Still going? I've been coming back and watching it every half year or so since he posted it haha. It's almost nostalgic at this point which is kinda crazy
I used the electric blanket to pretend I had a fever so I'd be sweating in the morning when my mother would come in, they'd go off to work & FF7 would get played lol
Oh shit,,,when FF7 came out I was on some school vacation of some kind but my mom had taken off to Rhode Island for that week and I had the house to myself; Ya, sleeping bag in the living room, coke cans and chip bags everywhere. I would only get up to piss or shit for that entire week. I actually lost skin tone from doing that lol. Good times.
Ronbo Fett ah, I remember arguing with my friend in school, because he loved ff7 and I was like “game is shit” he forced me to borrow it . Needless to say that I got so bloody sick that evening and I had to stay home for most of the week. I couldn’t run the risk of anybody in my school getting sick.
I skipped school a LOT...was never a good student. But actually one of my favorite memories from back then was playing games DURING school. I would always play Tactics Ogre the Knight of Lodis on my GBA during math class. We had it in the chemistry lab, and the tables were just big enough so that I could hide it. I beat that entire game during school I think. Was the perfect game for it too because it was turn based. I could look up/start writing something if the teacher got suspicious.
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When I was in school, every time a new Call of Duty came out, a noticeable amount of guys would be missing. And the rest of us who actually showed up would straight up tell the teachers that they were playing it. "Does anyone know where Jared is? He looked fine, yesterday?" "He got the new Call of Duty, teacher"
CurtisAlfeld Sophomore year my Teacher skipped school to play the original Black Ops. I had another teacher at a different school skip for 420. Apparently he came back to school in the middle of the day to grab his laptop, he was wearing sunglasses. Now I wasn't there because it was my holiday too but I have to imagine he was high as fuck. He was a cool teacher, had Pink Floyd and Greatful Dead paintings painted on his walls.
Can't say I have any memories of "skipping" school to play games, but I totally faked sick numerous times to stay home and play games. I remember faking sick for nearly 2 weeks to try and beat Crash Bandicoot, my mum eventually had to drag me out of my room and to the school gates. Was pretty funny in hindsight.
Last time I skipped work to play video games was when Splatoon came out. I downloaded it at 12, Played until 7am Then called my boss and told I wouldn't be able to come in that day.
I got into a fight in 7th grade and was suspended for 3 days. I got to play Final Fantasy 7 the whole time lol. I would skip school every day a new final fantasy would come out. When Final Fantasy 12 came out I was already 21 so I actually called in "sick" to work for a couple days. I would actually save up my payed vacation time to take off a full week every World of Warcraft expansion from The Burning Crusades to Cataclysm.
"I had so much fun skipping school to play video games" "Don't skip school to play video games" lol I love this guy. Seriously though yeah, we all did it. I remember ordering Megaman 1 for NES through the mail (it was an old game already by then) and I skipped school to play through it after it arrived. I was a huge Megaman fan back then :-)
Ha! This is awesome. It reminds me of the time when my mom took away my Sega Master System in an effort to improve my grades. She made me pack it up into its original box which she kept in her closet. Of course I took the system out of the box and put some other random stuff in it to weigh it down. I played it in my bedroom on my little black and white TV set. I didn't even know what the colors were on some games for awhile.
Metal Gear Solid. During P.E. I intentionally pissed of a wasp, got stung, went to the nurse and acted like I was having a reaction. I was sent home early on Friday and had the whole weekend to play and beat MGS.
Freshman year high school was when WCW Revenge came out. We'd usually go get stoned at a friends house during lunch, start up a 4 player match and three hours later realize we'd missed the last two hours of the school day. No regrets at all
I used to wake up at 6AM and go over to my friends house every morning before school to play Nintendo 64. We used to go hide in his hedge when his Mum and Dad got up so they thought we had gone to school and then go back in a play until lunch. We normally went to school for the afternoon and quite often the teachers never noticed since it was soo odd for a kid who had skipped the morning to just come in casually for the afternoon, I think they just assumed we had been there all day and that their minds where playing tricks on them. If I had not have done that I doubt would have had the awesome memories of playing F0 X.
I had no way to skip school as a kid. I lived way out in the country and the schoolbus would come by to pick me up, and my mom was always home anyway. But what I did used to do was wake up in the middle of the night, all on my own without an alarm or anything (because I was so excited to play whatever new game I had at the time), and I would go downstairs, sneak past my parents bedroom, go to the room my NES and SNES was in, close the door, keep all the lights off and even go so far as to turn the volume of the TV and the dim the brightness of the TV way down to try and hide what I was doing. Somehow my mom would catch me about half the time. Maybe I wasn't quiet enough going down the stairs.
I can't say I ever actually skipped school to play video games. But I did fake being sick for the sole purpose of playing video games. I most definitely remember the great Ocarina of Time flue of early 99 lol. I still feel bad though after I got better ( witch just happened to coincide with me beating the game) I loaned the game to me best friend and it must have had germs on it because he got sick and was out of school for a week :-(
I used to work a horrible admin job a few years ago and this video was one I'd always listen to on my earphones to keep relaxed. It's one of my favourite youtube videos ever it's such a nice look into an innocent time.
I fucking hated school, I have a Learning disability and it takes me a really long time to learn some thing, and the schools I went to all sucked and I even had teachers pick on me and one even said I was too stupid to do any thing and I would never become any thing! lol Fuck them, All I had was Gaming to take me away from that shitty ass time in my life, and Gaming helps to this day! I skipped like one day of school but playing sick was easy'er! lol School is not for every one!
Pokemon4Life I skipped by playing sick as well. I got to where it was easier to convince my mom I was sick, and once mom decided something, dad had to go with it, even though he kinda knew I was faking it. aka he knew lol.
