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Goldeneye controls beat dual analogue hands down for me. Sure its less precise for vertical aiming but precise doesn't automatically equal more fun and the game is built with corridors and corners. Strafing with the c buttons, firing with z will always he more fun than dual analogue.

Woah woah woah you can't play panzer dragoon without the analogue pad, my guy.

8 -> 16 bit was huge. 16 to 32/64 was a big deal but not always for the better... 3D graphics still had to mature... I prefer the transition right after that, when 3D games started to look GOOD and not just 3D for the sake of it.

Another great video from Retro Bird! Thanks for all you do! I once a long time ago bought a repair kit for my NES that replaced the pin reader. I think it kinda worked. I think I had a bad NES that ate a couple of the middle gold pins in some of my games. Has anyone seen that?

If you're in the northern midwest, there are a lot of towns that do a city wide cleanup once a year.. Aka free CRT TV day. Also a portable and cheap solution so you can test the TV right there: portable power bank and an older camera with composite output directly on it

Its very hard to game when uou work 12 hour shifts, responsibilitys amd other gay shit. Im lucky to play 30 mins of call of duty. I dont have time to play 30p hour long rpg. Then i have to sleep and do it all over again the next time

Kept my attention but didn’t really show me how to hook up multiple consoles.

I keep replaying 2D Sonic games just out of enjoyment. Super Mario World, DKC2 and retro TMNT are other games I go back to because to me they are super cool and enjoyable. Like bananas and pizza!🍌🍕🕹️

Sega has never impressed me mainly cause I’m a rpg fan Dreamcast was the only console they made that I had any interest in and even that game library barely impressed me

I had 5 sons in a three year span and went through an extremely violent break up with my Xbox 1 😅

this is supposed to be funny ?

For a while, I thought I wanted a CRT because my friend kept pushing about its importance. Granted, it would be nice to relive those days of playing Mario on my old CRT (green tint optional). Thing is, I don’t have the space for it amongst all the other stuff I’ve collected after. I did have the chance to buy one at a thrift store. I picked it up and then remembered how heavy they are. Then I realized that I don’t play action-heavy games that often anyway. Even then, I have a preference for handhelds. So, what’s the point for me? My friend loves Megaman but I’m more lukewarm to it but I’ll play Dragon Quest III any day of the week. Even Zelda doesn’t require such accuracy. So I’ve made my peace with my lack of a CRT. If I move, though, I may try to hunt one down ahead of time.

Whats fair is subjective? These games are made for KIDS not 30 year old man-cubs. Im sorry if it burst your bubble because im old too but to pretend its for me is delusional. I must of missed the ads with a group of men football huddling around an nes with their full grown beards out. These NES/SNES were unbalanced and made cheap just like arcade machines back in the day to make you keep putting in quarters. That was the trend in gaming at the time just like developers now for example is to capitalize on the trend of micro-transactions. Do you think people would like Super Mario if it was hard? Do you think people would like Super Mario 3 if they couldn't get past the first level? The reason why its popular is not just because its a plumber with a mustache. Mario games were more balanced and cater to kids demographics and new comers well. Donkey kong 1 and 2 and Sonic is the closes you can get to pushing the difficulty. I remember toughly beating them as a kid also. If you were a kid that beat all the Contras,Castlevania, all the Megaman games back in the day then you were the an exceptional gamer type. Its not an i just want to breeze through the game with no difficulty problem. The NES/SNES was bad because all the games were unbalanced with difficulty. You can still like and praise that era but be honest.

What mic do you use? You sound so nice

For some reason my Sony kv-20fs10 (one of the early flat CRT’s) looks great for GameCube but makes my N64 look weirdly pixelated. Anyone know what I’m dealing with? I’d like to get another flat CRT that pairs well with N64 but don’t want to run into the same issue.

I will never grow tired of Ristar because even if the levels were terrible (they're great) and even if the feel of the game was all won't (it's not) I will always laugh out loud at lil Mr grabby hands reach across the screen and instead of pulling the enemy to himself like you would expect he turns himself into a high-speed projectile and just face-tanks it. It's hilarious every single time, I really wish we had gotten more than just this one Genesis game and the Game Gear one.

