"The world felt like it moved in slow motion as a kid" As someone who's in their 30s now, that statement really resonates with me. It really does feel like time tripled it's speed at some point after I got into my 20s. Every year of being in school felt like an eternity, and each of those years were burnt into my memory with experiences that, for better or worse, meant a lot to me. These days, years pass by so fast that I struggle to distinguish between them when I attempt to recall what I did during a lot of them.
Yes. Console game rentals, deciding if a game is any good based solely on box art, computer game/software piracy on floppy disks, borrowing or copying games from friends, shareware, making boot disks for PC games to work on low-end machines, first mods and early multiplayer over the internet (Doom), playing games at school's computer class, having friends over to play games, couch co-op and vs games, blowing into cartridges, passwords and cheat codes (Game Genie), light gun games on TV screens, gaming magazines (and written game reviews) becoming more popular, playing board games and outside as much as (or more than) video games, Christmases (the time when you actually had a change to get a new game), playing Leisure Suit Larry or other erotic themed games secretly away from your parents' eyes. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
The only generation to know what growing up was life _before_ the internet, while also growing up _with_ the internet. An interesting time in history to be alive.
I hope everyone sees the weight of this sentence. My brother was born 5 years after me, but it was enough of a difference to see him adopt a very different attitude towards technology than I have, simply due to the ease of access to the internet, and what was possible with it.
I say this a lot, except it's even more important when it comes to cell phones. We were the last generation who grew up able to go out and about with no parental contact, no constant expectation to be in touch with anyone at any time, but we also came of age as cell phones started to become ubiquitous. Kids these days can't imagine not having the internet available whenever they want or being out of touch with parents or a significant other. Unlike Gen Z or our parents, we grew up in both worlds and experienced two completely different cultural milestones while we were developing. In a way, it makes us like a mini-generation out of time, but it also allows us to adapt better than many others.
@@jeffreydean7556 I remember not even buying a cellphone until like, Grade 11 or 12, and only because I would stay out late. It was basically just for emergencies. It was a pay-as-you-go too, so no texting plan (although the keyboard sucked for it anyway). No internet because that cost more (and the phone was really not built for it). I used my phone so little that I didn’t even buy a smartphone until like, 5 or so years afterwards because I was flying to another country myself and wanted access to GPS. Otherwise I had no need. I did have an iPad when those first came out as an easier way to check messages, but only around the house. That’s how little I used/use a cellphone.
I feel you man I’m proud to say that I was a 90’s kid. Just sad to see kids nowadays stuck on on their tablets or phones. It was so fun back then going outside after school riding our bikes or playing two hand touch football. Gaming was a lot better especially playing two player.
sure was. i was born in 79 and my dad was an electrical engineer and a huge nerd so we were the first on our block to have a pc with dial up internet. i still remember when he brought home a copy of Doom shareware that he borrowed from a coworker, it absolutely blew my mind. still one of my favorite memories to this day.
@@MrMistermoges redneck rampage, duke nukem, I also seen twisted metal cut scene! So fun! Our kids can have the same upbringing but can consume a childhoods worth of content in a weekend.
its true, and it goes so much deeper than just that. it was a time of peace and freedom, cold war ended and war on terror and everything that followed with it not yet started. it is a true blessing that we could have experianced this outstanding decade. me, play games since popolous, i startet with ibm pc´s and i was lucky. mate, thank you for your comments, i miss it too, never will come back but also never will leave our hearts. we are, what we are, because of that time. thats my honest believe
I was born in 1984 so this video hit home. 90s were a great time for gaming, I remember just staring at catalogs wishing I had all the games and having to wait until Christmas or my birthday to get one. Now I can buy all the games I want my only limit is time to play them.
1984 here as well. Damn I am getting teary eyed thinking about me and my friends, sticking EGM and Gamero inside our Literature Workbooks, so we could read them. After school going to "The rich friends house" cause his parents kept him stocked with all the sweet bullhsit you could think of, as well as leaving to go on trips over the weekend so we had their huge house to out selves. No bills, no worries, no time restraints, it was just fun all day everyday (I can still smell the unique smells of my local Arcade, and the Local Discovery Zone I frequented).... Sigh.... it truly takes living thru hard times, to realize how great old times truly where. All I wanted as a youth was to turn 16 and get a car, then at 18 move out. Now, if some sort of time travel tom foolery occurred and I was whisked back, I would be savoring everyday, so much more. Any friend ever says "Can't wait till I am old enough to move out" I would do like Billy Maddison, and grab them by the face screaming "NOOO DON'T SAY THAT DON'T EVER SAY THAT! STAY HERE AS LONGGG AS YOU CAN!!!" lol
I remember I was in 5th grade and obsessed with Zelda to the point where I was writing up my own "walk through" book. I even had drawings in it. I wish I'd never lost that book.
I made my own pokedex. XD Whenever they revealed a new pokemon online, I printed the data on glued it on paper XD I also drawn my own video game magazine with own game ideas XD
@@julians7268 sadly no. Had to throw away a lot of childhood drawings cause I just draw way too much that we could not transport everything when we moved to a new apartment. Wish I could get my old drawings back honestly, just to see how I improved over the years and maybe redraw some old ideas. :(
It's a wonder what we create as kids like that. I meticulously created 100+ custom Pokemon Cards regularly in Elementary school for fun that would statistically work fine in the actual cardgame. Still bummed all my pokemon Cards were thrown in the trash by my mom and never recovered due to a minor grievance my parents had. "I used to play with them all the time". They never intended to throw all of them away but we both forgot they were there until it was too late and someone took the bag out...
10 yr old me playing Spyro the Dragon on my PS1 was the happiest time of my existence. No money problems, wife problems, not any problems. I was just enjoying being in the world of Spyro the Dragon so much that it made me want to live on a different world. ...So I moved to Japan as an adult because that is the closest you can get to being on a different world.
I was a Nintendo kid (never had a PS1) and grew up happily immersing myself in the worlds of Zelda and Mario games, so I absolutely hear you. I got a job teaching in Japan and moved right after university. What you wrote, about it being the closest you can get to being a different world . . . in all these years I've never thought about it in quite that way, but this is exactly what it was. I'd actually become fascinated with Noh and Kabuki during uni, as it suddenly opened my mind to what a vastly different place Japan was, and by extension how much there was to explore and experience in the big world out there. We're probably pretty close in age from the sounds of it, so despite any money or marital problems or otherwise, I hope you've had some adventures and an amazing ride with life so far.
I definitely relate to how we were totally into gaming, but had other stuff in our lives too. We rode bikes, played man hunt, built legos, etc etc etc.
Me and everyone I knew pretty much did nothing but play video games in the 80s and 90s. Once in a while we might go swimming in the pool, ride the go cart or bikes or something but for any average day it was pretty much all video games all the time. Guess you guys just didn't have enough of them.
I’m a 1983 man, myself and I miss the good old days. Youngsters today think they’ve got it great, but don’t realize what a time it was to be a kid in the 90’s from the games, the movies, the music, the toys, the shows… you just had to be there to really appreciate it.
I'm an '83 man myself. Yeah them were the good ol days! We would watch Saturday morning cartoons then go outside and play then we would come in and play a little bit on the ol nes or the genesis. Our lives weren't wrapped around a game people are so out of touch with having a social life these days. Friends don't come over they just chat online and play games online. They don't never call and check in with you they text. We had it made dude.
1983 was hands down the best birthyear one could hope for... the others were just too soon or too late to fully comprehend and apreciate all those technical jumps we witnessed on a somewhat regular basis. Like going from 256 colours 8 bit games to massiv 16,8 milion colours 3D brainmelting experiences... I might have exaggerated a bit there, but man, we had it all
May 1983 here! Also agree! Wow, we had the best opportunity to see so much. Our knowledge and understanding of gaming is contained in our memories and very hard to describe to younger kids growing up today. We just had the best of several worlds. We could be gone from the house for hours without our parents needing to know where we were, as long as we were home when the street lights came on. Parents didn’t have to worry about what we were watching because they could see all the books, magazines and games by going into our rooms and checking the shelves and lifting the mattress. I saved up for a long time to buy a sega genesis and loved every minute of it, might be my favorite all time console(for me).
Being a kid in the 90s: Video games were part of your life, but were not ‘your’ life. We still played outside, had tons of friends and used our imaginations. I miss this time.
Man i can relate to everything this guys said. The 90s were awesome. We played video games as well as we playing outside, riding bikes, playing tag, basketball, football etc... We aslo had Blockbuster, West Coast video, arcades were the hangouts for us youngsters as well as the skating rink in the weekends. Man those were some good times.
Given that the 90s is the favorite gaming era of both people born in 1980 as well as people born in 1990, I think it's more than rose-tinted nostalgia. It really was magical.
Oh it's definitely is more as an era. I've discussed this with many people from all ages and most agreed in this. Late 80s was the start of entertainment, 90s was the enchantment of the entertainment and 2000s was the closest to the peak of our human civilization.... until 2010 or to be more accurate, 9/2011. After that things gone to shit. Those elites and corporations who took over and calling the shots to this days are selfish and they are corrupting anything they touch, games, movies, music... everything has to be according to the boomer ESP scores of theirs, minimalistic, sanitizer and controlled. Now they try to steal from the consumers...they also refuse to make place from the younger CEOs, just check what happened to Capcom allegedly, the boomer father gave control for a while to his son who made some banger games and the father was waiting for an excuse to seize back the company ( I would assume out of jealousy) and what he did? Be breaking their consumer's privacy with the DRM ENIGMA which not in all countries is legal what he did. Ubisoft said we should be comfortable not owning anything and so on... Inflation, injustice, millennials and Zoomers getting bashed in due to the projections of the older generations despite being dealt with the worst cards due to their selfishness... I don't want to live anymore with where we're going.
Absolutly. Kids today don't understand not being able to enter your house on the weekends, if you want a drink their was a water hose on the side of the house. Parents didn't give a damn where I went as long as I was home in time for school Monday morning.
I don't remember what my first game I played, but I have a flash memories about game fighting soulcalibur and game airplane called raiden from local arcade. Is that game from 80'sor 90s?
Watching this made me think of the humble PS demo disc. Was so cool getting a taste of what games were coming out. I remember the demo disc with Tony Hawk pro skater 1 being shared around me and my mates pretty heavily when it first dropped. You hit the nail on the head though. As a kid from 88, gaming in the 90s was truly awesome.
Playstation Underground! I begged my parents for a stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut to get that disk lol. It took me so long to understand what a demo was. I thought I had a CD with a bunch of short games on it until I got my hands on the full copy of Metal Gear Solid and it made so much more sense. I spent so much time on that demo disk!