I do too and video games were my escape from everyday life. And I also hatred school especially after I left this one school. I also began to change for the worst in my personality from nice to evil and in love with myself. I even disobeyed my mom and attacked her and stole her debit card to go on a electronic spending spree and funny thing is I got away with my crimes. No one thought that wait an obviously pre teen kid has a debit card with someone else's name on it maybe he stole it from the owner of it maybe we should trick him to give it to us and call the bank and the owner to find out if this kid has permission to use it. But nope I got away with it thanks to one my wits. During that same time I completely stopped going to school because I was being ganged up because I was planning on attacking my mom so one day I said I refuse to go to school and you can't make me go. Man how I wish I could go back and change that and just obeyed my mom I didn't knew that after I graduated high school it would be hard to find jobs even though the signs of it was out there I was too arrogant to notice. I'm different now I'm more happy than I was during those times. The last time I was evil was in 2013 when I almost succeeded in killing my mom from this condition she got. Doctors say that in some cases of it stress can cause it. And I was silently attacking her mentally. But the doctor who was working with her basically gave me a choice of staying with her just respect her or go to a group home. I at first lied to him until I saw my mom and found out they needed to do emergency surgery on her. She died during the test a couple of times. After that I made up my mind to change my life for the better.
i skipped school a few times cuz it was just so lame school is like prison.. but i persisted and i graduated a 4 year state college i don't have a job but i owe them like $24,000 i don't see the point of school at all.. i mean i've been doing job apps like crazy and i only got one call back and the guy asked me one question.. i told him where i live and he said it was too far and that was it... i haven't heard from him since school is dumb
I was a gamer since 1998, but for a while when I was younger I had lost all interest. That all changed in 2007, when I bought an Xbox 360 and Oblivion. I can only remember going to school, going to practice/coming home, and playing Oblivion. All day, and all night. It changed my interest in games FOREVER and to this day is still my favorite game of all time, mostly for those memories. As far as skipping goes, while playing Oblivion I skipped three days in a row at one point. Needless to say, I didn't exactly make great grades after that purchase
Here in 2024. Been watching since 2019. I’m still finding and enjoying videos I haven’t seen, from what is now 11 years ago. Love this channel. Always look forward to new episodes
I did it for a few days when Super Metroid came out , that big red box made me do it :D In Ireland we called it mitching school instead of skipping school haha
I remember when i skipped my job interview at the law firm, the birth of my son, and my best friends wedding when Pink Horsey came out. I played that game so hard.
My senior year of high school is when Pokemon black and white had came out, my high school was next to a Walmart so I would get off the bus and go to Walmart with my DS in tow and go to the subway inside of the Walmart and play Pokemon all day, i did this so many times I'm surprised my step mom or my dad didn't catch me.
I can remember pulling a couple Ferris Bueller tricks to get some sick days in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade to get some quality SNES time in. Played a lot of Breath of Fire 2, Chrono Trigger, and Mega Man X. High school, same thing, only mostly Final Fantasy Tactics and Suikoden 2. Good times.
I know I'm 10 years late to this video, but there is nothing wrong with skipping a day or work or school as long as you have a good work ethic and put the time in when you are there. I used to skip school from time to time, but the difference for me was I would ask my dad if I could just take a day off and he'd say yes as long as I didn't have any tests that day. It's all about balance and having a healthy outlook on quality time for yourself. That quality of life from missing school and work will carry over into school and work because it helps eliminate burnout. Obviously there are several caveats to that, but everyone needs that time off for no other reason than to just enjoy their own time with no interruptions.
I remember I told my mom I was ''Sick'' so she said ok and called me in sick. And she went 2 work and I played my PS2 the first console I've ever gotten! I've had great memories playing the PS2!
Almost burned down our apartment back in the days when fighting the last boss in Phantasy Star for the first time .. totally forgot about the popcorn on the stove =)
I skipped school a few times to hit the local Arcade and play classics. Sometimes we would steal cans from the neighborhood homes and recycle them to have a few extra bucks for the arcades and McDonald's. this was back in 1989
I snuck out of recess around the 1st grade, just started walking home from the playground, to go play star-fox (snes), got about 5-10 minutes into it before my father walked in, eyes bulging out of his face, mad as all hell. lol
To be honest, i never skipped school, in fact i was basically almot the complete opposite of you. when i was a young kid, we never had a console since our genesis broke and all i focused on was school, and that's where it reached scary because i had math questions going through my head and when i played a handheld game from a friend, i looked around the room after i played and asked myself where have i been.
Just the title alone got me thinking of all my memories. I actually skipped school and pretended to be sick for over a week straight with my brother so we could stay and watch the OG Pokemon Anime on TV and play Pokemon on our Gameboys. We would cough loudly standing at the top of the stairs and then both went down after we were sure our parents heard us earlier and say we didn't feel well. We spent the day in the basement and I have such great memories. I miss those simple times in life without so much consequence. The old gaming days are golden and I think most gamers have some memories of great times gaming and calling out of school or work etc.
We used to be mad for an arcade game back in the day called Vendetta that was in a video store called Movie Masters on my way to high school. A friend of mine worked out he could get free credits by shocking a metal strip on the glass by rubbing his boots on the carpet. Naturally when our school shoes didn't have the same effect, we paid him to let us borrow his boots for a couple of days until we got bored of finishing the game. He was a short kid and no one fit into his shoes but that didn't stop us from missing days of school. I still remember the clerk coming over and opening the machine and looking at us with suspect glances!
During my senior year I must have played sick 90 days. I wasn't into gaming at the time though. How did I graduate HS? I think the teachers simply didn't want to be bothered with recycling students. My gym teacher made me make up days but that's the only person who called me out. I never got detention because I wrote my own notes "from my mom".
I never skipped school back then, the idea or intention never even occurred to me. In fact, I remember having a very uncomfortable dream about me somehow missing some school classes and being like disconnected of whatever was going on in all of my classes, all my class friends talking about topics and projects and researching stuff that I didn't understand, I didn't have notes and had to borrow some notebooks to catch up, yet somehow I kept getting late to school everyday, missing more classes, watching classmates minding their own business as if I wasn't there, I felt out of place, a very panic inducive that dream was.
Ah, man, I suffer from those kinds of dreams a lot, too. Though mine tend to revolve around forgetting things, like where my classes are or what my locker combination is so I can't get to my books. Then there's missing my finals, except that one actually happened this past semester... Therapy sounds like an increasingly viable option.
