10 Gamer Problems That NO LONGER EXIST

Classic gaming was often faced with many problems that are now completely extinct. Here are some more examples we want to vent about.
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[@cmdraftbrn]

wait, we're totally gonna skip over having to buy memory cards?

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

Part two friend. Part two

[@Sorrowdusk]

I know

[@Strider182]

This is hella true. Unfortunately the problem still exists today, just the memory for consoles got much larger and the "memory cards" are expansion drives lmao

[@AudreyLudlow]

Well, we still haven't really gotten rid of them. People still buy them for the Switch.

[@BigMobe]

So many lost or stolen living in the ghetto, but Im sure people that didn't live around criminals had their friends and family just overwrite their precious data or a parent that refused to get one and wanted to turn it off to save on the power bill.

[@HorrorbleGamer]

Falcon: "...is all the cables." Me: "Slowly stares over towards all my cables."

[@nightrunnerxm393]

You too, huh?

[@yashgumte6032]

ME TOO✋ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@HorrorbleGamer]

Lol it's a whole lot of us... so long as we can game, that's all that matters despite the 100s of cables we're tripping over every day.

[@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352]

Oh yeah keeping them all neat and tidy is virtually impossible (even with the experience from work-studying in the I.T. department)... Short of just using an ungodly amount of cable ties you're better off to just accept it and hide the mess...

[@neowolf09]

Same

[@mrnice4434]

Old internet was the worst when you could either go online or use the phone and every time I was playing for a few minutes my mom came in and said she need to talk to someone on the phone so I had to stop :(.

[@racermigs1]

The old days of dial up internet hahaha. I still remember the sound it makes.

[@Leondragon06]

That was the 1st thing that came to mind for me!

[@spaceman022]

i grew up in those times too,my my mom was on the phone a lot back then lol.

[@flaminG-Ghost]

Yupp, my dial up service was so bad, it didn't work most of day... I used to stare at the ADSL light, bcz ADSL blinking meant net was working... The dialup sucked so much... But now looking back at it.... NAH IT SUCKED, JUST SUCKED!!!

[@spaceman022]

@@flaminG-Ghost haha it sure did

[@miseajeux1287]

9:20 The whole blowing in the cartridge thing, kind of reminds me how sailors in the age of sail used to think that it was the rum that kept the scurvy at Bay. But it was actually The lime juice that they were mixing in with it that was protecting them.

[@RapzMalmer]

thats the most usefull educational youtube comment i have ever seen. i learned something from this! I WENT TO THE KZbin COMMENT SECTION AND I DIDN'T GET CANCER!!!!

[@CatmanGamingYT]

**NOSTALGIA ALERT!!**

[@FunnyBloxYT]

Yess sir

[@Harsh_Singh1111]

But not for me🥲

[@redseagaming7832]

I remember having PlayStation controllers with cables I'd be playing that game comfortable on the couch in my little sister and her best friend would run thru the room and actually trip over the cable sending my PlayStation crashing to the floor. Thank God our controllers are cordless now

[@rayromano6249]

Yes mine was getting 2 controllers getting tangled lol

[@JavierReyes-vi7vj]

thats how my copy of star wars battlefront 2 on ps2 got scratched, twas awful.

[@redseagaming7832]

@@JavierReyes-vi7vj at least they got rid of the cables for our controllers that way that can never happen again

[@bardlemon5635]

And they were never long enough so you or the console were sitting on the floor halfway between the couch and tv.

[@redseagaming7832]

@@bardlemon5635 that's why I would move the couch real close to the TV

[@jacobeaton4042]

Gotta love how Falcon’s reputation on gameranx is just “yeah I’m the old retro gamer” lol

[@ItsYoYoHo]

He's 63.

[@avengingterrier3244]

I'm even more retro. My first home computer was a 16K machine in 1981.

[@judgepajarillo22]

Falcon: The Cables attached to the controller. Me: *War Flashbacks*

[@torimas5471]

I will never forget that blockbuster smell, it was like going. Into a candy store

[@monfr0]

I rented Bioshock there once. Wasn't able to finish it so I bought it instead of renting it again.

[@akramdissis3632]

Is this christopher quote from the sopranos

[@thelastgambler5423]

Be kind and rewind

[@marshallbeck9101]

The good ole days

[@weedthepeople2795]

for me it was Hollywood video.....I stopped going there though, i rented Phantasy star 2 (maybe 3 been awhile) for my Sega Genesis, kept it for like 6 months, then returned it through the nite return box in the middle of the night.....for some reason i was paranoid like theres a warrant out for me at the store i was in my twenties, stoned alot

[@mrnoyceguy6745]

Wow hearing renting video games from blockbuster sent me on a huge nostalgia trip

[@dovahsblight7677]

Same for me

[@jwill7998]

I remember when rental places were on the decline, and they were selling games for dirt cheap. I scored Pikmin 2 and Wave Race: Blue Storm for $5.00 each.

