This video hits hard! As someone born in 1999 I grew up with a lot of the stuff on this list. I still have my PS2 connected and ready to revisit some of my favourite childhood games like NFS Underground and Midnight Club 3
Very nostalgic. I recall like half of those- mainly because I wasn't a PC gamer. MW2 back in the day was addictive since it was the first time I got to play online in 2010. Those start screens were epic on consoles too. GTA4 was the one I played the most back then, and there was always that time where I would try to see how long I could hold off the cops. Good times, good times.
I miss when startups and main menus were unique. There was something beautiful when starting up a ps2 or playing super Mario 64 and that main menu music would hit and you could feel how special everything felt.
Right? I remember being so disappointed when I launched Breath of the Wild for the first time and it was some empty soundless main menu. Urg so disappointing !
My goodness all the nostalgia that just hit me. Split screen multi-player was still around and hanging out all weekend with a friend to beat Gears of War because we rented it from blockbuster was a core gaming memory
Also right now in the golden age of indie development, oh but don't let me stop you from being a clueless non-gamer who isn't at all familiar with and doesn't actually play what is released these days...
Made me feel like 12 years old again watching this video. The amazing beginning of mercenaries two, 910 songs from from Mission five, while finishing the complicated missions.
This hit my nostalgia hard, you've pretty much nailed the early 2000 for gamers. I gotta add on playing DDR or other arcade games at an actual arcade whenever you have the chance once out of school. Good days...
I once spent an entire summer in the arcade. Well, when I wasn't at my summer job. Basically those two months consisted of only 3 phases for me. Work, sleep or arcade hall. One of the best summers of my teenage years. My friends went on vacations or tried to score dates and then there was me renting out gocarts, beach chairs and selling towels and living in the arcade hall when I didn't have to be at work. Playing games like Time CrisisI and II, Soul Calibur II, Mortal Kombat III, Crisis Zone and even some more classic games like Wonder Boy and Puzzle Bobble. Arcades are long gone now (at least where I live), but those memories will stay with me all my life. Real nostalgia trip, that is.
I refuse to believe this. People will look back fondly on the last decade especially and feel bad for not appreciating what was new. Rose tint outlook is for people who struggle to adapt to change.
Man to be a kid again and going through these times, yes there where hard times and struggles but the abundance of games, movies, old tv shows made it that bit easier. Not to mention through the 2000s being the golden eta of gaming, tv, movies and youtube
You all make the best videos! Keep it up. My favorite call of Duty is still Call of Duty 2, nothing beats 4 player local at my friends apartment. So many nights of fun. When MW came it it was just the next step and everyone played it. So awesome.
Going through that whole list had me smirking and tearing up but the moment you said Flash... I couldn't help but let out that satisfied groan from deep in my soul... like you just had a home meal after being gone for long time. Thats when the tears fell
Man watching this after coming home from work being kinda mad at everything made me so nostalgic. Makes me wish to be a kid again in this simpler time.
As someone born in '81(im old).. This video hit different. I've seen every one of these phases. I started with Atari and then NES. This felt like my gamer life flashing before my eyes. Absolutely excellent video.
My friends and I logged THOUSANDS of hours messing around in Halo 1-3; alliances were made and destroyed in a single afternoon countless times. We were also huge into the Rock Band series - I was terrible at guitar, but good at drums, so it all worked out. We'd also challenge each other to sing as well as play an instrument (it never went well).
Thank you for mentioning Barrens chat. It was the only reason I actually played Horde at all. It was a sense of community that's been long lost, even WoW Classic doesn't have that feeling.
Playing Halo on a LAN connection with everyone in computer class is, without a doubt, one of my most joyful recollections of high school. All the friends, enemies and quiet shit talking are timeless. ❤🎉
The last one ends the video on a very somber note for me, so many memories in school inbetween class breaks playing flash games, and while I would absolutely not play any of them today, it is kind of sad that they are gone. Every generation grows up so different, it is kinda melancholy. Thank you for the nostalgic video
Dude same. This is what makes games so meaningful to us gamers. They take us away from all the stresses of life especially high school (for me) and transport us to other worlds.
Never mind flash games, we had Quake 3 and Runescape installed on hidden folders in my school. When I was in my web design classes the teacher would just knowingly let us play Quake when he had no work for us. Also worth mentioning that Homestar Runner is still making videos, usually like 2-5 a year. There's probably going to be one soon because they always do a Halloween episode.
We had a small secluded room in the library where we played Brutal Doom. Most teachers usually turned a blind eye as long as we were quiet and didn't get the juniors involved. It took one kid to blab his mouth and spread it. Next thing we know, one of the stricter librarians found a crowd of Year 8s yelling and massacring each other out in the open, and policies on computer use during breaks was tightened. Naturally, we flipped the school the bird by playing Cards Against Humanity out in the open and the Year 9's learned some interesting new phrases.
