How I Got A Sega Genesis in 1991 | THEY STOLE MY NINTENDO! - My Retro Life

The story of how I got my first SEGA Genesis in the Summer of 1991 is also the story of how burglars broke into my childhood home and stole my NES. In this video, I detail that fateful day.
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How I Got A Sega Genesis in 1991 | THEY STOLE MY NINTENDO! - My Retro Life
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[@MyRetroLife]

Hey guys! Hope you enjoyed the story of how I got my SEGA Genesis. Did someone steal your video game console or games before? Let me know! Thanks for watching.

[@pieluvr7362]

My children had their 3rd wii stolen few years back

[@MyRetroLife]

Ugh that’s so lame

[@secretysecret1551]

Thumbs up for the Castlevania IV soundtrack

[@dr.gamebender]

Too bad Darkwing Duck hadn't debuted yet.

[@NintenDub]

No. I'd never have stood for that. I had games not returned and threats were made. You didnt fk with my games

[@ShinobiWan1]

A similar thing happened to me. Some burglars broke into our home back in 1995 and stole a lot of our stuff. Among other things, they took our VCR and all of our VHS tapes, and all but one of our Sega Genesis games. This was really devastating to me as a kid, because the games belonged to my brother, who was in a fatal car accident just a bit before that. Luckily, they left the console, and Sonic 1 (I'm guessing because it had a NOT FOR RESALE label). The console has a sticker on the bottom that my brother put there with his name written on it, so I'm super glad they left it. But I've been obsessed with collecting Sega games ever since. It's silly, but I deep down I wanted to make sure that it would all be there in case he ever came back.

[@MyRetroLife]

Sorry for your loss and for the memories surrounding all of that. I’m sure it helped shape who you have become :-)

[@bubbles4630]

Very touching story man, I wish you the best 👍

[@ShinobiWan1]

Thank you for the kind words. It's awesome to belong to a community like this!

[@deezy81]

@@ShinobiWan1 🤗

[@JollyGiant1213]

My condolences my very fellow human being😊

[@Flanman113]

Thieves are some of the worst type of criminals, because of the premeditated nature of it. Those creeps were probably watching your family until they found a moment to break in. Sorry that happened to you and your family.

[@dougr8646]

Dude that's racist

[@bdillmore40]

That's a great story! It started out bad, and ended on a positive note! I'm glad neither you, nor your parents were harmed. That really sucks that it even happened. I have to commend your Dad for being a great father in wanting to make you feel better. He would've bought you a brand new NES, but also offered to buy you a Sega Genesis. The way it worked out, I can tell you couldn't be happier. That Sega Genesis meant a lot to both you, and your Dad. I love how you two bonded over it! Great story, and great video as always! Oh, in all my years of collecting video games I've never had anything stolen from me. I have let my friends borrow certain games they want to play, but I always get the games back. They're trustworthy people, so I don't mind doing that. Whenever I would let my friends borrow games, I would say this to them "I have no problem letting you borrow the game, just as long as I get it back in the same condition I gave it to you. If you break my game, then you're buying me a new copy of it, or giving me what it's worth." As long as they were ok with that and understood that, I let they borrow my games. I never had any problems doing that.

[@MyRetroLife]

Appreciate the comment man!

[@TonyTyga90]

I know the feeling. When I moved from NYC to Charlotte, i got my Dreamcast stolen by the movers. Broke my heart and I then joined marching band. I was devastated.

[@MyRetroLife]

So sorry that happened! Dreamcast theft 😡

[@cousinjimmydean4233]

I love u tyler dont u ever forget that

[@MyRetroLife]

Right back at ya Jimmy ❤️

[@SoldierZ3R0]

Good one bimmy.

[@mickey2ky]

The fact.. out of all they had taken.. they were more concerned about you.. there child and progressing your happiness.. My grandpa would get me almost any game I wanted it felt like.. but they didn’t have the love y’all shared.. a lot of bad stuff.. I escaped in my n64 .. my ps1 .. onto console war after console war I escaped .. I almost cried at the thought. Touching dude..

[@srod6396]

When I was 9 I had shadowman on n64 and one day it just dissapeared I looked for it everwhere in the house and never found it.

[@TylerMusicBoi]

A few years ago, my cousin who’s also an addict stole most of my Nintendo systems (NES, SNES and N64) and games during one of his binges. I have yet to replace them all but it was quite a gutting feeling knowing that a big piece of my childhood was gone. At the same time, though, I was relieved he didn’t take my Sega Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast. Those were my faves. But I did love those Nintendo systems a lot. I’m glad your story had such a happy ending though!

