS! Super Mario Bros 3 all the way.
I really like Mr. Gimmick or Gimmick/Gimikku I have only played it on an emulator as the cart is really expensive. But I still just love that game.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was fun, just super hard. The worst this about it was jumping sucked, which I would say is actually bad programming rather than just being hard. Donatello rocked though.
@AdamKoralik Please make a video about the next generation consoles and what do you think about the speculations. I'd love to hear about PS5 capabilities and cloud and game streaming. It's a very interesting topic. Thx.
We got a test release in late 85 in Los Angeles too.
YES, SM3 is the game I spent HOURS on as a kid. I remember leaving it on overnight cause there was no save. Best Mario game ever
Great video man! Just wondering though, how does disabling the 10NES chip make the console more reliable?
+Stephen O'Brien Watch my video about i, I explain it all there.
I have 2 OG NES one is Modded with the Blinking Light Win. I also have the Famicon + Disk System & honestly I think I prefer it to NES.
Adam i think i found a nes top loder with av cables should i buy it or do you want me to send you the link for you to buy.You are amazing.
Nice job, adam!
My first ever console and some of my earliest memories(not just gaming) are from beating super mario bros when I was 2-3, i remember the disappointment of finally playing for over 3 hours(I was a filthy casual back then), getting to rescue the princess and getting told of another challenge and they just replaced the damn goombas and that was it and I kept the NES on and beat it again hoping for more and nothing. The disappointment! I fucking loved duck hunt though, always tried to shoot the dog, but it did nothing :(
+Glorious Smite Thanks dude.