10 Problems ONLY 2000s Gamers Faced

[@CaedoGenesis]

Cloud Saves shows Cloud saving Tifa. I feel like someone was just waiting to use that clip for this topic, and I appreciate it.

[@WtfYoutube_YouSuck]

shutup Boomer

[@FelipeKana1]

They made three whole video just for it

[@FelipeKana1]

@@WtfKZbin_YouSuck toxic troll go to hell please

[@SpikeTheWolf]

*snifffff

[@lukel4111]

@@WtfKZbin_YouSuck or what? 😂

[@MrFlexNC]

Renting a game was 10x more exciting than buying one now on steam. You have no idea how passionately I read those back covers when my mom was driving me home

[@Rickgonz47]

reading the manual if it was there

[@zezynho115]

I rented so many sega saturn games back there ... Now i got an huge Steam library and i can relate so well to what u said Rick...

[@Rickgonz47]

They don’t make manuals like they used to anymore either

[@fiftycaliber2972]

Reading the back cover after you've got/rented a game was like a spiritual journey

[@kwbalance108]

Heck yeah, my sister and I used to get to rent one Genesis game every two weeks at our local gaming/lottery store. I still miss that.

[@probes101]

Anyone else remember Demo disks? They would have the first 20 min of like 5 or 8 games. Jampack for the PlayStation

[@prod1192]

Shiiii remember the demos from pizza hut???

[@2fAce619]

Jam packs were the shit

[@RunningOn7CylindersYT]

The amount of times I've played the first 10 minutes of PS1 Hercules is crazy

[@regg58]

Those were fire, i hated the ones that would just be a trailer and you couldn’t actually play

[@jarse1991]

@@RunningOn7CylindersYT yooo that Hercules game was fun as hell!!!

[@lilfreak8963]

I’m 19 now, idk how old I was but I remember arguing with my mom in a local rental store because she wouldn’t rent “Destroy all Humans”

[@jasonshaneyfelt1039]

You would have been what? 3 or 4? lol I wouldn't have let you rent it either

[@nicksosicc]

My parents got me destroy all humans 2 for christmas one year when I was a kid, my old man watched me play it for 15 mins and said I wasn't allowed to, and took it for himself lol.

[@joeychill4364]

Not me. My mom let me rent whatever I wanted cuz she know it would shut me up for a couple of days.

[@tarrker]

I was 12 when the first DOOM game was released. I remember people loosing their minds because my parents let me play it. The ONLY reason they cared or even knew about it was because they had seen it on the news. I'm not gonna lie and say I'm some kinda perfect adult but the problems I do have aren't because I played DOOM. x_x

[@luketetzloff8004]

Dude I'm 27 and that game came out when I was like 10 years old. U had to be like 2. I feel like what your saying is BS

[@bramsey1]

Being made fun of for being a gamer. Gaming is normalized now but back in the 2000s I remember not mentioning the games that I played because people looked down on that kind of stuff.

[@dirkbsilver9260]

My vocational school considered it a form of degeneracy and tried banning it till they saw the dorm moral shoot through the roof when an RA brought in his Dreamcast and Soul Caliber on the weekends.

[@FoxDie77777]

they joked that someday i would do a school shootout and stuff

[@bobbrock4221]

I don't know what kind of judgy snobs that you are hanging out with. Everyone that I hung around with either played games or could care less if someone else did.

[@Bootchair]

@@bobbrock4221 for real. Super smash and goldeneye tournaments every Friday. Before that Mario kart snes and mortal Kombat 3

[@Gamer88334]

I, personally, was never bullied for playing video games. In fact, the only person who bullied me at all was my little brother and that’s because he was an angry piece of shit back then. I would’ve punched him but that would’ve resulted in me getting yelled at by my father, who made a habit out of yelling at the 3 of us (I’m the middle child) every time we did something wrong and never paid attention to us when we weren’t doing anything wrong. Now I’m not gonna say that I’m totally innocent, that I never deserved to have him angry with me. Because I’m not totally innocent and I did deserve to have him be a bit angry with me a couple of times (one time, I lied when I said I’d play a game split screen with him just to get him off my back. He would’ve gotten angry with me even if I was as polite as possible when I should’ve said no. I mean, I get it, our father succeeded as a husband but failed as a father and our family was basically separated due to a couple of deaths in the family that occurred a few years before and a few years after we were born, but he didn’t have to go and make things worse for me, our big brother, and our mom. We were going through the same shit he was and he was just making it harder on us.) Our relationship did eventually improve, I guess. But the only way for us to get along is for us to interact with each other as little as possible. And when we do interact, we get it over with as quickly as possible. I don’t feel any hatred when I’m around him, but interacting with him is like walking in a minefield: do 1 thing that even slightly annoys him and he’ll blow up.

[@Raxaex]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate the editing done in these videos? I enjoy the editing so much, especially when it's Falcon. That Falcon little boy sure made me chuckle.