[@ravajbains8672]

I remember when my house got robbed when I was a kid and the police coming, I remember them taking the VHS and so I couldn't watch my videos... I was devastated lol simple times but I was just a kid and my folks never bought me a console then

[@brucesi]

Never had anything stolen like that but almost! I lived on the Coast Guard base in Hawaii as a kid and nobody is there for long. I remember this kid Sid who had borrowed a few NES games from me. It had been a couple of weeks, so one Saturday morning I walked to the other end of the base to get my games back and a moving truck was being loaded up in front of his house. I talked to his dad about my games and he takes me upstairs and starts interrogating his son. "Sid, do you have this boy's Nintendo games???" Sure enough he had them and sure enough they were all boxed up. His dad had to unpack a box or two and dig them out for me. A day later and I probably would have lost them all. I really don't even remember much at all about that kid other than that incident 😂

[@Metsfan7232]

I had original PSP stolen from my locker at work. Around 12 years later had PS3, X360 and Wii all kind of stolen (long story) by landlord. What bothered (and still does to extent) me most was losing irreplaceable save data….cloud saves were either not or little much of a thing then.

[@verygreedy100]

Great job matching up the music to the tone of the video...Cv 4...Ninja Gaiden...loved it.

[@XpRnz]

I had this happen to me when i was a bit older, my imported japanese Gamecube with about 10 games and even worse.. the memory cards with all my saves.. Gone! That sucked big time.

[@IgoByaGo]

I was a Sega kid. My best friend had a Genesis and he would always bring it over. I wanted one so bad, but we got what my older brother wanted, so we had an NES and Super Nintendo. Christmas of 1994 we got a Model 2 Genesis for Christmas and I was so excited (I already had a few Genesis games that I would take over to my friends Thomas and David's houses who had the Genesis). Well the first day back to school after Christmas and New Years break, someone broke into our house and stole our Genesis (they didn't see our Super Nintendo because my brother always hid it from us so we couldn't play unless he gave us permission) and all but one of our Sega games. Shaq Fu. Everyone always would talk about how bad the game was and I would say "Yeah it is so bad that when they broke into our house, it was the only Genesis game they didn't take." But, I loved that game and it was always special to me because they left it. Well my neighbor caught them and called the police, so most of our valuables were in pillow cases in our back yard, but they got away with the Genesis and games for it. Six months later, insurance finally paid out so my dad took us to the store to get a Genesis, but here is the kicker, the CDX had been out and wasn't selling, so Toys R Us had it on clearance and that is what we got. We also got a ton of CD games that were $10 or less, one of which was Lunar Silver Star Story and Final Fight CD. I was able to later get Sonic CD and it came with a collection that had Sonic 1 on it, but I never got back Sonic 2, 3, or Sonic and Knuckles on the Genesis.

[@ericgutierrez4289]

In 2019 when I went to Colombia for summer vacation, I had to stay at a relative’s apartment and one night when I was sleeping someone snuck in the apartment and stole my Nintendo Switch and IPhone, I was devastated in the rest of my vacation and had to wait when I came back so my parents could get me a new phone and waited for layaway to start for my Nintendo Switch.

[@friendlyninja5048]

I was a young adult by then, but I had my Xbox 360 and all games stolen in 2013 (the one I had gotten as a gift for graduating high school the previous year), along with other things of value. I was actually still in the house at the time, I had just decided to sleep in that morning. I walked downstairs to notice the TV was missing, I ran back upstairs to see no Xbox its usual spot. By the time they caught the person, they had already sold the stuff. My heart sank. I ended up getting a new console for Christmas the following month, but that was the first time I ever had to deal with something like that. Though one of the games they stole was Sonic '06, so can at least laugh about that 😂😅

[@raffyvalky4527]

OMG that's interesting! Did you guys end up getting the NES later on? Personally I would've chosen the NES, but I know it must've been magical to get the sega genesis. Oh also, will you be doing any Zelda and Final Fantasy videos? I see them referenced in the videos time to time.

[@MyRetroLife]

We did eventually get the model 2 Top Loader in 94!

[@raffyvalky4527]

@@MyRetroLife Ah ok! Oh and one more question, did you keep your NES games those years you didn't have the NES?

[@gozzaclark9416]

Awesome story and a very lucky kid you were! If this had happened to me, my parents would have just said bad luck.

[@rowtow13]

When I was 7 or 8, my Game Boy got stolen out of my backpack on the last day of school. They got all of my games. My birthday was like a week later and I think it broke my mom's heart to give me Darkwing Duck for Game Boy, knowing my Game Boy was gone. It's been 30 years and if I found out who did it today I would probably still beat the shit out of them.

[@messngretz]

I love your videos...one of the best things about them? Your intro - "WATCH IT BUDDY!" You were a very cute kid!

