@@SegaLordX yeah but many times you get personal with your life in regards your videos. I makes it feel like your sitting around hanging out hearing a buddy tell a story about the games he loves. Keep up the great work man
Hey I really like how you manage to explain how certain games can be important because of who you played them with, and the good memories they leave. I was playing Power Stone 2 earlier with my little nephew, and we were having a whale of a time. He's got those memories forever now.
That's just one of the great things about gaming. Some games mean a lot to us cause we had a lot of fun playing them with friends, while other might be cause of a time in our life's were that game helped us cope with something.
These early games had a max file size of 40 KB and only could have 1 8KB tileset. The reduced price of ROM chips in the late 80s and early 90s allowed for bigger and better games than were possible in the beginning
I remember the first time I played and seen a NES. I went to a friend's house and he was playing Super Mario Bros. I was blown away and became a videogame fan for life.
I absolutely LOVE the NES. It was the first console I fell in love with. My older brother did play Atari a lot. But I was too young maybe or I simply didnt connect with it. We were lucky to live in Brazil at the time and boy... we were getting some crazy bootleg Japanese NES games that blew my mind. Even Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa which is an obscure Konami game for the Famicon Disk System made its way here on a bootleg cartridge. I never got to own a copy back then. But I rented the heck out of it. I loved the cute crazy graphics. I have very nice memories of the NES. Thanks for another awesome video!
@@FloridaEbikes Funnily enough sprite flicker is actually deliberately programmed into those games. The NES can only display 8 sprites per scanline (1 sprite being a single 8x8 section of pixels and a scanline is just one "row" on the screen.) Flickering allows the illusion of more sprites than normally allowed
Man, watching your videos always remembers me how important gaming is for people in our generation. It helped shape our lives and our personalities, and gave us memories and experiences that we can now share with our children. Great video, as are all your uploads.
Great memories. Reminds me of when my dad took my brother and I to Toys "R" Us (RIP) back in X-mas 1986 for an NES control deck and a game pack a piece - my big brother chose The Legend of Zelda and I chose Super Mario Bros. I too had an Atari 2600 but the NES rocked my six year old world and I consider it the console that made me a gamer for life. One particular "Black Box" game I enjoyed greatly was NES Golf - it was so easy to pick up and play and the power-accuracy bar was cutting edge at the time and set the tone for virtually all golf games to follow.
Release dates vary depending on source. We did in fact have The Legend of Zelda in 1986 as we lived in Los Angeles and that served as a test market for the NES before an official nationwide launch.
I've always LOVED Donkey Kong and especially DK Junior! I owned it on ColecoVision a few years earlier but I was blown away by the NES version. Still love it to this day. Such a unique game! ❤️
"Balloon Fight always gave me a sort of Joust feeling" perhaps because Satoru Iwata worked on the NES port Joust before programming Balloon Fight. That being said Balloon Fight remains one of my all-time favorite games... loved Clu Clu Land and Slalom too.
I wish they can bring the Balloon fight from Wii U Nintendo Land to Switch. Loved the concept of games in Nintendo Land. I wanted to get one only for Nintendo Land games.
@@johneygd or he could rebrand himself as Video Game Lord X! ...nah. We need Sega Lord in these streets to keep the balance in the force, and I'm a Nintendrone
Think it was the first ever Western developed title on the console and the tech it showed off left a great first impression towards the top brass at Nintendo.
I am playing Super Mario, donkey 1 and 2, excite bike and Super Mario 3 with my son and he really likes those. I started with Super Mario Bros and my father used to play it with us. That was the only console we ever had and it was a bootleg console. I knew it because of the manufacturer tag and always wanted one Made in Japan which wasn't available anywhere where I lived.
I think a lot of us from that era had come home after dark from a friends house after they had just gotten a new game or console. One of my friends was the "rich kid" and he always had the latest console / games and a bunch of us would ride our bikes over in the afternoon and just sit in front of his 19" TV and play till dark. Also helped that he was a Nintendo / PC kid and I was a Sega / PC kid so I would always trade PC games with him then get to play the latest NES/SNES/N64 games. The best was when everyone would tell each other to "stop cheating and looking at my screen" when playing things like Mario Kart or GoldenEye. Great times! Great video as always... And yes, getting the shoe thrown at you was ALWAYS worth it in the end!
Thank you for covering this SLX! Everyone I knew wanted this one and badly so. To this day, an awesome console. Got the Sega Master System from mom and dad instead, as this thing was out of stock everywhere. Thank you as your channel has helped me to appreciate what I had so much more.
