7 Things All Gamers From the Nineties Will Remember

[@outsidextra]

🚂Toot toot, all aboard the nostalgia train -- here are the things that playing games in the 90s burned into our memories. Can you think of any others? Drop 'em in the comments, and enjoy -OX

[@BenersantheBread]

I would like to thank you for not naming the video something obnoxious like "7 Things ONLY Gamers from the Nineties Will Remember"

[@Liammort]

Searching for cheat codes in Games magazines, or showing your mates at school so they could copy the codes down for themselves

[@keynanmartinez]

The House of the Dead is still alive.

[@FnRenner]

How's about best video game commercials? There were some beautifully horrible ones. Plus it's an excuse to dress like it's 1993!

[@sevensins3584]

I feel old now!

[@raptormaster666]

Having to draw your own map on paper to remember where everything is, because some games didn't have the space to provide you with one.

[@OTE_TheMissile]

A friend and I filled an entire notebook with clues, puzzles, and solutions for the original MYST. Every weekend I'd be over at his house and we'd beat our heads against that game for hours. Still to this day I don't think you can play a MYST game without pen and paper. And using a guide is just plain ruining it for yourself.

[@jonathanschloemer6846]

Been there, done that, actually found several of the old maps cleaning out old boxes with my father recently. He and I played games together and made our own maps. As a kid I was bad at games, so I'd have him play games I wanted to, but wasn't good enough to (like Stonekeep). This became a way we spent time together. Eventually, I started helping him keep the maps and notes. The maps mostly got saved because they were pretty dang comprehensive if you could read the map legend, the notes mostly got tossed because not even I could read my own handwriting.

[@mathewpoole3589]

On the mega drive, i'd watch my dad play this top down adventure game. It was one if those games where each area and dungeon room was a fixed screen shot, and tou enter and leave along different points on the screen. So I'd draw what was on the screen on to a post it note and piece the world map together. Took up so much room, and wasted so many post its.

[@sozaj]

Anyone remember how confusing the dungeons in Phantasy Star II became?

[@chrishubbard64]

I still have my original zelda map with all the secret spots hand written onto it to tell me where to go and what to do.

[@TMDnz]

controller cable cords being 2 feet long and forgetting about it 2 hours later when you lean back and the console falls to the ground

[@insaincaldo]

I still wonder how the PS in the youth center at my old school, survived hundreds of kids doing that daily.

[@Zeuseus6609]

@@insaincaldo cos the PS was about as durable as an old nokia brick. That thing would live through an apocalypse and still play games. The memory cards however were more prone to breaking than thin glass in a hammer factory

[@insaincaldo]

@@Zeuseus6609 Back when they were still thinking practical instead of head up their ass design.

[@JimmyBasquiat]

They probably designed it with that in mind. "Dude, many kids will trip over gamepad cable, causing console to fall. Let's make it truly durable or we will drown in broken consoles."

[@insaincaldo]

@@JimmyBasquiat Yah, they forgot about that somewhere down the line.

[@lazybatman8913]

Whenever anyone says or shows footage of blockbuster I can literally smell the place. Popcorn and carpet for some reason XD Can anyone else remember that distinctive smell inside a blockbusters?

[@Ah-ed6ie]

Yea. I have to it's where I bought my N64.

[@drunkenfishfromspace1038]

They were using a perfume in all of the commerce my friend.

[@Kj16V]

And always staffed by weirdo movie buffs :D

[@stoyking8761]

Oh yeah

[@skorpius752]

You forgot the smell from all the little kids peeing on the floor.

[@manimal785]

Trying the Konami code on every non Konami game. Because, it should work on every game.

[@metallitron9000]

@Order & Chaos - and if it didnt work, you just weren't entering it quickly enough!

[@marcusbullock630]

Konami trolled us with gradius III- the konami code is the viper's self-destruct sequence

[@amyhoard1222]

And it does on a random few games that are konami :)

[@keyblademasterkatsu7839]

Password save files... I remember running through the house looking for pen and paper after game overs and then losing the paper and having to start all over again XS Im looking at you "True Lies" for Sega Genesis

[@bigmurphman]

The MegaMan blue & red dot grids, the 16 character codes for Punchout ... so many notebooks filled with stuff that will confuse the hell out of future archaeologists

[@maxvel0city906]

Totally remember a birthday party when I was younger where me and my friends got past a part in a game on the Sega mega drive which we'd never got past and in the commotion forgot to write down the password for this point, then preceded to die and had to start all over again. 😱

[@mpbMKE]

And no matter how carefully you recorded them, they were always wrong.

[@bigmurphman]

The worst was when you wrote down a “2” instead of “z” because they looked the same and had a moment of panic when the code didn’t work

[@mnArqal93]

RIP trees of the 90s. I used so many pieces of paper.

[@alvarogomezvivas7844]

6:52 That is so true. The manual’s purpose was 1/3 learning about the gameplay and lore and 2/3 to keep you hyped until finally no one would be watching the TV and you could play

[@darthvicvb]

Had to have something to read on the way home from Electronics Boutique!

[@amyhoard1222]

It also had blank pages that you could write passwords to skip to the section you wanted, if you died on a game, before memory cards existed.

[@ryanwatters7193]

See, by the mid-90s I had my OWN TV in my ROOM to connect my consoles to. Yup. I was rocking the ol' 19" Sylvania. You got like, 3 pixels per inch.

[@Scarabola]

Or on the ride home from the store after purchasing.

[@cericat]

If you ever touched a Gold box game the "Adventurer's Journal" was also 99% of the story going through and a lot of red herrings as diary entries and rumours heard at the pub.

[@TheAmazingTachan]

Man, I miss manuals. Part of why I was so good at reading as a kid was because I read every single game manual I got.

[@paulmidgley4807]

I used to love to smell of a new manuel.

[@teacherfromthejungles6671]

some switch games have them. especially super rare ones, like Earthlock

[@tdestroyer4780]

I usually liked reading all the lore etc on rpg games.

[@omarcrespo77]

I remember getting mad at my friends for throwing away the manuals as soon as they got the game and then asking how things were done! On occasions that they did kept the manual, but never read it, they'll tell me "How the hell did you do that?" I'm like "It's in the manual, duh!?"

[@MrHandsomeboynow]

T Destroyer seriously, the Everquest manual was my favorite book. And it’s true, reading it while the computer (or more accurately the dial up modem) was occupied used to get me so hype to play.

[@geehammer1511]

Buying a finished game that didn't need bug fix updates or DLC add-ons

[@cidfacetious3722]

Yeah I remember those days on the PS3 and Xbox 360 now the disc just has the redeem code and bug fixes are next month, O and 60$ only gets you the demo and sometimes access to a multiplayer at a severe disadvantage on the bright side I've been playing a lot of indie titles check out we the revolution on PS4 I Must thank EA and their peers

[@darkmessiah-minecraft9272]

but then nothin fixed bugs dangit!

