I mentioned that EB Games is the Canadian equivalent of GameStop in the video. What I mean by that is to this day in Canada they still have EB Games and virtually no GameStop stores. They are the exact same company originating from a single retail store called Babbage's that eventually became Electronic's Boutique (EB). The company itself is from the United States and is not to be confused as a Canadian owned company.
@papajoe62636 жыл бұрын
New Zealand has EB games
@TheVonzilla6 жыл бұрын
+Rerez I always assumed EB Games became Game Stop, with the red and white logos being the same, and just how EB disappeared and Game Stop showed up. I used to love Babbage’s, & I also had no idea they became EB. I guess I never cared enough since I could buy games anywhere.
@papajoe62636 жыл бұрын
Von Solo the Oldest Millennial maybe just a New Zealand thing, back in the day we used to have gamesman
@protoman12146 жыл бұрын
Yeah I remember growing up with EB games in both New York and Cali
@ilikecurry23456 жыл бұрын
We could've kept Kiddy and younger Tiny!
@dingdongbells33146 жыл бұрын
As others have noted, this was fantastically interesting, but it seemed to lean a bit heavy on the rare side. I'm sure a hundred page binder from EB games must be packed with other similar oddities that you might've missed. It would be a *rare* treasure if maybe you could upload some scans of the binder, if only for the sake of preserving history.
@TheCartoonGamer80006 жыл бұрын
Mr. Pants was actually a pre-existing Rare mascot. You can see him on a TV in Banjo-Tooie and he also makes an appearance in Jet Force Gemini. I still really wish we got Donkey Kong Racing...
@malikrulez156 жыл бұрын
TheCartoonGamer8000 We kind of did with barrel blast on the Wii.
@skittlesilly6 жыл бұрын
But that isn't the same.
@maymaymanufacturer13515 жыл бұрын
Thinking of mr.pants’ name reminded me of EAT PANT Remember when that was a meme ?
@Smartacus4202 жыл бұрын
@@malikrulez15 and diddy kong racing
@ninjasec6 жыл бұрын
I signed the binder for 64DD to be reserved still waiting for my call...
@OnlyEpicEmber6 жыл бұрын
Have you been waiting for 20 years?
@ninjasec6 жыл бұрын
@@OnlyEpicEmber yes
@matt_ferr6 жыл бұрын
ninjasec did you get a refund?
@ricksgiggle88525 жыл бұрын
@@matt_ferr of course not. Hes still waiting to get it.
@peopleman142266 жыл бұрын
EB games existed throughout the US before Game Stop purchased them. They were founded as a partnership between the company that purchased Babbage's IP, and Barnes and Noble booksellers.
@christopherwernette16486 жыл бұрын
Kevin Lippes I was going to mention this as well. I live in the metro-Detroit MI area and rememeber Twelve Oaks mall a few miles from my house having both an EB Games and a Gamestop. I bought a PS2 from EB Games in the JC Penny wing because they had better trade in value toward new consoles, but bought most of the games from the Gamestop that was in the central atrium of the mall because at the time, they had better used games pricing. Both existed even for a couple years after the buyout occurred, then EB Games turned into an Auntie Anne's I think.
@LikaLaruku6 жыл бұрын
I remember Electronics Boutique fondly in the glory days of malls.
@ChaossX776 жыл бұрын
@@LikaLaruku I had an Electronics Boutique in a mall in Pennsylvania in the late 90's early 00's. It switched to a Game Stop later on.
@AngryRamboShow6 жыл бұрын
I remember EB Games. But do you remember Funcoland?
@adiuntesserande68934 жыл бұрын
Indeed, this resulted in some rather humourous situations. As an example, when they rebranded all EB Games stores in the US as GameStops, this resulted in Lloyd Center Mall in Portland, Oregon having *two* GameStops, one on the first floor and one on the second, less than 20 metres away. This was all a result of GameStop having set the one on the first floor up in direct competition to the older EB Games on the second floor. When they bought EB Games, part of the purchase agreement was that they couldn't close any EB stores for five years, nor rebrand them for three. Exactly at the three year mark, they rebranded all of them, resulting in the oddity in Portland. The moment the fifth year exhausted, they stopped paying rent on two storefronts in the same mall.