Chris Pie All _"You were never sick and didn't go for a few days?"_, sure, what I meant was never skipped school on my own will, there sure had to be times where my parents had to go some trip and take me with them, or health or weather situations etc. _"Because so long as you know people in the same classes as you it's not that big a deal."_ Well, for me, being behind people of my generation and not knowing what is going on nor what they were doing and that I was supposed to be in the same level, watching them taking a class where I was no part of it anymore all of a sudden, was very panic inductive(in the dream), not because I'm not hanging out with them but because something was wrong.
I worry today. When giving advice to the younger generation. I never skipped school. Once kind of for 45 min segments that included marching too and from. School, if you like to will teach you things, If not experience will. Experience causes more fires. Just, so you'd know.
I can relate to this, I did skip school back in the 80's to play games but not at home on my megadrive (as my mum was at home!) I would be down the local arcade spending my dinner money on Bubble Bobble, Shinobi, Chopper X etc.... great times, great memories....
Never skipped school to play games. My parents would literally kill me if I did. No, they would literally have choked me until my air supply cut off and I passed away.
Same mate. Even if I wanted to skip school to play games (and I really wanted to sometimes), there was almost always someone at home at any given time. I just never had the opportunity to do so as a result.
I lived out in the woods, so I rarely skipped school. Every now and then I'd fake sick or something to stay home, but usually I'd go to school, because it was the only time I'd get to see my friends. I skipped more often in high school, and sometimes I'd bring my N64, and we'd skip and go to someone's house and play games, then I'd go back in time to catch the bus home. As long as my grades stayed up and I stayed out of trouble, my parent's didn't mind.
That image of opening a closet and seeing a young you playing thunder force with headphones and a tiny tv with antennae actually just managed to save my day.
I once skipped high school, finished a leftover half gallon of wild turkey 101, played ninja gaiden II, and woke up hours later on my floor. Needless to say, I did not beat the game.
I skipped school all the time for video games. I would always skip a Friday and a Monday to get a five day weekend. One time in middle school everyone got food poisoning and I pretended I had it too. I'll never forget one of my teachers KNEW I was faking it, he just couldn't prove it. He asked me to point out my throw up and I said pick a toilet. I had a friend who had everything too, and even though I had no idea how big of a deal it was at the time I would skip for earthbound. Later it was for ffvii, and in college lol, it was for ffx.
Despite all of your videos, this one will always be my favourite. Reminds me of how I'd sometimes pretend to be sick so I could stay home and play Pokemon.
My bro only went to his high school class for 1 week and the rest he spent playing Splinter Cell Chaos Theory the online mode for that was crazy good. Oh he failed school though haha.
I've skipped about a month of school on one time to play Atari 65 XE and Commodore 64 and than later Amiga 500 games. Love your stories. I can relate. The best times ever...
i love this video so much! i was actually thinking about it recently. My friends and i sometimes skipped school and went to the city to play arcade games (Fatal Fury, etc!) and looking back, i dont regret it at all! Im so glad i did! Like you, I have such fond memories of those times eheh! Love your closet story hahah, so good!
Back in high school my friend was able to hack my PSP by putting custom firmware on it (this was like 08 and I didn't even know that it was a thing). I loaded it up with roms and other games and I would sit in the back of my biology class with my book bag covering it. I spent two entire marking periods out of the six we had just playing on my PSP and at the end I managed to get the highest final exam grade. Hated high school overall but damn that was a good time.
Lol I watched this vid and 40 year old gamer back to back. In two years time Johnny went from "Don't skip school to play video games!" to "Don't listen to what anyone else tells you, do whatever the fuck you want!" XD
I used to live in a pretty small city, so when my friends and I got into High School, we would often go out for lunch. But instead of coming back for our afternoon classes, we sometimes would go and buy a ton of junkfood before walking to one of our houses and watching movies and / or playing video games like Super Smash brothers for the rest of the day. Good times.
Well I didn't skip school TO play video games, I skipped school because I hated the school I was at at the time. Video games were just the best source of escaping from all the bullshit that went on there. I'm in college now, but I gotta agree with you, don't regret it one bit. Thing is, it was just the hassle of going through it with the parents since the school actually sends them text messages if you're absent.
Didn't really skip school to play video games, but one of my most cherished video game memories was opening up Donkey Kong Country for the SNES on Christmas Eve. I beat it in three days my first time playing it, but the best part was when I got to the snow levels because it felt very Christmasy. All the music in that game was awesome! In fact all three games on the SNES were great... Never bought the N64 one because it didn't have Dixie Kong, and it just didn't have the same 2D platforming feel that the other three had, because it went all "3D."
I never skipped school, but, sometimes (most on fridays), i kept thinking about my sega genesis during the class. This is spiritually skipping school. LOL!
Mine was for Final Fantasy VII. I bought the PS 1 b/c of that game and PS 1was the first system I paid for myself. I faked sick for a good week in seventh grade playing that game. Still love it to this day. Spent 80+ hours on the first playthrough.
Johnny, you are my favorite CZcamsr! I can relate to you so much. I'm 27 now but I've been watching for the last 5 years now maybe longer? The day Dark Souls 3 came out I told my boss and my job that I had to leave early for an important workout early the next day. I worked at a local pizza place and was one of the delivery boys. I told a buddy of mine at work... bad idea! Couple days later I was the laughing stock at work, never lived that down! LOL! Were good friends today even though we both left that job and it's been years now. We've been through so much together. It's been a journey for sure. Good memories =)
Man, I used to skip school all the time to play video games lol. Just a couple of times, I can remember skipping school to try out all the different fatalities in Mortal Kombat 2 on the Genesis and another day just playing through mystical ninja starring goemon on n64. Good times.
My junior year of high school (grade 11 for you northerners) a group of us skipped school for 2 weeks straight as well. The N64 was already out, but we traveled around to nearby towns checking all the game/pawn shops looking for any NES games we could find. The goal was to beat as many as we could. The count go to around 85 games, 3 consoles, 7 light guns, and I don't wanna know how many controllers. Funny thing is when we went to play every few min or so someone would get excited for another game and switch it out. We made no headway, but such a great time!
I randomly watched the Dragon Quest VII PAX West 2016 Panel and they actually made reference to this video! They said something along the lines of "the release of this game was such a phenomena in the West that there are stories of kids skipping school or businessmen calling out sick from work to play this game".
