Sega Mega Drive or Super Nintendo?

[@BlairBearStare]

Something about James’ calm voice gives the energy that you’re visiting friends and they’re showing their collection. James just exudes ol’ mate energy

[@ari_smolbean]

He's an ol' mate you can bring with you.

[@josho4228]

For me it’s the fact that there’s no “HEY GUYS WHATS GOING ON, ITS YA BOY AND I GOT A GREAT VIDEO TODAY SO REMEMBER TO SMASH THAT LIKE….” etc. Just a solid guy sharing something interesting with people.

[@antlionworkerfan2007]

@@josho4228honestly I can’t tell if there’s anyone who isn’t stuck in 2016 KZbin mindset who does that kind of intro but I certainly don’t miss it

[@miriamalmeida6687]

Snes the best

[@maverickhuntermeta4954]

​@josho4228 or the fact that they also say "BUT BEFORE WE BEGIN, THIS VIDEO IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY "Company name here"!

[@benmason937]

Not only is James just a really cool guy, he has cats 🥰

[@Markleford]

MOAR KITTIES!

[@t1995roger10]

TWO PURRING FRANKS?!?!

[@harshnemesis]

that's the only thing bad about him

[@meraak1]

i would let him do anything to me

[@Hider_2232]

Dankpods (Wade): Fronk the Chonk James: C O T S

[@Lurkley]

As someone who was born in the mid 80s, it’s funny to hear little explainers like ‘we used to rent video games from blockbusters’ or ‘we couldn’t use this port, didn’t even know what it was’. But it does make me think about how different we experience these things now, and this sort of seems like a cool historical artefact.

[@jaredt2590]

The video games had to be churned out of factories and if the store was sold out you had to wait for it to get more in.

[@Wok86]

The Mega Drive was the first console we had as well - it was second-hand from someone my parents knew but it came with a copy of a game called Desert Strike (I loved that game and it's sequels BTW). Anyways, one of the games you showed for the SNES, Rock 'n' Roll Racing was a game we borrowed from the local newsagents (who did the whole video hire thing) - both me and my sister liked it so much we ended up convincing the folks to by a copy to keep. A hell of a lot of nostalgia here :D

[@NathanBrownisawesome]

I'm not old enough to have had a mega drive, but I remember playing desert strike and f-22 interceptor on Fusion and MD.emu. pretty fun game!

[@itsMaTt123]

SUPA NINTENDO SEGA GENASIS WHEN I WAS DEAD BROKE I COULDNT PICTURE THIS

[@Fatcat214]

the rf story really resonated with me. as a younger sibling, i was on dedicated cable wiggling duty when my brother and i were playing ocarina of time, and occasionally the picture was good enough to see

[@FeatureHistory]

I used to rent PS2 games and DVD from my central Victorian town's Video Busters. No idea if the two are related or if it was just the video store equivalent of a chicken shop being called Charcoal Chicken

[@Games_for_James]

Could have been the same place! It’s likely that game came from interstate

[@thegammakat]

Twice the cat in this one. Very good. Cool to hear about your experience with getting into video games.

[@scorpionelite2543]

the second i saw the stickers on home alone game i just screamed “VIDEO EZYYYYYYYYY” out loud in public. I miss that store so much

[@BobSmith-o8c]

Me too. Streaming doesn't hold a candle to that place. Shit, neither did Blockbuster.

[@scorpionelite2543]

@@BobSmith-o8c i still have a copy of meet dave and a few others from video ezy

[@BobSmith-o8c]

@@scorpionelite2543 I've got a few Doctor Who tapes from there.

[@JACKHARRINGTON]

I feel like I had a video ezy in rural australia until about twelve years ago.

[@VectorLog]

I thought this was gonna be a bait and switch where james was all like "actually i was a turbografx kid" and then the video cuts to james with like 3 arms with 7 fingers to each hand

[@SpikedPie]

Hearing the Word Hire in place of rent is funny, is that a normal Australian thing? Also, excited for your channel! Cool history of your vidyagames

[@BobSmith-o8c]

I think they're used interchangeably down here. Another difference I noticed is that we never referred to them as "video stores" as Americans do, we would usually just refer to the name of the store (Video Ezy, Blockbuster, Civic Video).

[@Zerphses]

@@BobSmith-o8c That’s something Americans do, too. We always said “let’s go to Blockbuster”, not “The video store”. Maybe it’s a regional thing?

