Parents Upset Over New Nintendo Console - Super Nintendo - Circa 1991
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- In 1991, local newsstation reports Nintendo released their successor to the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in America. But the parents wasn't too happy about it. The parents thought Nintendo was exploiting their children into buying new and expensive hardware for new games when the improvements to the new hardware were obvious.
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That poor kid's mom just made him miss the greatest era of gaming. Thanks mom.
Krabb Cake The SNES era was nothing compared to the 360/Wii/PS3 era.
not for jrpgs players. Lol
Apollo you mean the GameCube PS2 Xbox GBA era. That was the real golden era.
Best era is obviously the fortnite plague.
John Jackson GameCube sucks, Gameboy is overrated, PS2 is overrated, Xbox is average
"Lets take our kid to a few therapy sessions @ $100 for 45 mins to explain to him why we wont spend $200 on a game console!" Sign me up!
LOL!!!
Damn hypocrites.
Haha, worth it! It's all about principles...
"Nintendependent"?!! I can't stop laughing!
Ha! Nice ;)
I love the reporter editing himself into F Zero 💯
I think he did that so that the old timers and moms watching at home could figure out what was going on in the game.
I’m 40 years old. I grew up playing regular Nintendo and the first thing I ever saved up for as a kid was a Super Nintendo. Fast forward to now, I haven’t played games much since until last month I said why not and bought a PS5 and I can’t believe how far games have come.
Similar story. I grew up with nintendo ane genesis, I bought a ps5 maybe 6 months ago, i had not played games since 2005, im now surpised on the graphics
@Nicky Bobby You'll be in the minority there, there are games now that you can get lost in for an entire day, let alone the few hours Mario could keep you entertained for.
@Nicky Bobby I’m not a talented gamer but there are plenty of great options. I just don’t play online, that’s the major leagues lol
Similar story…I said, why not ? And then I realized, I need to go to bed, because I have work in the morning! Haha
VR games are even more impressive. And we're finally at the point where it's good and affordable.
my son wants me to buy him some new toy that's really popular, better take him to a psychiatrist, he's clearly fucking crazy.
Guts it's to convince your kid they don't need that game consoles you can spend that $200 on crack.
Berserk spoilers
Don't tell me he wants that midget thinner.
i thought it was called the spidget feather
Guts is it a purple dildo?
Can't believe they spoiled the ending of Mario World
Erian Trotland this comment needs more likes
I was like 8-9 years old when they were marketing SMW and the commercials themselves spoiled it. Like, the novelty of seeing the princess peach sprite as the reward was gone by that point.
lmao
Right? I pre ordered the game and everything...
ikr
I got a snes that year. A few days before Christmas in cold, snowy Northern Ireland during the troubles, my dad took us shopping to pick out games. We got mario and zelda. I'm 41 now and I still remember vividly reading that Zelda manual and pouring over the hyrule map poster. What an amazing time to be alive.
Yeah that zelda game to me is my favorite game of all times, that golden cartridge
"People market things so that they can make more money"
.....of course they do.....that's the entire freaking point of marketing
Lol
To be fair, the point was she was teaching that to her kids. I never understood that the classic cartoons such as heman and GI Joe were basically long commercials 😂.
It's actually good to teach kids not to fall for the latest fad.
@@MisterCasket Don't forget Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, Barbie, My Little Pony, Transformers, and pretty much every cartoon since the 80s.
@@MisterCasket G.I. Joe had real messages and its an American Icon.
That's like... Capitalism 101. Or is that mother a closet commie?
Shows how clueless people were (well are) assuming it's just a repackaged Nintendo.
If everyone had that mentality, we'd still all be using black and white TVs.
Hey Hey DSP might see this, don't be so mean :)
Well, Larry has roots in the industry. He's bound to have opinions on a lot of points of its history.
Yeah doesn't the Wii U kind of face the same problem?
What's wrong with black and white TVs?
+Bob Bobson Nothing wrong except there way too old and obsolete. If you had a choice between an analog tv vs a HD TV, what would you choose?
In 1991, I wanted the SNES for Christmas, but my brother wanted the Sega Genesis. My parents weren't going to buy both, so Mom made us each write a paper on why one was better than the other; and whoever had the best paper got the console they wanted. In my brother's paper, he pointed out how the Genesis was $50 cheaper. I tried to make the point of how kid-friendly the SNES was. Then on Christmas morning, me and my brother woke up to find BOTH consoles under the tree! Turns out Mom and Dad got the Genesis, while Grandma and Great-Auntie got the SNES. 🎄Best Christmas EVER.
What a cool story! I was always behind back in the day (like I missed out on the 32-bit generation and the next one too largely).
