Late 2000’s NYC with GTA TBoGT pause menu music

12 years..

[@raines5849]

Man that time square picture at night with Left 4 dead 2 and The Ballad Of Gay Tony billboards speak volumes on how great Gaming was in the late 2000s and how much more of a serious sense of entertainment it was becoming

[@zerfixxz]

1:16

[@xxafthabxx9346]

And here we are today :(

[@ParryPro]

The best generation, the best games!!! 🙌❤‍🔥

[@GrinchGallery]

Nah dead ass

[@EPICFAILKING1]

Golden era of gaming 2005 - 2015. 2008/9 was such a good year for gaming, miss it everyday.

[@Miltypooh2001]

as a Brooklyn resident can confirm that we keep on walking all over new york because of the nostalgia that gta 4 gave us

[@mertpolat7300]

one of my life goal is your typical day :D hope i will come to New York one day

[@togone0three]

@@mertpolat7300 Trust me it not worth to live in NYC traffics , chaos , high rent or house prices for good places , hustlers , homless and drug addicts so dangerious for who is foregin to NYC as Istanbul and every day is monotone with those , you have your own NYC 😬🤫

[@togone0three]

@@mertpolat7300 Also you can see only creature is bird in NYC streets except people. nature is zero in NYC if you dont cross the new Jersey.

[@DingoXBX]

as a Dominican Jersey resident i can confirm Luis is very relatable lol

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

@@togone0three There's also a lot of jobs, people to meet, utilities close by, shorter travel time, ability to WALK to places, you won't be alone or feel lonely, and frankly there is more to do, it's not BORING like rural areas are. It is absolutely worth it to live in a city, it's better than rural areas.

[@Gust2000]

Ah yes... 2009 and 2010. GTA IV, Left 4 Dead 2, Prototype, Alien vs Predator, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed II, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, F.E.A.R. 2, Army of Two, Killing Floor, Minecraft (very early tho), BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Asphalt 4: Elite Racing, The King of Fighters XII, Guitar Hero 5, Borderlands, Tekken 6...

[@K3ntucky123]

Finally, someone remembers army of two!

[@sul835]

Just take me back to the 2000s.

[@ilmarocchinochevendeilfumo]

You are lucky, bcuz you experienced it

[@jeffrey5654]

The first shot with the TBOGT release date almost made me tear up. I remember playing this game back in 2010 as a kid, had so much fun. The nostalgia hits hard, damn.

[@TheVinewoodGuy]

I haven't played GTA IV, TLAD and TBOGT yet, still this music gives me a feeling of nostalgia, something I have never experienced.... This music is just perfect... Idk why it brings tears to my eyes

[@Ismail-ho4wu]

You should play them freind , complete the main story Niko's then play the Expansions you won't regret it ...

[@trevorphilips9065]

Or follow GTA series videos Walkthroughs do all 3 stories together

[@TheVinewoodGuy]

@@trevorphilips9065 I watched the whole gta 4 88 missions with every mission choice on gta series videos channel, I saw people saying gta 4's story is the best in the gta series, I couldn't resist myself from watching it yet I haven't played it now but i know the whole story Also, I completed watching tbogt only tlad is remaining. I hope I could play it on day on my own pc :')

[@Deni7s]

These games are my all time favourite games

[@KHPKero]

same i just played them last year yet it gives me nostalgia for like 2012-2011 these years when i learned to use a pc and was playing gta vc and sonic adventure and many old games

[@baldirobs]

Gta IV pause music: ☠️ Gta TLAD pause music:☠️ Gta TBoGT pause music :🎵😌🎶

[@Gallo_Inc]

0:00 I can’t tell if the tbogt advertisement is photoshopped or not If it isn’t,seeing that irl in 2009 would’ve been hella awesome

[@Entroph08542]

I remember seeing GTA 4 advertisements in 2008 Maybe that's Real

[@D.aniell]

It’s real there was also one in Los Angeles

[@thejamester2005]

@Biggus Dickulon ??

[@prplskelly]

@@thejamester2005 to the left of the Conan ad, text goes from the ground up

[@usernameonutube]

LOL ok zoomer

[@bernardo290499111]

Im 24 yo now, but in 2009 I traveled to NY with my family, saw Wicked in Broadway, bought Eminem's new Relapse CD Album along with some Shabba Rank's CD's just because of GTA SA reggae radio station, I remember being mesmorized by everything in New York, even being in a taxi with a indian driver felt like a hollywood/GTA IV experience lmao, best hotdogs i've ever ate too. It was an experience I'll never forget, also seing those huge game ads was so awesome, just like the one in the video. Thank you for posting this.