[@BobSmith-o8c]

@@Zerphses You're probably right.

[@TheKnobCalledTone.]

@@Zerphses In some parts of Australia, people will put an "s" after the name of a store. "Let's go to Blockbuster" would become "let's go to Blockbusters". It probably explains why so many stores down here end in an "s" by default e.g. Coles, Woolworths, Bunnings.

[@peterclarke7240]

It depends: in the uk, we'd call it a video store unless it was a chain, like Blockbuster. In much the same way we were going for a takeaway, unless we were going to Subways or Mc-Coronary Disease.

[@kweef5750]

Your collection looks freakin sick dude! I know it would be a long video, but I'd love to see a tour of your collection.

[@warpig1210]

I 2nd this request/suggestion!

[@OzRetrocomp]

1:34 If it's the Video Busters I'm thinking of, it used to be on Grange Rd at Welland. It was massive and now it's a Chemist King (apologies to non-Adelaide people reading this who probably don't know or don't care about this comment lol). BTW love the cats.

[@Starfireaw11]

Yep, used to go there plenty as a kid. Google seems to think there were plenty of video busters in Melbourne too, at some stage.

[@OzRetrocomp]

@@Starfireaw11 We only had the one Video Busters in Adelaide and it was around the corner from my Nan and Grandpa's house, which is why I remembered it so vividly. I think there were too many other local chains for them to properly compete with over here, though the two biggest ones eventually got taken over by much bigger chains from elsewhere (Focus Video was taken over by Blockbuster and Movieland was taken over by Video Ezy)... for what it's worth, that one Video Busters store over here became a Movieland in about 1994.

[@Alacarte614]

As a European, specifically English, Nintendo in the early 90s didn’t have much of a grasp here, so I was a sega boy, master system and mega drive, though later my uncle got a SNES, and I remember I always loved playing it, Top Gear (not related to the tv show) was an amazing racing game that riffed on outrun, had an amazing soundtrack too. Good to see you have you own channel James, can’t wait to see loads of “ol’ mate” fixes

[@ngm860]

Top gear is awesome, didn't played much of the first but top gear 2 was my favorite game

[@blackroseruby]

The first ever console I have vivid memories of playing was my great grandmothers SNES. Jamming out levels and (eventually) beating Super Mario World with my brother is what I remember my world being at 5 years old. Ironically, the original SNES is 13 years older than me. The console is in my hands now, in its yellow, gray, and purple US spec glory.

[@TheArtGremblin]

God it's so refreshing to hear "seega mega drive", and even "mega CD". I swear I've spent so much time listening to Americans, I was starting to think I just hallucinated that name. I sure do remember those 90s TVs too... we had ours so long I had to buy an RF unit for my N64. Didn't realise we needed one the day I bought it of course, so I have vivid memories of that first night trying to play Ocarina of Time though just... impossible amounts of static.

[@HollowRick]

Sega genesis just sounds terrible to me being used to the word mega drive it sounds like a Phil Colin's songs gonna start playing when you boot it up lol Also I agree so many Americans on here hearing "Sega CD" over and over I actually forgot It was called mega CD over here lol 😅

[@stressedrex]

​@@HollowRickI beg to differ. Sega Genesis sounds cooler than Sega Mega Drive

[@Therealadriaanvisser]

Best of luck with your own channel James! I’m not sure if your content will be for me tbh but I love the chemistry and dynamics you guys have on Garbage time so I’m sure this will be entertaining too

[@gordonwiley2006]

Very nice collection. N64 and game boy color were my earliest consoles, my dad woke me up late one night to show me he bought mario kart 64 and we played for hours. Before that I always just watched him play PC strategy games.

[@IR4TE]

You're going casually through your collection and my eyes glow up when I spotted LHX Attack Chopper, loved that game when I was a kid.

[@ek_films]

As an American, the use of "hire" rather than "rent" trips me up. Here in the states we say "hire" for people and "rent" for inanimate objects, but I guess it's different in Oz (as are many things).

[@Starfireaw11]

Hire tends to be used for short term things, so you'd hire a car for a week, but rent the gas bottle for your welder.

[@K9arcade]

During this era of gaming I just played my cousins systems. My family were very low income so I didn't get my own game system until the PS2. This was my first gen of real gaming I remember and what I think of when people say retro, my mind doesn't even think of NES first lol. Obviously channel grew quick but happy to be here, loved the personal retrospective

[@fantac_electronica]

Wow unlocked memory. We used to put a match box under the power cable of our mega drive 2 to hold it in place. If you bumped the console, it would reset because it wasn't contacting properly

[@Subject3910]

Man this is a great channel. Thanks dank pods for telling us that this exists.

