Video Games! A Forever Love! | Imp And Skizz Podcast (Ep61)

[@Pinnix]

Impulse don't worry. You will be playing games in your eighties. I introduced my 70 year old Mom to Minecraft 11 years ago and she's still playing.

[@sebastianharris221]

Skizz’s smile at the camera at the end of the video revealed that he already knew that he wasn’t going to cut after the first fist bump.

[@angelabarefoot]

I love how Impulse remembers so much about the games he played as a kid - hacks, easter eggs, little technical details. Clearly he was destined to be a professional gamer - no wonder he's so awesome at it.

[@joshbovee2073]

I've watched every one of your podcasts, watched and chatted with you guys in countless streams and have seen most of your videos but I have never wanted to jump in to your conversation more than during this one. Video games were such a huge part of my childhood and the nostalgia brought up in this episode was fantastic. Thank you for another great episode!

[@hannieslays3751]

I can still hear my friend on Contra yelling at me to just die so he can win... I do miss those days. I got Legend of Zelda for Christmas one year and I went to play it and I saw a save on it. Turned out my dad had tried it before he wrapped it and the save feature told on him haha

[@TheMegaUltimate]

I miss the day too

[@jasonolson7966]

Even though I'm only 27, I really related to a lot of the old game talk! This was a really fun podcast to listen to. It got me really wanting to game more just for fun!

[@Hashtag__Taco]

Those retro games were hard man! 😂 And you guys better make that retro-game couch steam stream happen!!

[@ilovewaffles321]

I’ve been here for a while, mostly listened on Spotify but I just wanna say, thank you guys for always making my day better when I listen in!

[@JenniferVanNostrand]

You guys are getting GREAT at Phasmo! The Apocalypse challenges are really difficult and take can take a very long time to get so don't get discouraged! Watching you guys play it the past couple of months has been a "study" in how to get better at logic puzzles, which is what Phasmo is! A logic puzzle set in a haunted place; figure out the ghost before it kills you.

[@StarNanny]

Listening to you guys talking about console gaming, with your faces lighting up, is like listening to my kids. All of that was after my time, but I was the parent with limited expendable income. The Apple IIc was my first computer which, at the time, came with a printer and small monitor (green pixels). There were no loaded programs, just the base language (Apple Basic), and loads of magazines to teach programming, with how-to tutorials for all the basic things…turn print to landscape mode (6 lines of code), leave gaps between line numbers so you can edit later if needed, how to program math into data sheet, etc. It was fun but time consuming. And the IIc would let you print-to-screen OR print-to-printer, but not both, in the programming logic. I had to have a cheat sheet for creating invoices-print-to-printer, run the program blind, filling in the numbers, then printing them out to see if I got it right. 😂 At least the printer ribbon lasted a long while! That was my gaming experience. 😂

[@TheMegaUltimate]

For me I got into video games by my cousins, seeing her playing Mario in the Wii because I press A to be in a bubble or being eating by Yoshi was the most fun memories I had in the gaming industry.

[@SuperLolFTW]

Yet another awesome podcast. Super nostalgic to remember times with the NES, N64 and others. Please do a retro-gaming stream! Guarantee you will get a bunch of people who come watch. Much love and respect fellas, keep it up!

[@connorwyent6970]

Hearing them talk on difficulty in older games reminds me of why I enjoy souls likes so much, always moving forward and using failure as a tool to learn rather than a punishment. It makes me wonder how that would fare in bloodborne

[@PartialDemon]

"Nintendo Hard" is a thing for a reason.

[@mattks1001]

I really enjoyed this one. I remember my parents pulling the plug on our consoles back in the day. One time we were playing a game for 3 days on the SNES and my oldest brother accidentally kicked the cables unplugging the console. I'll never forget that day. The game was Pacific Theater of Operations II, an old turn based strategy game. The games took forever! But it was so much fun with my brothers and their friend.

[@TheMegaUltimate]

Everyone who played games had a traumatized experience of a power outage or someone disconnected your console and also in Vr.