[@MyRetroLife]

Haha glad you like them! I love that line too 😊

[@MultiCrustie]

Oh man, I can totally relate to this. It's so heartbreaking when your house gets broken into and having your most loved belongings get stolen. When I was a kid in the 3rd grade my Nintendo Gamecube was stolen along with my brother and I's Gameboy Advance Sps as well as some of our parents belongings. That's when those were brand new too and I was all over that Gamecube everyday Lol

[@MyRetroLife]

Sorry that happened to you! I am amazed at how many have commented saying this sort of thing happened to them too

[@danmorley6517]

Shit, I thought your brother had been stolen when I first read that.

[@austinpatton96]

recently my ps vita and games were stolen by a family member because they are the only ones that have been over lately and it really hurts but i've been thinking that i can't stay mad about it because you can get the stuff back but you can't put a price on family

[@MyRetroLife]

You’re 💯right about that!

[@albdamned577]

This happened to my Dreamcast. Worse part was when I got a a new one it was on my bday, January 30th 2001, ie literal day before discontinued…

[@sega8bit]

One of my biggest fears has always been getting burgled, and it happened a few years ago. They stole my car off the drive and my watches. Luckily they didn't get the important stuff like my games 😂

[@MyRetroLife]

So sorry this happened to you man

[@rolandbaron5813]

Had my N64 stolen. I had loaned it to a friend, and he turned around he loaned it to someone he thought he could trust. Never got it back.

[@laos85]

I love how he being nice to the Bulgar from the video but the judge and law will unfortunately jailed him for life. Welcome to the US

[@borndorian92]

Thanks man

[@hollinsd]

I thought i paid $150 for my Genesis in 1991, but maybe it was $250.

[@dega11235]

Not really a game system but something that i used like crazy my grandma went to a parade n some yayhoos snuck into my grandmas car n stole my wheelchair

[@jp400shortsandanimation9]

Did you plug your NES back

[@IllmatikRebelTV]

Wow. Toys R Us memories 😁

[@Larry]

Thieves who steal from kids are the absolute scum of the earth. Had some break into my shed once, but I'm such a messy collector it would have taken them hours to go through it all, but they stole my brother's monkey bike that were about to get rid of as it had an incredibly dangerous pull cord to it, so we found out who nicked it as they lost two fingers trying to get it to run (not a joke)

[@vhsorion]

The thieves got what they fucking deserve.

[@Phatgameboy]

We need a video Larry I’d love to hear this story

[@hman962]

what is a monkey bike?

[@jajabinx35]

Larry, make a video about this.

[@Larry]

@@hman962 really tiny motorbike, the size that would fit a monkey. My brother stopped using it as the chainpull was incredibly short and dangerous on it, he had to wear three pairs of gloves to start it, the thief obvously didn't know that. Also, he stole from someone else and got stabbed in the eye in retaliation.

[@fordxbgtfalcon]

Omg, sad story with a great ending. But on a positive note, your aunt Sharon is absolutely beautiful.

[@Riz2336]

In fact the exact same thing happened to me as a kid. These guys my brother knew saw he had a playstation I don't think they knew I had a N64 but nonetheless they broke into my brothers room to get his system (smashed the window) then checked out my room and grabbed the N64. So yeah I was pretty bummed I know how it feels man. Eventually I got a replacement system but I had to wait a while

[@MyRetroLife]

It really sucks - I had a feeling others could relate to video game theft

[@srdiaz1989]

Great storytelling. Your dad is awesome even before this event. He felt your pain and immediately wanted to make it go away. Thats an awesome father. So it seems sometimes something bad is a blessing in disguise great video

[@MyRetroLife]

Really appreciate this comment ❤️

[@srdiaz1989]

@@MyRetroLife np homie. Your channel has made me happy whenever I'm down. Love your joy for games and enthusiasm it shines through you in your videos.

[@ryanclose5906]

I had a similar situation happen when i was a kid. Our garden shed got broken into and my bike was stolen. With the insurance money my dad got me the mega drive instead of a new bike. Great memories. Still have that mega drive to this day

[@MyRetroLife]

Thanks for sharing that Ryan! Yes - always fun to look back and see the good that comes out of even a bad situation

[@NintenDub]

That's a blessing.who needed a bike when you got the megagenesis

[@GoodVibeCollecting]

Proof that Super Castlevania IV music goes well with everything.

[@MyRetroLife]

One of my absolute favorite soundtracks

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Yes it does

[@stace_9]

It goes perfectly with this story somehow 😂

[@TronApostle]

I remember in a psych class I took in college my professor said we remember traumatic memories the most due to how often we replay them in our minds over and over again. Crazy how well you remember this story even down to the David the gnome details.

[@patrickdiggins85]

I had my PS2 and all my games stolen when I was 22 back in 2002 when my house was broken into and robbed. It was the first time I had ever been part of a burglary. Oddly enough as bummed as I was, I was just happy that nobody was injured (I lived with a couple of friends at the time). I am just happy that I was older when this event happened, as it allowed for a more reasonable response. I didn't have a lot of money at the time but in 2007 I was able to eventually replace my PS2.