@@hitkid2456 I haven't gone beyond my X360 or my PS3; and I STILL play my PS2 more than both of them. lol
Everything about this is amazing, from the newscaster's hair, to the Nintendo therapy session, to the reporter being digitally integrated into Mario Kart. A true masterpiece.
btw its f zero
He says F-Zero, but even if he didn't say that, how does that look like Mario Kart (it hadn't even released yet. Super Mario Kart released the following year ((because F-Zero was too fast for a multiplayer)), while F-Zero was a launch title).
She is still here! I actually watched her on the news today her name is colleen and she has the same hairstyle.
that news lady hair look like she fell 2min ago and there was some white paint on the floor but whatever XD
@@aviverde9031 Thats a birthmark
"people market things to make you spend more money" Wow, it's almost like the idea of consumer products or something.... yeesh, some people.
And she's shopping in a store while saying that.
i feel bad for her kids that didnt get it :(
It is true that it leads to some considerably unethical practices though, like selling cocaine to babies for example haha, that hyperbole should paint a picture
Or making them play crack baby basketball, of course
It's ethical because kids have needs and wants too. It would be unethical if upon trying the game system it injected an addictive substance into the user's body.
Now all those parents are grandparents who can't use their phones.
And nobody to help them because they wouldn't buy a freakin SNES 25 years ago.
They can however use phones to do one thing...
Download viruses.
@@RobespierreThePoof age != respect
Antifoul Awl thats complete bullshit kid
@Bruce Wayne well now you know
Ah yes, when you could buy a finished game on release day... good times.
Absolutely. No patches.
Games wasn't restricted to online only streaming either!
@@Incubusnut Which meant that if you had a bugged game you would always have a bugged game, unless you bought the entire game again and got a v1.1 revision with the bugs fixed.
super mario world was actually rushed for snes launch
@@krashd Or you ended up with stuff like Strider or IJN shovelware and threw the cart in the deepest part of your closet.
Whenever "parents are upset" over something, 99% of the time it's totally harmless.
The 90s were an incredible time to be alive!
Almost as awesome as the 80's but I agree, the 90's were great indeed.
The 1940's were the best
Yes it was back when you also rent games at blockbuster,Hollywood video, and movie gallery also you could rent consoles if you couldn't afford to buy them at the time
@@dragonslayer9671 if you couldn't afford to buy you damn sho couldn't afford to rent either.
90 was best by far
SPOILERS! Jeeze! How they just gonna show the ending to Super Mario World like that on television!!??
Who knew Bowser would lose?
those fucks
Fred Fuchs
😡😡
That was years ago bruh relax. It's nothing new today.
I wonder if they realized this was practically an advertisement for Nintendo. It just made more people buy it.
Unbiased reporting? Simpler time.
Maybe it really was? With an 80% market-share, they've to invest it somewhere.
Mudd Murdoc right! 😂
The Worst Parent that’s why people like Donald trump don’t realize, when you highlight people you don’t like, you just give them power and make them look good, not bad.
Mudd Murdoc you’re an idiot
I grew up in this era when Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis were just coming out. It was great. Glad my parents weren’t too uptight like the ones in this video clip. But I guess every generation has parents like these.
Those cute kids at the end probably got to play Mario 64 just four years later! Their minds must have been blown seeing Mario go from 2d to 3d in such a short amount of time.
Forcing their kids to go to “therapy” because they played video games on the consoles that their parents bought... makes sense.
It's cuz they didn't buy it, I thought.
@@TheFunEnglishTeacher no, it's cause society has expectations out of each other. But as usual society doesn't know what they want out of each other (hence the hypocritical flipflopping).
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CAESER AUGUSTUS oh okay that’s good
Well, because for most of them, if they don't, their kids would start nagging them all day long. It just comes to parenting, it is not easy. Doing hard way you still can get negative effect too, as much as same the easy way.
"People market things to make you spend more money". This lady is a genius.
Repeal the 19th
She was probably a hypocrite. Women make up the majority of spenders in the household and let's be real, I doubt she was frugal with make up and clothes.
Naw that women is just doesn't have the money and poor kid gotta deal with her genius excuse and miss out I hope he didn't grow up deprived
@@NitroNEXT Make-up is disgusting. I did a video on that, and I plan a video on how Mario is Satan.
It's just propaganda. Of course someone on TV is gonna demonize an activity that takes away attention from them. Being watched, video games directly compete with the everything else on TV.
I received an SNES for Christmas of 1991. It was my first gaming console ever and I loved the hell out of it. Still one of the greats!
please go back in time and kill me before my dad hurts me... often
Wow 👌
Remember buying a console...buying a game...plugging it in...and playing it? No downloads, no registration, No terms of service, No requirement to input a credit card, your address, your real information, your location....I stopped buying consoles after the PS3.
@@xzysyndrome Now games are plagued with monthly or weekly subscription payments to just play the game you already have!
