I was like 8-9 years old when they were marketing SMW and the commercials themselves spoiled it. Like, the novelty of seeing the princess peach sprite as the reward was gone by that point.
The Worst Parent that’s why people like Donald trump don’t realize, when you highlight people you don’t like, you just give them power and make them look good, not bad.
I love how even then he's coyly admitting that old games didn't look close to realistic with his "by video game standards" comment. No one ever actually said "wow it looks just like real life!" looking at a Super Nintendo game.
In 1991, I wanted the SNES for Christmas, but my brother wanted the Sega Genesis. My parents weren't going to buy both, so Mom made us each write a paper on why one was better than the other; and whoever had the best paper got the console they wanted. In my brother's paper, he pointed out how the Genesis was $50 cheaper. I tried to make the point of how kid-friendly the SNES was. Then on Christmas morning, me and my brother woke up to find BOTH consoles under the tree! Turns out Mom and Dad got the Genesis, while Grandma and Great-Auntie got the SNES. 🎄Best Christmas EVER.
@@RunplaysinHD I'm of the opinion that the PS2 is best the console ever released. Not only was its own library amazing, but it played over 95% of the PS1's library too. I could spend hours playing NBA Street Vol. 2 or Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, then throw in some Need For Speed III or Ace Combat 2. The PS2 did the right thing in the right place at the right time. There were so many games to play.
the very very old ps3 couldn't play ps2 games but the updated ps3 could, which also introduced new games (online features) on ps3 which wasn't on ps2, so a ps3 was worth it. i wish the ps5 could play ps4,ps3, and ps2 games if you still had the old disc.
To be fair, the point was she was teaching that to her kids. I never understood that the classic cartoons such as heman and GI Joe were basically long commercials 😂. It's actually good to teach kids not to fall for the latest fad.
@@sunshinemishasmommy5352 I'm 35 with 4 kids. I've been gaming since NES. Every console up to Xbox 360. Switched to pc back then. I still remember changing out car meshes in gta4. What are you talking parents don't get it? I use a steam controller, mouse and keyboard, etc. Hell, I have my LG hu80ka projector set at 116 inches.
I'm really glad my parents werent crazy. i remember one night waking up and going to get a cup of water my parents were sat right in front of the TV playing Mario on NES. i love that memory
My mom was amazing at mortal kombat they got so angry that at the arcade the owners gave her extra tokens so they could finally beat her. T H E Y N E V E R D I D.
I live in vegas, my parents got mad at me playing video games, i got my ass beat telling them they do the same at the casinos. Atleast my hobby costs less...
Hand me a Dozen Beers "got your ass beat telling them they do the same thing" and people STILL say shit like "they didn't whip that boy's ass hard enough". physical punishment was often used against me as a kid when a parent didn't want to face the fact they were acting like a kid, so they made themselves seem bigger by being aggressive
we had a good network to keep things affordable, I would trade a game with one of the other kids in the neighborhood or at school after a week you give it back. Then the greed came, when the PSP came out people would steal those and some got into fights.
Max_Gamez that "reporter" just said an 8 y.o. has better skills than him, then goes on to prove it. great camera tricks though, looks like he's driving.
It's literally like that. At least in my country if you are not an introvert who stays at home playing games and stuff, you spend all your time outise drinking alcohol and doing drugs probably. And most parents still prefer their kids to be like the second 🤦♂️
MrZapparin Yea we just kinda stopped caring about mixing and matching (gonna use that phrase from now on). I'd be willing to pay the extra what, 50 bucks for something like that
Back in the days of the Atari you could "mix and match", at least to some extent. You could even to it with some of the competitors systems. Though really they were just knock-offs that copied Atari to get some $$ themselves, and used the same cartridges and programming. Was a very different age of video games back then.
Mallavaughn Yup. There was some kind of add-on I think for Atari that you let play a different systems games on it (memory is fuzzy) but something like that def existed. Also if I remember correctly you could use a Genesis controller on Atari 2600. It's just funny hearing mix and match refer to the term always used "backwards compatibility"
I remember begging my parents for an SNES for Christmas and then opening it up and losing my mind. Then the last present I got from my Dad was the Virtua Boy Christmas of 95 he died 2 days after and even though everyone hates it and it was a terrible design I still have love for it because of the circumstances.
We went shopping in 1992 and we seen it and they talked about it and bought it for me i was 8 .. they were like "you want it?" I was like hell yeah so it was unexpected and got home played super Mario and street fighter
considering how they are on the baby boom where money is plenty, Therapy would have been thousands of dollars and $200 is just normal, considering how cheap the cartridge are "most of the best games"
Shows how clueless people were (well are) assuming it's just a repackaged Nintendo. If everyone had that mentality, we'd still all be using black and white TVs.
Am I the only one that finds it incredible how the presenter was edited into the kart to look like he was driving it? I think it was quite clever considering this is from 1991.
And his awareness of the game and what was going on is incredible. Nowadays, the newscaster would have said "here I am in Mario Kart! This Virtual Reality is amazing!" while pretending to play it with an Xbox Controller
Jesus. it was 1991 not 1921. terminator 2 was in theaters that year, and it was 10 years after the first broadcasting of MTV and "music videos". editing techniques and cgi had already come a long way by then.
Yes, you're right. But I can't help but think that tech-challenged parents are going to think that you ACTUALLY do that in the game. "The game sucks my kids' pictures inside??? No!!!!"
Yeah, I know the technology existed, but this was just a simple news network. I doubt they had the same special effects capability that big movie companies had. It simply surprised me that they would do this kind of thing on a 2 minute report becuse it was something we normally only saw in big movies with 100 million dollar budgets.
Everything about this is amazing, from the newscaster's hair, to the Nintendo therapy session, to the reporter being digitally integrated into Mario Kart. A true masterpiece.
He says F-Zero, but even if he didn't say that, how does that look like Mario Kart (it hadn't even released yet. Super Mario Kart released the following year ((because F-Zero was too fast for a multiplayer)), while F-Zero was a launch title).
@@TheFunEnglishTeacher no, it's cause society has expectations out of each other. But as usual society doesn't know what they want out of each other (hence the hypocritical flipflopping).
Well, because for most of them, if they don't, their kids would start nagging them all day long. It just comes to parenting, it is not easy. Doing hard way you still can get negative effect too, as much as same the easy way.
@@Incubusnut Which meant that if you had a bugged game you would always have a bugged game, unless you bought the entire game again and got a v1.1 revision with the bugs fixed.
She said "People market things to make you spend more money." I think her point was, in relation to the topic of "gotta buy newer, better", was that, in a society where consumerism is paramount, people show you a product, and if it sells well, they release an incrementally better version of that thing for even more money, leading to a cycle of always needing something better than what you have.
She was erroneous in her thinking. She was trying to say that “heavy marketing and advertising shouldn’t be the core reason children should want an expensive toy, rather they should find their own hobbies and interests instead of being forcefed them by the television.” However, what she failed to realize is that poor Timmy is likely going to be ostracized and belittled by his friends for not keeping up with what they have, and that the pressure he likely received was from his peers and not from the TV that she mistakenly believes has taken over his life.
Those cute kids at the end probably got to play Mario 64 just four years later! Their minds must have been blown seeing Mario go from 2d to 3d in such a short amount of time.
Interesting. The concept of generations wasn't really a thing back then. People bought a Nintendo with the idea they'd never replace it until it broken, sort of like it was a refrigerator or something. Really interesting looking back.
Not for most parents, maybe, but by then any hobbiests would have well understood games were constantly evolving and naturally unable to be played on older machines.
I remember buying the N64 with Mario, and the first thing my mom said was: 'wait, this is exactly the same as you had before!' She just saw the very core ( mario jumps on goomba, move on), instead of the revolutionary change in 3d games.
@@MisterCasket but she DID have a point though... look at it from her perspective, her son gets a new expensive piece of hardware just to do essentially the same type of game. It can be seen as unnecessary
The console generations wasn't entirely unheard of, it just wasn't common knowledge. Atari was already on it's 3rd generation console at that time. Then again, most people at the time were still using typewriters and had never used a computer before.
Even as a kid I always found the argument that video games were an unhealthy addiction to be hypercritical when most adults would watch tv for hours at a time. At least I was interacting with my media rather than just staring at it.
ikr boomers call video games unhealthy but they will sit there and stare at a TV for hours even though they do nothing while doing it we actually interact with games and usually talk to people while playing too, they just sit there in silence and stare at a screen and then call us unhealthy
Clearly watching someone else lose at a gameshow for a hour is somehow better then playing a video game based on same said gameshow for an hour & losing at it yourself.