@thesilverjackal6 жыл бұрын
I was a manager at a local Babbages around 1998-2001 or so. We had so many of these binders and had an internal email system that would email us news blasts that printed out on upcoming games, reservations and promotions. Saw so many cool games come out around that time :)
@Tentacle6 жыл бұрын
Seeing as you passed it but never actively commented on it; The picture of Meowth with the guitar was another planned game for the Gamecube. However due to development issues, it's assets would be re-purposed for Pokemon Channel.
@driftercarbon6 жыл бұрын
Still think it should have been the Meowth version of Gitaroo Man.
@dee-jayluig-jay53526 жыл бұрын
actually it appears in pokemon channel
@StriderVM6 жыл бұрын
It's not really a game. It was a Gamecube demo. Then those demo assets were repurposed for Pokemon Channel.
@stephenfiler32043 жыл бұрын
I honestly find it hard to believe that tech demo was ever planned to be a full game. Every model except Meowths is ripped straight from Pokemon Stadium.
@Cool-Spot6 жыл бұрын
Microsoft buying Rare was bad for everyone
@JustinJTime6 жыл бұрын
Yup...and they still are feeling the effects of that buyout. They are now pretty much a non-existing company.
@Rountree19856 жыл бұрын
No it wasn’t.
@xdy21-gaming966 жыл бұрын
Microsoft is bad for everyone XD
@BarHonigfeld6 жыл бұрын
+Quube Are you talking about Banjo - Cars of Dissapointment? TBH I have to agree woth Cool Spot here, the quality of games from rare has dropped immensely after the Microsoft aquisition. With two exceptions on different sides of the spectrum: Star Fox - Dinosaur Planet was a pretty boring and directionless Zelda clone and happened (obviously) before the aquisition and Viva Pinata was pretty good and happened after the aquisition. But on average rare lost a lot of thunder.
@BarHonigfeld6 жыл бұрын
+Quube I have to conceit that I have not played Grabbed by the Ghoulies and actually forgot it even existed. But I did make a point about going into Nuts and Bolts with an open mind and giving it every chance I could, but I just couldn't enjoy it. Sea of Thieves is another game I haven't played myself, but literally everyone I know and every video game outlet I follow (which is, like 5 podcasts) were disappointed by it. But, for fairness sake I won't argue against it as I haven't played it. I wasn't a fan of Perfect Dark for N64 or X360, so that's a tie in my eyes. It seems like a cheap shot even mentioning that, but rare were kinda forced into developing for Kinect, which I felt hindered them from developing something worthwhile. Yet again, that is subjective, I know... But in the end all I can give is my opinion, so I think that is a fair point.
@RogerLaLoutre6 жыл бұрын
The tilt sensor was also used in Yoshi's Universal Gravitation (Yoshi Topsy-Turvy, in the US). A Yoshi game everybody forgot...
@DryPaperHammerBro5 жыл бұрын
I've got a copy!
@supernintendo1822 жыл бұрын
I only remember that game because I saw an ad for it in Nick magazine (RIP)
@exturkconner6 жыл бұрын
Electronics Boutique was plentiful in the US until game stop bought them out. And I believe previously EB had bought out Babbage's .
@ToonamiT0M6 жыл бұрын
Can confirm. My local mall use to have both a Game Stop and EB.
@ronaldchaplin80946 жыл бұрын
Eb used to be more about computer games, but then when they merged with Gamestop they became Gamestops in all but name, until eventually they even changed the name.
@shroomie1086 жыл бұрын
Can also confirm. My mall had an electronics boutique next to the arcade so i always went in there. Than they moved down the street to become ebgames and they are now gamestop. Insert evil empire music here. Now all game stores are gamestop muahhahahahha sigh i need to proof read more. Stupid spelling errors.
