10 Gamer Problems THAT ARE NOW DEAD

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

If you remember the PS2 days you know the memory card was a pain

[@gameranxTV]

😅👆🏻

[@juankovacs6033]

And the CD as well. If that lens got a little dust on it you had to pray the gods and wait to see that logo turn on.

[@bakerrr925]

Memory cards were the best

[@michaelmoore1627]

Ps2? I remember needing a memory pack for the n64...I'm getting old. The ps1 had a multi memory card with a digital display that had 30 cards worth of memory to pick from..then all my ff7 saves were gone when the card stopped working.😢

[@tomscott9230]

I always thought it was bizarre that internal storage was such a hurdle. I think nintendo was real snake bit by having so many solutions before tech caught up. Theyre still using memory sticks

[@brettbeyer73]

As for the multiple discs, when you opened that package up and found three or four discs, there was an actual ping of excitement. "This game is HUGE!"

[@ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy]

Grand Theft Auto 5 is indeed HUGE. (4 DVDs)

[@CockLord2059]

me when i emulated MGS:

[@gavinsnider4275]

That's how I felt when I saw TLOU2 and initially Cyberpunk 2077 (my dad preordered me the PS4 version for Christmas and we know how that went) The 2 disk thing died and then came back and I wouldn't be surprised if it comes back again late in the PS5s life

[@chuiduma]

I remember doing that with FFVII (original) when it came out. If you told me way back then that one day I would have a copy of that game on my mobile phone that I could play, I wouldn't have believed you. I still have my old official game guide for FFVII too, in good condition, which I was amazed about when I realized how old it was when Remake came out. 😅

[@ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy]

For goodness sake, I have Skyrim on my Samsung Smart Fridge. I also have it on my Tesla, so I can play video games on my way home from the bar.

[@neil_mch]

As an older gamer, I remember many games that had over 10 disks, some as many as 15. Back then, pre-CD floppy discs only held 1.4 MBs. In modern standards, Black Ops Cold War would take over 170,000 of those discs.

[@donaldfrederick501]

5 floppy discs for Tie Fighter.

[@cmdr.jabozerstorer3968]

You could get 2mb High Density floppies but yes most were 1.44mbs.

[@Shoelessjoe78]

I don't know you. But I know you... Different era.

[@ceasarcruz8312]

@@cmdr.jabozerstorer3968 a whopping 2mb, wow!

[@franck3279]

As a teen, I begged my parents to upgrade our 486 with a cdrom, only to discover that I couln’t use it and the sound board simultaneously, totaly negating tge interest of that expensive equipment,

[@mattyb0994]

I really miss the old physical game guide books. Not for walk through, but for all the lore they would have. Like the Rouge Sqaudron book that went into full detail on every mission and every ship in the game

[@thriceXplus7]

Low?

[@mattyb0994]

@@thriceXplus7 oh dang, I meant lore

[@mattyb0994]

@@thriceXplus7 I fix

[@CD-Gaming]

I miss the old instruction manuels giving you some backstory or insights into the game's world, like Sonic telling you all the Levels, or Dungeon Master II sharing a little side story set jus before the game starts! Assassin's Creed II had memos from between the modern day characters as well!

[@mattyb0994]

@@CD-Gaming THIS^|^

[@F1jones]

Great list. It reminds me that I've been gaming for 35 years even though I'm 55. I've forgotten some of these things. Being an adult when I started made some things easier, i.e. no issue having someone turn off my console or not being able to get memory cards (I still have my PS2 and all my cards with saved files from back in the day). But I do remember pondering whether I really needed a new one or were hoarding saves. And I did leave my PS1 on all day while at work to save my practice qualifying from the night before on F197 and do the race when I got home because you couldn't save through about 3-4 hours of gameplay if you tried to do a full race weekend. Somehow I never killed that original Playstation, in spite of leaving it on 24/7. Or more sometimes. Also, there were a few old Sega 16-Bit games that, yeah, I just got stuck on and could never figure out how to progress past. Maybe even a few PS games too. Clocktower and Silent Hill come to mind. Some games just broke in the middle and couldn't be patched, or you'd scratch a disk and be unable to progress (with odds increasing of unplayable damage with multiple disk sets). People complain a lot, but we have it really good these days. Games are just incredible; they're marvels of technology. The accessibility is insane and in general, the quality has improved in ways we couldn't imagine 25 years ago. Back then, sometimes just trying to figure out how to play the game was the objective of playing, rather than enjoying the experience. We're almost at Star Trek holodeck simulations now. There's always a lot that can be improved and that has degraded the experience, but we have a lot to be thankful for as gamers too.

[@baldmenwin9591]

My dad bought a Pong console in 1977. I remember bugging my dad for Pacman in 1980 for Atari and he shelled out $40 at Sears for it. Dad was the Best and he loved Arcade Games also. He loved Donkey Kong and I loved Asteroids.