[@JaelaOrdo]

One problem we didn’t face, putting a game in the tray and having to wait forever for it to install before we could play

[@Badbhoys]

The good old days

[@ross2283]

Preach

[@kyssmyass]

I forgot about that until a bought a psp

[@thirdsupernova]

If it wasn't scratched or dirty then yeah

[@Taj_Fitness]

It was amazing

[@verlorenish]

This video has taught me a lot about Falcon.

[@BigMobe]

Yes, he is likely in his late 30's or early 40's and has survived multiple back-breaking Mortal Kombat blows using wired controllers. I'm surprised he didn't mention scratched game discs.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@BigMobe Too painful to think about

[@ReverendPrice]

@@BigMobe Don't tug on our deep rooted trauma man!

[@alanw9620]

I miss game rentals those were the days, back when you could actually play a game on disc straight away without having to install a game or download a patch. Good times.

[@shashanksaurav8569]

Imagine somebody renting a Ghosts n Goblins NES for their 7 yr old kid. That kid was up for sooo many surprises...

[@MaxContagion]

i remember the rental rates being something like a dollar for 1 week. could just rent a game and beat it. never having to buy it. even renting systems occasionally

[@Rosterized]

also dont forget about casually getting into a random discussion about some game because the owner of the rental store was a huge gamer aswell.

[@MartinT]

I remember when they had all their copies rented out and you had to wait for one to be returned

[@rockworm503]

Yes I to miss the days of not knowing if a game was gonna be good or not and the being stuck with it all week because the option was play that or replay the 3 games I owned 50 more times. God the things people miss are weird.

[@Manliketheone]

One thing I do miss is if you buy a hard copy these days there’s no more game booklets in the game jacket anymore. Unless you buy the ultimate edition or some crap. Loved just reading some of the lore the games from this era provided through booklets.

[@yaboi_muffmuncher]

Not having a memory card for your ps2 ):

[@cexylord2323]

Sooo true

[@MikeJAk49]

Or leaving it at a friends and having to go back and get it.

[@cexylord2323]

Leaving the ps2 on so your game doesnt start over

[@TheRagnus]

Dark times indeed...

[@eggboi584]

it was a HUGE problem back in the day lol

[@mauriciokenway9922]

IS NO ONE GOING TO MENTION HAVING TO PUT THE TV ON THE No.3 CHANNEL?!

[@Nasa-cosmonaut]

Yes, or the rf switch that connected to coax.. Sheesh!

[@bartek4536]

Hahaha so true

[@wades623]

It was channel 4 for me since channel 3 was an actual station

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

When you mom calls your aunt and it kicks you off the internet. Yep, great times...

[@jonkR96]

Going to a web page, leaving, making a sandwich, eating it, coming back and still less than 50% loaded.

[@XionsEmpire]

@@jonkR96 God, loading anything on NewGrounds to watch a 2 minute flash video parody was torture. 30 to 50 minutes of loading just hit play and if you tried to skim back, I was fucked

[@nkpgbmx]

Good old 56k modem 🤣

[@matthewboer8279]

Xbox 360 routers were really bad for this

[@CJMcMullet]

@@XionsEmpire Yeah, I applaud our attention spans back then. Now we can barely watch a 10 second ad before wanting to punch our screen 😂

[@RyanSchechtman]

Man, there are few things I miss from childhood more than going to Blockbuster on a Friday night with my friends and loading up on snacks and games to play that weekend.

[@NostalgiaNet8]

Accidentally deleting a save file you've invested in was heartbreaking.

[@latenightgaming5057]

Go through the who day in silent disbelief. School sucks and I'm not hungry. I just want my hrs of hard work back🥺💔

[@zoidicabra]

my dark souls II save

[@retr0gamer183]

Accidentally deleted my Windwaker save 😅

[@bustergundo516]

@@zoidicabra oof

[@bustergundo516]

@@retr0gamer183 That's rough buddy.

[@ivo]

Falcon: "I sound like an old person" Also Falcon *Talks about playing games in the 80s *

[@tarrker]

Haha. I thought the same thing. I played games in the 80's too. If you ain't young then that kinda only leaves one other option. LoL :P

[@CristuelCasto]

Damn I hated memory cards with a passion back then. So imagine my happiness when I got an Xbox and that beast came with about 8 gigabytes of storage...it felt a huge breakthrough to me.

[@KawaiiKitten]

My problems with storage didn't end until a few years ago. My xbox 360 only had 5gbs so I had a slew of usbs I had games saved to in order to own my digital copies and my xbox one had a similar issue though with a bit more gb. Wasn't until a friend got tired of me not having the games we liked playing together downloaded that he bought me a decent sized hard drive lol

[@steamyrayvaughn1740]

Remember the Xbox 360's that came with the 256 Mb memory card and no hard drive? I do sadly..