[@MyRetroLife]

Yes health and safety of friends and loved ones always over material things

[@Zepp2922]

Still think about my green ranger flute that was stolen when i was a kid.. it hits different when your a kid 😔

[@marcrisa6352]

I just had cousins with sticky fingers and friends that would "borrow" games i never saw again...

[@MyRetroLife]

Yep - that happened a lot back in the day didn’t it?

[@marcrisa6352]

@@MyRetroLife So so much i had so many games just magically be gone, and i knew who it was even though said person would deny it XD

[@danmorley6517]

We had a burglary and my Atari 2600 was stolen, we got a Sega master system with the insurance money, it was truly a great day.

[@meatballmeatwad5730]

Those burglars who stole your nes were like a diploma to graduate from the 8 bit generation with the nes to the new 16 generation with the Sega genesis.

[@MyRetroLife]

Absolutely!

[@violetaquintanilla3482]

I feel you 😭 my house was robed two, we were held on gunpoint wile the guys went around the house taking everything they could. They toke my 3ds and all my games. It was pretty painfull, not really because of my games, but because I came to the realization that my parents worked so hard to get all those things and they were gone so fast... I learned to apreciate things more and the hard work that goes behing buying them, and I learned to apreciate my family more, because everything can be taken away from you, but family will always stay.

[@MyRetroLife]

That’s horrifying! Yes, it does make you appreciate life more... so sorry you have this memory

[@west-texas9806]

I'm sorry that you had to go through all that it must have been very painful. I'm glad you and your parents made it out okay.

[@pieluvr7362]

It was bowser who stole it

[@MyRetroLife]

I knew it all along

[@pieluvr7362]

@@MyRetroLife especially with Super Mario 2 in it

[@fista1331]

Funny you had your NES stolen because I had my Sega Genesis stolen as a kid. My older sisters liked to throw parties when my parents were away.. they would bribe me not to say anything ..BUT they always got caught anyways. Well this one time the party started getting out of control.. my sisters were in high school and college kids started showing up. Next morning there was furniture in the pool and my Sega Genesis was gone. I was devastated.. but all was not lost.. my parents bought me a new Sega Genesis and games with my sisters’ savings account.

[@mattymatt022000]

This video is old now but I just found your channel about a month ago. I had just moved into my 1st apartment. I was about 19 or 20 yo (I'm 38 now) I had saved for the xbox 360 all summer and preordered it in June. Payed it off slowly throughout the summer. Well I finally got it around December. It was sold out and I had to wait a few weeks. I had gotten it with perfect dark zero! (Love that game btw) so I moved to my 1st apartment not long after. Maybe April. I had acquired kameo, fight night 3 and Gun. Perfect dark as well obviously. Someone came in and took my pillow case and stole everything for my xbox 360 (games, hdd, console, controllers, headset and either net cable. I was so devastated. I came from a poor family so this was a huge blow. I ended up thinking I wanted a Wii. It was being shown off through ads. I ended up saving just like I did originally and got the core xbox 360 with perfect dark again. The pain is real. Sad thing is that someone you knew probably did the crime 😢

[@BryanX64]

Great story Tyler! I remember walking home from school, my junior year in college. On the 15 minute walk from the bus stop to my house, right in the 'hood at like 8:30 PM in November so it's super dark, there's a bridge spanning a small bayou and as soon as I crossed over, I was jumped and everything was taken from me! Including a necklace my grandmother (who now has dementia) gave me, and my Nintendo 3DS with a copy of Kirby's Triple Deluxe. It was a very traumatizing experience, but out of it I finally ended up getting a car so to not take the bus anymore, and later for Christmas the recently-released New Nintendo 3DS XL which I still have to this day!

[@MyRetroLife]

Man Bryan so sorry that happened to you but glad good things came out of it

[@BryanX64]

@@MyRetroLife For sure it was rough when it happened but like with your situation it ended up working out in the end!

[@B727X]

Typical behavior of them

[@deezy81]

@@B727X Who?

[@kellysimporta]

