Me: I’m gonna go to bed early tonight Also me at 1:30 a.m: *watches some instructional video on how to control the volume on early 90’s game console displays
I just spent the last 10 minutes watching a 90's instructional video on how to change the carts and volume of game cases that dont even exist anymore. I promise i have a life.
No modern kid would understand the feeling we had as children, going into a store and walking into the video game section that looked like this! Just to play the console and stare at all the video games on the other side of the glass. It's what made Xmas time so special. We lived it and this is why we watch these videos. To try to get a tiny glimpse of that feeling again.
Distinctly remember my BestBuy having these everywhere. They had a corner labeled the games area. It was incredible. That same BestBuy's game area is no where as cool as this was. I wish I could have been an employee there during this time and taken some of these if they were throwing them out.
Sorry to disappoint you, pal, but it's still the same with the new consoles. You can go and grab a gamepad to play at the stores. They display the consoles like in this video mainly locked up so no one mess around with them.
@@ArgentinaPrimermundo yeah, but those ones don't look cool infact they look like cheap plastic or cardboard, and they are MODERN CONSOLES. It is a completely different experience.
i remember gettin Mario World 2 for my Game Boy at Christmas Eve. I was the happiest kid on this Planet. Or buying NES Games with my hard saved Money. Things i will never forget. Great times back in the days.
+thaddeus FrankenCow Yeah, life is not a bed of roses nor Nintendo shop displays. By the way, there is no such thing as "now a days". Can you honestly tell me you ve' ever actually seen the indefinite article before a plural noun or noun phrase?
My uncle was pretty much like this guy ( and still is lol )! He was in his mid-20's back then. He knew everything about video games. He brought me to the arcades and introduced me to plenty of classics. Space Invaders, Missile Command, Galaga, Pac-Man, etc. One day, he brought a NES he rented at the Japanese rental store. That's right: our first rental store was owned by Japanese people ( my hometown was a small town so they were the only immigrants and it was a big thing for us lol ). They had the Japanese version of the NES too, a Famicom, and plenty of games I never saw elsewhere until roms came out. I still remember vividly how the store was made, where the shelves were, the carpet rug and everything. My first crush ever probably was the Japanese girl behind the counter of that store. I called her "Nintendo Girl" because all they had at that time was Nintendo stuff. She hated us kids and would put pressure on us to rent games and stop wasting time. She had a strong Japanese accent and man, she was severe when our parents weren't around. She scared and fascinated me at the same time. Her brother ( or maybe boyfriend but I always wanted to believe he was just her brother ) would barely even speak. I would sometimes go to that store and not rent anything because I just wanted to look at the Nintendo Girl, then when I'd feel like she was going to get mad at me, I'd take a couple of quarters out of my TMNT-themed wallet and buy myself a jawbreaker bubble gum or two. Obviously, she didn't know about my feelings ( I was just a kid anyway ) and she just thought I was trying to steal stuff in the store, that I was up to no good. One day, Blockbuster came in and they closed the store and I never saw them ever again. Whenever I find an old nintendo video like this one, I think about her lol.
Man I feel you on that.. I really liked this Italian girl and I was like 12 years old but I had to move to a different state.. 10 years later I came to visit and I couldn't believe it that she was still there after so many years.. In the end we hanged out and we finally told each other that we had a crush , I didn't even know she liked me but she did.. But she already had a boyfriend at the time and she said that the only reason she was going out with him is b/c he reminded her of me.. She was Italian and I'm Mexican..so of course she was going out with a hispanic guy.. Awe man 😔.. Never will forget about her..
I miss independant games and rental shops like that, the staff were generally much more interested in games and there was always a massive selection of obscure preowned games going back generations, most had quirky props and displays too so it was always fun to go in and look around, the big chains these days dont even bother with those cardboard displays anymore haha, very lifeless and boring.
My god this took me back to the 90’s. Walking into an electronics store back then was pure magic. I remember playing virtual boy at Toys R Us until I got a headache. They were impossible to buy, so the only way to play one was in store. Video game companies were truly innovative in the 90’s.
These video game displays were the best part of going to the mall back in the 80s and 90s. I would find one of these and just camp out as long as I could until my mom finished shopping.
I remember playing Super Mario RPG on one of these stations as we were on our way to JCPenny's to get the dreaded Family Photo. God those were miserable as a kid. The Nintendo station was like a little oasis, in contrast.
@@PedricCuf Haha, yeah when you are a kid those mall trips can feel like an eternity. Especially when clothes shopping! Super Mario RPG is a classic. Fortunately that's one I owned growing up. For me, Super Metroid was one that I only played at those Nintendo demo stations in the mall. Wish I had picked it up back then! That's one of the best games on the SNES.
@@reoire843 It really is one of the best. I didn't get to actually beat it until a couple years ago. No one I knew played it, and I'm not even sure our local Blockbuster had it. I was somewhat sad that I missed out on such an experience while young, but the flipside was that I got to enjoy something familiar, yet different, when old.
@@PedricCuf For sure! It's always nice to discover a classic gem for the first time! I finally got to play it properly too on the SNES Classic. Same for Earthbound.
these were the best years ever. I feel sorry for the kids now. they don't even realize what they missed out on. the 80s and 90s were a great time to grow up
Maybe little details like those were intentional to select future personal. I mean after showing the video, the guy in charge could ask job candidates key numbers and if all was done correctly at the video.
Anyone would be tired after being totally on, explaining what are basically cabinets that hold video games. You can see him getting winded, by the end.