[@PublishedLeaf]

What would you say are your favorites and if their old ones, and new/newer ones. I'm not that old but it still amazes me how we have all of stuff inside and it's somehow able to play these beautiful games. And how we somehow came so far in so little time. I would love to hear your opinions about games and some new ones and old ones, that you've played or would like to play and try sometime. Games you love and games you hate, even if I don't personally agree with you, as that's fine and no big deal as it's just opinions and shouldn't be taken so seriously. Or if you would like one recommendations of games, like The Evil Within, what remain of Edith Finch, or the resident evil series or any others as my game collection is huge and has a wide variety.

[@F1jones]

@@PublishedLeaf interesting question, thanks for asking. It's hard for me to say what my favorites are since my tastes have changed based on what's been technically available, plus I find that what I might have thought was fun 20-30 years ago maybe isn't so much anymore for whatever reason. And I don't remember a lot from my old Sega days, so long ago. Probably Outrun on Sega 16-Bit and definitely early Madden titles got the most traction on Sega Genesis (I've probably never been as good at any game as those). I got my first PC spec'd to support a racing sim called Grand Prix Legends in 1997, which still holds up today when modded. From there with Playstation, it's pretty boring. Gran Turismo 1&2, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil 1&2 are the big titles. Hulk Ultimate Destruction and the Marvel Ultimate Alliance are memorable, but I have a stack of games here for PS2. Past that, it's been all PC and I've gravitated more towards pseudo open world games like OG Tomb Raider first teased; Half Life 1&2, Oblivion, Skyrim, Witcher3, Arkham, Assassin's Creed (Black Flag and Origins are my favorite), Cyberpunk, etc. I really like the ability to not need to play the game and to just be able to just explore in my game worlds (RDR2 stands out, where I just went on mapping expeditions for days irl without touching any quests). Mass Effect gets a special nod given I rate it every bit as highly of a sci fi/fantasy franchise as Star Wars or Star Trek, and also Diablo 2 in the RPG space. I've always been into sim racing and have tried most of them but Project Cars 2 really stands out as an accessible title on par with GT. AAA titles get a lot of complaints directed towards them, but I think they're AAA for a reason and it seems I gravitate to them on reflection here. Each one I mentioned is something I can go back to and have fun with on any given day, and I do fairly frequently! But honestly, I've played more than I can remember and I know I'm leaving out many that I've enjoyed very much. Fun question. What are some of yours?

[@PublishedLeaf]

@@F1jones Sorry it took my so long to answer. I have 184 games so I cant name them all. Some of the games I love, I know people dislike and thats okay. My favorite game right now is the Evil Within 1, Its really chaotic and fun and will get you to ask the he'll is happening or whats going on every second. Another close second is What Remains of Edith Finch, its a game where its all about the story and your just walking around and its a cinematic masterpiece. Dying Light 2 is a game where I have over 200 hours in it and Im still coming back to play it. Its not a gamer for everybody, but I can stop playing it for 6 months and come back to it and have a blast. Another of my favorites is Mafia 3 and its Definitly not for everyone, peoplr have said a lot of the gameplay id repetitive, but the story is great. I actually really enjoy thr gameplay though. Outlast is the greatest horror gane ever made, enough said. I really enjoy lego games and have every lego game made by travlers tales except two of them. Watch dogs is a game 1 is a game I have played with my sister since we were younger and we just drive around and shoot people. I know it can disappoint people, but it cant with me as I have a blast playing it. Dishonered is a classic of either butchering people or being a good person. It's a game where you kinda get to chpice your own path or route. Resident evil games are always awesome, but Resident Evil 7 is my favorite and how I got into the series. Sleeping dogs and Far Cry Primal are game that are do satisfying to me. Dont think I need to tell you about minecraft as it gives me freedom to build my crappy houses. Assasins Creed blag flag is my favorite AC game. I play some Cod and my favorite is Cod Bo3 for the zombies. Dark souls makes me wish I was never born for a second time. The dead Island games (not di2, I havent played it yet) are just so good to goof off and not take seriosly if you need a break. Grand thedt auto 4 and 5 are still some pretty great games, even if rockstar is Satan. With Gta 4 being my favorite game of theres. The Last of us 1 and 2. TLOU2 is not a game for everyone and people are allowed to feel disappointed and mad. Not me though as I really enjoyed it and the story. I hope people can spread some positivity even if you hate the game, dont be a jerk to those who love the game. Lastly Hades is a game that is so addicting and one you can come back to even after you beaten it 20 times. These are just some of the games I have, but theyre my favorite to play and come back to. Some of these games are not for everyone, but that doesnt matter to me as I just have fun playing them. Excuse and spelling mistakes. I'd reccomend you check out Evil Within, What remains of Edith Finch. Abd if your heart can take it, outlast.

[@CaedoGenesis]

I was grounded from playing games more often than not, so that startup sound was a real fear of mine every late night playing FF Tactics. Also I do kinda miss the memory cards. I only had a console of my own later, but thanks to a personal memory card I had saves I could keep with me from my buddy's place, without worry of overwrites. Those things also could go through the washer and survive, which impressed me too!