Hello I will take the oportunity to vent, sorry for the incredibly long text. It's 1999, the worst year of my life, even worst than 2020, because in October of that year my mom died, but lets go back to February, I was on my early twenties and didn't have a job at the time, still living with my mom and grandma, they were both retired and had to cash in their monthly check, so I went along with them, even though they were still perfectly capable of going on their own. After an hour or so, we returned home (we used to live in a small building in the corner of a very large street in Mexico City) we get out of the elevator and I proceed to open the door only to find out the main lock was already open, "I forgot to lock it up" I thought. As I enter I feel something is wrong (where is my dog?) I looked down the hallway into my bedroom and something looks different, I don't see my 36 inch TV, and remember, this is 99, so that is a very large, very heavy CRT TV. My mind races towards tragedy and imagines a broken TV on the floor, dog crushed beneath it because somehow she managed to make it fall, but as I enter the bedroom I notice there is no TV anywhere and no dog (where is my dog?) the room is in a state of disarray, even worst than usual and the TV is not the only thing missing, there is no Stereo (it was an entry level Dolby digital by Sharp, recommended by EGM) no VCR, some consoles missing too, at this point realization kicks in like a tsunami and I yell: "NOS ROBARON" (we got robbed) repeatedly. My mom and grandma are just entering and the door is still open so my screams can be heard by the neighbors My mind is overcome by anger and frustration and fear, I hear the dog inside the bathroom, I go there in a rush and there she is, completely unharmed, thank god, being a husky she probably greeted the burglars in a friendly manner, that probably saved her from being hurt or worst, I check twice, thrice, she has no injuries at all. What they stole: The huge TV from my room, a couple of VCRs, a small 14 inch TV from the living room, the Stereo minus the wall speakers, all of my music CDs, 50 or so, most of my mom's "jewelry" which was mostly cheap knock offs, only a ring with a tiny ruby and a broach with a tiny sapphire were the real losses. The videogame stuff: They took my N64 with Mario inserted on the console, my Playstation, Sega Genesis model 1 with Sega CD model 1 and 32X, a Nomad I kept next to my bed in a bag with seven or eight loose Genesis cartridges, all of my Playstation games which were around 25 at the time, including a japanese Soul Edge and some games that now are quite valuable like Klonoa and Castlevania SOTN. But the remarkable thing is what they DIDN'T stole, they left my SNES and all of it's games, they were 15 or so and among them was Dracula X which nowadays is quite expensive, besides Mario, they didn't took any of the other 4 games for the N64, aside from the loose cartridges with the Nomad, they didn't took any other Genesis games, I had around 50 at the time, they left behind all of the Saturn games, almost 40, and all of the Sega CD games (24) including Snatcher, Popful Mail and both Lunars, and the icing on the cake: THEY DIDN'T STOLE MY SATURN. I can almost hear them say: "nobody wants those, it's not worth the effort". I can only conclude, that they were very keen on stealing the large TV and they were in a hurry, otherwise they would have taken more stuff, or maybe the Sega games looked like books to them or something. The aftermath: While I was closing the apartment door, right after finding my dog I heard one of the neighbors calling the Police, but they never arrived and I didn't want to call them, I knew that even if they catched the thieves, you almost never get your things back in these cases. When sunday arrived I went to my local videogame shop, the owner was my friend and after hearing my story gave me a great deal of credit so I could start buying again my stuff, most of it now used instead of new, but I was not complaining, even if I now my Genesis and Sega CD were both model 2 units, with time and a new job and of course credit, I was able to buy almost everyting again before tragedy stroke in October with my mom dying of a heart attack and my grandma following in April of 2000, during those awful times, one of the things that helped me go through it all was my brand new Dreamcast which I had bought at launch, but that is another story. The things I never got back: The japanese Soul Edge, Virtua Fighter 2 for the Genesis and Street Fighter EX for the Playstation, mainly because they weren't that easy to find and I wasn't that much interested in getting them back, luckily I did bought again both Klonoa and Castlevania SOTN (now used but in great condition) for about $20 USD each. If someone read all the way here, thank you.

[@PixelGameSquad]

Brooooo! We had a house burglary and had our SNES stolen. We were broke tho so we got nothing in return 🤣

[@andysanchez1215]

That happened to our family back in 1999.When I was 5 years old my mom was at grocery store and my dad was at work.My grandma was visiting from Mexico and my grandma took me and my sister to the park down the street.I guess one guy broke the window 🪟 and stole our TV and the VCR with some VHS tapes📼 I was thankful my Nintendo 64 games did not get stolen our neighbors heard the burglars breaking in and he called the cops.

[@cousinjimmydean4233]

Tyler man sometimes it be the people the live next door 2 you that would rob ya and it sucks not being able 2 blame no one cuz u just dont know who it was

[@pieluvr7362]

Exactly see everything and hear everything till it's you 🙊🙉🙈

[@cousinjimmydean4233]

@@pieluvr7362 i learned in life that the same matha#\'_÷=%er that stole ur stuff will help u look for it

[@fordxbgtfalcon]

Yep, our neighbor stole our tv and vcr back in the 80’s.

[@brennangamsby6203]

Back in 2010 I left home to live abroad for several years. When Returning home after all those years, I found out my sister had sold my PS3 along with all my games and controllers etc. Sure, I could always buy another PS3 - but it was losing all the my content like pictures and videos on it that really got to me..

[@PPHDocumentaries]

Ghostbusters is the most underrated Genesis game out there. Its also my favorite Genesis game. Love these stories.

