10 WORST Moments in Video Game History That SUCKED

[@redpandarampage2191]

The loss of all those 1000s of flash games... A whole time period of internet history just wiped. Truly worth mourning.

[@Elwaves2925]

Not just games, there was a massive animation industry with Flash as well. The creativity on show could match anything that TV offered.

[@TheIMMORTALKAHNHD]

Im almost 40 and the fact that weve lost so much gaming history actually makes me upset.

[@Avg-Usr]

I play a lot of the early Japanese flash based escape games and they are. All. Gone. 😢

[@reggiechapman7275]

Miniclip, addicting games, stick man arena was that move back in my day

[@carlsoll]

If you’re reading this, I’ve taken a moment of silence for all the fallen flash games I grew up with 👉

[@kingbbarry]

My son is 14 & oldest daughter is 12. I have ran a full playthrough of RE4 Remake with both seeing the majority of the opening chapter at least. So when I explained to them that the original game was pioneering they both were suprised to learn that i had not only had the game on gamecube but also on ps2, with both systems in the house. So i grabbed my ps2 and popped in re4, and boyyyyyyy did they ever look at me like, how in the hell did you ever play this game. My response, this game was and still is legendary & essentially responsible for a bunch of what we have now. They had little clues as to what i meant, so once they realized the things I kept pointing out they started to put 2 & 2 together and i saw it AND heard it from their own mouths as they came to the conclusion that this was an 18 year old game, that for the most part was the game i was just playing on the ps5. I will thank video game companies greatly for remaking some of these games. Because it can keep the great games and tales of the old days when games were doing never done things and then being the turning points for genres, gameplay styles, art & game production. Now i just have to get an OG copy of Unreal Tournament to explain to them that THIS is what made Fortnite...

[@gerbrandlub]

At some point they'll start getting interested in indy games, some of which might actually be spire based like Stardew Valley or Fez, and they'll "get" why gaming in the 80's was just as awesome as it is today.

[@widdershins5383]

An updated unreal would be great, but that was literally just to show off the unreal engine, which has now proven it can more than stand on its own lol the unreal engine makes everything fucking beautiful lol

[@Jack-kx5rf]

I had the same experience with my older brother. I was blown away playing RE4 on the Wii and my older brother told me it came out on the GameCube. I don’t was 8 at the time but to 8 year old me 2 years was more like 20.

[@caphowdy666]

I think the thing is unless you lived it it is really hard to understand that these old fashioned looking and playing games were cutting edge at the time. We were as blown away by games on the Amiga, the Megadrive or the PS1 that at the time were far above what had come before. I mean as someone who started gaming on the C16 then C64, the Amiga was just crazy how much better the games looked and played, yet all these years later those same Amiga games look like something Noah would have played on the Ark. I know there is a big market for retro gaming, but it really depends from person to person how playable older games are. For instance I have a friend who still loves playing the classics but I just cannot get on with them anymore (we are both in our 50s). I prefer to not play them as I don't wanna tarnish my memories of them being great games, as I have done that several times now, regretting trying to relive my early gaming years. It's all horses for courses really. Hell, there are young people who did not live through those eras who actually love that shit, but to me it is full understandable that people might not get these games. I might not like playing them now, but because I lived them I can fully appreciate what we owe to these games. If they are freaked out by early Resi games, show them how GTA started ... that would totally blow their minds.

[@caphowdy666]

@@GalacticFoxCat I am not talking about the 2000s games like SA, I am talking OG GTA from the 90s. To me from GTA3 onwards, they are not retro.

[@nightrunnerxm393]

Oh, man, the disabling of Flash...hit more than just gaming, though. There was even some other software that got hit, too. There were some programs that used Flash for things like library access. Imagine loading up a program you use regularly and finding out some core feature you _really_ need to be able to use is just...gone.

[@chrisdelaney926]

The end of flash development & support didn't make flash go away from you computer. What ever you were running in flash on you PC or online still 100% worked.

[@marceloaranibar8802]

I always wondered why no one tried to stop Adobe from killing Flash

[@topcatchillinbytrash]

R.I.P. Dragon Fable

[@reyga3285]

@@topcatchillinbytrash DragonFable isn't dead in any sense of the word. It's still playable and receiving regular updates. You just need the Artix Game Launcher to play it.

[@nong333]

I would personally add an honorable mention to this list: Jack Thompson He's kinda like an extension of #3 in that he basically led a one-man crusade against the video game industry (particularly the GTA franchise) just to build up clout until even the US justice system got so tired of his BS that they disbarred him.

[@whyjnot420]

Not long after I found out he was disbarred, I mentioned it to my mother. She couldn't contain her laughter. addendum: I was in my early teens when that moral panic in the 90s hit. So that should say something about how much utter bullshit she has seen over the years. Also, being from Connecticut, we have had to deal with Lieberman's BS on everything for soooooo long (remember, you cant spell Lieberman without LIE).

[@AngryAlfonse]

Don't forget Hillary Clinton. Her anti-videogame nonsense is the main reason I voted against her in 2016 😄

[@scrantondangler8068]

I used to play a lot of games on Kongregate. When I found out Flash games were no longer going to be playable I was confused why and even how they weren't going to be available. I was truly bummed and confused.

[@gameranxTV]

😔

[@TheRedrocketrover]

Maaaaaan Kongregate brings back childhood memories dicking around in highschool than doing my subject 😂😂

[@lunaticgmd6427]

Bro realm of the mad god slapped back then

[@JohnthePhantom]

have you tried using ruffle? I've been playing old flash games on Newgrounds, sadly we don't have action script 3 so maybe later if they find it we can start playing more flash games again

[@jadedheartsz]

@@gameranxTV I have fond memories of playing Yugioh BAM on there.