This made my day. Nostalgia level 100 achieved. I was born in 1980 and my Dad bought the family the NES in 1985 and forever changed my childhood. The 90s took video games to a whole new level. Video games made Summer breaks made a poor kid feel rich
79 for me. Parents didnt want to spend on nintendo or master system when I hit 7 or eight so it was the Atari 2600 for a few years. Good memories though. The video game crash had destroyed the atari market share (which I didnt know at the time) so I could buy the games with my 3 dollar weekly allowance lol
81 for me. Got a commodore 64 at the age of 10, then a Sega Master System 2 and then a SNES. So many fond memories of all the games, even with their crippling difficulty levels, the single player campaigns, mates coming over for 2 player, the industry has changed beyond belief now with online gaming and all these streamers who believe they are something special. Glad we grew up in the 80s and 90s, think we had the best of both worlds in terms of gaming and real life 👍
80 here. I was born in Ponce, PR and I think I was the only kid in the barrio with an Atari 2600 that my grandpa bought me, we would get together at the house periodically when we weren't being savages outside. We were big on remote controls too for some reason. Standout games were some type of Star Defender, a wrestling game, Centipede, F1 pole position I believe and Pitfall. Didn't get an NES til I moved to the states and I remember the day my father bought the NES as a surprise and set it up on the tv. I played Duck Hunt forever until I started to learn how to play Mario Bros. Didn't realize how expensive it was relative to salaries back then until this documentary. Gives me a little perspective, my parents and grandparents loved me so much they were willing to sacrifice to make me happy even though I was a snot nosed kid and we were mostly poor. Thank you for this documentary it was spot on and found myself laughing many times, so many memories I'll never forget, Cheers!
C64, C128, IBM, NES, SNES, etc for me. Good times, but still I certainly spend almost as much time in sports clubs than geeking out with friends over games. We certainly did call us gamers already, because nobody was a nerd. Only Geeks, Gamers and self-proclaimed Otakus (the weebs liked to call them self that back in the 90s) ;-)
82 kid here, this all sounds very familiar. "buying games from a store and having no idea what they are" 😂 then reading the manual in the car all the way home.
@@GenjuroKibagami Curious, what was your route in consoles throughout the past 40 years? Mine was: Atari Turbo Graphics 16 Sega Genesis Playstation PS2 Xbox 360 Wii Switch (still have) Xbox Series S (still have) And, of course, multiple computers.
I remember me and my brother being stuck on Resident Evil 1 (1996) on the PS1 for about 4 months, trying to find a certain puzzle piece. It wasn't til I was on a cigarette break with one of the lads on my apprenticeship year, and he told me he'd completed the game. In awe I asked him how - he said the token was hidden in a book in the inventory. I rushed back home excited, and it was BACK ON for me and my brother. Such good times. Everyone just living their own lives.
Great video! I was born in 71. So I started in the arcades with little money. My parents got me the Atari 2600 for Xmas in 81. Then the NES in 86. Definitely tons of great memories with gaming solo, or with friends! I’m still a Gamer. Modern and old. I still play The Colecovision, NES, Sega Genesis, and much more. Been collecting for years now. It’s been fun growing up in the late 70’s, 80’s. The 90’s was my favorite decade. But it’s just been amazing to experience and watch the advancements and Technology’s advance in the last 40 years! Just tons of great memories. Impossible to explain everything.
A lot of the adult I am today was thanks to some of the stuff DT talks about. I used to play Shadows Over Mystara in the arcade, I became friends with some guys who happened to play pen and paper D&D so they invited me to play, I was 13. And that decision to play D&D shaped most of my adult life lol
This is why games like Celeste, Outer Wilds, and Hollow Knight are a treasure. It still has the difficulty, and gives you the sense of being a part of something much bigger than yourself. It’s tough to grasp that feeling of wonder from my childhood, but those games do it flawlessly.
I remember playing Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast. Waiting in the dial up loading screen took patience kids would never have today. Once you got into a lobby… it was the coolest thing ever to chat directly near someone else and see their responses. Thanks for the upload. It brought me back.
Man…. So many points hit me straight in the ❤!!! Born in ‘84. This video made me remember how exciting it was to go to Blockbuster and see that the game I wanted to rent was actually “in” 🤣 and the excitement that came along with getting to play that game… for the 2 days we could rent it for!!
I remember going to the Albertsons and renting games from there a lot. They had a video/game section and sometimes had better deals than Blockbuster. I miss going out to rent a movie or game.
Yeah, even though there was 14 copies of it, and every one was rented out.....but sometimes, just sometimes, if you came in just after the return due time, you would wait by the rack and see what games the clerk put back. I scooped up many cool games soon after release by timing when I would go rent the games. Early sneaky bird gets the worm.
@@bean420man I started collecting VHS movies and picked up a good vhs player, I love it. Watched The perfect storm 2 times already, almost 30 year old cassette and video player, and still works as good as when it was new, very cool!
This has to be the most nostalgic video ever. I would have never thought growing up that video games would become this mainstream, it's no longer a question of if you play video games but what games you play. We are lucky though, we got to experience a time period that will never be repeated. We got to experience both life without the internet and with the internet. Games just felt so different, it was more of a sense of discovery than anything. I'm not going to lie I was pretty good at picking out games as a kid, I think I hardly ever picked out a game I didn't like. Basing it solely on the picture on the front and the picture on the back. Just felt like better times, I yearn for those moments to have lasted longer.
My dad would ask the clerk and 9/10 times it was an incredible game. Meanwhile child me was a moron and wanted licensed videogames on my favourite cartoons, movies and shows, which were rife in the 90s and suckered so many kids and parents into buying awful games. Also buying off the boxart and back of box screenshots was still a big thing. Going to a friends house to play all the games you didn't own was worth it every time.
Sorta feel we where the last generation to experience gaming at it's purest and most innocence. Want's Micro transactions and Loot Boxes started happening, a piece of gaming died in all of us.
Having lived through a bit of pre-ubiquitous-Internet / cell phones / social media and now pre AI really gives the older millennials a very unique life perspective. Keep enjoying life and savor whatever you have, good or bad, because it's real and it's your moment.
This is really spot on. It also hit me right in the feels. Like remembering a passed loved one. Crazy. Im 36 now and, in addition to staying current with todays games, I've taken to buying old games and consoles to relive some of these moments. However, I cant just blow through them like i did as a kid. I savor the experience, heh, almost like wine!! 😂 Thanks for the warm fuzzies. ❤
Nope, old games are a drag, unless they get remastered, some remakes and all of them need online play... Hardcore Veteran gamer since 1988, no pun Andre. Ickatina.
Im nearly 40 and have been gaming since i was old enough to physically sit at our computer, seeig games go from ascii graphics and text adventures to what we have now has been a wild ride and its not going to stop!
I was born in 1991 and I have an older brother born in 1990. This video definitely hits everything from crazy sleepovers to arcades ect. I remember our mom only let us play video games on the weekends, so we would always go over to friends houses to play their console and bring our cartridges when mom wasn't looking... She used to say things like stop staring into a light bulb all day and go outside and play. The nostalgia is real and nothing can ever take that away from us. Thank you for helping me remember.
The 90s are my nostalgia heaven. I was a Sega kid after my mom traded my NES for the Genesis so Sonic, Panzer Dragoon and Batman & Robin were my best friends. My brother had a PS1 luckily and that's where I played Final Fantasy, Twisted Metal and Metal Gear Solid. Truly miss the magic of this era. Every single game did something new and cool and even if it was bad, like you said, we just did not care.
I agree. Some of the games I grew up loving apparently got bad ratings. But as a lower middle-class kid, you're lucky if you got 3 SNES games in one year. I still have my collection today. Just played lion king last year for the first time 😂
@@davidaitken8503 I'm well aware of that. I was saying that I was a Sega kid after I was given a Genesis, so those games that I mentioned after were some of the many I played on the Sega platforms I owned (like the Saturn, Game Gear and Dreamcast) after becoming a Sega kid.
METAL GESR SOLID! I had to wait 2 full years to play it because i had a pc not a ps1. Blew my mind right off! Still one of the best games ive ever played.
Man I miss the nineties arcade scene! Born in 1984 I've only recently begun to realise just how great the nineties were, especially around the gaming scene. This video hit so many nostalgic nerves. Thank you!
Short version? It was friggin' awesome! We got to watch the transition from 8bit to 16bit to 32bit to 64bit. From 2d to 3d. From k7 tapes to cartridges to cds to dvds. From barely distinguishable masses of polygons of the ps1 and saturn, to the full blown animated models of the ps2 era graphics, like mgs2. I honestly dont think anyone born past the 00s could understand just how magical it was 😊
For me because of my older bros the first time I laid eyes on a true sandbox was when my biggest shock came with gta 3. I had seen 3D before hand with his PlayStation 1 and those games were like wow to me but for me the biggest wow moment was definitely gta 3 as someone who was born in 91.
A dozen lines with a dozen n64 consoles at toys r us to play 20 minute demos all day it was packed. Well maybe less than a dozen it's been a while... haha
Oh, boy, what a great time we had back then just with game demos. I'm born 1988 and I had a great time in the 90s and 2000s. I remember playing the hell out of the Demos of games like Jagged Alliance 2, Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun or Age of Empires for literally weeks because they had so much replay value for me. My PC time was limited to one hour a day which did its part to that stretch the time out. One hour back then felt like 3 hours nowadays which makes me think about the perception of time throughout life and our appreciation of that precious thing named time.
Can vouch that being a kid in the 90’s was peak humanity. Having to sit down with a notebook alongside your friends and truly theorycraft how to beat a game was so exciting compared to just getting the answer in 3 seconds for free now.
Idk how many times I wrote down codes, or looked up GameFAQS maybe you had a printer! Maybe you got the magazine that detailed how to beat it, or you just played over and over because you only had this game or one other Abd you weren’t getting one till your birthday or Christmas. Maybe your rent one but you won’t finish it. Maybe someone at school has a rumor on how to find this secret! Maybe there’s a Game Genie/Shark that lets you beat the game but it might totally corrupt your one game you have left one because there’s no save system in this one!
There will *NEVER* be another gaming technological jump , going from 2D to 3D was a game changer and it was so fascinating seeing how everyone adapted to it
I remember when I first played Tomb Raider...for others may be another game, for me it was Tomb Raider that made me go "wooooooow"...suddently, we were "inside" the games...
@@akangsuki I personally don't see it. Vr is cool but it's not something anyone can do and the games we get are barely worth it, I see it more useful as a tool personally. I'll admit I don't know anything about AR except for phone games
@@akangsuki when 2D to 3D happened, it changed *EVERYTHING* and every new game that was successful with it made more contributions to the industry. VR has been around for decades and only recently were getting "ok" games. The best one I experienced was resident Evil 7 and it was just the camera controls. There has yet to be a VR that COMPLETELY changes everything and makes it a must have
The next jump will be when you can type a video game idea into AI and it will spit out a custom made video game for you. lol ... basically the industry (and life as we know it) is doomed lol
Born in 82...sitting here with a huge nostalgic smile on my face on how close you've captured what many of us felt back then...and even the feeling that some of us are trying in vain to recapture. Great job and insta-subscribe.