@@cuber759 You're giving the media too much credit. These are the same people that call an AR-15 an "assault rifle". And don't know the difference between a 12 gauge shotgun and an AR-15. Search on TH-cam "12 gauge blasting watermelon", for a hilarious news piece.
Ahhh I disagree, games like SOTN, yoshis island snes, terranigma and seiken densetsu 3 are all much more impressive than lifeless modern games with 'realistic graphics'
Sure am glad that as a family and these sessions we were able to discuss it with the kids and come to a reasonable solution about responsibility and finances in our family. "That's great... here's my 2 week multi-session bill of $600.00"
parents back then were out for blood against games. Anything kids like must be bad, I guess. I love how they tried so hard to ban them and now we play them them with our kids. Lifelong gaming for the win
Mothers associations in the 70s wanted albums with ANY mildly inappropriate themes to not have cover art lmaoooooo There's something about moms with too much free time and being the biggest party pooper around
And yet you see more broken families now then before... Games are a good hobby. But i would never trade a game for family. These days everyone is treated has expendable even family wise.
@@mariorodrigues3276 It's true, and everyone likes to pretend it's not. There was a reason so many parents had concerns...they didn't want this that we're living right now. No matter how many years go by, I still find it horrifying seeing people of any age totally hypnotized by their phone. Games are fun, a great hobby, but it's still just escapism.
Parents and older people will always be hard asses towards kids trying to enjoy themselves. The kids and teens in this video getting shit from their parents are the relatives you have nowadays complaining on Facebook about "these modern kids and their damn phones"
She was probably a hypocrite. Women make up the majority of spenders in the household and let's be real, I doubt she was frugal with make up and clothes.
It's just propaganda. Of course someone on TV is gonna demonize an activity that takes away attention from them. Being watched, video games directly compete with the everything else on TV.
I remember when my dad came home with the SNES. I was playing outside after it had rained and I saw him walking down the street and he raised the box over his head like he won a championship. I ran up to him and jumped around all excited. God damn those were good times.
I spent the majority of 91, 92 and 93 asking for a super nintendo. I knew it would never happen. My mother had enough financial shortcomings as it was. She gifted it to me for Christmas of 1993. To this day nothing has ever topped that gift from my mom.
Nice !! I got my regular NES in either 1985 or 1986 and I still have it to this very day. It still works perfectly minus having to blow the games out. Talk about being well built, it outlived my PS2 and PS3. If I recall the games back then were around $19.99 or so. We traded games back then and you could always find used games for around $5 or so
@@BigSmoke-bu6ib no kidding. I miss the days of natural women. Something sexy about a lady that has a good body but just doesn't give a shite about tanning, or tons of makeup and hair dye.
People weren't used to the upgrade cycle of new game consoles yet. This was really the first time that the pattern was getting set. When Atari got old, the US market for console video games just died. There were some attempted upgrades from the Atari 2600, but they never gained market dominance. People dismissed consoles as a fad that ran it's course, and either moved on to more capable real computers or stopped playing games altogether. It's not like the NES directly replaced Atari while it was still popular - most people had already put their Ataris in the closet a long time ago. The 2600 was so old that the NES didn't feel like a threat to anybody's "investment". But when the Genesis and SNES came out, I can see parents getting frustrated. The NES was their kids' favorite (and very expensive) toy, and then suddenly they wanted a new console that cost twice as much as the previous one, and made all those $40-$50 NES games feel like money thrown away. That consumerism "support group" is hilarious though.
@@Oceanandskylinevidss Most people in the US didn't see an NES or start looking to buy one until 1987-88. Before that it wasn't widely known. But we had a lot of lag vs Japan - the Famicom hardware was from 1983, we just didn't know. But yeah, time marches on and Nintendo couldn't sit on the NES. They had NEC and Sega to worry about. I got my NES in summer 1988 and they were having a shortage because of the surge in interest around that time. I remember from spring to summer 88 it was hard to find anybody who had them in stock. A while back I looked at my serial number and apparently my 1988 NES is still one of the older ones. Most of the units produced are newer than that. The NES was slow to build momentum, probably because of mid-80s Nintendo's limited resources and lack of any prior reputation making consoles. With the SNES it was totally different though, they were such a household name even the TV news was talking about it.
This was before parents realized “ohh, we can keep the old console too?” Hell these days I got my PS3, my PS4, my Switch, and possibly my PS5 if I feel saucy enough to buy one. Back then it felt like if you got the new one you had to get rid of the old one.
Mudd Murdoc lol. I know. Apparently he’s an actor too, look him up y’all. Someone ought to call Kent and do a one-off let’s play with him plus an editor that can replicate that style for laughs. They should just do it as a parody.
@@MiniStudioProductionsTV lol if I was the world's leading F-Zero SNES player I'd offer to ghost-play for him so he can get his redemption 30 years later
It is true that it leads to some considerably unethical practices though, like selling cocaine to babies for example haha, that hyperbole should paint a picture
It's ethical because kids have needs and wants too. It would be unethical if upon trying the game system it injected an addictive substance into the user's body.
This 90's Mom "I'm going to say no, and I'm going to explain to him how companies market things to make more money" Today's Mom "I MUST HAVE THE NEW $800 IPHONE!"
Patrick Leal this is from Video Mania story is from the year I was born 1991 the 1990s nice story the year my mom had me back in 1991 great year of my childhood of good video games my parents I love them.
That's my Millenial generation - gotta have the newest gadget out. I pretty much washed my hands of that attitude. Sick of society's bullshit expectations because of marketing ads. That said, I do still partake in tech but I wait until a said item has been on the market for a few years and dropped in price. For example, latest IPhone = $800. My phone = $75. 😎
And they drilled that into our heads too. I got rid of my NES and all my games after getting a Genesis for Xmas in 1994. 11 years later I ended up buying another NES and rebuilding my collection.
@@willnill7946 They exploited themselves in the process. People have always been crazy, and nothing has changed. If anything, we are getting more collectively aware of certain issues.
You're not going to find an old historian or activist who's seen the events of 2020-2021 before. Even old people compared 9/11 to Pearl Harbor, but 2020 was unprecedented unfiltered lunacy
Remember around 93ish going to the video store with my Mom and renting a movie and a video game (usually always Street Fighter 2) and the sheer excitement I’d feel on the drive home... Just like the Super Nintendo life was super simpler back then.
My dad and his friend used to play Mario Duck Hunt on the NES. They were flabbergasted that you could point a toy gun at the tv then shoot and have the duck fall. That was futuristic for them at that time. From then on my dad bought us every Nintendo console till he passed away in 2002.
Well I was born in 84' and got the Nintendo right on Christmas 1991. My brother and I loved playing those games. We were basically addicted. I rmemeber coming home at noon from kindergarten turning on our 28" sony, getting a big bag of lays chips and crushing a huge line of cocain. We would play super Mario until 2am.
@@umageddon Yes but not on the scale seen by the NES . It introduced the tech to hundreds of millions..and then, the tech pretty much disappeared from home consoles soon after.
I was 10 years old at this time. I remember all those times during my childhood when my parents would come home with the latest console that’s out or I’d get em for Christmas. Those were the bestest times 😊
Cambaudio I had to borrow Zelda needless to say my cousin's never saw their Zelda ever again. I just couldn't stop playing the game. I beat it hundreds of times. Man I still remember getting the Golden Sword from that fairy ... :( will always cherish those memories.
My mom recently admitted to me that back one night in the early 90s she stayed up til 4 in the morning after my sis and I had been put to bed and she played Mario all night long on the NES. After that, she never touched the thing again knowing she would get addicted 😂
My mom got hooked on Pokemon for Nintendo gamboy advance, she was pretty good about it. And honestly had no problem giving up my gameboy so my mom to play, she had fun with it. My dad of course got into multi player games here and there too.
Up to that point, there was really nothing to compare it to. Both Ataris and their predecessor were barely improvements to each other, and the "personal computers" were the same. People couldn't justify spending that much momey on a single device they knew nothing about, coming from a country they didn't fully trust. I vividly remember how people were freaking out about the costs.
