I haven't Thought About That in Over 30 Years! (NES and SNES memories)

[@raytello6557]

I will probably never get that feeling I had on those fridays waiting for my dad to get home. Me and my brothers knew we were going to get two games and two movies at the local video store and we were going to McDonald's. I keep those memories forever.

[@mo_musashi_28]

Awesome dad 👏🏻

[@mikeboragine8054]

Have the same memories with my mom and uncle just swap McDonald's for Wendy's. What's sad man is I won't get to have that experience with my son...just the Wendy's

[@pHolePunchr420]

I remember me and my dad beating Contra 3 together… Playing the Mario’s together… Trading up on Aliens Vs Predator… and more… And the Friday special dinner nights… These are great memories brother… Those are the type of things that no amount of money could replace

[@sgatdethman]

Friday night. The movie rental store parking lot is full. Everyone is getting movies and games. My mom parks the car and I go in. I'm transported to another dimension. Sometimes my mom would have to come get me because I would take too long. It was just me and my mom so money wasn't plentiful. I was choosing the $1.50 game 3 day 2 night rental and if I made a bad decision the weekend would suck. After I finally picked out my game we would go by Carter's Fried Chicken or Little Caesars. This was the only time we ate out for the whole week. It was a big deal. I'll never forget those weekends. NES, SNES, and Genesis. The memories of the games will live forever with me. I'm about to be 44 years old..

[@mo_musashi_28]

Sometimes there was nothing left to rent if you came late. So your like ugh I guess I’ll get Milon’s secret asshole

[@LambosOnly]

I could sit and listen to you and Chris reminisce for hours. Great video.

[@redmist78]

The music for me it was a little too loud it was kind of distracting.

[@TheGameChasers]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@michaelanderson9792]

I am 61 when we bought my son the NES for Christmas we played dragon warrior 2, life force, bubble bobble

[@RollinRowdy1198]

Used to rent Sunset Riders, Street Fighter 2 and NBA Jam: TE on rotation every weekend for a long time. In a small town, if you wanted to rent the better games on Friday after school you had to convince your mom to take you to the video store immediately after she picked you up.

[@TheGameChasers]

Very cool!

[@Alttabbins]

The best feeling ever was when your mom said you could rent 2, or if you found a rent one get one free coupon.

[@SaintCyrX]

Or you were fully ready to spend a few of your own dollars and your mom said to keep your money and paid for it... (only applies to those of us that probably had $75 at most over the course of a year and any spending of it was a huge decision)

[@sufamidan1006]

Billys face when he said “coming out” 😂

[@TomMasonSculptor]

Even though you haven't been able to make as many episodes of The Game Chasers proper, I love that you keep finding content to put out there. This is one of my favorite channels. It's great to be able to hear you perspective and share in the stories.

[@TheGameChasers]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@reillustrate7370]

Sunset Riders was so dope. We had the cabinet at my local arcade when I was growing up

[@MapleJames76]

Chris' room SCREAMS my childhood. Thank you.

[@nostalgiakid84]

Glad to see Chris has become a big part of this channel. Another perspective of retro gaming, and it reminds me of me and my closest cousin playing games as kids. Fun times.

[@kingjaekob]

There is a shop in San Antonio tx, that started renting RETRO SYSTEMS! Get this only $19.99 per month, you can get nes, snes, Sega Saturn, and several others.... PLUS you can go in and exchange during month for system, say NES for 7 days, then snes, next 7 days etc... for $19.99 monthly! : )

[@ericmsandoval]

Which one? Game Over?

[@Mr_Zel]

The gym I go to is one of the blockbusters original locations in my city and on the first day going in , even before I signed up I literally had a flash back 20+ years of literally walking in to that location as a kid and going to grab harvest moon 64 , Mario 64 etc .. and literally every time I work out I remember exactly how the lay out was and where everything is

[@Grindhead_Jim]

My older sister worked at a mom n' pop video store in the late 80's/early 90's, and would bring me NES games home on Saturday and Sunday mornings, so, not only was I getting free rentals, but DELIVERY! She would always clue me in if something was for sale, too. What an underrated resource. I remember falling in love with Air Fortress and Burai Fighter as a result of those days.

[@Xisme66]

There is a spot on the camera. I thought it was my monitor. It's driving me nuts.

[@nekonekopanicnekonekopanic7335]

Yeah it being worked on, he is looking for a new camera

[@bpcgos]

Yeah, I thought it was a dead pixel on my new monitor at first...

[@morningrise]

I just saw it too because of this comment and now I can't unsee it.

[@grims7one]

Literally just wiped my screen.