One of my favorite memories of growing up was going with our family to buy the original NES from Super Wal-Mart. I didn't know what it was, but from looking at the box, I knew it was special. 36 now and I still play video games almost every day.
True 👍
“That is if you have the skill of a 9 or 10 year old-“
*Immediately crashes car*
I completely lost my shit when that happened
@Shaman Xeed its not a joke 😶
I love that he was going in reverse for most of that lmao.
And if you really want to get first place in F-zero you'll have to unlock the skill set of a nine-year-old child with no life 🤡
DR R
IKR!! 😂😂
"If you're a really good player. Meaning you've got the skill of a 9 or 10 year old"
That was cold-blooded
But true.
But not before driving the wrong way for a solid 30 seconds 😂
Hardly. Nintendo consoles were advertised as toys back then.
@maynardssoblue3839 I think that’s the point. The kids are good at the game and the adults all suck lol
gives me flashbacks of fortnite
parents back then were out for blood against games. Anything kids like must be bad, I guess. I love how they tried so hard to ban them and now we play them them with our kids. Lifelong gaming for the win
Mothers associations in the 70s wanted albums with ANY mildly inappropriate themes to not have cover art lmaoooooo
There's something about moms with too much free time and being the biggest party pooper around
I still remember my dad getting me a snes fro Christmas. One of many wonderful memories of dad and my childhood. 😢 it sucks getting older.
I live in vegas, my parents got mad at me playing video games, i got my ass beat telling them they do the same at the casinos. Atleast my hobby costs less...
Hand me a Dozen Beers "got your ass beat telling them they do the same thing"
and people STILL say shit like "they didn't whip that boy's ass hard enough". physical punishment was often used against me as a kid when a parent didn't want to face the fact they were acting like a kid, so they made themselves seem bigger by being aggressive
we had a good network to keep things affordable, I would trade a game with one of the other kids in the neighborhood or at school after a week you give it back. Then the greed came, when the PSP came out people would steal those and some got into fights.
TheBikemaster94 funny you say that cuz i got jumped by 2 guys, jacked my psp in high school .
Hand me a Dozen Beers I feel sorry for you...
LMAO you fucking savage
"I guess I should watch where I'm driving" *Drives backwards*
Max_Gamez that "reporter" just said an 8 y.o. has better skills than him, then goes on to prove it. great camera tricks though, looks like he's driving.
here's a neat trick, if you're a pro gamer like myself you can jump the car
*crash*
I think he turned around just so he could demonstrate the jump and intentionally miss it.
that's probably the first and last time that guy has touched a video game controller
“Video Mania” 😂 was easily one of the best times for Video Games. Lots and lots of fond memories had. Thanks mom and dad.
Parents back then: "$100 more than last console? FUCK THAT!"
Parents now: "$1500 for a PS5 from some shady person? FUCK YEAH!"
I remember begging my parents for an SNES for Christmas and then opening it up and losing my mind.
Then the last present I got from my Dad was the Virtua Boy Christmas of 95 he died 2 days after and even though everyone hates it and it was a terrible design I still have love for it because of the circumstances.
@@padraic1983 Yeah, I lost my dad 16 years ago when I was 23. It is still hard to this day.
We went shopping in 1992 and we seen it and they talked about it and bought it for me i was 8 .. they were like "you want it?" I was like hell yeah so it was unexpected and got home played super Mario and street fighter
@@padraic1983 Thank You!!! If there is something after this life I would believe he is ok. Also sorry that you lost your dad at a young age.
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I'm really glad my parents werent crazy. i remember one night waking up and going to get a cup of water my parents were sat right in front of the TV playing Mario on NES. i love that memory
Same here, my mom was almost a more of a gamer than we where back in the NES era :P
.... my life is sad :( .....
😂
Aww
My mom was amazing at mortal kombat they got so angry that at the arcade the owners gave her extra tokens so they could finally beat her.
T H E Y N E V E R D I D.
Thank god, my dad wasn't part of those kids who missed that awesome era of gaming
The ignorance of scared parents will never fade
Yeah put that mother who didn't buy her son an SNES in a nursing home tbh. She was kind of bad back then tho.
They were scared we would spend hours of our lives playing video games, instead of socializing, and end up single forever and depressed...
...Oh wait...
@@Ranstonebetter than dead
@@eli_tes
True man...
Also, if you're a gamer, you rock. It was just a joke.
@@Ranstone And then there are those that become addicted to games *because* their parents wouldn't allow them.
"People market things to make more money"
We have a big brain right there
Yes. The floor here is made out of floor.
Yeah I was wondering how that talk would go
She works as an economy advisor for the Trump administration.
Ricardo Martinez 😁😁
Ricardo Martinez she needs to work for Jim Crow Biden. Lord knows even her stupidity would do him some good.