Gameranx, you guys put together quailty gaming story content. This makes me want to play the old games, men 2000s was the golden era of gaming. Thanks!!❤❤❤
One of the best videos I have seen from you guys. I have been a fan of the channel for a few years now and I have to say it's very refreshing to see homestarrunner mentioned somewhere. I loved that page back in the day. Thank you for the memories.
Thanks for this video Gameranx! Brought so many great memories back for me. I experienced 8 out of 10 of these "memories" and they all mean so much to me to this day.
#6 is nostalgic but not lost. I remember startin DE Human Revolution, not expecting nothing and then hearing "Sarif Ambiance" - wow.... just wow! Or being hyped for Horizon Zero Dawn and hearing Aloy's theme in the main menu. Stunning. Setting the mood.
I remember wasting so much time on Newgrounds when I was a kid. Seen quite a lot of stuff on there that I shouldn't have but hey, it's still a big part of my childhood
Can definitely relate to the significance of MW2. I actually do have a group of life-long friends from a neighboring state that I met through MW2. We all talk daily still and have even met up a few times
The intro levels to sly 2, the ratchet & clank series, shadow of the colossus & uncharted 2 are also amazing examples of great introductions in gaming from the 2000’s
for me the best was playing morrowind/oblivion. the exploration and sense of discovery was so immersive and captivating. when you would go exploring deep into a cave or climb to the top of a mountain it really felt like you were the first person to do it and the freedom with decision making made it feel like every choice you made mattered. definitely the best era of gaming.
Man I remember how hyped I was to play that game. It sounded like the best game ever and it pretty much lived up to it. I love Skyrim but I'll always be an oblivion guy!
I’m not sure if this was a thing In other countries, but in Brazil we had a place called Lan Houses, where dozens of PCs were connected on lan and you could play any game (that was installed on those pc). We played Counter Strike, Battlefield 1942, Unreal Tournament, etc, against random people that were in that same place as you (because it was on lan). The smell of cheetos and hair grease plus 2L of coke while you play the corujão (overnight) in the lan houses were priceless. You had to pay per hour though….. Computer were always expensive in Brazil so we could not afford to buy one for gaming, so we used to go on these Lan Houses. Playing online with early days DSLs or even with dial up internet was terrible, so playing on Lan was a HUGE thing in Brazil in the early 2000s
The main games that I remember from the late 90s-early 2000s is Rayman 2 & 3, Sonic Adventure, and of course Fallout 3. Man those days were awesome 😎👍🏼
8:45 The Wii was hard to find during the holidays. In 2009, someone died after a radio contest on KDND "Hold your Wee for a Wii" after a contestant died after holding her pee for several hours. The contestants were also required to drink water periodically. The woman drank 2 gallons of water and died of intoxication after getting home. Not something to die over...
Got goosebumps when you mentioned the Halo start screen music. I remember a guy in one of my high school classes that had a crappy flip phone picture of Guitar Hero proving he had completed Through the Fire and Flames on Expert (though it was only 3 stars).
I've been gaming since the 80s and 90s. I'm 50 years old and still gaming. Started in the arcades with pinball then on to an Atari 2600, then a NES, then the PCs finally caught up with the Pentium and Pentium 2 processors, playing games in DOS, and I've been on PC ever since. All of this video was like a wave of memories. I miss LAN parties for Doom, Wolfenstein, Warcraft, and Starcraft. Starcraft especially. I didn't like Guitar Hero, the controller sucked, but I've played the crap out of Rack Band. I still do sometimes. The opening to Halo was one of the most beautiful video I had seen at that time. Modern games tend to lack that little bit extra that games back then had
Falcons got me grinning like a fool with this nostalgia overload, bring a 2000 kid, being able to experience this and the memories made are some of my happiest memories.
firing up halo 1 for the first time was bonkers. landing on the halo and seeing it curve up into the sky above me, the soundtrack with the haunting choir (you know the one) - completely indelible.
Yes absolutely playing MW2 in collage with all your friends over Xbox Live and even hooking back up with your old high school friends you hadn't seen since graduation in the game. MW1 was where my initial fascination with online multiplayer gaming started(Halo was Lan parties, screen watching and all) but it was MW2 where it became an obsession. I'll never enjoy another multiplayer game as much as I did that one ever again. The open chat lobbies were something to witness as well lol. I was 19 I believe when it launched, maybe 20, and nothing but Ocarina of Time b4 it(playing Mario 64 the first time in Blockbuster was also close) matched the awe that game gave me. It was like a drug and kids today that grew up with online multiplayer games will never know what it's like just like they'll never know what it's like to play a 3d game for the first time after only having SNES and Genesis and Arcade games their entire lives. True VR is close to that 3d for the first time feeling though and when I let me kids play my Quest 2 the day I got it the wonder on their faces took me back. The new MW2 is nothing like the og and couldn't hold my attention past a few games so I'll stick to Destiny 2 for the foreseeable future like it has the past 8 years.