Yes!!! Balloon Fight! I love that game so much, man! I actually just fell in love with it again last month, as I’ve been sick with post viral/chronic fatigue since July and have been going through my NES collection to help pass the time. Such a fun, bite sized game, that’s perfect when you play it on a Nintendo Switch! I actually just reviewed it on my channel a few weeks ago too lol
Great list my friend! I too grew up with the original NES as the first system I truly connected with. And all the games you list here are justified in their notoriety. I played ‘em all furiously back in the day! Thanks for all the awesome content man. I frequent your channel quite often. Keep up the great work!
Great video! Loved those games. I spent a lot of time on Slalom and Kung Fu master. Ludicrous to think how difficult games were back then, but it was sure fun.
Great trip down memory lane! I still vividly remember the first time I first played the NES! I was six years old! Like yourself I was hooked and had to have one! Then my 7th birthday came along and I was like "What friends? Mario is my friend now!" Great channel!
It's amazing to think how quickly games evolved from the black box games all the way to the amazing stuff we got toward the end of the NES including stuff that was never officially released or released at all in the west.
13:00 This is why SLX's videos are fun to watch. The personal memories connect all of us to our youths and the many different ways we experienced these beloved games.
I loved opening these old games. The smell, the black sleeve, reading the manual, hoping that I would get a poster, and even that little styrofoam rectangle that kept it all snug in the box. Thanks for the reminder! Great times
Great anecdotes! I remember being 7 when anew kid down the street moved in and he was the first person I knew with a playstation. Seeing him control Crash bandicoot was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen at that point. I also stayed out past dusk and my mom was raging mad. 💢
Great video. My NES stories are very similar to yours, especially your anecdote about your dad and Pinball, except it was Dunk Hunt with my dad. It's the game that sold him on getting us an NES after playing it at a cousin's house. Thirty-something years later and I'm a veteran game developer because of that machine. Still have my original NES and 220'ish carts, including a complete black-label set. They're all timeless classics, and the arcade ports among them were incredibly well done, especially Mario Bros., Donkey Kong (which, btw, is actually missing a level), and Pop-Eye.
I had a friend who had a game system that used cassettes. I can't even remember what it was called or what games we played but it was the only one i had and have since ever seen.
@@creepingdeath9795 The early computer system the Timex Sinclair used cassettes to load games. I had one in the early 80's. I'm sure a few others did too.
I had a 64 and Vic 20 both with cassettes. The quality in games was no different. THe only difference was the load times. Tapes were cheaper so you could get a game for two quid, or free in some mags. The best top games were on both tape and disk.
7:43. I know that feeling. I grew up with the 2600 and the NES, but it wasn't until I got Mortal Kombat on the Genesis that my dad really played games with me. He always chose Raiden and I could never beat him. It seemed to be the only video game he was into. We spent a lot of good father/son time over that game and looking back it was the best time I could have. He passed when I was 17 but the good memories like him kicking my ass in MK is still one of the best memories a boy could have.
Another great video :) it’s always amazing to hear when somebody has their retrospective from mid 80s and just how categorically different the NES was from anything else they’d seen before. I grew up with the SNES, born the same year, but anyway, worthy Like and watch!
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The NES is the only console (maybe the Genesis and the PSX too to some extent) where you can see how impressive it evolved during its lifetime, in the NES case from the mid-eighties with the black boxes games which look and play like an Atari game with steroids and then the late-eighties and early-nineties that look and play like a different generation of console, I mean, the jump from Super Mario Bros. to SMB 3 and then from Kung-Fu to Ninja Gaiden is mind blowing. It's amazing how Popeye and Megaman II are in the same system.
Thank you for sharing your memories. It's fun to be able to get into someone else's mind and see how they experienced things. I also lived through this era, but I must admit that one of the most amazing times in my life was looking at the CRT TV in the Babbage's store window of the insanely colorful, fast, and physics-based Sonic The Hedgehog. What also caught my eye was Super Mario World. I remember that the gems in the cave (Vanilla Dome) glistening blew me away...but not as much as Sonic. And I decided to go with the Genesis (which my parents got me...they were...and are...so great to me). This was after the salesman was pushing the Super NES...just like in that Sonic commercial. The commercial I remember more, though, was the H.A.G. commercial, with great animation for Sonic...and I was mesmerized by the part of the Starlight Zone theme that I heard. It's funny how some things are so vivid to some people, although they may not stand out to others.
I personally do like donkeykong 3 as well, i like how nintendo combined platforming with shooting elements, i only didn’t like why mario was replaced by stenley,stanley never did get any recognition at all , Now just imagine of donkeykong 1 was donkeykong 3, o,o,o.
That Pro Wrestling theme music would make my top 25 NES chiptunes list. Once it gets stuck in your head it never leaves. It's like a permanent virus of the mind.
Man, I remember how happy I was when my mother bought me the NES. After playing the original 2600 my stepbrother had and then the smaller model, I couldn’t wait to play the NES. I had the Super Mario/Duck Hunt cart included, which I think most of us had.