[@eddiegreencheez]

Makes me think of gameshark lol

[@mazengwe28]

Memry cards on the Dreamcast was the worst because they went into the controller instead of the system. That shit used to bug me. And it was easy to lose them or it was difficult when you had friends over.

[@satevo462]

I remember playing Gran Turismo in the late 90's and we didn't have a memory card so we just left it on for weeks. One day, before we got a memory card, the game was turned off..... 1,000 hours of play time between me and my 3 roommates lost forever.

[@Sorrowdusk]

The dedication of it literally running until a power outage

[@SasukeFromPart1]

The saddest story I've heard so far, but as long you guys had fun, that time wasn't completely wasted

[@mazengwe28]

That would suck, Especially all of those driving tasks you had to perform just to get new tracks and cars.

[@yaboi_muffmuncher]

When you have a scratch on your ps2 disc & the toothpaste wouldn’t take the scratch off

[@sipops]

Dude my boyfriend bought a used Pokemon game for the GameCube and tried this method and I deadass looked him in the eye and said "you do know this doesn't work? he swear it does but whatever.🤦‍♀️😂

[@johnnyguillotine1673]

Bar soap and soft cloth.

[@alexfarrell3250]

The most minor scratch would render a disc completely useless. GTA games were some of the most notoriously fragile. Whenever I wanted to play Vice City, because it had a small minor scratch on it it took at least 10 minutes to get it working

[@j.m9047]

@@sipops bruh that sucks. especially since gamecube games are so expensive now.

[@NewAgeSlaves]

I traded this game with my friend and I wanted to play it so bad it wouldn't work tried toothpaste and every trick in the book

[@billfusion]

I had 3 problems during that time. Not having a memory card for the PS2 during the launch, dealing with deleting data when I had no more room on the card, and trading in games to get new ones.

[@LonghornsLegend]

If you don't remember the memory card struggle, just be happy that you missed that era. I can't imagine playing a game like AC Valhalla, and someone deleting my save file 75 hours in on "accident"😫 After it happened to be in Tomb Raider 2 I just gave up on replaying

[@deathunknown4949]

or deleting GTA 5 after all those micro transactions for it all to be gone or any game then you spent like a week on

[@bustergundo516]

Big oof

[@MaxContagion]

happened to me on FF7. right before defeating the end boss. had even taken the time to max out my characters levels

[@DeviHyuga]

Disgaea 2 my 120 hours in, gone in a flash.

[@lrod312]

The struggle of finding a Wifi spot with your PSP perfectly encapsulates my experience of late 2000s gaming

[@mdahsenmirza2536]

Lol, so glad I never had to deal with that bs cuz I wasn't born yet

[@jellyTurfsJelly]

CRT TV* CRT stands for cathode ray tube, not cathode ray television

[@platonicbuu7454]

He knows... it got comments though. Big brain plays in effect

[@Mitchbaz93]

I got given a big one as a kid and trying to take it to my bedroom for my ps1, only to drop it down the stairs half way up. It still worked then I ruined it with a magnet 😂😭😂

[@BC-vw8gz]

My "damn I'm old" moment of the day.

[@Mina_Angel]

Lol yea nostalgia can be fun tho. There used to be this game shop I used to frequent back before FF IX came out. The owner and workers were so cool, I miss it at times.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@Mina_Angel back when you could go to a store and see what games were out instead of having to browse web page. Then again this is more of Nostalgia because it is great to be able to Google anything avoid a game (and still not find what you want).

[@thekid92sho]

I traded in a game.........that I didn’t realize also housed my memory card......that had my almost 100% Smash Bros melee save on it. Never really got over that.

[@lj8983]

My condolences XDD

[@BlueBlur24]

Major oof there, my guy. I can't imagine it since I'm not a Nintendo guy but at the very least, that sounds painful.

[@justenjoy9545]

When your game crashed after you completed wrong side of the tracks without saving

[@aaronmarkham4424]

Ohhhhh THAT SUCKSSSSSSS

[@sebastiansethd.lastimosa6610]

ive been there before not good

[@Troupe_Master]

Me having flashbacks to that garbage tv I was playing God of War on for hours sooo much the screen turned different colors

[@arbitrary_thoughts]

I remember that for a few years I would be playing the playstation 1 with this crt tv that was less than 20 inches, there was no remote, and the sound was so low that I would sometimes need to put my ear right next to the TV to hear what anyone was saying. Eventually got this big ass TV that was perfect for gaming and playing movies on the ps2. I felt super fancy once I got my hands on a flat screen TV.

[@Correc7edAuraYT]

Then I wouldn't call it garbage, that TV obviously brought you alot of enjoyment and gave you entertainment for along time. That TV is what gave you video games besides the video games and consoles themselves.