I remember this gameboy display, it was so mysterious, everyone wanted to see what was on that small screen, you had to get very close above the shoulder of the player. This was my first console. Had a great time with marioland. You couldn't save and the console was powered with 4 AA batteries, so finishing a game was the best feeling for sure. It teaches you perseverance and patience.
Wow... this take me way back. I remember playing on these loads as a child while mum and my nan went to town. The nostalgia kicking in bigtime. Childhood memory unlocked
@@SSJfraz Eh, they sometimes are and sometimes aren't. They really care about the quality of their games, but they are also really bad with online stuff. They only recently learned that their creator's program was shit. And Switch Online is still shit, and NES Online is even worse. They're good overall, but need to become better. They're certainly better than a lot of other gaming companies. They HAVE improved in some ways, though. Like, ending the creator's program.
No they weren't, the way they treated 3rd parties was pretty bad. No company is wholesome, and they don't care about you, like all companies, all they care about is money.
Oh man, I miss these things. Really intriguing how they could have GameBoy displays on a TV well before the Super GameBoy ever became a thing, but it was only exclusive to those retail displays.
I honestly think that’s just a nostalgic talking. I’m someone who is born in the middle of the 90s but my childhood was for the most part in the early 2000s. And in my memory that was the best times. I know my parents say the same thing for back in the 80s. I think it comes down to the more innocent time of your childhood where you’re having fun with your friends but basically no responsibilities.
@@Faceplay2 Or the fact that there was no social media or cell phones, so people actually communicated, and did stuff like go to the movies and things like that
@@VashStarwind But that’s the thing when I grew up we did have all those things. Facebook blew up when I was in junior high so my space was already popular before that. the IPhone came out and decently affordable when I was a sophomore in high school. But we went outside we went to high school parties we went to concerts we went to the movies. I think there’s an honest misunderstanding of generations. We simply did things a little differently. Like for instance I grew up in Arizona so we had dirt bikes and we would go off Roading we just happen to have cell phones with us as well for communication purposes. We would have sleepovers with our closest friends but we would bring our phones with us. And just like people from 10 years prior we would also bring our game devices and play video games late into the night it’s not like we just kept our face in our cell phone lol.
@@Faceplay2 Yeah thats the thing, you guys DIDNT grow up with that stuff your whole life, you got to highschool AND THEN that stuff became popular. Now that kids have grown up LITERALLY their whole life with smart phones and social media, they stopped going out and doing things like movies, book stores, game stores, toy stores, wherever. Its totally different now especially with the kids that dont know what life was like before all those things existed. They dont even know that people used to have to go knock on other peoples door, just to see if they were even home lol. Fb used to be a good thing the first few years it came out, it was cool. Then they got the idea of taking over the whole internet and it turned to shit after that.
@@VashStarwind I guess that’s a good point. My first cell phone I had I was probably like 11 years old but it was just a emergency cell phone so I could call my family if I got lost or so they could call me if I was out and about. I grew up in a decent suburb so it wasn’t uncommon for parents to drop us off to like the movie theater and stuff so we had a cell phone so we could call her parents to get picked up since we were that age. But again it basically didn’t do anything.
I was thinking about the ones behind locked panels. It would have been easy to have a clearly visible knob or wheel with labels. As for the one just under the edge anyone could reach, when I was playing on those as a kid I would have followed this guy's example.
It's to make the device Tamper resistant. You don't want somebody tampering with the machine and messing it up and making it an inconvenience for everyone, do you?
+Eden tification Advertisement directors who never went to film school? Anyone whose seen the Adam West Batman knows that people who appear on a tilted screen are the badguys. It shows their skewed mind...
Bro.. Watching this has brought back so many memories walking into electronic stores as a kid growing up in the 90s w all the screens everywhere connected to my favorite systems. Id kill for one of these things man im tellin you. Thank you for uploading this.
I thought so too, the guys haircut/stashe made it seem like he might be playing up a character. but as the video went on i was like damn....they sure collected alot of expensive rare stuff for this joke.
Yep and 80s as regular nintendo came out in the 80s though and was awesome. It came out when I was 2 in 1985. Me and my brothers played it all the time in 1988 and 1989 threw the early 90s. Especially Punchout and Metroid.
VirtualBoy_gaming they had nine years to do it and failed to before the 3DS family effectively left the market. Japan did have 3DS Stations that worked like display kiosks, but those have been discontinued
Wow, I remember the Super NES display. I really enjoyed watching this instructional retail video. It's so awesome how people uploaded preserving these vintage training videos.
It's too bad there hasn't been an adapter/ cord made that plugs the gameboy video output directly to a TV, without the need for a super Nintendo! Think I'm gonna start checking the web for that just in case.
Back in the day I was trying to decide weather to get a snes or genesis. It was a BIG decision man… I played UN Squadron on the arcade stand up. I knew it was coming to snes, so my decision was made.
Nintendo had it all : "Got 250$ ? Here is a SNES !" "Doesn't have 250$ ? Take a NES !" "Doesn't have a TV ? Take a Game Boy !" "Doesn't have money ? Take flyers and shit !"
So great. I love how they had this amazing trio of systems. I love how the next gen never replaced last gen right away. They worked together. And they really did advertise all 3 systems together in magazines & stuff. Now all we have is one console. Dedicated handhelds are a thing of the past. Sad.
@@Gameboy-Unboxings Sony also did/does this. The PS1 lasted until 2006 and existed alongside the PS2 for part of its life, the PS2 lasted until 2013 and existed alongside the PS3 for nearly half its life, and so on
Actually you can indeed find one. Some guy on reddit bought one recently. See here: www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/9wm5zz/very_cool_pickup_yesterday_considering_an/ I'm still trying to figure out the name.
