This is such a interesting video

[CyberRabbit]

I wasn’t alive to experience most of Nintendo’s old classic consoles so I really don’t know what it was like to get them when they were new, it’s just a interesting topic to me, the first Nintendo console launch I was alive for was the Wii U and I still don’t really remember anything about that and my first console launch I followed was the Switch 2, didn’t even know the switch 1 existed until my mom surprised me with it some random day, so what’s a console launch YOU remember? I’m curious

 

[MasterEn]

the gamecube would the first console launch that i remember learning about. got an issue of nintendo power with luigi on the front of it screaming with a gamecube behind him and the words "IT'S HERE" down below him.

 

[RETRO-VETRO RETRO-VETRO]

Oh I know this guy!

 

[χKai]

I love the way he talks about his dad in all his videos, it's nice to have an inside look at other gamer families like I had growing up. If we had recorded stuff like this, I'd be able to share funny moments of my mom playing Zelda, or my dad getting all the medals in Star Fox 64 and Star Wars Shadows of the Empire.

 

[Sunnyside]

I never bought consoles on launch, would always wait a few years for prices to drop. Despite this I had so much hype for the Gamecube. I bought it a year after release but in the meantime I had a preview DVD with game trailers that I would watch constantly. The Metroid Prime trailer remix is forever ingrained into my memory.

 

[qw90700]

so what’s a console launch YOU remember? I’m curious

Back in my day existence of consoles wasn't known due to my country is a country not many people would know exist so most of world's development pretty much reached us few decades late unless if the shit is that popular there was at least a decade or at least 5 years delay. To make you understand this okay I can say just before people got to enjoy PlayStation 2 we just got to learn PlayStation 1 exist when Sega Genesis was still that popular. Me randomly learned PS1 exist from a guy went to Japan -> buying it from Japan a year later and a year later than that PS2 released which I didn't hear until few years later. First time I get to know internet exist and then connected to internet was in 2005 when my country bothered to invest in it. If my mother didn't had work in a hospital I wouldn't know computers exist until 2005 too. We didn't have a tv but we had radio which was the most advanced technological device for our entertaintment that I grew up with. Later on arcade places got popular yet you couldn't find them everywhere, I personally had to ride my bike for 20 KM to reach the nearest arcade place and had to learn it exist just because a kid from my school told everyone about it and most of us didn't believe something like that can exist, and then they openned one that is 10 KM closer so I was walking that distance instead of taking a bike ride because I dislike to sweat biking all around so walking for me is better.

So when I was around early state of my puberty, a kid died due to rollerskate accident which made parents in my street unite and have a formal meeting on "dangers of playing on street". A parent who had a TV while most of us having radio remembered something called "Atari" on TV as an advertizement which she refer to Atari 2600. They made a plan that locking kids into home by buying Atari, so no more kids die playing on the street because rollerskate and skating craze was a huge thing and relatively way dangerous than bikes so parents started to take action. I still remember that day, that the kid died and my mother asking me if I would play Atari. I knew about Atari from posters in arcade place so I was like "are you kidding? of course" lol. So this is when, thanks to that kid I got to have Atari and for me to play it and we also found an old TV from the hospital my mother works so no more "real need" for going to arcade places, unless some hot game was dropped.

After few years one day my uncle bought me some fake NES which I had no idea it's fake, it only had Duck Hunt on it and of course its gun to play it which I had no idea games can be changeable but I was amazed for what kind of "electronic gun magic" is this alien tech is lol. It turned out my Atari 2600 was fake too that my mother bought from a guy selling carpets and shit (WTF right? lol), so my Atari 2600 never had a way to insert a game but it had many games in it. By just restarting the console it started a random game in a random order. So after I played Duck Hunt for a while a kid in my school learned I have a "new Atari" (we called NES an Atari too which no one cared if even same company produced these or not, we just had no concept of "video game" back then so anything relate to gaming was an Atari lol) and while we were talking with the kid he mentioned he has many games for NES and I was like "dude mine has 1 game so how???" he was like "dude you buy games and insert to it", "I was like no way!!! show me!!!". So after school he brought me to his home which the home was clearly some shit that only rich people have. His "NES" was different but later on I'll learn it's also a fake but I noticed my NES was similar too. That day for hours he let me play some games and he even let me borrow some games. He taught me that the Duck Hunt picture I see on my fake NES is what I can something pull off. So when I got back home I was scared I could broke the console like "what if this device is part of the console and I can't actually change games" but it worked as how his console was. Then I tried the game I borrowed from him. He also told me where in only places in the whole city sells these games. He drew me a map that had many places I had no idea but was useful to find the landmarks that I had to ask many people to finally reach to that shop. And that shop had a "welcome" but also "WTF you doing here kid" vibe, yet the shop owner was glad that I'm a new customer like I joined a cult or some shit which would be the shop I would go for like a decade and then eventually start working there and even learn the ropes on console repair for customers. That day that I went to the shop for the first time was scary though, for I had to get into the part of the city I never knew it existed. On my way I kinda got lost but I found my way back home. Whenever I got lost I always found my way, even in a jungle which one I was lost. It's like my superpower to always find me way!!! lol