Greetings generation! 😀 I still like to play that old games too! It's like some time machine that brings me to the 90's. I recently installed GTA 2 😁 There's simply no thrill in this new games.
The 90s seemed to have everything a kid could want: coming of age movies, cartoons, video games, arcades, toys. So much more. Was a lovely time. I miss it.
You know, the 50-60s had kids just being Goonies instead of watching goonies, because Suburbs and America was not so car centric and kids actually had quite a lot more range of independence than a quarter mile radius. Sure, compared to today, a quarter mile seems like a quarte mile more than todays kids have. But kids used to have double digit miles of radius around their homes. And in Europe they have had this in the 90s, but independence of kids in the states is constantly shrinking. Less physical space avaible for them and less mental too, considering how much surveillance equipment American parents are using these days. Makes 70s Bond movies look like lacking in equipment.
@@Joshua-wp2ci People would still play outside if there was anything outside to do and American laws actually allowing kids to go outside alone. They certainly still go outside in the rest of the world. Parks and playgrounds are full with kids this summer again, maybe even more so than they had been before COVID.
The very moment you said "wonder" I teared up. Because that's precisely the precious emotion that ties it all together. Thank you so much for this trip.
There is still one fatality that I saw a kid perform on MK II, he was tsang tsung, morphed into subzero, froze the guy, morphed back to tsang tsung and did his fatality…it was so precise and cool, something I could never duplicate but I’ll never forget it Thanks for the video! Toys r us and Kay bee toy stores were the best for video game window shopping
This is exactly how I remember it. Especially the being too poor to afford many videogames at all, so you had to enjoy the ones you had. Also how video games didn't define you, it was just one of several activities you did with friends growing up. Such a true video
The uk felt a little different are games wasn't as expensive they was in the usa but I think that's because we got into the gaming world a little sooner and cheaper as government laws was different we have a RRP price that companies could not sell things above that set price. We also had a massive used gaming market by the 90s and all game shops would sell used games for around £5 for a mega drive game even when the ps1 came out the used game market was already in place. All shops head every gaming magazine were you could get walk-through cheat codes and demo games on the front.
This is me, fellas. Born in 1979, i was 11 at the beginning of that decade and 21 at the end. This video is all for me. 😂 Too many happy gaming memories to write about. Suffice to say, we were extremely fortunate on the gaming front, back then. 😊
What an amazing video, brings back so many memories! I'm a 90s baby and most of my all-time favorite games are from this decade. This was the period that made me fall in love with video games along with the early 2000s. As you mentioned, life before microtransactions and pay-to-win online games were just so much more fun and in a way innocent. Games were extremely hard, so what people consider difficult today I often find easy actually. Was a great time, will never forget it! Thank you for this!
This was so spot on. I always say that we were the last generation to get to enjoy a semi "real" world. I was born in 88 and when we were kids we still got to go outside and enjoy life, not life glued to a screen. Meet people face to face through actually conversation, using our imaginations and our own thoughts. Now with all the outlets there's no need to even think for yourself. I mean I still know how to write in cursive for crying out loud. What is happening in society is dangerous, and my advice to you is raise your kids, don't let the internet do it for you. Don't be an ipad parent.
Right on the nose and is what I remember ❤❤ so true about writing on actual paper, I bet a lot of kids today don't even know how to do that, these are strange times indeed 😮
Eh, even socrates complained about kids not needing to remember stuff now that it was hip to rely on clay tablets for written words instead of memorising things. People have always. Always complained or worried about the new generation not having or getting to experience what their parents have. Guess what kids these days will tell each other in 30 years... You're absolutely right that it's interesting to belong to a generation that has seen the rise of the internet though! I'm from 86 and we got our first internet connection when I was about 11 years old.
It is spot on only if you were barely teenager at 2000 , on the other hand if you were a teenager at 1990 it is a whole different story than the one on this video.
when you say iPad parent, i have to say my heart bleeds for the many Asian-American children i see in Chinese restaurants who actually sit in the restaurant all day while their mom/dad slave making that ohh so delicious crap, but seriously, the one closest to me that i periodically go into (called HONG KONG restaurant no less) has a young lad who im seeing growing up since being an infant, watched by a girl, who was a child too, to a young boy throwing his giant lego's all over the restaurant and being a hazard to patrons, to now about six years old and watching Pokemon related videos from CZcams influencers on his iPad! i feel bad that despite having little myself growing up, it was 1000 times better than what that young boy is living now. As an adult man myself, I see to it to pass on a bit of good humanity and social ness his way, i mean, not in a weird way, i still like Pokemon (from the nineties and should have been mentioned) and ill go up to the young lad and small talk about what he's watching while my Bourbon chicken and rice cooks! like I said, Delicious crap!
Damn. This feels like a blast from the past. Never thought I’d hear my childhood so vividly explained. It’s like being a kid all over again. Well done, very, very well done.
So resonate with your commentary! I spent countless hours immersed in gaming (arcade and in-house/console) and loving it! Just the simple delight of a shared experience with my besties makes me yearn for those innocent joyous days. Thanks for sharing bro!
it was the best thing ever , simple life, there was a meaning for gathering and play coop on the couch, there was meaning and pure fun playing awesome original solo games, life was sooo cool back then in everything.
My gaming journey could’ve began in the 80s, 90s or 2000s and I would’ve been a happy person either way! All 3 were FAR better decades to be a gamer than the 2010s-now! Even if I was around for the Video Game Crash of 83, I’d still swear by my Atari, Intellivision and/or Colecovision and get a good few more games in the fire sales, and/or maybe even import a Famicom from Japan!
Not only was gaming in the 90s awesome but cartoons,tv shows, music, being able to play outside with your friends and using your imagination. That's when being a kid was really being a kid during those times.
@@adultmoshifan87 I’m not going to tell you your wrong for feeling this way as I’m young as hell. But even then living in the 2020s now, not only do you have access to all of those games thanks to pirating, you have more than 1000+ newer games to play that will keep coming.
1:30 minutes in and I'm feeling old af.... Amazing video, the nostalgia, thank you. I was born in 1984 so I lived through all of this, had several consoles or played on them at the homes of friends. I experienced the rise of the internet, had a subscription to a gaming magazine (here in The Netherlands, Power Unlimited was THE magazine). I played several C&C games, the first 2 Warcraft games, got scared by a Pinky in Doom, was in awe of Mortal Kombat and Sonic on Sega, had a NES with Super Mario Bros. battles with the whole family for a high score on Tetris on the OG Gameboy. Conclusion: The 90's were the best decade for games, even with today's standard of graphics and gameplay, nothing beats that feeling of playing a game you hadn't played before in the 90's. I wish I could relive it again....
Some of my very best memories - I remember the first time I played Super Mario 64 at a Blockbuster - blasting out of a cannon was the absolute most mind-blowing thing I had ever seen in a game up to that point in my life
The first time I saw Super Mario 64 was at my friend's house. He didn't even go into a level, he just ran Mario around outside the castle for about 45 seconds and my MIND WAS BLOWN.
I'm born in 1987, and you really nailed it. I can still remember the endless days and night playing games on the NES but also on PC Dos with friends. Thank you for bringing back all the memories
Being a gamer in a village in denmark during the 90s was real hard tbh. I mean, living was easy, it was the finding games to play or consoles was hard. And the only arcade i ever saw was when i was vacationing in germany in the early 2000's. But its still a lot of great memories made with friends ill never forget.
I know what you mean. I grew up in a village in Wales, and my nearest store was 30+ minutes by car. Didn't have much money, didn't have easy access, and nobody in my village really cared for games. I was literally 1 of maybe 3-5 people who played games regularly in that place. A long walk up the hill to my friends house in order to play multiplayer on a PS1/PS2. Similarly to you, my mind would be blown when I took a vacation to England or a major city area, and I would see video game merchandise and be completely shocked at the concept of an arcade etc. A lot of good memories too.
This was a delightful nostalgia trip. Thank you for putting it together. I think that a history of the major gaming magazines of the 90's (Nintendo Power, GamePro, EGM) would be an interesting documentary.
Your video deserves a video game award I born 1979 the beginning of the golden age of games and grow up in the 80s and 90s was the best time to be alive great content…
I was born in 1980. The NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis were my childhood. The early 90s were some of the best times looking back. Such a great time to grow up!
100000% agree with you here. Whilst nostalgia is a thing and has to factor if you were an 80s child you rode the wave tech from 8bit NES 1983, Master Sytem 1985, 1988 Mega Drive/Genesis 16bit, 1990 SNES 16bit, 1994 Sega Saturn 32Bit, PS1 1994, 32 Bit, 1996 N64 64Bit, 1998 Dreamcast 128Bit, 2000 PS2 126Bit and on.......Despite PS2 being the best selling console ever the biggest tech leap happening between 1983 and 1998....even now the gap between the ps3 and PS4 is negligable
1980 Kid here. I remember clear as day walking into a mall in Edmonton canada while on vacation and seeing Golden axe on an lonely arcade...What a game! I bought the sega genesis that very day. 1991 i believe it was
My god dude. You literally transported me back to some of the most nostalgic places of my childhood. I feel like I just pulled a Hot Pocket out of the microwave and I'm watching stick stickly do his afternoon sign off. Which is my cue to turn my PS1 on and continue trying to unlock all the characters in Tekken 2. Extremely well-thought-out at perfectly edited video. Liked and subscribed instantly.
Although this was an American-flavoured version of the 90's I found a lot of similarities with my own Swedish childhood growing up in the mid 80's and early 90's. The arcade was non existent, unless you went to Copenhagen Tivoli (amusement park). One thing that really hit home was that games were REALLY expensive. Due to this, most of my childhood was actually on home computers like the Commodore 64 or the Amiga 500. Piracy was really key to make gaming viable to a lot of kids in the area. We had some adults who downloaded cracked Amiga games through BBSes from England, Germany etc (before the internet) and then they spread like wildfire within our suburb, all the kids helping each other out, even getting together for "copying parties". 🤣 It's actually such a weird thing. I can get nostalgic by listening to x-copy, a disk copying software for the Amiga... Don't blame us, we were all just kids back then, without any money, and our parents weren't particularly rich either. 😅
certainly true, german here, and I also grew up on piracy, my step dad had a whole cd full of mega genesis emulator games with pretty much all the classic sonic games XD Also got into final fantasy 7 this way XD
I grew up in the Netherlands and literally every town with 15,000 people or more had a serious arcade hall. Germany sucked though. They barely had arcades due to strict 'gambling' rules. Here in the Netherlands Amiga was popular too and Sega was more popular than Nintendo.