[@kirara2516]

same. I kept renting the same Spyro game over and over until I bought it from Walmart for $20.

[@johnnymoles318]

Having one or two games to play instead of a backlog I'll never get through, lol.

[@diamondly6250]

i miss that because when you only had 2 you really played it and as a kid i was vary creative so i never followed the game just did my own thing never had so much fun like gta china town on ds i had like 2000 hour on that game never even did the first mission i wish i could go back and not have 30 ps4/5 games and 30 xbox games and 218 switch games and not know that there are games with a story and just do my own think like for real i never enjoy a game like i did t then

[@DaraGaming42]

@@diamondly6250 even when only had 5 gams i still never finished them

[@diamondly6250]

@@DaraGaming42 same with me but I had a big imagination so I just kind of did my own thing

[@videowatcher551]

Having 299 games on steam and only playing a handful of them, I can definitely relate to this. A lot of times a game will catch my eye and description sounds amazing, but it ends up digitally collecting dust on my hard drive and eventually forget I have it.

[@crashbandicoot5636]

"All the annoying cables" Tell that to my two wired controllers, my wired keyboard, my wired mouse, my wired headset, my ethernet cable, my hdmi/displayport cables, and my webcam's cable.

[@GameIsMyOxygen]

The Annoyance still somewhat exists but it's much better than before lol.

[@ZZ-vl5nd]

I was expecting the mouse ball that would get dirty.

[@Darthwarrior]

Came here to comment this didn't see it

[@Y0PPS]

Very surprising.

[@fynkozari9271]

I was expecting cd rom cant read cd because its damaged, so cant play the game.

[@Y0PPS]

@@fynkozari9271 rub in some toothpaste.

[@flaminG-Ghost]

I was fortunate enough to have optical mouse as my first mouse when we assembled our first PC back in 2003 (Pentium IV hype), but in school we had those dreaded mechanical mouse..

[@arjunpathak4582]

I remember renting games i actually miss it. Back then i actually had a reason to go outside. Seeing the new games on the blockbuster shelves just gave me warm fuzzies. But then again...i wad 8 at the time

[@TrotterPower]

My brother's and I would all pick 1 or 2 games, and would beat them before the return day. We became gaming pros, a skill I no longer possess

[@KSSBG]

Child hood is the best, I believe most of us take it for granted because we don't know any better.

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

Not sure I'm nostalgic about a lot of things in that store... Like the smell. But I do miss the mystery of finding out what a game will being like after bringing it home, especially after reading about them in a magazine line Nintendo Power.

[@jbkeebs]

Same, i would rent games from the pawn shop in town and it was always exciting when they randomly got new ones available for rent.

[@holy8782]

Although it is easier to just get a game online. There was something special about running to the nearest blockbuster and seeing what games they had there. DIdn't know I was taking those moments for granted now that I look back.

[@Chesterthemarvelous]

I remember the time when i bought my first ps2 console as a kid. And for my first game i bought punisher from blockbuster soon as i remove the packaging, I looked at the disc art i saw bunch of dudes with colorful costumes.And its written power rangers at the top of the disc... I hate power rangers to this day

[@johnnyguillotine1673]

Punisher was a gem with those interrogations

[@arthurdurham]

One thing I miss about game rentals is being forced to try new games you may have never. When I had Gamepfly I tried Vanquished & Saints Row 3 bc they looked interesting and the games I wanted weren't out of stock. And I love those games, I wouldn't have rented them if I had every game available always. Definitely better now bc there was more likely a chance you got a game you didn't like and couldn't get the ones you wanted to play, but finding those gems is less common for me now.

[@joshuachristofferson9227]

I used to bike to the nearest Game Rental place and back, basically using all of my allowance to Rent Games, blowing on those NES Cartridges LOL

[@TheHulkJabr]

The next video should be "10 new issues gamers face"

[@guillermoelnino]

not owning your games!

[@EduardoVidalSalgadoFajardo]

Having to buy extra SSD for consoles because firkin call of duty is almost half the original space available.

[@XionsEmpire]

@Triunn Pre-Ordering false promises and gotchya mechanics in place of actual story-driven content. FORCED MULTIPLAYER

[@SwedePotato314]

If I have to hear about ONE. MORE. BATTLE ROYALE GAME IM GONNA LOOSE MY SHIT. 😤 subscription game services are trash as well.

[@No__Vanity]

Speedcoil lmao

[@theheadguy1212]

Lately,I've been playing with my 3DS more than my switch. The 3ds library is just amazing paired with the DS library.

[@mertyuip06]

If you played Mario and Luigi dream team you a legend that game is awesome wish for the switch they make a remaster I would buy a switch just for that

[@theheadguy1212]

@@mertyuip06 I’ve played but it hasn’t really sticked with me. Superstar saga was better IMO. The original one not the 3ds one.