[@abadenoughdude300]

To be fair, pc games did get patches and bug fixes in the later part of the 90's but it was nothing like today, when you patch the game immediately after install and the patch is 3 times larger than what the damn game you just installed. And when the game was shipped, it was complete, none of that add-shit-later roadmap crap.

[@AncientHydraGaming]

You have a point on the dlc part of it but it's not like those games didn't have bugs and exploits here and there. They also had far less code to sift through and debug so a higher percentage was found in testing.

[@aria8928]

So buying a finished game and not a 'finished' one. Good times.

[@davep8221]

Smacking hardware is called "Percussive Maintenance."

[@LadyOnikara]

Hardware is officially defined as the part of a computer or other electronic device that you can physically hit or kick.

[@blushingchaos]

Tripping over the controller cord and screaming in panic as the console falls to the ground. It always turned back on.

[@sarahull5639]

"Mega Drive Mike " Epic!!! Some person likes Sega for once! What about the Commadore 64? Oh...that's the 80's

[@beastofdarknesss5822]

Commadore 64 was my first console i loved alien,jaws and batman

[@johnnywheatbread4385]

I put a hole in my copy of Final Fantasy that way. Still plays (yep, PRESENT TENSE), though!

[@timothybryant2898]

Until it didn't..... 😭

[@RandyRivers2]

I remember my older cousins giving me an unplugged controller and tricking me into thinking that I was playing while he played Super Mario 64 and would say things like, "oh yeah... good job you beat the stage!" or "Oh wow, it took forever to beat that boss, but you did it on your first go!"

[@tigerwarrior1787]

Little Brother Mode... and now, Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee has that!

[@CrystalWilliamsBrownArt]

Aw, I've done this for my littlest cousins.

[@DFX2KX]

I remember Jet Force Gemini having that mode, and the little brother could actually be really helpful. if you had a controller in Port 2, and had Floyd, the second player could control Floyd's guns, which never ran out of ammo and fired as fast as you could hit the Z button.

[@Katzztar]

Haha I remember my sis and I doing that to her kids when they were really young. It didn't last long though as by age 8 they were able to figure it out. By the time they were 10, they were better than us, esp her son, and if we got stuck I'd ask him how he got past that level

[@theakaneko]

... i still sometimes do this with my kids...

[@johnyoung5413]

When your whole childhood could fit on 15 slots on a 1 mb memory card and when you had to make the horrible decision of what you wanted to delete when you filled it up

[@WolfysEyes]

That's when you get a new memory card, friend. My saves lived in perpetuity.

[@amyhoard1222]

Or plugging in your memory card to the horror of it saying the data was corrupted 😭

[@LermaBean]

Glad nowadays you have memory card adapters that use micro SD cards

[@cericat]

@@amyhoard1222 yeah, there was a "memory extension" style of memory card for the PS2, it had its own memory but relied on having a standard 8MB card in it to work, its own memory could also end up being corrupted randomly for reasons. So every time you hit the button to switch to see its saves was a hold your breath moment.

[@andymcp4752]

I'd like to know who ever used those blank notes section in the back of some manuals rather than writing any secrets or cheats on a crumpled piece of paper with a high risk of a parent throwing it out

[@axewieldingskitzo]

Also when you sell the game you help the next person. I bought hitman 2 and had all the cheats.

[@JKM395]

Write in my pristine game manual? Have you lost your mind?! Easily lost paper for me. It's an unofficial hard mode.

[@zanite8650]

....Why didn't I ever do this?!!

[@UltimaLestat]

I remember writing the number code in the manual for Fatal Frame, but that's pretty much it. Still comes in handy when I replay it!

[@DFX2KX]

For a while, I had a dedicated notebook for savecodes. That was the closest I got. I was poor as balls, and got most of my games used, so no manual.

[@jessicastrike5640]

Split screen multiplayer!! Everybody remembers the perfection that was 007 Goldeneye

[@insaincaldo]

The day Halo died for me was not the plot, or gameplay of later games, but the lack of couch co-op/multiplayer.

[@arenteus73]

Borderlands, and a few others, still have that, thankfully :)

[@codeym8070]

and playing OddJobs was the fastest way to make your friends hate you forever!

[@Mekora]

Some PC games had a variation, in that if the game didn't detect a valid CD, it only allowed you to join multiplayer games. Meaning you and your mates could play multiplayer games on PC, and only the host needs the CD.

[@blockpartysaint2582]

@@daiphipps8522 Imagine trying to kill oddjobs with jaws! Its gonna be a long day. Lol!

[@jakerideout]

I remember my friend telling me that the far off tower you could see in goldeneye was a secret level he’d been to. Also you could cut down trees with the axe in Zelda Ocarina of time. He’s not my friend anymore.

[@exiaxzero]

Letting your sibling "play" with an unplugged second controller just to get them off your back---a great way to instantly shut them up lol.

[@albertc.598]

Lol I remmember that, kids nowadays are less stupid... I mean are harder to cheat on.

[@orvalritchie8013]

Oh the memories....

[@albertc.598]

@Gobblarr whut?!

[@jcal8738]

Damn the moment they got the controller pure silence good ole times

[@WinstonMcGregor-hx8ub]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's a hidden gem right there.

[@capoeirense]

Competing with your friends for the "good" controller (the one still with all the buttons working and miliseconds faster than the others) for fighting or racing games..

[@johndope446]

Shit is real out here

[@relearn]

Or the controller with the rumble pack!

[@MasterDracoDeity]

@@zachisofire2422 madcatz controllers are goddamn awful

[@milksteak6831]

@@MasterDracoDeity some were decent i lik the gamecube madcatz mini controller and the ones for original xbox.

[@ElijahMendiola]

Ahh yes, the good controller, it was always a good reason to say that’s why I lost

[@pop5678eye]

Fun fact: the expression 'bug' in computing comes from the time of large (room-sized) computers using macro-circuitry when a real live moth got stuck in between some parts.

[@BlueLoneWolf527]

Fun fact! They still have the moth under a bit of tape. A piece of history! Musty, candle flame lovin' history.

[@OrangeDog20]

No it doesn't. The note about it is clearly referencing a pre-existing term "computer bug".

[@matthewvanorden2531]

Excellent work, But you forgot to mention how many of our friends uncles worked for Nintendo

[@Patrick-Phelan]

I'm reliably informed by fan games that those were actually cosmic horrors.

[@cctomcat321]

This makes the Mario episode of Gumball make way more sense...

[@MrWaffleshaggy]

I lost a game tournament to a kid with an "uncle".

[@datawolf39]

I was gonna write that. Glad I started scrolling. My fave thing was when they had an uncle and he would give them all kinds of toys and games but you couldn't see them because they were a secret and you weren't supposed to know so you couldn't even ask about it. I remember one kid told me they had a real pokeball and a hologram pokemon came out of it. My question now is why was it always an uncle? Was there no women working at Nintendo back then in the long ago forgotten time that were the nineties?

[@NarwahlGaming]

Women were relegated to the kitchen, making sandwiches for their hard working Nintendo husbands - just as God intended!