It definitely had better hardware. But did anyone actually have more fun playing SNES than they did NES. The point of the news story is that companies like Nintendo don't need to improve systems just to put pressure on people to spend more money.
Not just her hair..me,my sister,and all her friends were also responsible..back then if your hair wasn't crispy with hairspray you mind as well be bald 😂😂
its all over the place, they have nes controllers, it shows a japanese snes, with super metroid inserted, then defaults to footage of mario world with some weird prototype title screen thats says "super mario bros 4" then we see an nes copy of metroid in an nes, before it shows footage of f-zero...
@@bryanmoberg8408 Yeah and honestly I always get cracked up at "reporters" talking about video games because they are always incredibly clueless but in the golden age they were even more so. LOL!
I got a snes that year. A few days before Christmas in cold, snowy Northern Ireland during the troubles, my dad took us shopping to pick out games. We got mario and zelda. I'm 41 now and I still remember vividly reading that Zelda manual and pouring over the hyrule map poster. What an amazing time to be alive.
@@juliantheapostate8295 i had great fun playing games. Apostate. But if i could trade those playing hours to BE with family menbers that already died i would. i would swap those hours just to BE with them again... Sadly time Lost isnt regained.
My parents wouldn't get us one, so me and my brother worked all summer and got one. It was a lot of money, but it helped teach us to work hard and save for what you want
@@bulletprooftiger1879 Shits always been the same? We all raved until 7am with no cell phones no internet and minimal security in the 90s. Yes the present is exactly like the 1990s you're right.
You gotta take in account, the dude reporting the story was probably just getting into his first media job at the time Atari released the VCS/2600. Video games were still considered a relatively new thing at the time, and this report wasn't but a few years after it had been considered little more than a fad that had already started to fade (boy, were they wrong.).
*0:55** Kent Shocknek literally invented TH-cam Poop, 14 years before TH-cam existed.* *I’m writing the local news station **_demanding_** more news stories be edited like this one, and I’m including this news segment on VHS. They can keep the tape; they’ll be studying it for a **_long time..._*
My parents bought me a Super Nintendo because we moved from one of the biggest cities in the country to an isolated mountain town with a population of barely ten thousand people when I was eight years old. There was absolutely nothing within walking distance and they were too busy to ever take me anywhere so I had a pretty sheltered childhood. Still, I am grateful that my parents never tried to shelter me from video games, otherwise I would have gone insane from the boredom.
I spent my entire life since birth till now (18) in the country a few miles away from a town with a population of roughly 1500, plus i was homeschooled beyond 3rd grade and if it werent for video games i would have gone completely insane
There were still remnants of the stigma that the Video Game Crash of 1983 created. Nintendo had to market its game console as an "Entertainment System" and package it with a robot toy just to get it on store shelves. Gone were the days of businessmen in suits walking into the local arcade to drop a few quarters into Space Invaders or Centipede
To quote: "I'm going to *explain to him* how people market things to make more money" - in other words, she was talking about how she's going to explain this to her small pre-teen son, you idiot.
@@katelinmarie5360 - It doesn't change anything, though... It's not like the kid wants a Super Nintendo, because he doesn't know that the people selling them wants to make money. He wants it because it's FUN. If you really want to buy a new car, are you gonna change your mind, if someone reminds you that people market things to make more money? It changes nothing. The motivation is A and the mother was responding to it with 9.
Vexus Knowing to what degree that a business is trying to exploit you will probably affect whether or not you give your money to that business. What are you talking about.
Everyone knows she probably caved at Christmas..... Spent the whole year telling him can't have it only to pull a 180 to get a smile on his face at Christmas. Or bought him a Genesis, since they were slightly cheaper.
No, that’s leftover ‘80s. ‘90s is dull straight hair and saggy pants we haven’t gotten out of since. Wish people would do something with their hair again. So boring, and boys just shaggy and loser looking.
The median wage was around $18k back then, gas was 85 cents a gallon and a family of four could eat a meal at McD on 10 bucks. $200 was a hefty chunk of change.
The first console my brother and I had was an Atari 7800, bought second-hand. The first computer we had, I went out and got "Doom", on its 5 1/4 inch floppy discs. (Doom II came on seven 3.5" floppies).
That was the trend for most ladies at that time. So she is basically just conforming to social conventions and norms. 30 years from now the people may find the fashion from 2020 as "a bit too far" or "odd". With each new generation comes new fashion fads and social norms. I have to say that the people from the 90s were objectively more normal, articulate, grounded and educated then the people of today.
@@SubjectE57 What makes you think I am not relaxed? Is it not common for your generation to articulate your arguements and opinions in actual coherent thoughts instead of just memes?
What losers... I don't understand Tik Tok. Or social media. Or high speed internet. Or 56k Geocities bullshit internet. Or cable TV. Or broadcast TV. Or Radio. Or the printing press. Or the written word. Fuckin losers.
LMAO 0 :19 the irony is too funny.. I'm going to take you to a therapist that we are going to pay $50. an hour to explain to you that we cant waste our money on a $200. super Nintendo lol..
@@wschmrdr $40 for an SNES game? Ha! SNES games ranged from $50-70, with some games (like Final Fantasy III/VI) costing even more than that. N64 games regularly ran around $70. And that's not even adjusted for inflation.
I will never forget when my father came home with that brand new SNES the day it went on sale! Playing Super Mario World was like jumping 50 years into the future for me and my brother 😂!
Maaaan I know how you feel because when I went from a regular Nintendo to playing Mario on 64 was a the best feeling any video game has ever done for me to this very day
@@xuimodBecause it was a bigger upgrade. Also Super Mario World to this day is better than 99% of PS5 games because back then they put effort and heart into their product.
@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 ur an idiot.........super mario wold is nothing comparied to games today ps5 or other wise.......i had over 40 games on snes and id trade them all for current gen games(maybe not final fantasy 3, chrono trigger or some rgps but only for the nastalga) ur just sound like a salty ass pc or xbox gamer the way you single out ps5........also fyi there is a REASON nintendo fell out of the console race and oppted to only make first party games for a hand held. cuz sony pushed them out, because nintendo can ONLY make mario games.
Technically no, eBay prices for most SNES games are about the same as when they were new. Games you'd want to buy(that are actually worth owning because they're good) hover around $30-$40 on eBay, which translates to about $60 in 1991 dollars.
Think of how much the games would be worth if you had them never opened though, and it's not like you couldn't still enjoy the games because you could just rent SNES games from the video store back in the day.
Gotta say, their mentality does make some sense. Spending money to look hot and get laid seems like a much better use of money than video games. If it worked that way for guys there’d probably be far less gamers.
@@denimchicken104 Oh, sure, because your looks and where you put your d*ck are the priorities in life, sure, sure. I'll rather spend my money in something that makes me happy, rather than doing so on things that only make others happy.
Can't believe they spoiled the ending of Mario World
Erian Trotland this comment needs more likes
I was like 8-9 years old when they were marketing SMW and the commercials themselves spoiled it. Like, the novelty of seeing the princess peach sprite as the reward was gone by that point.
lmao
Right? I pre ordered the game and everything...
ikr
That poor kid's mom just made him miss the greatest era of gaming. Thanks mom.
Krabb Cake The SNES era was nothing compared to the 360/Wii/PS3 era.
not for jrpgs players. Lol
Apollo you mean the GameCube PS2 Xbox GBA era. That was the real golden era.
Best era is obviously the fortnite plague.
John Jackson GameCube sucks, Gameboy is overrated, PS2 is overrated, Xbox is average
I wonder if they realized this was practically an advertisement for Nintendo. It just made more people buy it.
Unbiased reporting? Simpler time.
Maybe it really was? With an 80% market-share, they've to invest it somewhere.
Mudd Murdoc right! 😂
The Worst Parent that’s why people like Donald trump don’t realize, when you highlight people you don’t like, you just give them power and make them look good, not bad.
Mudd Murdoc you’re an idiot
I love the reporter editing himself into F Zero 💯
I think he did that so that the old timers and moms watching at home could figure out what was going on in the game.
I love how even then he's coyly admitting that old games didn't look close to realistic with his "by video game standards" comment. No one ever actually said "wow it looks just like real life!" looking at a Super Nintendo game.
I like to believe this man single handedly helped influence the creation of Mario Kart.
@@thanerosNintendo: write that down!
Falcon Punch!
"If you're a really good player. Meaning you've got the skill of a 9 or 10 year old"
That was cold-blooded
But true.