[@hurricane7424]

I remember playing on old sharp tv and forgot to turn it off bcs the screen color matches when its off. Left it out for a week to discover the tv survives. Good ol days 😂🤣

[@hurricane7424]

I remember playing on old sharp tv and forgot to turn it off bcs the screen color matches when its off. Left it out for a week to discover the tv survives. Good ol days 😂🤣

[@tatienouorest3358]

Dude! Mine was like 12 inches and black-on-white. Still enjoyed God of war 2 on it😂

[@TafTabTah]

I remember getting a 480p TV when I was 18 and thought "how could graphics get any better"

[@mdahsenmirza2536]

I think we've now solved the graphical problem upto done extent with unreal engine 5's nanite and lumen

[@paulsnelling7808]

god i feel like a boomer seeing yellow white and red cables

[@marcusmerchant5697]

The xbox 360 still had these

[@NewAgeSlaves]

Good times good times

[@arbitrary_thoughts]

Wait, are those not a thing anymore?

[@treycanterbury9646]

@@arbitrary_thoughts nope that’s what hdmis are for.

[@Dob6660]

Anyone who had a Wii

[@TheDuckumz]

I remember on the PS2 buying Swap Magic for $30 that came with a boot disc and a whole replacement top for the PS2 that had a flip open lid to the disc drive and renting games and then going home and burning them to a dvd and taking them back a half hour later and saying they didnt work and accumulating the whole library Blockbuster and Hollywood Video had within no time. Saddest part was that a lot of my friends payed $100 or more to have mod chips installed on their consoles and i was happily playing burnt games for dirt cheap. Ahh the good ole days...

[@oreo8335]

*Nostalgic feelings coming*

[@Badbhoys]

Fr though

[@fleetwoodsoup7443]

Ay I'm hungry, I want pancakes

[@fleetwoodsoup7443]

Or doughnuts? Yeah... I'll go with pancakes

[@timothyoswald8618]

I built a pc back before the parts were all color coded and KZbin tutorials. It was a different time, indeed.

[@Azhrei2000]

They're color coded now? lol... And ya i built a beast of a gaming rig, in like 2001... And yes it can handle crysis. lol

[@dustyt6226]

LOL Circuit City.. now there's some nostalgia

[@BigMobe]

Makes you wonder how Best Buy is still around. Even Radio Shack is gone from what I can tell.

[@NATA5II]

My mom and i went in one on a whim and she actually bought me a PS2. That was a good day. Now it's a Joann's Fabrics.

[@dustyt6226]

@@BigMobe I believe Best Buy is a contributing factor as to why Circuit City is no longer around. Best Buy also seemed to adapt to online shopping as well.

[@ChristiansCartoons]

Me: Glad we don't have to be swapping memory cards to play games anymore. Series X and PS5: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

[@tilburg8683]

I liked the memory cards, it fits like 2 times as much games on it as ps4/ps5 and can easily be expended while being much cheaper and more reliable then ps4/ps5.

[@GAMEMASTERAP]

What do u mean to say

[@Tom-ef1mz]

I still won't play Lego Star Wars after a power outage corrupted a 100% save file.

[@un.kwn.2999]

Just download a save file

[@screenmonkey7103]

@@un.kwn.2999 its not the same

[@ZaidIsm007]

@@screenmonkey7103 it isn't...

[@venomvideos855]

@@ZaidIsm007 I agree

[@apeiroxxi3586]

Damn bro, that's rough

[@spun_01]

This video in 20 years : "And now at Number 1 - In the early 2020's it was impossible to buy gaming PC hardware without paying a 300% markup"

[@tarrker]

Ug. Right? Been wanting to get one of the newer RTX boards for a while now. I have one of the first ones available and it was kind of experimental when I got it so, it's got some issues. But, it's impossible to justify spending more money on a video board than I spent on my entire PC. It's hard to imagine that these hardware companies are making more from jacked up prices then they are loosing from reduced sales. I don't know anyone who's buying PC hardware right now that isn't like, a KZbinr or something. x_x

[@TheKarlus56]

today I'm 33 and i miss old school gaming like just playing a game just to get a skin and not having to pay for it and being 10 people in a room to play unreal tournament!!! the good old days

[@dima_keller]

I'm 21 this year and still I understand every bit of this. I still manually backup my saves

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

I still remember when my Dad let me help him input coding, in order to play a game on the commodore 64!! ❤

[@Joreel]

The Commodore 64 and the TSR80.... I remember both fondly. The games on cassette tapes... Ugh the horror of it 😱

[@GrandMasterLynx]

I still buy my games from a store since I love having a Physical Copy

[@TheGreenEyedMoose]

I remember this really weird thing back in the 2000s where I would buy a game on release and it would be fully complete with very little glitches, bugs and no day 1 patches.

[@TheSmokinMunkee]

I think this is one of those “Mandela effects” We collectively believe something happened when it didn’t 😂

[@YEETUSDAFEETUS]

I remember getting a full game that had a good amount of glitches although at least they were funny and not tedious like now

[@cpunto]

Overclockers website was around, weekly pc build magazines, local pc parts shops were a thing; building a pc was easy in late 90s onwards.