Man I used to skip school and play videogames. Failed high school due to that. Fell into a depression for almost 4 years after that. After those years I started picking up where I left off and after a lot of struggling and catching up I'm now at university luckily, but man I wish I realized the consequences of skipping school back then, could've saved me a lot of time and trouble. Stay in school kids, its worth it in the end.
Sounds like my childhood!! I remember playing Dragon Warrior 2 at my parents friends house and never knew what it was I played until I watched your Dragon Quest history/review videos!
Back in high school, I went with my friend to as a witness in a court case where his car was in an accident. The court thing only took an hour or too, but for the rest of the day instead of heading back to school, we went back to my parents' house and played KICKLE CUBICLE on the NES and phoned into the school posing as each others parents. haha Great memory
I use to skip with my best friend and go to one of the near by malls to play in actual ARCADES for a few hours, not these well-lit skeet ball ticket traps we have today... yup, I'm old. We'd sit in the car for 3 hours until the mall opened and read comics or gaming magazines. We never stayed at home because both of us had stay-at-home moms. The book store or comic/hobby shop was also another place of interest on our day trips. :)
I skipped school for Final Fantasy 13's release. I left home and told my parents I was just walking down to the bus except I just waited down by this park until they were all gone. Then after returning home and getting Final Fantasy 13, I then broke into my own home by climbing up the side of my house, wedging a window open, deactivating my alarm and proceeded to play through the game with a huge smile on my face for the rest of the afternoon !!! :D
back in 10th grade, my dad and his girlfriend would go to work around 7:30 am. I was supposed to be in school around that time, and if you weren't, then they would call home. I hung out in the outdoor closet which is under the stairs. By some stroke of luck, they left, I went inside, and right then, the phone rings. I deleted the call logs, and messages. I played my copy of Persona 3 that whole day. It was glorious.
I don't regret a single time I ditched to go home and play games. Freshman year sucks. I'd always go halfway to school, turn around, then walk back, get into my moms apartment, sit down and play Final Fantasy 3(6), Super Metroid, and Chrono Trigger. I loved school after Freshman year, but getting through that was the hardest shit.
My cousin and I use to skip school to play Dragon Quest, Super Mario Bros. and Zelda, until the SNES came out. We would then skip school for Super Mario World, and Mortal Kombat. Both of our mothers worked 12 hour shifts and the same factory in the mornings, so we never got caught.
Great that you got that copy of Phantasy Star that was so near and dear to you. I got my brother's friend's copy of Secret of Mana which is the game that made me love RPGs and it was his copy of it that I used to play; granted I had gotten a copy from Funcoland in 2000. So yeah, I have two loose copies of Secret of Mana. I wish I could have gotten the rest of his collection because most of my early console gaming memories came from the games he would bring over. I skipped school a few random times to play games, and a few were unintentional. One was I was at school in 4th grade and we were making molds of California (where I live) for some history project or something. I don't know why, but having my hands in the goo stuff that we had to use for the mold just instantly made my stomach turn and I projectile vomited all over. The teachers got me up and bent me over a bucket in case I still had anything in me and even the principal was like "Alright, you can just go home, we'll call your parents." At the time, my parents worked and we had a nanny that watched the house and us so she showed up and from 11am onward I was at home playing Diablo 2. Success. The other is when I first got into WoW, and literally from when I activated my account till like 7am the next morning I was playing it. In the morning my Dad came into the room and was like "Have you been up all night playing that game? Well, just take the day off so you can sleep." Of course, I didn't sleep and just kept going on that game like no tomorrow. I should have known it was trouble. At least I didn't get as hooked on it as my brother was. Those damn Blizzard MMOs were too damn good.
I didn't skip high school a lot, and when I did, I usually did something boring like go to Barnes & Noble and read. I couldn't go home, because my mom was usually there. One time, a friend and I skipped, and we went up to Best Buy. This was around 1997 or so, and they had Goldeneye set up to play, with two controllers hooked up. I had never played the game before; we played the deathmatch mode and had a blast. One of my favorite gaming-related skipping sessions :)
I always love coming back and watching this video for time to time
i know right !? same here xD
This and the 40 years old Gamer are like my Favorite vids from this channel
Still going? I've been coming back and watching it every half year or so since he posted it haha. It's almost nostalgic at this point which is kinda crazy
Lol yeah! This is one of my favorite videos on this channel lol
i do the same... feels like time is just a mere illusion funny in a way...
Its wonderful nostalgi with your own and Johnny's memories.
So many videos that they feel new after a time, year, years.
I used the electric blanket to pretend I had a fever so I'd be sweating in the morning when my mother would come in, they'd go off to work & FF7 would get played lol
Ronbo Fett That's a Ferris Bueller type technique 😆
you have given me some strategies
Oh shit,,,when FF7 came out I was on some school vacation of some kind but my mom had taken off to Rhode Island for that week and I had the house to myself;
Ya, sleeping bag in the living room, coke cans and chip bags everywhere. I would only get up to piss or shit for that entire week. I actually lost skin tone from doing that lol. Good times.
Ronbo Fett ah, I remember arguing with my friend in school, because he loved ff7 and I was like “game is shit” he forced me to borrow it . Needless to say that I got so bloody sick that evening and I had to stay home for most of the week. I couldn’t run the risk of anybody in my school getting sick.
I skipped school a LOT...was never a good student. But actually one of my favorite memories from back then was playing games DURING school. I would always play Tactics Ogre the Knight of Lodis on my GBA during math class. We had it in the chemistry lab, and the tables were just big enough so that I could hide it.
I beat that entire game during school I think. Was the perfect game for it too because it was turn based. I could look up/start writing something if the teacher got suspicious.
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Haha I did exactly the same but with Metroid Fusion!
I love this channel. it's very comfy
Haha, I would totally tell people to skip school and play video games. Life's too short, brother!
When I was in school, every time a new Call of Duty came out, a noticeable amount of guys would be missing. And the rest of us who actually showed up would straight up tell the teachers that they were playing it.
"Does anyone know where Jared is? He looked fine, yesterday?"
"He got the new Call of Duty, teacher"
lol
The people who showed up didn't like him, so we didn't feel bad throwing him under the bus.