These videos always reinforce my FOMO...they always remind me of games I said I'd play one day but was too busy,,,and now it's been so long that they have changed, the community has changed, they are no longer playable, or they just flat out don't exist anymore.
This is a great video. I love the music sections in the intros. Like halo still to this day I still will let it sit for a minute. Civ 6 also has an iconic intro music. Those games and start up are a chefs kiss. Or firing up NCAA football and hearing EA Sports it's in the game
spore is a huge nostalgia for me, such a brilliant game for its time, and especially for 8 year old me i was so into it. Till this day ive never heard of another game like spore, and i really feel like there has to be either spore 2 or some brand new game going into the evolutionary journey.
I used to watch the opening sequence of the first Gran Turismo game on PS1 quite regularly before diving into the game. Used to love that fmv. 1998; not quite the 2000's. Incidentally, 1998 is still my favourite year in gaming.
For SEA, we had Ragnarok Online, an MMORPG. It was big back then, started around 2002-2003 (I was in 1st year high school, so can't remember exactly). They even had concerts, world championships, and an anime that I wanted to forget. It was prepaid (so targeted to not-so-rich countries), unlike World of Warcraft or Guild Wars, which has a huge upfront fee for the CD keys.
Getting games that just worked, no day one patch, or companies nickle and diming you for more content like DLC. Those same games still work to this day and are great. Whereas some games released not to long ago don't work at all because they were online based etc.
I still have fond memories in the early 2000’s going to the scholastic book fair picking up one of those cheat code books coming home and going crazy on GTA SA. Good times
Really enjoyed your disucssion of the grumbling about having to install Steam to play HL2, I'd completely forgotten about that, ha! Next video you should discuss the history of this phenomenon of having to install clients to play games.
I'm incredibly nostalgic for Xbox 360 voice chat. It's hard to explain why I so dearly miss a squeaking 9-year-old proclaiming he had had relations with my mother but what I wouldn't give to relive those days. Everything was unmoderated, everyone said horrible stuff to each other but it was fun & people had so much freedom.
For me and my friends, it was all about rocket jumping out of the map and seeing how far into the background terrain you could drive a warthog, things like that.
most remembered PC moment during that time was that hilarious mashup with Misfits an some classical song played over that funeral thing . that was amazing!
That flash games segment... Oooooh boy those were the days at school in computer lab and in the libraries at school. Miniclip was the go to site for that. Age of Speed 1 and 2 were my thing. And Bloxorz was my first foray into really challenging spacial puzzle games.
I love the tone change when he mentioned start up screens. The piano on the entry had me dying 🤣. I had to give the like when you dropped the game cube and max Payne jingle/music
Oh man, just hearing the music from Red Alert 2 takes me back! That was such a great game, especially with Yuri's Revenge and some player-made mods and maps.
as a PC Gamer, there's two you missed. Having Starcraft LANs after school (yes SC released in the 90s but its legacy lived on well into the 2000's) as well as fragging your friends in either UT2k4 or Quake 3 Arena.
The opening song from NBA Streets vol. 2 will forever be pme of my favorite menu songs. That game is my childhood. Crazy how that is one of my most favorite games as a guy who doesn't like sports games
My favorite gaming memory was seeing the unpopular but iconic Saints Row 1 intro, where you are walking down the street and Julius and Troy need to save you and then you get canonized. That right there was a memory that I will never forget.
WIth regard to #3's World of Warcraft entry, you also had the constant, constant raiding that the Alliance was doing at the Crossroads. Almost daily the World Notification / Zone Notification automated chat channel would, for many hours at a time, spit out, "The Crossroads is under attack" I was present during many of the "Barrens Chat" incidents on the Dragonblight server, and a metric F-ton of those moments also had GM's engaged in the chats. Up until the Pandaria expansion, the adults played the Horde and the children played Alliance. After that you could REALLY see the change in player base with all the damn 'hopping all over the place to go anywhere' children appearing on the Horde.