@Dorelaxen6 жыл бұрын
Same here. One mall in my town had a Babbages, the other an Electronics Boutique, which changed to EB Games, and a FuncoLand. The Babbages disappeared, the FuncoLand disappeared, the EB changed to a GameStop, and then like 10 other GameStop locations popped up.
@Floppybot6 жыл бұрын
Same, our mall had an Electronics Boutique (which eventually changed their name to EB Games) and a GameStop. Then the merger happened and we we had two Gamestops for a while before they closed one of them. I'll never forget being a kid in a different mall and making the connection that Electronics Boutique and EB Games were the same store lmao
@ReplayStation6 жыл бұрын
Dang it! I was going to open a game store called Games Blop, but now the name's taken...
@BigSkylar6 жыл бұрын
If He didnt copyright it you still could
@eins20015 жыл бұрын
Why not Games Flop?
@CDRiley5 жыл бұрын
Why Games Shop?
@Nintendude.5 жыл бұрын
ReplayStation your user name sounds nice for a Game Store and you don't have to limited yourself with just PS games since I've seen some game stores in my life with Nintendo related names and they handled most about anything you can think of.
@samtron50005 жыл бұрын
I worked at a couple different game stores back in the early 2000s... so these binders had info placed in them by company representatives. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all had their own reps. The reps would set up demos, displays, educate employees, and often had lots of goodies to give employees like lanyards, mugs, and shirts that you couldn't get anywhere else. They came in about once a month... they usually put the new info in the binder and took out old inaccurate info.
@emwearz6 жыл бұрын
The artwork and animation in this video is beautiful. Amazing production values all round, loved it. Cheers.
@fattiger69576 жыл бұрын
Imagine how different Nintendo would be now if they were smart enough to buy Rare when they had a chance. Due to the MS buyout, Nintendo lost out on potentially a bunch of good games and Rare slowly morphed into the Rare of today (a pathetic perversion of its former self)
@MartellThaCool6 жыл бұрын
Let's hope that Nintendo and Microsoft/rare work together
@rolandoroyster85366 жыл бұрын
Since Microsoft and Nintendo have been all friendly lately it would be interesting if they worked on a project together
@BarHonigfeld6 жыл бұрын
With Xbox live being somehow on the Switch with Minecraft and Microsoft being on record allowing their IPs (esp. Banjo) to appear in Smash Brothers if Nintendo wants them to I actually see a chance. Also Microsoft already releases all their stuff for Windows anyway so pure Xbox exclusives are a thing of the past it seems.
@Jigsaw23836 жыл бұрын
Martell Tha Cool hell no
@warbossgegguz6796 жыл бұрын
I mean, Nintendo did fine post-Rare. Sure, DKC was dormant for a while, but that's really the most they suffered. Judging by Rare's later projects at the time like Star Fox Adventures and Grabbed by the Ghoulies, it's clear they were kind of going down hill even before the buyout. A lot of old staff had already left by that point.
@pizzagroom62216 жыл бұрын
u should have just called this "Rare's unreleased Nintendo games" tbh. Just adding one non Rare game is kinda sad; there isn't more "lost" games> Perhaps you could have saved Raven Blade for a future video? but on the other hand this was about that book, so
@LikaLaruku6 жыл бұрын
Plus unreleased Zelda games could have been it's own episode.
@rubyeyeshabranigdu5 жыл бұрын
My boy! This video is amazing! Special thanks to You and Unseen64 for this! I love everything retro game related! Seriously this is your best video ever made imo! Because this video brought tears to my eyes! Tears of happiness! Thanks!
@MysticNessly6 жыл бұрын
I ♥️ this channel! So informative and entertaining! Your coverage of obscure facts / history is unlike any other. ALSO LOVED that BanjoKazooie chat bubble skit you did 😉
@Angryeddie146 жыл бұрын
Woah, hey guys welcome to EB games
@GamerDave19742 жыл бұрын
I like your retro gaming videos dude! Very informative and brings back a LOT of memories lol.
@donvelvet95566 жыл бұрын
Ah. A Napster shirt. Lars Ulrich would no be proud
@brycestrife56053 жыл бұрын
I'm new to this channel . Loving the back catalog!