Niiiice video! The NES has a special place in my gaming days! I am a Sega fan but the nes was an awesome system to play. Shooters with the turbo stick with auto fire a game changer! So many amazing platformers, super spike vball, super dodgeball, world cup soccer took up a lot of my game time! I wish they would do HD remakes of many of the NES games.
I received an Atari 2600 for free from my relatives in ‘86 with lots of games but I only enjoyed it so much as to pass the time. But when I first saw Super Mario bros. in 1987 I knew gaming would be a big part of my life.
Facts. It's crazy just how mind blowing super Mario bros was for its time. I was pretty much in the same boat. I had a Atari 2600 as well but once a friend got the Nes and I played super Mario bros, I knew I was hooked, it really was a game changer for video games.
That ending, haha. The shit we did as little kids to get out video game fix. Man, its crazy to think how much video games were a part of our childhood. Like it was something you NEEDED to play
Love your videos man! I always was, and always will be a Sega fan, was by far my favorite consoles. Love your narration as well because (And I mean this in a good way, like compliment way) you not only sound like a a voice you would hear when you read a comic, you have all the phrases and language that would go with it. Keep em coming my friend, we all love it!
Wow...it's like you're telling my story. I myself have never had an attachment to the Atari 2600/5200/7800. My stepfather had a 2600 and 5200 when I was a kid. He would invite me to play often but I was far more enthralled with the arcades of the time. It wasn't until I received my Nes and Master System in 1986 (divorced parents) that I began to really appreciate gaming in the home.
Haha I loved the story at the end when you stayed late at your friends and got grounded. I did something similar when I was about 8 or 9, but I was at my friend’s house salivating over his collection of Star Wars figures and ships🤤 I realised it was pitch black outside and ran home. I met my mum on the way, she was heading towards my friends house looking for me with a face like thunder!
Big shout out to Sega Lord X. Only the OGs know about hooking up game systems to a black and white TV. A lot of people had their cable boxes hooked up to a black and white TV. Yeah thats right looking at every cable channel in BLACK AND WHITE!
Holy crap... I think I'm twitching just remembering that music of Rygar (and you had to put it right after the intro) and the hours I spent on it and never completed it.... Whew, I believe my blood pressure increased a bit roflmao ❤️😎
I know you had Demon Attack in your intro of games that didn't excite you, but we didn't have an arcade anywhere near my house, and that game just blew me away for years. It's fun to look back on those days
Clu Clu Land and Ice Climber were favorites of mine and my older brother's. Especially Ice Climber. Oh, and Balloon Fight and Mario Bros. too. So many great co-op games in the initial launch!
The 2600 is one of those systems that struggled horribly with arcade ports, but had decent original titles (well when the developer had a reasonable amount of time 😅). Easier to make when you aren't trying to force a game to look or play like something beyond its system limits.
My first NES experience was a couple days before I started first grade, renting a control deck from my local video store with two games: JAWS and Rambo. It would be some time before I would get around to any of the black box games, my first being in the form of Donkey Kong Classics which I got as a Christmas gift along with my first game console that same year. it would be another year before I got around to Super Mario, and I honestly never got into that one. The games that hooked me in were Metroid and Zelda. I also played a lot of crap before I got around to those two, but the memories I took away from them makes them stand out for me as titles to go back to again and again.
I have the same opinion about the Atari 2600. I played a lot of NES at a cousins house, in 86, loved Pro Wrestling, Contra, Metroid, Kid Icarus and Zelda. I was still waiting for a Sega system with Wonder Boy and Out Run!
when i was a kid, my cousins had a NES clone system called Dynavision, we had only one bootleg cart with 250 games in it. All the games were simple screen clearing black box NES games and tons of japanese Famicom games, it had no big complex games like Zelda or Metroid, it had the original Super Mario Bros though. Videos about early NES/Famicom games are really notalgic for me
Great to see you cover some non sega retro games too. Nintendo was the first console to really blow me away. Super Mario Bros. is the first game I remember seeing on the system. Atari was my first console and I had not really been around arcades yet, so I didnt have that comparison until maybe 1987. KEEP KILLIN THAT SHIT !!
When you said kids playing Excitebike when Mario 3 came out I said "Guilty as charged!" out loud. And right there with you playing Super Mario Bros on a 13 inch Black and White TV. Sometimes my parents let me hook it up in the living room on the color family tv but not nearly as often as I'd liked. I didn't get a color tv until the old black and white one straight out of the 70s finally died right as I got my Sega Genesis. Good timing on that one.