[@SilverSpectre266]

Man, this list hit too hard. Of all of these the one thing I was anticipating the most, and Im glad it got number 1, was the specific gaming channel. That was brutal. Literally having to change the channel to the gaming one and back was brutal. What was worse was when me and my cousin were living with our grandparents, we had our own tv in our shared room, but they refused to let us have the remote in our room and so it was kept hidden in their room and we had to ask for it whenever we wanted to change it to the gaming channel or back (and we had to immediately give it back, so there was no hanging onto the remote until we were done. Change the channel, give it back, play, ask for it again to change back later). It was truly a slog because there were times when they werent home so we couldnt game, or maybe we asked to much and they werent in the mood so they wouldnt let us have it, etc. A number of reasons, but there were plenty of times when we were stuck on the gaming channel in our room so we couldnt watch tv, or couldnt play games period for times because we couldnt get the remote. That was truly a hassle.

[@SigmaHayate]

I always miss the “Please insert disc 2” in the middle of the installation

[@nslouka90]

The latest call of duty had a disc worth of installs, plus online updates, the campaign mode is 3 separate downloads of about 12GB a piece

[@MachoMan_Vert]

Why? it's a huge pain in the ass for a already mundane task.

[@SigmaHayate]

@@MachoMan_Vert it’s just nostalgic part of me. Thinking back about those days in my childhood.

[@jessieosorio]

it happened to me on one disk install

[@Paul_Waller]

Or disk 8 and up with a 3 1/4" floppy drive before hard drives ;)

[@MMDeater]

Going to Blockbuster as a kid was always a highlight.

[@FalloutGenius1]

It was the best store to be taken to by your parents

[@JuanWonOne]

Fuck yeah!

[@gourabsarkar2587]

I miss everything. Everything about this video. Give me back my old days!!!!!!!!

[@hoofhearted4]

This was just a good video. The nostalgia was wonderful. Now do one about things that no longer exist, but should.

[@RaptorNX01]

3d gaming, but you didn't need a new tv. like how the sega master system did it. you just hooked it up to any tv you wanted. plugged in the shutter glasses (it was actual 3d, not just the red/green stuff) and you were set.

[@hydronova6729]

I'm going add to the split screen point, besides look at the screen to cheat, I would constantly look at the wrong screen thinking it was me playing, it just got worse the more people who were playing, I still do this with Mario cart

[@gameranxTV]

Haa yes

[@HipsterDog-do3mm]

I hate myself so much when this happens. Doesn't even hate to be split screen I'll be playing a game like Smash and for some reason my brain forgets which character I'm playing as.

[@bandawin18]

I still miss splitscreen

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

This!!! Even worse is if you accidentally pick player two. You’re not only looking at the wrong screen but didn’t even realize you were the wrong player. Did that recently with my wii playing with my wife

[@buddahkz9980]

I be like oh yeah oh yeah I got this Wait I lost

[@GreyGecko94]

This video unlocked some really special memories that I have with my grandpa who passed away a few years ago. When I was growing up, he used to take me to blockbuster every Friday after the school week was over and rent me a game. At the time I never realized how special those moments would be to me, but since he’s been gone I’m forever grateful for all the times he would take me there.

[@mertyuip06]

Wow what a chad may he Rest In Peace and game with the legends

[@marcusdbowden]

"Blockbuster Video! Wow! What a difference!" That jingle/ tune/song will be missed... dang, I feel old now...

[@UsualMotives]

Be kind please rewind

[@marcusdbowden]

@@UsualMotives remember when the DVD came out and there were some stores that actually had the "Be kind please remind" label on the disc and disc case?

[@precious_muse]

The most annoying thing to me about gaming growing up was my parent’s attitude toward it. They regarded it as frivolous entertainment and wouldn’t shell out the money for it. So while peers of mine had Nintendo and Genesis, we had Intellivision, and we only played it when we were super bored.

[@Tysonator1000]

My mom was much the same. She hated gaming when we had the Intellivision but now all she does is mobile gaming and on social media. She still criticizes my nieces and nephews for doing the same stuff she does. That's parents for you. 🤣

[@mn815048]

I remember having a coax splitter for the NES so we could flip a switch to go back to the antenna for the TV.

[@carbonickid]

Yeah, I didn't understand the bitch about cable splitting and switching between the game machine and cable tv. What barbarians didn't have a splitter in the 90s?

[@gurentgc3546]

I remember that.

[@JayBigDadyCy]

Was a necessity

[@TheEr910]

@@carbonickid We had plitters in the 80's. Radio Shack was my friend.

[@jamesshyla]

IKR..just posted the same comment for my Sega Master System 2

[@freddyfox5002]

In the old times there would be a reset button on the front of the case. And I accidentally hit that thing in the most important part of the old Alladin game or Sid Meyer's Colonization.

[@TeganEV]

Omg! My brother did that to me during a game that I hadn't saved in a long period of time. I had just gotten to a big part in the game and he managed to hit the reset button on the front of the ps2 from across the room with a bouncy ball. I lost hours of work and learned my lesson that day! haha

[@Taijifufu]

Oh the pain... Getting that far in Aladdin only to have it reset. I can feel the echoes of frustration.