@SECONDQUEST6 жыл бұрын
EB GAMES ALSO EXISTED IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
@CreamerOfTheDairySquad4 жыл бұрын
Remember X-Play with Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb? I used to watch thst to learn about new games. And i had Playstation Monthly (PSM) Magazine.
@JimmysALilGirl Жыл бұрын
I love seeing physical proof of "lost media". If you ever get a chance to check out anything else like this, I'll watch it every time.
@joeyvlo5 жыл бұрын
Electronics Boutique. It was a thing down here in Miami. In fact I'm fairly certain my local mall has an EBX which is an offshoot.
@mezzofresh35213 жыл бұрын
Dude you put a lot of time in all ur videos an it shows. Great work bro! Making us Canadians proud
@ArmorOfGodGames6 жыл бұрын
the best part about this is that Nintendo and Microsoft are really good buddies now and we could see another Rare title or character on a Nintendo platform(Phil Spencer has stated that he wouldn't mind Banjo-Kazooie in Smash, plus we already seen a Microsoft owned game come to Nintendo Switch with Crossplay aka Minecraft). hopefully Rare gets another chance to release another game on an Nintendo platform!!
@Anomaly1885 жыл бұрын
Raven Blade getting cancelled is kinda hilarious in hindsight since the PS2 got Devil May Cry that August and gave us the Spectacle Fighter genre. Retro's lack of confidence in their combat system must've had them and Nintendo kicking themselves for missing such a lucrative opportunity. Wind Waker's combat can't really compare to DMC's.
@MrLordpistoia6 жыл бұрын
How is eb games Canadian when they used to be all over jersey?
@OnlyEpicEmber6 жыл бұрын
GameStop bought them out and changed the name eventually in the US, but kept the name in Canada
@OnlyEpicEmber6 жыл бұрын
Funnily enough, the same thing happened in the UK; we had EB games/electronics boutique but then GAME bought them out in the UK, with GAME being our version of GameStop but it's not actually owned by them, they're their own company.
@MrLordpistoia6 жыл бұрын
@@OnlyEpicEmber that doesnt necessarily mean that eb games originally created in Canada eb games was a direct competitor to game to stop in the 90s and early 2000s. Eventually yes they were bought out and merged with gamestop but to say ebgames originated from Canada without and physical proof is just non sense
@Maulbert6 жыл бұрын
EB Games was founded in Pennsylvania. He's an idiot.
@OnlyEpicEmber6 жыл бұрын
Did they say they were founded in Canada? I don't think he did. I'm pretty sure he called them canadian which isn't really false as the only place I know of where they still have the name EB games in Canada
@ChrisMX96 жыл бұрын
2:18 GameCube was supposed to have a little window underneath the logo to see the game spinning why did they removed that ?
@mario64remix6 жыл бұрын
Yeah that would have looked great. I believe they even showed off some demo consoles with the window still on the lid back in the day.
@THEONLYGORE6 жыл бұрын
Electronics Boutique.... lets call it what it was !!! THE LAST STANDING FULL BOX PC GAME STORE !!!!
@suprastevio22646 жыл бұрын
Thanks Shane! Best video in a long time! (Not bashing other vids, this one just stands out as one of your best!)
@gamernation18296 жыл бұрын
Mr. Pants sounds like something that would make me laugh hysterically at like 3 am.
@TBoneTony6 жыл бұрын
The binder says 2004, however some of the games like the RARE games would have been mentioned back in 2002 and 2001 before RARE was brought by Microsoft. Would have felt sorry for those EB Games employees who never knew that these games were never going to come out. Kameo: Elements of Power is listed below another infamous cancelled game, Raven Blade.
@BigSkylar6 жыл бұрын
Ok let me stop you right there EB games was a competition to GameStop before they went Bankrupt and GameStop bought them out. They decided to leave all EB locations in Canada and Australia and New Zealand alone and not pay to re-brand them as GameStop also EB Games when it was independent company was created and had is headquarters in the USA.