[@samueltheprideofafrikarobi9319]

The biggest problem that I see facing gamers from the 2000's that will persist into the foreseeable future is console designers apparent need for us to download our entire game discs onto our hard drive before we are able to play the games we purchase. (Admittedly this is really an issue that became ever-present with the PS4/Xbox One era in 2013, but it WAS a known quantity in the PS3 era.) While at the same time, their not allowing us to have enough storage space on the systems out of the box to accommodate this. There's not a single iteration of the PS4, even the one terabyte, that was released during the last console generation that allows for enough space for serious gamers to store all of our games on the system without having to delete older games at some point as we continue buying new games. I personally modified my PS4 to house two hard drives that both have 2 terabytes of space each. And now, since there are still games being released for the PS4 generation, I have run out of space on my system. So before I get Resident Evil 2 remake, Resident Evil 3 remake, Final Fantasy 7 remake or Resident Evil 8, I'm going to have to decide what I want to delete. 4 terabytes of space, and between my games, DLC and updates/patches, it's STILL not enough to house my library because of this foolish design choice. But I understand why they did it. They wanted to put gamers in a situation where we would either need to go through Sony to pay for hard drive upgrades, or we would have to keep investing in the newest iteration of the PS4 in order to keep up. This isn't something that was required in previous console generations in order to play games. And it's nothing but money hungry cash-grab bulls*it that requires it now. It's getting to the point where it's becoming very difficult financially to be a lifelong gamer. I'm surprised this wasn't on the list.

[@qwertyuiopzxcfgh]

The problem wasn't that pc's were "bad", it was that optimization for pc was terrible. Even back in '02, Morrowind looked and played better on my pc than it did on any console. The problem was that a lot of game developers believed that "all pc gamers are pirates", so they didn't put any effort into their pc releases. Edit: after watching #1: Back in '95 I actually had to order Gabriel Knight 2 from a foreign country because it wasn't sold anywhere where I lived. Back then, ordering anything from abroad was basically unheard of. It took weeks before I finally got the game, but it was absolutely worth it. The game came on 6(!) cds, which was a larger amount of storage than my entire hard drive back then.

[@2fAce619]

Yeah I remember when Warcraft burning crusade came out in 2007-08ish it being like 8 discs or something ridiculous and taking all day to install

[@chrisvanrooyen8982]

I remember the same thing, PC games looked way better than PS1 until PS2 came out then it was an even battle for a while. However, the CGI cutscenes on the PS looked way better than on PC for a long time.

[@welchnome4132]

I still remember the megapog upgrade from F connector to RCA connector for N64. My family lived heavily in the past. Although I was born 2001, we were still returning to somebody else's "garbage" VHS tapes. Renting a dvd in 2014 was still a rare treat.

[@mitchellpatterson1829]

"The past was the worst." -Simon Whistler

[@JaelaOrdo]

How long until Simon starts his own gaming channel?

[@chriscostello117]

Blaze OG

[@mitchellpatterson1829]

@@chriscostello117 I'm TopTenz OG

[@Blindashitmetalasfuck]

Simon fails to see the ways in which the future is worse than the past. He has a huge liberal bias, so when it comes to current events, his knowledge is definitely lacking. Lacking and one sided.

[@edrichlouw1790]

“If the past didn’t auck we wouldn’t have made it better”- me, like right now.

[@gthakur17]

I remember when my brother and I used to play 8bit games on TV but my father had to watch the news .you know what happens next

[@mohammedalnayar]

Falcon: we eventually had a blockbuster Picture: closeing down sale Well played..

[@eric988]

Seeing Super Mario World on that CRTV at 0:55 all of a sudden filled me with warmth, and nostalgia!

[@rory6987]

Lol the "T" in "CRT" dosen't stand for television, it's called a "CRT TV"

[@vedantbharvirkar3909]

It's Cathode Ray Tube

[@shashanksaurav8569]

Yeah cause it's cathode ray tube TV.

[@varunnagrare4912]

Yeah that sounds off😂

[@robertinogochev3682]

Nobody expects them to be correct. If you come here for proper information then you should look elsewhere.

[@vinsanity40k]

and it could blast your eyeballs with damaging radiation 😄

[@RayMetalcore]

This was the best era of gaming for me. Popping disc in and playing immediately. PS2 to PS3/360 was the best era in my opinion. Best years of gaming I've had and truly enjoyed.

[@jayhovah5621]

Never lost a memory card, so have all of them to this day... I couldn't even imagine it

[@jayvalentino3393]

Bruh wtf is your profile pic 😂😂

[@jarse1991]

That pic.... so.... distracting ....

[@NATA5II]

@@jayvalentino3393 big ass broom against a wall. If you have the Imagus extension you can view source images.