[@ClawMacKain]

The thing that really irritated me about the flash abandonment is that Adobe wasn't the one that developed the flash engine. That was Macromedia that did, which Adobe bought the rights from. Only for them to turn around and abandon it, much like what Yahoo did with Geocities. Now the only Geocities sites still in existence are pretty much solely Japanese.

[@danman6669]

They abandoned it, since they were tired of constantly patching the security vulnerabilities in Flash. They had a good reason.

[@threepe0]

while I agree with you that Adobe seems to vacuum-and-abandon frequently, I have to disagree that they did that in this particular instance. Flash had just run its course from a tech and security perspective, and Adobe really did give it a good run long after their purchase.

[@zeening]

apple 10000% killed all that shit because they saw it as "competition" for people buying their apps on smart phones, i'm 10000000000000000000000% convinced of that, and google let it happen because of their android store

[@ThouArtOfWar0724]

Either this is an alternate timelines or we got two uploads in the same day. This is insane WE LOVE YOU FALCON and Gameranx.

[@gameranxTV]

🤝

[@jadedheartsz]

@@gameranxTV personally I would've put the Saturn's surprise launch on the list above the Xbox One as while the XB1 stumbled a bit out of the gate sales did pick up later on after Don Mattrick got replaced and the marketing got better, but SEGA never really recovered after Sony undercut them on their price.

[@jallerlepine3596]

Jake Baldino deserves some love too

[@InitialDreadly]

@@jallerlepine3596 Lol if this video had jake talking I would have clicked off and not even watched past the 2 second mark. If it aint falcons voice, I aint watching it. I'm sure he's probably a pretty cool guy but I really cant stand his voice

[@BrandonRalstonUSA]

@@gameranxTV 🤜🤛

[@johngleason4376]

I remember the 2011 PSN one was brutal. Had no idea it would go so long, but I remember it fondly because Playstation gave everyone Infamous for free as an apology and I fell in love with that game.

[@Frost4Real]

Same 😂 one of my fav franchises now, still praying for a comeback / remake

[@gamermanPS3]

I hated that I already had it and 3 other games on the list 😅

[@uberLWKY]

The 2011 one was brutal i swear it was a month long or maybe longer and they gave 4 games and we could choose 2 to keep. But at a time where mw2 and bf bad company was big online it was dark days

[@joink25]

They also were selling PS3s at a serious discount during that time, and I was a single player gamer at that time, so I was completely stoked to get a very cheap new PS3. So I actually look back fondly on that time.

[@rikko47]

Even tho I hated every second of it, I did earn my 1st platinum because of that

[@HeisenbergFam]

Worst moment in video game history is when power cuts out and you didnt save game's progress

[@gameranxTV]

😅👆🏻

[@ghostyuki-kfpinquisitor1038]

Especially if it's a game with some distance between save points.

[@thekwjiboo]

I was about to finish a run successfully for the first time on Hades and my cat stepped on the on/off switch on my power strip turning both my TV and PS5 off at the same time.

[@cmdraftbrn]

@@thekwjiboo that cathole =^.^=

[@Pentazemin7]

Not as bad as when the game was saving and corrupted your entire save file/memory card.

[@nekochan1692]

What I like about gameranx channel is that its not only talking about videogames, it also serves as history lesson, archives, and daily reminders of things we shouldn't forget.

[@BadriKid]

Number 5 has a cool story comes out for that with "The Completionist," a youtuber that play games to completion with every awards in consoles, actually bought EVERY SINGLE online DS and Wii games that he and his team could get hold of, and has worked with a charity that focus on keeping a records of old games as emulators and its all just a cool story, yall should cover it in a weird gaming stories one video^^

[@fallenshadow83]

hshop

[@bobtom1495]

You could just mod your console and get the games...

[@BadriKid]

@Bob Tom how will you get the game that no one has never archived from the server that Nintendo closed down?

[@hopefullyhigh]

He also was trying to claim he'd donated thousands of dollars to charities when he was in fact just sitting on it

[@BeardTech]

Flash closing down did make me shed a tear. My entire middle and high school I played a tonne of indie games through Flash and even got into animation a little using Flash to do it. There's nothing like it

[@haldyrs.telvanni4829]

Flash player going away, nintendo delisting, plenty other examples out there too, yet some people still don't understand why some of us are so concerned about the whole digital only games thing.

[@HanuNL]

Don't forget the alterations on games you own.. like GTA San Andreas patching out radio stations because of lapsing licenses.. I still buy physical media because of all this shifty practices

[@McLovinMods]

I would argue that the 1983 video game crash was a good thing. Tons of crappy and broken games like you said but if the crush didn't happen I can't imagine where we would be now. I almost feel like we're in the situation like that now with how many games are coming out that aren't good and need to be patched so many times before there playable.

[@izzy4bitney]

That moment when business people realized they could exploit predatory practices to take money from kids. And the moment when they managed to normalize micro-transactions to the point I know people that will spend 100 bucks on a live-service game per week and say "it's just how it works now" like they don't have a choice.

[@weedthepeople2795]

I remember when the horse armor came out, it immediately became the butt of gaming jokes everywhere.....who would have known something so silly could become so evil.....like when a mogwai turns into a gremlin

[@izzy4bitney]

@@weedthepeople2795 a $2.50 transaction ruined gaming forever 🤣😭

[@JukaDominator]

Extremely based

[@kshitijvarshney]

Flash player actually had a lot of security vulnerabilities that were pretty easy to exploit but yeah I miss all my 5mb flash games

[@williamyoung9401]

They fact they didn't even release an alternative to replace Flash Player is what made it bad. It was a corporate conspiracy. If people are playing free flash games by random people, they're not paying the big corps money for their releases...

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

Damn two uploads on a Saturday afternoon? Y’all killing it

[@gameranxTV]

🤝

[@haratiohornblower2613]

It's Sunday in Aus, have a good easter

[@Drenosa]

For Flash games, there's Bluemaxima's Flashpoint project. It's a massive archive containing the vast majority of flash made games. If you can remember it from places like Miniclip, Armorgames and Kongregate, odds are it can be found there.