[@JuriSins]

I remember spending countless hours playing online when everybody was at the airport. There was the modder that added in ramps for everybody to use as well. I still remember the whole lobby racing across the map while in pursuit of the cops before making a standoff at the airport, using the helicopters to fight them off. Those were magical times..

[@jotajsmoint]

join us on gta connected bro

[@EvilBlvckChimeraxNxrthstar]

I can't be the ONLY one who peeped the brazzers logo in the second pic. lmao

[@Martin-gr1fm]

God, this brings me to the good ol' times, playing TBoGT on my PS3, ah the nostalgia...

[@thedrbat9572]

WAIT IT WAS ADVERTISED IN TIMES SQUARE!!! thats actually insane, i lived in new york during that time (and still do) but i never noticed that.

[@EJFF.]

I’m not from New York and didn’t really see how it was advertised there but I do remember the hype for games around this time getting a lot more serious like that. Such a crazy time to look back on now that gaming is somehow even more popular and relevant lol!

[@Carnagepc5]

You have no idea how lucky you are to be living in NYC.

[@hokage1997]

@@Carnagepc5 i wouldnt call high ass rent for a small apartment "lucky" youd be better off living in upstate NY instead of NYC

[@dappermaverick]

@@Carnagepc5 you have no idea how wrong the sentence you just typed is

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

@@Carnagepc5 It's not that strange man, you know how big NYC is? You can fit a lot of people into that city...and there ARE a lot of people in that city. They live there. They are born there, they grow up in the city, they move there, they choose to live there, they work in the city.

[@paco680]

I just wish to go back to the 2000s, everyone was happier, life and everything was much easier, so sad that the best moments you live are never coming back,all that remains are the memories🥺😢

[@zerozeroone4424]

Was too young to play GTA back then, and didn't have HD consoles either, but listening to this in 2021 and 2022 still leaves me with a nostalgic sense for some reason

[@EPICFAILKING1]

You missed out man, and at the time the graphics were HD. Back then games were a lot more developed and actually worked upon release, except these days companies prioritise visuals over actual substance. Game industry peaked in 2015 at the latest, if you weren't there before then their is no way you could understand just how great things were back then.

[@Flaccidtetris]

I wish I was 10 years older so I could have actually savored the 2000s

[@labenvenci1584]

I miss when things were going strong in 2006 - 2013. I call it "The Optimism Era". Because looking back on it, I feel good because I was excited to see all these new things, like the PS3, GTA and the advancement of phones and the world coming together via social media becoming a big thing. Moving on from 9/11 and going toward just advancing. Like, we haven't improved at all since then. We may never get a era like that again. Where Gaming and media as a whole was getting huge and we were excited to see what may come up next as we were moving away from the 90s / 2000s into the modern, futuristic era with HDTVs, and more highpowered stuff with the economy getting better. Then we got bored and gaming and media as a whole became depressing due to companies getting lazy and greedy rather then innovating. Like with the GTA4 / L4D2 posters, we can blame Rockstar for making us depressed over the last 7 years by giving us a gem then hyping us up for V then constantly re-releasing it, and Valve letting them rake money rather then make new things, and leaving that era behind. Just, after gaming moved to Mobile and Social Media became more integrated with more ways to charge for extensions (I.E DLC and Microtransactions), companies just sorta gave up because of low effort. The internet was improving fast, and people were excited to upgrade and hop onto the Social Media trend. Even Phones were improving to high-tech touch screens with more screen capabilities to use web browsers. And that was the downfall. Tech improved for phones like that, and same with gaming. But people found ways to make more money on people on phones. And advancing kinda just stopped. We're still stuck in that era somewhat where phones are still the same but more higher quality, and it's getting worse. And social media limited people interacting like they did, where people were hip and with the times, wearing bright clothes, having fun on the outside and looking back and reflecting but then quiet and distant. Everyone became a shell of what they were that tech took over lives with the social media trend hitting like a storm with people looking for approval. No one is truly themselves anymore like in that era where people were excited for the future. One-day, mabye we'll have it come back. Where we move away from the 2015s to the 2030 or something. Idk. But that era may never come back in this life time where we moved away from a dark age and the world became connected.

[@nitroxwolf2098]

90's and 2000's will always be the golden edge imo. Nothing will ever come close I wish the 90's and 2000's came back in some shape or form.