CounterStrike:Source and Command & Conquer games were my jam. Metroid Prime and Super Smash Brothers Melee. Mario Kart N64 and Perfect Dark. Burnout Crash Mode. Man it truly was the golden age. I play a real guitar so guitar hero just frustrated me. I watched a lot of it played though.
i remember playing spiderman 2 and batman begins and zelda on the gamecube and it was the most fun experience I hade , things were to much simpler and fun but as u grew older you start to loose that feeling, even if now games are more beautiful and more fun but somehow you don't feel that full joy that u felt playing games at a younger age
The thing I'll never forget is how far the tech came during that decade Being a kid and playing GTA 3 on the PS2 and just being blown away and then ending the decade with GTA 4 on the PS3 which is like night and day difference
I have plenty of time to play games as I only work half a month every month. On my off days , my kid will be at school and my wife at work. The only problem is , it feels tiring to play as I got older.
Barrens chat was amazing, and as The Barrens had such a large level range, you spent quite a lot of time there, so it felt like home. It was like chatting with annoying family.
I am so glad In all the years of humanity I witnessed the the beginning of ps1,2,3,4,5 Nintendo 64 my first console (Starwars shadows of the empire) My first game ever X-squad on ps2,socom, metal gear series,all the horrors(silent hill,resident evil ect). The xboxes the gameboy advanced. Even that gameboy that required batteries inside) Psps and omgosh and now pc. I played it all. Love you all so much and jake baldino I been watching u ever since Yr amazing keep up the good work.
My favorite game from back then was “Quake 3 team arena”. The games on this list were pretty great too, but nothing hooked me like Q3 did. I even had the second fastest time in the world on one of the longest/hardest defrag maps ever created. Those were the days.
thanks for the nostalgia hit, this is peak content.
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@[卐]Lakehuntist ⸜⁄ uhhh okay man, sure
@[卐]Lakehuntist ⸜⁄ uhhh okay man, sure
This video hits hard! As someone born in 1999 I grew up with a lot of the stuff on this list. I still have my PS2 connected and ready to revisit some of my favourite childhood games like NFS Underground and Midnight Club 3
New gen
hey been a while since ive seen a fellow ps2 lover!!
I just simply adored Harry Potter 1 to 3 on the PS2. The start up is still embedded in my mind after all of those years.
Us 90s kids truly grew up in the golden era of gaming.
As well as tv and movies
@@coreysmalls4259 and music
Facts.❤
My childhood was the 2000s. As I was only born in 98. But I also played some of those games from the 90s.
Yes we did
Very nostalgic. I recall like half of those- mainly because I wasn't a PC gamer. MW2 back in the day was addictive since it was the first time I got to play online in 2010. Those start screens were epic on consoles too. GTA4 was the one I played the most back then, and there was always that time where I would try to see how long I could hold off the cops. Good times, good times.
I miss when startups and main menus were unique. There was something beautiful when starting up a ps2 or playing super Mario 64 and that main menu music would hit and you could feel how special everything felt.
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What about the Donkey Kong 64 intro 🔥
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Yeah tomb raider 1 and 2 , soul reaver even psx demo disks had decent 90s house or trance on lol. Miss them days I'm only 32 :(
Right? I remember being so disappointed when I launched Breath of the Wild for the first time and it was some empty soundless main menu. Urg so disappointing !
My goodness all the nostalgia that just hit me. Split screen multi-player was still around and hanging out all weekend with a friend to beat Gears of War because we rented it from blockbuster was a core gaming memory
Blockbuster. Proof that even a single word can be powerful.
Remember the time when game developers tried to experiment with new genres or ways of gaming? Yeah, that was the 2000s.
Lot of companies try new stuff nowdays too!!
@@nelnopo7688 like what?
@@haroldnecmann7040 Stray.. Cuphead.. DREAMS..
Also right now in the golden age of indie development, oh but don't let me stop you from being a clueless non-gamer who isn't at all familiar with and doesn't actually play what is released these days...
@@scorpion0498 platformer, fps, tps
Made me feel like 12 years old again watching this video. The amazing beginning of mercenaries two, 910 songs from from Mission five, while finishing the complicated missions.
This hit my nostalgia hard, you've pretty much nailed the early 2000 for gamers.
I gotta add on playing DDR or other arcade games at an actual arcade whenever you have the chance once out of school.
Good days...
I haven't been to an arcade in years. Wow.
I once spent an entire summer in the arcade. Well, when I wasn't at my summer job. Basically those two months consisted of only 3 phases for me. Work, sleep or arcade hall. One of the best summers of my teenage years. My friends went on vacations or tried to score dates and then there was me renting out gocarts, beach chairs and selling towels and living in the arcade hall when I didn't have to be at work. Playing games like Time CrisisI and II, Soul Calibur II, Mortal Kombat III, Crisis Zone and even some more classic games like Wonder Boy and Puzzle Bobble.