[@Spiderjohn138]

Watching all my favorite horror franchises become asymmetrical multiplayer games.

[@gameranxTV]

😅

[@brucenatelee]

Because we want to play as survivors...

[@Input-um5et]

​@UnjustifiedRecs that comment contributed so much to society. Since you commented "This!" war has ceased, crime rates have plummeted and Ohio has returned to normal. From all of us, we sincerely thank you for making such a creative and unique comment.

[@Pissjuggernaut]

Didnt most of them begin as asymmetrical movies?

[@RedKnightOfficial]

​@@Input-um5et This!

[@Macumazahn]

That "Tokens that cannot be funged" line made my wife laugh so hard our neighbour's dog went ballistic. 👍🏼 😂

[@Monty2289]

Trying to explain the 1983 VG crash to weirdos in college is unique. Last time I had the discussion people are legitimately trying to fight me on the idea that its the playstation that saved the day.

[@gameranxTV]

😅

[@cmdraftbrn]

hahahahahahaha playstation wasnt in a wetdream at that point

[@zenkim6709]

IKR? I remember some dude trying to convince me of the following-- Dude: You know, the funny thing about Street Fighter II is that there never was a Street Fighter I. Me: [remembers both seeing & playing Capcom's original SF1 arcade cabinet, as well as the the custom "pressure sensitive" button version] Dude.... 🤦‍♂️

[@MrZer093]

@@cmdraftbrn lol yeah. The literal next iteration of the playstation at that point was the “Nintendo Playstation”, a CD add-on for the SNES Nintendo wound up not going with because they thought Sony was charging them too much for the tech. They went with Philips instead who lowered the price in exchange for the rights to develop exclusive Mario and Zelda games for their next console and the rest is history lol

[@deadpan666true]

What people usually fail to mention is that while there was a video game crash in America in 1983, it was also around the same time there was a video game boom in Europe…

[@SilverAura]

The whole interoperability of assets in the form of NFT's across games was what really struck a nerve with me. I'm no professional developer at a high-end studio but as someone who has been programming for hobby for over two decades now, this felt like the one time "BROS" were stepping in and telling ME how their magical receipt paper was capable of crossing beyond engines, beyond game mechanics, unique sensors, methods, hotspots, texture styles, texture resolutions, texture LOD's, model LOD's, like legit... absolutely NONE of this shit was thought out. None of it.

[@Midg-td3ty]

Thats not the issue NFTs are solving. Its up to the programmer to use it or not. Interoperability of assets between games is not the value proposition. NFTs are basically next level digital rights management that gives users some agency. Thats it. NFTs are as useful as their implementation.

[@jeffersondaviszombie2734]

The video game crash was not one of the worst moments in videogame history. It was one of the best ones. It was a divine fire purging all the rot. Another one right about now would be welcome too.

[@eric7591]

I agree. I suspect the industry is too entrenched and fortified for it to happen now though. Maybe on a smaller scale. Come to think of it, that is kind of what happened with the NFT craze.

[@sci-fyguy7767]

Atari pac man, donkey kong & E.T. 😦

[@pills-]

I still wouldn't call it a good thing. Necessary, yes. But not good.

[@williamyoung9401]

It won't happen as long as all the games are controlled by two companies...

[@draconismagister]

It was good for the industry as a whole but not for the thousands that lost their jobs as a result.

[@ClintChocolateChip]

I would love to see a video about influential game companies and developers that went under like Interplay, Neversoft, Silicon Knights, Midway...

[@Xiuhtec]

Microprose, SSI, Westwood, the list could definitely get at least to a top 10. So many 90s companies and franchises got acquired and then killed instead of even utilized.

[@widdershins5383]

Westwood! Oh those names bring back memories lol gawddamn

[@indiezona4797]

In 2014 I bought myself and the family a PS4 for Christmas, but I was so damn excited to play it that I unboxed it and loaded a bunch of games onto it a week before Christmas. So the attacks didn't end up being a big issue for us, however I still made sure to do it again when I got us a PS5 for Christmas a couple years ago because I remembered what happened in 2014.

[@glurp1er]

The Flash Player one made me really sad... Macromedia created wonderful tools for anyone to create anything they wanted (games, animations, softwares,...). The player may have been flawed, but Adobe should have fought to bring their softwares to the futur (all they needed was an "export to HTML5" option to make the transition seemless). Nowadays you need way more technical knowledge to achieve the same result, and it kills creativity.

[@Rainquack]

Also Flash was basically raw vector graphics that scale to any resolution in a really tiny filesize! And interactive if you want! It's so good! (Shoutouts to Bluemaxima's Flashpoint archive of ~1.8TBs of Flash history - and some other tech like the 3D Shockwave stuff - Lego's Supersonic RC was my childhood)

[@Astraeus..]

The really silly part is APPLE of all fu@$ing people criticizing Adobe for being "closed" in the sense that anything Adobe related is running proprietary Adobe software and can only work by going through them.. Apple are the kings of that shitty ass hill and they dare to throw shade on Adobe. I guarantee you if Apple were the ones holding that set of reigns you'd have been paying them a monthly subscription just to keep your flash player updated and functional :/

[@NexuJin]

Java was also able to do that. Did it before Adobe Flash did and was supported on more Operating Systems.