[@kevinradigan2688]

It is sad what happened to your NES but that is a really great story about how your parents got you the Genesis and you all turned a bad situation into something great. I didn't get my NES stolen but in the summer of 1993, my sister decided to put lipstick inside of our NES and it stopped working. My family didn't know how to fix it so we threw it out along with our games. That was hard but similar to you, the situation got a lot better because my family got a Super Nintendo and Genesis within the next 6 months. The only thing of mine that I can remember getting stolen that I really liked was a Terminator action figure from Terminator 2 when I brought to school and someone stole it when I wasn't looking. My parents bought me that action figure when I was in kindergarten and I had begged them to buy me it for a long time.

[@keybyss98]

Ugh, home invasions suck so hard. 😞 Glad no one seemed to have gotten physically hurt, at least. Was Maggie at least alright, or did you even have her yet?

[@MyRetroLife]

Maggie was OK! Can’t remember where she was. Dad used to joke that Maggie was so harmless she would serve robbers drinks! 😂

[@keybyss98]

@@MyRetroLife 😂 That’s good, though!

[@colindunham5717]

Wait, @6:00 Sega Genesis for $289? I paid $189 for it back on launch day in 89. Wonder why it was $289 in that Toys r Us ad?

[@MyRetroLife]

Good catch! Not sure. Maybe it was Canadian?

[@fordxbgtfalcon]

@@MyRetroLife Yes, that is what I was kinda thinking. 👍

[@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551]

Did you ever get a new NES for your huge collection of NES games?

[@MyRetroLife]

We sold off the NES games in 1991 to buy Genesis games. Got a Top loader NES in 1994 and began buying back

[@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551]

@@MyRetroLife Awesome! Thanks for your ''My Retro Life'' videos by the way, it's so awesome to retro back to the days of old, it takes me back in thought to my younger days aswell with the NES. It's so awesome to see how genuinely interested and excited both you, your father and the rest of your family is around gaming!

[@juelesvarado]

I was 25 years old. I had a better job (teacher at a college and high school and as a insvestigation agency) and finally bought a ford explorer and a laptop.. somebody stole it outside of a big store... its was a hard moment...

[@GtotheNextLevel]

That was really sad but it's good that the story did wind up having a happy end for your gaming life. I guess you could say that's who your journey with Sega began! Oh and go figure that would be the game to win you over to a Genesis. :P Thanks for sharing, Tyler!

[@MyRetroLife]

Yep - the story began in tragedy :-)

[@nkhazov]

I feel bad for you Tyler. I had my ds lite and Japanese ds stolen in middle school when I was 13 years old. in high school they stole my psp and Dsi when I was 15 years old this happened to me also I did get the stuff back

[@bluegrim4252]

Lol bro you’re dad was YouTubing before it was even a thought in anyone’s mind dang you’re dad was way ahead of his time lol for real though I don’t know you’re pops but I feel like I do and he’s just seems like a easy going likable guy

[@IllmatikRebelTV]

Wow. Amazing. I remember someone stole my Atari 7800. So my grandma got me a Nintendo action set with Super Mario Bros + Duck Hunt. And also the first Dragon Warrior.

[@bubbles4630]

I got my Darth Vader LEGO mini figure stolen and I just remembered being very sad because of that . 👍

[@legolarry6026]

Coincidentally my Nintendo was stolen but it was by my step father and he came in my room while me and my friend were playing it and grabbed it and ripped the wires off the tv because he got into an argument with my mom and he never gave it back. I was extremely upset by that but a year later I got a used sega genesis and I loved it so much and that made me happy again.

[@EAPvideoz]

I'm lucky to have never had any of my systems stolen from me, but I once came close to having my phone and belongings in my bag stolen from me. Luckily I was able to get away without getting injured but it still angers me that people will stoop to this level to get what they want.

[@SonofLynn06]

I was around 6 or 7 it was just a little while after my brother was born and we were moving and we hired movers and they took most of everything we had including my comics and toys that were special to me but I moved on to toys and then I went to video games and your channel has definitely inspired me as a 14 year old kid to celebrate change so I thank you for that.

[@bigkeith41]

I remember when my BMX got stolen it broke my heart ❤️

[@MyRetroLife]

So lame Keith!

[@TERRYFIRMA]

Also.. I lost my turtles action figure back on a beach in the UK in the early 90s. Shredder. I hid him in the sand while playing and could never find him.. I was devastated.. my mum still reminds me of this time.

[@BlamcoTV]

It's hard to make out but I think your dad is waving around two Shinobi titles. Revenge of Shinobi and Shadow Dancer. 7:10

[@bobbyokeefe4285]

Conspiracy Theory,Tyler faked the whole burglary,so he could get a Sega!lol...