[@jayvalentino3393]

@@NATA5II thank you for clearing that up for me . Thing was giving me nightmares...still one ugly ass broom though lmao

[@TheHufflepuffSaint]

I'm looking forward to giving my kid older tech so they can grow and appreciate what us 90s/00s gamers had to deal with. ☺️

[@Th3Illegal]

Me and the boys still say “cAn it RuN crYsis” when we build and upgrade PCs

[@phlosen7854]

Of course. Like kicking the tires of the new car. You just have to!

[@deadheart1579]

to be honest, unless you are running at least a midteir graphics card and cpu, some new systems nowadays still have a hard time running it on max settings.

[@Sorrowdusk]

Wow I had no idea

[@therealmccoy6817]

I remember playing on a old crt, the upgrade to 720p was insane, felt like all the colours turned up to max looked beautiful. Biggest instant upgrade in graphics I have seen

[@VongolaXZax]

I was too busy having fun as a kid, to be bothered by the fact I did not have a HD TV at the time. Graphics are nice, but they always don't make the game.

[@666ZX]

Ah, nostalgia. The biggest problems we faced was not having a memory card or the save file corrupting its own data for absolutely no reason. That was a huge problem on the GameCube and PS2.

[@ZGamingGuy]

I'll never forget the time I was trying to find all 100 power cells (I think they are called) in jack and daxter, to find the true ending. This was before you could just look up a guide, so I was coming home every day after school, trying to find the last one I needed. Then as my mom was talking to me, I was distracted enough to overwrite the save and start a new game....I never touched it again

[@bustergundo516]

Oof! Which one was it?

[@hiromatsumoto8515]

As much as a lot of these are inconveniences now, I can’t help but feel all these things helped define my childhood and looking back it makes me sad that I’ll never get those years back. Lost memory cards, wired controllers, rental stores, dial up, it was all part of the experience.

[@spacesloth9529]

Also part of the experience, tripping over the controller cord and ripping your friends console out of the entertainment center and on to the floor haha. Pretty much felt like the equivalent of a nuke dropping on Hiroshima.

[@TheRagnus]

On the subject of terrible internet back in the 2000's, anybody remember online passes in video games?

[@etangbose4755]

Lmao trying to stop people reselling games

[@platonicbuu7454]

5 bucks for cod

[@jamesh1761]

online passes? like a Season Pass?

[@etangbose4755]

@@jamesh1761 it was a one time use code that would let you play online , it only came in brand new copies to stop companies like EB games

[@TheRagnus]

@@jamesh1761 No, online passes as in you literally had to pay for it to access any of the online features including multiplayer

[@WNYfestheads]

Oh God, I remember having a 32" Sony Wega. It was great for everything. Game Cube looked the best on it using the SD Video cable. But when I got a PS3, I couldn't even read the HUB or the Menu. Had to fork out a lot of cash to upgrade to a HDTV just to use the PS3 properly. And HDTVs were not as affordable as they are now.

[@brocklebeau3007]

Having 20 game cases all with the wrong disc inside.

[@arbitrary_thoughts]

That and then throw in an unorganized cd holder that was a bunch of transparent sleeves to hold dvds and cds for consoles and the computer.

[@BigMobe]

CDO triggered (That's OCD in alphabetical order) I never kept the cases. I had huge disc books that I would have to rearrange every time I got a new game.

[@baizuo_6246]

@@BigMobe sorry but I just find it extremely weird when people stuff their discs in books. Like what the fuck is the point? Cases look more appealing and are just easier to navigate trough.

[@eddiegreencheez]

@@BigMobe yep lol I had the one entire wall of my room that was specifically and meticulously arranged, sorted, filed,stamped, logged etc...even all my wired controllers had to be wrapped up a certain way lol well I'm exaggerating a tad but not much but my sister used to whenever she could go in my room and move or take something just to screw with me

[@bartek4536]

Hahaha good one

[@invertus9411]

I will never forget the first time I played the Counter-Strike Mod. (WON servers, before steam) Me and my friends were hooked. Then it became an official game, and my parents eventually had to buy 2 phone lines, because they could no longer get their phone calls because I was on the internet playing CS all day...but this was before voice chat was even popular, so me and my best friend had headsets that we connected to our home phones and used as our personal "voice chat" line....ahhh the good old days

[@dominickf6095]

Honestly, I prefer hardcopy to digital just because it's easier to appreciate it and see what you own. With digital, you can only see what you have for that specific platform. I can't look at my PlayStation games next to my Xbox games if they are digital.

[@alexfarrell3250]

I used to say the same and still buy physical copies for my PS4 and Switch. However with Xbox's game sharing digital is the way to go for me

[@dominickf6095]

@@alexfarrell3250 that's fair, but I personally don't want to bring my Xbox to a friend's house to save $60

[@TomMcMorrow]

As someone coming into their teenage years in 2000, boy this hit home. I also have zero idea what cloud saves are or how to use them, and I own a PS4 Pro. But I also got rid of a free Nest thermostat because I couldn't figure out how to use it. My condo came with an August wi-fi front door lock and I have never bothered to set it up, I just use the key. I'm a gamer, but not really a tech guy. Heck, I just switched to online bill pay last year. In 2020. I'm 33 but have the technological prowess of someone in their 60's.