[@scorbiot]

I think you were scammed, mate. You wanted to get a dog, but they have you two. I think they knew they were off-brand, so they gave you two so you wouldn't complain.

[@BrightSpark]

3:07 FUZZY FRANKS!

[@RestoreTechnique]

DankPods but instead of MP3 players and a pet snake, it's retro gaming a cat. Edit: oh damn you're actually mates with him and have a channel together. 🤦‍♂️ Makes sense now

[@thebillyd00]

Referring to it as hiring the games rather than renting them is a fun dialect difference I didn't know of

[@ECitta]

holy crap, that green video ezy sticker on the Home Alone box brings back memories of riding my bike to my local one.

[@PiersonMason]

Looking forward to jameschannel cause it means james has a channel

[@KonpeitoParfait]

this is the second cat! this is getting out of hand.

[@DragonoftheEastblu]

I cannot get past that you say "hire" as apposed to "rent". In my mind you're telling the game you "hired" it for a long night of hard gaming, as your folks are out on a date and they gave you money for pizza and whatever else you'd need :P

[@rev8962]

What a beautiful lovely story jj❤️😭

[@lostx_xghost4099]

bro seeing video ezy was such a nostalgia trip for me, used to go there all the time with my father and rent games and movies

[@ethanisfancy]

I love ending each video with the kitties chatting :)

[@Bill-lt5qf]

that link to the past cartridge hit me hard in the nostalgia

[@LioPrime]

This is like a weird alternate universe dankpods, even with animal at the end and all!

[@DBZCinema2KHD]

In all honesty, I don't care one bit for consoles or whatever, but I decided to give James a watch because... well, we like James. And yeah, we do like James. The calm energy (and the genius of that portable Super Nintendo video) had me sticking around. Keep 'em coming.

[@Underwatches]

I got best of all the worlds when I was younger. At my Grandma's, I had a retrobit 2-in-1 nes & snes console, where I mostly played Mario 3 and World with my grandma, while at my mum's, I had a Sega Genesis with sonic 2, golden axe, some manky tetris wannabe, as well as an N64 only with Mario 64 and Zelda OOT. I unfortunately only have the retrobit console today, but for a kid born in 2005, I couldn't imagine a better collection of games to grow up with. . .

[@Mobilis17]

I find it interesting that you say that you hired video games from video stores, here in America we would say that we rented them

[@Tendies7645]

I've learned so much about video game history thank you so much James for all the videos!!

[@alephnull127]

I didn't grow up in the 80's and 90's but i certainly did grow up with the Super Nintendo. my dad put ZSNES on my laptop back in the day and it was how I got my fascination with retro games, especially the SNES. 15 years later and I have an actual Super Nintendo, with the holy grail of JRPGs, Chrono Trigger.

[@Furko08]

Woah 2 cats? This is even better than I thought

[@g.blackburn6906]

Great short form story, mate! Cheers on the channel 🎉

[@reptarien]

I'm a youngin so my first console was a Playstation 2, although the DS, Xbox 360 and PS3 were all out by that point. The first console I played on a whole lot, though, was my DS. I love the DS so much.

[@666Trenno]

Gave me horiffic flashbacks when u mentioned hiring Virtual Bart and never playing it again that game was pretty mental lol

[@friedpancakes266]

Wow! James tamed an Australian cat

[@PirateDrive]

I love the Aussie pronunciation of Sega

[@jessica23claire]

Great memories playing Super Mario All Stars on the SNES in my house, too! Our SNES was bought by our parents and over 30 years later it STILL WORKS. I have no idea how, it's been thrown around and lovingly thrashed over the years. My mum even played SNES while in labour with me.

[@tailsprower9542]

this channel is going to be awesome :), i like your story about getting your first console etc

[@carrioncrow8191]

Funny to hear “hire a game out”, as we would say rent. Honestly the same, just one of those things that stuck over there and not here, and vice versa

[@jachymhykrda]

i never really was into oldschool games, but i really like your content, its just so janky, funny and genuinley nice to watch. but i also never was into cars, ipods and headphones, and wade got me interested in all of them, i think you will succeed too!