Anyway, that's my "ancient gamer story" lolol.

 

[CyberRabbit]

Back in my day existence of consoles wasn't known due to my country is a country not many people would know exist so most of world's development pretty much reached us few decades late unless if the shit is that popular there was at least a decade or at least 5 years delay. To make you understand this okay I can say just before people got to enjoy PlayStation 2 we just got to learn PlayStation 1 exist when Sega Genesis was still that popular. Me randomly learned PS1 exist from a guy went to Japan -> buying it from Japan a year later and a year later than that PS2 released which I didn't hear until few years later. First time I get to know internet exist and then connected to internet was in 2005 when my country bothered to invest in it. If my mother didn't had work in a hospital I wouldn't know computers exist until 2005 too. We didn't have a tv but we had radio which was the most advanced technological device for our entertaintment that I grew up with. Later on arcade places got popular yet you couldn't find them everywhere, I personally had to ride my bike for 20 KM to reach the nearest arcade place and had to learn it exist just because a kid from my school told everyone about it and most of us didn't believe something like that can exist, and then they openned one that is 10 KM closer so I was walking that distance instead of taking a bike ride because I dislike to sweat biking all around so walking for me is better.

So when I was around early state of my puberty, a kid died due to rollerskate accident which made parents in my street unite and have a formal meeting on "dangers of playing on street". A parent who had a TV while most of us having radio remembered something called "Atari" on TV as an advertizement which she refer to Atari 2600. They made a plan that locking kids into home by buying Atari, so no more kids die playing on the street because rollerskate and skating craze was a huge thing and relatively way dangerous than bikes so parents started to take action. I still remember that day, that the kid died and my mother asking me if I would play Atari. I knew about Atari from posters in arcade place so I was like "are you kidding? of course" lol. So this is when, thanks to that kid I got to have Atari and for me to play it and we also found an old TV from the hospital my mother works so no more "real need" for going to arcade places, unless some hot game was dropped.

After few years one day my uncle bought me some fake NES which I had no idea it's fake, it only had Duck Hunt on it and of course its gun to play it which I had no idea games can be changeable but I was amazed for what kind of "electronic gun magic" is this alien tech is lol. It turned out my Atari 2600 was fake too that my mother bought from a guy selling carpets and shit (WTF right? lol), so my Atari 2600 never had a way to insert a game but it had many games in it. By just restarting the console it started a random game in a random order. So after I played Duck Hunt for a while a kid in my school learned I have a "new Atari" (we called NES an Atari too which no one cared if even same company produced these or not, we just had no concept of "video game" back then so anything relate to gaming was an Atari lol) and while we were talking with the kid he mentioned he has many games for NES and I was like "dude mine has 1 game so how???" he was like "dude you buy games and insert to it", "I was like no way!!! show me!!!". So after school he brought me to his home which the home was clearly some shit that only rich people have. His "NES" was different but later on I'll learn it's also a fake but I noticed my NES was similar too. That day for hours he let me play some games and he even let me borrow some games. He taught me that the Duck Hunt picture I see on my fake NES is what I can something pull off. So when I got back home I was scared I could broke the console like "what if this device is part of the console and I can't actually change games" but it worked as how his console was. Then I tried the game I borrowed from him. He also told me where in only places in the whole city sells these games. He drew me a map that had many places I had no idea but was useful to find the landmarks that I had to ask many people to finally reach to that shop. And that shop had a "welcome" but also "WTF you doing here kid" vibe, yet the shop owner was glad that I'm a new customer like I joined a cult or some shit which would be the shop I would go for like a decade and then eventually start working there and even learn the ropes on console repair for customers. That day that I went to the shop for the first time was scary though, for I had to get into the part of the city I never knew it existed. On my way I kinda got lost but I found my way back home. Whenever I got lost I always found my way, even in a jungle which one I was lost. It's like my superpower to always find me way!!! lol

Anyway, that's my "ancient gamer story" lolol.