[@enrd12]

My ps2 memory card went through the washer about 20 times and still works to this day with some repairs throughout the years.

[@Jerekul]

Yeah the PS2 memory cards used flash, so they didn't have any onboard power, there was no chance to short them out if they aren't plugged in. As long as you make sure it's dry before you plug it back into your console, you should always be fine with those. Many electronic circuit boards can be washed underwater so long as there's no charge in the capacitors and has no battery attached to it.

[@Powwpoww]

Man the phone startup sound was so long and loud that even if I manage to start turning down the volume would be busted before it got to a lower volume.

[@naldnald8899]

So grateful to be able to watch videos like this in 2023 and get that hit of nostalgia with my fellow aging gamers. I definitely love the newer generation of players and seeing them experience their own “discovery” phases we also had, but something just hits different being able to resonate with other gamers about downloading and printing a 50-page walkthrough from Gamefaqs back in the day and getting chewed out by your folks for using all the printer ink

[@yvngnig]

yooo ur an og fr never heard that one 💪🏾

[@patryksroka4783]

I’m only 22 and I remember this lol I caught the end of the ps2 era, quit gaming for a few years and only got back when I was like 16 I think

[@painful-Jay]

I had printed a guide from mk3 ultra with all fighters and moves on it. I used it all the time.

[@M3LT666]

Too often with the start up chimes 🤣😭

[@natnat8393]

Complete facts lol

[@jeremiegartner464]

I feel all of these to my core. The one thing I miss is a complete game at launch on a physical device is you can play it right away and offline.

[@ahampel22]

Back in the 90s, I knew a guy who made his own water cooled PC with a copper plate, some tubing, a fish tank pump, and a 5 gallon bucket. It worked great and he was able to overclock that thing pretty hard.

[@cheezethepunk]

Back in the late 90s I went to a friends house who’s younger brother, he was maybe 12-13, built his own PC and he had one he showed me that was operated by remote control. That blew me away and now it’s so common that it’s hardly as amazing as it was then.

[@whatdoesthisthingdo]

Back in the 90s, I was in a very famous…

[@cheezethepunk]

@@whatdoesthisthingdo very famous?

[@ryougahibiki941]

Back when there were some graphics cards you could muck about with to overclock them, one of my mates had a water cooled system that the now heated water would be pumped into his tropical fish tank. Then pulled out into a filtration system, to let the water cook down, then pumped back through the computer. It was an overly complicated setup, but it worked.

[@darthrader1068]

@@whatdoesthisthingdo??

[@reig3123]

Saving your game progress is probably one of the biggest QOL improvement in gaming. Unlike today where seeing a game's end credits is more or less a sure thing, finishing a game way back then was a big achievement. You have to struggle through limited "lives"/retries plus no way of saving your progress. I also remember the pain of old consoles just randomly rebooting due to faulty power adapters.

[@leonidas14775]

Or adventure games that don't tell you till hours later that you made the wrong choice and the game is unwinnable.

[@pimphandduke8447]

Of course nowadays developers seem to be allergic to allowing you to save anywhere, its all checkpoints. And we're well past the point where the devs should know better than to put the checkpoint _before the cutscene_

[@pimphandduke8447]

@@leonidas14775 Or you made all the right choices, but you missed the two pixel wide bobby pin on the library's checkerboard floor and didn't pick it up so now you can't pick the lock on the jail cell.

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

@@pimphandduke8447 It's part of a growing trend of developers deciding they can force people to play a game in one specific way, settling their egos by making sure players have only the EXACT experience they intended, and nothing else. In this case, they're trying to eliminate save scumming. People who have lives and responsibilities be damned. You're either going to have the time to to beat this 40 minute mission in one go with no breaks, or you're not going to play our game, because some people might choose to abuse saving/loading and wouldn't have exactly the experience we wanted them to. Can't have that. Imagine if other artforms tried to restrict their bases that way. "You can only listen to this song three times, and the file will self-erase, because I only want people to hear it three times each so it doesn't get old." "If you interpret my painting in any way aside from what I intended, this mechanism will paint over it in black."

[@leonidas14775]

@@ledumpsterfire6474 This arogance about making the user do things only one way is common in the tech industry.

[@jscott4reel]

Not sure if it made the list, but not having to sacrifice quality for a handheld experience is a huge one for me.

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@Joreel]

That's so true, but it was still amazing to take the game with you to play in your free time.

[@monkeylife5742]

My little sister managed too somehow not hide delete my saves but the memory card itself need to be reformatted. I still to this day don't know how she did that. She must've only been four or five

[@CasepbX]

Huh? You still have to sacrifice plenty of quality for a handheld experience... just look at any Switch game vs PC or PS or Xbox.