@mancavemuseum57126 жыл бұрын
Was awesome meeting you at the Barrie Game Exchange. Awesome video like usual Shane.
@PS4sos213 жыл бұрын
They still are common. I have seen them binders in every game store that I go to. They always refer to these binders when someone wants to sell a game or console or when some customers are looking for some info on a game or new console.
@tba66 жыл бұрын
13:02 Shane is that voice form cooking 4 gamers and to most people who don’t know what that series is it’s rerez making Shane making video game food with his friend who eats hedgehog meat with his green Hill calzone lol I hope at least 1 person got that reference
@bmbpdk5 жыл бұрын
Love your shirt, brings back memories of sleepless nights downloading megabytes after megabytes, so that you can be the mp3 King at the next LAN party!
@TheREALSimagination3 жыл бұрын
Think I would've enjoyed Kameo on the GameCube. "Donkey Kong Racing" also looks pretty interesting at its last stage before whatever happened to it.
@julianobitsgen5 жыл бұрын
"A game lasting that long(4 generations) in development is pretty unheard of in the videogame history". Too Human(Xbox 360, but originally PS1) and Sturmwind(originally Atari Jaguar circa mid 90s, but now Xbox One and PS4, with a release on Dreamcast in 2013) anyone?
@3DJapan6 жыл бұрын
EB Games is not the Canadian equivelant to Gamestop We had them in America too. In fact they were originally here as Electronics Boutique before the name changed. The original store was just a few miles from me in King of Prussia, PA.
@larkprof6 жыл бұрын
EB actually means Electronics Boutique. Back when I was a kid in the 90s it was marqued as Eb world. But yeah, classic stuff! Good video!
@WorKoHolik844 жыл бұрын
Great Video, never heard of Binder. Really interesting
@Deadsea_19933 жыл бұрын
Miyomota really saved Retro Studios by seeing the engine of a unique game and that incident caused Metroid Prime to happen. Excellent video
@MajorTeag3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I can remember when they announced that Retro was making Metroid Prime and how everyone was saying that the game was going to tank and it was a stupid decision by Nintendo. Then it came out that it was going to be a FPS and people were so disappointed. Well, we all know how that turned out heh.
@theevilben6666 жыл бұрын
Wow awesome I'm from waterloo/kitchener area haha, unusual to hear a local shutout on the KZbin lol
@emiel3335 жыл бұрын
Great video. About Retro Studio’s, they didn’t give Metroid (Prime) the attention it needed considering Miyamoto. Shigeru Miyamoto was very upset and told them to cancel every project and only work on Metroid for GameCube. He also fired 20 people who worked at Retro Studios. I’m happy that Shigsy did this because look at Metroid Prime!! It’s probably the best game on Nintendo GameCube.
@ryanyoder75736 жыл бұрын
I worked at Software Etc in 92. Cool store that had games, consoles, PC games, productivity software and books. It was a thinking mans entertainment and computing store.
@anactualmotherbear6 жыл бұрын
Kirby Tilt N' Tumble came out on the Game Boy Color, so Nintendo had motion sensing games way before WarioWare.
@iced_coffeelvr10696 жыл бұрын
Microsoft, I hope you're happy. You killed Rare!
@DiskSystems5 жыл бұрын
Rare killed themselves. Most of the original staff from the golden era left after Perfect Dark. There was nothing stopping them from making good games on the Xbox platform, an essentially more open platform than Nintendos but they didn't. Nintendo wouldn't sign Rare because they were annoying to work with and often times went overbudget.
@Tachikawa_20062 жыл бұрын
There are also for the Famicom. The names are Donkey Kong's Fun with Music, Bowling, Space War (maybe Radar Scope or Space Fever) and Adventure Game (Which later become Super Mario Bros).
@DaFunk144 жыл бұрын
Great video Shane!!
@ToploadedGaming6 жыл бұрын
I have quite a few of these from gamestop from the ds, dsi, wii and wii u era. Really cool stuff.
@joshbuffalow6 жыл бұрын
Awesome video bro! I wish I could make videos like that. 👍👍👍
@pairashootpants53732 жыл бұрын
This was a super interesting video, thanks!