[@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352]

@@TeganEV Oh that's some strong muscle memory that won't easily die, I still constantly manual-save even when autosaves are included. One can naver be too careful...

[@nadca2]

The original DS with Animal Crossing & Resetti punishment any time your thumb slipped up on the D-pad

[@terrafirma5327]

@@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352 Well it doesn't help a lot of games like Skyrim had problems with quicksaves/autosaves going bad after a certain number of times... and that is more recent. I still do manual saves but mostly because if you have a serious glitch, 3 autosaves back might not be far enough. Or even the point I want to save at.

[@RCruz]

#6 ended up being part of my (computer science) education. Figuring that stuff out myself (problem solving) is sometimes what keeps me going at work. Wanting to play the game was so rewarding after getting it to work. But it was hard and it was a chore

[@TheReverend539]

I remember the excitement of opening a PC game and finding it had 3.5 floppies and not 5.25. That meant having to install 1 or 2 instead of 9. I also remember having to memorize your IRQ and DMA numbers for installation of sound and video. Installation was much more manual then. For the console games, you used to be able to rent them from your local grocery store too.

[@vintagecottonon]

One of the best gameranx videos ive seen. Nostalgia hit hard on this one-- and damn do i feel old now lol 😆

[@mr.zetina3492]

When my gameboy batteries ran out I would turn on the skillet 🍳 on low and heat up the batteries, they would give me another 30 to 20 minutes more time. Scratched cds on ps 1 or Xbox og. Smear toothpaste and buff em out and 80 percent of the time they would work.

[@alcidescardozo8303]

and the loading screens on the PS1, PS2, N64, the orignal xbox and the xbox 360 when you literaly have to pry for the console to Read the disc otherwhise you have to keep reseting the console until it does it

[@robmckay875]

The toothpaste one never worked for me...It really sucked in college, and your game got messed up.

[@B61zz13]

Bruh, I never heard of using those "hacks" before... but I did use to put my batteries in the freezer as opposed to a burner lol, and putting a small chunk of aluminum foil to be able to use AAA batteries on my Gameboy.

[@cameronk7012]

A few of my college roommates flat out REFUSED to put games back in their cases. They would just leave em upside down on the Xbox or the coffee table. Then, inevitably, they would get scratched to all hell or lost behind the tv. That was infuriating since it's so easy to put a game back in a case. I didn't even care if it was the right case. Just put it somewhere safe for fucks sake.

[@beanface7408]

I've used toothpaste to clean discs before. It's a miracle cleaner

[@mooseman1071]

Blowing in the cartridges DID help, though yes it was bad for the game. I could put a game in like 10 times, but it only started working after a blow. Something about the moisture (which again, is bad) somehow helped weaken the corrosion on the metal connectors.

[@alienkid]

You guys are quick, I just saw that meme yesterday and you got a full video

[@MarcJaxon]

If you never had a Dual 2-prong, Screw In connection, with CH3 CH4 slide switch, you have no idea.

[@T1NF01L]

I sure did a big bulky grey box to plug into the coax simply to use my snes or n64. Remember when they tried to solve that problem by making one you could switch between cable or video games? Game changer in the days.

[@wharfrat74]

Ya beat me 2 it! That's what we had @ my house WAY back in the 80's to play the 2600

[@superbadsam23]

coax convertor box---little grey box that you had to plug in as well

[@Ji99i3]

I quite literally do in fact have no idea

[@Denji2006]

I hated not getting the wire in tight enough because it made the picture fuzzy.

[@wighty5860]

Waking up people in the house with the modem handshake while trying to connect to the internet

[@digthathole7563]

BUzzzzzzzzzz-KRrrrrrrrrrrr-BEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!!!! Click click click. Lol

[@dmo848]

Oh yeah. Good times

[@Naemen]

"YOU HAVE TO DISCONNECT NOW, I NEED TO CALL GRANMA!"

[@bill0405]

This video is literally nostalgia overload. Pretty much all of this applied to my siblings and I!

[@Varusal]

"Cables" - me looking under my desk.... Yeah we don't have that many cables anymore .... xD

[@bigmike4133]

Now I feel old cuz I remember every single one of these, haha

[@mrmarvelus1]

Me too

[@digthathole7563]

Same here, but older. I remember the input lag on Pitfall and how frustrating it was.

[@imjonathan6745]

How old are you?? 50 years old?? Yeah you're old

[@KSSBG]

Man, do I miss blockbuster. Things like that were so much more appreciated back then because they wasn't so easily accessible. In this day an age now, it's so bitter sweet

[@BenShapirosLowerLip]

When I was a kid my dad would rent me an N64 from Blockbuster for the weekends I would stay with him, fond memories...

[@KickyFut]

I literally don't watch most movies anymore... As if it was good, I'd see it in the theater, if I wasn't sure, I could rent it! About video games, there aren't demos anymore, so I don't get to try out a game by renting it... I have to either buy it or wait for it to go on sale.