@@SpanishFly120 You are *dead right* on that 8000. See here: www.ebay.com/itm/NINTENDO-GAME-BOY-POCKET-Kiosk-Shop-DISPLAY-UNIT-Screen-GAMEBOY-USA-Introvabile/312579479622?hash=item48c7305846:g:R1EAAOSw5oxbzNyZ
This is awesome. 😎👍 I could watch this guy explain the mechanics of our childhood consoles for hours. Thank you took me back in time. This room use to be how Game Stop was. Now GameStop doesn't even display or showcase consoles anymore. Nor does it sell the original NES or SNES games anymore. 🙄
This is so cool to see these types of videos. It's like going back in time. I love seeing the systems because they look so new like the Game Boy. It looked very shiny for some reason lol.
I think the reason he says "I like the volume up REEEEEAL LOOOOOUD!" is because Nintendo was using the slogan "Play it Loud!" through out most of the 90's.
if they survived they'd be worth a lot to retro games collectors. imagine having a shelf load of game carts and then having the retail demo units there so it's like youve got your own video game store? i guess most of them would have probably been dumped though, who would have known these things would eventually be collectible
nintendo told retailers to DESTROY all units, not to sell them nor ship them back so legallly that is what happened. a few employees took some home quietly...and those ended up on ebay today.
Lol no. They had to send them back to the distributer, Nintendo still owned those, they didn't just give them to retailers or nothing. I know because I worked at HHgregg in high school. We set them up...etc and at some point had to pack and send them back. The ones on Ebay or that were ever sold were where they would liquidate them from the warehouse at auctions. Whoever originally bought them then sold them around and of course they eventually end up on Ebay and whatnot.
Thank you for this video, very informative. Now I'm ready to go to my work that exists in the 90's and crank that cabinet volume up reaaal high after opening that cabinet with an MM101 key.
I found this guy on LinkedIn and messaged him asking how to turn up the volume on my TV because I couldn't find a rubber gromit and he had no idea this was on TH-cam
@@StarwindAmada1 I'm not trying to be offensive, but your response of "I'm gonna kick your ass" is the funniest response to a dick TH-cam comment I have ever read, and the fact that the argument started because of him making fun of your desire for rubber gromits makes it even better! And the fact that this video could ever cause anyone to get pissed at anyone to the point of wanting to kick their ass makes it EVEN better!! Haha! Again, no offense intended, but this video is like, the most innocuous thing I have ever watched, so I find it funny that it could result in somebody saying, "I'm gonna kick your ass."
maybe it's me getting old but this looks so much better than what we have today. not the graphics or gameplay, but imagine going to a store and see all those colorful games e stations so you can try the game and hang out with your friends.
+NESSNESMASTER I know all we got is stupid gamestop now. I miss when we had cool displays like those that gameboy display looked awesome with the built in screen.
In toy shops and department stores full of hyperactive kids playing video games, being able to stop the little twats from turning the volume up was very important.
@@gwishart Hell it still is to this day. There's a reason why the volume on these is still controlled to the point where they were even eliminating IR remote control in the mounted TVs when kids started getting phones with IR blasters.
THAT WAS WHAT IT WAS!! That Interactive display! I remember replacing some games over and over. Oh my gosh I didn't expect this video to fully unlock the hidden part of my childhood I couldn't remember.
I remember some cruise ships (Silja Line I believe) had NES displays like these with various games you could play. We also used to have a video game store in my home town, where you could try the games (NES, SNES, Sega Mega Drive, Master System) before you bought them, but they didn't use any fancy displays like these.
This makes me so depressed. The 90’s were such an amazing time. I was born in 96 so I didn’t really get to experience any of it. Look at that game store. So amazing and looks like the coolest museum ever.
Kakap0 I actually had several friends from around the world in late 97+ on some primitive chat rooms. Back when chat rooms were fun and not just trash. Sometimes the whole getting in touch with someone in town could be a fun adventure.
It's hard to tell whether this is a spoof or not, but there's no way anyone has all those displays in perfect condition anymore. This guy could be a normal looking dude in 2023.
Jake turned the volume all the way up and it tore Miniboss's body to shreds. I survived too, as I was with Miniboss to witness this event, but because of this I am deaf, I only have 1 leg, and I also have major brain damage.
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For the record kids. Back in the 90s, everyones dad had a friend that looked like this.
Shesez haha good one
Also I’m surprised no ones replied to your comment even after a year
Shesez Holy shit, it's you! What's up?
That’s true, everyone’s dad had a friend who looked like a rapist
Shesez ✨LOL yes they did!!!🎮😂😂😂✨
But he was never someone's Dad!
me:"dad, how are babies made?"
this guy:"well you get your mm101 key, and you open up the front door..."
Dr. Crocktopus “Make sure to turn off the volume”
Dr. Crocktopus gold
Oh my... I almost choke on my sandwich.
Your comment won the internet. Can’t stop laughing. Thank you
Dr. Crocktopus I 'bout blasted my drink onto my laptop
This shop wouldve been my dream back as a kid.
I would’ve probably passed out in there
This was, like... every Target and Toys R Us.
I wonder if this was a shop open to the public or just used by Nintendo to train employees and do demonstrations for sellers?
Lol same
@@vel2118 I wonder if this guy still alive and his Shop
This man loves his volume so much, he calls the Gameboy's Power switch "Volume"
I was laughin, "turn the volume of the gameboy off"
After he said “hmm.” I think they were tired of taking takes.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Remember: He likes it loud
@@Starpotion You've gotta *Play It Loud!*
Me: I’m gonna go to bed early tonight
Also me at 1:30 a.m: *watches some instructional video on how to control the volume on early 90’s game console displays
Let me guess you dont own any of these demo units?
imagine having an mn-101 key back then 😂
I relate so much meg I'm scared to laugh loud.
oh look a dumbass joke
@@Xarai People must palm you off to other assholes at parties. What a bundle of joy you must be.