@nicholastrueblood86836 жыл бұрын
we had eb world in the US. I miss them. They were what gamestop should have been
@HoneyMike6 жыл бұрын
EB games existed in the US until the company was bought by GameStop. They just never changed the name of the stores in Canada for some reason.
@ArthurTRead5 жыл бұрын
They're still called EB games here in Australia too
@TunaCakes1636 жыл бұрын
This was great video, thanks
@NeoMoonSevin6 жыл бұрын
Eb games opened in New Zealand in 2012
@FerintoshFarmsPhotography6 жыл бұрын
Kameo was the first game I bought for 360, it really was a lot of fun and the textures at the time blew my mind.
@TBoneTony6 жыл бұрын
12:50 LOL Considering how secretive RARE was during their time both at Nintendo and then at Microsoft, they may as well have said that about many of their cancelled games.
@briandugas16484 жыл бұрын
My store that had this Funcoland. They even printed an entire list of what the game cost new, used, AND trade in.
@newageBoundhippie6 жыл бұрын
whoa....what if the mystery project from Retro Studios is actually Raven Blade? o_O I mean it's been heavily rumored for a while now that they've been working on an original IP, and they'd already have access to whatever assets they had from the initial development....it's overall unlikely, but still an interesting possibility to think about. also, the 2 games I most wish Nintendo had finished & released that I remember getting announced and seeing footage &/or screenshots from are Riqa for N64 and Project H.A.M.M.E.R. for Wii
@Aces.7026 жыл бұрын
We had eb games in vegas and game crazy back in the day never used game srltop they were always a week be hind when it came to new titles
@JoeyJ0J06 жыл бұрын
I miss this era of gaming, It was such a great time :/
@ramstar10694 күн бұрын
It’s really cool to hear about the history of some games by Nintendo that didn’t get released in the way they were supposed to be. Sure Retro Studios & Jeff Spangenberg weren’t going anywhere with Raven Blade & it sucks that some of these games got cancelled, but maybe one day Retro Studios will release Raven Blade in dome form or another & maybe RareWare & Nintendo will finally release the original versions of Donkey Kong Racing, Diddy Kong Pilot, Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers, & Kameo: Elements of Power for the Nintendo Switch or Nintendo Switch 2. Sure Raven Blade got cancelled due to Spangenberg’s sleazy behavior but he was on to something with the game. I mean you got the best of everything with a game about sword fights & martial arts with real time combat!
@M.C.Turnt695 жыл бұрын
The weird thing is that here (in Missouri anyways) the was an EB Games and a Gamestop right across from each other in the mall.
@Riz23366 жыл бұрын
That's pretty cool to check out unreleased games
@film796 жыл бұрын
Wasn't EB short for electronic boutique? If so we had them in the states too. In my area, the deep south, EB and Babbage's were the only game stores around. We didn't get a gamestop till the mid 2000s.
@NathanaelDuke6 жыл бұрын
We had EB games and Funcoland in the US, at least up north until the early oughts.
@Hi_ImSpongebob2 жыл бұрын
“And when I say customers, it’s not folks like you an I who buy and play video games, no. The customers, the ones selling the games.” Really shows how much Nintendo cares about its player base.
@ChrisTheWarrior946 жыл бұрын
I remember the hype for Donkey Kong Racing lol. If I remember correctly, one of the early GameCube retail console boxes had a screenshot of the game on the back of the box. Oh what couldve been.
@yamigekusu6 жыл бұрын
I live in Michigan, and there used to be an EB Games near Grand Rapids
@hunter654ful6 жыл бұрын
Entertaining and interesting. Nice video !
@GamerGoingGrey6 жыл бұрын
We still had a binder like that at Walmart up through the Wii U era. Nintendo's was by far the best and most up to date.
@williamclark36714 жыл бұрын
Hi nice video dude!