[@Rainquack]

@@ItsMeBarnaby I mean, I tried to compress an animation ('Let Your Love Flow' by Tirrel - ~7.02MB) into video. Replacing the crusty audio in the original with a new encode from a FLAC source was easy enough, and that still sounded better than the embedded... 64kbit MP3 probably. But getting the video on par with basically just instructions for your graphics card, (a reach, but kinda comparable to what MIDIs and tracker audio are for sound) without a massive loss in quality alongside an increase in filesize also required me to throw current codecs at the issue that couldn't even dream of existing back then. (A tolerable result needed the honestly fantastic AV1 and OPUS - 280kb/s video and 32kb/s audio resulting in ~7.69MB Imagine

[@bloodrunsclear]

Player: Can I get armor for my horse? Blacksmith: Why would you want something so useless? -Skyrim

[@bikeking8]

BlueMaxima's Flashpoint project has preserved thousands of flash games and cartoons that you can download and play. Credit to Rainquack as they mentioned this previously, but I wanted to make sure it was mentioned again.

[@skyisreallyhigh3333]

As a poor kid growing up, the plethora of free quality flash games was a god send.

[@Swainhammer13]

While the Scalpening was horrible, I will never forget the feeling of scoring a ps5 online at regular price, after months of trying to beat the bots. it was glorious.

[@gameranxTV]

😅👌

[@eric7591]

Same! I had so many alerts set up through Twitter to alert me the minute any retailer got some in. I would then stop whatever I was doing and just frantically try to order one. It actually worked pretty quickly. I felt special. ha

[@alexwalker2582]

3 days with a stock drop watching program (admittedly not programmed by me) allowed me to sneak past the bots for my graphics card. That said I have good internet since I live in the suburbs of a major city so my experience may not apply to a lot of other people.

[@Blackofheart221]

I feel the same too after getting my 3070-TI for MSRP. Felt great at the time.

[@rundown132]

same with a 3080 on release (november 2020),it was nuts

[@mav2553]

These are the most interesting comments I've seen at a gameranx vid. Everyone's stories are so nostalgic. Coming from Atari first and then Nintendo as my first consoles im loving hearing from other peolpe. Its a wonderful thing the internet makes it possible for people like us to gather and discuss such things. We're living the future.

[@Elwaves2925]

Regarding the game industry crash of '83, while the SNES certainly brought consoles back, it's worth pointing out that home computers had taken hold and offered a very viable alternative to the earlier consoles.

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@deathtrooper2048]

Don't you mean NES?

[@mayconlcruz]

Also, another point worth noting is that the Crash of '83 may actually be more accurately named the "American Crash of '83". We must remember that this crisis basically only affected the American game market. In the rest of the world, especially in Europe and Japan, this crash had minimal impact. In fact, what this crash helped above all else was Nintendo to become the leviathan it is today. If this crisis hadn't happened, the games industry, as well as its culture, might not have been so Japan-centric in this period between the late 80's and early 90's.

[@mayconlcruz]

@@deathtrooper2048 Kinda. While you are correct that the NES kept video games from being ostracized in the US, in this period it was marketed as an entertainment centerpiece and as a toy. So you can say that during this period, what helped video games to recover was precisely not being called a video game.

[@danman6669]

@@mayconlcruz If you count SNES, then you should count Sega Genesis, as well. Both systems were neck and neck in popularity.

[@majorgear1021]

You missed when Blizzard announced Diablo Immortal at Blizzcon 2018. That was the worst time to be a PC gamer. Wherever I see Hilary Clinton and gaming in the same sentence, I remember the Hot Coffee controversy around GTA. I forget which GTA game it was.

[@jaquigreenlees]

You missed a huge one, the introduction of active-x and direct-x ( after Sun Microsystems beat Microsoft in a lawsuit over the name Java ) with windows 98. MS could have just used opengl and made gaming far better, instead they kludged together some graphics drivers in their proprietary java implementation called direct x

[@PantsaBear]

Lol and they used to release brand new versions of DirectX like yearly. Now its out for years at a time as the primary method to run games, no matter how flawed a standard that iteration is

[@GamerbyDesign]

Direct x has nothing to do with Java.

[@ObligedUniform]

Xbox one's flop at that conference was legendary for sure. But even more so was Sony's dunk...the next week? Cemented the big L for that entire console gen

[@DanteMasaru]

I've do some nostalgia for the Lizard Squad hack: the coverage behind it, specifically that of Inside Gaming at the time (who were often quite hilarious). Cue guitar riff at the mention of "LIZARD SQUAD" was actually a thing due to, as Falcon notes, it being something of an edgy name. "Horse shit" well-played Falcon, my dude. PSN Hack, wow. I certainly remember counting the days of the duration of that breach repair. Got some games for free as an apology, which was appreciated, but man, it still really stung.

[@juvenoiachild7675]

Here's one, file sizes. People forget that before then, games where only 10-15 GB in size. It was when the release of Titan Fall 1 in 2014 had a massive (at the time) 50GB file size. Alot of people where mad because of internet speeds, only just recently fixed, where pretty slow. So a 10 GB game would take a few hours, maybe overnight. a 50GB game would basically take all day. If I remember, Black Ops 3 followed up with also having a 50 GB file size, and now with all the DLC is like 150 GB. And then Black Ops 4 had a base file size of around 100 GB. The days of small file sizes from AAA games is now far gone.

[@johnray527]

Games have always gotten much bigger over time. Games on the 360 were on DVDs which usually meant they were less than about 6GB. Games on the PS3 were on Blu-Ray and were sometimes much bigger than that (The Last of Us was 30GB as a PS3 game). Of course back in the 80s games were in Kilobytes. Always growing from one generation to the next.

[@EGG_MusicMadness]

That 97% gone must've been a frightening experience for all major gaming companies at the time.

[@pills-]

IIRC, "all major gaming companies" was really just Atari, and they weren't up to par either, so... yeah, that bubble needed popping back then. It sucked, but it was kind of necessary.

[@jazzyj7834]

@@pills- This. There really wasn't that many consoles out back then, and really the only one that had any lasting household brand recognition is Atari. I still chuckle at the running meme that it was E.T. the game that caused the crash. There are actual landfills of that game specifically.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

we need another one

[@fordid42]

@@jazzyj7834 Yeah, it was more than just ET on Atari. There were tons of shitty games being released before that, including Pac-Man, which came before it. People just got sick of the crap... even though some good games were being released, especially by Activision (I know, at one time Activision was awesome LOL).