[@willeysingleton3057]

Lol poor game chasers they have addressed this issue a million times

[@christofferaasted]

I've rewatched the Game Chasers so many times. Best show on KZbin!

[@bunnywabbit3867]

I played the shit out of F-Zero as a kid when I visited my Mom's on the weekends. I'll never forget it!! I basically mastered every corner of every track and would try to beat my own lap time Record. I was obsessed

[@willeysingleton3057]

I've been collect sense 2003 , chris started collecting in 2016. Im super jealous of his game room it looks awesome.

[@SavageMoments956]

"...And the sponsor for today's video is Cobra Kai".

[@Joshua_Bee]

The dust/chip on the lense gives Billy a teardrop tattoo...

[@raytello6557]

We had curtis mathis in Houston too and we bought our TV and rented movies there. We even bought a nice stereo system with record, tape and cd player. It was nice.

[@jessemosley6049]

I grew up in a small town called denver Indiana and they had an old hardware store with a little video section where you could rent vhs's and nes, snes, sega and n64 games...the best!...and it was called...."the denver hardware"...classic!

[@franco7363]

My best rental ever was TMNT in Time for the SNES. Also renting a 3DO, at the time was mind blowing.

[@NESADDICT]

That shelf in the background is sick

[@DannyGPro]

I love these chats, would like to see a lot more of these. Great video!

[@Joshiesgotagun]

I really like these types of videos where you guys just sit and reminisce about your childhood. I can almost picture the story you're telling. Hollywood Video was the place for me and my brothers to go rent games. Every time was an adventure. Our Bible Adventures moment was Superman 64. lol.

[@philberto78]

I really liked watching the discussion between you two guys and the reminiscing in this video, stuff that only family members could both share at early ages. Makes me think of fun talks I had with my cousin as well!

[@Darko1226]

I remember renting 4 games when we lived in Australia in 1990. Duck Tales, Zelda 2, Ikari Warriors, and Double Dribble.

[@franco7363]

Love that background.

[@pHolePunchr420]

Listening to you guys talk about our youth and golden times makes me wish y’all had a podcast… I could listen to this kinda stuff all day.

[@urmie]

“That’s my Playstation!”

[@zackschilling4376]

I definitely miss the whole experience of renting games and movies. From when I was a teenager and had my license and taking a girlfriend up to pick out a movie to back when I was a kid and renting NES and SNES games. The convenience of Netflix and downloading is nice, but I loved strolling thru Blockbuster or what we had in NW Indiana, Box Office Video.

[@PolaireOfAstora]

Billy's face at 3:17

[@0xBarth]

I love these types of videos. Keep it up fellas!

[@TheGameChasers]

Thanks! Will do!

[@Pineappelz]

I'm too young to even have N64 memories, but my fondest memories were weekends playing video games too. I remember looking through Pizza Hut coupons in our phonebook and ordering the best deal and playing Smash bros Melee on the GameCube with my neighbors. Those were the best weekends.

[@nestorgonzalez8021]

Awesome video! Those Friday nights of going with the family to Blockbuster to rent games and movies are priceless. Kinda depressing that everything is digital... nothing beats that experience of hanging with family on those nights!

[@Night-Jester]

Chris saying Billy always had chode hair in the SNES mouse ball was one of the funniest things I've heard this year. This year isn't that old but still...and thanks Haha :)

[@opentheozon3]

Billy’s face “ when I started coming out” 😂

[@Ultradude604]

Your bro from childhood still hang out. That's awesome!

[@MasterRoshi8974]

The wisdom tree games give me the best feelings. I love them to this day ecspecially King of kings

[@redmist78]

I have a lot of good memories of renting games and VHS tapes. One time my parents left some random VHS tape we rented on the top of the car and drove off and the store charged them $90. Thank goodness I never lost any games. I held on to those things pretty tight. All the places where I rented from as a kid are gone now which is sad.

[@TheHillbillyHybrid]

I love these guys

[@bryceday7437]

this vid and the comments, so relatable. The nostalgia !!!!! So many great memories growing up with my cousins renting games & movies for the weekend. Straight G.I. Joes, nes/snes were life !! all weekend long. cool stuff yall !

[@naclcreep2505]

Hooray for a video! There was a time where I was sick of hearing about the Bible Adventure rental story. Not after hearing it a dozen times i feel like it’s part of my childhood too! Mission accomplished. Hope you all are well. I wish I would have discovered this channel back 8 years ago when I was bigger into collecting. Still love all the content!

[@naclcreep2505]

It doesn’t hurt that I have a Gran Gran too!