I really like Slalom, and it's also notable for being the first Rare-developed game for a Nintendo system. The beginning of the Rare-Nintendo relationship that gave us several masterpieces across at least 3 generations of consoles
In my home country back in the day, there were bootlegged famicom games that were sold everywhere, and there's a game that I have fond memories of. However, it was never released here in the US and barely anyone knows about it here. I can say with absolute confidence thst this is the most underrated and overlooked NES game ever, and an absolute hidden gem. It's none other than the TRUE grand daddy of all 1 on 1 fighting games: Yie Ar Yu Kung Fu!
I got the NES that had Super Mario Brothers + Duck Hunt, with the grey zapper. That was like three games in one, because Duck Hunt itself contains the aforementioned Duck Hunt AND Skeet shooting.
12:49 for me it's the opposite, NES didn't really get popular in my country until bootleg consoles came in the 1990s. And most of the bootleg cartridges contain a compilation of the black box era games.
Damn, savage with the earlier consoles. You are right though the Atari 2600 ports of many games didn't do the arcade originals justice, but the 5200 and Colecovision did have some close ports of arcade titles, including Mario Bros and Donkey Kong...they were missing some levels though.
i played 10-yard fight in the arcade and on the NES. it's a classic along with Baseball, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Excitebike, Kung fu, Mario bros, Pro wrestling, Mach Rider, and Super Mario bros. 💪
i remember x-mas '85 ; NES on display at the mall, kids lined up to try the games. R.O.B. convinced me it was for children ... we had the ColecoVision at home, just wanted a computer that much more
There was also Tennis and Golf and Soccer and Urban Champion, Duck Hunt, Wild Gunman, Hogan’s Ally, Wrecking Crew among others that weren’t in the video
Funny enough, the first time I discovered Mario or Nintendo in my youth, it was a Super Mario Bros. arcade cabinet in a local supermarket, and it blew my mind at the time.
I love this channel man. The personal touches make it something special
Appreciate that. I figure my greatest asset is my experience with these games. Otherwise I’m just regurgitating the same stuff as everyone else.
@@SegaLordX yeah but many times you get personal with your life in regards your videos. I makes it feel like your sitting around hanging out hearing a buddy tell a story about the games he loves. Keep up the great work man
@@SegaLordX You are the Sega Lord X... Period... 😎
@@JeffYPbPr
100% agree with this. There is something very human about this channel. I love it.
I enjoy the “components” of your name man
Hey I really like how you manage to explain how certain games can be important because of who you played them with, and the good memories they leave. I was playing Power Stone 2 earlier with my little nephew, and we were having a whale of a time. He's got those memories forever now.
That's just one of the great things about gaming. Some games mean a lot to us cause we had a lot of fun playing them with friends, while other might be cause of a time in our life's were that game helped us cope with something.
It's amazing how far NES games went from early in the consoles life cycle to the later stuff.
These early games had a max file size of 40 KB and only could have 1 8KB tileset. The reduced price of ROM chips in the late 80s and early 90s allowed for bigger and better games than were possible in the beginning
I remember the first time I played and seen a NES. I went to a friend's house and he was playing Super Mario Bros. I was blown away and became a videogame fan for life.
The nes was a beast when it came out....
I absolutely LOVE the NES. It was the first console I fell in love with. My older brother did play Atari a lot. But I was too young maybe or I simply didnt connect with it. We were lucky to live in Brazil at the time and boy... we were getting some crazy bootleg Japanese NES games that blew my mind. Even Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa which is an obscure Konami game for the Famicon Disk System made its way here on a bootleg cartridge. I never got to own a copy back then. But I rented the heck out of it. I loved the cute crazy graphics. I have very nice memories of the NES. Thanks for another awesome video!
@Priscila M. Yes sweetheart! I am too! Would like to know more about the Famicom Disk system 🤔
That Rygar soundtrack!!!! :D
So glad im not the only one who thinks so.
Yes I caught that too. The cave soundtrack is arguably my favorite video game tune of all time.
That track brings back memories as a kid. I stunk at the game but loved the first level ha
Oh yeah, brings back memories of playing it for hours around Xmas and shovelling fistfuls of chocolate into my face. Good times.
@@FloridaEbikes Funnily enough sprite flicker is actually deliberately programmed into those games. The NES can only display 8 sprites per scanline (1 sprite being a single 8x8 section of pixels and a scanline is just one "row" on the screen.) Flickering allows the illusion of more sprites than normally allowed
Man, watching your videos always remembers me how important gaming is for people in our generation. It helped shape our lives and our personalities, and gave us memories and experiences that we can now share with our children. Great video, as are all your uploads.
Sega Lord X does a Nintendo video
Sega Fanatics: Wait, that's illegal.
I was like wait what too lol
Dean Satan probably blew a fuse.