Arcades are long gone now (at least where I live), but those memories will stay with me all my life. Real nostalgia trip, that is.
@@Xylarxcode Dude the Time Crisis games are so freaking good. They have a newer one for the digital "arcades", but it sucks.
I shed a manly tear when you said the words “flash games”. Fills me with much joy and sadness at the same time. Notdoppler and miniclip were my go to.
Rip flash
Andkon was my go to but I did hit up miniclip a few times
Thank god. I grew up with games during the 2000s. The 90s and 00s were the golden era of games.
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Not really I quite like the 10s cuz of arkham city and others
This video has so much nostalgia. I remember I wasn’t even old enough to buy GTA San Andreas without an adult
Kids who grew up in with games in 2018
I refuse to believe this. People will look back fondly on the last decade especially and feel bad for not appreciating what was new. Rose tint outlook is for people who struggle to adapt to change.
Man to be a kid again and going through these times, yes there where hard times and struggles but the abundance of games, movies, old tv shows made it that bit easier. Not to mention through the 2000s being the golden eta of gaming, tv, movies and youtube
This was my experience as well! Growing up is tough but games gave me a sense of comfort during those days.
You all make the best videos! Keep it up. My favorite call of Duty is still Call of Duty 2, nothing beats 4 player local at my friends apartment. So many nights of fun. When MW came it it was just the next step and everyone played it. So awesome.
I'm blessed to have grown up in the such a golden age of gaming
My golden age of gaming was back in the 1980s
Golden age was the ps2 era. End of debate.😊
I loved ps2 and PS3, crash bandicoot and assassin's creed were some of my favorites.
Going through that whole list had me smirking and tearing up but the moment you said Flash... I couldn't help but let out that satisfied groan from deep in my soul...
like you just had a home meal after being gone for long time. Thats when the tears fell
Man, I sure do miss all those awesome flash games! 😢
Kongregate and newgrounds took up so much of my spare time as a kid
Man watching this after coming home from work being kinda mad at everything made me so nostalgic. Makes me wish to be a kid again in this simpler time.
90’s Kid 94 to be exact. All of these games hold a place in my heart. Especially MW2.
I forgot about Halo. 😢😢😢 Love it as well.
Hardly a 90s kid. You were in diapers for more of it than you remember
As someone born in '81(im old).. This video hit different. I've seen every one of these phases. I started with Atari and then NES. This felt like my gamer life flashing before my eyes. Absolutely excellent video.
My friends and I logged THOUSANDS of hours messing around in Halo 1-3; alliances were made and destroyed in a single afternoon countless times. We were also huge into the Rock Band series - I was terrible at guitar, but good at drums, so it all worked out. We'd also challenge each other to sing as well as play an instrument (it never went well).
Thank you for mentioning Barrens chat. It was the only reason I actually played Horde at all. It was a sense of community that's been long lost, even WoW Classic doesn't have that feeling.
Breaks my heart to see how awesome gaming was no matter what console you were nowdays I rarely ever ever play games and if I do it only last a week.
Playing Halo on a LAN connection with everyone in computer class is, without a doubt, one of my most joyful recollections of high school. All the friends, enemies and quiet shit talking are timeless. ❤🎉
The last one ends the video on a very somber note for me, so many memories in school inbetween class breaks playing flash games, and while I would absolutely not play any of them today, it is kind of sad that they are gone. Every generation grows up so different, it is kinda melancholy. Thank you for the nostalgic video
The nostalgia in this whole video brought tears to my eyes 🥲 thanks Gameranx ❤
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Dude same. This is what makes games so meaningful to us gamers. They take us away from all the stresses of life especially high school (for me) and transport us to other worlds.
You pee sitting down too dude? Lol
@@Bonesaw_McGraw thinking the same fucken thing lol
@@Bonesaw_McGraw idk about you man, but that toxic masculinity is so outdated. Grow up.
Never mind flash games, we had Quake 3 and Runescape installed on hidden folders in my school. When I was in my web design classes the teacher would just knowingly let us play Quake when he had no work for us.
Also worth mentioning that Homestar Runner is still making videos, usually like 2-5 a year. There's probably going to be one soon because they always do a Halloween episode.
We had a small secluded room in the library where we played Brutal Doom. Most teachers usually turned a blind eye as long as we were quiet and didn't get the juniors involved. It took one kid to blab his mouth and spread it. Next thing we know, one of the stricter librarians found a crowd of Year 8s yelling and massacring each other out in the open, and policies on computer use during breaks was tightened.
Naturally, we flipped the school the bird by playing Cards Against Humanity out in the open and the Year 9's learned some interesting new phrases.