CurtisAlfeld Sophomore year my Teacher skipped school to play the original Black Ops. I had another teacher at a different school skip for 420. Apparently he came back to school in the middle of the day to grab his laptop, he was wearing sunglasses. Now I wasn't there because it was my holiday too but I have to imagine he was high as fuck. He was a cool teacher, had Pink Floyd and Greatful Dead paintings painted on his walls.
CurtisAlfeld rat
Can't say I have any memories of "skipping" school to play games, but I totally faked sick numerous times to stay home and play games. I remember faking sick for nearly 2 weeks to try and beat Crash Bandicoot, my mum eventually had to drag me out of my room and to the school gates. Was pretty funny in hindsight.
Simpsons did it!
Last time I skipped work to play video games was when Splatoon came out.
I downloaded it at 12, Played until 7am Then called my boss and told I wouldn't be able to come in that day.
I called in sick 3 days in a row to play Borderlands 2 and I don't regret that one bit.
You will learn so much more outside of the classroom studying on your own than you ever will in one.
your memories are so vivid. all of my memories from the 80s and 90s are a huge blur.
how much weed have you smoked?
I got into a fight in 7th grade and was suspended for 3 days. I got to play Final Fantasy 7 the whole time lol. I would skip school every day a new final fantasy would come out. When Final Fantasy 12 came out I was already 21 so I actually called in "sick" to work for a couple days. I would actually save up my payed vacation time to take off a full week every World of Warcraft expansion from The Burning Crusades to Cataclysm.
Savage.
Damn, I thought I was the only guy that liked FF12
"I had so much fun skipping school to play video games"
"Don't skip school to play video games"
lol I love this guy.
Seriously though yeah, we all did it.
I remember ordering Megaman 1 for NES through the mail (it was an old game already by then) and I skipped school to play through it after it arrived. I was a huge Megaman fan back then :-)
Ha! This is awesome. It reminds me of the time when my mom took away my Sega Master System in an effort to improve my grades. She made me pack it up into its original box which she kept in her closet. Of course I took the system out of the box and put some other random stuff in it to weigh it down. I played it in my bedroom on my little black and white TV set. I didn't even know what the colors were on some games for awhile.
Stay in Drugs and Don't do school
Also eat your milk and drink your vegetables
Also don't take drugs and play games
I don't know what that means, but I don't care. Just don't do school and Stay in video games!
You spelled "armadillo" wrong.
You deserve SO many more views. These stories are amazing and uplifting :)
This is one of my favorite videos on the platform. I keep coming back to it.
Metal Gear Solid. During P.E. I intentionally pissed of a wasp, got stung, went to the nurse and acted like I was having a reaction. I was sent home early on Friday and had the whole weekend to play and beat MGS.
You have some serious balls dude!
Freshman year high school was when WCW Revenge came out. We'd usually go get stoned at a friends house during lunch, start up a 4 player match and three hours later realize we'd missed the last two hours of the school day. No regrets at all
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That sounds great
I used to wake up at 6AM and go over to my friends house every morning before school to play Nintendo 64. We used to go hide in his hedge when his Mum and Dad got up so they thought we had gone to school and then go back in a play until lunch. We normally went to school for the afternoon and quite often the teachers never noticed since it was soo odd for a kid who had skipped the morning to just come in casually for the afternoon, I think they just assumed we had been there all day and that their minds where playing tricks on them. If I had not have done that I doubt would have had the awesome memories of playing F0 X.
I had no way to skip school as a kid. I lived way out in the country and the schoolbus would come by to pick me up, and my mom was always home anyway. But what I did used to do was wake up in the middle of the night, all on my own without an alarm or anything (because I was so excited to play whatever new game I had at the time), and I would go downstairs, sneak past my parents bedroom, go to the room my NES and SNES was in, close the door, keep all the lights off and even go so far as to turn the volume of the TV and the dim the brightness of the TV way down to try and hide what I was doing. Somehow my mom would catch me about half the time. Maybe I wasn't quiet enough going down the stairs.
"I'm not making it seem fun to skip school and play video games"
Yeah, because it just is.
I can't say I ever actually skipped school to play video games. But I did fake being sick for the sole purpose of playing video games. I most definitely remember the great Ocarina of Time flue of early 99 lol. I still feel bad though after I got better ( witch just happened to coincide with me beating the game) I loaned the game to me best friend and it must have had germs on it because he got sick and was out of school for a week :-(
I used to work a horrible admin job a few years ago and this video was one I'd always listen to on my earphones to keep relaxed. It's one of my favourite youtube videos ever it's such a nice look into an innocent time.
I fucking hated school, I have a Learning disability and it takes me a really long time to learn some thing, and the schools I went to all sucked and I even had teachers pick on me and one even said I was too stupid to do any thing and I would never become any thing! lol Fuck them, All I had was Gaming to take me away from that shitty ass time in my life, and Gaming helps to this day! I skipped like one day of school but playing sick was easy'er! lol School is not for every one!
Pokemon4Life I skipped by playing sick as well. I got to where it was easier to convince my mom I was sick, and once mom decided something, dad had to go with it, even though he kinda knew I was faking it. aka he knew lol.
I do too and video games were my escape from everyday life. And I also hatred school especially after I left this one school. I also began to change for the worst in my personality from nice to evil and in love with myself. I even disobeyed my mom and attacked her and stole her debit card to go on a electronic spending spree and funny thing is I got away with my crimes. No one thought that wait an obviously pre teen kid has a debit card with someone else's name on it maybe he stole it from the owner of it maybe we should trick him to give it to us and call the bank and the owner to find out if this kid has permission to use it. But nope I got away with it thanks to one my wits. During that same time I completely stopped going to school because I was being ganged up because I was planning on attacking my mom so one day I said I refuse to go to school and you can't make me go. Man how I wish I could go back and change that and just obeyed my mom I didn't knew that after I graduated high school it would be hard to find jobs even though the signs of it was out there I was too arrogant to notice. I'm different now I'm more happy than I was during those times. The last time I was evil was in 2013 when I almost succeeded in killing my mom from this condition she got. Doctors say that in some cases of it stress can cause it. And I was silently attacking her mentally. But the doctor who was working with her basically gave me a choice of staying with her just respect her or go to a group home. I at first lied to him until I saw my mom and found out they needed to do emergency surgery on her. She died during the test a couple of times. After that I made up my mind to change my life for the better.