[@williamyoung9401]

It was more frightening for the gamers. Fortunately, I came into this world enjoying the NES and starting with Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt, but hearing about these horror stories after the release of E.T. for Atari, the entire INDUSTRY could have gone under, and we'd still be going to Dave and Busters for our video game fix.

[@PracticallyInvincible]

My Dad caught me and my brother playing "Splatterhouse 2" on a Sega Genesis in 1992. I was 8 (yeah, getting old), and my brother was 13. He got pissed and took it away. That same night, we discovered Dad going apeshit playing the game. In 1993, when Hillary Clinton and company went on the attack, I remember him yelling "Screw that shit" at the evening news. At that point we (Me, bro, and Dad) were addicts. We played everything. Love you, Old Man.

[@Troublefingaz]

The nostalgia this vid brought back for me. Newgrounds days are long gone. RIP Flash.

[@jshiner9719]

Nice work on this video, guys. I’m 35 and a lot of this takes me back.

[@Mayor_Of_Eureka17]

I thought this was gonna have emotional game beats, I thought of losing Agro in Shadow of the Colossus.....that brutal memory came out for nothing!

[@Elemak501]

We can be thankful that Agro lived. Less brutal that way…

[@CARLGULA]

I have to say the loss of adobe flash & the PSN attack from 2011 affected me the most. Losing adobe flash meant so much content that used to just exist online was simply gone which is just awful. The PSN hack from 2011 sucked so much because I was injured at the time & playing PlayStation was one of the only ways for me to link up with friends. Definitely some rough patches for gaming.

[@Ozzy242]

I remember the Lizard Squad. They made the mistake of going after Blizzard doing the same thing. Let's just say it didn't end well cause the players went after them. I was one of them. Nobody left them alone until LZ got busted.

[@madalice5134]

There was a flash game that I loved when I was a kid, and I can't remember what it was called. It was kind of basic, where you played what my kid brain thought was a cat person, but was probably supposed to be a werewolf. Lol Anyway, you were trapped in a castle and had to fight monsters and try to find a way to escape the castle. Whoever was making it updated it regularly and it was a Rogue like, though I had no idea at the the time. I remember that every Friday, iirc, I would come home from school and go straight to the computer to see what new level was added to this game I adored. I wish I knew the name, even if it's not playable anymore. It's said that so many people's creative work is just gone. When video game history is just wiped out, it's awful.

[@joekerr1607]

The opposite of nostalgia is PTSD. You're welcome

[@redwolf0331]

PTSD is just spicy nostalgia.

[@KainYusanagi]

No, it's called remorse.

[@joekerr1607]

@@redwolf0331 agreed 🤣 just like c4 is spicy/angry playdough and snakes are danger spaghetti

[@BrianHamil]

As someone with PTSD, I can confirm.

[@BrianHamil]

​@@KainYusanagiNo, because remorse would mean you did something you regret.

[@whyjnot420]

As a lifelong resident of Connecticut, I once again apologize for the existence of Joe Lieberman. Just remember, you can't spell Lieberman without LIE.

[@RickyB686]

I know you mentioned PS5 / Xbox shortages - but as a PC gamer it was madness trying to get a 30 series GPU in 2020/21. I was SO happy when I got a 3080 FE for MSRP.

[@Adam-nx9tf]

You forgot when atari(the best console company in the world) stopped production

[@ThouArtOfWar0724]

Best not even close to the best? They're not even top 5

[@danman6669]

@@ThouArtOfWar0724 At one time Atari was the best, so even if the company isn't what it once was, it's still a legendary company because of its role in helping home video gaming to gain popularity, at least until the video game crash, then Nintendo took over, along with Sega soon after.

[@jdonvance]

Every time those senate hearings come up, I can't help but remember how much I love/hate just how clueless the lawmakers and their "advisors" were about the subject matter they were supposed to be passing judgment over. For instance, Night Trap does NOT encourage the player to terrorize the innocent girls who are trying to have a slumber party. The player is in charge of a series of traps designed to PROTECT the girls. SMH (Btw, there's not enough power for all of them to be active at once, so you have to use the CCTV feed to spot intrudersand activate the trap in that room. Think Five Nights at Freddy's in reverse.)

[@jdonvance]

"Of course, I've never PLAYED it..." "-- then why the HELL are we listening to YOU??!"

[@SL2797]

It's a shame you didn't mention Bluemaxima's Flashpoint on number 6. It's a flash preservation project/program which allows you to play thousands of archived flash games.

[@bobbysworld281995]

Gamergate should have been said, too. I credit that moment in time as the biggest reason everything sucked today. Not including the Pandemic of course but literally everything today that sucked, is sparked by Gamergate.

[@joshuaash3149]

I studied the video game crash of 1983 quite a bit when I was in college. It was really interesting. One thing that a lot of people don't know is that a large part of the blame lies with Atari. During the period right before the crash, one of the big problems was that games were all maxing out the storage they had available to them, which was 512K. The classic 7.5" floppy disk was revolutionary for it's time, because it could hold a whole 1.44M. And the developers of the floppy disk tried selling it to Atari first, but the execs felt they were too flimsy, that the public would bend, fold, tear, or otherwise mutilate them and so they passed on the idea. The result of that was that game developers were constrained by the 512K and people grew really tired of games doing nothing new. Ataris's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial was one of the greatest examples of the failure of that formula. After that nightmare, for a while, the only new games you would find were on PC (which, of course, had made use of the floppy drives.) Part of what made Nintendo so successful when it released the NES, was that they had found a way to make cartridges capable of holding more information.