I just spent the last 10 minutes watching a 90's instructional video on how to change the carts and volume of game cases that dont even exist anymore. I promise i have a life.
Yeah we have lives..... we are living I geuss.
+Kenny mcormic Some of them still exist, beat up by the passing years.
Can't blame you, when you own one, you should look up this for information.
Kenny mcormic hey fucker u have my name 😝
I own one.. and it's missing the key! now I know which key I need to get cut. this video was bloody gold dust to me xD
No modern kid would understand the feeling we had as children, going into a store and walking into the video game section that looked like this! Just to play the console and stare at all the video games on the other side of the glass. It's what made Xmas time so special. We lived it and this is why we watch these videos. To try to get a tiny glimpse of that feeling again.
Distinctly remember my BestBuy having these everywhere. They had a corner labeled the games area. It was incredible. That same BestBuy's game area is no where as cool as this was. I wish I could have been an employee there during this time and taken some of these if they were throwing them out.
Sorry to disappoint you, pal, but it's still the same with the new consoles. You can go and grab a gamepad to play at the stores. They display the consoles like in this video mainly locked up so no one mess around with them.
@@ArgentinaPrimermundo yeah, but those ones don't look cool infact they look like cheap plastic or cardboard, and they are MODERN CONSOLES. It is a completely different experience.
@@RaziOrSomething why, i never played any console, playing for the first time the Nintendo Switch and it was awesome
i remember gettin Mario World 2 for my Game Boy at Christmas Eve. I was the happiest kid on this Planet. Or buying NES Games with my hard saved Money. Things i will never forget. Great times back in the days.
police: how did you enter the victim´s house?
this guy: well i took my mm101 key and opened the front door
Got damn fuck yes 😆😆
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Did he turn the knob all they way?
It's still in the door
@5
Man, this puts chills down my spine. Life was so awesome back then!
I'm starting to feel old lol
+Matthew Hawthorne Electronics Boutique
+thaddeus FrankenCow Yeah, life is not a bed of roses nor Nintendo shop displays. By the way, there is no such thing as "now a days". Can you honestly tell me you ve' ever actually seen the indefinite article before a plural noun or noun phrase?
autentyk Actually there is such a thing as "nowadays" it just means at this present time Compared to what it used to be like. lol
Darren Leonard I was asking about "now a days", not "nowadays". People can be slow to read and think, and quick to comment nowadays, can't they?
My uncle was pretty much like this guy ( and still is lol )! He was in his mid-20's back then. He knew everything about video games. He brought me to the arcades and introduced me to plenty of classics. Space Invaders, Missile Command, Galaga, Pac-Man, etc. One day, he brought a NES he rented at the Japanese rental store. That's right: our first rental store was owned by Japanese people ( my hometown was a small town so they were the only immigrants and it was a big thing for us lol ). They had the Japanese version of the NES too, a Famicom, and plenty of games I never saw elsewhere until roms came out. I still remember vividly how the store was made, where the shelves were, the carpet rug and everything.
My first crush ever probably was the Japanese girl behind the counter of that store. I called her "Nintendo Girl" because all they had at that time was Nintendo stuff. She hated us kids and would put pressure on us to rent games and stop wasting time. She had a strong Japanese accent and man, she was severe when our parents weren't around. She scared and fascinated me at the same time. Her brother ( or maybe boyfriend but I always wanted to believe he was just her brother ) would barely even speak. I would sometimes go to that store and not rent anything because I just wanted to look at the Nintendo Girl, then when I'd feel like she was going to get mad at me, I'd take a couple of quarters out of my TMNT-themed wallet and buy myself a jawbreaker bubble gum or two. Obviously, she didn't know about my feelings ( I was just a kid anyway ) and she just thought I was trying to steal stuff in the store, that I was up to no good. One day, Blockbuster came in and they closed the store and I never saw them ever again. Whenever I find an old nintendo video like this one, I think about her lol.
amazing story . whats your town called
Thats a sweet story actually.
This was so romantic!
Man I feel you on that.. I really liked this Italian girl and I was like 12 years old but I had to move to a different state.. 10 years later I came to visit and I couldn't believe it that she was still there after so many years.. In the end we hanged out and we finally told each other that we had a crush , I didn't even know she liked me but she did.. But she already had a boyfriend at the time and she said that the only reason she was going out with him is b/c he reminded her of me.. She was Italian and I'm Mexican..so of course she was going out with a hispanic guy.. Awe man 😔.. Never will forget about her..
I miss independant games and rental shops like that, the staff were generally much more interested in games and there was always a massive selection of obscure preowned games going back generations, most had quirky props and displays too so it was always fun to go in and look around, the big chains these days dont even bother with those cardboard displays anymore haha, very lifeless and boring.
My god this took me back to the 90’s. Walking into an electronics store back then was pure magic. I remember playing virtual boy at Toys R Us until I got a headache. They were impossible to buy, so the only way to play one was in store. Video game companies were truly innovative in the 90’s.
Remember Red Alarm?
These video game displays were the best part of going to the mall back in the 80s and 90s. I would find one of these and just camp out as long as I could until my mom finished shopping.
I remember playing Super Mario RPG on one of these stations as we were on our way to JCPenny's to get the dreaded Family Photo. God those were miserable as a kid. The Nintendo station was like a little oasis, in contrast.