[@clumsycaden5708]

@@CasepbX steam deck, AYA neo, etc

[@TheDragonsFlare]

I think you missed the exploration aspect of old gaming (specially the PC ones). I still remember using a graph paper to create the maps of SSI gold box games or building maps for Sierra’s Hero’s Quest. So much nostalgia 😅

[@thomasdarnall8912]

Or Sierra's "Empire Earth" with the best cheat code. "All Your Base Are Belong To Us".

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

Ironically, my controller untangling skill became integral to part of my business. I did live sound, and no matter how hard you worked to keep everything wrapped up nice and organized, it would always still wind up a jumbled up mess somehow. You think 6-10' of controller wire is a hassle, just try untangling 50-100' of various kinds of sound cabling.

[@garethlee7927]

You sometimes get crazy mofos that somehow tangle up socapex cables together just to pack up fast. Back in the warehouse untangling those are just a pure workout.

[@_bravo_8581]

I was actually thinking about this today. I feel like games were more challenging back in the day, not just from the lack of guides but also a lack of access to those guides. If you got stuck on a puzzle, you had to figure it out or wait till a buddy figured it out. Which also created some friendly competition.

[@eigengeistt]

Even just reading this gave me nostalgic and happy vibes like back in the day. God bless you

[@Cman04092]

Not just that, but originally games were designed for the arcade, then ported to home consoles. Harder games were just more profitable for arcadrs, they called them quarter eater games for a reason.

[@Dave_ja_vu]

The worst was always that friend who would straight up lie about the cool things they did to unlock stuff and wasting time trying to replicate it. I say worst, but looking back even that was quite fun. Nowadays if a puzzle takes me more than a few minutes I'll look up a guide, back then we had to solve it or just never finish it

[@_bravo_8581]

@@eigengeistt boomer millennials gotta stick together lol

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

That and older games especially for the original Xbox and PlayStation 1 & 2 were just harder. I like to dl original Xbox games and even with a guide, these games can be tough even on normal difficulty. You really had to “get good” and develop skills/learn the patterns of the enemies. Unlike today where a lot games are intentionally designed to be more forgiving to not burnout casual gamers right away.

[@tomekvilmovskiy6547]

I had a friend with PS1 with no memory card, so we played games from a beginning on every gaming session. The measurement of a skill was "how much time you will waste to get to the point where you had finished the last time" ) Means, faster you get there - more time to enjoy a new content that's further in a game

[@FelisImpurrator]

Oops, all roguelikes

[@leonidas14775]

Thankfully one of my favorite PS1 games Machine Hunter had passwords

[@ZeusAdvocate]

Games like final fantasy were a pain without memory cards I left my ps1 on for a week after finishing CD1

[@iforgot87872]

Should have gone out and bought one one day haha

[@franck3279]

Did that for Rick Dangerous on Atari STE with infinite lives over a full WE. I still don’t understand how anyone could have beaten that vicious game fairly.

[@LuciusNox]

I was actually waiting to hear something about "not having to blow dust out of a cartridge." That used to be the Bane of my existence. Even after cleaning the dust, I would still cross my fingers and pray when I put the game in the cartridge slot.😂

[@michaelridley3676]

Dust was never the issue, it was contact with the pins. Blowing into it just corroded it and caused another issue.

[@paolaanimator]

I remember blowing into Gameboy Advance cartridges when it didn't work and it works every time 😅

[@marv600]

@@michaelridley3676 Nah, I would say blowing in the cardridge was always a last resort. Meaning your game doesn´t work and the options would be buying a new one or blowing in, heck I would take a leaf blower to blow that cardridge.

[@MMKMoore1]

PC gaming, especially starting with DOS games, was how I learned so much about computers back in the day. I still have the old book I bought on how to manage IRQ settings. I miss all the hint books and guides as well. The most fun ones to use were the ones for the Sierra games, well, until you lost the red film thing that allowed you to read the hints.

[@sanzhang8527]

sierra lode runner, dangerous dave, supaplex, digger.. what a memories!

[@-iloveyou]

Duuude having original guides - magazines/books were so freaking special, those were the OG gaming days. And figuring out cheat/exploits was truly rewarding and special

[@AnalogDrift]

Those still exist, they're just worse than googling it and cost like $40 lol.

[@killianmeade]

I remember going down video store to rent games for the week or weekend and having to try and complete them before they where due back

[@zaug1561]

In my small town, we only had 1 day rentals, so we'd try to rent a game as early as we could on Saturday morning to maximize the time before we had to bring it back by 6 on Sunday.

[@TheSwabbyOne]

I lived through every one of these experiences. Glad we’re past a lot of them, but this definitely brought up Good memories.

[@Ad-jl7si]

My mother is a huge Zelda fan and I remember her constantly calling the Nintendo hotline for tips and cheats for the first two games. Now in her 60's she has 100% BOTW and is awaiting the next instalment.

[@latetotheparty453]

Oh man, I miss the game guide books. I loved having it to accompany my games. Especially for those large open world RPG games. I have boxes full of old ones. I used my Final Fantasy VII one so much it pretty much disintegrated. That thing is word for word imprinted on my brain.