[@qeidren3215]

Finding out James was a Sega kid, too. I feel seen at last.

[@martindunn4545]

The little cat mrows at the end of these are perfect

[@AutumnalSunflower]

the mick & mack menu theme is kind of a banger ngl

[@Seany06]

Growing up in the mid 90s in Scotland I think only one of my friends had a Nintendo (snes or nes), everyone had Sega and sonic, streets of rage were always the main plays. Good times

[@trentfreeman2373]

Love you guys. Please look after the donkey van. I am a carer for my mum. Been trying to get a van. Things are tough brother in Australia. Me and my mum loves your channel and thank you for doing other stuff

[@OrthodoxPriest69]

I like this vid it’s like stories about your video gaming “adventure” through the years, nice cats 😸

[@kurdt.banana]

"Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, I was dead broke man, I couldn't picture this."

[@luheartswarm4573]

when I was a little kid I had a master system and a snes, they where hand me downs from my father funny enough, I was obsessed with the weirdo master system sonic "port" and super mario world 1 and 2, I was very young and it was my first videogame experience, but I was fortunate enough to be able to play on a older ps1 at the time, and that became like my biggest obsession, to this day it's like the fondest gaming memories I have..

[@TheDinkcool]

The SNES was the first console I ever used as a kid despite being a couple of years too young to have been there during its golden days. A friend of mine (who had a much older brother) had one at home and we used to always play Super Mario World on it. Today it's without a doubt my favorite retro gaming era. Mostly because the games have aged better than what came before and what came after.

[@cheeziemcbreezy5062]

CATS knew his calm chaos felt familiar.

[@diogenes26]

My "gaming introduction" was quite similar as well. I have an older cousin that got an used Mega Drive around 2003. I was three years old at the time, but I remember playing with him a lot of Tiny Toons and Sonic (I could never get pass the demolition ball Robotnik). A couple years later, my parents bought a Dynavision 101 for me (it's a NES knockoff sold in Brazil), and I started to learn English bit by bit with a dictionary just to understand the ending of Contra.

[@sp23hagbard5]

"Revolution X was really good" James was killed by lightning only minutes later. Weirdly it was a sunny day with not a cloud in sight

[@zursca]

I've just stumbled onto this account today and I must say, It's uh interesting I love it though! Keep it up james fr fr

[@we_want_chilli_willy]

Nice collection James. I'm a little bit older than you and my first console was the Sega Master System 2 with Alex Kidd in miracle world built in, it took me 2 years to beat that dang game. I also would hire out games at the video store. Good times.

[@crosshair8741]

was gonna say you as a sega and nintendo kid would probably like unirally but i see you have it, it was one of my favs

[@shotgunjackalQ]

Good video nice to see some positive content on this site. The way this title was worded I was expecting the answer to be something like the turbografx 16 or the amiga CD32, but interesting none the less.

[@wyattkidd5590]

Very interesting story and I love the cat at the end of every video.

[@jan_vennegoor_of_hesselink_69]

Hyped you’ve got your own channel on the go now! Great vid to start with too lots of nostalgia. Got my dads Mega Drive given to me as my first ever console in about 94/95 and rinsed it. Still got that same one kicking around somewhere but I think I needs some soldering done Can’t wait to see some of your DDR and rhythm games dude!

[@kmonnier]

We had a demo of Ecco the Dolphin on our first PC, no one else has ever referenced it except for you in my entire life 😊

[@gunier.j.kintgenanimations]

1:58 Reminds me a lot of my dear NES. Got it from a family friend on New Years Eve in about 2016, I was 8. It also had the same issue, Wha'd I'd do it place a heavy dictionary atop the plug, which seemed to work. Eventually that stopped working, then the light wouldn't even turn on when I plugged it in. I just got a new one this Christmas, Boy did I miss it!

[@sakurLOL]

I love stories like that, can you make a video about a console you had after the SNES? I would really love that!

[@RichardHowe8114]

21k Subs, with only 3 vids published 🤔 Now THAT'S how you launch a channel! Loving Jamesessess Channel so far!

[@tpseeker3367]

Going to enjoy old memories after seeing your collection

[@00wrongun]

Had some money put in my account back in the day, I bought a Mega Drive straight away The Revenge of Shinobi was my favourite game and the intro screen sounded awesome 🏅

[@CloppingIsMyThing]

Commenting for the algorithm gods. You got this James!