@@PedricCuf Haha, yeah when you are a kid those mall trips can feel like an eternity. Especially when clothes shopping! Super Mario RPG is a classic. Fortunately that's one I owned growing up. For me, Super Metroid was one that I only played at those Nintendo demo stations in the mall. Wish I had picked it up back then! That's one of the best games on the SNES.
@@reoire843 It really is one of the best. I didn't get to actually beat it until a couple years ago. No one I knew played it, and I'm not even sure our local Blockbuster had it. I was somewhat sad that I missed out on such an experience while young, but the flipside was that I got to enjoy something familiar, yet different, when old.
@@PedricCuf For sure! It's always nice to discover a classic gem for the first time! I finally got to play it properly too on the SNES Classic. Same for Earthbound.
Same!!! Hahah. In the UK, Dixons had great displays :) Also, I used to go to WHSmith to read the nintendo magazine before going to Dixons lol
you know him... he sure likes his volume REAL high
Its JEKE !!!
+TheMagicLawnMower LOL
dude's probably a metal head
I believe he was referring to his mental high. Lol
at least hes not selling real fake doors
Kids used to go to the mall just to play on these, they had to set a time limit it was that good...
I remember those days!!
What do you mean set a time limit?
I had to go to a wal-mart most of the time to play these and they were always broken in some way.
My dad used to take us to ToysRus
And you know me... I like to get reaaaalllly high
I remember finding the secret hidden knobs in stores when I was little and messing with shit like this.
😂 😂 u made my day
lmao
I felt like I was actually in the early 90s just watching this
And I love that feeling
Feels like a Nintendo Tech Museum
Make sure you turn the volume off before removing the cartridge in your Gameboy.
lol
Dogbunns how is that even a volume rocker
Lol came in for this comment
@@icarusael lmfao me 2
me 3 lol
these were the best years ever. I feel sorry for the kids now. they don't even realize what they missed out on. the 80s and 90s were a great time to grow up
As a 82 born i agree ;)
What a horrible hell you’ve left for us
Well if there one thing I learned about this video is that he likes his volume really high.
4:37 Damn look at how shiny and fresh that Metroid 2 cartridge is. In fact everything in this vid is so fresh and clean. Such a rare sight.
This is so epic, I wish our stores still had these kinds of presentations of consoles and handhelds..
Jake devoted his life to changing the volume of Nintendo kisok's. That's a satisfying life.
He liked the volume up really high!
6:48 "Don't forget, close the door and lock it". Forgets to lock it. XD
Maybe little details like those were intentional to select future personal. I mean after showing the video, the guy in charge could ask job candidates key numbers and if all was done correctly at the video.
🤣
Yeah! I noticed that! 😂
Saw that the first time I watched it
Anyone would be tired after being totally on, explaining what are basically cabinets that hold video games. You can see him getting winded, by the end.
I remember this gameboy display, it was so mysterious, everyone wanted to see what was on that small screen, you had to get very close above the shoulder of the player. This was my first console. Had a great time with marioland. You couldn't save and the console was powered with 4 AA batteries, so finishing a game was the best feeling for sure. It teaches you perseverance and patience.
"You know me, I like the volume up really high"
Coty0010
What He Means , He Likes To Be HIGH And Do Kids
I want a shirt with that line and Jakes face on it
the "volume"
He looks high tbh
Now I can add "Able to operate retro video game displays" to my resume.
man I love the 90's
They had it all
Wow... this take me way back. I remember playing on these loads as a child while mum and my nan went to town. The nostalgia kicking in bigtime. Childhood memory unlocked
Nintendo, especially back when this was filmed, was such a genuine company. This is some of the most wholesome content on TH-cam.
Nintendo still is
@@donacarmenmorales8806 It quite clearly isn't. They fuck their own fans over at every turn now.
@@SSJfraz Eh, they sometimes are and sometimes aren't. They really care about the quality of their games, but they are also really bad with online stuff. They only recently learned that their creator's program was shit. And Switch Online is still shit, and NES Online is even worse.
They're good overall, but need to become better. They're certainly better than a lot of other gaming companies. They HAVE improved in some ways, though. Like, ending the creator's program.
You mean the company that tried to put Blockbuster out of business for renting their games?
No they weren't, the way they treated 3rd parties was pretty bad. No company is wholesome, and they don't care about you, like all companies, all they care about is money.
Am I the only one here who wants some of that sweet Nintendo merchandise?
No Because I want one too
I want that too.
Nah. I'd love to have one of these for my collection.
Nope.
Oh man, I miss these things. Really intriguing how they could have GameBoy displays on a TV well before the Super GameBoy ever became a thing, but it was only exclusive to those retail displays.
I would never change my time with these games with growing up with a PS5 and Call of Duty. Today’s kids will never understand it.
I don't know what Jake's doing nowadays but I bet he can't hear shit.
CapnCody1622 he works at Microsoft now
Silent Beast Really now?
www.linkedin.com/in/kioskjake
bro lmaooooo
Spending all his time getting really high.
I miss being a kid in the early 90’s. The best decade ever.
I honestly think that’s just a nostalgic talking. I’m someone who is born in the middle of the 90s but my childhood was for the most part in the early 2000s. And in my memory that was the best times. I know my parents say the same thing for back in the 80s. I think it comes down to the more innocent time of your childhood where you’re having fun with your friends but basically no responsibilities.
@@Faceplay2 Or the fact that there was no social media or cell phones, so people actually communicated, and did stuff like go to the movies and things like that
@@VashStarwind But that’s the thing when I grew up we did have all those things. Facebook blew up when I was in junior high so my space was already popular before that. the IPhone came out and decently affordable when I was a sophomore in high school.
But we went outside we went to high school parties we went to concerts we went to the movies.