I remember geting mine, it came with three titles, VF2, Virtua Cop 2 and Sega Rally. It was approximately £250, back in 96 I believe. Still to this day it looks beautiful, the pads still feel lovely, and certain games have a classic atmosphere.

I have Severe autism. I bet you could say I'm a hardcore gamer myself.

My gf and 7 year old son are fed up with my Sony Trinitron collection.. 📺 🤭📺

1 ps2 2 snes 3 n64 4 genesis 5 dream cast

I’m currently a university student so I struggle to find the time to sink into a game between studying and general life stuff like grocery shopping. I find that when I finally get to play I end up playing online games instead of hopping back into the story based games in my backlog. I plan to catch back up with it over the summer

Shadow Dancer (or Shinobi 2 as we called it) always gets overlooked by the other 2 Shinobi games. I think its the best Shinobi game of the 3 Genesis releases.

Rolling Thunder 2 and 3 are in my top 10 Genesis games👍 Ive recently bought both games off ebay. I didnt know they existed on the Genesis back in the 90's when i loved the arcade original.

Ninja Gaiden, you sneaky little cartridge, where did you have knife hidden.

This takes me back to that sweet 15 year old boy visiting a Jr College, when I used to bring a dollar over to the Student Union to break it into 4 quarters in the morning, so I can head straight over to the Neo Geo machine, and play Bust A Move. I'm 40 now and those memories will alway hold a special place in my heart.

I went to a kid's birthday party once and they had rented him a Playstation--remember renting consoles? Anyway, the only reason they had rented him a Playstation was to throw him off the scent that they had actually bought him a Playstation of his own. I uh... only had an NES at the time.

Did I just find the Doug Demuro of video games? Excellent video, the GameCube handle always gets a smile from me :)

The most that i would pay for a retro game is 50. If not ill emulate it.

Yes it looks better and you dont have to spend all the crazy money

Yes CRT TV is necessary. Especially for playing ps1 or n64 games.

My problem is having about 2-3 free hours to play in peace but not knowing what I want to play… NES or PS5? GBA or Switch? Like I have too many options.

You don’t DESERVE to Donkey Kong

Some games can also cost alot of $$$ and suck way more than the cheapest games. I remember getting Soulblazer SNES at a pawn shop for $5 in the mid90s. I still play it.

8th to 9th Gen was definitely the smallest generational gap. The main difference between the two is the switch to solid state storage, rather than massive graphical leaps.

Can you get nostalgic for a console you never had? Let me explain: as a child I dreamed of N64 but I couldn't have it due to its high cost. I had to wait 25 years to enjoy the gems of the console catalog, on my notebook with emulator, CRT filters and N64 USB controller. I feel like I implanted memories in my mind (like in the movie "inception") of things I didn't experience as a child but was able to enjoy as an adult. Maybe it's because after the 8 and 16-bit generations I never had another console, I remained a video game "virgin" for 25 years waiting for the long-awaited N64. That's why today the graphics still dazzle me and I prefer them to any modern hyperrealism. They have a unique magic and charm, and I've loved them for so long that I enjoy them more than anything else. Man, I love your channel and your content. Thank you!

Even with the Switch’s newfound excellent third party support, most of those games can be obtained on Steam. With the Steam Deck, your Steam library is essentially on a console too.

I'm not at all the video game elitist and I barely have a collection and I barely play That being said I think you're an absolute idiot if you don't play retro games

lol good point 😂 I look at it from a historical preservation point of view. Plus, kids don’t really care if a game is bad a lot of the times 😅

For me my elitist tendencies are 100% system setup. I want to run on mostly original hardware, plus get RGB out of my consoles hooked up to a PVM. Thanks Retro Bird for your videos. You've helped me to relax about having the "perfect" setup and focus my energy on playing games (which I wasn't doing much of, ironically).