This is the first time I've heard the phrase "mix and match" refer to backwards compatibility in gaming.
MrZapparin
Yea we just kinda stopped caring about mixing and matching (gonna use that phrase from now on). I'd be willing to pay the extra what, 50 bucks for something like that
Back in the days of the Atari you could "mix and match", at least to some extent. You could even to it with some of the competitors systems. Though really they were just knock-offs that copied Atari to get some $$ themselves, and used the same cartridges and programming. Was a very different age of video games back then.
Mallavaughn
Yup. There was some kind of add-on I think for Atari that you let play a different systems games on it (memory is fuzzy) but something like that def existed. Also if I remember correctly you could use a Genesis controller on Atari 2600. It's just funny hearing mix and match refer to the term always used "backwards compatibility"
This was 91...most folks didn't even have computers.
voltagebinary wow, your saying that as if it was a thing...
I love these throwbacks. I loved going to the store to play the demos. So exciting!
True 👍
1990 I was 20 years old.
Never never got into video games. Even before this when the Atari came out.
I was on the job site working for my father any chance I had.
Now at 54 I noticed guys in their 20s30s40s hooked.
I love how these parents and news anchors have no clue what they are talking about.
well not much has changed sine then afret all
Parents and news anchors still have no idea what they're talking about 🤣
Kevinb1821 Just like you when you talk about the new technology of the day...
Sunshine MishasMommy I mean, the parents of today are the kids in these videos. They grew up playing games.
@@sunshinemishasmommy5352 I'm 35 with 4 kids. I've been gaming since NES. Every console up to Xbox 360. Switched to pc back then. I still remember changing out car meshes in gta4.
What are you talking parents don't get it? I use a steam controller, mouse and keyboard, etc. Hell, I have my LG hu80ka projector set at 116 inches.
Am I the only one that finds it incredible how the presenter was edited into the kart to look like he was driving it? I think it was quite clever considering this is from 1991.
And his awareness of the game and what was going on is incredible. Nowadays, the newscaster would have said "here I am in Mario Kart! This Virtual Reality is amazing!" while pretending to play it with an Xbox Controller
Dan Robinson I found that part quite hilarious, honestly it felt like the video was turning into sone type of joke 😂😂
Jesus. it was 1991 not 1921.
terminator 2 was in theaters that year, and it was 10 years after the first broadcasting of MTV and "music videos".
editing techniques and cgi had already come a long way by then.
Yes, you're right. But I can't help but think that tech-challenged parents are going to think that you ACTUALLY do that in the game. "The game sucks my kids' pictures inside??? No!!!!"
Yeah, I know the technology existed, but this was just a simple news network. I doubt they had the same special effects capability that big movie companies had. It simply surprised me that they would do this kind of thing on a 2 minute report becuse it was something we normally only saw in big movies with 100 million dollar budgets.
I was 10yrs old during this broadcast 🥰 the good ol days ❤
My super Nintendo is 32 years old and just last week I played with my son jurassic park he loved it. Also have my genius hooked up he loves mortal Kombat. Seem to me the system was worth every penny.
This "Therapy" costs more than a SNES with some of the best games
Take my like.
considering how they are on the baby boom where money is plenty, Therapy would have been thousands of dollars and $200 is just normal, considering how cheap the cartridge are "most of the best games"
This is a severely underrated comment in my honest opinion.
Super castelvania 4 and super mario world Are more then enough theraphy in life. Castelvania4 gotta be on of my top 10 best games ever.
This comment! So true.
"Would you rather have me on the streets getting in trouble or at home playing video games".
*kid playing augmented reality games walks into street and is hit by car*
Don't get in trouble simple really lol
Pokemon Go says "why not both "
Funny. That was the argument in favor of television back in the 50s-60s.
Some things really never change.
It's literally like that. At least in my country if you are not an introvert who stays at home playing games and stuff, you spend all your time outise drinking alcohol and doing drugs probably. And most parents still prefer their kids to be like the second 🤦♂️
The first console my brother and I had was an Atari 7800, bought second-hand. The first computer we had, I went out and got "Doom", on its 5 1/4 inch floppy discs. (Doom II came on seven 3.5" floppies).
Damn I didn’t realize these things were $200 back then. I need to give my mom a big hug next time I see her. We were broke but somehow she managed to get a NES for my brother and I. Xmas 91 I’ll never forget it.
"Things definitely have come a long way since pac-man"
You have no idea
Dear people from 3020 A.D, we have no idea either
HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?
God of War seems like the great apex.
IVE GOT A VR SETUP WITH BIOSENSORS AND A FLESHLIGHT ATTACHMENT. HOW DARE YOU TELL ME THINGS HAVE GONE TOO FAR.