[@nobodywantsthethimble]

Going off the heels of renting games, that feeling of playing God by deciding which previous save file on a rented game gets to survive and which will be deleted for your obviously superior play through. Also, the predecessor to KZbin let’s plays, sitting around and watching your friend play while one person was on the manual, one person was on the Nintendo Power strategy guide, and one was providing color commentary.

[@BadWebDiver]

That sounds fun!

[@Amaranthyne]

I always read the manual...

[@premiumheadpats4150]

Honestly, I just wiped all the saves when I got a rental. Muahahahahaha.

[@ARUCARDFTEPES]

I legitimately forgot about that, but I had to avoid spoiling myself when I rented Ocarina several times before I could get it for Christmas. Oh, but actually there was another ancient let's play, they made VHS tapes of people playing through games. I can't remember but I think they came with some magazine subs.

[@PinkiTadinki]

I remember buying a gaming magazine when I was a kid, it came with a disc with demo games, some computer programs and a movie. It was pretty expensive, but I loved it.

[@apatureemployee25]

What about the insane looking third party controllers you would end up being given by your friend when you were player two? those things had extra buttons that did nothing and looked like it was designed by aliens

[@Kiytan]

I don't know how universal it was, but everyone I knew growing up had one of the weird knock-off batman-logo-looking psone controllers (I think they sold them in poundland) to this day I don't think I've ever used a more uncomfortable, unresponsive, unpleasant controller.

[@DFX2KX]

@@Kiytan I don't remember who made those, but my brain conjured the image... looked like a boomerang or something, ugh.... I think it was either Interact or Madcatz The wacky thing is, most of the knockoff controllers I had lasted way longer then the first party ones (at least for the N64, which had a trash controller).

[@insaincaldo]

Had a couple of odd joysticks and controllers for PC I think I managed to set up and use for anything a total of once.

[@AlexCole272]

😂😂😂 and they all had "Turbo Button" that pause and unpaused quickly

[@sgtraytango]

@@Kiytan A friend of mine had a few for his N64 so we could play Mario Kart and Goldeneye in four-player.

[@300IQPrower]

“The memory card in slot A does not have a [Game Name] Save File. Create a Save File now?” “Memory Card not detected, continue without saving?” And of course... “The Memory Card in Slot A is corrupted and needs to be formatted. Would you like to format the Memory Card now?” (Don’t care if some of these are 2000s, they count as far as i’m concerned)

[@mikesrphn69]

Joe

[@mikesrphn69]

Was wondering if somebody mentioned memory cards. So many memories

[@SamButler22]

Getting the console for Xmas but no memory card

[@Bruitcup]

Ugh *shudders* corrupted memory cards. I have ran into this 3 times in my life time, the first time was Mystical Ninja starring Goemon on n64 I had just gotten to the final boss. And BAM IT HAPPENED, I've also lost shadow lugia in pokemkn XD gales of darkness. And though not a memory card my ps3 shit itself and I lost everything.

[@DFX2KX]

Bad memory cards/save file corruption encapsulate 90% of the bad gaming experiences I've had over the years.

[@timothybryant2898]

I remember purchasing a game and you got the finished product rather than being extorted for the finished product over the course of a year

[@Xannolc1]

Oh you're gonna love what they did with FF7's "remake"

[@LermaBean]

@@Xannolc1 Aka a reimagining of Final Fantasy 7 because it's basically a "director's cut" or something.

[@ownhanagames5529]

look up best games of 2020 and you have 19 games like that and the other is completely playable now, its not that hard.

[@H0n3yMonstah]

4 player split screen and having to physically go round somebody's house for multiplayer.

[@yoda908]

Or if you bought the multiple controller adaptation that Sega and Nintendo offered for their systems. My best friend bought the one for the Nintendo in addition to the wireless controller.

[@aria8928]

Giving your friends or younger brother the 'better' of your two or three controllers.

[@Ah-ed6ie]

I liked that. You forget that you're all sharing one screen. Plus parent either escort you home or allowed a sleep over. And sneak and watch then encrypted channels while they sleep 😃

[@ronaldwright2310]

Who the fuck is screen watching?! Lol

[@adr3ns]

We still do lan parties

[@KevinKnutson]

Well, this game is hard... better go BUY a strategy guide!

[@HovektheArtist]

While im at it may as well grab that 10000 cheat code book so i can play big head mode

[@blockpartysaint2582]

YES!!! For about ten bucks!

[@HovektheArtist]

@@VincitOmniaVeritas7 but the only one worth calling was lucasarts

[@josearmandocamarena1059]

amen brother

[@SpydersByte]

hell yes. I still have the strategy guides for all the Final Fantasy games, Mass Effects, and Dragon Ages :D along with other RPG's and whatnot. I bought them just as much for the info inside them as I did to fill shelf space and get the maps and posters and bonuses they usually include. I still pick them up occasionally but nowadays its more convenient to just visit a wiki than to root through a massive tome of information that you can't just alt+f in :D

[@eastsid3ridah]

tv acting up ? just punch it... doesn't work on these new fangled "flat screen" things

[@omarcrespo77]

Same with dial-up been slow!☝️😁

[@Reishadowen]

I remember as a kid I had this old huge TV (like the size of a whole recliner level huge), built into a sturdy wooden box. Sometimes the TV would act up, and get all static-y, and either slapping the TV would get it to stop, or I just climbed on top of it. I remember one time having to play an entire game of Mega Man while laying on top of the TV and watching the screen upside down. XD

[@Ah-ed6ie]

I liked the excitement of selecting channel 0 then tuning in for console. The joys of RF cables. This generation won't know.

[@tohfawalker159]

The technical term for that is percussive maintenance

[@ICantSplel]

My brother and I got a shitty old TV for our bedroom, from a relative I think, which was very exciting for the time. Trouble was you had to "warm up" the TV, which basically meant you needed to turn it on for an hour before it would actually display anything...

[@izzyliberty8720]

"Drowning in cover discs" *looks up at my old games shelf* Yep. I don't think there even is a single CD drive in this flat anymore... but I am not getting rid of them, that'd be like killing off a friend.

[@insaincaldo]

On early PC before getting access to any form of internet, I had mountains of computer magazine demo discs and cereal box games.

[@dennisvedijk]

Deciding if a nes game was worth buying based on the cover art and three “in game” images on the back (which included the title screen :-s)

[@mikekaraoke]

You never watched that TV shows wherethey showed game reviews etc -And loadsof images in Magazines I know this is for the 90's, But Iw as just saying hecould of done a video about when Blockbuster first opened

[@shiwilliams4191]

dennisvedijk that’s how I ended up with Bugs Bunny Birthday Bash on NES

[@MerkhVision]

Oh hell yeah screenshots were important. Me and my brother automatically assumed a game was bad if it didnt have screenshots lol

[@nickyhuntington5492]

😂😂

[@Mekora]

Sometimes the screenshots feature a level or weapon that wasn't actually in the finished game, leaving players searching for that hidden weapon or level that's not actually in the game, at all.

[@MichaelDadourian]

Thanks for the incredible shot of nostalgia. The 90's will always hold a special place in my heart.