+Pokemon4Life My teachers were fucking assholes too. God I fucking hate them all...
Mine are also, but I don't hate them.
i skipped school a few times cuz it was just so lame
school is like prison.. but i persisted and i graduated a 4 year state college
i don't have a job but i owe them like $24,000
i don't see the point of school at all.. i mean i've been doing job apps like crazy and i only got one call back and the guy asked me one question.. i told him where i live and he said it was too far and that was it... i haven't heard from him since
school is dumb
Wait, who called you?
I used to skip school for a lot of things. Play video games, drink beer, smoke weed, go skateboarding
and where are you in life now?
I was a gamer since 1998, but for a while when I was younger I had lost all interest. That all changed in 2007, when I bought an Xbox 360 and Oblivion.
I can only remember going to school, going to practice/coming home, and playing Oblivion. All day, and all night. It changed my interest in games FOREVER and to this day is still my favorite game of all time, mostly for those memories.
As far as skipping goes, while playing Oblivion I skipped three days in a row at one point. Needless to say, I didn't exactly make great grades after that purchase
Here in 2024. Been watching since 2019. I’m still finding and enjoying videos I haven’t seen, from what is now 11 years ago. Love this channel. Always look forward to new episodes
I just happened to be at a "Dr's appointment" when The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess came out. Oh yeah..... good times.
I did it for a few days when Super Metroid came out , that big red box made me do it :D In Ireland we called it mitching school instead of skipping school haha
i wonder who Mitch is to have that honor
I remember when i skipped my job interview at the law firm, the birth of my son, and my best friends wedding when Pink Horsey came out. I played that game so hard.
I go back to watch this every once in a while, Skipping school was an art.
My senior year of high school is when Pokemon black and white had came out, my high school was next to a Walmart so I would get off the bus and go to Walmart with my DS in tow and go to the subway inside of the Walmart and play Pokemon all day, i did this so many times I'm surprised my step mom or my dad didn't catch me.
I can remember pulling a couple Ferris Bueller tricks to get some sick days in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade to get some quality SNES time in. Played a lot of Breath of Fire 2, Chrono Trigger, and Mega Man X. High school, same thing, only mostly Final Fantasy Tactics and Suikoden 2. Good times.
Good taste.
I know I'm 10 years late to this video, but there is nothing wrong with skipping a day or work or school as long as you have a good work ethic and put the time in when you are there. I used to skip school from time to time, but the difference for me was I would ask my dad if I could just take a day off and he'd say yes as long as I didn't have any tests that day. It's all about balance and having a healthy outlook on quality time for yourself. That quality of life from missing school and work will carry over into school and work because it helps eliminate burnout. Obviously there are several caveats to that, but everyone needs that time off for no other reason than to just enjoy their own time with no interruptions.
My College attendance is 56%.
Stay in school, guys.
Ah dude, I can relate so much..
I remember I told my mom I was ''Sick'' so she said ok and called me in sick. And she went 2 work and I played my PS2 the first console I've ever gotten! I've had great memories playing the PS2!
Almost burned down our apartment back in the days when fighting the last boss in Phantasy Star for the first time .. totally forgot about the popcorn on the stove =)
I skipped school a few times to hit the local Arcade and play classics. Sometimes we would steal cans from the neighborhood homes and recycle them to have a few extra bucks for the arcades and McDonald's. this was back in 1989
I snuck out of recess around the 1st grade, just started walking home from the playground, to go play star-fox (snes), got about 5-10 minutes into it before my father walked in, eyes bulging out of his face, mad as all hell. lol
I love it when you guys share your own personal stories.
To be honest, i never skipped school, in fact i was basically almot the complete opposite of you. when i was a young kid, we never had a console since our genesis broke and all i focused on was school, and that's where it reached scary because i had math questions going through my head and when i played a handheld game from a friend, i looked around the room after i played and asked myself where have i been.
Just the title alone got me thinking of all my memories. I actually skipped school and pretended to be sick for over a week straight with my brother so we could stay and watch the OG Pokemon Anime on TV and play Pokemon on our Gameboys. We would cough loudly standing at the top of the stairs and then both went down after we were sure our parents heard us earlier and say we didn't feel well. We spent the day in the basement and I have such great memories. I miss those simple times in life without so much consequence. The old gaming days are golden and I think most gamers have some memories of great times gaming and calling out of school or work etc.
We used to be mad for an arcade game back in the day called Vendetta that was in a video store called Movie Masters on my way to high school. A friend of mine worked out he could get free credits by shocking a metal strip on the glass by rubbing his boots on the carpet. Naturally when our school shoes didn't have the same effect, we paid him to let us borrow his boots for a couple of days until we got bored of finishing the game. He was a short kid and no one fit into his shoes but that didn't stop us from missing days of school. I still remember the clerk coming over and opening the machine and looking at us with suspect glances!
During my senior year I must have played sick 90 days. I wasn't into gaming at the time though. How did I graduate HS? I think the teachers simply didn't want to be bothered with recycling students. My gym teacher made me make up days but that's the only person who called me out. I never got detention because I wrote my own notes "from my mom".
I never skipped school back then, the idea or intention never even occurred to me.
In fact, I remember having a very uncomfortable dream about me somehow missing some school classes and being like disconnected of whatever was going on in all of my classes, all my class friends talking about topics and projects and researching stuff that I didn't understand, I didn't have notes and had to borrow some notebooks to catch up, yet somehow I kept getting late to school everyday, missing more classes, watching classmates minding their own business as if I wasn't there, I felt out of place, a very panic inducive that dream was.
Ah, man, I suffer from those kinds of dreams a lot, too. Though mine tend to revolve around forgetting things, like where my classes are or what my locker combination is so I can't get to my books. Then there's missing my finals, except that one actually happened this past semester...
Therapy sounds like an increasingly viable option.
You were never sick and didn't go for a few days? Because so long as you know people in the same classes as you it's not that big a deal.
Chris Pie All _"You were never sick and didn't go for a few days?"_, sure, what I meant was never skipped school on my own will, there sure had to be times where my parents had to go some trip and take me with them, or health or weather situations etc.