[@ultimatewager]

Mario Brothers was an arcade game. My brother and I watched them install it at the 7-Eleven by our house. Since we were watching, they gave us the first play on it, for free. When the NES launched with SUPER Mario Brothers, it absolutely blew our minds.

[@davidtauriainen9116]

The gameplay was two player which introduced Luigi. The brothers were ostensibly plumbers (fit Mario's construction theme), but they were down in the sewer fighting off turtles, crabs, and running on pipes. This makes some of the enemy and style choices for Super Mario Bros make sense.

[@mznerdtheories]

I was coming here to say this as well - the only one that was ever on console for the home was super mario bros but the early 80s arcade game was called mario bros

[@nmgg6928]

I had a copy of Mario bros as a nes cartridge first before learning it was originally an arcade game blew my mind as a kid lol

[@duvalfamily4605]

Great podcast as always! We had an Atari 2600, NES, SNES, and Nintendo 64. My brother and i were addicted to gaming back in the day. This was a trip down memory lane!

[@erinnstreeter]

I had Impulse's pattern of playing games to the end, so you can imagine how aggravated I was when I could NOT figure out how to beat the Raiders of the Lost Ark game for Atari. MANY years later, while watching a 'video game nostalgia' video (I think it was on someone's blog post or variety article), I saw a snippet of action from that game included in their b-roll, and the area they were playing in was DIFFERENT than my old game. I mentioned this to my brother, and he was like, "Oh, I got that game from the kid down the street, traded it for another game - but he gave me that one in the trade because it was broken and I didn't know it until we played it." Cue a wash of rage - I was so mad! I'd spent so much time trying to complete a game that wasn't complete-able!!

[@notoriousgaming7491]

I got to say these podcast have inspired me so much thank you both

[@SmerkyRandomised]

Oh dudes, this was such a fun podcast! I'm definitely not as old as you guys, but i still have a lot of knowledge of old games, and still play on consoles like the Wii, 2DS, and PS2 to this day! Also loved you mentioning Ready Player One (btw there's also a sequel called Ready Player Two which is very interesting and also touches a bit on some of the concepts you mentioned), plus the whole concept of VR, which i absolutely love despite never owning a headset myself, but i've jumped on every opportunity i've had to experience it, and it's awesome- Well done on being chronological too lol, and it was super fun to see how the conversation evolved!

[@drdreddmanofmystery9482]

I really, really, really, really need to see the JITS crew play Party Animals.

[@TheMegaUltimate]

Yes I really need to see the crew play Party Animals.

[@chubbyanimalenthusiast70]

Who’s the J?

[@varshianth9072]

​@@chubbyanimalenthusiast70(mister)joker

[@tabcat82]

That Marble game!!! Oh the memories and the calluses

[@TheSouthernMaam]

It's interesting to talk to "older generations" who can't imagine playing video games as an adult... but my husband and I are children of the 80s and so we are still (and will always be) gamers! I love the flashbacks to my childhood, like trying to find every secret passage in Wolfenstein. Anyone else remember Bubble Bobble, Dr. Mario, Pipe Dream? And a bit more recent, Spore and Runescape. Now I'm all in on Minecraft (plus a little Halo Infinite with my teenage son).

[@truckerdave8465]

Right?! I’ve been in games of Overwatch with a squeaker and hear the kids mom come in and say ‘pause your game’. Like what?! Lady, you have to be younger than me, do you literally have no idea what your kid is playing?! Hopefully there will continue to be more and more gamer moms.