[@Jetfox967]

Rest in peace Blockbuster, you will live on in our hearts

[@jamesfowler5100]

Movie Stop is gone as well. Game Stop will be next.

[@Eagerstriker]

There is actually one Blockbuster video left in Oregon, funnily enough.

[@outlaw40034098]

Fun fact blockbuster was given the chance to buy Netflix for $500 while Netflix was in its infancy, the blockbuster owners said “the internet speeds required to stream a movie won’t happen for a long time and people prefer going to a store to rent a physical copy of something, your idea will never take off” and basically laughed at the creator of Netflix... who’s laughing now?

[@jad43701]

@@jamesfowler5100 They need to go. But like my mother-in-law, they will live forever.

[@thereaper5560]

Movie gallery for us

[@chrisharmon1985]

Keeping the Sega on because there were no way to save a game.

[@deathbykonami5487]

Then you had to restart the system after an hour because it froze (or crashed to the younger audiences)

[@salenlathgalintren4937]

Heh, for me it was the gameboy...I had a messed-up copy of pokemon blue that would only save when you defeated the elite four, so I used to leave it on and plugged into the wall until I got to that point...

[@thereaper5560]

Playstation not having memory card

[@jeffrielly]

Actually some catridge Games did have a save function, and they used a backup battery system to save your game on, a good number of the RPGs such as Phantasy Star for example, as well as games like Sonic & Knucles had this functionality.

[@blackhokage1744]

@@jeffrielly most games used password or passcode to save state

[@123bradderz]

I dont care what anyone says, blowing in the cartridge definitely helped 🤷‍♂️

[@Pezzer81]

I remember it used to attract dust inside the cartridge that's why it had to be blown

[@martyr4jesuschrist124]

I use to blow in the cartridge and if that didn't work I would cram another cartridge inside the Nintendo to keep it in place lol it use to work though.😂😂😂😂

[@Ichabod_Jericho]

Brad Fegan pretty sure some manufacturers specifically told you to blow in the cartridge if you were having trouble!

[@Jasondirt]

But would only work if you did fast and made the right sound. I can still hear it. Lol

[@war32mec]

Yeah it may cause corrosion over a long period of time but I've tried a million times( that's an exaggeration) just removing and reinserting and it never works one quick blow through the cartridge and proof it's like magic the damn game starts working. I still do it to this day and have never suffered a corrosion problem. So ill stick to what works thanks. Also original commentor is 100 % on the money with his post.

[@Mekora]

Did anyone else put game CDs into a CD player to listen to the music outside of the game?

[@Menaceblue3]

You can do THAT?!?!?!

[@j.geshua9539]

Yes...twisted metal 🤘🏼

[@takutepuke2182]

Woah what games could you do that with?

[@globalastro6422]

Dark Stone was another

[@Mekora]

@@Menaceblue3 If the game stores it's music in CD audio format, then yes. Track 1 will be the game data and will be mostly silent with garbled noise. Track 2 and beyond will play game music, (Big Red Racing also had voice tracks in CD audio as an introduction to each race)

[@itwaslikethatwhenigothere]

I remember in the 90's that games were released ready to play without needing to wait months for developers to patch the problems with them.

[@VaultBoy13]

Or, they were released permanently broken because there was no way to patch them. Even games that were great could be broken due to the limited save systems. Being forced to start all over because your save is a situation where you can't progress and can't go back really sucked. By comparison, I'd rather see games getting day 1 patches.

[@Herptroid]

Lol Bethesda had to mail floppy disks to patch Daggerfall in 1996.

[@insaincaldo]

Then you were either lucky or just never realized. Games of the time had to release at least.. more finished, but that didn't mean less broken games and definitely meant a needed patch might not be available.

[@QuestionableLifeChoices]

The closest we get to rentals these days are finding a let’s pay

[@mohbar4198]

How tragically poetic

[@jerryonlychild7003]

Redbox is still holding on I think. At least here in NY lol

[@blitzgirl6522]

While, as @JerryOnlyChild mentions, there does exist RedBox in many areas, I do agree - I use Let's Plays on YT to experience games vicariously that I would never want to play, or to see if a game is worth buying. For example, I became a SoulsBorne fan after watching my now favorite LPers play through Dark Souls, DS3, and Bloodborne! Never thought I'd touch those games until I decided to see what all the fuss was about via KZbin.

[@elleryj8174]

I am glad Andy booed Luke's Jurassic pun. Velociraptors are from the Cretaceous Period. I had come to expect more from Luke. Boo indeed.

[@exquisitecorpse4917]

Also, 'raptors are little turkey dinosaurs.......what we call 'velociraptors' (due to Jurassic Park) are deinonychus. *We've been lied to!!!*

[@Lanoira13]

​@@exquisitecorpse4917 Actually the book was based on deinonychus, though it was "considered" a type of velociraptor. For the movie, Speilberg didn't like how small the Deinonychus was, let alone how much smaller a velociraptor would be if they wanted to be realistic.... For a while the films planned to use the NAME deinonychus, but eventually went back to the misidentification "velociraptor". However the raptors in Jurassic Park are too big to be either of their smaller cousins. Spielberg thought it would be cooler if the raptors in the film were as big or bigger than a person. His attitude was basically "There were PROBABLY raptors that big, right? No, not that we know of? I don't care, it's cool, we're doing it!" Only AFTER this were larger raptor specimens like the Utahraptor (1991-1993, who would be a little taller than a human of indeterminate size) and Achillobator (1999, who'd be a bit shorter than a human ois) discovered, disclosed, and named. PS- Y'all ever get annoyed that those graphics comparing dinos to human size never tell you how tall the human is? Like are they 4 feet tall? Are they 7 feet tall?? This is a big range to be giving me to work with. It'd be more helpful at this point to use a cat for scale.

[@petersonp84]

Mostly Cretaceous Park!

[@Corbald]

@@Lanoira13 I like to think the 'human for scale' on the dino charts was there to indicate how readily a fully grown adult human would be eaten. Dino must be _this tall_ to eat you...

[@Lanoira13]

@@Corbald Not entirely relevant but I appreciate this science headcanon all the same. However tbf, anything can eat you if it's determined enough and you're docile enough. "Readily" was a bomb as word to use here. lol

[@mechtim]

full computer version of board games in cereal boxes like life, risk, monopoly, clue.

[@alicevon-schott7872]

Manuals>in game tutorials. In game tutorials piss me off unless they're optional.

[@thegrapist777]

I just remember the 90's as being loaded with an unsettling number of sassy anthropomorphic animals.

[@Checkplease700]

God dammit i hate you for reminding me of that

[@michaelchallis4129]

Good thing there’s none of that anymore...

[@no_nameyouknow]

And people wonder why there is a furry fetish today. Make people relate to anthropomorphic animals, and some people will relate so much it turns them on. Life's a funny ol' thing.

[@Reishadowen]

And then they grew up & moved to Tumblr.

[@mattitude4464]

I think it was because making good looking humans was really difficult

[@EzraColdsGarage]

90's video game logic. Why I still try to use random items at random and seemingly inappropriate times. Both in video game and life.