I think there’s an honest misunderstanding of generations.
We simply did things a little differently. Like for instance I grew up in Arizona so we had dirt bikes and we would go off Roading we just happen to have cell phones with us as well for communication purposes.
We would have sleepovers with our closest friends but we would bring our phones with us. And just like people from 10 years prior we would also bring our game devices and play video games late into the night it’s not like we just kept our face in our cell phone lol.
@@Faceplay2 Yeah thats the thing, you guys DIDNT grow up with that stuff your whole life, you got to highschool AND THEN that stuff became popular. Now that kids have grown up LITERALLY their whole life with smart phones and social media, they stopped going out and doing things like movies, book stores, game stores, toy stores, wherever. Its totally different now especially with the kids that dont know what life was like before all those things existed. They dont even know that people used to have to go knock on other peoples door, just to see if they were even home lol.
Fb used to be a good thing the first few years it came out, it was cool. Then they got the idea of taking over the whole internet and it turned to shit after that.
@@VashStarwind I guess that’s a good point. My first cell phone I had I was probably like 11 years old but it was just a emergency cell phone so I could call my family if I got lost or so they could call me if I was out and about. I grew up in a decent suburb so it wasn’t uncommon for parents to drop us off to like the movie theater and stuff so we had a cell phone so we could call her parents to get picked up since we were that age. But again it basically didn’t do anything.
For some reason I always come back to this video and watch it again
Same
For me...I just download these and other classic Nintendo Demonstration videos off of TH-cam to watch on my phone whenever.😆
Do you collect Nintendo consoles!
What a world we live in where every single game on every single console in that store can now fit on a little tiny chip.
On a 25$ chip
Dude, if you get the nachos stuck together, that's one big nacho
absolutely soulless
This guy is a fucking legend ahahaha
What do you mean?
Maya Amano I mean he's a legend, like, a cool guy! hahaha
+MikeyTaylorGaming What do you mean exactly?
+GillesBoutenfeu I think he's being ironic. And I agree, this guy is a fucking legend. Hilarious.
+MikeyTaylorGaming I like it reaaaaaaallly loud
A real ass was responsible for placing those volume adjustment controls.
They had to hide them, or every kid ever would be changing the volume constantly.
I was thinking about the ones behind locked panels. It would have been easy to have a clearly visible knob or wheel with labels.
As for the one just under the edge anyone could reach, when I was playing on those as a kid I would have followed this guy's example.
It's to make the device Tamper resistant. You don't want somebody tampering with the machine and messing it up and making it an inconvenience for everyone, do you?
*Starts with a tilted view. Yup this is 90s.
Haha yeah. what was with that trend?
+Eden tification Advertisement directors who never went to film school? Anyone whose seen the Adam West Batman knows that people who appear on a tilted screen are the badguys. It shows their skewed mind...
That view is known as the "dutch angle".
Bro.. Watching this has brought back so many memories walking into electronic stores as a kid growing up in the 90s w all the screens everywhere connected to my favorite systems. Id kill for one of these things man im tellin you. Thank you for uploading this.
Jake... no more cocaine for you.
he amited it in the end, he likes it "really high"!
At 7:00 as he hits on the gameboy tv adapter the thing glitches out and restarts lol
hehe
lol i was just watchin and i was thinkin damn did that thing have a restart timer.... and BOOM i read this... god damn shitty contacts
Someone must have pulled too hard and yanked all the wires out.
nope lol s
Jake, destroyer of gameboys
I actually thought this was a joke video made as a parody of 90s instructional videos.
Lol me too, with those 80's filters
@@greciasoleble nah. They wouldn't make so much stuff to just make parody.
@@yt_user1772 *laughs in jontron*
omg same lol
I thought so too, the guys haircut/stashe made it seem like he might be playing up a character. but as the video went on i was like damn....they sure collected alot of expensive rare stuff for this joke.
This is cool, the 90s had such awesome stuff.
Yep and 80s as regular nintendo came out in the 80s though and was awesome. It came out when I was 2 in 1985. Me and my brothers played it all the time in 1988 and 1989 threw the early 90s. Especially Punchout and Metroid.
through*
90s tech was doing the edgy arcade aesthetic.
I remember these displays in the early 90's they were so great.
if you look at the one at 2:54 , I've got one of those displays in my attic and the gameboy still works.
As soon as that guy started talking I thought there's no way this was made in 1992, it seems like a parody lol
Are you kidding? This reeks of the early 90's.
Space Bud95 childhood memories here.
jortega61924 It was a simpler time man. Before the advent of smart phones and facebook. I miss it :'(
I thought it was fake too at first. It's just too on the nose.
facebook is the same thing as myspace and other I don't know why everyone is going crazy over facebook like its something new@@spacebud9569
The way they rigged up that gameboy to a tv screen. They don't make in-store handheld stations like they used to. That's awesome.
It'd be so cool if the 3ds had tv kiosks
VirtualBoy_gaming they had nine years to do it and failed to before the 3DS family effectively left the market. Japan did have 3DS Stations that worked like display kiosks, but those have been discontinued
@@Poever Nice
@@Poever other countries did too. Retro Future has a video about it
Wow, I remember the Super NES display. I really enjoyed watching this instructional retail video. It's so awesome how people uploaded preserving these vintage training videos.
I always wanted one of those Gameboy Displays b/c the pic was so lousy and hard to see on normal GB lol
It's too bad there hasn't been an adapter/ cord made that plugs the gameboy video output directly to a TV, without the need for a super Nintendo! Think I'm gonna start checking the web for that just in case.