[@SkyfighterZX]

Love that you guys start on the NES, it's my childhood console too, which is curious because i'm not from your generation, but the thing is, here in europe we had tech always very late especially in my country if feels like, we had so many NES clones, also known as Famiclones (famicon was the japanese version of the NES) so we had these smaller cartrifges and played it so much, i remember playing a lot of megaman and remembering all writting all the passwords on a paper because the password was this 7x7 grid and you placed red and blue squares and that allowed you to continue where you left off defeating the bosses and such, also with my dad we would play Double Dragon III which allowed for coop and this game was HARD, i remember our strategy would be to have our fighters next to eachother and perform this crazy helicopter kick, and when you do this in coop at the same time, they actually team up, grab eachothers arm and to an extra powerful double tornado kick, it was insane, so many found memories from it, also a very good memory was, i played "Bucky O'hare" there and me and me and my mom would snack on "after eight" chocolates while playing sometimes and that just stuck with me so much, unfortunatly me and my parents don't play videogames together anymore, for no particular reason, but i really miss it, i loved when in the PS1 we had Gran Turismo 2 and me and my mom would race so bad that we would be left behind on like a 3 hour endurance race, and my dad would pick the controller and just lap after lap start to reel the other cars up closer and closer and eventually manage 1st place, he was really incredible at it, we ended up loving gran turismo so much that we played all the games up to GT5 on the ps3, my dad was always the best driver beating the licenses and such, really valuable memories related to video games, they were always such a big part of my life and how i spent time with my family, now we have work schedules and responsabilities that get in the way a bit but those memories will forever be with me

[@radiate88]

I'm a lot younger, and yet I play and collect a lot of older games. It was so fun to hear you guys talk about the NES, as that was my first console, even though I was born in the 2000's

[@KPdewstar]

I really love hearing you guys talk games. Need 20 more episodes like this.

[@lraihly]

What you're saying about VR is how I am with riding in the back seat of the car at night. When I can't see the outside, I get nauseous. My brain doesn't know where the equilibrium is in VR if the ground isn't clearly visible.

[@nasiskahn]

For a school assignment for English in jr high, I had to write my mom a persuasive letter on something that I wanted. I really wanted a Game Boy. I was able to write it and she got it for me. One of my points was that I wouldn't play any violent games and I have stuck to that to this day. I miss my spinach color game. I had Game Boy, I still have my PlayStation 1 and 2! I have my Wii. I didn't get any more than that. Now I play games on my computer. My daughter is trying to talk me into getting a switch. Games helped me with my hand/eye coord. It helped me become a better driver because I could see movement from the corner of my eye quicker. Those games helped me solve puzzles and to not give up or to be a creative problem solver. I love games!

[@Frankengribble]

This podcast is so surreal. I played the original Unreal single player game. It blew up afterwards with Unreal Tournament and people that made crazy maps like a bathroom map that was on a Grounded like scale. Holy crap times have changed.

[@SynchroniSydney]

I didn’t think I would listen to this podcast when it was first coming out but now I’m happily a weekly viewer. You guys are doing great and I’m looking forward to everything you’ve got coming!

[@pandamonium7818]

Love all the nostalgia in this episode. So many fun games just to add to the awesomeness of Nintendo one of the thing I still to this day am fascinated over, we had the game cube and when the Wii came out you could play your game cube game in the Wii console. That was the coolest thing to me when they announced that.

[@oliams47o10]

That was a fun one to watch. It's probably my favourite topic. All the Nintendo stuff I agree with. The innovation of the technology behind all of it is amazing. The way the wii brought back aiming on a TV screen made it my favourite way to play RE4. You talked about tennis on the wii but tennis in vr is a whole new level. If there was a way to get the feeling you get when you hit a ball in reality to happen when you hit a ball in vr, it would be perfect. Also vr accessories! Gun controllers, vibration vests, omnidirectional treadmills! It's all super exciting and I hope we're on the way to be able to play vr games in the same way showed in the anime sword art online.

[@oliams47o10]

Guitar hero 3 was also my favourite, best list of songs in my opinion. The way rocksmith then took that concept and tried to push it to actually learning how to play things on a guitar I've also though was really cool.

[@elizameyers5746]

I love Friday because that's when imp and skizz podcast comes out 😁

[@HarveyWork]

My brothers and I had a Magnavox Odyssey 2 as well, I actually have one in a box under my bed with all the games. Nobody remembers it with as much fondness as they do for the Atari, but the odyssey has such a special place in my heart. Some of them had physical game boards that laid over the top of the keyboard and if you didn't have that you couldn't play those games! We had Quest for the Rings when we were kids, but the game board was missing so we could not figure out how to play that game, we were so determined to figure it out though.