But not before driving the wrong way for a solid 30 seconds 😂
Hardly. Nintendo consoles were advertised as toys back then.
@maynardssoblue3839 I think that’s the point. The kids are good at the game and the adults all suck lol
gives me flashbacks of fortnite
SPOILERS! Jeeze! How they just gonna show the ending to Super Mario World like that on television!!??
Who knew Bowser would lose?
those fucks
Fred Fuchs
😡😡
That was years ago bruh relax. It's nothing new today.
“That is if you have the skill of a 9 or 10 year old-“
*Immediately crashes car*
I completely lost my shit when that happened
@Shaman Xeed its not a joke 😶
I love that he was going in reverse for most of that lmao.
And if you really want to get first place in F-zero you'll have to unlock the skill set of a nine-year-old child with no life 🤡
DR R
IKR!! 😂😂
In 1991, I wanted the SNES for Christmas, but my brother wanted the Sega Genesis. My parents weren't going to buy both, so Mom made us each write a paper on why one was better than the other; and whoever had the best paper got the console they wanted. In my brother's paper, he pointed out how the Genesis was $50 cheaper. I tried to make the point of how kid-friendly the SNES was. Then on Christmas morning, me and my brother woke up to find BOTH consoles under the tree! Turns out Mom and Dad got the Genesis, while Grandma and Great-Auntie got the SNES. 🎄Best Christmas EVER.
What a cool story! I was always behind back in the day (like I missed out on the 32-bit generation and the next one too largely).
@@hitkid2456 I haven't gone beyond my X360 or my PS3; and I STILL play my PS2 more than both of them. lol
great story
@@Kwajbelieve me, you dont miss much. The ps2 library has the best 3d games ever, the ps5 games are not even close to that
@@RunplaysinHD I'm of the opinion that the PS2 is best the console ever released. Not only was its own library amazing, but it played over 95% of the PS1's library too. I could spend hours playing NBA Street Vol. 2 or Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, then throw in some Need For Speed III or Ace Combat 2.
The PS2 did the right thing in the right place at the right time. There were so many games to play.
“and you can’t mix and match” Backwards compatibility a concern even back then
You are dropping another hundreds of dollars for something that is only compatible with newer games after all
Sega allowed you to pay an extra 30 quid to play master system games on the mega drive.
the very very old ps3 couldn't play ps2 games but the updated ps3 could, which also introduced new games (online features) on ps3 which wasn't on ps2, so a ps3 was worth it. i wish the ps5 could play ps4,ps3, and ps2 games if you still had the old disc.
@Boot Hat What? Backward compatibility is much more common now than it was then.
@@masterzen4701 It's the other way around. Early PS3s are compatible but not most of them.
"People market things so that they can make more money"
.....of course they do.....that's the entire freaking point of marketing
Lol
To be fair, the point was she was teaching that to her kids. I never understood that the classic cartoons such as heman and GI Joe were basically long commercials 😂.
It's actually good to teach kids not to fall for the latest fad.
@@MisterCasket Don't forget Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, Barbie, My Little Pony, Transformers, and pretty much every cartoon since the 80s.
@@MisterCasket G.I. Joe had real messages and its an American Icon.
That's like... Capitalism 101. Or is that mother a closet commie?
I love how these parents and news anchors have no clue what they are talking about.
well not much has changed sine then afret all
Parents and news anchors still have no idea what they're talking about 🤣
Kevinb1821 Just like you when you talk about the new technology of the day...
Sunshine MishasMommy I mean, the parents of today are the kids in these videos. They grew up playing games.
@@sunshinemishasmommy5352 I'm 35 with 4 kids. I've been gaming since NES. Every console up to Xbox 360. Switched to pc back then. I still remember changing out car meshes in gta4.
What are you talking parents don't get it? I use a steam controller, mouse and keyboard, etc. Hell, I have my LG hu80ka projector set at 116 inches.
This news report is 33 years old, and we still haven't seen this implemented in video games. 0:57
I have.
@@bigseanprice graphics are still the same, games are still the same. The only thing that has increased is the price!
Perfect Dark on the n64 wants a word 😂
@@ThepurposeofTime Okay fair point.
I'm really glad my parents werent crazy. i remember one night waking up and going to get a cup of water my parents were sat right in front of the TV playing Mario on NES. i love that memory
Same here, my mom was almost a more of a gamer than we where back in the NES era :P
.... my life is sad :( .....
😂
Aww
My mom was amazing at mortal kombat they got so angry that at the arcade the owners gave her extra tokens so they could finally beat her.
T H E Y N E V E R D I D.
I live in vegas, my parents got mad at me playing video games, i got my ass beat telling them they do the same at the casinos. Atleast my hobby costs less...
Hand me a Dozen Beers "got your ass beat telling them they do the same thing"
and people STILL say shit like "they didn't whip that boy's ass hard enough". physical punishment was often used against me as a kid when a parent didn't want to face the fact they were acting like a kid, so they made themselves seem bigger by being aggressive
we had a good network to keep things affordable, I would trade a game with one of the other kids in the neighborhood or at school after a week you give it back. Then the greed came, when the PSP came out people would steal those and some got into fights.
TheBikemaster94 funny you say that cuz i got jumped by 2 guys, jacked my psp in high school .
Hand me a Dozen Beers I feel sorry for you...
LMAO you fucking savage
"I guess I should watch where I'm driving" *Drives backwards*
Max_Gamez that "reporter" just said an 8 y.o. has better skills than him, then goes on to prove it. great camera tricks though, looks like he's driving.
here's a neat trick, if you're a pro gamer like myself you can jump the car
*crash*
I think he turned around just so he could demonstrate the jump and intentionally miss it.
that's probably the first and last time that guy has touched a video game controller
@@johnlee7164 The birth of gaming journalists right here.
*Kids, literally doing anything their parents don’t like*
Parents: “It must be the video games…”
No accountability. Some things never change. Except laws that punish parents of school shooters, I suppose that changed.
"Would you rather have me on the streets getting in trouble or at home playing video games".
*kid playing augmented reality games walks into street and is hit by car*
Don't get in trouble simple really lol
Pokemon Go says "why not both "
Funny. That was the argument in favor of television back in the 50s-60s.
Some things really never change.
It's literally like that. At least in my country if you are not an introvert who stays at home playing games and stuff, you spend all your time outise drinking alcohol and doing drugs probably. And most parents still prefer their kids to be like the second 🤦♂️
This is the first time I've heard the phrase "mix and match" refer to backwards compatibility in gaming.
MrZapparin
Yea we just kinda stopped caring about mixing and matching (gonna use that phrase from now on). I'd be willing to pay the extra what, 50 bucks for something like that
Back in the days of the Atari you could "mix and match", at least to some extent. You could even to it with some of the competitors systems. Though really they were just knock-offs that copied Atari to get some $$ themselves, and used the same cartridges and programming. Was a very different age of video games back then.
Mallavaughn
Yup. There was some kind of add-on I think for Atari that you let play a different systems games on it (memory is fuzzy) but something like that def existed. Also if I remember correctly you could use a Genesis controller on Atari 2600. It's just funny hearing mix and match refer to the term always used "backwards compatibility"
This was 91...most folks didn't even have computers.
voltagebinary wow, your saying that as if it was a thing...
I remember begging my parents for an SNES for Christmas and then opening it up and losing my mind.
Then the last present I got from my Dad was the Virtua Boy Christmas of 95 he died 2 days after and even though everyone hates it and it was a terrible design I still have love for it because of the circumstances.
@@padraic1983 Yeah, I lost my dad 16 years ago when I was 23. It is still hard to this day.
We went shopping in 1992 and we seen it and they talked about it and bought it for me i was 8 .. they were like "you want it?" I was like hell yeah so it was unexpected and got home played super Mario and street fighter
@@padraic1983 Thank You!!! If there is something after this life I would believe he is ok. Also sorry that you lost your dad at a young age.
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Thank god, my dad wasn't part of those kids who missed that awesome era of gaming
the rest of us poor boys just got game boys
This "Therapy" costs more than a SNES with some of the best games
Take my like.
considering how they are on the baby boom where money is plenty, Therapy would have been thousands of dollars and $200 is just normal, considering how cheap the cartridge are "most of the best games"
This is a severely underrated comment in my honest opinion.
Super castelvania 4 and super mario world Are more then enough theraphy in life. Castelvania4 gotta be on of my top 10 best games ever.