[@insaincaldo]

I would argue that came from the Sierra era, but there were still plenty of moon logic puzzles in 90's and 00's games

[@mathewpoole3589]

@@insaincaldo The 90's point and click adventure games from lucusarts, the Diskworld game, and the Broken Sword series would beg to differ

[@insaincaldo]

@@mathewpoole3589 That moon logic didn't survive, when I just said it did?

[@MrX-rk9or]

+ Couch co-op and having actual fun, while playing games. - Wanting games but not being able to afford them. It is strange how things have taken a complete turn, now.

[@Aristaios]

the second one can still apply even today

[@getfragged7051]

@@Aristaios but now I can only be sad at myself for being broke.

[@Djaklie]

Memory Cards, my parents gifted me a Playstation with 2 controllers, 10 games and no memory card. I had to finish games without shooting down the console.

[@side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179]

Ah, I feel your pain- as a kid, the daycare I was dumped at had an N64... and no memory cards. Us kids organized a group to do things like put tape over the power light or leave fans on so the console wouldn't get shut off and lose all our progress.

[@Djaklie]

@@side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179 that's a nice group effort

[@side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179]

@@Djaklie Drove the staff crazy though. XD

[@lockonstratos7787]

@christopher shields I would have no brother and his friends would be with him buried in the backyard somewhere

[@JEFFKINGS]

Must've been nice to have parents that were as rich as they were stupid

[@PaulGaither]

Memory cards, and before them... passwords. Writing them on slips of paper and keeping them in your game box... or losing them all together.

[@jdprettynails]

I still have all the password for Ecco the Dolphin written inside the manual

[@johnmcjohnson4265]

If there was a “DLC” it came in the form extra disks within the game you just bought

[@finchhawthorne1302]

Or stacking your old game on top of your new games with that weird tower thing if you were a sonic fan.

[@LermaBean]

Or having things unlocked using a PlayStation demo disc and your memory card for stuff in games like Spyro for example.

[@tosmokefromseed3515]

Na DLC was called expansion packs on and were on PC no luck for playstion Diablo

[@misterthegeoff9767]

One for the PC gamers. Remember when multiplayer meant lugging your PC round a mate's house and connecting the 2 together with a null modem cable? Eventually we all bought network cards so we could have actual LAN parties but at the start of my PC gaming days it was null modem cable all the way.

[@heady8498]

oh my, the first bnc network cards... every there? good! anybody got a spare tee connector / terminator? damn!

[@jonathanschloemer6846]

I was lucky and grew up in a multi-computer house. My father was an electrical engineer and did dumpster diving at a bunch of the electronics companies and scavenged parts and kludged together what were, at that time, absolute beasts of computers. So we hosted the parties and the neighbors or others would come over and play on these really nice computers with the 2 speed keyboards and 2 button mice. We had 4 computers all hooked up together at one time. Best part was that they were always up to date because he'd scavenged a board here, some RAM there, fixed up a busted hard drive. And it hardly cost. My father made all the money to support the hardware he couldn't scavenge and then the family vacation by making these kludged together beasts of computers then selling them to people who wanted to play games. I wish I'd paid closer attention, even though it's not really a useful skillset anymore.

[@raistlarn]

Blockbuster: Hmm.. You are approximately 1 minute late... Yeah we are going to have to charge you for another day of rental.

[@PrimeForm1]

My mom would always tell me to walk and go turn them in and of course, Id take forever and come back home with the game.

[@ramanemayberry7176]

I probably still owe them money...🤣🤣🤣

[@shinjiblack9460]

thats when I'd say haha jokes on you I wanted it another day anyway and late fees were slightly cheaper than another rental

[@Aristaios]

and then lovefilm came along and changed all that no more late fees

[@Darkgryphonl0rd78]

I still rent games. Have a gamefly membership

[@KellysHeroes777]

It was the best time to be a gamer. Loved how really random lies spread so quickly. Spent days trying to unlock a secret Character that could never be unlocked 😂😂

[@amyhoard1222]

The lie about how to get Lara Croft to remove her clothes went around for yrs. It was a lie back then, but modders these days fixed that, no doubt.

[@krashd]

In Frontier: Elite II there was a legend about a hidden ship called the Mirage that everyone who played the game knew about despite the internet being in it's infancy and no one having access to it. The ship didn't exist but everyone had heard the rumour.

[@amahashadow]

I still feel weird when I start a game on the Nintendo switch and I hear the SSSSEEEEGGGAAAAAAA.

[@sozaj]

Yeah, I agree with you.

[@lou5.569]

Finding Meryl's codec code on the back of the Metal Gear Solid packaging? Kojima.. we will never see his like again.

[@alanharrison2726]

I had a copy version no case . It only took 15 mins to work through numbers lol .

[@Elvisbackpack]

@@alanharrison2726 I assume you started at 140.00 and worked your way up one number a minute.

[@alanharrison2726]

@@Elvisbackpack can't remember . But I had no choice .

[@Reishadowen]

Star Tropics for NES did something similar, except you had to soak the instruction manual in water first. It really sucked for me as a kid because I got the game without the manual from a garage sale.

[@Puddor]

Yoko Taro had similar energy, and is generally allowed to do what he likes at this point.

[@jozefbucany2310]

for me as a PC gamer the most memorable thing was visiting a friend with a pack of 10 flopp disks and returning home with 48 new games to play :)

[@krashd]

For me it was swapping Amiga disks at school. You just got The Settlers and your friend just got Silly Putty, so you'd both agree to make copies and then next day at school the deal would go down and you'd both have new shit to play! Good times.

[@phornblow1]

I think the only thing that rivals the amount of demo discs accumulated through the nineties would be the pile of used AA batteries that went through my various versions of the game-boy and game-gear. But totally worth it for those few precious hours of gameplay!

[@traviscecil3903]

How about the number of unopened AOL discs? Found a stash when I got to uni and used them for coasters, shims to keep my shoddy desk from rocking, the backs for makeshift disco balls at the a Halloween party, etc.

[@insaincaldo]

And the amount of parent anger, when you used the remote batteries for emergency power.

[@diredinosaus]

I actually laughed out loud at the same time Luke lost it. Is this how it feels to be human?

[@nothingelsetodo4229]

silly humans dont need humor.

[@diredinosaus]

@@Dr170 Yes. Always.

[@DrAwesome6710]

I wouldn't know.

[@kietsuhime]

I remember renting Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time like, 5 times from Hollywood Video, and borrowing it from a couple friends of mine before I broke down and bought the game myself. It's still my favorite video game of all time. One of my tattoos is Navi from that game, and my notification tone is Navi saying, "Hey, listen!" My mom is now annoyed by it, but not for the same reason players of the game are, lol

[@SNESertainment]

Making up rumors Ie. You can play as Shang tsung in the original MK. If you beat the game 50 times without taking a hit and doing a fatality just before the clock reaches 0

[@livestraightclassic]

The one I tried was the playing as Akuma in RE2.