[@EvilFandango]

The NES controller cable was long compared to the Genesis cable, thing was like 3 feet max.

[@nvprocision]

I used to wait in Blockbuster because they would tell me someone had to return a game by 4pm. I would constantly scout the return bin and harass the staff.. To be a kid again..

[@TheRagnus]

The generation before us: *complaining about how the times "back in the day" were better* Our generation: *Vietnam flashbacks to how inconvenient everything was back when we were young*

[@rtb1514]

Preach it brother

[@BigMobe]

Back in my day, old people would say "back in my day" I guess that makes me officially old.

[@mardus3960]

and after us the generation thats coming up now is gonna be like "oh my god I had to download a game online, ugh, now we can just download it straight into our brain"

[@esho6460]

8:42 the true charm of this channel is the humor and included clips 🤣🤣😂

[@Mr_Him]

When you inserted a disk, waited hours for the game to download, and started it up but that one dll file was missing

[@Chris_978]

This video is so nostalgic wow! thank you gameranx for taking me back to memory lane even despite the problems we faced back in the days. I'm very grateful for some parts of gaming how is wayyy better then before but that even came with a cost because in a way gaming doesn't feel as exciting as it used to be that i stay getting excited playing retro games instead.

[@gregperianayagam4522]

8:23 I don't think I've heard a sound effect like that in any Gameranx videos

[@brakogar]

What are you talking about PCs only getting better now? The PC introduced 3D gaming and revolutionised it with technology such as the 3DFX accelerators. Don't put the PC as inferior to consoles due to badly made ports when at the time the PC exclusives were miles ahead of any console. What is more realistic is the reverse, bad PC to console ports because the consoles had to compromise a lot to run them.

[@shadowhurtz2945]

I'm not even that old and this be making me feel old... Dang.

[@christopher2684]

So true, Composite to 1080p was insane, but 1080p to 4k is like someone took a cleaning cloth to a dirty screen, which you didn't even notice was dirty.

[@randomdank7611]

And now our problem is micro transactions but hopefully that changes

[@luciusrex]

mtx itself isnt bad, its a way to support studios, i dont mind dropping $5 here and there to support game devs especially when my games are all in a service like game pass. its bad when it becomes p2w or there's some gambling aspects to it, which most studios, if not all, have moved away from.

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

I mean you can always make the choice to skip them. It’s weird but you aren’t forced to buy them.

[@finchtm]

@@luciusrex it also becomes bad when a majority of the game’s content is being sold through mtx as opposed to a healthy balance of earn able in game loot and some dlc.

[@luciusrex]

@@finchtm yeah that too thank you. i dont think this is too much of an issue these days for PC games though (thanks to a lot of us voicing out). mobile games for sure. but PC-console games have moved to mtx for additional flavor only and usually have 2 currencies earnable currency and premium currencies. A lot of the games you can just play and still buy stuff from their store, which i really dont mind. Gives a player more "goals," and if you play with friends gets your friends to keep playing certain games too lol

[@bryananderson3772]

Micro transactions are fine. Don't buy something if you don't want it

[@desep1995]

Buying cheat code books at the scholastic bookstore or printing out 50pages of cheatcodes from your home computer

[@xenosai371]

I still miss my ‘Ole Joe’s Video Store tbh, but man not having the need to use rental stores is so great

[@cynicalsciguy9342]

Thanks and here's a Like for a trip down memory lane , I remembered all of those things. Lol . Now all you are missing is the 90s (my era) and 80s. Oh god the dial up noise, the bulk and weight of the TV's ,brick box monitors, gamesharks and memory cards, RCA cables, mutli-game disk demos for the PS and Xbox original, Lan partys, cassette tapes, VHS and much more the list could go on.

[@SilenKillGamer]

Falcon is literally hello fellow kids

[@kennybaker985]

Whole lotta nostalgia hittin me here glad things are different nowadays

[@Taj_Fitness]

Deleting siblings memory car file in replace of your own often ended in bloodshed 🤣🤣🤣 you better be ready to scrap if you do this is so nostalgic love this list!

[@dirkbsilver9260]

Had a friend jack mine to pretend he was the one to beat Tekken 3 with every character. Still chafes all these years later as he lost it to boot.

[@geebsterswats]

Ah, memories. My first PC I "built" was a Gateway Pentium 4 from 2002-2003. I remember browsing the video card section of CompUSA in Orlando back in 2003. I purchased an AMD Radeon 9600XT and it came in a clear plastic box, heavily advertising Half-Life 2. When it finally came out it was game changing. That step up to HL2 level graphics was amazing. I still have the HL2 5 CD box. It was available on DVD, but who could afford a DVD burner back then? Lol. I think I broke down and bought a DVD burner when they were $200-$250.