[@Monsuco]

Everyone remembers Atari's misadventures with E.T. but people forget that terrible Pac-Man port that also did a lot of damage to their brand. The 2600 just wasn't as powerful as an arcade machine & it really showed in that port.

[@johnray527]

Dude the original Super Mario Bros on the NES is 40 KILOBYTES. Super Mario World on the SNES, 7 years and two hardware cycles after the crash, is 512k. Maybe instead of "researching" some hilarious PC-gaming revisionism "in College," talk to some people who lived through it.

[@joshuaash3149]

@@johnray527 Dude, I did live through it. I don't know what revisions you think college is making. I'm not saying it was all Atari's fault, but a good deal of it was. Atari was pushing out tons of games with no quality. Mattel's Intellivision had fewer games, but a higher ratio of good games to bad. But even with both of those consoles, and the Commodore 64 and Colecovision, games were not pushing any envelopes. Everything that could be done, had been, at least in the eyes of the consumers.

[@SilverSpectre266]

#10. Trauma? Is that what hes referring to with the opposite of nostalgia? #9. I wasnt surprised Microsoft went in that direction with the X1 launch, mostly because of the marketing from Kinect still existing. I remember when Kinect was still Project Natal and the big marketing promises they made, and a lot of people I knew were hype over the possibilities. Like your Xbox activating when from standby to on just from you walking in the room or using voice activation. So it kinda struck me as a little odd when people were so against it then, but not when this was still in the process during the 360 era. I mean, how would you expect the system to do stuff like that when its no on in some capacity like in a standby state. What really confused me was that some of the people who I knew hated it ended up getting Alexa when that released. And Ive seen those people use that to turn their entire home into a computer. Turning on the lights, changing the color of the lights, always asking random questions out of nowhere. The thing is obviously always on, so what was the big difference in that you could trust Amazon but not Microsoft. #8. I really miss Flash because that really was an amazing time. So many free browser games you would find on random sites. So many hidden gems dotted around the internet. Now not only does that not really happen anymore, but most popular commercial sites like Cartoon Network, Disney, Nick, etc. dont even have that many games on them anymore like they used to. Whats even worse is that I feel like the end of Flash, also brought about the end of single purchase products from Adobe. Now you cant just buy their products with the choice of upgrading. You have to pay monthly or yearly for some absurd subscription fee. Also...Apple? Apple of all people wants to complain about "closed nature" when its platform is literally the definition of being closed. All of Apples stuff run off their own custom made OS, and there are so many software products designed for Apple that you cannot get anywhere else. Apple really had their head up their ass with that one. #6. NFTS always confused me in gaming. Like why? Video games have always had super rare items and 2nd hand markets where people paid ludicrous amount of real world money for them. CSGO and Team Fortress being a big examples. Why did you need to add a whole other complicated layer on top. Plus, Ubisoft already had its rewards system where you earned stuff in games for playing other Ubisoft games, so Im not sure why they thought they needed to go that extra mile. There infrastructure systems as is can barely hold on, but they wanted to have the ability to transfer whole items and assets from one game to another seamlessly? That was never going to happen with Quartz.

[@aladin_run5404]

It's so crazy that Flash games aren't a thing anymore. Those were the only games I played during my childhood 😢

[@CHIVALRYALIVE34]

I HAVE BEEN TRYING FOR DECADES TO REMEMBER THE TITLE "NIGHT TRAP"... Thank you! My father bought it to play for himself, and the few scenes that i snuck a peak at while walking by scared totally unsettled me at the rope old age of like, 4?… maybe... you could spring a trap door in a hallway, that stuck with me.😅 But I'm certainly not crazy (because of that).

[@spencerdokes6056]

I still don't consider ps5 "out" until i can walk into walmart/target and pick one up

[@carryeveryday910]

You literally can most places lol. For about a year now every store near me has at least a handful in stock at all times.

[@liloreoinya]

Same day Amazon is currently available. That's good enough for me. 😂

[@101falcon]

We couldn't afford a console so I grew up playing flash games on the family computer. I wanna go back and see how I would feel/react playing those games now but I'll never get the chance. A whole chunk and time period of boundless creativity on the Internet just gone.

[@jimmymurphy898]

This is probably one that most people won't pick but for me the launch of Assassin's Creed Unity has to be up there. It is one of the best ac games imo and it was just so disappointing that it released in the state it did. Could you imagine if they polished that up and released it a year or two later? The entire course of the Assassin's Creed franchise would be different from what it is today and the franchise wouldn't have completely lost its identity. Just a heartbreaking launch of a game that could have brought the series into a really amazing new direction but instead led to its downfall.

[@TidanLikida]

That's probably a lot of games now. They show something amazing, then they just throw the game out as a buggy mess. Then after about a couple of years of patches, it can be a great game. So, why don't they just work on the game for an extra year or two if it's going to take that long to patch the game up to a worthwhile state anyway? You'd save a crap ton of complaints if they were just released when they're ready...unless it takes 15 years to come out and is just complete shit like a certain sequel we all know of by now.

[@whyjnot420]

I never cared about flash games. I didn't hate them or anything, I just had better things to do/play. Losing so many animations when flash died, that hit hard. My friends know me for four things; animation, video games, music and history (in no particular order). So I certainly appreciate the loss of the flash games, all those lost flash animations really hits hard.

[@holstorrsceadus1990]

Adobe flash was dope. There were so many good little games with so many game play mechanics that are now popular developed by random nobodies in their basement.

[@gameranxTV]

👆🏻

[@AleceshSama]

If someone could help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm trying to remember an old Flash game I used to play that got vaporized when they shut it down. You were asked questions at the start like "what time of year were you born" and "what profession was your mother and father (like warriors or merchants)" and then when your character is like 8 their village gets destroyed and you become an orphan. You then spent the next 10 in game years working, training, going to school and fighting in dungeons to try and be as strong as possible by the end of the game. I loved Flash games and this was my favorite so if anyone has played that game and remembers it PLEASE help. I love gameranx and everything they do

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

The 1993 thing I remember even though I was only 9. My whole elementary school was talking about it. It was insane even to little kids. Actually, especially to kids. Those crazy parents weren’t thinking of us. They were thinking of their own selfish fragile selves.