Great memories. Reminds me of when my dad took my brother and I to Toys "R" Us (RIP) back in X-mas 1986 for an NES control deck and a game pack a piece - my big brother chose The Legend of Zelda and I chose Super Mario Bros. I too had an Atari 2600 but the NES rocked my six year old world and I consider it the console that made me a gamer for life. One particular "Black Box" game I enjoyed greatly was NES Golf - it was so easy to pick up and play and the power-accuracy bar was cutting edge at the time and set the tone for virtually all golf games to follow.
Zelda didn't come to the US until end of the summer of 1987. It was released in 1986 in Japan.
Release dates vary depending on source. We did in fact have The Legend of Zelda in 1986 as we lived in Los Angeles and that served as a test market for the NES before an official nationwide launch.
This is Nintendo Lord X. Thank you guys for watching. And I WILL catch you next time.
"This game is little improved on Nintendo from its Atari origins, and squanders it's 8 bit assets."
HHHHAAAA 😂😂😂 Hilarious
"have a great rest of your day"
I've always LOVED Donkey Kong and especially DK Junior! I owned it on ColecoVision a few years earlier but I was blown away by the NES version. Still love it to this day. Such a unique game! ❤️
Wow, I never thought I’d see another person called Scott Wozniak
@@noaht2005 Thee are 8 billion people on this planet. Think bigger.
Nes console is my first console of my generation in my childhood
"Balloon Fight always gave me a sort of Joust feeling" perhaps because Satoru Iwata worked on the NES port Joust before programming Balloon Fight. That being said Balloon Fight remains one of my all-time favorite games... loved Clu Clu Land and Slalom too.
I wish they can bring the Balloon fight from Wii U Nintendo Land to Switch. Loved the concept of games in Nintendo Land. I wanted to get one only for Nintendo Land games.
Damn!! I actually liked the Atari 2600 but once a few friends got a Nes, I sure has heck wanted one . . badly.
I remember playing Popeye on a bootleg nes at a friend's house in the late 90s, I will always love that game no matter what
I always finished that game whenever i played it but when i played it the first few times i couldn't get through the first level.
It' was a fantastic game. One of my black box favorites for sure.
My vote for best Wrestling game on the NES has to be Tecmo World Wrestling. I never got to experience Gyromite.
Awesome game. It came out much later, though.
Sega lord doing nes?! Has the world gone mad? What's next, cats living with dogs?!
I kid, of course
Sega lord could come with a second channel and call it nintendo lord and then only talk about nintendo there,haha.
@@johneygd or he could rebrand himself as Video Game Lord X!
...nah. We need Sega Lord in these streets to keep the balance in the force, and I'm a Nintendrone
@@johneygd but he's not a 'lord' in all that. Lol
What's next? SNESDrunk doing Genesis?
Oh wait...
NES brings back so many fond memories
Man, “Slalom” is really smooth!
Think it was the first ever Western developed title on the console and the tech it showed off left a great first impression towards the top brass at Nintendo.
I am playing Super Mario, donkey 1 and 2, excite bike and Super Mario 3 with my son and he really likes those. I started with Super Mario Bros and my father used to play it with us. That was the only console we ever had and it was a bootleg console. I knew it because of the manufacturer tag and always wanted one Made in Japan which wasn't available anywhere where I lived.
Spent many hours of my childhood playing Excitebike! Love how you could build your own tracks.
Very touching comment about your father playing Pinball, thank you for sharing
I think a lot of us from that era had come home after dark from a friends house after they had just gotten a new game or console. One of my friends was the "rich kid" and he always had the latest console / games and a bunch of us would ride our bikes over in the afternoon and just sit in front of his 19" TV and play till dark. Also helped that he was a Nintendo / PC kid and I was a Sega / PC kid so I would always trade PC games with him then get to play the latest NES/SNES/N64 games. The best was when everyone would tell each other to "stop cheating and looking at my screen" when playing things like Mario Kart or GoldenEye. Great times! Great video as always... And yes, getting the shoe thrown at you was ALWAYS worth it in the end!
u gotta love that Rygar music....
One of my absolute favorites.
Tommy Lasorda baseball had the best music.
Slalom looks amazing, it's a pity that they didn't try to make more scalling games for the NES.
First time I hear of Mario being referred to as "Peach's Errand Boy," but OK. 😄
Pretty sure it was Peach’s Butt Boy in the first draft.
@@billcook4768 I really hope it was that 😂😂
"Friendzone Plumber Pete" didn't test as well with sample audiences
Mario's simpin' hard for Peach. She totally left him behind in Odyssey.
Haha same
Thank you for covering this SLX!
Everyone I knew wanted this one and badly so. To this day, an awesome console. Got the Sega Master System from mom and dad instead, as this thing was out of stock everywhere. Thank you as your channel has helped me to appreciate what I had so much more.