[@Reishadowen]

And you can find a Mew by pushing a truck in Vermilion City!

[@darnellhagood1052]

The “nude” code for Tomb Raider...

[@NarwahlGaming]

@@darnellhagood1052 and naked Samus.

[@CrazeeAdam]

We were asses because the internet didn't exist to fact check xD

[@noirakita428]

Being born in '82, 90's were 7-17 for me, so I was prime gaming age. Thank you for this! Will forever miss the '90's. Spring Yard Music from Sonic 1 adding to it. Also, this makes me like Mike way more now. I was a huge Sonic fan in the '90's.

[@brentage5000]

Yeeeeah, fellow 1982 birth!

[@PaulGaither]

@@brentage5000 - Born in 84, so not that different. 5-15. NES, SNES, N64, and Game Cube at the start of the 2000's. Many weekends were had renting games from a local place (rather than Blockbuster) which had deals for all VHS and video game rental. Get it on Friday evening, due Monday before noon. Pick out some games and play them all weekend while the parents... oh shit... oh fuck... netflix and chill before netflix... oh god.

[@NoFormalTraining]

They did out Mike as being a member of the Nintendo camp I'm afraid.

[@noirakita428]

@@NoFormalTraining Ah, that's ok. Mike is always awesome. It's not like I hated Mario or Nintendo in the '90's. I didn't own any consoles in the '90's thanks to an anti-videogame mother (My Dad had to convince her that Myst would be ok for me for gosh sake). I always had to play them at a friend or cousin's house. So whatever they had, I enjoyed the heck out of. I did have a Game Gear though thanks to my grandmother and had all the Sonic games for that (other than Drift 2, Labyrinth, and Tails' Sky Patrol).

[@NoFormalTraining]

@@noirakita428 I'd heard about some parents refusing to buy video games or let them in the house, what does she feel about them now?

[@connoraidan2789]

Waiting to play a new game is definitely still a thing when every game takes about 2 weeks to install

[@Sophie_the_Sapphic]

At least it isn't called "7 things (only) gamers from the 90's will remember".

[@Tr00st]

"Oh nuts, does anyone have a pencil?" I do miss the days when data loss was a little more... physical. No weird spools of tape coming out of a USB thumbdrive.

[@MarceldeJong]

And then a (soon-to-be ex-)friend comes over and swipes a magnet over your precious commodore 64 games cassette collection... thanks Mark, I still haven’t forgiven you for that!

[@NoFormalTraining]

@@MarceldeJong Are you sure that ex friend wasn't actually Magneto? Because if he wasn't, that's one hell of a magnet he had on him.

[@TheFiddleFaddle]

Oh my god, this whole video was worth it for the Game Genie commercial alone. The totally tubular 90s lingo that you only ever heard on TV 🤣

[@Hisha1303]

When you had to use a physical cable link in the real world to trade pokémon

[@SirStanleytheStumbler]

Worse you actually had to directly interact with said person to trade. Now it's all wireless over the internet with people you will likely never meet.

[@MidwestArtMan]

The reason I never finished my Ruby Pokédex was because my friend with a link cable moved away before I could catch everything.

[@Fennec333]

Omg yes And then those weird wireless nobbins that never worked properly

[@FoxCoffeeGaming]

i had an imported copy of pokemon green and corrupted both our saves when we traded pokemon. friend didnt speak to me for a week. still good friends to this day but he no longer plays pokemon

[@insaincaldo]

Only had an egoistic cousin to trade and battle with, once he completed his dex and proved his champion team stronger, he was done with me.

[@tx_outlaw7951]

Mom: Going to Walmart! Me: let me find a pen and paper! Mom: for what? Me: u have no idea how bad I need these codes!!!!!!!!! Me: sitting Indian style middle of isle coping codes from a mega cheat book lmfao the good ol days

[@BrickBuildingFun]

I did that to get Mortal Kombat moves.

[@jaygoerbig8343]

Holy fuuuuuck bro. Just took me back lol. Tips and Tricks few!

[@oscarvazquez1550]

Me and my brother would go to Albertsons

[@ChainsThePunk]

Still have my books in the shelf behind me. And I remember good old cheatcodes.com on dial up.... Ah the memories when you had to actually read through an essay of a walkthrough, and couldn't just watch a vid

[@justthisguy1948]

Austin Pena I just ripped out the page too much to write down

[@kubadrozdz8266]

The game "canonically" ending when you run out of ideas how to solve a puzzle or defeat a boss. There was no hope of finding a walkthrough so many of my old games ended with my character dying over and over again....

[@Pbmarron]

I loved Playstation demo disks. That's how I was first introduced to Tekken 2 and Twisted Metal 2 and Jet Moto. Ahhh...I miss the 90's.

[@blockpartysaint2582]

Aw man could you imagine a remake of twisted metal or jet moto now days. I'd empty my bank account for it. Lol!

[@justiceom5991]

Jet Moto 1&2 was the shit! I had so many of those demo discs... honestly idk where they came from

[@MulletSensei]

"It's the best thing I've ever seen." ~ God God clearly hasn't seen that chest hair Andy is rocking

[@Gottaculat]

I remember Pokemon Snap had an in-store kiosk at Blockbuster where you could insert your memory card, and have your saved "photos" printed out into stickers right then and there. It was pretty sweet.

[@ScottFerman]

Anyone remember renting actual consoles from Blockbuster? Was a bit of a tough sale convincing my dad to pony up the cash to find out that the Virtual Boy was rubbish.

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

Never rented a console, did rent many games.Blockbuster and Rogers were good sources.

[@madasrabbits]

i was able to play so many different games on different consoles thanks to console rentals. damn i miss being able to do that

[@VaultBoy13]

I rented a PlayStation for a weekend to play the games on it I was interested in. The funny thing about it is that playing FFVII that weekend made me realize how much I hate the grind of JRPGs. Despite having played a ton on other consoles, it made me realize how bad the gameplay is in these games.

[@craigb2343]

I rented a Saturn multiple times. With all the money spent, I probably could have just bought one.

[@carlosrodriguez-di3bs]

I never rented a console but we would rent games.

[@juances]

We don't argue in bits anymore, but numbers are still super important. Now it's all about how many Ks your resolution has and your FPS.

[@SevCaswell]

but minecraft continued the learning your 8xtables as it counts stacks in 64s...

[@maxfelson9467]

@@SevCaswell you know that there are games that are exceptions

[@LtBasil]

Gamers like them numbers.

[@nickoftime602]

Mostly because all consoles -mostly and I’m simplifying here - are all 64 bits.

[@katfromthekong414]

I was just plain annoyed when game manuals stopped being a thing cause they always contained some lovely game art and the game package just felt cheaper without it.

[@maxvel0city906]

Sighs heavily! You don't remember the CONSOLE WARS of the 90's. YOU WEREN'T THERE MAN, YOU WEREN'T THERE!

[@misterthegeoff9767]

My sister had a NES and I had a Master System. That war split my family in two!