@Zeitgeist9975 жыл бұрын
Electronic Boutique was in America. I called about games all the time like kids asking are we there yet. 'Is Street fighter 2 out yet? Can you get it early? Can I buy it as soon as the truck comes? What time does the truck come' I loved EB
@andrewhanson11806 жыл бұрын
We had EB games in West Michigan before they were all changed to GameStop. I never knew it was GameStop from Canada though.
@theobscurestash65376 жыл бұрын
That binder is an incredibly fascinating piece of video game marketing history! Nintendo and the word _exclusive_ sure were used a lot in the same sentence in every generation, but none more than the GameCube era imo (I'm looking at you _RE4_ !) I'm sure many of these lost games exist in some capacity. Just getting dusty in some private collectors den of greed, un-dumped, waiting to be auctioned off at their estate sales.
@Spectre11225 жыл бұрын
8:52 if you see hl3 dev time oh boy, 2007: Finally it will take more years for hl3 dev. 2019: Still not out but another game by 70+ passionate hl fans named Project Borealis the fans would consider it as hl2 ep 3
@lordowl35336 жыл бұрын
Kameo is available on a multi game pack from rareware called rare replay for the Xbox one. I played a little of it and it was actually pretty great
@Kevinb18216 жыл бұрын
If I remember right when I was kid and wanted to pre order a game. The guy at Babbages would look through the binder to see if the game was available for pre order. I remember pre ordering the GameCube when it was still codename dolphin before the days of having to freaking wait and have to compete to pre order a Nintendo console at a set date.
@alexbrookner53316 жыл бұрын
Wow what a great informative video. More please
@DJSGAMEBOX6 жыл бұрын
I remember EB Games, Electronic's Boutique, and my favorite back in the day, Funcoland! haha. Was Funcoland in Canada also?
@common_c3nts6 жыл бұрын
EB Games was in the US. Just about everyone had a computer with an internet connection in 2004. Just about everyone had dialup by year 2000 and by 2004 most people had broadband.
@Blore076 жыл бұрын
Again. 10/10 for Gabby. We need more.
@aclstudios5 жыл бұрын
There's pictures online of pre-order receipts from Earthbound 64. :'( Sad to look at. That's a game that also spanned 4 consoles (SNES > 64 DD > N64 cart > GBA) and nearly a decade in development.
@piepivotmonitor59865 жыл бұрын
This was so educational.
@FizzleFX4 жыл бұрын
3:30 donkey kong is KNOWN for puzzles! makes sense
@TEKKENKING234 жыл бұрын
Their EB Games stores in Texas back in the 2000s I should know I used to shop there when I was a teenager
@jasonwb68846 жыл бұрын
EB games were in the U.S.A. also. I bought the UK (PAL) version of Shenmue 2 there and also bought Bleemcast . I remember Babbages and Software etc used to be what today is Gamestop. Gamestop then bought out EB games (Electronics Boutique)
@DokuFREENET5 жыл бұрын
Is this Napster shirt from the times there it was filesharing or the time now, there napster is a legal streaming service?
@redlucario2964 жыл бұрын
I would of loved to play raven blade, what i notice though is that some of the character's combat style seems to be a bit of a more fluent witcher 3 (surprisingly enough) so hopefully one day they see the record of raven blade and they would be like "hmmm, this would of been an amazing game, let's try to revive it for the modern day systems and give it the life it deserves"
@twizz4205 жыл бұрын
Kremlins in a tetris rip-off... Ooookay tell me nobody saw that when they thought it up
@blackhatfreak6 жыл бұрын
All Americans know what EB Games is dude, we had it before GameStop came to town.
@PixelsNcreatureS3 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing weird titles in Blockbuster's system like a Vanilla Ice Game listed for SNES
@remyzk94246 жыл бұрын
Banjo pilot had a very impressive beta with true 3d environments, I think the rom is available somewhere
@FatherAxeKeeper6 жыл бұрын
Canadian equivalent of Game Stop? Dude we had EB in America for decades. Electronics Boutique. I bought most of my N64 collection from them back in the 90s.
@modemtapper216 жыл бұрын
there was actually an eb games in austin tx growing up that later became a gamestop, so not just in canada