[@WoobyMe]

All of the super Mario tricks you guys talked about reminded me of when I was super young in the 2000's, and my dad showed me 1 by 1 basically all the tricks you guys talked about. I thought it was so cool, I played Mario on our NES before that but never knew about any of that. The fireworks, warp pipes, 1up trick, and holding select on game over. The parallels to you guys talking about it all sent me for a loop. To top that off, I mentioned that to him only having listened to half the episode so far.... And he went on to talk about his other favorites back then being Duck. Hunt. , Spy Hunter and Contra. Coming back to the episode, yup you guys talked about all that too and basically verbatim to how he did 😂 I just find that so cool. Thank you guys for sparking that memory. He did however mention his love for Rygar, and after the episode I told him you guys didn't mention that one. He said maybe I should ask you if you knew that one? So I promised him I would. Loved the episode, thanks again

[@chai8274]

I got to share this with my dad, who isn't huge on videogames or Minecraft. He had so much fun talking about the older games though Thank you guys :)

[@nosleevedscrub912]

Speaking of Ready Player One. Two books I loved as a kid in that genre that I highly recommend are Invitation to the Game and Gemini Game.

[@jasonso2056]

I felt when Skizz described his feelings on completing games. I've completed a lot of singleplayer games in recent years such as the Xenoblade games, Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Scarlet, Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Tears of the Kingdom, and I always feel really empty inside whenever I do. Even if there is some postgame content, it doesn't really feel right to replay it after the whole story is done. It's probably why I feel like I've been playing nothing but Splatoon 3 these past few months. That game has so much replayability provided you have an internet connection and NSO.

[@thechillykitty]

LOVED this episode! Could related to Imp’s story about his dad cutting the power. My dad cut the plug off our pc when me and my brother were smashing 7 gates of Jambala one day. We were in total shock…he didn’t fix it for about a week either 😂 Good to remember Marble Madness too, that game was SO difficult. Thanks for the memories, looking forward to watching you do a console session with Tango 😁

[@williamfunk2794]

First video game system. Let's date myself....the original pong machine and then stepped up to Atari 2600

[@LavenderTownsGhost]

Speaking about bugs in older video games that couldn't be patched out since they were physical hardware, the famous Missingno. glitch Pokemon from the original Pokemon Red and Blue games was (officially) discovered three years after the games came out and Nintendo made a statement about how it could destroy your game, despite the fact that all it could do was mess up a few graphics (which was easily fixed) or give you more items. Also talking about easter eggs in video games, one of my favorite old-school games is Adventure, where you're a little block going through a bunch of rooms dodging dragons. it has one of the first easter eggs, where the developer hid in his name in a secret room.

[@Frankengribble]

I have fond memories of renting Maniac Mansion from a small rental place that's next to where I work now at 45 years of age. Was huge into MegaMan as well at the time... SUPER addicted to that series. What got me hooked on NES games originally was the original Metal Gear and Ice Climbers. Don't know why...

[@truckerdave8465]

Omg yes! Renting games was the best! You knew it was gonna be a good weekend! I rented Paper Boy all the time and some game called Athena…and Castlevania of course!

[@YousefCat21]

I love collecting and learning about video games and have amassed a decent collection, was super intresting to hear you guys talk about some easter eggs and secrets i didnt know!

[@dazzmead]

This was a totall nostalgia trip, i played and felt everything you were talking about today! Absolutely loved this episode

[@dawk42]

I loved this episode, it really brought me back to my childhood. The only thing that was missing was I couldn't see the clock in most of the shots lol.

[@michaelfritz4885]

There at the end was perfect. I'm the same age as y'all are and my wife bought me a coffee mug the reads, "I will still love you, even when you we are old and you still play video games." Challenge accepted!