[@Vhie05]

I find it interesting how 2010-2015 (and first half of 2016) was always considered the last leg before we "felt" a change in life and the world. I was quite younger so therefore I was impressed by new technology. "Trends" were just fun and energetic, Flappy Bird, Gangnam Style, early version of memes, plus the Ice Bucket Challenge was a fundraiser compared to modern "challenges" which involves someone getting injured. Gotta miss when social media trends haven't become "dangerous" yet. Back when Marvel movies were fun and and didn't feel like a big clutter of ideas. Back when mobile gaming was fun (much love to clash of clans) and devs put their soul into a device that isn't suited for gaming. Back when reading kids' magazines was fun (at least where I live) and still had that "rad" appeal and cool appeal, I was impressionable & younger back then. Back when going to the library to get Scholastic story books was fun because you'd always be hyped for a new issue/print than just binging most stuff. Same with anticipating TV show episodes rather than binging. Man your comment hits hard especially the part when people became a shell of what they become. Kinda feels like deja vu that we expected the 2020s to be the start of a decade for everyone to start fresh and look forward... Until the pandemic & many things arrived. I was kinda lucky to have grown up around the "last leg" and felt the "radness, epicness, and coolness, wickedness" of the early 2010s.

[@phil_cassidy]

Optimism died in, like, 2001.

[@OMGKawaiiAngelll]

@@Vhie05 yeah we were lucky to be born in the late 90s/early 2000s

[@Flaccidtetris]

You hit the nail on the head unfortunately, it's hard to predict what the future will be like but it's looking bleak so far

[@julcthe]

This has a strong feeling of times changing forever. Everyone misses the 2000's and the early 2010's because, they had somethings that we'll never get. 1.Our youthness and 2( the most I miss) is the internet. remember how pleasant and friendly and yet so hatefull was youtube until 2013-2014? man I miss having no restrictions on youtube and make vlogs on my old channel.

[@ThaPugster]

this made me feel feeling i cant explain, i remember the warm summer i spent the entirety of inside playing this shit, and will never forget the tbogt racing, drag racing sultans, glitching into clubs, and getting all the trophies lmao damn its really been almost 13 years

[@julcthe]

I totally feel you man... Back in the summer of 2010 and 2011 I had a yt channel where I vlogged

[@AndroidSunner]

a world i long to return to, but I never could.

[@nyctmtakid8358]

This is very nostalgic knowing that I lived in NYC during this time and understand the vibe during this time. I was only about 1 or 2 years old, But I remember almost everything like it was yesterday. I obviously didn't know what GTA was at the time but the 2000's vibe still takes me back.

[@nascar-fanjunkie5062]

The second the music started and that first shot of time square with the TBOGT and LFD2 billboards were on screen I instantly felt a mist of nostalgia. Like looking through a growing fog of an era that is long gone and you wish you could go back. God I remember the hours of GTA IV I had playing online. It feels like a myth now. Like it never even happened. Man, how I wish I could turn back to clock. This is an era that just went away too soon… 😢

[@supersonicfan115]

An absolute masterpiece of a soundtrack! It sounds so damn peaceful! I absolutely love it!

[@souvikrc4499]

That was part of my childhood, visiting relatives in NYC during the late 2000s.

[@danielpetit-frere2376]

Please take me back to 2000s. My NYC childhood

[@epicmatrix2208]

I wanna go back so damn much

[@ilikepotato2741]

You move out of New York too?

[@stanleybochenek1862]

Never been to New York but it feels right

[@stanleybochenek1862]

@@ilikepotato2741 he might mean like a time machine

[@epicmatrix2208]

@@ilikepotato2741 i was talking about the late 2000s, never been to nyc

[@ilikepotato2741]

@@epicmatrix2208 oh, that explains it, yeah, I do too

[@pureexistence_]

I'm 14 and got to experience this game when I was 4 or 5 I still go back to it on my pc.

[@spencerfreeman9064]

Same here

[@XxDragon345]

same

[@frankvalencia3144]

Same

[@kyky3uabra697]

Same)， but i'm 16.

[@stanleybochenek1862]

Let’s build a Time Machine guys

[@julcthe]

I'm so fucking up for it

[@NagiSeiun]

In November of this year. We had a family vacation to NYC, then London. When we came back from London, we spent a day a NYC, then went back home. I haven't been to NYC in 11 before this trip.. It felt so different and amazing how much NYC has visually altered over the years. Best vacation ever.

[@rafox66]

The nostalgia hits very hard with this. This theme already felt nostalgic back in the day, now it's on another level.