@@drunkensailor112 that's kind of insane, the only time I stumbled upon arcade machine in Sweden were old ones found in shady local pizzerias. My experience of them was really on the ferries between Sweden and Germany, I remember playing Golden Axe and Outrun! Great times, especiallt being completely floored of the graphics compared to the often lousy home PC ports. During the mid 90's we had one quite small and short lived arcade hall called "Tilt" in Malmö. Keep in mind this is the 3rd largest city in Sweden, with 300K people. I wonder if it had something to do with gambling laws similar to Germany. It feels like Arcades were not illegal, but probably (?) unprofitable here.
@@PixelShade where there strict any gambling rules in Sweden too? I know this is why Germany had almost none, but here and all countries to the south and uk had them in the thousands
I’m from Portugal and piracy was a pretty normal thing, specially in the 90s and early 2000s. Games were (and are) very expensive for such a poor economy. I knew no one in my family or circle of friends that could afford actually buying games regularly. You’d be lucky if you’d get an original game in your birthday. I think it was only Steam that actually started to change that.
Born in 1979, still playing games today. Sega Mega Drive and Mega Drive II player. I remember the hours I put into Another World, that game felt so difficult back then. Then Flashback came out, which is one of my all time favorite games along with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. Thanks for the memories unlocked in this video.
Yea, I remember Neo Geo and Sega Saturn being out of my price range.. and dying to play it at my one friend's house, the kid who had all kinds of new and neat toys. Remote control cars and long range walkie talkies.
This all took me back man. I went from being a little kid to a young teenager through the '90s and I was fortunate enough to experience all of this. I have been gaming on PC since I was about three in the '80s and I still remember when my dad got our first internet connection in the early '90s and started downloading demos for me. I was lucky enough to have a couple of different 16-bit consoles and I would go down to the local video store with my neighbors every weekend to pick up some random games to try out. Arcades are still my favorite memory in gaming because the moment you crossed into a badass arcade and you saw all those monoliths of entertainment standing row on row lit up like a frog in a dynamite pond you knew you were in heaven.
You hit the nail on the head when it comes to gaming back then compared to now, I was born in 84 so this whole video was super nostalgic. As much as I loved gaming back then (still do) I was also heavily exposed to and therein involved with music, both as an artist and a fan. I grew up around a whole lot of incredibly talented musicians in my city and to me that was my whole world of music. Aside my immediate surroundings, I would buy albums at the music store (remember those?) and all that you knew about the artist was whatever was revealed in the album artwork, sometimes if you were lucky there would be pictures of the artist but a lot of the time there wouldn't be. It created a certain mystique, an undeniable allure. The world seemed a whole lot bigger back then. I feel like the lack of accessibility, just as you've covered in this video, was actually a good thing. The over-saturation of basically *everything* in today's age has become sickening, at least to me. I do long for the old days, though in the end that's not very healthy.
As an '80s kid, this really brought back a lot of memories, so thank you. Also I remember the Sega tip line being free, at least at first. They helped me get past one spot in miracle warriors.
My Mom told me A Link to the Past was a big reason why I wanted to learn how to read, I was 7 in 92 and paused the game and would ask her what the characters were saying. It really was a magical time to play video games back then, it was the glue that held many friendships together
Similar story, 87 here. My snes came with A Link to the Past and that motivated me to learn how to read. Remember having a “Zelda club” with 2 other kids during recess that had also played the game. We made little member cards out of construction paper with the items from the menu drawn on them 😂 simpler times but man that’s how you made friends back then, playing the same games was an instant bonding experience, friend sleepovers, birthday parties all of that. When N64 came out, it was MarioKart , Starfox, and Goldeneye until Smash came out.
Amazing rundown on this look back at the 90's gaming experience! I was born in 1980 and this was like seeing my childhood recapped. You are spot on saying " You just had to be there," I definitely appreciate where we are today and more so appreciate being able to experience the evolution of the gaming industry. Hats off to you on putting this together so well.🍻
A good friend from school 2 years older 'babysat' for me and we played FFIV and Secret of Mana late into the night. Still my favourite games to this day
Such Nostalgia! So much I've forgotten about growing up throughout the 90s, from renting games from the local video store/Blockbuster, the reliance of a magazine or school friends to tell you about the newest games, the fact that Arcades were still in their prime with titles like Area 51, Time Crisis, Daytona, Virtua Fighter and NBA JAM. Not to mention the joys of gaming slumber parties and LAN parties with all your mates bringing their PCs to one friends house and spending a whole night playing Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Command & Conquer or Diablo. More importantly the ecstatic joy of saving your pocket money to finally buy a new game that you usually chose simply based on the box art or title of what stood out from the shelf selection, completely unaware and mystery of what you might have bought be amazing or downright terrible. Yet the excitement of going back home and spending your afternoon getting to experience something new for that next couple of hours was a moment you cherished, something you had earned. Plus your parents also knew that it would keep your quiet for the next couple of hours! It's why, for me, I have kept so much of my old games and consoles of that era, the memories i have of the many birthdays, Christmas's and the months pocket-money saving i had to do to eventually (one day) buy a new game/system felt like such a huge reward to me a kid back then. Not to mention the joys of reliving those memories and again whenever i feel nostalgic or simply just want to enjoy the fun of being a kid of the 90s in todays modern age.
90’s aka golden era of gaming. It’s was an awesome experience jumping from console to console. Seeing the major improvements each jump. We don’t have that anymore.
Another kid born in the early 80s who lived through the 90s, and everything you just said is pure unadulterated truth. My weekends were basically a mix of SNES, PC Games and Pen&Paper. Good times!
The 90’s era of video games was definitely a different time. It was similar to how the 80’s was to music. It was magical. I was born in 84’ so I really lived 90’s lol. I miss those summer breaks and sleep overs at my cousin house, ordering Pizza Hut, and playing video games all night. Even the pizza tasted better back then. Let alone the 1990’s McDonald’s French fries, during the Batman forever movie run. When they had the collectible Batman character cups from the movie. It was epic.
I am very happy that I experienced this time and sometimes I wish for the time without smartphones again. In video games, it felt like a new innovation came out every month. Hardly any game really excites me anymore. Thanks for the video. I am German and was amazed at how many similarities there are.
I know you made this video to educate the kids that didn’t grow up during this era, but it just felt like a walk down memory lane to me!! 😅 At least that’s the vibe I got! Great video 👍😁😎⚓️
It was a lot of fun. Before online gaming, couch surfing with your buddies was the only way to go (and it remains the best way)! Many all nighters. We grew up when games were increasingly getting popular, but not quite mainstream, not to mention before the Internet. Gaming was more about hanging out with friends and family and sharing stories. Also, purchasing games was a bit like a treasure hunt since we didn't have online reviews and playthroughs. Some were hits, some were misses. But that was part of fun.
Everything mentioned in this video was spot on - from gaming being so expensive and more of a luxury, to the feeling of walking into an arcade with a few bucks in your pocket and feeling like your in heaven..Im not even from the US but just goes to show that gaming in the 90's was a universal thing...wish we had a time machine to go back to do it all over again
Do you remember gaming in the 90s??
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"The world felt like it moved in slow motion as a kid"
As someone who's in their 30s now, that statement really resonates with me. It really does feel like time tripled it's speed at some point after I got into my 20s. Every year of being in school felt like an eternity, and each of those years were burnt into my memory with experiences that, for better or worse, meant a lot to me. These days, years pass by so fast that I struggle to distinguish between them when I attempt to recall what I did during a lot of them.
Yes. Console game rentals, deciding if a game is any good based solely on box art, computer game/software piracy on floppy disks, borrowing or copying games from friends, shareware, making boot disks for PC games to work on low-end machines, first mods and early multiplayer over the internet (Doom), playing games at school's computer class, having friends over to play games, couch co-op and vs games, blowing into cartridges, passwords and cheat codes (Game Genie), light gun games on TV screens, gaming magazines (and written game reviews) becoming more popular, playing board games and outside as much as (or more than) video games, Christmases (the time when you actually had a change to get a new game), playing Leisure Suit Larry or other erotic themed games secretly away from your parents' eyes. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
@@Str0b0 I only bought gaming magazines for the cheat codes they often had in them 😅
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The only generation to know what growing up was life _before_ the internet, while also growing up _with_ the internet. An interesting time in history to be alive.
Exactly. We were the last generation to know what it's like to not have internet
I hope everyone sees the weight of this sentence. My brother was born 5 years after me, but it was enough of a difference to see him adopt a very different attitude towards technology than I have, simply due to the ease of access to the internet, and what was possible with it.
I say this a lot, except it's even more important when it comes to cell phones. We were the last generation who grew up able to go out and about with no parental contact, no constant expectation to be in touch with anyone at any time, but we also came of age as cell phones started to become ubiquitous. Kids these days can't imagine not having the internet available whenever they want or being out of touch with parents or a significant other. Unlike Gen Z or our parents, we grew up in both worlds and experienced two completely different cultural milestones while we were developing. In a way, it makes us like a mini-generation out of time, but it also allows us to adapt better than many others.
@@jeffreydean7556 I remember not even buying a cellphone until like, Grade 11 or 12, and only because I would stay out late. It was basically just for emergencies. It was a pay-as-you-go too, so no texting plan (although the keyboard sucked for it anyway). No internet because that cost more (and the phone was really not built for it). I used my phone so little that I didn’t even buy a smartphone until like, 5 or so years afterwards because I was flying to another country myself and wanted access to GPS. Otherwise I had no need. I did have an iPad when those first came out as an easier way to check messages, but only around the house. That’s how little I used/use a cellphone.
Exactly. I have been thinking this for a while. I was born in ‘88 so I experienced the best of both or so it seems.
80-90s is the peak time to have been a kid. I'm eternally grateful to have been there to experience it.
It was an amazing ride!
Yup, kids had a lot more "freedom" back then. Kids actually played outside too.
I feel you man I’m proud to say that I was a 90’s kid. Just sad to see kids nowadays stuck on on their tablets or phones. It was so fun back then going outside after school riding our bikes or playing two hand touch football. Gaming was a lot better especially playing two player.
I agree 100%.....and I feel old now
Only for the 1st world country.
But in here Asia the peak was in 2000s.
I was born in 1980 and gaming in the 90's was...
one word: Magical.
90s was more like: awesome or radical 😎
1980 the best year. Plus easy to keep track of our ages lol
@@ellestar2306 Yes! 1980 Year of the Monkeys! Easy to keep track of my first Kid's age also, born in 2000!
sure was. i was born in 79 and my dad was an electrical engineer and a huge nerd so we were the first on our block to have a pc with dial up internet. i still remember when he brought home a copy of Doom shareware that he borrowed from a coworker, it absolutely blew my mind. still one of my favorite memories to this day.
@@MrMistermoges redneck rampage, duke nukem, I also seen twisted metal cut scene! So fun! Our kids can have the same upbringing but can consume a childhoods worth of content in a weekend.