SUPER MARIO 64
“and you can’t mix and match” Backwards compatibility a concern even back then
You are dropping another hundreds of dollars for something that is only compatible with newer games after all
Sega allowed you to pay an extra 30 quid to play master system games on the mega drive.
the very very old ps3 couldn't play ps2 games but the updated ps3 could, which also introduced new games (online features) on ps3 which wasn't on ps2, so a ps3 was worth it. i wish the ps5 could play ps4,ps3, and ps2 games if you still had the old disc.
@Boot Hat What? Backward compatibility is much more common now than it was then.
@@masterzen4701 It's the other way around. Early PS3s are compatible but not most of them.
I love how they edited the reporter into the F zero game, its so charming and funny.
“Things definitely have come a long way since Pac-Man.” That’s still very true over 30 years later.
“People market things to make more money.”
Isn’t that how economy works?
Isn't that capitalism? The very thing you guys want
Maybe she meant “People can market things misleadingly to you, to make you muy something that is not what you thought it was.
She said "People market things to make you spend more money." I think her point was, in relation to the topic of "gotta buy newer, better", was that, in a society where consumerism is paramount, people show you a product, and if it sells well, they release an incrementally better version of that thing for even more money, leading to a cycle of always needing something better than what you have.
Just capitalism.
@Roger Dodger only if you believe humans are free thinking and acting without nothing or no one influencing their decisions beyond their conscious understandings.
I love how they refer to graphics as 'pictures' throughout.
It's like how they talk about guns now.
The terms "frames" and "video quality" were really strange, if not alien to anyone outside of developer studios and engineers in those years
@@cuber759
You're giving the media too much credit. These are the same people that call an AR-15 an "assault rifle". And don't know the difference between a 12 gauge shotgun and an AR-15. Search on CZcams "12 gauge blasting watermelon", for a hilarious news piece.
i got a good laugh out of it
Boomers.
Around 1992 my friend would sneak his SNES down to my house because his parents would only let him play it for an hour at his. My mum would even play it with us sometimes, our house was heaving with all the local kids, Lol.
It’s crazy how they thought games like Super Mario World was peak at the time, and technology just kept getting better and better. Imagine how technology will be like in the future.
1:00 This man was living in 2091 while everyone else was in 1991.
So basically Pewdiepie and a lot of Streamers copied this guy
Best comment lmao
I love how deadpan he is, "Oop, I guess I should focus on driving rather than talking". 😆
Lol
Im still figuring out to this very day how to get my body into the game.
200 on a toy for my kid? What an outrage. Time to spend thousands on therapy.
LMAOOOOOOOOOOO
Yeah this will not stand
*BONUS:*
American healthcare insurance.
I was going to like this comment but it’s t 69 likes
200 dollar now is not what it was then....
I was ecstatic when we got a Sega Genesis for Christmas even though I really wanted an SNES. I never told my mom though since that was still a really expensive present.
1:22 RIP Kent Shocknek, the world’s first let’s player broadcaster. In 1991.
Mudd Murdoc lol. I know. Apparently he’s an actor too, look him up y’all. Someone ought to call Kent and do a one-off let’s play with him plus an editor that can replicate that style for laughs. They should just do it as a parody.
@Mudd Murdoc nah he's dead, was swatted
@@MiniStudioProductionsTV lol if I was the world's leading F-Zero SNES player I'd offer to ghost-play for him so he can get his redemption 30 years later
Yeah he was on NCIS.
Interesting. The concept of generations wasn't really a thing back then. People bought a Nintendo with the idea they'd never replace it until it broken, sort of like it was a refrigerator or something. Really interesting looking back.
Not for most parents, maybe, but by then any hobbiests would have well understood games were constantly evolving and naturally unable to be played on older machines.
I remember buying the N64 with Mario, and the first thing my mom said was: 'wait, this is exactly the same as you had before!'
She just saw the very core ( mario jumps on goomba, move on), instead of the revolutionary change in 3d games.
@@MisterCasket but she DID have a point though... look at it from her perspective, her son gets a new expensive piece of hardware just to do essentially the same type of game. It can be seen as unnecessary
@@BuzzKirill3D oh yes, from her point of view, certainly!
The console generations wasn't entirely unheard of, it just wasn't common knowledge. Atari was already on it's 3rd generation console at that time. Then again, most people at the time were still using typewriters and had never used a computer before.
I love these vintage classic gaming related videos. It's interesting to see how much gaming has evolved and what many people thought at the time. The mom clearly didn't understand but I'm happy many parents were opposite and knew that the Super Nintendo was a whole new experience and not just a new product but a super upgrade with many wonderful things to offer. I love the Super Nintendo and It's many amazing games. Thanks for sharing this great news report so It doesn't become lost media or just abandoned and lost in time. Cool video. ^_^
“People market things to make you spend more money” Meanwhile, she probably turned around and bought her 16th pair of shoe for the year.
idk why but i lost it halfway through your comment. parents do be like that though.
