Secret Video Game Tricks, Codes, & Strategies Volume 1 - U.S. National Video Game Team® Archive

[@eRochMedia]

Before i had a video game console as a kid I would go down to the library, rent this VHS and watch it over and over again ahahah

[@jakesanders269]

I've been looking for this forever! Had this on VHS as a kid. Thank you!

[@reignman4529]

Same here lol.

[@blackoutbiz]

SAME! AWWWWWWWWW MY CHILDHOOD

[@Transporter_Not_Statham]

Same lol

[@SIMIFU]

Thanks for archiving these.

[@birchmahogany2718]

Man, my older brother saved up his paper route money and bought this at our local video store. We used to walk there like once a week just to make sure it hadn't been bought. Probably would have been 1992. He wanted it specifically for the Simon's Quest tips. This video is so amazing, the Ikari Warriors code, LOL. Even as a kid I knew that code was completely ridiculous.

[@PositronRobo]

I'd never seen this before and it's a joy to watch. I love how their "technique" footage of the final mission of Double Dragon has them dying over and over again to the same two enemies. But that's about the best you'd get for tips back in 1989!

[@PatrickScottPatterson]

True... and in talking to and knowing those who worked on these cassettes, for some reason they didn't edit them down for time... so there's a lot of awkward stuff that maybe should have been cut.

[@TheSaint1122]

The hover allows you to hover...never woulda guessed lol. So much childhood nostalgia here

[@stevenmente2717]

Awesome! I dug up the VHS of this while cleaning my closet yesterday but I have no way of watching it anymore. I'm glad somebody thought to archive an old gem like this. Thank you! :)

[@miscellaneousetc.4280]

Thanks this brings back so many memories and honestly makes me a little sad and wishful for the past.

[@woksrandomchannel]

I had this tape. I cannot believe I purchased it. It did not have anything groundbreaking, but it was really cool to see game play footage.

[@PatrickScottPatterson]

The premise itself was groundbreaking. Where else could you go get tips and tricks footage in 1989? This was the granddaddy of a zillion KZbin and Twitch videos.

[@contemporarymale]

I used to rent this video at Mad Mikes Supervideo, and worked there when I was 18. They went bust with DVDs and Internet, but I am super stoked you put this back up, brings me right back to those old snow days off of school where dad would take us to rent video games.

[@LordLanderos]

I used to have this when I was a kid. Pretty cool to see gameplay on games I didn’t have… still looking for one of those US National Video Game Team jackets!

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

I still have an original VHS copy of this but wow, this is an excellent rip. Great quality. Thanks for sharing!

[@kennymccormack3562]

thanks- AVGN mentioned this glad to find it

[@sirrafael1]

Thanks for sharing. Amazing childhood memories.

[@duagrentia]

I remember reading something about these tapes from Seanbaby's NES page back in 2002. Never got to experience watching these as a kid, we only had game magazines back then for gaming tips before switching to online guides in the late 90's. Glad that someone got to preserve this for future generations now that physical media is no longer a thing.

[@VirtualVernon]

i use to rent all 3 of these tapes when I was a kid from video 22

[@artanisknarf]

Thanks for posting, this was where I learned the Contra Code.

[@randsandiego2850]

Childhood summer’s replay

[@dreamlandnightmare]

They really padded out the running time of this video with a lot of unnecessary game footage. The info easily could have fit in a 15 minutes or less video.

[@PatrickScottPatterson]

Besides the fact that this was the first time such a thing was ever made... nobody was going to go out and buy a 15 minute long videotape. So of course it would be drawn out.

[@benkizer9509]

Ah the days of the NES VHS tapes... I remember this one, the Player's Guide and Skip Rogers. Cheesy, low production values and bad advice for the most part, but I loved them as a kid. That Ikari Warriors code is horrible! Who in their right mind would sit down and spend the time doing that? Also those passwords for games like Rambo... woof. I can't imagine in the 80s writing down one of those characters incorrectly and then having the password not work, haha.

[@PatrickScottPatterson]

The "Skip Rogers" thing was an essential knock off of this idea. I honestly don't care to hear of it much... I find it unfortunate this would be lumped in with that. Yes, low production values and all that aside... I think the bigger piece of the puzzle here is the historical aspect of them. Let's plays and tips and video game teams are common now... at the time, this was a groundbreaking idea, even with that music. I think focusing on the quality of it overshadows that. It'd be like judging early Sportscenter on the horrible original set instead of the fact that it gave 24/7 sports coverage to the world for the first time. That's why these are posted here.

[@chriskalkman9870]

Legends

[@aaronhuntsman4171]

56:17 Gotta wonder how many kids actually tried this. My own NES would glitch without any manual intervention.

[@ndiaz1982]

Asmr before asmr became a weird fetish. I've been thinking about this video and how the sounds of button mashing makes me feel

[@MajinHercule]

This was how I learned the Konami Code back in the day. Course, it wasn't the "Konami Code", it was the 30 man thing you did in Contra or Life Force.

[@dreamlandnightmare]

I learned it from a cousin who didn't even own an NES.

[@funkyweapon1981]

40:39 - That used to scare me to death when I was 8.

[@dreamlandnightmare]

What even was that?

[@SyBabyProductions]

Someone pointed out in another video that the theme song is almost identical to the one from Child's Play 3.

[@whosaidthat84]

4:54 "Then you must dodge his bullets and shoot him in the face." So glad this VHS told me that! Never would have guessed that bullets were dangerous....

[@PatrickScottPatterson]

To be fair, video games in those days didn't always do what would be normal in real life....

[@crazybeardave]

25:48 because I've been repeating it and want a convenient link.

[@cassidoti6799]

What’s up with the UFO?

[@PatrickScottPatterson]

a mysterious object seen in the sky for which, it is claimed, no orthodox scientific explanation can be found.

[@dr.joshdarealgamer1610]

Game on bruh

[@TehNewParalyzer]

They call it the "Thirty Man Trick" uh, okay

[@PatrickScottPatterson]

And.....? At the time, that's pretty much what everyone called it.

[@TehNewParalyzer]

I've never heard it not called the "30 Lives Code" or just "Konami Code" Thirty Man Trick sounds bootleg lol

[@PatrickScottPatterson]

K. Nobody called it the "Konami Code" at the time because it was only the second game to use it. That came years later. Honestly, at the point in time this video was made, it was called a ton of different things. I don't understand why this is key?

[@TehNewParalyzer]

@@PatrickScottPatterson I don't understand why you care lol

[@PatrickScottPatterson]

Ah, okay.... you're that type. Long story short... you came to my channel and posted about it. You are clearly the one that "cares" I simply responded to your comment. lol