The 90s was heaven….gaming & music was at its peak. I truly miss it. 😊
Literally every generation says this. :P
also movis
@@EntropicEcho yea but the truth is 90s was peak of everything
its true, and it goes so much deeper than just that. it was a time of peace and freedom, cold war ended and war on terror and everything that followed with it not yet started. it is a true blessing that we could have experianced this outstanding decade. me, play games since popolous, i startet with ibm pc´s and i was lucky.
mate, thank you for your comments, i miss it too, never will come back but also never will leave our hearts. we are, what we are, because of that time. thats my honest believe
@@ShrineOfLife Amen to that bro
I was born in 1984 so this video hit home. 90s were a great time for gaming, I remember just staring at catalogs wishing I had all the games and having to wait until Christmas or my birthday to get one. Now I can buy all the games I want my only limit is time to play them.
1984 here as well. Damn I am getting teary eyed thinking about me and my friends, sticking EGM and Gamero inside our Literature Workbooks, so we could read them. After school going to "The rich friends house" cause his parents kept him stocked with all the sweet bullhsit you could think of, as well as leaving to go on trips over the weekend so we had their huge house to out selves.
No bills, no worries, no time restraints, it was just fun all day everyday (I can still smell the unique smells of my local Arcade, and the Local Discovery Zone I frequented)....
Sigh.... it truly takes living thru hard times, to realize how great old times truly where. All I wanted as a youth was to turn 16 and get a car, then at 18 move out. Now, if some sort of time travel tom foolery occurred and I was whisked back, I would be savoring everyday, so much more. Any friend ever says "Can't wait till I am old enough to move out" I would do like Billy Maddison, and grab them by the face screaming
"NOOO DON'T SAY THAT DON'T EVER SAY THAT! STAY HERE AS LONGGG AS YOU CAN!!!" lol
I feel you on that.
"my only limit is time to play them"
It hurts to think about it!
84 baby checking in
92 I was lucky
I remember I was in 5th grade and obsessed with Zelda to the point where I was writing up my own "walk through" book. I even had drawings in it. I wish I'd never lost that book.
I made my own pokedex. XD Whenever they revealed a new pokemon online, I printed the data on glued it on paper XD I also drawn my own video game magazine with own game ideas XD
@@toongrowner1 heck yea! Did you save it?
@@julians7268 sadly no. Had to throw away a lot of childhood drawings cause I just draw way too much that we could not transport everything when we moved to a new apartment. Wish I could get my old drawings back honestly, just to see how I improved over the years and maybe redraw some old ideas. :(
It's a wonder what we create as kids like that. I meticulously created 100+ custom Pokemon Cards regularly in Elementary school for fun that would statistically work fine in the actual cardgame. Still bummed all my pokemon Cards were thrown in the trash by my mom and never recovered due to a minor grievance my parents had. "I used to play with them all the time".
They never intended to throw all of them away but we both forgot they were there until it was too late and someone took the bag out...
@@toongrowner1😮 that's so awesome
10 yr old me playing Spyro the Dragon on my PS1 was the happiest time of my existence.
No money problems, wife problems, not any problems.
I was just enjoying being in the world of Spyro the Dragon so much that it made me want to live on a different world.
...So I moved to Japan as an adult because that is the closest you can get to being on a different world.
I was a Nintendo kid (never had a PS1) and grew up happily immersing myself in the worlds of Zelda and Mario games, so I absolutely hear you. I got a job teaching in Japan and moved right after university. What you wrote, about it being the closest you can get to being a different world . . . in all these years I've never thought about it in quite that way, but this is exactly what it was. I'd actually become fascinated with Noh and Kabuki during uni, as it suddenly opened my mind to what a vastly different place Japan was, and by extension how much there was to explore and experience in the big world out there. We're probably pretty close in age from the sounds of it, so despite any money or marital problems or otherwise, I hope you've had some adventures and an amazing ride with life so far.
I was 24 when Spyro came out and I too loved the game.
I definitely relate to how we were totally into gaming, but had other stuff in our lives too. We rode bikes, played man hunt, built legos, etc etc etc.
I only played videogames and tabletop RPGs.
Me and everyone I knew pretty much did nothing but play video games in the 80s and 90s. Once in a while we might go swimming in the pool, ride the go cart or bikes or something but for any average day it was pretty much all video games all the time. Guess you guys just didn't have enough of them.
I’m a 1983 man, myself and I miss the good old days. Youngsters today think they’ve got it great, but don’t realize what a time it was to be a kid in the 90’s from the games, the movies, the music, the toys, the shows… you just had to be there to really appreciate it.
I'm an '83 man myself. Yeah them were the good ol days! We would watch Saturday morning cartoons then go outside and play then we would come in and play a little bit on the ol nes or the genesis. Our lives weren't wrapped around a game people are so out of touch with having a social life these days. Friends don't come over they just chat online and play games online. They don't never call and check in with you they text. We had it made dude.
Exactly! It was unbelievable
Let's go '83! I just turned 40 and got the PS5. Still try to do some gaming when life's responsibilities don't get in the way haha
1983 was hands down the best birthyear one could hope for... the others were just too soon or too late to fully comprehend and apreciate all those technical jumps we witnessed on a somewhat regular basis. Like going from 256 colours 8 bit games to massiv 16,8 milion colours 3D brainmelting experiences... I might have exaggerated a bit there, but man, we had it all
May 1983 here! Also agree! Wow, we had the best opportunity to see so much. Our knowledge and understanding of gaming is contained in our memories and very hard to describe to younger kids growing up today. We just had the best of several worlds. We could be gone from the house for hours without our parents needing to know where we were, as long as we were home when the street lights came on. Parents didn’t have to worry about what we were watching because they could see all the books, magazines and games by going into our rooms and checking the shelves and lifting the mattress. I saved up for a long time to buy a sega genesis and loved every minute of it, might be my favorite all time console(for me).
Being a kid in the 90s: Video games were part of your life, but were not ‘your’ life. We still played outside, had tons of friends and used our imaginations. I miss this time.
lol not me
Man i can relate to everything this guys said. The 90s were awesome. We played video games as well as we playing outside, riding bikes, playing tag, basketball, football etc... We aslo had Blockbuster, West Coast video, arcades were the hangouts for us youngsters as well as the skating rink in the weekends. Man those were some good times.
Given that the 90s is the favorite gaming era of both people born in 1980 as well as people born in 1990, I think it's more than rose-tinted nostalgia. It really was magical.
Oh it's definitely is more as an era. I've discussed this with many people from all ages and most agreed in this. Late
80s was the start of entertainment, 90s was the enchantment of the entertainment and 2000s was the closest to the peak of our human civilization.... until 2010 or to be more accurate, 9/2011. After that things gone to shit. Those elites and corporations who took over and calling the shots to this days are selfish and they are corrupting anything they touch, games, movies, music... everything has to be according to the boomer ESP scores of theirs, minimalistic, sanitizer and controlled. Now they try to steal from the consumers...they also refuse to make place from the younger CEOs, just check what happened to Capcom allegedly, the boomer father gave control for a while to his son who made some banger games and the father was waiting for an excuse to seize back the company ( I would assume out of jealousy) and what he did? Be breaking their consumer's privacy with the DRM ENIGMA which not in all countries is legal what he did. Ubisoft said we should be comfortable not owning anything and so on... Inflation, injustice, millennials and Zoomers getting bashed in due to the projections of the older generations despite being dealt with the worst cards due to their selfishness... I don't want to live anymore with where we're going.
Proud to be born in the 80s and grown up in the 90s. Such a good time period to grow up. 😊👍
Absolutly. Kids today don't understand not being able to enter your house on the weekends, if you want a drink their was a water hose on the side of the house. Parents didn't give a damn where I went as long as I was home in time for school Monday morning.
@@DustinBarlow8P 💯 dame here to the t dawg uk in 80 - 90s so dam real
Yes be proud. You worked hard to be born then.
@@DustinBarlow8P damn. Same thing haha
Nothing can make you feel like that I assume
I was born in 1989 and I absolutely loved my childhood. Everything was just badass!
Yes totally the golden era of gaming, and life in general was just better
Nice 81 here.
You’re the same age as my older sister. She was born in 1989. I was born in 1997
I don't remember what my first game I played, but I have a flash memories about game fighting soulcalibur and game airplane called raiden from local arcade. Is that game from 80'sor 90s?
Im an 89, super mario world was the bomb, probably im never going to experience a moment like that
Going to a friends house and having a LAN party was the bomb. No sleep for days. No stresses. Just gaming and junk food. Great memories
Watching this made me think of the humble PS demo disc. Was so cool getting a taste of what games were coming out. I remember the demo disc with Tony Hawk pro skater 1 being shared around me and my mates pretty heavily when it first dropped. You hit the nail on the head though. As a kid from 88, gaming in the 90s was truly awesome.
Those demo disks were just the best at the time; totally agree.
Playstation Underground! I begged my parents for a stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut to get that disk lol.
It took me so long to understand what a demo was. I thought I had a CD with a bunch of short games on it until I got my hands on the full copy of Metal Gear Solid and it made so much more sense.
I spent so much time on that demo disk!
This made my day. Nostalgia level 100 achieved. I was born in 1980 and my Dad bought the family the NES in 1985 and forever changed my childhood. The 90s took video games to a whole new level. Video games made Summer breaks made a poor kid feel rich
79 for me. Parents didnt want to spend on nintendo or master system when I hit 7 or eight so it was the Atari 2600 for a few years. Good memories though. The video game crash had destroyed the atari market share (which I didnt know at the time) so I could buy the games with my 3 dollar weekly allowance lol
81 for me. Got a commodore 64 at the age of 10, then a Sega Master System 2 and then a SNES. So many fond memories of all the games, even with their crippling difficulty levels, the single player campaigns, mates coming over for 2 player, the industry has changed beyond belief now with online gaming and all these streamers who believe they are something special. Glad we grew up in the 80s and 90s, think we had the best of both worlds in terms of gaming and real life 👍
80 here. I was born in Ponce, PR and I think I was the only kid in the barrio with an Atari 2600 that my grandpa bought me, we would get together at the house periodically when we weren't being savages outside. We were big on remote controls too for some reason. Standout games were some type of Star Defender, a wrestling game, Centipede, F1 pole position I believe and Pitfall. Didn't get an NES til I moved to the states and I remember the day my father bought the NES as a surprise and set it up on the tv. I played Duck Hunt forever until I started to learn how to play Mario Bros. Didn't realize how expensive it was relative to salaries back then until this documentary. Gives me a little perspective, my parents and grandparents loved me so much they were willing to sacrifice to make me happy even though I was a snot nosed kid and we were mostly poor. Thank you for this documentary it was spot on and found myself laughing many times, so many memories I'll never forget, Cheers!