Yes!!! Balloon Fight! I love that game so much, man! I actually just fell in love with it again last month, as I’ve been sick with post viral/chronic fatigue since July and have been going through my NES collection to help pass the time. Such a fun, bite sized game, that’s perfect when you play it on a Nintendo Switch! I actually just reviewed it on my channel a few weeks ago too lol
The first two games we got with our NES in '88. Super Mario Bros and Metroid. Still awesome to this day. =)
The NES was the first system I bought on my own. The only console my parents bought for me BITD was the Atari.
Great list my friend! I too grew up with the original NES as the first system I truly connected with. And all the games you list here are justified in their notoriety. I played ‘em all furiously back in the day! Thanks for all the awesome content man. I frequent your channel quite often. Keep up the great work!
Great video! Loved those games. I spent a lot of time on Slalom and Kung Fu master. Ludicrous to think how difficult games were back then, but it was sure fun.
i'm constantly pleased by quality of your captured footage, doing really great justice to these old games
Man, I love the way you present all these games together with childhood memories of them. You, Sir, are awesome.
Oh, and Peaches errand boy is funny.
Great trip down memory lane! I still vividly remember the first time I first played the NES! I was six years old! Like yourself I was hooked and had to have one! Then my 7th birthday came along and I was like "What friends? Mario is my friend now!" Great channel!
what a great change of pace for this channel.
i love black-box titles and really enjoyed watching your faves
It's amazing to think how quickly games evolved from the black box games all the way to the amazing stuff we got toward the end of the NES including stuff that was never officially released or released at all in the west.
13:00 This is why SLX's videos are fun to watch. The personal memories connect all of us to our youths and the many different ways we experienced these beloved games.
I loved opening these old games. The smell, the black sleeve, reading the manual, hoping that I would get a poster, and even that little styrofoam rectangle that kept it all snug in the box. Thanks for the reminder! Great times
Hey SegaLordX, have you ever watched GameCenter CX? I think you would LOVE the show along with any other Retro gamers!
Great anecdotes! I remember being 7 when anew kid down the street moved in and he was the first person I knew with a playstation. Seeing him control Crash bandicoot was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen at that point. I also stayed out past dusk and my mom was raging mad. 💢
Great video. My NES stories are very similar to yours, especially your anecdote about your dad and Pinball, except it was Dunk Hunt with my dad. It's the game that sold him on getting us an NES after playing it at a cousin's house. Thirty-something years later and I'm a veteran game developer because of that machine. Still have my original NES and 220'ish carts, including a complete black-label set. They're all timeless classics, and the arcade ports among them were incredibly well done, especially Mario Bros., Donkey Kong (which, btw, is actually missing a level), and Pop-Eye.
I remember when games were on cassettes! So funny!
Wasn’t that mostly a Europe thing!? I’m pretty sure almost everyone here used cartridges
I had a friend who had a game system that used cassettes.
I can't even remember what it was called or what games we played but it was the only one i had and have since ever seen.
@@creepingdeath9795 The early computer system the Timex Sinclair used cassettes to load games. I had one in the early 80's. I'm sure a few others did too.
The Amstrad CPC-464
I had a 64 and Vic 20 both with cassettes. The quality in games was no different. THe only difference was the load times. Tapes were cheaper so you could get a game for two quid, or free in some mags. The best top games were on both tape and disk.
7:43. I know that feeling. I grew up with the 2600 and the NES, but it wasn't until I got Mortal Kombat on the Genesis that my dad really played games with me. He always chose Raiden and I could never beat him. It seemed to be the only video game he was into. We spent a lot of good father/son time over that game and looking back it was the best time I could have. He passed when I was 17 but the good memories like him kicking my ass in MK is still one of the best memories a boy could have.
Another great video :) it’s always amazing to hear when somebody has their retrospective from mid 80s and just how categorically different the NES was from anything else they’d seen before. I grew up with the SNES, born the same year, but anyway, worthy Like and watch!
The NES is the only console (maybe the Genesis and the PSX too to some extent) where you can see how impressive it evolved during its lifetime, in the NES case from the mid-eighties with the black boxes games which look and play like an Atari game with steroids and then the late-eighties and early-nineties that look and play like a different generation of console, I mean, the jump from Super Mario Bros. to SMB 3 and then from Kung-Fu to Ninja Gaiden is mind blowing. It's amazing how Popeye and Megaman II are in the same system.
My dad also loved Galaxian, Starsoldier, Sky destroyer, Pinball and Baseball. We have had so much fun when I was a kid.