I’ve been following this channel for so long and this is by far the most relatable/emotional montage I’ve seen.
10/10
Easily my favorite Gameranx videos and I've seen a lot of them! Lol.
Gameranx, you guys put together quailty gaming story content. This makes me want to play the old games, men 2000s was the golden era of gaming. Thanks!!❤❤❤
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You NAILED the #1. Addicting games, eBaums world, so many good flash sites.
One of the best videos I have seen from you guys. I have been a fan of the channel for a few years now and I have to say it's very refreshing to see homestarrunner mentioned somewhere. I loved that page back in the day. Thank you for the memories.
Thanks for this video Gameranx! Brought so many great memories back for me. I experienced 8 out of 10 of these "memories" and they all mean so much to me to this day.
#6 is nostalgic but not lost. I remember startin DE Human Revolution, not expecting nothing and then hearing "Sarif Ambiance" - wow.... just wow!
Or being hyped for Horizon Zero Dawn and hearing Aloy's theme in the main menu. Stunning. Setting the mood.
👌🏼👍🏼
I remember wasting so much time on Newgrounds when I was a kid. Seen quite a lot of stuff on there that I shouldn't have but hey, it's still a big part of my childhood
Can definitely relate to the significance of MW2. I actually do have a group of life-long friends from a neighboring state that I met through MW2. We all talk daily still and have even met up a few times
The intro levels to sly 2, the ratchet & clank series, shadow of the colossus & uncharted 2 are also amazing examples of great introductions in gaming from the 2000’s
for me the best was playing morrowind/oblivion. the exploration and sense of discovery was so immersive and captivating. when you would go exploring deep into a cave or climb to the top of a mountain it really felt like you were the first person to do it and the freedom with decision making made it feel like every choice you made mattered. definitely the best era of gaming.
Man I remember how hyped I was to play that game. It sounded like the best game ever and it pretty much lived up to it. I love Skyrim but I'll always be an oblivion guy!
I remember purchasing a new GPU just to play oblivion on launch. God how I loved that game!
As someone who lived through the 2000s from start to finish this video not only gave me so much nostalgia but also made me feel old haha.
Close quarters shotgun duels in halo 2 were the definition of intense back in the heyday 😂
My brother charging with an energy sword and me pulling out the shotgun *just* in time was always a thrill (Halo 3).
I’m not sure if this was a thing In other countries, but in Brazil we had a place called Lan Houses, where dozens of PCs were connected on lan and you could play any game (that was installed on those pc). We played Counter Strike, Battlefield 1942, Unreal Tournament, etc, against random people that were in that same place as you (because it was on lan).
The smell of cheetos and hair grease plus 2L of coke while you play the corujão (overnight) in the lan houses were priceless. You had to pay per hour though…..
Computer were always expensive in Brazil so we could not afford to buy one for gaming, so we used to go on these Lan Houses. Playing online with early days DSLs or even with dial up internet was terrible, so playing on Lan was a HUGE thing in Brazil in the early 2000s
The main games that I remember from the late 90s-early 2000s is Rayman 2 & 3, Sonic Adventure, and of course Fallout 3. Man those days were awesome 😎👍🏼
Man, this was such a feel good, nostalgic video. Thanks Gameranx
8:45 The Wii was hard to find during the holidays.
In 2009, someone died after a radio contest on KDND "Hold your Wee for a Wii" after a contestant died after holding her pee for several hours.
The contestants were also required to drink water periodically. The woman drank 2 gallons of water and died of intoxication after getting home.
Not something to die over...
Got goosebumps when you mentioned the Halo start screen music.
I remember a guy in one of my high school classes that had a crappy flip phone picture of Guitar Hero proving he had completed Through the Fire and Flames on Expert (though it was only 3 stars).
This entire channel is just one big nostalgia trip. I see what you're doing, and you're pretty smart to capitalize on our feelings like you do.
I was waiting for Barrons Chat. Those experiences are seared into my brain stem. Miss that. Great video.
I'd love to erase my memory and experience GTA San Andreas again for the first time.
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I've been gaming since the 80s and 90s. I'm 50 years old and still gaming. Started in the arcades with pinball then on to an Atari 2600, then a NES, then the PCs finally caught up with the Pentium and Pentium 2 processors, playing games in DOS, and I've been on PC ever since. All of this video was like a wave of memories. I miss LAN parties for Doom, Wolfenstein, Warcraft, and Starcraft. Starcraft especially. I didn't like Guitar Hero, the controller sucked, but I've played the crap out of Rack Band. I still do sometimes. The opening to Halo was one of the most beautiful video I had seen at that time. Modern games tend to lack that little bit extra that games back then had
I'd love to see a separate video about your favorite opening missions from games 👍
Pure unadulterated nostalgia. Great trip down memory lane at a time when we all need it!