_"Because so long as you know people in the same classes as you it's not that big a deal."_
Well, for me, being behind people of my generation and not knowing what is going on nor what they were doing and that I was supposed to be in the same level, watching them taking a class where I was no part of it anymore all of a sudden, was very panic inductive(in the dream), not because I'm not hanging out with them but because something was wrong.
I worry today.
When giving advice to the younger generation.
I never skipped school.
Once kind of for 45 min segments that included marching too and from.
School, if you like to will teach you things, If not experience will.
Experience causes more fires.
Just, so you'd know.
I can relate to this, I did skip school back in the 80's to play games but not at home on my megadrive (as my mum was at home!) I would be down the local arcade spending my dinner money on Bubble Bobble, Shinobi, Chopper X etc.... great times, great memories....
Never skipped school to play games. My parents would literally kill me if I did. No, they would literally have choked me until my air supply cut off and I passed away.
Same mate. Even if I wanted to skip school to play games (and I really wanted to sometimes), there was almost always someone at home at any given time. I just never had the opportunity to do so as a result.
I skipped a lot of school to play Final Fantasy X.
I played FFX that weekend (4 days extended) straight no sleep, finish it at 5 am on a monday lol! (didn't skip class) finish it on 78 hours.
@@DengrayKai211 Holy fkn shit dude lol
I lived out in the woods, so I rarely skipped school. Every now and then I'd fake sick or something to stay home, but usually I'd go to school, because it was the only time I'd get to see my friends. I skipped more often in high school, and sometimes I'd bring my N64, and we'd skip and go to someone's house and play games, then I'd go back in time to catch the bus home. As long as my grades stayed up and I stayed out of trouble, my parent's didn't mind.
That image of opening a closet and seeing a young you playing thunder force with headphones and a tiny tv with antennae actually just managed to save my day.
I kinda wish you were my uncle. lol
I meant so I can play his games and he can tell me stories but yeah sure LOL
I once skipped high school, finished a leftover half gallon of wild turkey 101, played ninja gaiden II, and woke up hours later on my floor. Needless to say, I did not beat
the game.
I skipped school all the time for video games. I would always skip a Friday and a Monday to get a five day weekend. One time in middle school everyone got food poisoning and I pretended I had it too. I'll never forget one of my teachers KNEW I was faking it, he just couldn't prove it. He asked me to point out my throw up and I said pick a toilet. I had a friend who had everything too, and even though I had no idea how big of a deal it was at the time I would skip for earthbound. Later it was for ffvii, and in college lol, it was for ffx.
Despite all of your videos, this one will always be my favourite. Reminds me of how I'd sometimes pretend to be sick so I could stay home and play Pokemon.
8 years ago I remember skipping school and watching this episode. Good times.
My bro only went to his high school class for 1 week and the rest he spent playing Splinter Cell Chaos Theory the online mode for that was crazy good. Oh he failed school though haha.
I've skipped about a month of school on one time to play Atari 65 XE and Commodore 64 and than later Amiga 500 games.
Love your stories. I can relate.
The best times ever...
When I was younger I skipped school to play Club Penguin.
Out of all the games I played that one all day.
I skipped school to play Boogerman.....Fucking Boogerman. XD
i skipped school once to play syphon filter 2 on release day
i love this video so much! i was actually thinking about it recently. My friends and i sometimes skipped school and went to the city to play arcade games (Fatal Fury, etc!) and looking back, i dont regret it at all! Im so glad i did! Like you, I have such fond memories of those times eheh!
Love your closet story hahah, so good!
For some reason the CZcams algorithm is recommending these 10 year old videos for me. I’m not complaining. These are great!
Funny how I saw this video when Im planning to skip school later. lol
Back in high school my friend was able to hack my PSP by putting custom firmware on it (this was like 08 and I didn't even know that it was a thing). I loaded it up with roms and other games and I would sit in the back of my biology class with my book bag covering it. I spent two entire marking periods out of the six we had just playing on my PSP and at the end I managed to get the highest final exam grade. Hated high school overall but damn that was a good time.
I remember doing just the same, and i actually play fighting game with only one hand to avoid suspicion.
Lol I watched this vid and 40 year old gamer back to back. In two years time Johnny went from "Don't skip school to play video games!" to "Don't listen to what anyone else tells you, do whatever the fuck you want!" XD
I used to live in a pretty small city, so when my friends and I got into High School, we would often go out for lunch. But instead of coming back for our afternoon classes, we sometimes would go and buy a ton of junkfood before walking to one of our houses and watching movies and / or playing video games like Super Smash brothers for the rest of the day. Good times.
Well I didn't skip school TO play video games, I skipped school because I hated the school I was at at the time. Video games were just the best source of escaping from all the bullshit that went on there. I'm in college now, but I gotta agree with you, don't regret it one bit. Thing is, it was just the hassle of going through it with the parents since the school actually sends them text messages if you're absent.
I took off a solid week off work (annual leave) to play sonic lost world
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look at my youtube channel, that should answer that question haha
My best memory was skipping work on a cold winter morning. I went out and got waffles, came back home and just played runescape all day.
Didn't really skip school to play video games, but one of my most cherished video game memories was opening up Donkey Kong Country for the SNES on Christmas Eve. I beat it in three days my first time playing it, but the best part was when I got to the snow levels because it felt very Christmasy. All the music in that game was awesome! In fact all three games on the SNES were great... Never bought the N64 one because it didn't have Dixie Kong, and it just didn't have the same 2D platforming feel that the other three had, because it went all "3D."
Who is watching this in 2020?
***** Save it for college kid. You can skip class with no parental consequence ehehe.
Ahaha, touche'.
I paid my own tuition, skipping class hurt my wallet.
Never had the luxury of being supported.
Porco-Dio FIlm Never said that there were none. Just that you have the option to if you want.
I never skipped school, but, sometimes (most on fridays), i kept thinking about my sega genesis during the class. This is spiritually skipping school. LOL!
One time, my parents let me skip school after some family issues. On that day, I spent all day playing Shenmue. That was a fun day.
Mine was for Final Fantasy VII. I bought the PS 1 b/c of that game and PS 1was the first system I paid for myself. I faked sick for a good week in seventh grade playing that game. Still love it to this day. Spent 80+ hours on the first playthrough.