[@PatrickRockwell24]

What if, his dad faked the burglary to justify getting another system to his wife. "It's for lil Tyler babe" lmao

[@Two4orty]

Good thing they didn’t steal the camera or the home videos

[@MyRetroLife]

Oh man yes

[@pepe0289]

Yeah on 1997 someone broke into My Home , i was a kid and took My brand new n64, snes and nes. I was blown and sad, My dad got me a new n64, and on a flea market i found My snes with all My games, i recognize it because it had stickers, gladly found My earthbound and Chrono trigger copy with it. Danny Tyler, I love this videos, I feel your family as My own, thank You very much!

[@danielleume5171]

So did you have to buy it again at the flea market???? Or you told them that it was stolen from you?

[@vizionaryentertainment8464]

Same thing happened to me home invasion the crooks stole my PS2 sitting next to the tv. I was about 9 just a bad situation all around. It happened around September/October but remember getting the Gamecube for Christmas that same year as a make up

[@lilmiggs7385]

OMG I haven’t thought of David the gnome in a long time I remember that cartoon wow

[@cybergorilla61101]

He has a great dad i wish i had so much of my childhood filmed👍👍

[@Pupppeteer]

Bloody wet bandits stole a kids Nintendo!!! Almost ruined his retro life!

[@MyRetroLife]

They almost did indeed! 😡

[@cousinjimmydean4233]

Well tyler if it kinda makes u feel better back in the 1997-2012 ma youngest brother used to steal ma stuff 2 support his habit ah man i still think about till this day

[@fireresq7]

Great video Tyler! Thanks for sharing! 1.Did they steal your dads camera? And 2. Did your dad film that footage at Toysrus or is that something you found online? THX!

[@MyRetroLife]

That was found footage on the internet I got permission to use. Luckily Dad’s camera was spared!

[@infasis]

Phew, I'm glad no one was home when that happened. So many horrible acts start out as "just" a robbery. That it is awful though. Glad everyone was safe and the story had a happy ending. (You know, I guess one of the reasons I love a lot of JRPGs and stuff is there's pretty much always a good ending. People don't just rob people and get away with it, good always conquers evil, people always learn from their mistakes, and the worlds are normally just so much kinder and forgiving places. I wish we could make this place a little more like that.)

[@MyRetroLife]

I agree A Yuuki - 💯

[@CoopsGameShelf]

My xbox was stolen in 2004 from a friends house, and my 360 was stolen from my brothers apartment (Along with his wii) in 2007. I can't imagine getting robbed as a kid though. We left our doors unlocked!

[@FantasticDizzy1]

So sorry for your family. It's an awful feeling. I had my garage broken into and my prized motorcycle stolen. Best wishes.

[@MyRetroLife]

Oh man that’s lame! Thanks for the sentiment

[@MrKurtykurt]

For me, it was when my cousins were over during a typical fall Sunday when my dad had everyone over to watch the Browns (this was pre-move to Baltimore, and I’m sure anyone any younger than me would hardly believe it, but the Browns were actually Super Bowl contenders back then) My Nintendo was on one side of the basement on the big old box TV, while my dad and uncles and cousins watched the Browns on the bar TV on the other side of the basement. Well, one day the Browns had a big halftime lead, but as the fourth quarter ticked down, they had given it up while my cousins and I had given up playing Nintendo for the time being and were outside d!cking around. However, being the little a$$-wholes we were we had left the Nintendo on at full volume, beep bop booping on the one side of the basement while my dad seethed at the Browns impending defeat on the other. And as the beep bop boops played as the soundtrack for a ruined Sunday combined with my dad’s tendency to get violent with inanimate objects when angry, particularly when a few beers deep (absolutely non-abusive to actual ppl. I have the same unhealthy anger habits which my old Xbox controllers learned all to well when Call of Duty was peak) and, let’s just say, when my cousins and I ran back in to finish whatever game we were playing, the game and system had become a pile of rubble 🥹 apparently it only took one slam of his fist like a sledgehammer to put an end to all the beep bop booping….😅 sober dad felt really bad though and bought us another the next day

[@LATerr0r]

I'll never forget the day I walked into our house when we were burglarized. As soon as I walked in I knew something was wrong and it was strange because there was nothing really shuffled in the living room, but I just knew. It was the night Julio Cesar Chavez fought Oscar De La Hoya for the 2nd time. Me and my mom came home and we walked in and I just remember looking around then immediately going into my room and gone was my Nintendo 64. They just took the console and left the cables behind and the cart that was in it was Golden Eye. I could still see the cables just laying there on the floor of the red carpet in my bedroom. I then yelled out for my mom and she said a bunch of her jewelry was missing. Sad but it couldve been worse, we couldve been home when they decided to rob the house. Love the vid Tyler. Peace!