It's called HDMIboy
I actually know someone who owns the exact model shown in this video
Be sure to adjust the contrast before you say such things! (I am joking)
I saw this video once where a guy named ben heck modified a gameboy and attached it to a tv
I remember when I was a kid i use to go to these places to play video games I loved this days.
I remember playing the Snes for my first time at a video game store that had displays like this. Fell in love instantly
Back in the day I was trying to decide weather to get a snes or genesis. It was a BIG decision man… I played UN Squadron on the arcade stand up. I knew it was coming to snes, so my decision was made.
Nintendo had it all :
"Got 250$ ? Here is a SNES !"
"Doesn't have 250$ ? Take a NES !"
"Doesn't have a TV ? Take a Game Boy !"
"Doesn't have money ? Take flyers and shit !"
So great. I love how they had this amazing trio of systems. I love how the next gen never replaced last gen right away. They worked together. And they really did advertise all 3 systems together in magazines & stuff. Now all we have is one console. Dedicated handhelds are a thing of the past. Sad.
@@Gameboy-Unboxings Sony also did/does this. The PS1 lasted until 2006 and existed alongside the PS2 for part of its life, the PS2 lasted until 2013 and existed alongside the PS3 for nearly half its life, and so on
I wish I could've visited these Nintendo stores back in the day, they look so awesome. I was born in the wrong year.
They were awesome. It was the best.
I always say I was born ten to twenty years too late for my hobbies.
I really really really want that Game Boy display with the screen.
@@Obozo_Gaming if you can find any in the first place lmao
@@CUTIE_POXX I'm sure somebody on eBay is probably selling one for about $8000, lol.
@@SpanishFly120 lol, i hope it comes with the key
Actually you can indeed find one. Some guy on reddit bought one recently. See here: www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/9wm5zz/very_cool_pickup_yesterday_considering_an/
I'm still trying to figure out the name.
@@SpanishFly120 You are *dead right* on that 8000. See here: www.ebay.com/itm/NINTENDO-GAME-BOY-POCKET-Kiosk-Shop-DISPLAY-UNIT-Screen-GAMEBOY-USA-Introvabile/312579479622?hash=item48c7305846:g:R1EAAOSw5oxbzNyZ
God damn even Nintendo's training videos are fun and whimsical :3
This is awesome. 😎👍 I could watch this guy explain the mechanics of our childhood consoles for hours. Thank you took me back in time. This room use to be how Game Stop was. Now GameStop doesn't even display or showcase consoles anymore. Nor does it sell the original NES or SNES games anymore. 🙄
This is so cool to see these types of videos. It's like going back in time. I love seeing the systems because they look so new like the Game Boy. It looked very shiny for some reason lol.
You know me... I like watching videos like this REALLY high.
That last kiosk was mindblowing. Never seen one of those before not even in stores as a kid.
I love how they make something that's so simplistic and primitive look so complicated that it needs a step by step instructional video
I think the reason he says "I like the volume up REEEEEAL LOOOOOUD!" is because Nintendo was using the slogan "Play it Loud!" through out most of the 90's.
It took me a few minutes to realize this was real and not a modern remake/parody.
He didn't lock the door on the NES display.
+Bob Woggle And he hit the Game Boy next to it so hard it reset.
+Bob Woggle he wanted to change the game after the video to play something :p
+Bob Woggle oh shit! i'm running down there now to steal it!
+420 blaze it up seeing those brand new snes consoles make my mouth water.
+420 blaze it up Better hurry up before he realises!
I spent so many hours playing these in stores when mom was out shopping. Good times indeed :)
Mom always knew where me and my brother would be.
wonder what happened to all those displays
Jake built a house out of them to live in when his bosses figured out nobody on Earth actually needed his services.
The NES one at 6:55 prolly got stolen because he didn't lock it up
if they survived they'd be worth a lot to retro games collectors. imagine having a shelf load of game carts and then having the retail demo units there so it's like youve got your own video game store? i guess most of them would have probably been dumped though, who would have known these things would eventually be collectible
nintendo told retailers to DESTROY all units, not to sell them nor ship them back so legallly that is what happened. a few employees took some home quietly...and those ended up on ebay today.
Lol no. They had to send them back to the distributer, Nintendo still owned those, they didn't just give them to retailers or nothing. I know because I worked at HHgregg in high school. We set them up...etc and at some point had to pack and send them back.
The ones on Ebay or that were ever sold were where they would liquidate them from the warehouse at auctions. Whoever originally bought them then sold them around and of course they eventually end up on Ebay and whatnot.
Thank you for this video, very informative.
Now I'm ready to go to my work that exists in the 90's and crank that cabinet volume up reaaal high after opening that cabinet with an MM101 key.
I found this guy on LinkedIn and messaged him asking how to turn up the volume on my TV because I couldn't find a rubber gromit and he had no idea this was on TH-cam
That's amazing. I hope he's amused by it haha.
Nah I dont think so
@@StarwindAmada1 I'm not trying to be offensive, but your response of "I'm gonna kick your ass" is the funniest response to a dick TH-cam comment I have ever read, and the fact that the argument started because of him making fun of your desire for rubber gromits makes it even better! And the fact that this video could ever cause anyone to get pissed at anyone to the point of wanting to kick their ass makes it EVEN better!! Haha! Again, no offense intended, but this video is like, the most innocuous thing I have ever watched, so I find it funny that it could result in somebody saying, "I'm gonna kick your ass."
How did you find him with just a name lol?
Lol
I come back to this video from time to time. Those guys are living the dream. Juke box kiosks are on my hit list.
maybe it's me getting old but this looks so much better than what we have today. not the graphics or gameplay, but imagine going to a store and see all those colorful games e stations so you can try the game and hang out with your friends.