Johnny, you are my favorite CZcamsr! I can relate to you so much. I'm 27 now but I've been watching for the last 5 years now maybe longer? The day Dark Souls 3 came out I told my boss and my job that I had to leave early for an important workout early the next day. I worked at a local pizza place and was one of the delivery boys. I told a buddy of mine at work... bad idea! Couple days later I was the laughing stock at work, never lived that down! LOL! Were good friends today even though we both left that job and it's been years now. We've been through so much together. It's been a journey for sure. Good memories =)
Man, I used to skip school all the time to play video games lol. Just a couple of times, I can remember skipping school to try out all the different fatalities in Mortal Kombat 2 on the Genesis and another day just playing through mystical ninja starring goemon on n64. Good times.
christmas season makes me nostalgic so every year i rewatch those old episodes
My junior year of high school (grade 11 for you northerners) a group of us skipped school for 2 weeks straight as well. The N64 was already out, but we traveled around to nearby towns checking all the game/pawn shops looking for any NES games we could find. The goal was to beat as many as we could. The count go to around 85 games, 3 consoles, 7 light guns, and I don't wanna know how many controllers. Funny thing is when we went to play every few min or so someone would get excited for another game and switch it out. We made no headway, but such a great time!
I randomly watched the Dragon Quest VII PAX West 2016 Panel and they actually made reference to this video! They said something along the lines of "the release of this game was such a phenomena in the West that there are stories of kids skipping school or businessmen calling out sick from work to play this game".
Man I used to skip school and play videogames. Failed high school due to that. Fell into a depression for almost 4 years after that. After those years I started picking up where I left off and after a lot of struggling and catching up I'm now at university luckily, but man I wish I realized the consequences of skipping school back then, could've saved me a lot of time and trouble. Stay in school kids, its worth it in the end.
Sounds like my childhood!! I remember playing Dragon Warrior 2 at my parents friends house and never knew what it was I played until I watched your Dragon Quest history/review videos!
Back in high school, I went with my friend to as a witness in a court case where his car was in an accident. The court thing only took an hour or too, but for the rest of the day instead of heading back to school, we went back to my parents' house and played KICKLE CUBICLE on the NES and phoned into the school posing as each others parents. haha Great memory
I use to skip with my best friend and go to one of the near by malls to play in actual ARCADES for a few hours, not these well-lit skeet ball ticket traps we have today... yup, I'm old. We'd sit in the car for 3 hours until the mall opened and read comics or gaming magazines. We never stayed at home because both of us had stay-at-home moms. The book store or comic/hobby shop was also another place of interest on our day trips. :)
I skipped alot of school with friends to play Street Fighter II Champion Edition when it first hit arcades. Awesome memories! :)
I've skipped about a month of school on one time.... Love your stories. I can relate.
I skipped school for Final Fantasy 13's release. I left home and told my parents I was just walking down to the bus except I just waited down by this park until they were all gone. Then after returning home and getting Final Fantasy 13, I then broke into my own home by climbing up the side of my house, wedging a window open, deactivating my alarm and proceeded to play through the game with a huge smile on my face for the rest of the afternoon !!! :D
back in 10th grade, my dad and his girlfriend would go to work around 7:30 am. I was supposed to be in school around that time, and if you weren't, then they would call home. I hung out in the outdoor closet which is under the stairs. By some stroke of luck, they left, I went inside, and right then, the phone rings. I deleted the call logs, and messages. I played my copy of Persona 3 that whole day. It was glorious.
My friends and I skipped school alot in the early 90s to play Street Fighter 2 and all the Neo-Geo fighters around my neigborhood Awesome memories!
I skipped my brother's funeral when Super Metroid came out. Good times.
that old tv you showed looks just like the one I had in my room with my nes. b&w, no remote, channel 3, rf input, great times.
I don't regret a single time I ditched to go home and play games. Freshman year sucks. I'd always go halfway to school, turn around, then walk back, get into my moms apartment, sit down and play Final Fantasy 3(6), Super Metroid, and Chrono Trigger. I loved school after Freshman year, but getting through that was the hardest shit.
I remember being home sick for a week in 9th grade and playing Simons Quest and Ninja Gaiden 2 non stop.
not only have I never skipped school to play games, I've only ever skipped maybe a few classes ever.
Never forget that he is sitting on the floor. It makes the videos more fun.
My cousin and I use to skip school to play Dragon Quest, Super Mario Bros. and Zelda, until the SNES came out. We would then skip school for Super Mario World, and Mortal Kombat. Both of our mothers worked 12 hour shifts and the same factory in the mornings, so we never got caught.
Great that you got that copy of Phantasy Star that was so near and dear to you. I got my brother's friend's copy of Secret of Mana which is the game that made me love RPGs and it was his copy of it that I used to play; granted I had gotten a copy from Funcoland in 2000. So yeah, I have two loose copies of Secret of Mana. I wish I could have gotten the rest of his collection because most of my early console gaming memories came from the games he would bring over.
I skipped school a few random times to play games, and a few were unintentional. One was I was at school in 4th grade and we were making molds of California (where I live) for some history project or something. I don't know why, but having my hands in the goo stuff that we had to use for the mold just instantly made my stomach turn and I projectile vomited all over. The teachers got me up and bent me over a bucket in case I still had anything in me and even the principal was like "Alright, you can just go home, we'll call your parents." At the time, my parents worked and we had a nanny that watched the house and us so she showed up and from 11am onward I was at home playing Diablo 2. Success.
The other is when I first got into WoW, and literally from when I activated my account till like 7am the next morning I was playing it. In the morning my Dad came into the room and was like "Have you been up all night playing that game? Well, just take the day off so you can sleep." Of course, I didn't sleep and just kept going on that game like no tomorrow.
I should have known it was trouble. At least I didn't get as hooked on it as my brother was. Those damn Blizzard MMOs were too damn good.
I didn't skip high school a lot, and when I did, I usually did something boring like go to Barnes & Noble and read. I couldn't go home, because my mom was usually there. One time, a friend and I skipped, and we went up to Best Buy. This was around 1997 or so, and they had Goldeneye set up to play, with two controllers hooked up. I had never played the game before; we played the deathmatch mode and had a blast. One of my favorite gaming-related skipping sessions :)
I love to watch your old videos, canadians are the coolest