“Things definitely have come a long way since Pac-Man” Oh boy you ain’t seen nothing yet!!!
Right now we can physically play INSIDE games with Virtual reality!!!
Just imagine 30 years from now
Gta 5 : let me introduce myself
Ps5 likes to speak to you
Ahhh I disagree, games like SOTN, yoshis island snes, terranigma and seiken densetsu 3 are all much more impressive than lifeless modern games with 'realistic graphics'
"Parents just don't understand" -Will Smith
Neither does Will Smith..
+lemonlime
Just had to sell his ass.
probably his oldest kid too
Robert Leland ''Eminem doesn't like Nsync - well I do, so fuck him and the Backstreetboys too! '' - Bizarre
Best youtube comment I have seen this year!!
Get his name out your mother f*uckn mouth!
My first at home console was a TI994A From Texas Instruments, bought by my parents for the whole family. I have so many wonderful and hilarious memories of all of us having DK tournaments.
After all us kids were grown, Mama was still gaming. The last console I remember her buying for herself was the Gamecube before she got into PC games in her 50s. My parents were the coolest. 🥰
I remember when my dad surprised me with a SNES on my 14th birthday. Completely out of nowhere. Core memory unlocked that day.
That psychiatrist must have laughed all the way to the bank.
Sure am glad that as a family and these sessions we were able to discuss it with the kids and come to a reasonable solution about responsibility and finances in our family.
"That's great... here's my 2 week multi-session bill of $600.00"
... And bought each of her kids a Nintendo
Actually laughed all the to the store to buy the SNES and a bunch of games!
was that a Conker reference?
@@KeithsReviews dude wtf
Getting my SNES and playing Super Mario World and Zelda on Christmas is one of the best memories of my life.
Me too but for me it was Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country.
ChugSomeWindex The fact you went out of your way to comment that speaks volumes of yours kiddo.
Cambudio, Ignore him, he's probably a sad, 40 year-old virgin.
Cambaudio I had to borrow Zelda needless to say my cousin's never saw their Zelda ever again. I just couldn't stop playing the game. I beat it hundreds of times. Man I still remember getting the Golden Sword from that fairy ... :( will always cherish those memories.
same here! 1991 - best Christmas ever
I remember going with my dad to Toy R Us and picking up two or three of those game slips that you would take to a window where they stored all the games. I would be all excited and he would just be happy looking at me freak. I love you dad! Forever!
I still own three original SNES systems that function and I play them regularly. Got my first one at the age of 4 and it was birthday money well spent!
This 90's Mom "I'm going to say no, and I'm going to explain to him how companies market things to make more money"
Today's Mom "I MUST HAVE THE NEW $800 IPHONE!"
"Today's Mom" was the age of those kids in therapy. Think that's a coincidence?
Patrick Leal this is from Video Mania story is from the year I was born 1991 the 1990s nice story the year my mom had me back in 1991 great year of my childhood of good video games my parents I love them.
No shit!!!
Hahahahhaha...haaaa.........
Today's Mom: "I MUST HAVE THE NEW $1000.00 iPHONE!!!!"
That's my Millenial generation - gotta have the newest gadget out. I pretty much washed my hands of that attitude. Sick of society's bullshit expectations because of marketing ads. That said, I do still partake in tech but I wait until a said item has been on the market for a few years and dropped in price. For example, latest IPhone = $800. My phone = $75. 😎
I remember when my dad came home with the SNES. I was playing outside after it had rained and I saw him walking down the street and he raised the box over his head like he won a championship. I ran up to him and jumped around all excited. God damn those were good times.
That sounds really cool!
Did you give him a big hug? I hope so!
I spent the majority of 91, 92 and 93 asking for a super nintendo. I knew it would never happen. My mother had enough financial shortcomings as it was. She gifted it to me for Christmas of 1993. To this day nothing has ever topped that gift from my mom.
Nice !! I got my regular NES in either 1985 or 1986 and I still have it to this very day. It still works perfectly minus having to blow the games out. Talk about being well built, it outlived my PS2 and PS3. If I recall the games back then were around $19.99 or so. We traded games back then and you could always find used games for around $5 or so
I remember falling asleep with the Super Mario background music playing, so many nights.
Funfact: Nintendo DID had retro compatibility with the NES in mind when they started designing the Super NES. They abandoned the idea because of the multiple chips versions the NES cartridges had. That explain why the CPU was slower than the Genesis's. (Ironically, SEGA did made the powerbase converter that allowed them to run Master System games on the Genesis.)
Video games also teach you things.