[@cattysplat]

On the flip side a form of graphical media that is interactive that didn't have any kind of ratings board seems kind of crazy. You could sell porn games and kids games side by side on the same shelf if you so chose. This was also when games were primarily sold to kids. Sometimes you need a moral panic to point out the obvious.

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

@@cattysplat there’s Hentai games right next Animal Crossing in the Steam store lol a kid with his moms credit card info could see everything those little letters on the game, most parents don’t look at, are supposed to prevent them from seeing. The rating system isn’t doing much. But yes, the illusion of caring with a letter rating system helps people ignore the actual problem that parents don’t actually parent their children.

[@crh18]

it's repeating itself again today, with these phony senate hearings, tiktok 'spying' when facebook is happily selling data readily to any buyer

[@YsnBam]

Love when you present Falcon but at 5:49 you’ve mistaken “Happy Wheels “ for a toy company, other than that always a solid video.

[@LyricMMX]

The opposite of Nostalgia is PTSD

[@Frost4Real]

Interesting video, I knew about most of these, but I'm interested in learning more about especially the top 2. I'm so glad that 1983 crash didnt destroy video games before I was even born too 😅

[@bunnybunhop]

Im so agree with adobe flash... Man I miss those time 😢

[@gameranxTV]

🤝😔

[@rulsis]

Back around 93 I remember my brother and I hid a copy of Mortal Kombat for the Genesis in the sock drawer and would secretly pull it out to play when our parents were asleep or away. Of course we always made sure to enter the blood code.

[@hanginwithyourbuds6240]

The creation of the bouncer for Ps2. A bit of my soul died that day 😂😂😂

[@rvladimiro]

I got into game development because of Flash games. We're in a different world now and it's possible to create a mobile or web game but it's a lot harder to get a game out there. I remember doing a nice game and getting a million plays and getting feedback from players. I'm still in game development and with a good career and it all started with Flash games but the proximity and accessability is not even close, pun absolutely intended. Thank you for bringing that up. I appreciate it immensely.

[@paradsecar]

I want to give an honorable mention to 2008’s Mass Effect sex debate on Fox News. For those who remember this witch hunt, Cooper Lawrence basically called ME a “sex simulator”, not because of her own experience with the game, but because someone else told her it was “like pornography”. This, of course, led to a massive backlash from gamers, which resulted in them review bombing her book on Amazon. Sound familiar? Most of this ignorance on top of ignorance is pretty common now, but it was fairly groundbreaking back in ‘08.

[@memandylov]

Man the flash games 😭😭 I didn't have a lot of access to gaming as a kid and flash games were my best opportunity to game so losing those and never being able to go back to them for nostalgias sake hurts

[@wolfinthesno]

This video just showed me why I stick to gameranx for my gaming news. This is such a perfect list I can't really think of any thing that you missed. I was surprised you chose the Horse Armor DLC over Microtransactions as a whole. But I was so glad to see that you chose to do that. It is such an egregious example money grubbing. I bought every single DLC for Oblivion, but the hoarse armor. I wanted to buy it just to "have everything" but I am glad that I didn't. Later on in life when I moved to the PC and re-purchased it I was actually kind of bummed that I had to have it in my game, because it left such a bad taste in my mouth. Also I think that if that armor pack had come out even just a year earlier in my life, I probably would have bought it no questions asked...just because when it came out I saw it and was like hell yeah more dlc, all the other dlc's have been amazing! Then I read the description, and kind of did a double take. Then realized nah no 100% I do not need that.

[@dragonrider4253]

The one thing that genuinely makes me cry at night is when flash player got axed. 12/31/2019 at 11:59 PM. As soon as the clock rolled over to 2020, millions of interactive indie games disappeared. Poof, gone. Most of them were sitelocked so you couldn't even just find the SWF file and play it locally. A HUGE piece of internet history, gone in seconds.

[@chimpanzzzgamer]

I had no idea video game business went down 97% oh my god, thank you Nintendo!

[@gameranxTV]

Nintendo 🐐

[@BrandonRalstonUSA]

Didn’t know it was that bad until watching this video. Holy smokes!

[@thewiccanassassin]

I got my PC back in October 2019 a decent time before the Scalper and Chip Shortage issues.

[@BSparksGaming]

Can we include when Zelda’s Anniversary was pooped on & we didn’t get Twilight Princess & Windwaker for Switch 😭🤷‍♂️

[@somekindofbirdman6524]

No windwaker on switch really is a tragedy

[@BSparksGaming]

@@somekindofbirdman6524 at least I’m not alone on this 🤣

[@drakertrns]

I remember the crash of 1983. There was just so much garbage out there, a lot of it borderline unplayable. I think around that time we had the Commodore 64 as backup, until the NES came around. Interesting observation is how Nintendo showed the actual game sprites on their earlier game paks (they called them that), as opposed to the old Atari way of having box art that looking nothing like the game. And to end with some trivia... Atari had the chance to purchase Nintendo at one point, and decided not to.

[@hardwire666too]

Flash is what got me into programing because of its interafece in the late 90's. No nothing has ever replaced it, and it kills me.

[@danieln6700]

Man the Era of flash games was so cool. Most younger people have no idea of it. It was a crazy creative time.

[@motomoto1297]

Lmao Xbox was so bad when the Xbox one dropped🤣🤣

[@rometherevenant8749]

Another solid dose of Gameranx to start the day right.

