"Retro gamers" should be able to beat these games

[Dyne]

This guy wanted this video shared with "retro gamers, wherever they hang out" so here you go.

Honestly, just skip the first 1:15 of the video because its just a (admittedly entertaining) clip from an old movie that has little to do with anything else in the video.

I got a kick out of this video. I enjoyed the lack of any fucks given about how he says things.
But he also throws a lot of shade at the retro gaming community. A little of it might be warranted but I think he exaggerates it.
Side note: I grew up in California and the way this guy talks is exactly how I grew up talking lol.

While I agree with a lot of what he said, it's pretty elitist to say you have nothing useful to share about retro games if you haven't beat certain games. I don't think "you're not a real retro gamer if you haven't beat X game" but I do get what he's saying. There are a lot of people who do more collecting than playing. Hell, I've been guilty at times of spending more time curating my roms and configuring emulators than actually playing the games. It kind of made me want to go back and knock a few of the harder NES games off my backlog once and for all. For a lot of the games he mentions, "I got far in it but I never beat it" would have to be my answer. Feels bad man.

So what do you think?

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Hell, I've been guilty at times of spending more time curating my roms and configuring emulators than actually playing the games.

I'm finding myself in there as well.

On the other hand, in video games, movies, music and other media, the whole "you're not a real enthusiast if you haven't watched/listened/played [very old/very obscure thing from said medium]" is not the best mindset to have with anything related to fandoms. People won't say that somebody who hasn't touched an Odyssey nor a Pong machine cannot call themselves gamer because that's totally arbitrary.

 

[qw90700]

So while the dude speaks like Bill & Ted he "let go" of his pent-up emotions about what is wrong among "retro gamer world" (bigger than just a community dude) in the way he didn't like and he glorifies the group he belongs to while half of the video is an ad while assuming he is da commander demanding what people should do like who you are to even talk? Even if I had self-identified myself as "da retro gamer" I wouldn't think there is actually something offensive. His take is like what I disagree and it is his opinion. It was like listening to a person who doesn't like pasta so he glorified eating meat. So what? And like a kid he is he was like "if I offended you I will laugh at you reading your comments" come at me bro attitude. In America being a cringe is the new superior person lolol. This is how I literally imagine if we could understand how dogs talk it would be the translation of what we would hear ayy lmao. He is a child in an adult body but it make me wanna pat his head and give him a candy, the way he talks even kinda cute lolol.

I know when a person barks a like dog it can be attractive for some people, but all I heard is "woof woof dude" that was really funny actually without anything really annoying. He keeps going on and on saying pretty much same shits trying to stretch the video like Americano tv series about nothing but they were ordered to direct 12 episodes so they did anything to stretch that shit and that's all about the video. At least it showed some funny movie scenes and cool games and all so it wasn't entirely rubbish lol.

 

[NotReallyHere]

But he also throws a lot of shade at the retro gaming community. A little of it might be warranted but I think he exaggerates it... it's pretty elitist to say you have nothing useful to share about retro games if you haven't beat certain games.

Exactly this.

I had a NES as a kid. Never beat Ninja Gaiden, Batman, or any of the other games in that screenshot, for that matter. There's a simple reason why - I never owned them! I either rented them once or twice, or played them at a friend's house. And either way, that didn't give me a lot of time to "git gud."

On the flipside? I can beat Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! And I can also finish Metroid in one sitting, without looking at a map, and get the best ending. And I can also beat Mega Man 3 without getting a game over or having to look up the boss order. And why's that? Because I actually did own those games back in the day, and had plenty of time to practice

There's some retro games that I know I'll never finish, despite my best intentions. That doesn't mean I don't consider myself a retro gamer, though! And if that's not good enough for some rando YouTuber, well... that's a "them" problem