[@marcus316]

Oh, the stories I have around video games! You guys brought back so many memories, from NES titles I haven't played in a while, to Nintendo's exploration of the gaming space (hey, Impulse, did you happen to collect a VirtualBoy?), weird peripherals (I still have my Power Glove, Skizz!), all the way up to VR experiences (I'm sure someone has mentioned Ragnarock to you guys before, but if not, it's a fun little VR rhythm game). I, too, hope to still be playing 40 years from now. :)

[@TimHoppen]

You're both very good at being entertaining. Sometimes, you are also good at the games you play, which is also fun to watch.

[@mkbean]

Great podcast! This is the episode you should have had me as a guest!

[@swordsdance1181]

listening to you both bring me so much joy

[@TheAquaYoshiDingbat]

I'm a Nintendo fanatic. I waited until my late 20's to get my first tattoo and got the Nintendo logo across the top of my back. Over 10 years later and I do not regret my decision. My second tattoo was the light blue yoshi😊. The only Nintendo console I've never owned and sadly never even had the chance to play is the Virtual Boy. I would looooooove to add that one to my collection!

[@56sasori65]

@impulse - I learned how to play guitar hero because I got injured at work. I had to get a piece of cartridge removed from my left knee and I was out of work for several months. My father felt so bad for me, he asked me if he could help by buying a video game that could help me through the pain. Guitar hero was my savior. I played every version, mastered every game, and when Rock Band came out, I was well enough to go back to work I just gave up because my life went back to work. I wish I had kept up with playing the games all the way through.

[@capedkat]

I'm about the same age as you guys (I think) so this video went straight into unlocking those childhood memories of fiddling with game casette's and everything lying around to work with that we don't see in the house anymore. Like the pressed carton coasters with beer brands on them. They where everywhere and something you'd grab for problem solving.

[@Gandalfa82]

Mario Brothers was released on the Arcade system and Atari systems before the NES, it was later re-released for the NES line as bonus content. This is if I’m remembering things correctly in my old age. My first system was NES with Mario and Duck Hunt combo. Though my grandparents had an Atari 2600 and 5600 that I played a lot before then.

[@shiny_lock]

The cool thing about the old nintendo games is that a lot of them are available on the switch, through a subscription service however.

[@blogg227]

As someone who never got into console gaming, Commander Keen was easily my favorite from the DOS based games era. I still play it on Steam every once in a while.

[@billwoehl3051]

59:30 back against the door vs the wall: those who prefer the wall are usually doing so because they have a suspicious eye, always looking, always aware. Those who dont care, have probably walked up to the bathroom door and asked where the bathrooms are.

[@DoughnutDragon]

Man i love hearing about old videogames. 11:43 yeah i remember playing sonic and pac man as a kid. I got insanely good at super pac man. People nowadays don't understand what a hard videogame is. 14:49 That woulda made me start unplugging appliances around the house cause apparently that's how we're supposed to treat each other. Not a good precedent to set for your kids or any relationship really. Just talking things out is a much better way to do things. 38:40 I miss classic gaming moments like that. The yelling across the house at them. For me it was couch coop halo. 43:51 The power glove has always looked sick. I woulda probably used it more for playing pretend as a kid if it woulda been around in my childhood. 47:50 I know rob from smash bros. It's cool learning about his origin. 48:59 Oh my. Yes. Goldeneye for the game cube. The nostaliga. 1:03:24 I find it so facinating that vr messes with people like that. It makes me very curious to try it. Not enough to pay for one but enough that if someone offered i wouldn't say no.

[@scamotron]

YOOO! I would watch the heck out of a couch stream playing old games/consoles! +1 vote for this!!