[@KSSBG]

@@KickyFut there is definitely demos my bro, not for everything, but demos exist

[@KickyFut]

@@KSSBG maybe on PC or Switch, I don't know... (I miss playing on PC.) Not very many at all on the other two consoles.

[@KSSBG]

@@KickyFut yea a few here and there

I see, you had quite different issues :-) In my country it was more like: Getting computer. It was extremely expensive and unobtainable. Getting games. Until about half of nineties, there were no game shops. Similar it goes with rentals, which we do not had. We had system, where you could buy or sell used games. But we had "owner clubs", where people gathered, obtained something and then shared. Games or even computers. TV was an issue, because of sharing. If I wanted to play on my Sinclair, my parents couldn't watch TV. No gaming, until much later, when I got small BW monitor. Tape casetes and later floppies or CDs for game copies storage were quite expensive and also you had to be careful with then not to scratch or otherwise damage (magnets) the data. DRM was quite fun in the beginning - for many it was a lesson on reverse engineering. Later it became real nightmare, when cracked versions worked better, than originals and didn't screw-up your computer (Starforce was one of the worst). I often had to use cracks on my legally owned games. Yes, building a PC was way more complicated, than it is today. I was building PCs as my job for some time and we had lists of incompatible components, which perfectly worked by its own, but not together. You had to be much more careful about connections - no color coding and same connectors for more uses, sometimes even possible to connect opposite way. Configuring cards and boards was difficult. Many jumpers and if you lost manual, there was no internet to get it from. This peaked when we were going from AT to ATX boards and got a bit worse for a while with every new tech. I remember introduction of Opti Local bus, then VESA local bus and then PCI. Plug and Play was called Plug'n'Pray in the beginning. Now its really easy. Basically nothing fits to wrong place or wrong way, Everything is configured by BIOS or OS. OS was way more magic than today. Not because command line, but because some DOS games wanted to have a lot of free conventional memory (HIMEM magic) and also DOS was not a real OS, devices like modems or sound cards were configured by jumpers and required SW to support them at the hardware level as many of them had no drivers at all. Manuals. It was quite normal, you had to figure out how to control the game, what is the goal and how to get there. There were notes on games shared among us. Chance to get the Game Guide was pretty small, so some of the magazines published player created ones with maps and guides how to play them. Would you know, how to play Knight lore on ZX Spectrum? But it was cool anyway :-)

[@eRiC-hn8kp]

you guys really had to make this video 😂😂... I just love it it brings nostalgic memories

[@Vx_Dexo_xV]

Me growing up poor: Ah yes, way back when, 12 years ago

[@anubis2044]

Going to Blockbuster on a Friday night with your friend when you were 9 and getting to decide on a game together was an AWESOME experience.

[@CarthagoMike]

Ah yes, Cables. For TV's a truly American problem, since in Europe we just had SCART.

[@richardrussell7082]

Ironically we used to have a form of cable TV in the UK, usually provided by a company like Rediffusion, where the signal came in to your house via a box on your living room wall that you then connected the TV to. In the late 80s and into the 90s I also saw some new build housing estates taking it on in the more 'American Style' cable TV service; using underground distribution cables from a centralised station.

[@Del11k]

@@richardrussell7082 We(East Midlands)had SelecTV in the 80/90's,then it changed to NTL(late 90 to early/mid 2000's),then it changed to Virgin Media(which I still have).

[@mattcarter6559]

Great video, that picture of Blockbuster you used was actually my child hood store in Morley, West Australia 😄 rented MGS2 there many times, It is now a hot pot restaurant! Haha

[@gameranxTV]

Woah

[@kcollier2192]

Or call a help line- Nintendo got a lot of calls from folks trying to get thru The Lost Woods in the original Legend of Zelda.

[@MrZer093]

It was even free if I recall. Nintendo didn’t want kids to be frustrated with their games and return or sell them so they employed some people who had official guides all tabulated to tell kids what they needed to do. I also imagine that it helped Nintendo figure out how to make their future games easier to understand or when mechanics were overly difficult.

[@Thanos916]

@@MrZer093 Yeah but you got charged long-distance. Parents never want to see that on a phone bill.

[@KSSBG]

I remember that little Mario with the screw driver and phone number on the back of my NES. Wow, just brought back a memory and a simpler time

[@LtexprsGaming]

I literally had flashbacks on every single one of these problems we used to have.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

The only handheld I had was Coleco football. And we always had a battery tester in the drawer with the batteries. I still do. - That "plug in the middle of the cord" you pointed to is called a choke. It is an inductive coil in place to cut down on signal noise. - You can still rent some (few) games at RedBox machines. I know only one person who does that to see if they want to later buy it, or if they instead finish it in their rental period.

[@DustinBarlow8P]

You have brought back SO MANY MEMORIES with this video! We really need to get back to the "Innocence" that was being a gamer in the 80's and 90's. I hope I'm not alone on this, but it just feels like we lost something in the 2000's that have turned gaming into a sort of cynical endeavor. Anyway I digress Excellent Video!