C64, C128, IBM, NES, SNES, etc for me. Good times, but still I certainly spend almost as much time in sports clubs than geeking out with friends over games. We certainly did call us gamers already, because nobody was a nerd. Only Geeks, Gamers and self-proclaimed Otakus (the weebs liked to call them self that back in the 90s) ;-)
Born in '82 and grew up on video games (and still play them).
Thank you for such a memory trip.
Yeah...long live the class of 82!...
82 kid here, this all sounds very familiar.
"buying games from a store and having no idea what they are" 😂
then reading the manual in the car all the way home.
@@GenjuroKibagami Curious, what was your route in consoles throughout the past 40 years?
Mine was:
Atari
Turbo Graphics 16
Sega Genesis
Playstation
PS2
Xbox 360
Wii
Switch (still have)
Xbox Series S (still have)
And, of course, multiple computers.
@@Ironica82 mine was
Atari
Nintendo
Super Nintendo
Sega
PlayStation
PS 2
PS 3
PC
PS 5 that I bought for my son
Time flies
Oh and we had a wii and switch in there
I remember me and my brother being stuck on Resident Evil 1 (1996) on the PS1 for about 4 months, trying to find a certain puzzle piece. It wasn't til I was on a cigarette break with one of the lads on my apprenticeship year, and he told me he'd completed the game. In awe I asked him how - he said the token was hidden in a book in the inventory. I rushed back home excited, and it was BACK ON for me and my brother.
Such good times. Everyone just living their own lives.
Great video! I was born in 71. So I started in the arcades with little money. My parents got me the Atari 2600 for Xmas in 81. Then the NES in 86. Definitely tons of great memories with gaming solo, or with friends! I’m still a Gamer. Modern and old. I still play The Colecovision, NES, Sega Genesis, and much more. Been collecting for years now. It’s been fun growing up in the late 70’s, 80’s. The 90’s was my favorite decade. But it’s just been amazing to experience and watch the advancements and Technology’s advance in the last 40 years! Just tons of great memories. Impossible to explain everything.
Thank u brother
Man this hits different when you were there for it all. Thank you DT
I can still hear Mario 2 Yoshi Island music playing as my friend came over to spend the night,
Life was better without the internet and we don't wanna admit it.
A lot of the adult I am today was thanks to some of the stuff DT talks about. I used to play Shadows Over Mystara in the arcade, I became friends with some guys who happened to play pen and paper D&D so they invited me to play, I was 13. And that decision to play D&D shaped most of my adult life lol
Eyy np
Yes it does. Makes me feel old.
No its not just nostalgia, the 90s was a really cool time to be alive, last great decade in my opinion.
The only things defining the 00s 10s or 20s (if defined by anything at all) have been negatives. The 90s had it all.
This is why games like Celeste, Outer Wilds, and Hollow Knight are a treasure. It still has the difficulty, and gives you the sense of being a part of something much bigger than yourself. It’s tough to grasp that feeling of wonder from my childhood, but those games do it flawlessly.
I remember playing Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast. Waiting in the dial up loading screen took patience kids would never have today. Once you got into a lobby… it was the coolest thing ever to chat directly near someone else and see their responses. Thanks for the upload. It brought me back.
Man…. So many points hit me straight in the ❤!!! Born in ‘84. This video made me remember how exciting it was to go to Blockbuster and see that the game I wanted to rent was actually “in” 🤣 and the excitement that came along with getting to play that game… for the 2 days we could rent it for!!
I remember going to the Albertsons and renting games from there a lot. They had a video/game section and sometimes had better deals than Blockbuster. I miss going out to rent a movie or game.
I was born in 84 too I feel you brother on every note it's crazy lol
Yeah, even though there was 14 copies of it, and every one was rented out.....but sometimes, just sometimes, if you came in just after the return due time, you would wait by the rack and see what games the clerk put back. I scooped up many cool games soon after release by timing when I would go rent the games. Early sneaky bird gets the worm.
@@bean420man I started collecting VHS movies and picked up a good vhs player, I love it. Watched The perfect storm 2 times already, almost 30 year old cassette and video player, and still works as good as when it was new, very cool!
Ah man so many titles rented out like aw man.... then you'd pick some obscure knock off title and find out it was incredible.
This has to be the most nostalgic video ever. I would have never thought growing up that video games would become this mainstream, it's no longer a question of if you play video games but what games you play. We are lucky though, we got to experience a time period that will never be repeated. We got to experience both life without the internet and with the internet. Games just felt so different, it was more of a sense of discovery than anything. I'm not going to lie I was pretty good at picking out games as a kid, I think I hardly ever picked out a game I didn't like. Basing it solely on the picture on the front and the picture on the back. Just felt like better times, I yearn for those moments to have lasted longer.
My dad would ask the clerk and 9/10 times it was an incredible game. Meanwhile child me was a moron and wanted licensed videogames on my favourite cartoons, movies and shows, which were rife in the 90s and suckered so many kids and parents into buying awful games. Also buying off the boxart and back of box screenshots was still a big thing. Going to a friends house to play all the games you didn't own was worth it every time.
Sorta feel we where the last generation to experience gaming at it's purest and most innocence. Want's Micro transactions and Loot Boxes started happening, a piece of gaming died in all of us.
Having lived through a bit of pre-ubiquitous-Internet / cell phones / social media and now pre AI really gives the older millennials a very unique life perspective. Keep enjoying life and savor whatever you have, good or bad, because it's real and it's your moment.
@@DustinBarlow8P agree, same with the internet - it was so fresh and exciting, now the wonder is intermingled with mundane and even toxic elements.
Yeah. You don’t realize that at the time, don’t you?
This is really spot on. It also hit me right in the feels. Like remembering a passed loved one. Crazy. Im 36 now and, in addition to staying current with todays games, I've taken to buying old games and consoles to relive some of these moments. However, I cant just blow through them like i did as a kid. I savor the experience, heh, almost like wine!! 😂 Thanks for the warm fuzzies. ❤
Nope, old games are a drag, unless they get remastered, some remakes and all of them need online play... Hardcore Veteran gamer since 1988, no pun Andre. Ickatina.
Im nearly 40 and have been gaming since i was old enough to physically sit at our computer, seeig games go from ascii graphics and text adventures to what we have now has been a wild ride and its not going to stop!
I was born in 1991 and I have an older brother born in 1990. This video definitely hits everything from crazy sleepovers to arcades ect. I remember our mom only let us play video games on the weekends, so we would always go over to friends houses to play their console and bring our cartridges when mom wasn't looking... She used to say things like stop staring into a light bulb all day and go outside and play. The nostalgia is real and nothing can ever take that away from us. Thank you for helping me remember.
Yup! I was born in 90 and we really did live in the dawn of the golden age of gaming. It brought us the start of the biggest platforms.
The 90s are my nostalgia heaven. I was a Sega kid after my mom traded my NES for the Genesis so Sonic, Panzer Dragoon and Batman & Robin were my best friends. My brother had a PS1 luckily and that's where I played Final Fantasy, Twisted Metal and Metal Gear Solid. Truly miss the magic of this era. Every single game did something new and cool and even if it was bad, like you said, we just did not care.
I agree. Some of the games I grew up loving apparently got bad ratings. But as a lower middle-class kid, you're lucky if you got 3 SNES games in one year. I still have my collection today. Just played lion king last year for the first time 😂
your mother made you miss Chrono Trigger!?
Panzer Dragoon didn't exist on the Genesis.
@@davidaitken8503 I'm well aware of that. I was saying that I was a Sega kid after I was given a Genesis, so those games that I mentioned after were some of the many I played on the Sega platforms I owned (like the Saturn, Game Gear and Dreamcast) after becoming a Sega kid.
METAL GESR SOLID! I had to wait 2 full years to play it because i had a pc not a ps1. Blew my mind right off! Still one of the best games ive ever played.
Man I miss the nineties arcade scene! Born in 1984 I've only recently begun to realise just how great the nineties were, especially around the gaming scene. This video hit so many nostalgic nerves. Thank you!
1986 here and you put it into words perfectly. A sense of wonder and discovery is what made gaming so magical in those days
Short version? It was friggin' awesome!
We got to watch the transition from 8bit to 16bit to 32bit to 64bit. From 2d to 3d. From k7 tapes to cartridges to cds to dvds. From barely distinguishable masses of polygons of the ps1 and saturn, to the full blown animated models of the ps2 era graphics, like mgs2. I honestly dont think anyone born past the 00s could understand just how magical it was 😊
Being a 90s kid i can say it was pretty dope. Going from 2D games to 3D ones was crazy. Playing Super Mario 64 for the first time was an experience.
For me because of my older bros the first time I laid eyes on a true sandbox was when my biggest shock came with gta 3. I had seen 3D before hand with his PlayStation 1 and those games were like wow to me but for me the biggest wow moment was definitely gta 3 as someone who was born in 91.
A dozen lines with a dozen n64 consoles at toys r us to play 20 minute demos all day it was packed. Well maybe less than a dozen it's been a while... haha
U bet your ass it was
I played the Fallout 1 demo that game in a PC Gamer magazine CD. Those demos were my lifeblood. I had a "3D FX" card. What a time to be alive.
Oh, boy, what a great time we had back then just with game demos. I'm born 1988 and I had a great time in the 90s and 2000s. I remember playing the hell out of the Demos of games like Jagged Alliance 2, Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun or Age of Empires for literally weeks because they had so much replay value for me. My PC time was limited to one hour a day which did its part to that stretch the time out. One hour back then felt like 3 hours nowadays which makes me think about the perception of time throughout life and our appreciation of that precious thing named time.
So thankful I was a kid able to enjoy this time in life... I miss those days sometimes but I hope to pass these games on to my kids.
Can vouch that being a kid in the 90’s was peak humanity. Having to sit down with a notebook alongside your friends and truly theorycraft how to beat a game was so exciting compared to just getting the answer in 3 seconds for free now.
Idk how many times I wrote down codes, or looked up GameFAQS maybe you had a printer! Maybe you got the magazine that detailed how to beat it, or you just played over and over because you only had this game or one other Abd you weren’t getting one till your birthday or Christmas. Maybe your rent one but you won’t finish it. Maybe someone at school has a rumor on how to find this secret! Maybe there’s a Game Genie/Shark that lets you beat the game but it might totally corrupt your one game you have left one because there’s no save system in this one!
And if you really really couldn’t figure it out, call the Nintendo hotline. I have called it once for Ocarina of time.
It was a great time.
Kid you not. It was the peak time to be a "boy". 1997 to 1999, videogames, monday night wrestling and sports.
@@Iam1nsane facts 🔥
Stick your Gamepro in your Literature Book and almost shit yourself when the teacher calls on you to read the next part.
There will *NEVER* be another gaming technological jump , going from 2D to 3D was a game changer and it was so fascinating seeing how everyone adapted to it
I remember when I first played Tomb Raider...for others may be another game, for me it was Tomb Raider that made me go "wooooooow"...suddently, we were "inside" the games...