Thank you for sharing your memories. It's fun to be able to get into someone else's mind and see how they experienced things. I also lived through this era, but I must admit that one of the most amazing times in my life was looking at the CRT TV in the Babbage's store window of the insanely colorful, fast, and physics-based Sonic The Hedgehog. What also caught my eye was Super Mario World. I remember that the gems in the cave (Vanilla Dome) glistening blew me away...but not as much as Sonic. And I decided to go with the Genesis (which my parents got me...they were...and are...so great to me). This was after the salesman was pushing the Super NES...just like in that Sonic commercial. The commercial I remember more, though, was the H.A.G. commercial, with great animation for Sonic...and I was mesmerized by the part of the Starlight Zone theme that I heard. It's funny how some things are so vivid to some people, although they may not stand out to others.
I personally do like donkeykong 3 as well, i like how nintendo combined platforming with shooting elements, i only didn’t like why mario was replaced by stenley,stanley never did get any recognition at all ,
Now just imagine of donkeykong 1 was donkeykong 3, o,o,o.
Thank you for sharing your awesome memories with us segalordx your channel is a gem!
That Pro Wrestling theme music would make my top 25 NES chiptunes list. Once it gets stuck in your head it never leaves. It's like a permanent virus of the mind.
Man, I remember how happy I was when my mother bought me the NES. After playing the original 2600 my stepbrother had and then the smaller model, I couldn’t wait to play the NES. I had the Super Mario/Duck Hunt cart included, which I think most of us had.
Sega lord X you make me feel warm and fuzzy inside, your channel is genuinely brilliant every single time. Stay safe man 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
SLX, you are growing very rapidly. Last time I looked you were at 77k subscribers. Keep going!
Fireshark was a game my father and I would bond over.
These videos are the only thing keeping me sane in quarantine. Keep them coming.man!!!
Niiiice video! The NES has a special place in my gaming days! I am a Sega fan but the nes was an awesome system to play. Shooters with the turbo stick with auto fire a game changer! So many amazing platformers, super spike vball, super dodgeball, world cup soccer took up a lot of my game time! I wish they would do HD remakes of many of the NES games.
I received an Atari 2600 for free from my relatives in ‘86 with lots of games but I only enjoyed it so much as to pass the time. But when I first saw Super Mario bros. in 1987 I knew gaming would be a big part of my life.
Facts. It's crazy just how mind blowing super Mario bros was for its time. I was pretty much in the same boat. I had a Atari 2600 as well but once a friend got the Nes and I played super Mario bros, I knew I was hooked, it really was a game changer for video games.
That ending, haha. The shit we did as little kids to get out video game fix. Man, its crazy to think how much video games were a part of our childhood. Like it was something you NEEDED to play
Love your videos man! I always was, and always will be a Sega fan, was by far my favorite consoles. Love your narration as well because (And I mean this in a good way, like compliment way) you not only sound like a a voice you would hear when you read a comic, you have all the phrases and language that would go with it. Keep em coming my friend, we all love it!
Its almost like i can feel your memories. Awesome video, Lord X!
Wow...it's like you're telling my story. I myself have never had an attachment to the Atari 2600/5200/7800. My stepfather had a 2600 and 5200 when I was a kid. He would invite me to play often but I was far more enthralled with the arcades of the time. It wasn't until I received my Nes and Master System in 1986 (divorced parents) that I began to really appreciate gaming in the home.
I agree with you about the 2600. Besides Phoenix, keystone capers and missile command, the memories were very few.
Haha I loved the story at the end when you stayed late at your friends and got grounded. I did something similar when I was about 8 or 9, but I was at my friend’s house salivating over his collection of Star Wars figures and ships🤤 I realised it was pitch black outside and ran home. I met my mum on the way, she was heading towards my friends house looking for me with a face like thunder!
Big shout out to Sega Lord X. Only the OGs know about hooking up game systems to a black and white TV. A lot of people had their cable boxes hooked up to a black and white TV. Yeah thats right looking at every cable channel in BLACK AND WHITE!
Not listing Wrecking Crew, makes me kinda sad that's one underappreciated classic.
Holy crap... I think I'm twitching just remembering that music of Rygar (and you had to put it right after the intro) and the hours I spent on it and never completed it.... Whew, I believe my blood pressure increased a bit roflmao ❤️😎
These are the first games i played at my first console, decades ago. I feel like crying...
I know you had Demon Attack in your intro of games that didn't excite you, but we didn't have an arcade anywhere near my house, and that game just blew me away for years. It's fun to look back on those days
Clu Clu Land and Ice Climber were favorites of mine and my older brother's. Especially Ice Climber. Oh, and Balloon Fight and Mario Bros. too. So many great co-op games in the initial launch!
The 2600 is one of those systems that struggled horribly with arcade ports, but had decent original titles (well when the developer had a reasonable amount of time 😅). Easier to make when you aren't trying to force a game to look or play like something beyond its system limits.