[@Vamptonius]

Never knowing if your friend would betray you by getting the enemy's console. The double agents that had both. And the mythical neo Geo with so many identities that everyone claimed to have seen, but no-one could reliably say where. The horror, the horror.

[@misterthegeoff9767]

@@Vamptonius I had a mate who had an actual street fighter 2 arcade cabinet in his bedroom. Though to be fair he was only my mate because he had an arcade cabinet.

[@thundercookie3214]

"I got a PC for Christmas and some games for it." Cue the laughter.

[@jonathanschloemer6846]

I grew up on PC so I was pretty insulated from the console wars. We also didn't have cable and I only cared about PBS so I didn't even see the commercials. I may have lived through them, but I never actually experienced them. To muck things up even more, my father is an electrical engineer and way back then he kludged together parts to somehow make a computer than ran better than the top of the line computer and could fully run the emulators back when you could just... buy them... and they were normal. So I got to play things like Spyro courtesy of bleem!. I didn't even know what a console was until I was in the 3rd grade.

[@SuperGankBros]

I just want to say that I used Gameshark for Goldeneye on my N64 so much that it corrupted my cartridge and the enemies became permanently invisible even without using the Gameshark. Nothing I did could fix it lol. That made it quiiiiiiiiiite challenging to say the least. It's like the game itself was fighting back and saying "Oh yeah kid? Well now it's MY turn to cheat!"

[@hitlord]

Sounds like a pretty good speedrun challenge.

[@amyhoard1222]

I used the Game Gennie for Tomjam and Earl, on my Sega Genesis, that the code book will automatically open to that page >

[@Mojames1984]

I remember when I was a kid, if we lost the instruction manual that came with a game rental the video store would charge a hefty fee. No wonder the whole rental industry disappeared

[@handlebarfox2366]

Don't forget reading the manual to find the right access code to get into your game.

[@DFX2KX]

oh PC Anti-Piracy systems....

[@Tremadog102]

I remember back in the 90's when EA wasn't as overly evil as they are now. Many of my favorite Mega Drive games were from EA. Jungle Strike, Road Rash, General Chaos, EA Hockey and more.

[@Amaritudine]

Desert, Jungle and Urban Strike comprised one of the best trilogies from that era of gaming. It's always neat to see them getting some appreciation in the comments.

[@serPomiz]

EA used to be one of the most revolutionarieas and user-friendly corp. out there I know now it sounds as absurd as localizincg charathers with impossible accents, but both are true things (italian version of FFIX)

[@johnnywheatbread4385]

Ooh, OOH! Starflight! Try it if you haven't!

[@SupplementalSense]

I was so stoked once I found out some of the demo discs had songs that could be played via CD player.

[@eddmario]

A lot of classic PS games had that. For example, Twisted Metal 4 was one and it even included all the sound effects as well and you could even copy them onto your computer.

[@cericat]

Some games also had hidden audio tracks on their main CD, ie the Story of Boggy B on the original Worms wouldn't play in game you needed to play it via an audio CD player.

[@bluecat3338]

Stuffed crust pizza was definitely the top invention of the 90s

[@TheAmazingTachan]

Just ate one yesterday. Still tasty.

[@kalstonii]

Blue Cat al gore disagrees

[@Rell1984]

I remember when they gave out game demos

[@JoshuaCamacho09]

Discovering the simplicity of RGB cable and its two audio cables.

[@wolfwing1]

I was just cleaning up my apartment's storage room and had a huge collection of scratched cds from real games, pirated games, and demo discs that I threw out hehe.

[@salavora]

I once used the "blow into the device to remove the dust and get it to work" excuse on a customer. They had to restart their router (easiest way was to remove the power cord). On the phone, they said they had done this but I could see in the devices log, that it had been running constantly for two years... So I asked, if they ever had a Gameboy and remembered the dust problem. They did and I told them, that some of the power cables on those types of routers can have the same issue, so if they were so nice as to remove the power cord, blow into it and plug it back. A few seconds later I lost connection to the router, since the person finally did unplug the damn thing... to blow into the power cord. "Miraculously" this fixed the issue ^^"

[@mahe4]

good lord... that physically hurt, how stupid people can be...

[@karlo.with.a.k281]

why 90s gaming is the best: * Arcades are the only microtransaction * When you purchase the game, you get the entire game * Innovation in game designs * You don't need many launchers

[@NotHPotter]

No day zero bug patches.

[@vattmann1387]

@@NotHPotter Game patches coming on CD's in PC games magazines.

[@NotHPotter]

@@vattmann1387 Touché

[@vattmann1387]

@@NotHPotter The plus side was that the patches were not usually big and you didn't end up with 5gig patches etc :) It was extra motivation for devs to release less buggy games.

[@DFX2KX]

@@vattmann1387 When the bugs *did* happen though, you where boned. That said, they where way less buggy back in the day. Every black-cart copy of Turok Rage Wars has a bug that bricks the Co-Op mode, for instance. The replacement gray cart versions are super rare and sell for like... $400 these days.

[@jevachimillian3737]

Glitches, where your character turned into blocky pieces of the environment.

[@apetsel]

Pizza Hut is responsible for my love affair with Metal Gear Solid, which seems like an insane thing to say in 2019.

[@ShadowMystic7]

I played that demo countless times before I finally got the real game... Pizza Hut is also why I got Ape Escape and THPS.

[@Chris_Sizemore]

It sounds less insane than anything made by Kojima.

[@apetsel]

Chris Sizemore fair lol

[@Morbacounet]

It would be worse if you said that in 1945 tbh.

[@Borgforce]

One really bad day for me: Walking into a museum and seeing a gameboy in a display... :-(

[@freckleonmylumpsack6031]

Bro... That had to hurt..

[@jacobprice8048]

Damn, it's like the first time I heard collective Soul on a classic rock station. I felt really old that day

[@edisonlima4647]

For me that "I'm old as shit" moment was the first time I watched a trailer for a period piece set AFTER I WAS BORN! I know the 20 years rule and all, but watching a tv featurette use the words "recreating the feel of an era" hurt. Lol

[@Borgforce]

So it Goes - I almost hit someone because they didn’t know what a VCR was... Me: “You know, a VCR, that thing you have under your living room TV...” Him:”A what? You mean a DVDR?” Me: SMH - “No... not a DVDR, a VCR.” Him - Stares blankly at me.

[@piercedsiren]

.. R.. really ? Man. They're not that old !

[@Gottaculat]

Blockbuster late fees. My parents told us no more Blockbuster rentals, because they had tallied up all the late fees that year, and my parents had paid over $8,000 in late fees... in one year... really, no joke. I wonder what that would be adjusted for inflation today. Needless to say, when my brothers demanded they get a car for their 16th birthday (they had a lot of rich friends who could afford to do that, so it seemed normal), my parents agreed, but only if they first repay ALL LATE FEES my parents had to pay for over the years. That shut my brothers up fast.

[@kitmakin289]

Think engineers actually call it "percussive maintenance" Andy.

[@kevin_f]

This is 100% a real thing and is still employed to great effect on some very expensive equipment. ...I’m told.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

It's a legit prelimilary technique though not the "whack the thing eith force" but "tap lightly" technique. If it sounds solid, it's good, if it doesn't sound right it is tagged for further inspection...