[@theogrx9602]

I remember one morning in 2009 there was the sun coming through the window, the birds chirping and then I turned on my Xbox 360 to play this wonder its times I miss it :(

[@life4trinity]

Nostalgia hitting me like a truck goddamn

[@n_j2414]

Good old best days that I wanna live forever olden days wish I could meet those times again, this music always be in our soul forever ❤️❤️

[@Aleksandr2000play]

NOSTALGIA!!! A am crying 😢 😢 Please, back my 2010 year!!! BEST MUSIC!!!! And now, I am holding a licensed GTA IV Complete Edition 2010 disc with original music in my hands! And I understand that my new gaming computer does not have a DVD drive, and I don’t want to play the Steam version due to the lack of multiplayer and music!!!

[@stanleybochenek1862]

Yeah..

[@WYosemite7605]

If you downgrade to Windows 7 and install IV you will hear the music. I had the version with that music last year when I had Windows 7 but I no longer can hear it as I have Windows 10 now with the 2020 version of the game

[@Aleksandr2000play]

​@@WYosemite7605 Windows 7, Windows Aero, Games for Windows LIVE... Ahhh... Nostalgia I'm crying 😢 😢 another

[@xbaldwin97]

2009 what a time for gaming take me back best gta by far

[@DingoXBX]

so nostalgic, just reminds me of when we drove through Manhattan at night every weekend to my aunt's apartment in early 2010s and looking at the skyline from the G.W Bridge in Jersey. Just really takes me back

[@TheGodQuac]

This has strong 2000's vibe , reminds me of how much fun I had with my friends in GTA 4

[@C.A._Old]

*Turth About American Dream.*

[@ParryPro]

The best generation, the best games!!! 🙌❤‍🔥 ☕🧐

[@beny1366]

I've beat the game and joined army afterwards! Good ol times

[@toasterboy2003]

I miss 2013 it was fun and simple no flying cars or flying bikes I could either keep on walking or just shoot my friends for the fun of it hopefully we can get remasters of these games and go on the swingsets

[@DzinkyDzink]

Back when life was easier, back when we were not at each other's throats, back when we had =3

[@GTAHeavyImpact]

5:22 Mmmm.... what a view, what a music....

[@nillazilla22]

If I had a Time Machine and would go back to 2008-2009 and stay stuck.

[@SquidCena]

KZbin then was amazing man...

[@nillazilla22]

Yeah

[@nillazilla22]

And not the bs it is now.

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

So you'd want to live during a global recession? You need help.

[@nillazilla22]

@@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty well i don’t care because I’ll still be 2 3 years old

[@GALuigi]

Lol it's like time froze after 2013 and now we're all stuck in a soulless corporate dystopia. At least back then we had a reason to be hyped for new releases of games, media and tech, because the machine gave us things to enjoy. Now the corporations make products for the streamers and social media influencers and not the average consumer, and everything has become soulless and fake. Straight up. Why else do you think this generation relies so heavily on these nostalgia-type videos, even if they haven't experienced these things?? It's honestly because the generations before us lived in reality and had a lot more to look forward to. This generation (Gen Z and Alpha) were the first ones to truly grow up in a different reality (online) and the machine has taken advantage of that by taking everything we used to enjoy and turning it into a cash grab, and we as the consumer continue to support the machine because it's all we know. And now we're just letting them shit all over us while we look back at times we never experienced, just to escape this pathetic post-capitalist society. Maybe I'm thinking way too deep about this, and I'm not the best at explaining things, but hopefully someone out there gets what I'm saying.

[@Neeko-Cat]

i feel you bro.

[@Desyy37]

I'd say things took a turn after 2016.

[@jacobbaird951]

I keep on walkin' all over the city.

[@gaaab.762]

*goosebumps and memories*

[@BrutusBeats]

I don't know if you edited the pictures with this but it looks amazing! Well done! looks so lively and colorful, the blur of the cars passing also give more emphasis to the atmosphere.

[@sickox2333]

i dont know why but i get shivers from this video

[@minnmaxxing6432]

I always wondered what the club scene must've been like back then, all of the electroclash and DFA a guy like me could ever want.

[@thefunnyguyaha]

goddamn, if time machines were a thing, i’d probably go back to 2009, even if I couldn’t go back, I would do it, just to relive everything again.

[@Extazyxd]

Make it 1 hour loop pleaseee!! This makes me so nostalgic...

[@stanleybochenek1862]

Yes

[@Jeludes]

It's crazy to think that I played this game back in 2012. GTA4/TBOGT/TLAD were truly one of a kind that will never be surpassed in my opinion. Even the theme songs are perfection. It really brings a tear to my eye knowing that we will never experience this again..