VR and AR are the next technological jump
@@akangsuki I personally don't see it. Vr is cool but it's not something anyone can do and the games we get are barely worth it, I see it more useful as a tool personally. I'll admit I don't know anything about AR except for phone games
@@akangsuki when 2D to 3D happened, it changed *EVERYTHING* and every new game that was successful with it made more contributions to the industry. VR has been around for decades and only recently were getting "ok" games. The best one I experienced was resident Evil 7 and it was just the camera controls. There has yet to be a VR that COMPLETELY changes everything and makes it a must have
The next jump will be when you can type a video game idea into AI and it will spit out a custom made video game for you. lol ... basically the industry (and life as we know it) is doomed lol
Born 1986, watched it all go down. Now I am going to relive it with my kids.
Born in 82...sitting here with a huge nostalgic smile on my face on how close you've captured what many of us felt back then...and even the feeling that some of us are trying in vain to recapture.
Great job and insta-subscribe.
Born in ´85, this vid hit different. So much nostalgia. In retrospective, it was a great time to grow up. Still playing today.
Greetings generation! 😀
I still like to play that old games too! It's like some time machine that brings me to the 90's. I recently installed GTA 2 😁
There's simply no thrill in this new games.
The 90s seemed to have everything a kid could want: coming of age movies, cartoons, video games, arcades, toys. So much more. Was a lovely time. I miss it.
Along with a balance of people still played outside!
You know, the 50-60s had kids just being Goonies instead of watching goonies, because Suburbs and America was not so car centric and kids actually had quite a lot more range of independence than a quarter mile radius. Sure, compared to today, a quarter mile seems like a quarte mile more than todays kids have. But kids used to have double digit miles of radius around their homes. And in Europe they have had this in the 90s, but independence of kids in the states is constantly shrinking. Less physical space avaible for them and less mental too, considering how much surveillance equipment American parents are using these days. Makes 70s Bond movies look like lacking in equipment.
@@Joshua-wp2ci People would still play outside if there was anything outside to do and American laws actually allowing kids to go outside alone. They certainly still go outside in the rest of the world. Parks and playgrounds are full with kids this summer again, maybe even more so than they had been before COVID.
..... they still do.
No mobile phones or internet until late 90’s which meant, people interact with each other face to face. Everything was new and exciting!
The very moment you said "wonder" I teared up. Because that's precisely the precious emotion that ties it all together. Thank you so much for this trip.
U got it jazzy
There is still one fatality that I saw a kid perform on MK II, he was tsang tsung, morphed into subzero, froze the guy, morphed back to tsang tsung and did his fatality…it was so precise and cool, something I could never duplicate but I’ll never forget it
Thanks for the video!
Toys r us and Kay bee toy stores were the best for video game window shopping
This is exactly how I remember it. Especially the being too poor to afford many videogames at all, so you had to enjoy the ones you had.
Also how video games didn't define you, it was just one of several activities you did with friends growing up. Such a true video
Thats why God invented blockbuster!!
Everyone had only a few games but between you all had quite a few. Thus, we all shared and borrowed each others... we all waiting our turns
Exactly.
The uk felt a little different are games wasn't as expensive they was in the usa but I think that's because we got into the gaming world a little sooner and cheaper as government laws was different we have a RRP price that companies could not sell things above that set price. We also had a massive used gaming market by the 90s and all game shops would sell used games for around £5 for a mega drive game even when the ps1 came out the used game market was already in place. All shops head every gaming magazine were you could get walk-through cheat codes and demo games on the front.
It definitely did define if you were older and hardcore about "kid's toys", or if you were a kid obsessed with video games.
This is me, fellas. Born in 1979, i was 11 at the beginning of that decade and 21 at the end. This video is all for me. 😂
Too many happy gaming memories to write about. Suffice to say, we were extremely fortunate on the gaming front, back then. 😊
Rock on!
Same age here
@@snkfan7506 Hey man! I hope life is treating you well. Take care!
@@georgezachos7322 thanks. You too bruh
Born in 73' beat adventure on atari in early 80s just beat elden rang how far we have come.
The videos of this trilogy are some of your best. Love this series you made
What an amazing video, brings back so many memories! I'm a 90s baby and most of my all-time favorite games are from this decade. This was the period that made me fall in love with video games along with the early 2000s. As you mentioned, life before microtransactions and pay-to-win online games were just so much more fun and in a way innocent. Games were extremely hard, so what people consider difficult today I often find easy actually.
Was a great time, will never forget it! Thank you for this!
This was so spot on. I always say that we were the last generation to get to enjoy a semi "real" world. I was born in 88 and when we were kids we still got to go outside and enjoy life, not life glued to a screen. Meet people face to face through actually conversation, using our imaginations and our own thoughts. Now with all the outlets there's no need to even think for yourself. I mean I still know how to write in cursive for crying out loud. What is happening in society is dangerous, and my advice to you is raise your kids, don't let the internet do it for you. Don't be an ipad parent.
Right on the nose and is what I remember ❤❤ so true about writing on actual paper, I bet a lot of kids today don't even know how to do that, these are strange times indeed 😮
Eh, even socrates complained about kids not needing to remember stuff now that it was hip to rely on clay tablets for written words instead of memorising things. People have always. Always complained or worried about the new generation not having or getting to experience what their parents have. Guess what kids these days will tell each other in 30 years...
You're absolutely right that it's interesting to belong to a generation that has seen the rise of the internet though! I'm from 86 and we got our first internet connection when I was about 11 years old.
"society is sick and we need to turn back"
It is spot on only if you were barely teenager at 2000 , on the other hand if you were a teenager at 1990 it is a whole different story than the one on this video.
when you say iPad parent, i have to say my heart bleeds for the many Asian-American children i see in Chinese restaurants who actually sit in the restaurant all day while their mom/dad slave making that ohh so delicious crap, but seriously, the one closest to me that i periodically go into (called HONG KONG restaurant no less) has a young lad who im seeing growing up since being an infant, watched by a girl, who was a child too, to a young boy throwing his giant lego's all over the restaurant and being a hazard to patrons, to now about six years old and watching Pokemon related videos from CZcams influencers on his iPad! i feel bad that despite having little myself growing up, it was 1000 times better than what that young boy is living now. As an adult man myself, I see to it to pass on a bit of good humanity and social ness his way, i mean, not in a weird way, i still like Pokemon (from the nineties and should have been mentioned) and ill go up to the young lad and small talk about what he's watching while my Bourbon chicken and rice cooks! like I said, Delicious crap!
Damn. This feels like a blast from the past. Never thought I’d hear my childhood so vividly explained. It’s like being a kid all over again. Well done, very, very well done.
So resonate with your commentary! I spent countless hours immersed in gaming (arcade and in-house/console) and loving it! Just the simple delight of a shared experience with my besties makes me yearn for those innocent joyous days. Thanks for sharing bro!
Thank you for taking me back to my childhood!
You nailed this nostalgia we all remember from the 90's.I was born in 84 as an only child and it was me vs the screen so many nights...
it was the best thing ever , simple life, there was a meaning for gathering and play coop on the couch, there was meaning
and pure fun playing awesome original solo games, life was sooo cool back then in everything.
My gaming journey could’ve began in the 80s, 90s or 2000s and I would’ve been a happy person either way! All 3 were FAR better decades to be a gamer than the 2010s-now! Even if I was around for the Video Game Crash of 83, I’d still swear by my Atari, Intellivision and/or Colecovision and get a good few more games in the fire sales, and/or maybe even import a Famicom from Japan!
Not only was gaming in the 90s awesome but cartoons,tv shows, music, being able to play outside with your friends and using your imagination. That's when being a kid was really being a kid during those times.
@@adultmoshifan87 indeed man, wish i have a time machine to go back and stay there forever
@@AmariMarvelous being kid back then, damn so much memories and awesomeness adventures.
@@adultmoshifan87 I’m not going to tell you your wrong for feeling this way as I’m young as hell. But even then living in the 2020s now, not only do you have access to all of those games thanks to pirating, you have more than 1000+ newer games to play that will keep coming.
1:30 minutes in and I'm feeling old af....
Amazing video, the nostalgia, thank you.
I was born in 1984 so I lived through all of this, had several consoles or played on them at the homes of friends. I experienced the rise of the internet, had a subscription to a gaming magazine (here in The Netherlands, Power Unlimited was THE magazine). I played several C&C games, the first 2 Warcraft games, got scared by a Pinky in Doom, was in awe of Mortal Kombat and Sonic on Sega, had a NES with Super Mario Bros. battles with the whole family for a high score on Tetris on the OG Gameboy.
Conclusion: The 90's were the best decade for games, even with today's standard of graphics and gameplay, nothing beats that feeling of playing a game you hadn't played before in the 90's. I wish I could relive it again....
Thoroughly enjoyed this trip down memory lane. Thank you.
Some of my very best memories - I remember the first time I played Super Mario 64 at a Blockbuster - blasting out of a cannon was the absolute most mind-blowing thing I had ever seen in a game up to that point in my life
The first time I saw Super Mario 64 was at my friend's house. He didn't even go into a level, he just ran Mario around outside the castle for about 45 seconds and my MIND WAS BLOWN.
I'm born in 1987, and you really nailed it. I can still remember the endless days and night playing games on the NES but also on PC Dos with friends. Thank you for bringing back all the memories
Same here 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
thank you for this video...really warmed the little saddened heart.
this was just beautiful man, Thanks for dedicating the time to put this together, was right on point. we really were lucky to live on that generation
I enjoyed every moment of this video, a shame it wasn't longer 😂
Discovering and playing resident evil in the 90s was amazing. Turning off the lights and playing resident evil on a dark rainy night.
exactly! damn how much i loved playing resident evil as a child xD
With the lights off was legit scary af!
Probably the only game I had to turn off at regular intervals because it was so scary 😂
Being a gamer in a village in denmark during the 90s was real hard tbh. I mean, living was easy, it was the finding games to play or consoles was hard. And the only arcade i ever saw was when i was vacationing in germany in the early 2000's. But its still a lot of great memories made with friends ill never forget.
I know what you mean. I grew up in a village in Wales, and my nearest store was 30+ minutes by car. Didn't have much money, didn't have easy access, and nobody in my village really cared for games. I was literally 1 of maybe 3-5 people who played games regularly in that place. A long walk up the hill to my friends house in order to play multiplayer on a PS1/PS2.
Similarly to you, my mind would be blown when I took a vacation to England or a major city area, and I would see video game merchandise and be completely shocked at the concept of an arcade etc. A lot of good memories too.
Surely you had heaps of Lego though being from Denmark? But yeah, it was a simpler time.
This was a delightful nostalgia trip. Thank you for putting it together. I think that a history of the major gaming magazines of the 90's (Nintendo Power, GamePro, EGM) would be an interesting documentary.