[@Kevinb1821]

Chris always looks like he just got done smoking alot of the devils lettuce lol.

[@8thLife]

The Bible Adventures story will never get old 😂

[@cacophonic7]

Curtis Mathis ... that is a name I haven’t heard in years! We had a TV from there, and our local one rented out movies and games too. I spent a lot of time in that store.

[@tdfowler79]

The store you're describing sounds like a "Curtis Mathes" you even mentioned that your grandparents had that TV... They rented games in the NES era. I'd be willing to bet that's what it was.

[@OrfinMusik]

Used to play the sunset riders arcade at panchos Mexican buffet off buckingham and Garland ave in Garland,tx as a kid

[@Gubalicious]

God that thing on your camera lens gets me every time

[@midniteboom4601]

I'm always inspired to go game hunting because of you guys.

[@mrbrocephus3849]

I was born in 93. I was playing the 64 to its end cycle. At the same time I was playing the snes. I remember vaguely a loony toons space side shoot Daffy Duck game. I loved the colors in it.Really remember All the DK games. Super mario bros of course and Metroid !!!!! TMNT, street fighter And mario rpg. That was it for the super. But Ps1 wow 🤩. Right when you guys said mega man. Mega man X. Wooooooooo. MK 1-2-3 was on the Sega Gen for me

[@danandtab7463]

I love the Bible Adventures story. I had these friends who weren't allowed to do anything unless it had "Bible" in it, and one thing they loaned me once was Exodus by the same company that made Bible Adventures. It's a craptastic game with a maddening soundtrack, but it was also oddly addictive and have memories playing it with friends and family watching. Finally got my own cart for $8 decades later. So the episode where you all got Chris his own Bible Adventures resonates with me. lol

[@nabrog2674]

More of this, fellas!

[@TravJam317]

None of my local game rental places had membership cards. We usually just gave a phone number and verified the last name. I remember a few times when I had a high late fee charge and I would just use a friend's account. The closest Blockbuster was over an hour away. I didn't rent at a Blockbuster until I went to college. I preferred the local game stores we had. Blockbuster was so much more expensive.

[@Traxtal]

What's better than one Billy? Double Billy.

[@topchief1]

You know, they often say that the most vivid memories we have are due to traumatic experiences

[@azrazel916]

3:17 PRICELESS, I F@CKING KNEW IT, LOL !!!!

[@zackschilling4376]

I still love that KB display

[@khog143]

I'm a simple man, I see a Montucky Cold Snack, I hit the like button

[@Wheels8504]

These are the best videos other than the game hunting videos. Thank you. I hope you're all doing well and staying safe.

[@jdubbs1981]

“Blockbuster Video, wow what a difference “. Yes, Friday nights , I’m hitting it up for a video game rental. Good times. Thanks for sharing, chodes 👍💯🎮

[@SFJPMoonGames]

In UK I never rented from Blockbuster but I remember renting early PS1 games from The Ritz which was baught out by Blockbuster I think.

[@skelleytor]

More vids with chris and Yourself !

[@ferengo]

This war awesome. Sorta the thing I remember when I stayed over at my cousins. We'd always go to the video drive in and rent a movie.The place is a tanning salon now. That comment though about the last time you went to rent and didn't know it was the last time. I think Chris is right, if you knew it would ruin it.

[@Carboxylated]

You would just walk out Billy. LMAO!

[@chad55009]

... I don't remember those BIG RED WINDOWS, but I remember BIG RED. I LOVE YOU BIG RED!!

[@retropocalypse1984]

That's how it happens flashback boom. You will be out flea marketing or you see or hear a song and it will make u remember shit you forgot.

[@crabbuckets7506]

Greatest rental was clay fighters 63 sculptures cut. Still can't play that version of the game!

[@WoodsPrecisionArms]

I am looking for a REALLY obscure NES game and I can’t remember the name and it was made by a very unknown company. It’s was weird all I can remember about it is this detective looking guy walking around on a dock and these futuristic flying vehicles would fly by and you could jump in to ride in them and jump back out of them. I know that isn’t anything to go on but anyone might know would the help would be greatly appreciated

[@SJ-tn5wi]

He is coming out 💖

[@supergeoff]

I had some fond memories playing Super NES and Nes games My older Brother got me into Mario and Punch-Out then later in life was Turtles in time and Batman Returns, Looney Tunes B-Ball

[@KyleYoung2012]

If it wasn't for Nintendo at least in America we may never have had Playstation or Sega imagine a world were video games never took off the way it did I can only imagine but it's thanks to Nintendo after all for helping us out of that state back then and I love most Nes and SNES games

[@guillecephcis]

These videos should be part of the "Back in my day" series, actually, bring back that series. By the way I've been trying to wipe out a stain on my screen for about six minutes before I realized it is part of the video.