[@ralphm2425]

I literally took the train to brighton beach a few months ago for the gta iv vibes

[@tmx9244]

Next early 2000s NYC with GTA 3 Music

[@burakcglynn]

pure nostalgia for my childhood

[@deinemuddastinktnachbudda]

Love the song at the disco where the kid is singing😂😂😂

[@stanleybochenek1862]

oh god scp 1471 pfp

[@Perrypedia81]

Dude it’s crazy to see that gta tbogt in the great square and in the game is In the same city 😂

[@EseCriminal]

Vuélveme a tiempos de Gay Tony 🙌🙏🏽

[@lecarlosljrobinsonjr4933]

I would love to visit new York

[@BRAHH0-0]

Went to Times Square months ago wished I had seen this before

[@Suffinex]

vibe

[@ArekoL]

So damn great!

[@ME-Four-Twelve]

omg this is bliss.

[@ABVAX.on-XBL]

I miss these days I still have the game but I wanna go back to those years games were simpler back then and I miss em I really do I wish we could’ve stayed in the 2000-2016 era

[@sf-wo2jg]

2009 If I can go back around this time, I want to play tbogt online and buy up bitcoins.

[@jeyserfm2009]

Es épico y nostalgico esa foto

[@santiagoelsantos645]

What a city.😍

[@villian99918]

These were good times, technology was changing but wasn’t going at the rapid rate that it is now. It didn’t feel as exhausting to be in but maybe it’s the nostalgia talking.

[@reyfox200]

Nostalgia ps3 2010 😭

[@Hazard65]

When you keep on walking all over the city

[@thedrbat9572]

7:15 thats not late 2000's because the world trade center wasnt fixed until 2014

[@TabbyEgg312]

yeah it was half fixed in 2012 so it wouldnt be true

[@EunosRDSTR]

Took me 10 months to find this comment, but yeah just noticed.

[@thedrbat9572]

@@EunosRDSTR lol, congrats for finding it.

[@carreviewer6345]

​​@@thedrbat9572*The One World Trade Center and the construction started in 2006 I believe what you meant to say is that it wasn't finished until 2014 and you'd be right

[@murkdsgameplay3958]

Keep on walking on the streets of Manhattan

[@Cazkumali]

GTA IV Ballad of gay Tony is the best pause theme

[@Foxtrox15]

29 october , 2009

[@Arische234]

There is something about this pause screen music

[@markzone473]

Im seriously starting to question myself, was i born at the right time or the wrong time to play these games. My "real" life just feels perfect, the friends i have are just perfect, but then there's the games. People seem to enjoy the games in the 2000s alot and i, who was born in 2008, have missed on what these guys were enjoying. Never got in touch with a few multiplayer i would to play nowadays and when i do, its just a barren wasteland. Happened with battlefield 3, i felt like i was just late to the war. I just walk through the maps where the supposed battles would happen. Its all empty. No one left but me. Only a few games survive the modernization part of gaming, like tf2, l4d2, gta online. Its just that i hate game companies nowadays. They only focus on money more than games. these guys just make me feel like i was born at the wrong time. The only way i will stop feeling like this is if they stop caring about money and then focus on game mechanics and make it as memorable as possible. I'd much rather play games from the 2000s to 2016 because it felt like they were still made with love and dedication

[@noah_am_i]

Nice

[@darth890]

Hope y’all doing alright. If you came for the sake reasons I did

[@mariosarmientonogueira]

Que buena melodia

[@Reggedit.]

nostalgia?

[@colorojo145]

Mgmt Empire the sun

[@alexp15-]

why is mine just the gta 4 song lol the lost and damned has a unique pause menu track but tbogt just has the base gta 4 one

[@shtupidmate]

copyright for the tbogt song has unfortunately expired

[@Preston_R_S]

Was that a real advertisement at the beginning?

[@thefunnyguyaha]

yes

[@ShrimpyManZ]

Now post a video from 2001

[@CaptainGinyu]

2009-2010... it was like the last hurrah before social justice ruined everything

[@raines5849]

You must've been in a coma then because games we're being trashed on since the 80s

[@EJFF.]

What does this even mean lol? How has social justice ruined anything when 99% of gamers say shit like this constantly Just bringing up politics to ruin vibes when they was probably born in 08 anyways and don’t actually remember what life was like back then💀

[@CaptainGinyu]

@@EJFF. ur havin a massive reddit moment bud

[@usernameonutube]

@@EJFF. it’s called Marxism it ruins everything

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

This statement is so wrong it's embarrassing. Shows how little you know of social values, too.

[@BosniaNewsNow]

Brazzers? Wtf

[@georgedeboo9046]

Would these photographs be AI generated?

[@thefunnyguyaha]

no.