[@Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial]

This is one of my bigger fears, especially with my collection now. Props to your parents for making lemonade out of all the lemons

[@DokesConspiracyNetwork]

Wow I didn't know they made a good Ghost Busters game 😮

[@MyRetroLife]

It’s fantastic

[@SebastianHernandez-uo4be]

Its very Awful that people break into homes and steal Expensive stuff like Video Games & Consoles , sports shoes & Jerseys , Equipments and computer and other stuff , Back in 2007 my favorite soccer ball adidas Teamgeist got stolen & Destroyed and i was Furious when i was 7 years old back in july of 2007.

[@krisceuppens5273]

Our daughter's watch was stolen. It was a watch she got from us at Christmas a few years earlier. Instead of getting her the same model, we got her one that better suits her age. A new start...

[@gastheleft6535]

You pictured Marv and Harry, but it was probably Leroy and Tyrone.

[@PatrickRockwell24]

Of course you'd post something toxic like this....of course.

[@adultmoshifan87]

When I hear about thieves, especially those who steal from KIDS, I have to ask: what are those scumbags THINKING? I don’t know when/how you got your NES replaced eventually but I would not only go for the Genesis, I’d still go about getting a replacement NES eventually as well, even holding onto my existing games, even if I don’t manage to afford it until the $50 toploader arrives in 1993! Some burglars tried to break into my childhood home only 10 days after I WAS BORN! (But weren’t successful) One time when I was in boarding school (worst 7 years of my life), one of my bullies stole from me my copy of Neo Geo Pocket Color game Puzzle Link, I tried interrogating him but he kept saying “I gave it to another student”! In the end, the staff found it, turned out the culprit hid it in the backyard within the greenery! Just under a year later, another one of my bullies told me “there’s a soccer game on tonight, if your team loses, you have to give me your copy of Bomberman Tournament” (GBA game), my team lost but the staff disciplined said bully and I was NOT faced with having to give him my copy of said GBA game!

[@mauricemoreno7698]

Who dislikes this? He puts out awesome content

[@MyRetroLife]

Why thanks!

[@mauricemoreno7698]

@@MyRetroLife You're very welcome!! Keep up the great work, I really enjoy the videos and I can remember going to toys r us to get my first NES when I was 4, I still remember it like it was yesterday

[@MultiBum123]

In middle school, some kid stole my nintendo ds from my backpack it was in its case so all my games were taken with it 😔 I bought the console and games myself with money i had saved up, so i know your pain 😮‍💨

[@skRapKlan]

Come on! Let's be hones now.. This video should have a "HORROR STORY" warning..! Something similar happened to our family. A river flooding submerged the entire basement and parts of our 1st floor. So we lost our entire NES game collection.. Lucky we had the C64 stuff stored in the attic!

[@EDFCentral]

We had a home invasion, but their main focus was on stealing my stepdads guns. Makes you feel vulnerable even in your own home.

[@jaulloa21]

They stole my Nintendo too. I actually gave it away, along with my collection of games to a friend. After a rabbit bite the power adapter. So I thought the console doesn’t work anymore so whatever. lol. My mom was upset

[@jasonlashmun2793]

I love you're Dad n Mom, I am a big fan and I love you're new journey of Lessons from life and games, I'll label it. And to move forward with your daughter and her collection is the thing I find most positive of All. Thank you,Tyler and I am learning more from you nowadays in I think like 5 ish current episodes of my retro life. At first I saw you enjoying the youth you enjoyed and the people of definitive interest in you're younger half o life, honestly I was feeling sad about my parents who I had recently and not really recently lost, not my Dad but he was diagnosed with, anyway the show helped me cry and laugh about my previous life, you know what I mean, and now I am the Father figure and basically family torch holder, like yourself and I am learning how to mature through the life lessons that I am learning from you nowadays.i hope that helps with your new direction and if you ever need validation that the hard work you have put into retro life is making a significant,or Truly Meaningful impression on people watching , well it speaks for itself, doesn't it? Thank you my friend and I am looking forward to another Perfectly Surprising and Absolutely Poingnant latter and more mature half, of our retro lives😑😕😃 thanks for helping a gamer and lover of all walks ( and speedruns.lol) of life. TC

[@jacobprayer8656]

It had to have been somebody from your neighborhood that knew you guys had a lot of video games they knew your schedule and they knew when you guys vacation

[@chalkitdowm]

I've never had my games straight-up stolen but I've definitely had friends borrow them and then never get them back. lol I have one friend who packed up and MOVED TO AUSTRALIA with about a dozen of my Gamecube games. Pour one out for my beloved Timesplitters Future Perfect, Viewtiful Joe & Mario Sunshine that are bigging it up down under.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

I got my first Game Boy stolen when I was 16, and my copies of Pokémon Blue and Zelda! Even at that older age it was still really disheartening. But I went out a few days later, and bought myself the new Game Boy Colour, with a new Pokémon Blue and the new colour version of Zelda 😁