My god I wish places like this still existed. 0.0
+NESSNESMASTER I know all we got is stupid gamestop now. I miss when we had cool displays like those that gameboy display looked awesome with the built in screen.
I know of one in Bonita springs FL called "8 bit Hall of Fame"
Seems like volume was a really touchy thing back then
In toy shops and department stores full of hyperactive kids playing video games, being able to stop the little twats from turning the volume up was very important.
@@gwishart Hell it still is to this day. There's a reason why the volume on these is still controlled to the point where they were even eliminating IR remote control in the mounted TVs when kids started getting phones with IR blasters.
@@TheDemocrab lol I use to go to sixflags and use my note 4 to turn off tv's
And on the last one even the customers could turn up the volume really high if they wanted to (and if they know where the volume wheel is).
a lot of stuff used pretty finicky, shitty potentiometers for volume control
THAT WAS WHAT IT WAS!! That Interactive display! I remember replacing some games over and over. Oh my gosh I didn't expect this video to fully unlock the hidden part of my childhood I couldn't remember.
Let's just hope that when he watches porn he doesn't up LIKE his volume really high
Aghasting Sky 😂😂
idk he was pretty vocal about how he likes it up REALLL loud.
did youtube exist then
OH! I FORGOT THE SECRET GAME P3RNMAN2! DEVS ONLY!
As least we wont "Forget to close the door and lock it!"
3:41 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I remember some cruise ships (Silja Line I believe) had NES displays like these with various games you could play. We also used to have a video game store in my home town, where you could try the games (NES, SNES, Sega Mega Drive, Master System) before you bought them, but they didn't use any fancy displays like these.
Jake still has nightmares about the displays... They haunt him at night... "Turn me up really loud Jake... You know you want to..."
Man i love those times...Please return me back to 90's and leave me there for ever!!!
This makes me so depressed. The 90’s were such an amazing time. I was born in 96 so I didn’t really get to experience any of it. Look at that game store. So amazing and looks like the coolest museum ever.
Things were definitely different, in many ways much better and I miss it, but we have the power to make things even better if we work together.
I was alive for the 90s. Trust me it was actually pretty average, not every store was like that video and most the time they pretty crap.
Kakap0 I actually had several friends from around the world in late 97+ on some primitive chat rooms. Back when chat rooms were fun and not just trash. Sometimes the whole getting in touch with someone in town could be a fun adventure.
LE WRONG GENERATION
80,s that was even better but I didn't see a lot about that I am from 85.
I think he was “really high” when he made this lol
lol would you blame him?
no, just a regular american sales guy.
I miss the 90s of video games :((
Man i wish we never progressed past 16 bit gaming. Those were the days. I will forever miss them.
6:48 "Don't forget, close the door and lock it!" *Doesn't lock the door* THUG LIFE!
+UraKn0x looooooooooool
+UraKn0x Lol I noticed that too he didn't even lock it :D
The Volume Guy.
Why is finding the volume on all these things so difficult
So the little runts can't fuck with it.
KiloByte Why would it be such a problem if they could just control the volume?
CliffJot
Jake might light the volume REALLLY HIGH but I bet most store owners don't.
KiloByte I was going to make a joke like that...
*****
Why don't you pen a letter to Nintendo expressing your concerns?
Brings back so many memories being in Sears and playing super Mario world for the very first time while my family did their Christmas shopping.
1:22 hey that's not a new game pack cartridge, he just used the same one! What a scam, dudes a straight up con.
camaroman101 and then the power button did nothing
camaroman101 doing blow will do that to a man! Lol
He didn't lock the Nes display with the key. YOU'RE FIREDDDAHHH!!!!!!
Actually it's a SNES
Actually he's still FIREEDAAAHH!!!!
JesterFace05 is that you Vince McMahon
Yesss!!!! You can join him too!!! Have fun at the unemployment line because.....
***** You're FIIREEDAH for spelling "You're" wrong Dumbass!
he really likes volume controls
And reaaaally high
you know him he like it real loud
He likes them so much he even says "volume" when he means "power" for the gameboy.
Yeah he likes playing with those nobs that get turned on.
He likes the volume OVER 9000!!!
Man, Jake’s personality really improved from the Nintendo power of choice video!
It's hard to tell whether this is a spoof or not, but there's no way anyone has all those displays in perfect condition anymore. This guy could be a normal looking dude in 2023.
6:57 Anyone else Notice how he taps the GameBoy and it crashes xD
Haha
UselessBrit it resets
isn't there a reset button up there?
it could be the timer circuit kicking the power off and on lol
yep they were like that.
Damn I want that SNES kiosk
I need that whole room
+empire Make one.
Miniboss how'd it go?
Jake turned the volume all the way up and it tore Miniboss's body to shreds. I survived too, as I was with Miniboss to witness this event, but because of this I am deaf, I only have 1 leg, and I also have major brain damage.
Interesting I might go their to turn the volume so high that this guy would give me every Nintendo system
Let me guess, he likes they volume up REAL high?
I want a MM-101 key now, seems to open anything.
Won't open my car
came here to see this
What a store! 80's kids had it the best!
Glad to hear someone from that actual era call it the "Super NES" not the "SANES" like kids do today.
His moustache power level is over 9,000!
Got up to 2 minutes before i realized this video wasn't meant for customers.
I wonder how many of these still exist. I would love to have the 3 way one.
we would all love to have a three way at some point in our lives
....Are we still talking about the same thing?
ofcorse!
We have several demo units at the Louisville Arcade Expo. Including the SNES countertop.
That was an incredible video right here, back to the past ! thanks for the share.