They teach reading, problem solving, pattern recognition, hand eye coordination and I'm sure much more.
Keyboarding and art, too.
Why buy a modern car when a Model T Ford works just fine.
Modern cars are shite but a Ford Model T is completely impractical.
So is trying to play Breath of the Wild on a NES.
HowlingSnail because the Model T is insanely expensive now!!!
My word some of these people are idiots! It was a joke you utter melts.
Or playing a DVD on a VCR.
Mom, can I have a Super Nintendo for Christmas.
You already have a Nintendo at home.
THIS :(
i love my nes though
Love it. I hope you said “yes but it’s not super though” lmao
@@balls433 cant beat the snes :D
DR3W you are correct.
If they only knew what was to come. Fast forward to 2023. I’d go back 11 years any day.
Funny to see this bringing back some pivotal times in my life to mind. I grew up in a trailer court, we were no doubt below poverty. I wanted one badly as a 11 yr old boy. That kicked off a work for reward mentality in me that stuck well. Now I'm considered wealthy as an adult. Sadly, now days children have no concept of work for reward.
You just know the editors were so proud of themselves for this
actually made me laugh to be honest. Could we call it the first Let's Play?
they might have helped selling it
And with good cause!
Not as proud as the mom at 1:30 for being an absolute smoke show.
@@BigSmoke-bu6ib no kidding. I miss the days of natural women. Something sexy about a lady that has a good body but just doesn't give a shite about tanning, or tons of makeup and hair dye.
OMG! He died on live Television!! :O
R.I.P you will be missed... Or not
Zzzz.zzz.zombie meltymam?
At least the game let him know his status though.
+Global Warming Skeptic LMAO
HAHAHAHAAAA
1991: things have definitely come a long way since pac man
2023: hold my beer
When my parents were arguing I remember my father saying: it's okay, they're kids it's only temporary. Temporary indeed, for the next 50 years
Even as a kid I always found the argument that video games were an unhealthy addiction to be hypercritical when most adults would watch tv for hours at a time. At least I was interacting with my media rather than just staring at it.
ikr
boomers call video games unhealthy but they will sit there and stare at a TV for hours even though they do nothing while doing it
we actually interact with games and usually talk to people while playing too, they just sit there in silence and stare at a screen and then call us unhealthy
Watching a marathon of Jeopardy doesn't doesn't hurt
Clearly watching someone else lose at a gameshow for a hour is somehow better then playing a video game based on same said gameshow for an hour & losing at it yourself.
@@clothinghanger6978 you literally just repeated what Aegis said in slightly different structure. Ikr would have been good enough.....
@@vamountainman2512 I was just agreeing with them but ok, you sound a little butthurt about it lmfao 💀
"Ninten-pendant?" No. Nintendependent. Such a missed opportunity. Puns 101
Maybe it's a console you wear around your neck.
Absolutely, but not nearly as bad as missing the opportunity to play an SNES when it was the current gen!
News anchors. No one said they were clever.
The items on the first couple of videos were moving at a hypnotic pace.
My mom recently admitted to me that back one night in the early 90s she stayed up til 4 in the morning after my sis and I had been put to bed and she played Mario all night long on the NES. After that, she never touched the thing again knowing she would get addicted 😂
great story!!
Nothing about the Newscasters hair at the beginning? It was radicle
But left it for the kids to get addicted?
My mom got hooked on Pokemon for Nintendo gamboy advance, she was pretty good about it. And honestly had no problem giving up my gameboy so my mom to play, she had fun with it. My dad of course got into multi player games here and there too.
@@ineedhoez , 😮
*9 or 10 year old back then: MLG pro
*9 or 10 year old today: "how do I sprint?"
Cadetri Gaming REMEMBER THE 90s'?
***** I beat abes exodus and saved all 300 mudokkens. when I was 8. all secrets found. how about you?
+Johnny Most you got that right mate beating 007 on the 64 on 00 agent was a goddamn odyssey!!! call of duty on veteran is just a walk in the park in comparison games are to easy nowadays except of course for dark souls