[@Janosch-re9vw]

Man flatscreens have been revolutionary. Remember the old days when you had to carry your big old screen to a LAN party? It was like the heaviest thing to carry at 13 yrs

[@1IGG]

Or when one person switched on their monitor and all monitors in the row flickered? Or flickering because someone had their mobile next to a monitor and got a call..

[@warderjack]

This would be a good one to add to the list, how big and bulky old monitors were, just to get 1024x768 res

[@nickforsythe6379]

Or someone daisy chained their surge protector from yours and the breakers flipped! God I hated when people did that.

[@Klouhs]

@@1IGG holy throwback. I totally forgot that

[@rudoodles1272]

Honestly I love that I'm not alone in the existential drift of life and this video and the nostalgia did bring some peace to my mental. Playing without a Playstation memory card to beat Drakengard and Resident Evil 4 in one go and having power cuts and losing my mind but restarting like it was nothing. The multiple discs immediately brought FF7 to mind, said Gamefax the second Jake said look up guides and cheats. Remembering the tv volume set to 100 as a trap by my parents in case i turn on the PS2. I'm thirty now somehow and don't know where the time or our shiny little eyes and smiles went but it feels good to know we all made it this far, you guys take it easy and good luck figuring out the rest of life. P.S Hope this vid gets a part 2 .

[@MattyIcecubes]

Can't believe you left out online passes. Those infernal things that kept you from accessing the online portion of the game without inputting a unique code. If you bought the game used it was pretty much guaranteed that the access code included with it had been redeemed by the original owner, and you had to pay $10 for a new one.

[@damedusa5107]

Battlefield did that to me

[@MattyIcecubes]

@@damedusa5107 They were the norm from around 2010-2013

[@ProjSHiNKiROU]

On games being finished on release: Programming languages and game dev tools are easier to use today than the past so it’s very hard to cause data corruption, but AA/AAA games today are much more complex than games made in the past and QA on the gameplay is much harder to get right than before.

[@mysterymayhem7020]

I remember the joy of playing the legend of zelda on the NES and being completely floored that you could save your progress because the cartridge had an on board battery to keep the memory on board active.

[@gameranxTV]

👆🏻

[@tomekvilmovskiy6547]

some games on SEGA had it too. the problem is often (50/50 in my cases) on not-so-original cartridges there was no memory chip at all. Even if it was, no fact it'd work. also one time the battery failed and I lost a month of progress.

[@darthwiizius]

@@tomekvilmovskiy6547 On N64 it was typically first party games that had on cart saves and 3rd party carts that didn't.

[@albyx]

Two things: for no.5, my wife shared with me that they used to have to call a phone line where game tips helped you get through certain levels. And with no.2, I remember my mother taking out a credit card so we could get a fully decked out PC in 1998 (she bought us a $5K computer that came with speakers, monitor, etc).

[@paranoidandroid___1248]

Waiting in line for day one releases. Fun story. My buddy from way back when worked for Wal-Mart, and when the PS3 and Wii launched within a week of each other he knew how many consoles the store was getting, and when people were allowed to start lining up for them. This location did not let people line up inside the store so in the middle of November we had to sit outside camped in a tent two separate days for both consoles, but we were first in line both times. 6 people got a PS3, and 25 got a Wii. All of us had to wait on the sidewalk for over 24 hours. The worst part was nobody delivered food from an App back then so we took turns calling friends to get shitty gas station food for us cause the town we lived in was nowhere near civilization. I also remember saving up 2 weeks vacation, and 8 personal days just for these console releases. Easily the best day one releases that'll stick in my memory forever.

[@nartnayr]

Number 7 really had me there. The last real big game release that I had to wait in line for was Red Dead Redemption 2. All of us were standing in the bitter cold, soaking in the rain. Definitely felt nostalgic.

[@lolmanyeah1]

Hate to break it to you, but you didn't have to wait in line for that one. It was released well after the point in time he was talking about. Real halo 2 og's know.

[@nartnayr]

@@lolmanyeah1 I didnt own a PS4 at the time so it was a bundle at purchase. Im fine with taking my time with things. Was definitely an experience nonetheless.

[@dio_Brando1888]

Oh those are the good old day. With playground rumors and stuff like that I remember I had a friend who was playing my pokémon game and use the master ball on a level 5 pokémon on the first route. I was mad as hell.

[@paolaanimator]

RIP Master Ball

[@robertmclendon2702]

I remember my dad used to impulsively turn off every light switch when I was a kid even if the light was off. The socket that my tv and SNES were on were controlled by the light switch next to my door and he’d be walking by and flip it off every time he passed my room. Days of progress on games like Super Star Wars gone instantly with me actively playing it

[@alexfarrell3250]

FF13 having 3 discs on the 360 was a weird nostalgia trip. Also I'm very surprised to see a cheatcc mention. Seemed like a far less known guide/cheat site from the early 2000's

[@xxx-pliskin-sniper-xxx8538]

I remember being a naive kid with FF7, and when that screen came up to change the disk, it was mind blowing. I had never experienced a game as huge at that point, and having not 1 but 2 more disks to play through, 🤤amazing.