[@craigcampbell195]

I find it very interesting the discussion around VR and the affect it has on people, with things like vertigo. It reminds me of the old short film The Great Train Robbery (1903) how at the time it was one of the most early films ever made, but it became one of the first to use editing the way we see it today, to cut multiple narratives and points of view, it broke new ground by doing it, it basically kickstarted the western genre. And ontop of that audiences hadn’t seen films yet that were violent (by todays standards it would seem pretty weak, but to them back then it was a big deal) And the film end with a final shot of a bandit aiming his gun at the audience and firing it, breaking the forth wall. And audience’s who had never even been exposed to films before, let alone ones that had violence in them, were shocked and screamed at the idea the bandit was actually firing at them. And today we laugh at the notion of how stupid it would seem, to be shocked by something that isn’t even real happening to us, as it’s just an image on a screen. It makes me think how years and years from now. People are going to look at us in the present the same way with VR and think how could they ever have vertigo and fallen over while standing up at a roller coaster ride in VR. Also impulse and Skizz if you’re reading this, if you go ahead with your VR gaming stuff on/off camera. You should play Windlands. It’s about the closest experience you will have to being Spider-Man swinging around in VR. And that gave me tremendous vertigo at the feeling of falling. It’s amazing, you guys need to try it.

[@yusaki8064]

You should read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. My sister read it. She doesn’t even like videogames. But reading that made her understand how I can get so invested in them. I am yet to read it but I have been assured it will make me cry.

[@flareisroyalty]

Impulse, you should play Clone Hero. It’s basically an online Guitar Hero where you can play almost any song.

[@andrewdowns3168]

I love you guys talking about old games. I wish I was in touch with old friends to talk about the late nights playing Double Dragon II and TMNT arcade. So awesome. Please keep it up!

[@unapologeticallyus5749]

Ah man, the memories!!! I remember how excited my brothers and I were when we got the huge power pad to play the Olympics game (if I remember right). My intro to gaming was the original Mario Bros on the PC where you just ran around the pipe world jumping on turtles and such. My mom just asked me to teach her how to play Minecraft, will be an interesting ride teaching her as her favorite types of games were always Dr. Mario. LOL!!!! I'm looking forward to the challenge of teaching her.

[@CarterCos22]

My favourite game is what we call Beat Sabre Extra Hard Mode. My dad sneaks up and pokes us with spatulas and stuff. Makes the game a lot harder and a lot more fun.

[@joannejones1602]

I think you guys might like to play Hat in Time. There are some really cool little Easter eggs to find and it has an atmosphere to it that will make your inner child super happy. It’s been a real joy for my daughter and I to play together

[@BTGTB]

40:28 I agree wholeheartedly with Impulse on the danger of encouraging that mentality and planting those seeds of character. To balance, I will encourage finding ways to improve results without having to just grind out labor (work smarter, not harder (but still have work ethic)), but also not with the mindset "the ends justifies the means" or "might/ability makes right". There is a world of difference between discovering a method that's better than the current system and cheating the system at the expense of putting down others.

[@Kiwimarauder]

Ah! I'm so angry about the cliffhanger! Yeah, no, really just grateful for you guys and that I get to look forward to Gem Part 2 next week. Really makes me sad that all that negative stuff related to social media is included in the package deal of being a content creator. Gems been an awesome guest, so relatable, looking forward to her Twitch Con insights! Lots of love from Germany

[@Kelticangel]

Hubby and I still have our ROB 💜 He's the collector - Nintendo Power magazines and all. You guys have got me thinking... maybe it's time to get back into retro gaming myself

[@automatic.loveletter]

need to show my dad this, he’d love it.

[@wickedcraft]

I have a lot of my original consoles and have bought the rest through adulthood. I have everything from an Atari 2600 through the new gen consoles. All of my older ones are working and hooked up to an old CRT through a bunch of A/V switches so I can pick the right combo and get the signal to the TV to play.

[@riuphane]

Easter eggs in games have become just "hidden" nods or special functionally, but the Internet has replaced the Game Informer articles (I still have some copies) or playground conversations.

[@AtticHaunt321]

Odyssey II?! Way to bring back great memories and make me feel ancient in the same statement.