***** and they wont be coming back...
***** true mate true, its very nostalgic to remember the good old days and too see how times are getting so damn weird and gray i mean there's even a guy in politics called DEEZ NUTS i mean WTF? what kind of times are this damn
I still remember going to stores and playing the new in-store consoles
I was born in 92, so this is literally JUST before my time....but my dad had the NES and SMB3 & I loved it! Even to this day I love that game. A little while later he upgraded to the N64 with SM64 and he was blown away that Mario went from the classic 2D arcade 8-bit pixels to fully 3D rendered polygons. Somewhere around the same time, my mom got me a PlayStation in 99 with a 4 pack bundle of games and she really liked Spyro the Dragon. At the turn of the century, around the early-mid 2000s, I got the PS2 which still works even to this day. In my opinion, the PS2 is the greatest era in gaming history. So many fantastic games were out AND you could use it to play your old PS1 games, music CDs, AND DVDs as well! When the PS3 came out, that's when I stopped getting consoles. I didn't really want it anyway since none of the games interested me too much and I was far too busy with my other hobby, being music. Not to mention this is when the internet was booming with absolute bangers such as Myspace, AIM, CZcams, etc. Call it nostalgia blind all you want, but it really was the best time to be a kid/teenager. In 2013, I decided to try out videogames again, so I bought a 2DS and Pokémon X for 200 bucks. Man, I felt cheated and I 100% believe I made the right decision in not buying games anymore. Don't get me wrong, it was a great game...but I beat it way sooner than I should have. I could have gotten the PS4, but for 400 bucks in 2013, I deemed that WAY too expensive. That's the equivalent to 517 dollars today. Not to mention the games were extra. At least 60-70 dollars. And if you want EVERYTHING in the game, that's extra in the form of DLC. As soon as they implemented that staple in video games, it completely killed the gamer inside me. Every game now became more or less 100+ dollars if you wanted the full experience and/or needed to pay to win at it. I really wish they'd go back to the PS2 mindset of games, complete with the graphics and absolutely NO DLC. No patches, nothing. The full game, bugs and all, 60 bucks. Maybe then I'll return to buying and playing games. Until then, I'll vicariously enjoy them by watching gameplay of the titles I like that some other sucker bought.
You could just buy a game that doesn't have DLC. Also, why do you say "the games were extra", because you got a PS1 with pack-ins. If you were to buy them outside of the pack-in, it'd still cost $50-$60 (which after inflation, is $90-$110, the same price as today). Also also, Pokemon X & Y are the easiest Pokemon games, which is why you completed so quickly. Also also also, I find it funny how while you don't play games anymore, you watch people play newer games, and call them "suckers" for buying them. Just find it ironic.
0:00 RIP to all the animals who died to make that anchor's hair.
She has a racoon on her head
It looks like a bird shat on it
Good thing she doesn’t have this raccoon hairstyle anymore
Fuck those animals. Thats a comfy chair
She got a tanooki suit.
Any time someone talks about "the good old days when people weren't crazy" I think of things like this. We've always been nuts
Seems people then at least questioned if they were being exploited, rather than embracing it
@@willnill7946
They exploited themselves in the process. People have always been crazy, and nothing has changed.
If anything, we are getting more collectively aware of certain issues.
You're not going to find an old historian or activist who's seen the events of 2020-2021 before. Even old people compared 9/11 to Pearl Harbor, but 2020 was unprecedented unfiltered lunacy
people were crazy but not in front of camera like now.
If anything people were worse back then. Can you imagine the type of opinions you’d see if Twitter was around in the 90s?
Love the kid and play haircut. And the reported. Brings back memories!
I love to listen to my news reports out of one ear.
wait...so parents were mad because of how expensive the super Nintendo was,so they took their kids to a psychologist?
No.
Dakota Stein lol
@@titusmccarthy stfu
I don't have to spend money on a NES today because I have an emulator on my phone.
Wait till they see the PS5 price tag
My dad and his friend used to play Mario Duck Hunt on the NES. They were flabbergasted that you could point a toy gun at the tv then shoot and have the duck fall. That was futuristic for them at that time. From then on my dad bought us every Nintendo console till he passed away in 2002.
Well I was born in 84' and got the Nintendo right on Christmas 1991. My brother and I loved playing those games. We were basically addicted. I rmemeber coming home at noon from kindergarten turning on our 28" sony, getting a big bag of lays chips and crushing a huge line of cocain. We would play super Mario until 2am.
part of me wishing this is a real story 🤣💯
Light gun technology was around before NES. Just sayin'
@@umageddon Yes but not on the scale seen by the NES . It introduced the tech to hundreds of millions..and then, the tech pretty much disappeared from home consoles soon after.
@@pbufh are you just going to copy and paste this under every comment?
Warns about marketing = Partakes in one of the most epic ads of all time
When I first saw these games, I was like oh, it's over. This is all I wanna do LOL
1991: Have things gone too far?
2024: This is fine 🔥🔥🫠🔥🔥
That anchorwoman's hair is responsible for the hole in the ozone layer.
Not just her hair..me,my sister,and all her friends were also responsible..back then if your hair wasn't crispy with hairspray you mind as well be bald 😂😂
Love it :,)
Thank you, this is what I came to the comments for.
@Mr Ross a middle-aged April O'Neil lol
The 80s really didn’t end until 1995 or so.
My favorite part is how they keep referring to "Graphics" as "Pictures"
Aaron Booth that's literally the definition of graphics though