[@davey2487]

Regarding #6, technically some games still have multiple discs. RDR2, for example, came with two discs. Luckily the first one was only needed during the installment process and after that you only ever needed the second disc. However, I did regularly insert the wrong disc, because I didn't pay attention to which disc I took from the box.

[@rottengalaxy]

The thing I liked about switching disk was the intentional story beats built around it.

[@dubbmoon]

Definitely gotta do a part 2 for this.

[@gameranxTV]

Will do

[@dubbmoon]

@@gameranxTV dope 👌 🙌 can't wait.

[@pimphandduke8447]

@@gameranxTV Tank Controls in survival horror games. Is that even still a thing?

[@pandabytes4991]

on #3. Another reason that I don't like devs patching games now days is because some of those bugs were just fun to mess around with, even if they did unbalance the game. However, I'm here to have fun with the game, and as long as the bug is avoidable under NORMAL means, I think they should just stay in games.

[@nemesisking_x2t223]

All those things that u just talked about definitely was pain or an obstacle for gaming experience but after seeing them here I’m really missing them. Because all this things are very nostalgic. Loved ur content there.

[@teedotfoster]

There was something cool standing in line with a bunch of people who loved Madden like you do

[@gameranxTV]

Yep

[@adamssp]

I feel like I miss number 7 for that feeling and excitement. Something about getting something physical was a treat. Wether or not it was a long wait etc.

[@murruelaflaga]

I totally miss the day when a game just worked out of the box. Developers now rely heavy on patches to make their games work. Sucks when you consider the price of games now a days compared to back then.

[@danieln6700]

Having a cheat or guides for certain things inside the disc case. I miss how games don't even have manuals or anything in them now

[@WisdomofTheStar]

Leaving the ps2 on because you didn't have a memory card, oh its first on the list lmao, gameranx knows

[@gameranxTV]

🤝😂

[@Its_Paji]

I remember when the Xbox 360 and PS3 came out that you could turn the consoles on and off while using the controller. This was a true game changer lol

[@gameranxTV]

Oh yes

[@chrislaws4785]

I think that game devs being able to apply bug fixes, hotfixes and other patches after a game has already released has been more of a DETRIMENT to gaming as a whole. Because it has allowed game devs to have the mentality of "we'll fix it later" and has lead to games being released unfinished and incomplete, even allowing them to force gamers to be the "game testers" for them. I love that games are now more connected online with friends and all, but the internet has actually allowed games to become WORSE rather than better. Back in the day a game dev had to MAKE SURE that their game was 100% complete and finished with zero bugs BEFORE they ever released it, because they had ONE chance to make a good game and that was it, after it was released if it sucked, then it sucked FOREVER.

[@SpexSpexington]

Fixed camera angles alone didn't bother me. What INFURIATED me was when the camera angles were fixed, and as soon as you walk through a door and into another room, the movement directions suddenly changed. Like, one moment, the forward button made the character move forward, then as soon as you walked through a door (with a snappy or nonexistent load screen), the camera angle suddenly changed along with the directions. So. Many. Freaking. Tiiiimes was I moving the character forward, only to walk through a door while still holding the button, and then the character immediately turned around and walked back through the door they came in from. So frustrating!! I don't think I've had this issue in at least a decade, and I certainly don't miss it!

[@Atrus999]

The days of trekking across my house to pull up cheats and guides on my dial up internet are fortunately long gone. Kids these days don't realize how good they have it. 😂

[@TOMAHAWK691]

Soooo many cables. The dreaded moment when your dog runs across the living room, through the wired controllers, and pulls everything along with them 😱

[@princerudra1443]

1:18 which game ?

[@juanumana5688]

Consoles now a days are super loud too. My Xbox One sounds like a blender when I change up a game. The fans go super loud for like 1 minute and there's no turning volume down. Thankfully, I'm the dad now and my kid just doesn't give a crap about those loud noises 😂

[@sydh-b3771]

The PS2 startup was insanely loud!!! Remember getting caught trying to beat the matrix on an all nighter at my friend's house like 3 times in a row, then his dad just took the system away...

[@gameranxTV]

😅

[@peterfconley]

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 + CheatCC was half my waking childhood.

[@Mrkitterman]

The New GEN Gamers have no idea how real the struggle really was in our generation 😫 ! I'm an 80s baby but but a 90s kid and man how I love the nostalgia tho! Because these lists are spot on 100% haha man how I miss the 90s tho! Game shark & I miss my games gear magazine I used to get. That's how we found out about games coming out or with the demo disc in another game/magazine.

[@gameranxTV]

🤝😅

[@NDFAnonymous-zf9gm]

True tho

[@BrandonGavin_EDC]

Me too I’d go back to the 80’s and 90’s today if I could.