[@jeenkzk5919]

Me too! Lol Derp! I went “what the hell?”

[@OrfinMusik]

Also remember having to call my local rental store in Garland movie show video to try and get mega man 2 and after 2 weeks we rented it, got to dr Will’s castle and the NES freezing when we got to dr wily

[@ilcilc2910]

That little crack or speck on the camera over Billy's face in a lot of frames is driving me crazy lol.

[@creativesharts]

Yeah thought there was a fly on the tv

[@silentcobra0543]

JARS, was that the game store originally next to star super market. 3rd and marshall.

[@campkemp9466]

I think I'm around your age and when you talk about gaming rentals some times my mind goes to the arcade when I got money to play....and I for get that I didn't pay to rent that money to play that...lol I'm getting old!!!

[@SaintCyrX]

NO WAY! YOU GUYS HAD A FOR LEASE IN YOUR TOWN TOO? Man, that chain is EVERYWHERE these days...

[@jacobbaranowski]

I miss my Blockbuster, got torn dawn a few years ago

[@mrbee15]

Back in my day, I could go to blockbuster with $5 rent a game and get change!

[@kennethwilliamson3937]

Sunset riders is awesome ther used to be an arcade cabinet with sunset riders in the corner shop on the way home from school and I’d always go in there on my way home from school with my mom and brouther and some times we would play it I was about 7-8 I loved that game 50c a game

[@Imgema]

Where can i find this amazing TMNT poster?

[@necropod5188]

Sitting here buzzed and cant figure out how to clean the smudge off my screen ...thanks

[@mccloaker]

I remember, towards the end, going to Blockbuster's and realizing none of the games were particularly interesting anymore. I had played all the good N64 games I didn't own. And I knew I couldn't really justify coming to rent much longer. Banjo Kazooie MIGHT have been my last rental. So in a way, renting went out on a high note.

[@Cof6762000]

If you liked Sunset Riders you should try Mystic Warriors

[@quezcatol]

I rented 5 games only in my life (...im btw the same age as Chris) : talespin and ducktales on the NES and Tomb Raider, Doom and Suikoden 2 on the playstation 1! pretty good games when I think about it.

[@quezcatol]

I almost forgot, sunset riders me and my brother had- we LOVED IT in co-op 9.5/10 game ;)

[@86mdwolfie]

I remember my dad bought me populous for the SNES because he thought the cover looked cool and I absolutely hated it. I kept it to myself because my dad ended up enjoying the game. BTW my dad is possibly the oldest Zelda fan ever. He’s played and finished every Zelda game to date.

[@GreenKarateMonkey]

You guys really had it made

[@altercell_]

Love the turtles background music!

[@tekkennerdable]

I can recall scenes from movies on tvs that I like just went passet haha and other small weird things

[@mrbee15]

Another great ep!

[@OrfinMusik]

Game was awesome and raising the little flag for extra sopapillas was the sh*t

[@raytello6557]

Do yall have bucees dfw? Which ones have yall been to?

[@theredneckgamer8692]

I live in haslet and there is one 15 minutes from me

[@raytello6557]

I'm from Katy our bucees has the biggest car wash in the world at a convenience store. You always have cool baseball hats. Is that a bucees hat or just a patch?

[@theredneckgamer8692]

@@raytello6557 just a patch

[@SFJPMoonGames]

What a way to wake up. Thanks chaps 👍🏻

[@42calking53]

Damn yall definitely Family! Look just alike

[@thousandwolves952]

I always passed up Rampart than me n my cousin finally rented i had so much

[@crazyhandgrows6432]

You two should review new games maybe with a guest every show, I really enjoy listening to you guys reminisce on the old times. Or even review old games idc haha, but maybe just switch off playing with the guest, whilst interviewing them. Maybe the guest would bring the games or somethin.

[@OrfinMusik]

I let a friend borrow Mario paint and my mouse and never saw it again...

[@tonylenzi166]

Its funny i nvr once rented a game, my parents didnt have membership to any video stores, my dad dud but i only was with him a couple weekends a month, we always rented movies my nes was at my moms house, but i was lucky my step dad would buy me games all the time, especially once they started going on sale hed buy me like 3 or 4 at once, we lived next door to my cousins they would sell me games as they got new ones, he bought me ten games for 100 bux with the carry case from my cousin the one day, i had like 60 70 games by 92 then i got genesis for xmas in 92 and for some reason pretty much just played nes ganes still i only had like 15 genesis gamez