[@EdTheNerd]

Really liking the channel James. I'd love to see a gameroom tour video

[@KamenRiderGumo]

I never had a Genesis until a couple of years ago, and I wanted one specifically to play the light gun game Lethal Enforcers (which also sent me on a scramble for the game, and the two light guns, and a vintage CRT television). When I finally got it all, the console wouldn't work. And it was the only one in my price range. But using my Dad's soldering iron from the late 80s, a bit of tech-detective work, a $2 power jack, and two minor first-degree burns, I got the bloody thing working. :) Now I'm amassing a collection of Genesis games I never got to play as a kid but always looked cool. I hope one day to have a collection even a fraction as cool as yours.

[@yonaloam]

Awesome stuff! I remember playing the original Sega and the Nintendo at my brother's house, as he had electricity and also had disposable income, both things I lacked.

[@riceman00]

The side labels on the carts are superb

[@kinnay999]

you should put some vydia game ost you like in the background :) nice video either way ! 👌

[@filipemartins2447]

I start to realize how lucky I was to have a French SECAM mega drive and having a scart featured TV as a kid. 30 years later I still have the same tv and mega drive (and I also bought a SNES recently 😊)

[@Flkrz]

Nice to see that classic Psygnosis logo

[@irridesu]

Happy to see more from ya!

[@BoloH.]

Pretty sure one of those cats is also named Frank.

[@lukmanulhakim5529]

Back in 99, my father had replaced the Sega Genesis 6 times due to his (also me when i was 7 years old) gaming addiction. Thunder Force series were my favourite. There is some game that me and my mother had fun coop together, it was Streets Of Rage and Forgotten Worlds.

[@geniuskhan1337]

I'm glad Dank made that video about this channel

[@theobama8535]

I love this new content, reminds me a-lot of scott’s stash.

[@thehumbleone1983]

I grew up in Australia here in Sydney for me out of the two the Mega Drive was my first and then the SNES was my second I love both but my favourite is the Mega Drive only cause I grew up starting from Sega arcade games and then onto the Master System. Great video mate 👍

[@Duke_Nuke_Them]

The wiggling and blowing of ports and cables are right of passage, wear it with pride, James

[@NALTOHQ]

I have a Genesis Model 1 here. Got Virtua Racing, LHX Attack Chopper, Sonic 1 and 2, Phantom 2040… love it.

[@stewstew2996]

Today I learned that Aussies say “hired” games instead of “rented”

[@SosiskaTheHorrible]

My mate had a game for the SNES called Super Aleste, a scrolling spaceship shooter thing. I always remember the upgraded guns just got bigger and bigger and more ridiculous and I loved it. No one else seems to remember it 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@museater8729]

My first console was my brothers Nintendo 64! I have a ton of memories playing Super Mairo 64 and Star Fox. One that was burned into my brain was Conkers Bad Fur Day. I was far too young for that game but I loved it, except chapter 4 with the zombies, that section genuinely gave me nightmares.

[@Bennythejet55]

AHHHHH GLOBAL GLADIATORS! I'm so happy someone else owns this game and it wasn't a fever dream from my sugar fueled childhood.

[@Croatilillious]

My first console was a PlayStation 2 and I remember very vividly playing Manhunt, God of War 1 and 2 and GTA SA on it. I was like 5...

[@irfarf201]

Today I Learned, that some people says hire instead of rent. I thought my ears have finally failed me.

[@libsyates2426]

Oh man, 8 pin a/v cables? That sounds incredibly interesting tbh.

[@shangrilai1990]

You don't know how calming it is just hear someone local on the internet saying SEE-GA not SAY-GA. SA GREAT! I started on a Master System II w/ Alex Kidd built in however it was the Super Nintendo and Nintendo from then on with my family. Thankfully this was still the 90s when an 8yo could go across the road and visit a neighbour (adult or friend) on their own so I still had access to SEGA consoles throughout the years through neighbours and as such they had access to Nintendo consoles through us.

[@floof_wastaken]

I actually have a Genesis I inherited from my uncle. I also never had any idea what AV was or what that port was for until rather recently actually, and the RF port on mine is finnicky as well. I keep a roll of electrical tape and a rag wedged under it so it will function properly

[@mikethetowns]

One of the major things I miss from video rental places was the carpet. I don't know if they gave 'em the go over with a shampoo machine or something every night. But once the late 00's hit they started smelling more...stanky haha. Like...slow death I guess. Aw.