Love that Rygar music in the opening of the video.
My first NES experience was a couple days before I started first grade, renting a control deck from my local video store with two games: JAWS and Rambo. It would be some time before I would get around to any of the black box games, my first being in the form of Donkey Kong Classics which I got as a Christmas gift along with my first game console that same year. it would be another year before I got around to Super Mario, and I honestly never got into that one.
The games that hooked me in were Metroid and Zelda. I also played a lot of crap before I got around to those two, but the memories I took away from them makes them stand out for me as titles to go back to again and again.
I have the same opinion about the Atari 2600. I played a lot of NES at a cousins house, in 86, loved Pro Wrestling, Contra, Metroid, Kid Icarus and Zelda. I was still waiting for a Sega system with Wonder Boy and Out Run!
Your narration keeps getting better and better.
when i was a kid, my cousins had a NES clone system called Dynavision, we had only one bootleg cart with 250 games in it. All the games were simple screen clearing black box NES games and tons of japanese Famicom games, it had no big complex games like Zelda or Metroid, it had the original Super Mario Bros though. Videos about early NES/Famicom games are really notalgic for me
That beginning was my childhood. Introduced from speccy and Atari by a friend with a Nintendo but then went on to own a mega drive.
Great to see you cover some non sega retro games too. Nintendo was the first console to really blow me away. Super Mario Bros. is the first game I remember seeing on the system. Atari was my first console and I had not really been around arcades yet, so I didnt have that comparison until maybe 1987. KEEP KILLIN THAT SHIT !!
When you said kids playing Excitebike when Mario 3 came out I said "Guilty as charged!" out loud.
And right there with you playing Super Mario Bros on a 13 inch Black and White TV. Sometimes my parents let me hook it up in the living room on the color family tv but not nearly as often as I'd liked. I didn't get a color tv until the old black and white one straight out of the 70s finally died right as I got my Sega Genesis. Good timing on that one.
I really like Slalom, and it's also notable for being the first Rare-developed game for a Nintendo system. The beginning of the Rare-Nintendo relationship that gave us several masterpieces across at least 3 generations of consoles
Really liked the story about pinball and your dad.
Tank on the atari 2600 on a black an white tv with my father. It was 1983. Ah the good ol times. Im 40 as of 1.8.20
In my home country back in the day, there were bootlegged famicom games that were sold everywhere, and there's a game that I have fond memories of. However, it was never released here in the US and barely anyone knows about it here. I can say with absolute confidence thst this is the most underrated and overlooked NES game ever, and an absolute hidden gem. It's none other than the TRUE grand daddy of all 1 on 1 fighting games: Yie Ar Yu Kung Fu!
I got the NES that had Super Mario Brothers + Duck Hunt, with the grey zapper. That was like three games in one, because Duck Hunt itself contains the aforementioned Duck Hunt AND Skeet shooting.
I misread the title and thought SLX was reviewing the Tengen black NES cartridges.
12:49 for me it's the opposite, NES didn't really get popular in my country until bootleg consoles came in the 1990s. And most of the bootleg cartridges contain a compilation of the black box era games.
Also I remember F1 Race, my first racing game🤤
I had so many of those games. I still love Excite Bike today and love it!!!
Damn, savage with the earlier consoles. You are right though the Atari 2600 ports of many games didn't do the arcade originals justice, but the 5200 and Colecovision did have some close ports of arcade titles, including Mario Bros and Donkey Kong...they were missing some levels though.
Good point. He seems pretty ignorant about the early consoles. The 2600 Mario Bros. plays pretty well too.
i played 10-yard fight in the arcade and on the NES. it's a classic along with Baseball, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Excitebike, Kung fu, Mario bros, Pro wrestling, Mach Rider, and Super Mario bros. 💪
Hell yeah I think the black box games are still fun and playable to this day
Great video thanks for posting, loved the little story at the end 😆😆😆
That was a trip back to memory lane, loved it.
i remember x-mas '85 ; NES on display at the mall, kids lined up to try the games.
R.O.B. convinced me it was for children ...
we had the ColecoVision at home, just wanted a computer that much more
Truthfully, I love almost all the blackbox NES games. Especially, the ones they used to include in Animal Crossing.
There was also Tennis and Golf and Soccer and Urban Champion, Duck Hunt, Wild Gunman, Hogan’s Ally, Wrecking Crew among others that weren’t in the video
Dang when you said Cab Station that did it for me memories bro memories. We always had dig dug and ms Pac-Man
Funny enough, the first time I discovered Mario or Nintendo in my youth, it was a Super Mario Bros. arcade cabinet in a local supermarket, and it blew my mind at the time.
Threw a shoe or two 😆😆 great video, nothing beats that Christmas morning and opening NES and Mario