This comment! So true.
Shows how clueless people were (well are) assuming it's just a repackaged Nintendo.
If everyone had that mentality, we'd still all be using black and white TVs.
Hey Hey DSP might see this, don't be so mean :)
Well, Larry has roots in the industry. He's bound to have opinions on a lot of points of its history.
Yeah doesn't the Wii U kind of face the same problem?
What's wrong with black and white TVs?
+Bob Bobson Nothing wrong except there way too old and obsolete. If you had a choice between an analog tv vs a HD TV, what would you choose?
Am I the only one that finds it incredible how the presenter was edited into the kart to look like he was driving it? I think it was quite clever considering this is from 1991.
And his awareness of the game and what was going on is incredible. Nowadays, the newscaster would have said "here I am in Mario Kart! This Virtual Reality is amazing!" while pretending to play it with an Xbox Controller
Dan Robinson I found that part quite hilarious, honestly it felt like the video was turning into sone type of joke 😂😂
Jesus. it was 1991 not 1921.
terminator 2 was in theaters that year, and it was 10 years after the first broadcasting of MTV and "music videos".
editing techniques and cgi had already come a long way by then.
Yes, you're right. But I can't help but think that tech-challenged parents are going to think that you ACTUALLY do that in the game. "The game sucks my kids' pictures inside??? No!!!!"
Yeah, I know the technology existed, but this was just a simple news network. I doubt they had the same special effects capability that big movie companies had. It simply surprised me that they would do this kind of thing on a 2 minute report becuse it was something we normally only saw in big movies with 100 million dollar budgets.
Everything about this is amazing, from the newscaster's hair, to the Nintendo therapy session, to the reporter being digitally integrated into Mario Kart. A true masterpiece.
btw its f zero
He says F-Zero, but even if he didn't say that, how does that look like Mario Kart (it hadn't even released yet. Super Mario Kart released the following year ((because F-Zero was too fast for a multiplayer)), while F-Zero was a launch title).
She is still here! I actually watched her on the news today her name is colleen and she has the same hairstyle.
that news lady hair look like she fell 2min ago and there was some white paint on the floor but whatever XD
@@aviverde9031 Thats a birthmark
"People market things to make more money"
We have a big brain right there
Yes. The floor here is made out of floor.
Yeah I was wondering how that talk would go
She works as an economy advisor for the Trump administration.
Ricardo Martinez 😁😁
Ricardo Martinez she needs to work for Jim Crow Biden. Lord knows even her stupidity would do him some good.
Forcing their kids to go to “therapy” because they played video games on the consoles that their parents bought... makes sense.
It's cuz they didn't buy it, I thought.
@@TheFunEnglishTeacher no, it's cause society has expectations out of each other. But as usual society doesn't know what they want out of each other (hence the hypocritical flipflopping).
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CAESER AUGUSTUS oh okay that’s good
Well, because for most of them, if they don't, their kids would start nagging them all day long. It just comes to parenting, it is not easy. Doing hard way you still can get negative effect too, as much as same the easy way.
"Things definitely have come a long way since pac-man"
You have no idea
Dear people from 3020 A.D, we have no idea either
HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?
God of War seems like the great apex.
IVE GOT A VR SETUP WITH BIOSENSORS AND A FLESHLIGHT ATTACHMENT. HOW DARE YOU TELL ME THINGS HAVE GONE TOO FAR.
SUPER MARIO 64
Ah yes, when you could buy a finished game on release day... good times.
Absolutely. No patches.
Games wasn't restricted to online only streaming either!
@@Incubusnut Which meant that if you had a bugged game you would always have a bugged game, unless you bought the entire game again and got a v1.1 revision with the bugs fixed.
super mario world was actually rushed for snes launch
@@krashd Or you ended up with stuff like Strider or IJN shovelware and threw the cart in the deepest part of your closet.
“People market things to make more money.”
Isn’t that how economy works?
Isn't that capitalism? The very thing you guys want
Maybe she meant “People can market things misleadingly to you, to make you muy something that is not what you thought it was.
She said "People market things to make you spend more money." I think her point was, in relation to the topic of "gotta buy newer, better", was that, in a society where consumerism is paramount, people show you a product, and if it sells well, they release an incrementally better version of that thing for even more money, leading to a cycle of always needing something better than what you have.
Just capitalism.
She was erroneous in her thinking. She was trying to say that “heavy marketing and advertising shouldn’t be the core reason children should want an expensive toy, rather they should find their own hobbies and interests instead of being forcefed them by the television.”
However, what she failed to realize is that poor Timmy is likely going to be ostracized and belittled by his friends for not keeping up with what they have, and that the pressure he likely received was from his peers and not from the TV that she mistakenly believes has taken over his life.
my son wants me to buy him some new toy that's really popular, better take him to a psychiatrist, he's clearly fucking crazy.
Guts it's to convince your kid they don't need that game consoles you can spend that $200 on crack.
Berserk spoilers
Don't tell me he wants that midget thinner.
i thought it was called the spidget feather
Guts is it a purple dildo?
Mom, can I have a Super Nintendo for Christmas.
You already have a Nintendo at home.
THIS :(
i love my nes though
Love it. I hope you said “yes but it’s not super though” lmao
@@balls433 cant beat the snes :D
DR3W you are correct.
Those cute kids at the end probably got to play Mario 64 just four years later! Their minds must have been blown seeing Mario go from 2d to 3d in such a short amount of time.
did you go to therapy over the super Nintendo🤣🤣
It didn’t seem like a short amount of time back then
We were amazed, I spent all day just doing flips and somersaults around Peach's castle.
Interesting. The concept of generations wasn't really a thing back then. People bought a Nintendo with the idea they'd never replace it until it broken, sort of like it was a refrigerator or something. Really interesting looking back.
Not for most parents, maybe, but by then any hobbiests would have well understood games were constantly evolving and naturally unable to be played on older machines.
I remember buying the N64 with Mario, and the first thing my mom said was: 'wait, this is exactly the same as you had before!'
She just saw the very core ( mario jumps on goomba, move on), instead of the revolutionary change in 3d games.
@@MisterCasket but she DID have a point though... look at it from her perspective, her son gets a new expensive piece of hardware just to do essentially the same type of game. It can be seen as unnecessary
@@BuzzKirill3D oh yes, from her point of view, certainly!
The console generations wasn't entirely unheard of, it just wasn't common knowledge. Atari was already on it's 3rd generation console at that time. Then again, most people at the time were still using typewriters and had never used a computer before.
Even as a kid I always found the argument that video games were an unhealthy addiction to be hypercritical when most adults would watch tv for hours at a time. At least I was interacting with my media rather than just staring at it.
ikr
boomers call video games unhealthy but they will sit there and stare at a TV for hours even though they do nothing while doing it
we actually interact with games and usually talk to people while playing too, they just sit there in silence and stare at a screen and then call us unhealthy
Watching a marathon of Jeopardy doesn't doesn't hurt
Clearly watching someone else lose at a gameshow for a hour is somehow better then playing a video game based on same said gameshow for an hour & losing at it yourself.
@@clothinghanger6978 you literally just repeated what Aegis said in slightly different structure. Ikr would have been good enough.....
@@vamountainman2512 I was just agreeing with them but ok, you sound a little butthurt about it lmfao 💀
I love how they refer to graphics as 'pictures' throughout.
It's like how they talk about guns now.
The terms "frames" and "video quality" were really strange, if not alien to anyone outside of developer studios and engineers in those years
@@cuber759
You're giving the media too much credit. These are the same people that call an AR-15 an "assault rifle". And don't know the difference between a 12 gauge shotgun and an AR-15. Search on TH-cam "12 gauge blasting watermelon", for a hilarious news piece.
i got a good laugh out of it
Boomers.
1:03 driving the wrong way on F-Zero for all the world to see 🤦🏻♂️🤣🤣
The real reason Mariokart became Nintendo's only racing franchise.
Now all those parents are grandparents who can't use their phones.
And nobody to help them because they wouldn't buy a freakin SNES 25 years ago.
They can however use phones to do one thing...
Download viruses.
@@Robespierre-lI age != respect
Antifoul Awl thats complete bullshit kid
@Bruce Wayne well now you know
“Things definitely have come a long way since Pac-Man” Oh boy you ain’t seen nothing yet!!!
Right now we can physically play INSIDE games with Virtual reality!!!