[@againstalltyrants9001]

One thing I don't see people talk about much but infuriated me is ~ps3 Era a bunch of games would come with a code to access online play, and if you had got the game secondhand. You had to pay $5-$10 to be able to access online play. Thankfully it didn't last long but I remember specifically dirt 2 or 3 doing it, but there were others.

[@mistermann4163]

I remember the PS hacks. Bummed out when I was young that I couldn't use the online feature but they did give us a choice of 2 games from a list for free after they fixed the network as a apology. Since me and my brother had accounts on the same console we got 4 free games to play. A nice and worthwhile gesture to this day since they are still on my PS3 for me to play whenever.

[@RealLaone]

That incident on Steam where you can got hacked by opening someone else's profile was also crazy.

[@jessirarara]

Ugh you made me wanna cry thinking of Adobe Flash. I miss so many games of my childhood. A big one being the Crimson Room and the following games. From what I can tell you can't find the 3rd or 4th games anywhere. And that's only one example. I miss flash games so much.

[@stevek4070]

I wonder what the world would be like if the 83 crash ended gaming and it just never became a thing or even just a muted hobby in society.

[@frederickbradley8255]

Honestly this is not what i expected. I thought it was going to be actual game moments. Still enjoyed it. I originally clicked to see where Joel dying in Last of Us part 2 was on the list.

[@gerhard7323]

'NFTs...non-fungible tokens...tokens you cannot funge' Falcon gold 🥇 right there😊

[@dacypher22]

I was a Flash developer and today am primarily an HTML5/Javascript developer. I can say that it isn't HTML5 that is the reason why you don't see an ecosystem of games like you saw for Flash in browsers back in the day. HTML5/JS/WebGL, today, can do basically everything those games did. In some cases even more. So why don't we see it anymore? The major reason is really mobile devices. Today the majority of people are accessing the Web on their phone, so if they want to play a game on it, there are already millions of games in their phone's app store. And developers have more direct access to the hardware and can do more by targeting the phone rather than developing for the browser to be played on the phone. Also, Flash was just the best distribution platform for smaller indie and hobbyist devs back then. No one wanted to install sketchy executables from the Web, but they felt fairly safe running Flash content (even though a lot of times they probably shouldn't have). Consoles were locked up tight for hobbyists. All of these things have changed now. The browser is just not the platform of choice for game devs anymore.

[@thejackal007]

16:17 And Falcon whips out Delayclose.jpg! Thanks for the memory trip, friend bird.

[@kurisu7885]

I still remember someone from that hacker group claiming they did it so families would spend time together. Bullcrap. All it did was piss people off and screw over people who were looking to game either by themselves or with their families.

[@bobtom1495]

With the PS5, I managed to get one and a Series X in 2021 within two months of each other without having to pay a scalper. I even got $40 off the PS5. And as far as flash goes, it's sad. But there is Flashpoint where a lot of the flash games are saved. So there's that. And the digital only games on 3DS and Wii U aren't gone if you mod it...

[@dschlie6669]

great video, that 'opposite of nostalgia' comment hit so hard

[@JasonL77]

The PSN outage of 2011. Now that was a bad time for me. I’ve never been a big online gamer, so I wasn’t affected by the lack of multiplayer games, but EVERYTHING on PSN was down. Even Netflix couldn’t be accessed and that was a time I had finally jumped on that bandwagon. Plus if I wanted to buy some DLC for a game, I was totally SOL.

[@Mikanojo]

There is no question at all that ancient games like Mortal Combat were NOT nearly as realistic as games are now in 2023. What we can say is that back in the 1990s, Mortal Combat was certainly one of the most realistic games available, and Night Trap was literally video with live actors, More real than the best graphics we have now. i agree with the rating system, though it could use a bit more... finesse?

[@DvSDiabloHR]

I'd argue horse armor as Number 1. It opened the flood gates to the current micro-transaction hell we're all in.

[@gameranxTV]

Yep

[@southcoastinventors6583]

Blame the people that buy them and continue to buy them on mobile, consoles and PC. Companies goal is to make money besides there are so many games now even if they stopped making now it would be years before people would make it through their back catalogue.

[@danamoore1788]

You seriously believe that a cheap, and yes $2.50 is cheap, optional purchase that does not affect anyone but the buyer's experience is the worst thing to happen in video game history. Above and beyond a bunch of people shutting down thousands of people's ability to play games or stealing personal information that could rob those people of their income and identities? I mean I get it, people are salty on the horse armor. But it is a harmless purchase for one person. It is not Loot boxes, it is not the marketing driven launch of Cyberpunk 2077.

[@techlorknight338]

​@Dana Moore you can't be serious. The horse armor thing opened up the possibility of people spending money for cosmetics.... aka loot boxes. Like holy hell how do you not understand that.

[@danamoore1788]

@@techlorknight338 Because you are comparing going to a store to going to a casino. I go to a store and see something I might like to wear. If I like the price I pay that fixed price. Loot boxes are put money into a slot machine and see if anything worth a damn comes out the other end. Walmart is not a casino. Walmart did not cause casinos. It is a faulty premise to say an actual sale of a fixed product caused gambling.

[@seansean7814]

Apple criticizing Adobe "for the closed nature of the flash platform" is the epitome of ironic.

[@Un_Popular_Opinions]

Idk, man. I'd consider the Sony PS3 reveal up here, too. That whole reveal was terrible. Took Sony several years to come back from that (which they did do with the PS4). 599 US dollars. RIIIIIIIIIIDGE RACER! Hit the weak point. For massive damage. Also that PSN hack that lasted like 2-3 weeks happened because Sony decided that protecting their own data was far more important than protecting ours. And then they offered one of some crap 2 year old games as an apology. If you downloaded one, you were giving up your right to sue them or join in on a class action lawsuit. Sony has some sketchy af business practices. Still happens today. It's why I will never put my CC or real personal information onto a Sony console ever again. Prepaid cards or nothing.