Macedonian Video Game History - My Slavic Christmas Holiday Retro Gaming Memories from the Balkans

[@jpzuri]

nice, brother! greetings from Brazil

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

Thank you so much! Brazilian gaming history is incredible.

[@jaimecavazos9090]

Hello Gaming Pal Ollie!!! Amazing video right there, I loved the millennial fair music , great footage of your city back in the day, great game history and gameplay. Thanks for share some of your thoughts, history and life as a gamer!! I’m from Mexico and we have something call “mercados” which is like a flea market , as you described in your video, people selling items in the streets or parks, with tents and tables; I don’t know how pricy games were in Masedonia, but at least in Mexico were kind of expensive until we got to the PS1-Xbox era , that’s where the ilegal game copies were around $20 pesos (like 2 dollars at that time ) but before, everything gaming related, was more expensive. I had a cousin that had a bootleg NES cassette with many games , and every Christmas I used to go to his home and play that :) great nostalgia moment right there :) Keep the good content coming Ollie !! Great work.

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

Thanks, bud, this means a lot. I dunno for how long I can keep making videos before I have to get back to work :) but I will keep at it for as long as I can! Awesome comment, thanks man.

[@jaimecavazos9090]

@ when you go back to work, we will wait patiently for you to come back with new videos, I am already subscribed with notifications, so as soon as you have a new video, I will be here first row to watch it !!

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

@@jaimecavazos9090 Well last time it took more than 5 years :) It's really not possible for me to do illustration AND make videos and have time for gaming.

[@jaimecavazos9090]

@@GamingPalOllieMK 5 years, that’s a lot of time, but no worries, we will always wait for you. Also, if there is any way to support your work following you in social media or other channels, I will definitely do it !!

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

@@jaimecavazos9090 thanks, bro, but no I don't want to turn this into an influencer thing, it's just a private channel for me to share my thoughts and feelings on gaming. I'm still going to be making videos for the forseeable future, at least until September so I should cover my favorite topics like VFD games, arcade games in Macedonia, I will talk about the positive effects piracy had on countries like mine and so on.

[@IvanSpaceBiker]

I always play supersmash bros on the gamecube with my brother on christmas every year and make burritoes, we live in australia, its interesting hearing other peoples sense of meaningfulness of digital/virtual experiences.

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

Nintendo systems are just made for christmas :) Smash is the perfect game for the holidays to play with siblings and cousins

[@jeromedado7416]

I luv famiclone, no struggle to connect on modern TV plus replaceable controller has unlike the Japanese Famicom. 😊

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

I personally use the AV Famicom for both my original famicom and famiclone games nowadays, most famiclones are very low quality devices that break easily but the AV Famicom is sturdy and well made, very stable too. You can use standard NES controllers and it has regular controller ports, none of that built in nonsense.

[@jeromedado7416]

@@GamingPalOllieMK for 5$ dollars, it's was not a big deal.it's cheap, but it's works for me. I have 3 famiclone, the quality is not great, but it's really worth it for my daily used for more than 2 years now.! 😊