Just imagine 30 years from now
Gta 5 : let me introduce myself
Ps5 likes to speak to you
Ahhh I disagree, games like SOTN, yoshis island snes, terranigma and seiken densetsu 3 are all much more impressive than lifeless modern games with 'realistic graphics'
That psychiatrist must have laughed all the way to the bank.
Sure am glad that as a family and these sessions we were able to discuss it with the kids and come to a reasonable solution about responsibility and finances in our family.
"That's great... here's my 2 week multi-session bill of $600.00"
... And bought each of her kids a Nintendo
Actually laughed all the to the store to buy the SNES and a bunch of games!
was that a Conker reference?
@@KeithsReviews dude wtf
parents back then were out for blood against games. Anything kids like must be bad, I guess. I love how they tried so hard to ban them and now we play them them with our kids. Lifelong gaming for the win
Mothers associations in the 70s wanted albums with ANY mildly inappropriate themes to not have cover art lmaoooooo
There's something about moms with too much free time and being the biggest party pooper around
And yet you see more broken families now then before... Games are a good hobby. But i would never trade a game for family. These days everyone is treated has expendable even family wise.
@@mariorodrigues3276 It's true, and everyone likes to pretend it's not. There was a reason so many parents had concerns...they didn't want this that we're living right now. No matter how many years go by, I still find it horrifying seeing people of any age totally hypnotized by their phone. Games are fun, a great hobby, but it's still just escapism.
Uh huh, this report was acting like the subject was fentanyl use. These kids were playing video games, the risk is a possible blister.
Parents and older people will always be hard asses towards kids trying to enjoy themselves. The kids and teens in this video getting shit from their parents are the relatives you have nowadays complaining on Facebook about "these modern kids and their damn phones"
"People market things to make you spend more money". This lady is a genius.
Repeal the 19th
She was probably a hypocrite. Women make up the majority of spenders in the household and let's be real, I doubt she was frugal with make up and clothes.
Naw that women is just doesn't have the money and poor kid gotta deal with her genius excuse and miss out I hope he didn't grow up deprived
@@NitroNEXT Make-up is disgusting. I did a video on that, and I plan a video on how Mario is Satan.
It's just propaganda. Of course someone on TV is gonna demonize an activity that takes away attention from them. Being watched, video games directly compete with the everything else on TV.
I remember when my dad came home with the SNES. I was playing outside after it had rained and I saw him walking down the street and he raised the box over his head like he won a championship. I ran up to him and jumped around all excited. God damn those were good times.
That sounds really cool!
Did you give him a big hug? I hope so!
I spent the majority of 91, 92 and 93 asking for a super nintendo. I knew it would never happen. My mother had enough financial shortcomings as it was. She gifted it to me for Christmas of 1993. To this day nothing has ever topped that gift from my mom.
Nice !! I got my regular NES in either 1985 or 1986 and I still have it to this very day. It still works perfectly minus having to blow the games out. Talk about being well built, it outlived my PS2 and PS3. If I recall the games back then were around $19.99 or so. We traded games back then and you could always find used games for around $5 or so
I remember falling asleep with the Super Mario background music playing, so many nights.
You just know the editors were so proud of themselves for this
actually made me laugh to be honest. Could we call it the first Let's Play?
they might have helped selling it
And with good cause!
Not as proud as the mom at 1:30 for being an absolute smoke show.
@@BigSmoke-bu6ib no kidding. I miss the days of natural women. Something sexy about a lady that has a good body but just doesn't give a shite about tanning, or tons of makeup and hair dye.
People weren't used to the upgrade cycle of new game consoles yet. This was really the first time that the pattern was getting set.
When Atari got old, the US market for console video games just died. There were some attempted upgrades from the Atari 2600, but they never gained market dominance. People dismissed consoles as a fad that ran it's course, and either moved on to more capable real computers or stopped playing games altogether.
It's not like the NES directly replaced Atari while it was still popular - most people had already put their Ataris in the closet a long time ago. The 2600 was so old that the NES didn't feel like a threat to anybody's "investment".
But when the Genesis and SNES came out, I can see parents getting frustrated. The NES was their kids' favorite (and very expensive) toy, and then suddenly they wanted a new console that cost twice as much as the previous one, and made all those $40-$50 NES games feel like money thrown away.
That consumerism "support group" is hilarious though.
I understand their frustration but I don't agree with it since the Nes was already for six damn years at the time.
@@Oceanandskylinevidss Most people in the US didn't see an NES or start looking to buy one until 1987-88. Before that it wasn't widely known. But we had a lot of lag vs Japan - the Famicom hardware was from 1983, we just didn't know.
But yeah, time marches on and Nintendo couldn't sit on the NES. They had NEC and Sega to worry about.
I got my NES in summer 1988 and they were having a shortage because of the surge in interest around that time. I remember from spring to summer 88 it was hard to find anybody who had them in stock.
A while back I looked at my serial number and apparently my 1988 NES is still one of the older ones. Most of the units produced are newer than that.
The NES was slow to build momentum, probably because of mid-80s Nintendo's limited resources and lack of any prior reputation making consoles. With the SNES it was totally different though, they were such a household name even the TV news was talking about it.
This was before parents realized “ohh, we can keep the old console too?” Hell these days I got my PS3, my PS4, my Switch, and possibly my PS5 if I feel saucy enough to buy one. Back then it felt like if you got the new one you had to get rid of the old one.
wait...so parents were mad because of how expensive the super Nintendo was,so they took their kids to a psychologist?
No.
Dakota Stein lol
@@titusmccarthy stfu
I don't have to spend money on a NES today because I have an emulator on my phone.
Wait till they see the PS5 price tag
1:22 RIP Kent Shocknek, the world’s first let’s player broadcaster. In 1991.
Mudd Murdoc lol. I know. Apparently he’s an actor too, look him up y’all. Someone ought to call Kent and do a one-off let’s play with him plus an editor that can replicate that style for laughs. They should just do it as a parody.
@Mudd Murdoc nah he's dead, was swatted
@@MiniStudioProductionsTV lol if I was the world's leading F-Zero SNES player I'd offer to ghost-play for him so he can get his redemption 30 years later
Yeah he was on NCIS.
"Parents just don't understand" -Will Smith
Neither does Will Smith..
+lemonlime
Just had to sell his ass.
probably his oldest kid too
Robert Leland ''Eminem doesn't like Nsync - well I do, so fuck him and the Backstreetboys too! '' - Bizarre
Best youtube comment I have seen this year!!
Get his name out your mother f*uckn mouth!
I still remember my dad getting me a snes fro Christmas. One of many wonderful memories of dad and my childhood. 😢 it sucks getting older.
"people market things to make you spend more money" Wow, it's almost like the idea of consumer products or something.... yeesh, some people.
And she's shopping in a store while saying that.
i feel bad for her kids that didnt get it :(
It is true that it leads to some considerably unethical practices though, like selling cocaine to babies for example haha, that hyperbole should paint a picture
Or making them play crack baby basketball, of course
It's ethical because kids have needs and wants too. It would be unethical if upon trying the game system it injected an addictive substance into the user's body.
"Lets take our kid to a few therapy sessions @ $100 for 45 mins to explain to him why we wont spend $200 on a game console!" Sign me up!
LOL!!!
Damn hypocrites.
Haha, worth it! It's all about principles...
"Nintendependent"?!! I can't stop laughing!
Ha! Nice ;)
This 90's Mom "I'm going to say no, and I'm going to explain to him how companies market things to make more money"
Today's Mom "I MUST HAVE THE NEW $800 IPHONE!"
"Today's Mom" was the age of those kids in therapy. Think that's a coincidence?
Patrick Leal this is from Video Mania story is from the year I was born 1991 the 1990s nice story the year my mom had me back in 1991 great year of my childhood of good video games my parents I love them.
No shit!!!
Hahahahhaha...haaaa.........
Today's Mom: "I MUST HAVE THE NEW $1000.00 iPHONE!!!!"
That's my Millenial generation - gotta have the newest gadget out. I pretty much washed my hands of that attitude. Sick of society's bullshit expectations because of marketing ads. That said, I do still partake in tech but I wait until a said item has been on the market for a few years and dropped in price. For example, latest IPhone = $800. My phone = $75. 😎
Watching these videos back now is 2024 almost feels unreal!!!
It’s so fascinating how much life has changed since then!