13:40 , who ever came up with this soundtrack needs a raise. Man it really hit the feeling
I just cant forget first time play Half-Life 2. Really awesome.
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Falcons got me grinning like a fool with this nostalgia overload, bring a 2000 kid, being able to experience this and the memories made are some of my happiest memories.
firing up halo 1 for the first time was bonkers. landing on the halo and seeing it curve up into the sky above me, the soundtrack with the haunting choir (you know the one) - completely indelible.
Yes absolutely playing MW2 in collage with all your friends over Xbox Live and even hooking back up with your old high school friends you hadn't seen since graduation in the game. MW1 was where my initial fascination with online multiplayer gaming started(Halo was Lan parties, screen watching and all) but it was MW2 where it became an obsession. I'll never enjoy another multiplayer game as much as I did that one ever again. The open chat lobbies were something to witness as well lol. I was 19 I believe when it launched, maybe 20, and nothing but Ocarina of Time b4 it(playing Mario 64 the first time in Blockbuster was also close) matched the awe that game gave me. It was like a drug and kids today that grew up with online multiplayer games will never know what it's like just like they'll never know what it's like to play a 3d game for the first time after only having SNES and Genesis and Arcade games their entire lives. True VR is close to that 3d for the first time feeling though and when I let me kids play my Quest 2 the day I got it the wonder on their faces took me back. The new MW2 is nothing like the og and couldn't hold my attention past a few games so I'll stick to Destiny 2 for the foreseeable future like it has the past 8 years.
Listening to Falcon talk about MW2 put such a genuine smile on my face. Thank you for reminding me of such treasured memories.
These videos always reinforce my FOMO...they always remind me of games I said I'd play one day but was too busy,,,and now it's been so long that they have changed, the community has changed, they are no longer playable, or they just flat out don't exist anymore.
8:15 the openings to the 3 NHL Hitz games on the PS2 always got me hyped to play the games and get into some fights
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This is a great video. I love the music sections in the intros.
Like halo still to this day I still will let it sit for a minute. Civ 6 also has an iconic intro music. Those games and start up are a chefs kiss.
Or firing up NCAA football and hearing EA Sports it's in the game
spore is a huge nostalgia for me, such a brilliant game for its time, and especially for 8 year old me i was so into it. Till this day ive never heard of another game like spore, and i really feel like there has to be either spore 2 or some brand new game going into the evolutionary journey.
I love that it still runs on modern computers. I had it running for 3 hours before it crashed.
6:35 what’s the song name?
I used to watch the opening sequence of the first Gran Turismo game on PS1 quite regularly before diving into the game. Used to love that fmv. 1998; not quite the 2000's.
Incidentally, 1998 is still my favourite year in gaming.
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Doing the challenges for the hayabusa armor in Halo 3 were one of my dearest moments in gaming, specially the 4 ghosts end game run.
Xbox 360 was good for its time!
Still hanging around those gangstas
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Reaally appreciate the attention to the era guys. Takes me back in the days had a ps2 and pc, but man really relate to it .
For SEA, we had Ragnarok Online, an MMORPG. It was big back then, started around 2002-2003 (I was in 1st year high school, so can't remember exactly). They even had concerts, world championships, and an anime that I wanted to forget. It was prepaid (so targeted to not-so-rich countries), unlike World of Warcraft or Guild Wars, which has a huge upfront fee for the CD keys.
Getting games that just worked, no day one patch, or companies nickle and diming you for more content like DLC. Those same games still work to this day and are great. Whereas some games released not to long ago don't work at all because they were online based etc.
Suddenly I got emotional. The Tanker Chapter in MGS2 is like a core memory of mine.
I still have fond memories in the early 2000’s going to the scholastic book fair picking up one of those cheat code books coming home and going crazy on GTA SA. Good times
Really enjoyed your disucssion of the grumbling about having to install Steam to play HL2, I'd completely forgotten about that, ha! Next video you should discuss the history of this phenomenon of having to install clients to play games.
Thank You Falcon For A Nostalgic Experience Really Bought Me Back To Being A Kid Growing Up And Utilizing All
of this almost made me tear 😢
I'm incredibly nostalgic for Xbox 360 voice chat. It's hard to explain why I so dearly miss a squeaking 9-year-old proclaiming he had had relations with my mother but what I wouldn't give to relive those days. Everything was unmoderated, everyone said horrible stuff to each other but it was fun & people had so much freedom.