[@hotrodG2]

I thought I was REAL big brain in 2010 taking my 360 memory card with me to my dad's house so I could still have a decent amount of my xbox games, AC2 halo3 skyrim 😵 n o s t a l g i a

[@cardsfanbj]

As a kid, I had a Genesis (no saves), Gamecube (saves on memory card), and Gameboy Color/Advanced SP and DS (on game cartridge). Moving over to PC gaming I had my boot drive fail on me and I can't tell you how relieved I was when my Fallout 4 save wasn't lost when I had to install Windows onto a new drive.

[@Bloody-Butterfly]

Spend thousands of hours playing Phantasy Star: Online. Game: Your data has been corrupted. Me: FFFFFFFFUUUUUUHHHHH

[@Mud9]

I played that game for hundreds of hours, single player only. I didn't even have the internet.

[@Bloody-Butterfly]

@@Mud9 I had 4 characters all above level 150

[@Mina_Angel]

Oh lord that happened to me. So many hours, days, weeks, years. Lost to a corrupted save file

[@lilbunnyfoofuug3887]

I still have my VMUs with my characters and both versions. Also still have my gamecube version as well lol.

[@OM3GA-Z3RO]

That moment when you go into the store and see a game that catches your fancy and they had the last one in stock, was great

[@Rkfh169]

we need 10 problems for 90s gamers faced

[@kristianrjsYT]

Also along with the rental store problem - late fees on games, or movies. I racked up $200 in late fees a couple years before blockbuster closed down. Never returned them, still got em somewhere.

[@bisurker]

Having to leave your gamecube on overnight once or twice just to get a chance at fighting mewtwo in SSBM. Probably the most 2000s thing that I'm sure is not on this list.

[@dirkbsilver9260]

Had to run to another town to buy a gamecube memory card as the one I had was corrupted and I had to save my progress in Star Wars Xwing.

[@JeremyMarkel]

So many of these hit home but being that I've been building custom gaming rigs for myself since the days of 3dfx, I'm most happy to have seen IDE cables and optical drives disappear. And AGP, ISA slots...

[@stanciuoctavian7301]

The 2000's were the golden age of pirated/cracked games!!!

[@andrewanderson4403]

Pre internet gaming was a pretty magical time that can't be emulated. No one to bail you out if you got stuck in a game and a much greater overall feeling of exploration. No day one patches and couch co op was actually a thing. Getting my own crt tv from goodwill was still to this day one of the happiest days of my childhood. The excitement of nintendo power magazines and 4 player mario party is something that didn't quite make it to 2021. Modern gamers do get 4k unreal engine 5 and emulation so I'd say it's an overall fair trade.

[@brandonbutler9949]

I am convinced that this man mispronounces things purposefully.

[@faerylnhiikira1053]

It's a great way to get people to comment on the video, so I wouldn't be too surprised.

[@well_as_an_expert_id_say]

That's precisely what it is. He pronounces things like a 12yo in history class, because people comment to tell him he pronounced it wrong and it increases engagement. Kind of genius

[@brandonbutler9949]

@@well_as_an_expert_id_say Well if that truly is the case, then this is the best "big brain" play I have ever seen.

[@platonicbuu7454]

3d chess

[@viewtifuljay8030]

Been sayin this for awhile bruh lol I’m with you

[@stoneycantrememberwhatiwas9085]

I remember shooting ducks on duck hunt with those loud spring loaded shotgun things. That was fun, and a trip hazard. Falcon is AWESOME.

[@sMv-Afjal]

1:06 Yeah, Widescreen Crt , that looks like my current tv.

[@sentoneYYC]

Fun fact about crisis. 1 year after launch there was a Russian mod for optimization that made it possible to run the high specs (not max) with a minimum/medium spec PC. I remember when a coworker told me about it and gave me the files to mod it. Man I enjoyed playing it in high settings without an expensive PC.

[@dlbutters7164]

The last time i was this early, my dad still hadn't gone to the sauna with his buddies and my mom still hadn't tried to drown me in a river yet...

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

Wow. What a shitty thing to lie about for likes.

[@doogerw2675]

I miss rental stores so much :( The one we had, Hastings, sold everything from movies, games, music, cards, books, and collectibles. One of my friends worked there while she was in college and ran yugioh tournaments near the back of the store. Me and my friends would just go there to look a stuff and rent older movies you couldnt find on streaming. Thats one reason I wish they'd come back. Streaming isnt this perfect thing like everyone makes it out to be. Most of the older movies I want to watch I end up having to pirate because no one streams them. Back in the day I could just walk into hastings and rent it for a day for 49 cents

[@subzer007o4]

I remember being jealous of my friend who had internet and was able to play his PS2 online.

[@BigMobe]

Final Fantasy and Syphon Filter were like the only 2 games I knew about. I was just happy having an HDD to backup games saves on, even though they still had to be transferred back to memory card to be used.