[@Ghadente]

Lol "screen watchers" was the term we used when playing split screen

[@jbkeebs]

"no screen peeking!"

[@RosheenQuynh]

"Stop looking at my screen!" Ah, the memories...

[@adamw.7169]

Ah yes the good old days when you didn't have to buy 2 of the same console to play with someone in the same household.

[@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352]

I always just accepted that as one of the prices we paid for multiplayer, and to be completely honest, I still prefer that to the relative isolation of online-only matches... That and, for all its flaws, it just worked. No wifi interference, no network lag, no dropped connections, no greedy ISP's calling 56Kbps "up to 350 Mbps", no discs becoming expensive frisbees when the servers shut down.... As long as both controllers work, multiplayer works.

[@adamw.7169]

@@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352 kinda disappointed gameranx included it as a "problem". Smh

[@Shatterverse]

USB rechargeable AAs were the best ever for wireless controllers.

[@shezanjimenez]

Still are for Xbox

[@jbkeebs]

Yeah but those were Hella expensive back in the day. Your parents loved you if they got you a pair haha.

[@thelegendofstonecoldstevea3205]

@@shezanjimenez nah just a get a charging dock. Who still uses batteries in 2021?

[@REXae86]

@@shezanjimenez nah my elite 2 has a built in battery and I got a charging dock for like $15 from Microsoft

[@bahamutbbob]

Eneloop, my friend. Greatest thing ever! (Not really, but I've been using the same 12-ish batteries for the past 8 years or so.)

[@Nobody_Fn_Important]

I remember the Gameboy Advance getting a rechargeable battery pack that also worked with the GameBoy colour (I think) and feeling pretty damn awesome that I didn't have to buy batteries all the time, instead I had to have the packs charged up all the time

[@M247]

Wow now this is nostalgic, I remember my friends buying guides and we'd borrow them from each other because we were stuck at some point in a game, the good old days

[@TwitCentury]

I feel like we're getting a bit of insight into Falcon's childhood memories, some of this is very specific

[@Mastermind4life]

you might just be young lol this list is so bottom barrel to me . Not bad but just low hanging fruits. Most pc gamers still have cables...renting is just subscription based not gone...etc. no mention of loading times memory cards or games never getting patched. Um...thanks for coming to my ted-talk, have a good day.

[@TwitCentury]

@@Mastermind4life nah, I'm old enough to remember all of this, I was more joking that a lot of what Falcon said gets very specific

[@Onlytoview1]

"Besides, What Handheld do you play anyway besides the Switch." Looks at Vita in Sad...

[@jazzyj7834]

What's that?

[@Badbhoys]

@@jazzyj7834 lmao

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

Thank you!!! Love my Vita

[@Iron_Hawk]

exactly, the switch isn't the only handheld people use, I still use my psp regularly and I use my gba and 3ds from time to time as well

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

@@Iron_Hawk Excellent choices! I’d love a 3DS and GBA. Cover all the bases

[@NE0C]

Anyone else remember leaving their console running all night cause you couldn’t save unless you got to like a save point?

[@juanpabloflores8179]

Yes! I did it with my Family Game (a famicom clone) specially in harder games like Battletoads. Thankfully it had no power indicator lights, so my parents couldn't notice it was on.

[@sharfaraznewaz5496]

Wait wait… what?

[@teletrace]

I am blown away how eerily exact this video described my childhood and gaming!

[@fearlessromeo4293]

Getting only physical copy for a game. That aged well.

[@dontreadmypicture4835]

Zyin was the most important thing to me and I have a good woman who can be cultural ✋🛑 *DONT READ MY NAME* 🛑✋

[@Rougesteelproject]

When your only physical copy is a broken disc.

[@guillermoelnino]

i know its not a perfect solution, but i try to keep games on at least one harddrive. works best with roms.

[@raistlarn]

@@Rougesteelproject or some idiot said these come apart and then proceeded to destroy your PSP UMD by taking it apart.

[@TheFoodnipple]

@@dontreadmypicture4835 damn that was a lot of clicking

[@PandaemoniumGaming]

This is great, growing up in the 90s I can relate to all of these on a deeply personal level, especially walking through a cable and bringing the whole system down 😅😅😅👌

[@vinzvega5614]

the fact that quite some people dont even know some of the struggles is so good. For me, running out of batteries for the gameboy on a road trip... I felt that 100%

[@ensabahnur8968]

Damn Falcon u make me feel old man😆😆

[@elliottryan13]

The Game Gear, in the car, on a trip, running out of batteries! Holy shit that's a blast from the past. I remember our Game Gears were recalled.

[@smashenYT]

So we were supposed to stop powering on our PC with our feet? Heh.. the more I know

[@dontreadmypicture4835]

Instead she is the norm for her life to do so in my head that was the most successful of ✋🛑 *DONT READ MY NAME* 🛑✋

[@guillermoelnino]

i just hook up some wires connected to a button on my desk. very convenient.