Awesome video! Brought back so many memories
Your video deserves a video game award I born 1979 the beginning of the golden age of games and grow up in the 80s and 90s was the best time to be alive great content…
Ah thanks dawg
I was born in 1980. The NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis were my childhood. The early 90s were some of the best times looking back. Such a great time to grow up!
100000% agree with you here. Whilst nostalgia is a thing and has to factor if you were an 80s child you rode the wave tech from 8bit NES 1983, Master Sytem 1985, 1988 Mega Drive/Genesis 16bit, 1990 SNES 16bit, 1994 Sega Saturn 32Bit, PS1 1994, 32 Bit, 1996 N64 64Bit, 1998 Dreamcast 128Bit, 2000 PS2 126Bit and on.......Despite PS2 being the best selling console ever the biggest tech leap happening between 1983 and 1998....even now the gap between the ps3 and PS4 is negligable
What a video. You really brought back some beautiful childhood memories.
1980 Kid here. I remember clear as day walking into a mall in Edmonton canada while on vacation and seeing Golden axe on an lonely arcade...What a game! I bought the sega genesis that very day. 1991 i believe it was
My god dude. You literally transported me back to some of the most nostalgic places of my childhood. I feel like I just pulled a Hot Pocket out of the microwave and I'm watching stick stickly do his afternoon sign off. Which is my cue to turn my PS1 on and continue trying to unlock all the characters in Tekken 2. Extremely well-thought-out at perfectly edited video. Liked and subscribed instantly.
Although this was an American-flavoured version of the 90's I found a lot of similarities with my own Swedish childhood growing up in the mid 80's and early 90's. The arcade was non existent, unless you went to Copenhagen Tivoli (amusement park). One thing that really hit home was that games were REALLY expensive. Due to this, most of my childhood was actually on home computers like the Commodore 64 or the Amiga 500. Piracy was really key to make gaming viable to a lot of kids in the area. We had some adults who downloaded cracked Amiga games through BBSes from England, Germany etc (before the internet) and then they spread like wildfire within our suburb, all the kids helping each other out, even getting together for "copying parties". 🤣 It's actually such a weird thing. I can get nostalgic by listening to x-copy, a disk copying software for the Amiga... Don't blame us, we were all just kids back then, without any money, and our parents weren't particularly rich either. 😅
certainly true, german here, and I also grew up on piracy, my step dad had a whole cd full of mega genesis emulator games with pretty much all the classic sonic games XD
Also got into final fantasy 7 this way XD
I grew up in the Netherlands and literally every town with 15,000 people or more had a serious arcade hall. Germany sucked though. They barely had arcades due to strict 'gambling' rules. Here in the Netherlands Amiga was popular too and Sega was more popular than Nintendo.
@@drunkensailor112 that's kind of insane, the only time I stumbled upon arcade machine in Sweden were old ones found in shady local pizzerias. My experience of them was really on the ferries between Sweden and Germany, I remember playing Golden Axe and Outrun! Great times, especiallt being completely floored of the graphics compared to the often lousy home PC ports.
During the mid 90's we had one quite small and short lived arcade hall called "Tilt" in Malmö. Keep in mind this is the 3rd largest city in Sweden, with 300K people. I wonder if it had something to do with gambling laws similar to Germany. It feels like Arcades were not illegal, but probably (?) unprofitable here.
@@PixelShade where there strict any gambling rules in Sweden too? I know this is why Germany had almost none, but here and all countries to the south and uk had them in the thousands
I’m from Portugal and piracy was a pretty normal thing, specially in the 90s and early 2000s. Games were (and are) very expensive for such a poor economy. I knew no one in my family or circle of friends that could afford actually buying games regularly. You’d be lucky if you’d get an original game in your birthday.
I think it was only Steam that actually started to change that.
Born in 1979, still playing games today. Sega Mega Drive and Mega Drive II player. I remember the hours I put into Another World, that game felt so difficult back then. Then Flashback came out, which is one of my all time favorite games along with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. Thanks for the memories unlocked in this video.
This is oozing nostalgia. So happy to have been a part of it!
The Neo Geo arcade machines were from another planet back then. Such an awesome experience compared to your 8 or 16 bit systems at home.
Yea, I remember Neo Geo and Sega Saturn being out of my price range.. and dying to play it at my one friend's house, the kid who had all kinds of new and neat toys. Remote control cars and long range walkie talkies.
This all took me back man. I went from being a little kid to a young teenager through the '90s and I was fortunate enough to experience all of this. I have been gaming on PC since I was about three in the '80s and I still remember when my dad got our first internet connection in the early '90s and started downloading demos for me. I was lucky enough to have a couple of different 16-bit consoles and I would go down to the local video store with my neighbors every weekend to pick up some random games to try out. Arcades are still my favorite memory in gaming because the moment you crossed into a badass arcade and you saw all those monoliths of entertainment standing row on row lit up like a frog in a dynamite pond you knew you were in heaven.
Thanks for sharing
Man you brought back memories thanks so much.
All of this was so spot on, especially sweat vs blood in Mortal Kombat! Man I miss those times. Thanks for putting this awesome video together!!
You hit the nail on the head when it comes to gaming back then compared to now, I was born in 84 so this whole video was super nostalgic. As much as I loved gaming back then (still do) I was also heavily exposed to and therein involved with music, both as an artist and a fan. I grew up around a whole lot of incredibly talented musicians in my city and to me that was my whole world of music. Aside my immediate surroundings, I would buy albums at the music store (remember those?) and all that you knew about the artist was whatever was revealed in the album artwork, sometimes if you were lucky there would be pictures of the artist but a lot of the time there wouldn't be. It created a certain mystique, an undeniable allure. The world seemed a whole lot bigger back then. I feel like the lack of accessibility, just as you've covered in this video, was actually a good thing. The over-saturation of basically *everything* in today's age has become sickening, at least to me. I do long for the old days, though in the end that's not very healthy.
Yeah totally, pretty much the same concept!
the 90's were an exciting time for gaming, absolutely.
Great narration, great montage, pleasant audio...Thank you for your videos.
What a wave of nostalgia/emotion this video gave me. Like you said, you truly "just had to be there".
As an '80s kid, this really brought back a lot of memories, so thank you. Also I remember the Sega tip line being free, at least at first. They helped me get past one spot in miracle warriors.
Sega in the 90s did a lot of crazy stunts that cost them a lot of money but were hugely appreciated by their fans at the time.
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My Mom told me A Link to the Past was a big reason why I wanted to learn how to read, I was 7 in 92 and paused the game and would ask her what the characters were saying. It really was a magical time to play video games back then, it was the glue that held many friendships together
Similar story, 87 here. My snes came with A Link to the Past and that motivated me to learn how to read. Remember having a “Zelda club” with 2 other kids during recess that had also played the game. We made little member cards out of construction paper with the items from the menu drawn on them 😂 simpler times but man that’s how you made friends back then, playing the same games was an instant bonding experience, friend sleepovers, birthday parties all of that. When N64 came out, it was MarioKart , Starfox, and Goldeneye until Smash came out.
Amazing rundown on this look back at the 90's gaming experience! I was born in 1980 and this was like seeing my childhood recapped. You are spot on saying " You just had to be there," I definitely appreciate where we are today and more so appreciate being able to experience the evolution of the gaming industry. Hats off to you on putting this together so well.🍻
Great vid, really took me back...everything was spot on...ty
A good friend from school 2 years older 'babysat' for me and we played FFIV and Secret of Mana late into the night. Still my favourite games to this day
Such Nostalgia! So much I've forgotten about growing up throughout the 90s, from renting games from the local video store/Blockbuster, the reliance of a magazine or school friends to tell you about the newest games, the fact that Arcades were still in their prime with titles like Area 51, Time Crisis, Daytona, Virtua Fighter and NBA JAM. Not to mention the joys of gaming slumber parties and LAN parties with all your mates bringing their PCs to one friends house and spending a whole night playing Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Command & Conquer or Diablo.
More importantly the ecstatic joy of saving your pocket money to finally buy a new game that you usually chose simply based on the box art or title of what stood out from the shelf selection, completely unaware and mystery of what you might have bought be amazing or downright terrible. Yet the excitement of going back home and spending your afternoon getting to experience something new for that next couple of hours was a moment you cherished, something you had earned. Plus your parents also knew that it would keep your quiet for the next couple of hours!
It's why, for me, I have kept so much of my old games and consoles of that era, the memories i have of the many birthdays, Christmas's and the months pocket-money saving i had to do to eventually (one day) buy a new game/system felt like such a huge reward to me a kid back then. Not to mention the joys of reliving those memories and again whenever i feel nostalgic or simply just want to enjoy the fun of being a kid of the 90s in todays modern age.
Great vid man, brought goosebumps, good times man..good times..
90’s aka golden era of gaming. It’s was an awesome experience jumping from console to console. Seeing the major improvements each jump. We don’t have that anymore.
Another kid born in the early 80s who lived through the 90s, and everything you just said is pure unadulterated truth. My weekends were basically a mix of SNES, PC Games and Pen&Paper. Good times!
The 90’s era of video games was definitely a different time. It was similar to how the 80’s was to music. It was magical. I was born in 84’ so I really lived 90’s lol. I miss those summer breaks and sleep overs at my cousin house, ordering Pizza Hut, and playing video games all night. Even the pizza tasted better back then. Let alone the 1990’s McDonald’s French fries, during the Batman forever movie run. When they had the collectible Batman character cups from the movie. It was epic.
Thank you for making this video! Some Great memories.
I am very happy that I experienced this time and sometimes I wish for the time without smartphones again. In video games, it felt like a new innovation came out every month. Hardly any game really excites me anymore.
Thanks for the video. I am German and was amazed at how many similarities there are.
I know you made this video to educate the kids that didn’t grow up during this era, but it just felt like a walk down memory lane to me!! 😅
At least that’s the vibe I got! Great video 👍😁😎⚓️
It was for me too
It was a lot of fun. Before online gaming, couch surfing with your buddies was the only way to go (and it remains the best way)! Many all nighters. We grew up when games were increasingly getting popular, but not quite mainstream, not to mention before the Internet. Gaming was more about hanging out with friends and family and sharing stories. Also, purchasing games was a bit like a treasure hunt since we didn't have online reviews and playthroughs. Some were hits, some were misses. But that was part of fun.
Thank you, thank you! Sooo much for the epic nostalgic trip!
Everything mentioned in this video was spot on - from gaming being so expensive and more of a luxury, to the feeling of walking into an arcade with a few bucks in your pocket and feeling like your in heaven..Im not even from the US but just goes to show that gaming in the 90's was a universal thing...wish we had a time machine to go back to do it all over again
God bless you for this video, I’m in my 40’s and this made me shed a tear, especially the comment about the arcades … thank you.
Awesome video man! Thanks for the nostalgia
This really applies to 80s to 90s. A lot mentioned here was actually 85-90. But it was a great time to love video games