For me and my friends, it was all about rocket jumping out of the map and seeing how far into the background terrain you could drive a warthog, things like that.
most remembered PC moment during that time was that hilarious mashup with Misfits an some classical song played over that funeral thing . that was amazing!
That flash games segment... Oooooh boy those were the days at school in computer lab and in the libraries at school. Miniclip was the go to site for that. Age of Speed 1 and 2 were my thing. And Bloxorz was my first foray into really challenging spacial puzzle games.
Worked at CompUSA back in the 2000s. We would play kitten cannon behind the front desk during the slow periods. Flash games were the best.
Halo 3 and MW2. Shaped my life literally. Shout out to all the homies from those lobbies I wish nothing but the best for them.
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I love the tone change when he mentioned start up screens. The piano on the entry had me dying 🤣. I had to give the like when you dropped the game cube and max Payne jingle/music
Oh man, just hearing the music from Red Alert 2 takes me back! That was such a great game, especially with Yuri's Revenge and some player-made mods and maps.
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as a PC Gamer, there's two you missed. Having Starcraft LANs after school (yes SC released in the 90s but its legacy lived on well into the 2000's) as well as fragging your friends in either UT2k4 or Quake 3 Arena.
Best intro's to 2000's games were also the best intro's to any game since. Uncharted 2, Arkham Asylum and Assassins Creed 2 to name a few.
The opening song from NBA Streets vol. 2 will forever be pme of my favorite menu songs. That game is my childhood. Crazy how that is one of my most favorite games as a guy who doesn't like sports games
My favorite gaming memory was seeing the unpopular but iconic Saints Row 1 intro, where you are walking down the street and Julius and Troy need to save you and then you get canonized. That right there was a memory that I will never forget.
Even though Guitar Hero was a long time ago, I STILL hear the little "Miss!" noises whenever I hear songs from those games.
RE4 on the Wii was actually really fun with the motion controls
WIth regard to #3's World of Warcraft entry, you also had the constant, constant raiding that the Alliance was doing at the Crossroads. Almost daily the World Notification / Zone Notification automated chat channel would, for many hours at a time, spit out, "The Crossroads is under attack"
I was present during many of the "Barrens Chat" incidents on the Dragonblight server, and a metric F-ton of those moments also had GM's engaged in the chats. Up until the Pandaria expansion, the adults played the Horde and the children played Alliance. After that you could REALLY see the change in player base with all the damn 'hopping all over the place to go anywhere' children appearing on the Horde.
Man watching this video has reminded me how much this industry has changed. The 2000’s were really a golden era.
OMG that piano piece at number 6...!! Beautiful!
That Max Payne menu music gave me goosebumps and brought me back to my early teens....damn...
CounterStrike:Source and Command & Conquer games were my jam. Metroid Prime and Super Smash Brothers Melee. Mario Kart N64 and Perfect Dark. Burnout Crash Mode.
Man it truly was the golden age.
I play a real guitar so guitar hero just frustrated me. I watched a lot of it played though.
The opening montage after playing the intro of cyberpunk2077 is amazing. Showing V and Jackie get into shit as you become a cyberpunk is awesome.
i remember playing spiderman 2 and batman begins and zelda on the gamecube and it was the most fun experience I hade , things were to much simpler and fun but as u grew older you start to loose that feeling, even if now games are more beautiful and more fun but somehow you don't feel that full joy that u felt playing games at a younger age
The thing I'll never forget is how far the tech came during that decade
Being a kid and playing GTA 3 on the PS2 and just being blown away and then ending the decade with GTA 4 on the PS3 which is like night and day difference
I have plenty of time to play games as I only work half a month every month. On my off days , my kid will be at school and my wife at work. The only problem is , it feels tiring to play as I got older.
Kingdom Hearts and FF10 Main Menu screen theme song were sooooo awesome
Barrens chat was amazing, and as The Barrens had such a large level range, you spent quite a lot of time there, so it felt like home. It was like chatting with annoying family.
I'll never forget Sly 2: Band of Thieves as that is the first game i ever played and the game that made me a hardcore gamer.
I am so glad In all the years of humanity I witnessed the the beginning of ps1,2,3,4,5
Nintendo 64 my first console
(Starwars shadows of the empire)
My first game ever
X-squad on ps2,socom, metal gear series,all the horrors(silent hill,resident evil ect).
The xboxes the gameboy advanced. Even that gameboy that required batteries inside)
Psps and omgosh and now pc.
I played it all.
Love you all so much and jake baldino I been watching u ever since Yr amazing keep up the good work.
My favorite game from back then was “Quake 3 team arena”. The games on this list were pretty great too, but nothing hooked me like Q3 did. I even had the second fastest time in the world on one of the longest/hardest defrag maps ever created.
Those were the days.