[@mohammedalnayar]

Well the fact we still call it "boot" remains... If something wasn't working, it was prolly because it wasn't connecting well or having contact issues. So u boot it to shake it to nudge things xD

[@kingshadow8782]

Roanoke Gaming

[@TheJoeDavis]

RF converter boxes almost always had a passthru port on the back. You could connect your TV RF cable to the converter box pass-thru, then connect the converter box to the RF port on your TV. If you wanted to play a game, turn to channel 3 and turn on your NES. You could even daisy chain multiple boxes together if you set each to use a different channel. You didn't HAVE to swap out cables every time you wanted to watch TV, etc.

[@nihilriv3r]

Some setups could use channel 4. Fantastic video, gave me some good nostalgia feels.

[@joem5140]

Games with no 'save' function. 45 minute loading time from a cassette on the C64.

[@skinnybuddha8988]

As much as I like having a hard copy, digital libraries are awesome. You'll always have your games, categorized all nice, even if your system catches on fire you still have all your saves and everything.

[@michaelavalos8619]

Unless you get your account banned or somehow lose all the info you have for the account 😅

[@Dimimash]

Not to mention if you don’t have internet connection, you cannot play any of those games you have.

[@silversolver7809]

@@Dimimash "if you don’t have internet connection, you cannot play" Sure you can, it's called 'offline mode'.

[@skinnybuddha8988]

@@Dimimash you can still play them without internet you just can't download more. Same with the hard copies though, you can install them but can't play most until you update them.

[@Dimimash]

@@skinnybuddha8988 I mean maybe it’s just a PS thing because I can’t log into the games to play them offline.

[@tylerrogers5501]

Is someone from Gameranx from Keene NH? Video Headquarters was my local video rental store, I was very surprised to see it pop up here!

[@F_L_U_X]

"Heeyyyggghh! Y my TV don't werk!?" lol

[@hooptyhoop7862]

Technology has come a long way. However, I still like to play video games with friends and family without it being online. I like that closeness with people with gaming.

[@grahamkelly8662]

Yes, well, I grew up in 80’s and we had no internet. So it was incredible to play games with friends, over each other’s houses. Especially when you get a new 2 player game. Me and my friends had many hours gaming together on nes super nes n64 Dreamcast and PlayStation.

[@alexfarrell3250]

Couch co-op is still one of the best things with friends and family

[@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352]

Yep. Online definitely has its place but there is no way it can replace sharing a couch with close friends and relatives... It's hardly even about the game, that's just something to do. It's about spending time with the important people in your life, sharing jokes and discussing important events. It's about forging the type of bonds that can only be forged in person. As social creatures, we need that.

[@alwaysthertowin6386]

I remember the console unplugging and I hadn’t manually saved for like 2 hours… no auto saves we’re not a thing

[@Kotokitmedia]

Dang somehow I feel old remembering these stuff, but thats memories is so nostalgic

[@ninjahart]

It was a real hassle to deal with all the jumpers on motherboards and hard drives. Most people probably did like me and put every hard drive to cable select. But so freaking annoying.

[@rhysholdaway]

Dammit... Now I feel all nostalgic for my 90s gaming setup!

[@_TheMentor]

I remember leaving the channel changed to CH3 and having the volume cranked. You could always tell who used it next because it would blast static sound throughout the house. Nothing like a good beating to the ambiance of white noise.

[@ShadowLion20]

I do kind of miss renting video games from a video store. Lots of fun memories of spending the night at my friends house on a Friday night, renting Super Mario RPG for the SNES, grabbing some gas station junk food, and watching him play until the crack of dawn.

[@DickLongFlop14]

The struggles were real back in the day. You used to have cables everywhere that never seemed to be long enough. You had to get up and walk to the system to turn it on, and you had to physically change the game disk or cartridge if you wanted to play something else, and with cartridges you would have to blow in them sometimes to get them working again even though that probably didn’t actually work. Then there were checkpoints that if you didn’t reach you would start way far back when dying, and you had memory cards at some point and losing those was super easy. It all sucked

[@AncestorEmpireGaming]

Gamer problems you miss: Navigating through multiplayer lobby of call of duty modern warfare 2.

[@Badbhoys]

Hahahahahah that was a job in itself

[@kstanni87]

Trying to find lobbies that weren't hacked bitch too. Moon jumping was fun once but actual "god mode invincible" players steamrolling lobby. Twice as bad if god mode players were using sniper rifles or farming nukes in MW2. Invincible players in Black Ops 2 on PS3 was a hassle as well.

[@JaeSambo]

Even worse, trying to port forward to get your nat type open for the first time. 😂

[@knivesron]

i miss server browsers. i hate these new matchmaknig things alot of games have these days. i spend ages in them generally only for it to say no other players can be found.

[@SirkSirk]

@@knivesron that's something I really enjoy in battlefield. Consoles and PCs have a decent server browser. Not just exclusive to PC.