[@lfcps7945]

I've been playing games since I was around the age 6, started on the Spectrum which used cassette tapes to load up games. Games like chucky egg and jet set willy were so fun. I moved onto the Master System, Megadrive, Snes, N64, PlayStation and onwards. When I got older, I bought consoles I never owned to build a collection. I've still got the old consoles in the original packaging 😂

[@michaelmilligan4835]

I watch a lot of pods. I feel like this is gonna be a long running, must watch classic ill be sharing in the future

[@sargranny]

My kids we little when we got Zelda for Nintendo 64. My husband and I were OBSESSED with a while at trying to beat that game!!! Gosh the memories…I was a teen when Atari came out. That dang paddle that you bounced the ball to try to remove all the color blocks…man, that was the first console game I was hooked on. Centipede came out and it was such a let down on Atari…now Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man didn’t disappoint.

[@sarahpatterson6047]

I think you all have a great balance of "fun" and "learning" during phasmo

[@neznor]

So games still have easter eggs but the lack of them is actually an indication of a good thing in the industry due to the orgin of easter eggs. They started as a way for the coders/developers to essentially sign their work. In a lot of old games there were no real credits, just a company name they worked for. Undertale is a fun modern game that includes easter eggs and is kinda like a love letter to older games

[@tamstertx63]

Nintendo Power magazine was so handy!!! I loved reading about the new games and the reviews. I trusted them to tell me which games were worth buying. I also bought quite a few of the Player's Guides for things where I would get stuck

[@purplejellytotPJT]

28:20 I think that might be part (just a part) of why Undertale was/is so popular - it's absolutely full of easter eggs/secrets.

[@rainmaker709]

The PowerGlove is actually a interesting story if you want to know more. The big TL;DR regarding your point though is that it was great but it order to sell it, they kept having to make it cheaper. It was made by a outside engineer and the concept was ahead of it's time. He shopped it around to further develop it but the only companies that were interested were "toy" companies. They had to keep bringing the price down in order to sell it to kids until it was the watered down version that hit market..

[@shanesalmons3838]

im only 21 and i know most of the games they spoke about for NES

[@LaricDuke]

That bit at the end was awesome 😄

[@AncientDebra]

Such a fun episode...I took my own trip down memory lane! PSA: many US public libraries let you check out video games. :-)

[@mtn_linda364]

The first time I played Wolfenstein I was blown away. Such a ground breaker.

[@yerfdog79]

Dang! I can still remember the feel of the loading the cartridge. i was not very gentle, so i would push down and the ledge push the cartridge in

[@tankcy7956]

Mario Bros. was a game for Atari 2600 and NES in 1983 ported over from an Arcade version. Super Mario Bros. came out on Friday 13, 1985 for NES

[@Dekrewteg]

Wolfenstein 3d..then original doom, the duke nukem 3d and original shadow warrior, rise of the triad, quake 1,2 arena etc...this is so the most nostalgic pod cast..nes , there was a sega where y had the cartridge thingy..and it had a CD ROM that could attach to. I thought that was really awesome

[@baosia]

In chonological order: Sega master system 2, snes, original gameboy, n64, gamecube, gameboy advance sp, xbox 360, wii u, nintendo switch... I guess I've been around for a while. My relationship to games are weird though, I suck at completing stuff by myself, but I can watch my friends play for hours, cheering them on until the credits roll

[@SirChaosS]