Why buy a modern car when a Model T Ford works just fine.
Modern cars are shite but a Ford Model T is completely impractical.
So is trying to play Breath of the Wild on a NES.
HowlingSnail because the Model T is insanely expensive now!!!
My word some of these people are idiots! It was a joke you utter melts.
Or playing a DVD on a VCR.
1:00 This man was living in 2091 while everyone else was in 1991.
So basically Pewdiepie and a lot of Streamers copied this guy
Best comment lmao
I love how deadpan he is, "Oop, I guess I should focus on driving rather than talking". 😆
Im still figuring out to this very day how to get my body into the game.
@@joemac9667 then proceeds to keep talking lmao
"Ninten-pendant?" No. Nintendependent. Such a missed opportunity. Puns 101
Maybe it's a console you wear around your neck.
Absolutely, but not nearly as bad as missing the opportunity to play an SNES when it was the current gen!
News anchors. No one said they were clever.
It’s like the parents didn’t know that you can keep you old system while still buying the new one.
And they drilled that into our heads too. I got rid of my NES and all my games after getting a Genesis for Xmas in 1994. 11 years later I ended up buying another NES and rebuilding my collection.
Any time someone talks about "the good old days when people weren't crazy" I think of things like this. We've always been nuts
Seems people then at least questioned if they were being exploited, rather than embracing it
@@willnill7946
They exploited themselves in the process. People have always been crazy, and nothing has changed.
If anything, we are getting more collectively aware of certain issues.
You're not going to find an old historian or activist who's seen the events of 2020-2021 before. Even old people compared 9/11 to Pearl Harbor, but 2020 was unprecedented unfiltered lunacy
people were crazy but not in front of camera like now.
If anything people were worse back then. Can you imagine the type of opinions you’d see if Twitter was around in the 90s?
Remember around 93ish going to the video store with my Mom and renting a movie and a video game (usually always Street Fighter 2) and the sheer excitement I’d feel on the drive home... Just like the Super Nintendo life was super simpler back then.
I know that excitement it’s more like waiting six hours for your new game to download but same feeling I’m sure in different forms
@Fluffynator Most systems still make you wait for the install lol
My dad and his friend used to play Mario Duck Hunt on the NES. They were flabbergasted that you could point a toy gun at the tv then shoot and have the duck fall. That was futuristic for them at that time. From then on my dad bought us every Nintendo console till he passed away in 2002.
Well I was born in 84' and got the Nintendo right on Christmas 1991. My brother and I loved playing those games. We were basically addicted. I rmemeber coming home at noon from kindergarten turning on our 28" sony, getting a big bag of lays chips and crushing a huge line of cocain. We would play super Mario until 2am.
part of me wishing this is a real story 🤣💯
Light gun technology was around before NES. Just sayin'
@@umageddon Yes but not on the scale seen by the NES . It introduced the tech to hundreds of millions..and then, the tech pretty much disappeared from home consoles soon after.
@@pbufh are you just going to copy and paste this under every comment?
I was 10 years old at this time. I remember all those times during my childhood when my parents would come home with the latest console that’s out or I’d get em for Christmas. Those were the bestest times 😊
The F zero editing was brilliant for it's time.
He was going the wrong way
@@georod5642 not like he didn't know lmao
Goggles would have put it over the top
@@mediumsizedm And a scarf. 😀
its still amazing even today.
Getting my SNES and playing Super Mario World and Zelda on Christmas is one of the best memories of my life.
Me too but for me it was Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country.
ChugSomeWindex The fact you went out of your way to comment that speaks volumes of yours kiddo.
Cambudio, Ignore him, he's probably a sad, 40 year-old virgin.
Cambaudio I had to borrow Zelda needless to say my cousin's never saw their Zelda ever again. I just couldn't stop playing the game. I beat it hundreds of times. Man I still remember getting the Golden Sword from that fairy ... :( will always cherish those memories.
same here! 1991 - best Christmas ever
My mom recently admitted to me that back one night in the early 90s she stayed up til 4 in the morning after my sis and I had been put to bed and she played Mario all night long on the NES. After that, she never touched the thing again knowing she would get addicted 😂
great story!!
Nothing about the Newscasters hair at the beginning? It was radicle
But left it for the kids to get addicted?
My mom got hooked on Pokemon for Nintendo gamboy advance, she was pretty good about it. And honestly had no problem giving up my gameboy so my mom to play, she had fun with it. My dad of course got into multi player games here and there too.
@@ineedhoez , 😮
I love how these people don't understand the concept of the SNES having better hardware than the NES
Up to that point, there was really nothing to compare it to. Both Ataris and their predecessor were barely improvements to each other, and the "personal computers" were the same.
People couldn't justify spending that much momey on a single device they knew nothing about, coming from a country they didn't fully trust. I vividly remember how people were freaking out about the costs.
It definitely had better hardware. But did anyone actually have more fun playing SNES than they did NES. The point of the news story is that companies like Nintendo don't need to improve systems just to put pressure on people to spend more money.
@@js09js09 I don't know about you, but I think that super Mario world is more fun than super Mario bros
@J S you really prefer the NES over the SNES?
Cmon man, NES was revolutionary, but SNES was better in every way especially gameplay
That anchorwoman's hair is responsible for the hole in the ozone layer.
Not just her hair..me,my sister,and all her friends were also responsible..back then if your hair wasn't crispy with hairspray you mind as well be bald 😂😂
Love it :,)
Thank you, this is what I came to the comments for.
@Mr Ross a middle-aged April O'Neil lol
The 80s really didn’t end until 1995 or so.
0:29 *shows kids using an NES controller*
*shows gameplay from Super Mario World*
WTF circia
The news people probably pieced together new and old footage and though (meh, nobody will know the difference!)
Big brain
its all over the place, they have nes controllers, it shows a japanese snes, with super metroid inserted, then defaults to footage of mario world with some weird prototype title screen thats says "super mario bros 4" then we see an nes copy of metroid in an nes, before it shows footage of f-zero...
@@bryanmoberg8408 Yeah and honestly I always get cracked up at "reporters" talking about video games because they are always incredibly clueless but in the golden age they were even more so. LOL!
And now, more than thirty years later, things have come a long way since Super Mario World.
I got a snes that year. A few days before Christmas in cold, snowy Northern Ireland during the troubles, my dad took us shopping to pick out games. We got mario and zelda. I'm 41 now and I still remember vividly reading that Zelda manual and pouring over the hyrule map poster. What an amazing time to be alive.
Yeah that zelda game to me is my favorite game of all times, that golden cartridge
I would have traded my consoles and games to have real parents. Playing our lives away wont solve problems ...
@@mariorodrigues3276 And not playing them away won't solve any problems either
@@juliantheapostate8295 i had great fun playing games. Apostate. But if i could trade those playing hours to BE with family menbers that already died i would. i would swap those hours just to BE with them again... Sadly time Lost isnt regained.
I miss actual physical manuals.
200 on a toy for my kid? What an outrage. Time to spend thousands on therapy.
LMAOOOOOOOOOOO
Yeah this will not stand
*BONUS:*
American healthcare insurance.
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200 dollar now is not what it was then....
The bit where they greenscreened the anchor into the F-Zero machine was adorable.
That had me cracking up so hard I had to pause the video 😂😂😂
The fact that a local studio could do that back in '91 is really quite impressive.
Betcha' the news anchor wishes it'd been Mario Kart instead of F-Zero... or maybe not.
@@timtriplett9019 Mario Kart wouldn't be released for another year after the broadcast came out.
@Oren Black that’s just stupid. Gen z credentials check out tho 👍
Newscaster: Parents are upset about the new Nintendo
Also Newscaster: Look how awesome it is
I don't remember that character option in F-Zero.
That's the slowest car. no one used it.
@@bastokrepublic Whoosh.... SMH.
@@retiredtidepodeater3339 r/woooosh
@Ken what the hell?
I have the game on my old nintendo, what a rip off
My parents wouldn't get us one, so me and my brother worked all summer and got one. It was a lot of money, but it helped teach us to work hard and save for what you want
I thought you were going to say you bought one and then your parents through it in the trash to teach you a lesson
@@janeblogs324 Lmao. That would be funny if that actually happened 😂
That's actually quite wholesome.
@@LP-bt4jk actually thats what happened idk why he is lying. LIAR! LIAR!
👏👏👏
Can you imagine a time when the latest video game console was the biggest issue facing parents as broadcast by the news? The 90s were incredible.