[@kellum231]

I remember the first wireless controller I got for Christmas for my GameCube. My brother and I would walk outside in the snow to see how far we could play the game. Oh the memories.

[@Jazzer995]

#8 - I prefer the cable option, even with headsets; because wireless is expensive and those internal batteries didn't last long enough. #5 - The only console I ever owned until I bought my own had a switch to convert from TV to Console and if I forgot to switch it back afterwards, I would have to wait some time extra to play as a punishment.

[@andigenous9101]

Wow, #4 hit me with nostalgia because that pic of Video Headquarters is from my hometown. r.i.p. :(

[@satevo462]

Oh god I miss renting games. Especially when I had a modded Xbox that could rip games. Thanks Blockbuster. Don't ask why I immediately brought the game back and rented 2 more on the same night. I'm building a library bro.

[@craigfoote7218]

Aahhhhh memories, my entire childhood came back to me watching this video

[@leonardofelippine9781]

I remember having to screw in a type of box in the back of my TV, so we could switch between the videogame (Atari 2600, if I remember correctly) and the TV. Sometimes the connectors would wear out and you would have to expose the wires to connect. I got zapped constantly.

[@reginavilar1362]

0:06 dude! Lol can't stop laughing!

[@GloriousKev]

Those coaxil cables almost always had an output on back of them so you could screw the cable box in the back.

[@ThundagaT2]

Yeah, i dont remember ever having to remove it to watch regular TV

[@NoNanoGM]

How about the top 10 best boss songs, you know that boss who has such a good song that you purposely take a while to finish the fight just because you're enjoying the sound? in my case it's the doppelganger in devil may cry 3 and Quadratus from shadow of the colossus

[@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352]

Not exactly a boss battle but certain overworld or event-specific tracks do that for me... Midna's Lament (Loz: TP), Temple of Time (LoZ: BotW) and Memories of Green (Chrono Trigger), without fail. On that note, when the "enemy encounter" track cuts in to one of the aforementioned songs... Only blemish on some otherwise flawless games

[@ahha6304]

In Thailand, you switched to channel 1 to play game instead, because that's where "Channel 3" broadcast

[@HepauDK]

#11: Constantly swapping disks during a game (Amiga). The sole reason why I bought an external disk drive for my A500. That way, at least on games with 2 disks, I could play without swapping disks. I still have an Action Replay Mk.III for it hidden away somewhere, even though the machine itself is long gone. :) My first computer was a Marathon 32K (ZX-81 clone). I had 3 games on tape for it, the rest I had to punch in myself, using those annoying rubber keys...

[@IC3DZOMBIE]

I was born in 01 but i still remember renting halo 3 when it came out at blockbuster.

[@mertyuip06]

Damn I was born in 06 got my wii at around let’s say 4 years old even then that was my parents and getting my ps3 at 5 and my ds had that ps3 till 2018 when I got a ps4 yea and blockbuster is just a memory I can barely remember due to how young I was when it closed

[@julianfigueroa9525]

I call those times the good ol days. I was happier, now everything's seems depressing 😔

[@KSSBG]

Childhood was do amazing wasn't it? Boy, our dumb Lil asses took it all for granted, but hey wat are ya gunna do,. It probably means nothing to them but I always tell young kids to appreciate being a kid and have the most fun you can and dont try to grow up because you're gunna miss it. We all go through that blind state and it sucks lol I wish I could have been more conscious to it

[@Gamearkdotcom]

Those were the days

[@thelastcydonian4016]

This! all that crap we went through but it still feels better

[@JohnJohnson-zu5vj]

wahh wahh baby wants milk

[@jarse1991]

I dunno man, being a kid was fun, but it sucked that we had to listen and dont speak up, you know. Go to bed early, do your homework, you can play video games ( but only for an hour and a half). Now at least I can make my own decisions! Sure i have to wake up early for work, but if i really want to I can call in sick and play video games aaaaalll day. I guess that every age has its limits, and it's important to appreciate what you have instead of regretting what you missed

[@PLightstar]

Glad I was gaming in the UK most of the time you had just the RF cable with a splitter box to switch between TV and console. Have the same setup now with a HDMI splitter to change between TV and Console's.

[@jordanbaldridge2242]

Dude I miss renting games. I loved using that to try out new games. Our video rental store finally closed down in the past 6 months or so and damn was it sad.

[@DarkRockman80]

This video makes me feel so old

[@taliesinpotter4097]

Buying multiports for the PS2 so you could 4player with the bros

[@guillermoelnino]

i remember having to cut the one i bought in half cause the only ps2 i had working at the time was the mini one.

[@jwill7998]

A copy of TimeSplitters 2 and a multitap lead to some long nights.

[@Taijifufu]

That was such bs. Sony really pulled a lot of EA style nickel and diming with hardware then.

[@snce1363]

That thumbnail tho....DAAAAMNN SON. It's so on point...exactly what I did.

[@Viper-D-Luffy]

This video brings back so many nostalgic memories