[@Mrkitterman]

@@BrandonGavin_EDC OH absolutely 💯

[@teedotfoster]

Me too lol we’ve been apart of every one of these changes. Crazy to look back on it!

[@tomassoejakto]

'dying from a single hit' has become a thing of the past too, or at least become very niche they might as well don't exist anymore. I love playing games but ironically also suck at it, so it was quite frustrating being someone who really loved playing Green Beret, Contra, or even something as lame as Snake.

[@macdonaldchaboka6117]

The memory card issues were big back in the days , i never could find a ps1 memory card back in Africa during the early 2000s,matter of fact I've never seen a ps1 memory card to this day. At least the ps2 memory cards were less rare but were sold at high prices

[@arefrigerator396]

I still use GAME FAQs. Lol.

[@rarestaurora]

Same!

[@Thanatos833]

This list was sorely needed, way too many jaded gamers keep complaining, while looking through rose-tinted glasses, about how games were universally much better in their youth. When the the truth is, our young minds were experiencing gaming as a new experience, so there was a greater sense of wonder.

[@ninjafruitchilled]

The multi-disc thing was basically like having distinct chapters, which is cool! I've seen a couple of modern games do it and it's still cool imo. Sword and Sworcery was the last ones I played that did it, and those fades back to a title/chapter screen with some Jim Guthrie music blasting away were epic. And the fixed camera angles, yeah I think they need to come back! Or not necessarily fixed, but more scripted, curated camera angles. There is a lot of artistic benefit to them that is being neglected in modern games. I mean there is a reason why movies and TV don't just constantly show an over the shoulder or first person view of all their characters.

[@oblivious1494]

that ps2 starting sound just brought back so many memories 😭

[@AndrewEhrenreich]

One problem that has a fix is missing dialoge, missing cutscenes. If your interrupted, or have to get up and cant pause, or just not paying attention, the ability to save a video clip, wether its the last few minutes or last hour, and go back to see what you missed, is a nice feature in modern gaming.

[@FROGGYCO1]

No one is gonna talk about how annoying it was when a younger sibling damaged a game disc and made it basically unplayable?? So you tried every hack you could find to fix it like rubbing toothpaste on it?

[@medafan53]

I miss strategy guides. I still use my Watch Dogs 2 strategy guide... mostly as a mouse mat true, but when I replay the game, which is fairly often, I use it to find all the cash and research points

[@Armeanu91]

10 gamer problems that are now dead *proceeds to explain the 90's and early 00's in totality* I just love how many memories this brought back. Thank you!

[@TheAkdzyn]

As soon as jake said multiple discs I remembered final fantasy. Putting in another disc was like an achievement!

[@pilo754]

On the part of cheat books and guides. Sometimes your friend would only give you the book for a few hours or days so you had to spend hours on end to write down the cheats in an exercise book.

[@stefanlagrange188]

The trade show was definitely a big thing when I was younger. I still remember purchasing a 386 CPU at one, in order to upgrade my old 286. We played a lot of Wolfenstein, Doom and Space Quest in those days.

[@KidLudens]

I remember lining up to buy GTA4 at midnight with some friends. It was a fun evening. The best part about those days were that scalpers couldn't bot buy entire stock lists like they can now. They would have to get in line like everyone else. So although buying online is great and convenient, I think we can all agree that the scalpers that came with it hasn't been great.

[@w40k]

Great list. I don't know if it's still a thing but when you wanted to play with friends you either had a console with multiple controler and 1 tv which split screen, or you had to do Lan-Partys (Like with the first Counter Strike or Diablo 1) since there was no real internet like we know today :)

[@EverythingWright]

The fact that all of these have once been a problem of mine is now beginning to enlighten me that I am not as young as I thought.

[@dreadedpunk3473]

I think the last game I had to insert a disc in for it to continue was Arkham City. It is the last physical copy of a game that I bought, and I'm glad that I did. The metal case variant is now not that easy to come by. That, and Arkham City aged like fine wine... one of the best games ever made.

[@collin1240]

I'n the really old days (mid- to late-80s) I remember buying floppy disks (5.25", and later 3.5") of demo games in ziplock bags from the small local computer store. There was an address, or phone number you could reach out to for the full version of the game. Also, having a tape drive for my computer, and hand coding programs from magazines, saving them to the tape drive.

[@zedarkenigma]

I miss the old manuals you got in the disk box

[@Whiskeeyankee]

I'm 39 years old so I spent a lot of time untangling controller cords and now I put those skills to good use untangling christmas lights and the necklaces that my wife and daughters manage to get in a mess. They don't even try anymore, they just bring to me because they recognize the skillset :)

[@Lookitsalfred]

Oh man the loud PS2 start up nose just gave me flashbacks lol. I used to turn the volume off until the sound was done and then turn the volume up to like 3 😂

[@timk4861]

The loud starting sound is still a problem. Don’t want to wake the kids up!