I loved reading this story, I kinda forget not everyone has access to technology that seems basic to me, hope your having a good day or night ;)

 

[qw90700]

I loved reading this story, I kinda forget not everyone has access to technology that seems basic to me, hope your having a good day or night ;)

You too!!

 

[Zooey]

Everytime i watch this guys channel, i ask, how did he record all this? My parents barely recorded anything, but this guy has a video for everything converted from VHS to digital

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

Well I knew what of feels to have a dad who also a gamer I grew up on Famicom (not nes as in the japanese Famicom) because it had more games than us and ps1 my dad love that console so much yep my dad taught how to play games as early as 4 years old

Yeah we are also a gamer family my mom was a puzzle, point and click and my Dad was a rpg and survival horror

Well we never buy a launch console because first is lack of games second is we wait for the upgrade version and if the console is worth with the games.

 

[qw90700]

Well we never buy a launch console because first is lack of games second is we wait for the upgrade version and if the console is worth with the games.

I learned my lesson with PS1, my guy $ony boi finally fixed PS1 with the last model. For this reason I intentionally waited until the first PS2 slim model for I always heard bad things about fatty PS2s lol. But I never bought a Playstation since PSP-3000 and PS Vita 2000.

And then ignored Gamebois until GBA SP AGS-101, ignored NDS and skipped to "New Nintendo 3DS XL", fuck Wii -> Wii U I <3 U lol, and I ignored Switch 1 until decent Switch 2 but I do consider never buying a Nintendo console again for they business suiciding by ignoring customers are supposed to be a god!!! I'm a Customer-Sama yo!!! (He references the Japanese idiom お客様は神様です (Customer-Sama is THE God-Sama DESU!!!)) lolol. Nintendo is a disgrace to Japan!!!

As for XBOX I never bought one but I got a free XBOX 360 from a friend until he wanted it back and after I returned the console to him it died in a week lol (I told him don't game so much and don't put that shit console into inside of some small space lol).

 

[Mopeybloke]

@qw90700 What country was that?

 

[bjork]

I was around for all of them in the US, but prior to the Game Boy/Genesis/TG-16 in 1989 and then the SNES in 1991, launch wasn't really the event that it has become nowadays. Prior to that, you either kept up through the limited media coverage and handful of magazines that were out, or you went to the store often enough that you'd see stuff fairly close to launch, because this new system wasn't here last week. Or a kid in the neighborhood got a new system and then other kids would soon after. That kind of thing. NES had TV spots but I don't remember it ever mentioning dates. But by the time the Game Boy hit, I feel like that might've been the first time I remember seeing a date in a weekly ad for Target or whatever.

The first launch I remember being like "it would be cool to have this day one" was 9.9.95 for the PS1, but I didn't end up with one until two years later. I just played at a friend's house. I think the first actual hardware I got on launch day was Game Boy Color, because it came in at work and I could get it easily. I had to line up for a Dreamcast on 9.9.99 despite paying it off early, about two hours in a mall food court. Same for the PS2 in October 2000, except that was fourteen hours in the same food court. Gamecube I just went to the store on the morning of launch and I was like eighth in line so I got one.

I think I didn't get another thing at launch until the Switch, which I didn't even intend to buy. I'd heard nothing about overnight sales or anything, so I went to the Walmart in town to see if they even had any, and there were no cars there prior to opening. I went up near the entrance and people started crowding, then the door opened and they all ran. I walked. I got back there because I just wanted to see the chaos, if there was any to see. But everyone was very calm and organized, and multiple people were like "he was here before all of us." So the electronics lady was like, "what color do you want" and I said "grey I guess" and then she asked which game and I said, "I guess that zelda with the bonus stuff" and I bought it and walked outside. I set it in the seat of my car and was like, "why did I just spent $425 on a thing I don't even want?" I debating selling it for about a week but finally cracked it open and I don't think I ever really properly enjoyed my switch outside of Animal Crossing and Phantasy Star 1.

Nowadays I don't buy consoles and it is rare I feel the need to day one anything. I don't really ever get fomo and I don't like owning a bunch of stuff, so it's a part of my life that has passed me by. But it was sure fun at the time.