[@insaincaldo]

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 ..After a reboot.

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

Probability dictates that after enough wacks, even a random pile of parts will eventually assemble itself into a working machine.

[@albertgreene313]

Percussive Maintenance is also called the Fonzereli effect, this is something i learned by way of watching this.

[@tomtitherington]

Playground cheat spiffs. There was always that one kid who had all the Sega cheat codes.

[@edwardking9359]

engineers call slapping a thing to make it work "percussive maintenance"

[@KristiChan1]

A good chunk of my 90s childhood was at my grandpa's video store. Lots of memories hanging out in the back playing all the different consoles, and packing them up if someone came in to rent one. Good times.

[@Captain_Yesterday]

What about cheat code books? No searching on the internet for cheat codes back then! You had to buy a book that contained codes for every game every released. Then new editions of that book when it became out dated as newer games were released.

[@TransGuyShane]

I loved reading the manuals for games, especially the tiny thick ones that came in GBC game boxes. I liked the fact alot of them had space to write your own stuff in it. It was mainly for the saving system I think but I used to just draw in mine lol. I used to play the land before time GBC game and always had to try and remember the save codes you got after finishing a levels so that if I died I wouldn't have to start from scratch lol, probably should have used those pages for the codes instead of trying to draw littlefoot :) Arcade's still are amazing, well for me they are haha. I went to one with my sister at the beginning of the month and wasted loads of money so we could both play this walking dead bow and arrow shooting game. We got pretty far. Mainly because I kept putting coins in for extra lives but I had so much fun I said if I was loaded and had the space I'd buy one lol. I also got to play space invaders on a massive projector screen which was wicked. I'm 25 but I had as much fun as my nearly 2year old niece (who just wanted us to win her more tickets lol). Also I liked your joke Luke, I don't think it deserved a boo :) Oh no I hope you guys don't get obsessed with Tetris again :P

[@bluecat3338]

A lack of game manuals with physical purchases is one of the things I miss the most. Even if it’s just a few pages of concept art of something, it would give that extra little sparkle to buying a new game and would validate my increasingly outdated love of owning physical copies over digital ones.

[@jonathanschloemer6846]

Blizzard Manuals were always my favorites because they were giant lore books for the settings. I think they paved my way to eventually becoming a Dungeon Master because I wanted to make worlds like that and have people play in them.

[@omarcrespo77]

I don't care what internet might say now, blowing into cartridges DID work!! And so was holding it down for a while... pushing it all the way in or just barely... it all depended on the game!! Best option though, use a cotton swab with a little alcohol and let it dry.

[@dixonbutts800]

Facts, facts, & more facts. How they gonna try and tell us when we LIVED it.

[@ownhanagames5529]

it could have worked, but id guess it was just a "leave it alone and it will go away" kinda thing who knows though

[@hudsonball4702]

Reading Game magazines, or calling help lines, to see play throughs.

[@hudsonball4702]

@brandon roberts Yeah, but you don't need them very often today. Back in the 90's, before every known route or cheat code known to man was posted online, you needed game magazines, like Game Freak, or a help Line, like Nintendo's help line, to get information on a route in the game or a possible cheatcode, if any.

[@Mekora]

I read game magazines, and by their nature, you couldn't control when you get hints for certain games. So I spent a long time waiting for how to get past the barrel in Sonic 3. That's part of what made that barrel so notorious. Also, most modern games would give you instructions on how to control the barrel, so the problem would have been avoided anyhow.

[@AndyKennett]

@@Mekora OH GOD I remember that darn barrel, I remember the first few times reaching it I ended up timing out cause I couldn't figure out how to make it go high enough. All the previuos ones could be handled just by jumping on like a trampoline so OF COURE I thought that would work here too. No one told me anything about using the D-pad to move it, I had to stumble upon that on my own LOL

[@matthewmchenry2889]

I'm still wondering what happened when you called a hotline, other than a massive phone bill.

[@Mekora]

@@AndyKennett Yeah, jumping gave enough distance alone in any previous barrels, making it look like what was needed again. There's no immediate feedback, you need to have been pressing up and down for a few bounces to notice anything. It's so notorious as something incredibly simple, but never actually explained or subject to immediate feedback. Giving a good example of why modern games give so many button prompts and explanations of game mechanics.

[@l0stndamned]

Cheats being hidden codes rather than paid-fpr DLC. Also, I really miss instruction booklets.

[@MitchBurns]

You know what I remember from the 90’s. Actually having to figure out how to beat a level! You could always ask a friend that already beat it, or read the player’s guide, but a lot of the time your friends were struggling as much as you and it was a really collaborative effort to try and figure out some of the harder games. As for the player’s guides, those were expensive, and a little hard to find. You could also scroll through online walkthroughs, but those were hard and time consuming to read, and no one in the house could make or receive phone calls when doing it, so you usually could only do it late at night, or be as quick as you could so that people could call if they needed to. It was a real struggle. Also the internet had SO MUCH misinformation like pikablue! Japanese sources were almost always mistranslated, and most people had no way of telling a good translation from a bad one. It was a much different time back then.

[@krashd]

What surprised me when trying out some of the games I loved as a kid is that I must have been far more patient and persevering as a kid because games that I completed when I was 11, 12 no internet access and just my own wits actually made me struggle as an adult. As a kid I had no problem with taking every item in my backpack and trying to combine them with every other item but as an adult my more logical mind just got annoyed with the process because I would be thinking *"Why on Earth would a balloon and a sock ever go together? I'm definitely not going to combine those two!"* No doubt the games I completed as a kid, that stumped me as an adult (like Beneath a Steel Sky or The Dig), likely required someone willing to combine a balloon with a sock...

[@lowlowcheeses]

Ah, I remember my brother's Nintendo 64. The blowing on the cartridge and putting it back in trick always worked!

[@rakuengrowlithe4654]

That Gameboy ping at the end just sounds so goooood!

[@yoda908]

I'm surprised he didn't have any of the accessories like the magnifying lens, light and camera and Gameboy link cord attached to it.

[@salenlathgalintren4937]

@@yoda908 I still have one functioning cord (admittedly, for GBA), and I'm terrified of the day it'll die like the others and I'll no longer be able to trade my pokemon between my older versions...

[@3DJapan]

I totally loved my PlayStation copy of Lunar: Silver Star Story. It came with a hard cover manual and a cloth map of the world.

[@ARUCARDFTEPES]

That was my first PS1 game, I bought it used along with a used Playstation. Even used, it still had all the extras inside and was basically in mint condition, really lucky. I only had enough to get either that and a memory card, or MGS but no memory card. It was tough but I don't regret my choice.

[@athena8794]

Percussive Maintenance is definitely still a thing. Source: I work on a boat.

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

...a boat would be one of the things that I personally wouldn't want to use "percussive maintenance" on, though...

[@athena8794]

@@neolexiousneolexian6079 as long as it ain't the hull, you're good