[@robertdriscoll84]

I remember queueing for GTA4 in a not great part of South London at midnight and folk were queuing up for the game, leaving and getting robbed around the corner for their copies. A really immersive GTA experience 10/10

[@abellewis3062]

Even with all the Strategy Guides in this world, there are some video games I still can't beat. And that's sad.

[@Justanotherpretzel]

I hated using memory cards, I think because my siblings and I would mess with each other, and remove the card while the console was on. So I always had to reformat my saves and constantly lost everything

[@Yoshi-tv9us]

Man the deafening sound of when you turned on the PS2, that’s so classic. I miss those times! Sure have a lot of good memories with that console, mainly RE4, Gran turismo 4 and GTA vice city

[@BoardAllTheTime]

Man, the startup noise thing. I was so lucky to have a 13” combo TV/VCR in my room. But what made it just the greatest TV of all time was a front facing 3.5” headphone jack. Rolled up a towel to put at the base of my bedroom door to block the light and I gamed ALL night long.

[@danieln6700]

Wireless controllers definitely good. Ppl have big tvs now and often aren't as close as used to be. Would be annoying having cords all over the floor.

[@scallywagkirby.]

Thanks for this video guys. My fiancé pointed out that this one made me visibly emotional. Life was so easy and enjoyable back then. I miss my friends, how we would talk about everything in the game we did the next day and it’s like nowadays I’ll just stare at the menu screen for 30 min before I’m so lonely I just go to bed. It was nice to remember a lot of these things

[@TyReeL7]

You gave me full blown nostalgia, I used to have a green cheat code book that kept everything sorted by name and console

[@rainbow_skye1060]

Oh god.... The PS2 start up sound gave me so much nostalgia. Hits me straight in the inner child.

[@wetfeathers9971]

One thing I really miss about gaming before the huge boom of the internet is discovering new music. Licensed music was such a big deal for me back then, I got to listen to so much different and varying music, it really felt like I got a soundtrack bundled with my game. Sure, most of it was 2000s buttrock (I'm looking at you NFS Hot Pursuit) but there was just something so magical back then about soundtracks being tailored specifically for the type of game you were playing, games nowdays have crazy budgets for original music and with the way the music industry is now, it's not as common, but I'll always miss listening to licensed music. Billie Jean on a GTA game could NEVER happen again.

[@shadaxgaming]

"we had passwords, or we just dealt with it, and sometimes parents turned off the console" showing Zelda as an example, a game with battery saves?

[@Airlxs23]

- Renting games at blockbuster - Demo disc in game magazines or from a full game you purchase - GameShark hardware attachment to your console. (Its now been replaced by micro transaction)

[@svpracer98]

Number 8, the worst one was the boot up chime on my school issued MacBook. Nothing worse than hearing the hard drive/ disc drive spin up followed by the loudest chord ever at 1am.

[@XeroCreator]

When you hook the surround sound up to your tv and start your xbox series X, i think xbox one eventually got the same sound, or did have it idk.. but damn is that startup sound stupid loud. Also, back in starcraft 1/brood war days... there was this bug that caused the game to mess up the textures of 'water' or 'canyons' and look like the textures were missing. It was found that you could end explorer.exe to fix that issue and see the right textures... it was a crazy weird fix that made absolutely no sense.

[@ajonescouk]

In the 90s, I don't remember gaming PCs being much more expensive or difficult to upgrade. Yes, you had to make sure that you were buying PCI/ISA cards, but slapping a Sound Blaster in was easy enough. And at that point, no graphics acceleration needed either - perhaps it got more tricky later when discrete graphics adapters came out?

[@Sven-R]

LAN parties with 10BASE2 Ethernet - what a pain. It usually took ages to find out, which network adapter was incorrectly configured or broken.

[@joshdaniels2363]

The discs thing really put a spotlight on the fact that you were usually entering a new act of the narrative. Often the developers would intentionally storyboard the game so that the "switch disc" moment came at a really climactic point in the story.

[@QsQs-du9xp]

Going to your friends house.. then remembering.. you forgot your memory card.. 😮

[@johnathanlora]

One of my favorite Easter eggs is in metal gear 4 when otacon tells you to insert disk 2 and snake goes what are you talking about.

[@SirBloopious]

One that I think is underappreciated. The fact that online gaming has taken away the worry to a lot of people of having other people to play your favourite game with

[@Obiwandandobi]

Back in the day when you got stuck at a certain point in a game before the Internet you had to hope someone at school had the same game so you could ask. If it was some obscure game you had no choice but to keep trying or give up. Miss those days...

[@Shook00]

“Way up in the guts of your pc” got me better than it should have hahaha

[@KaijuAKD]

Another issue with early PC gaming was that some games just refused to boot, for any reason. Now they'll always boot. It may run at 15 FPS, but at least you can play some of them.

[@Goosavich]

Waiting on line for a new game was annoying if they sold out but it was also super fun to go to a midnight release.