video games. ok strap in cause you just hit my wheelhouse. 1st: Impulse, the Atari 2800 was 4 bit, NES was 8, SNES/sega Genesys was 16, Playstation/Dreamcast - 32, PS2/Nintendo 64/Xbox were all 64 bit (then i couldn't really keep up, so i stopped keeping track) 2nd: Contra-- ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B, A, B, A, select, start (because i was only ever allowed to play as the 2nd player) 3rd: one of my strongest gaming memories (and the one that frustrates me the most--and i still have not forgiven him for it) took place shortly after Ridge Racer came out (for the Playstation). We (former "friend" and i) had been playing all day. We got to the point we wouldn't even play the game unless we 100%ed Galaga in the beginning, and did the code to unlock the other 8 cars so we had 12 to start with, then would play till we unlocked Angel, AND Demon, so we had all 14 cars available. Anyway we had been playing all day, racing against each other, setting best times and whatnot, well it's getting close to midnight, or even later, and he went to bed (or so i thought) and i'm going and pushing myself to set the best time on this one course. I finally did, and i guess i celebrated a little too loud, because a couple of minutes later he came out of his room and sat down for the sole purpose of wiping me off the top spot. took him like 3 races to do it. and it's always bothered me, not that he could do it. i knew he would. but i thought it would take till the morning. But he couldn't let me have it for ONE night. He just HAD to come out and knock me down. 4th: Skizz mentioned playing against that one guy over and over again, and beating him soundly each time, well this was the opposite: same guy, and i were playing Soul Calibur. (cannot remember if I, II, or III, but not important) He was Astaroth, and I was Siegfried/Nightmare and we knew each other, and how we each played so well, that one night we did a marathon match (no limit to declare a victor. the match just kept going until someone quit) and when we finally had enough it was like 49 - 51 or something wins, so we played over 100 rounds. and many of those rounds were multiple Guard Defense's (a move in SC where if you time it right you not only block the attack but deflect it as well. --SC6 still implements this in a form) so it was just endless deflect, deflect...) so yeah. Video games have been a big part of my formative years, and most of my adult life as well. Glad you guys covered this topic on this podcast. Made me very happily nostalgic. :D PS: family started with the Atari 2400, skipped 26, then got a 2800, NES, SNES (which my dad kept when he and my mom split) N64, (though the family got a Genesys while i was in boot camp), Playstaton. then the mentioned former friend got a Dreamcast (another video game moment that always makes me smile). We then went to a PS2, and Xbox, then the friend got an Xbox 360. At one point, mom got a Wii. I remember playing Wii bowling with her in her room all the time. I don't remember if it was the family's or what, but i was around an Xbox ONE that was eventually given to my nephew for Christmas. but I have since been forced out of console gaming to my great regret. Also at one point a gameQube made a brief appearance, but i hardly remember it.

[@seanomight5401]

Impulse. If you want to buy the old console, they have adapters you can buy so it can run on the newer tvs I'm sure. Rca to hdmi adapter. That's all you'd need.

[@russhood1010]

You guys are awesome. I love your podcast. Keep up the great work.

[@catmus1506]

If you play Golden Eye, you have to play 2v2, no map, and stick a sheet or blanket across the screen. One team is on the couch, and the other is under the sheet. Oh, the memories. 😅

[@Frankengribble]

Also as a side note... Going to see Tool in Eugene OR on the 17th this month for like the 19thish time. Love ya fellas! Thanks for the podcast! 😁😁😁

[@bigocb]

I had the Odyssey console too. It was cool

[@braddawg33]

The same exact thing happened to me when I tried phasmo vr. I have never struggled with motion sickness in anything before, vr especially. After being in phasmo for like 5 minutes I had to lay down because I was starting to feel sick.

[@MSGsTreasures]

My favorite games from systems i owned growing up: Atari - Combat NES - Tecmo Bowl or Contra SNES - Super Tecmo Bowl lol PS1 - Diablo or Final Fantasy 7 PS2 - SOCOM 2 PS3 - Rockband PS4 - too many to think of 😅 PC - Civilization, City of Heroes, Minecraft

[@charissam8971]

I always appreciate that you guys are my age, and have similar life experiences, and still play games too, lol. I really appreciate that and relate so much of the time. And listening to this podcast was like right out of my childhood! Love the podcasts, keep them coming. LLRR BABA select start😅

[@WonkyWater-YT]

Oh my gosh i just know I'm gonna love this! As someone who knows too much about Nintendo I'm excited!

[@sargranny]

Gosh, our first gaming console was an Atari. Man, I feel so old!!!

[@tntlwh2210]

Started on the Super Nintendo, but I feel like my true gaming experience started on the N64. Still have one today and will likely never get rid of it.