Nintendo was a gateway drug
Bro. You’re 12. Shit’s always been the same.
@@bulletprooftiger1879 Shits always been the same? We all raved until 7am with no cell phones no internet and minimal security in the 90s. Yes the present is exactly like the 1990s you're right.
Interesting sociological observation!
@12 Feet Up the original comment and this reply are so good..
"This just in: New Thing is weird and scary to older generation."
0:39 "electronic video games."
As opposed to *non*-electronic _video_ games? What, were they powered by a crank before?
Back In My Day, We Powered Video Games With Horse Power
You gotta take in account, the dude reporting the story was probably just getting into his first media job at the time Atari released the VCS/2600. Video games were still considered a relatively new thing at the time, and this report wasn't but a few years after it had been considered little more than a fad that had already started to fade (boy, were they wrong.).
I was thinking the exact same thing lol!!
I'm an old, so I'll explain. As opposed to electronic non-video games like Simon
"Now you're playing with power, horse power!"
*0:55** Kent Shocknek literally invented TH-cam Poop, 14 years before TH-cam existed.*
*I’m writing the local news station **_demanding_** more news stories be edited like this one, and I’m including this news segment on VHS. They can keep the tape; they’ll be studying it for a **_long time..._*
My parents bought me a Super Nintendo because we moved from one of the biggest cities in the country to an isolated mountain town with a population of barely ten thousand people when I was eight years old. There was absolutely nothing within walking distance and they were too busy to ever take me anywhere so I had a pretty sheltered childhood. Still, I am grateful that my parents never tried to shelter me from video games, otherwise I would have gone insane from the boredom.
I spent my entire life since birth till now (18) in the country a few miles away from a town with a population of roughly 1500, plus i was homeschooled beyond 3rd grade and if it werent for video games i would have gone completely insane
What do you mean there was nothing in walking distance? Were you trying to go clubbing? Go outside and play.
I guess that makes your profile picture ironic.
I grew up isolated without Nintendo because my parent were cheap. I filled my days shooting things, mostly winged creatures
Lmao ten thousand people is alot. But I know what you mean.
i like how he casually races in reverse
The anchor woman's hair look like she woke up with a raccoon.
Late 80s-90s a lot of women had hair like that.
It cute
Or a completely reversed version of Jay Leno lol!
That's that late 80s early 90s big frizzy hair where they used a whole can of hairspray... I ought to light a match behind them...
The Rogue look
remember when videos games were referred to as “toys”
They still are to some people. But to those who haven't truly experienced any of it
There were still remnants of the stigma that the Video Game Crash of 1983 created. Nintendo had to market its game console as an "Entertainment System" and package it with a robot toy just to get it on store shelves. Gone were the days of businessmen in suits walking into the local arcade to drop a few quarters into Space Invaders or Centipede
Ugh. That's the worst. My grandparents still think of them like that, or worse, like "demonic objects"
@@hyruleguy9569 they should play doom then
@@willistheking7206 good point
my boy was looking fly cruising in the f-zero car in reverse
I got a Genesis and my brother got a SNES on Christmas 1991. Thanks mom and dad.
"People market things, So they can make more money"
*U DON'T SAY*
To quote: "I'm going to *explain to him* how people market things to make more money" - in other words, she was talking about how she's going to explain this to her small pre-teen son, you idiot.
@@katelinmarie5360 - It doesn't change anything, though... It's not like the kid wants a Super Nintendo, because he doesn't know that the people selling them wants to make money. He wants it because it's FUN. If you really want to buy a new car, are you gonna change your mind, if someone reminds you that people market things to make more money? It changes nothing. The motivation is A and the mother was responding to it with 9.
Vexus
Knowing to what degree that a business is trying to exploit you will probably affect whether or not you give your money to that business. What are you talking about.
She didn't say how they make money, she said how they make you spend more money.
Everyone knows she probably caved at Christmas.....
Spent the whole year telling him can't have it only to pull a 180 to get a smile on his face at Christmas.
Or bought him a Genesis, since they were slightly cheaper.
FIRST THING OUT OF HER MOUTH “where should your anger be directed? Not at the parents but at the manufacturers.” Same stupidity on day 1
“Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to write a 10000 word blog post about how the epic games store is destroying competition by being competitive”
Stfu John Gray
@@juancarlosestrada3279 John is correct
Juan Carlos Estrada Are you mad because you’ve been irresponsible with your money too? Cheer up buddy, everyone does it at least once.
Manufacturers didn’t make you buy the product.
Seriously what a dumb bitch.
0:00 RIP to all the animals who died to make that anchor's hair.
She has a racoon on her head
It looks like a bird shat on it
Good thing she doesn’t have this raccoon hairstyle anymore
Fuck those animals. Thats a comfy chair
She got a tanooki suit.
Aaah the 90s fashion hairstyle, jewellery, shoulder pads, color block. It was a great era.
No, that’s leftover ‘80s. ‘90s is dull straight hair and saggy pants we haven’t gotten out of since. Wish people would do something with their hair again. So boring, and boys just shaggy and loser looking.
“We’ve come a long way since pac-man” Ha! You have no idea!
Yeh now you can replay the original game on about ten different mediums.
Now you can play multiple arcade games in a single game.
Waiting for PS5 and Xbox Scarlet to drop... We have come a long way since Pac-Man baby...
I got the Pac-Man fever! (Pac-Man Fever!)~
Drivin' me crazy!~
Yea but gamers have become degenerate man children
My favorite part is how they keep referring to "Graphics" as "Pictures"
Aaron Booth that's literally the definition of graphics though
Things that date this video:
*calling SNES a "toy"
*parental outrage over a $200.00 console
*Nintendo controls 80% of the market.
You forgot 1:40
$200 then is about $380 today, and that sounds like a steal for a new console. The digital-only Xbox might hit that, though.
The median wage was around $18k back then, gas was 85 cents a gallon and a family of four could eat a meal at McD on 10 bucks. $200 was a hefty chunk of change.
@@Jay_Sullivan $200 was over a year worth of wages in my country back then. Now you make that in a day.
@@potatochalbro 200 a year? Dude you need to move to a better place
The first console my brother and I had was an Atari 7800, bought second-hand. The first computer we had, I went out and got "Doom", on its 5 1/4 inch floppy discs. (Doom II came on seven 3.5" floppies).
"Have things gone a bit too far?" Lady, with a hairstyle like that you can't really talk.
Rogue after she got done with Magneto's Machine lookin' ass.
Someone jizzed on her bangs
That was the trend for most ladies at that time. So she is basically just conforming to social conventions and norms. 30 years from now the people may find the fashion from 2020 as "a bit too far" or "odd". With each new generation comes new fashion fads and social norms. I have to say that the people from the 90s were objectively more normal, articulate, grounded and educated then the people of today.
@@aedivian Relax my guy, it was just a joke.
@@SubjectE57 What makes you think I am not relaxed? Is it not common for your generation to articulate your arguements and opinions in actual coherent thoughts instead of just memes?
I still play my 26 year old super Nintendo. best $200 my parents ever spent.
Holy crap! It still works? lol
Sam W.
I just bought one & it’s in mint condition.
Only thing you’d have to worry about are the batteries the games have
Hell yeah man! Me too! I finally just beat choplifter 3. I'm 37 now...
@@aaronmartinez5029 the game cartridge have batteries? Never heard That? I've got og games that work fine. Maybe a capacitor?
Along with my NES and Genesis.
"if you're a real good player, meaning you have the skill of a 9 or 10 year old"
*crashes car immediately after*
Get what you deserve old man
as an 11 year old I can confirm we HavE ePiC SkILLz
😂 what the hell is on her head 🦊 0:10
It's her hair 😂 big 80's hair was on it's way out okay 😂
@@thewrestlingchick-tamaraThese were good times. I wish the world was still so simple.
@@thewrestlingchick-tamara I know 😅
😂😅😂😅
What losers...
I don't understand Tik Tok.
Or social media.
Or high speed internet.
Or 56k Geocities bullshit internet.
Or cable TV.
Or broadcast TV.
Or Radio.
Or the printing press.
Or the written word.
Fuckin losers.
LMAO 0 :19
the irony is too funny..
I'm going to take you to a therapist that we are going to pay $50. an hour to explain to you
that we cant waste our money on a $200. super Nintendo lol..
Plus about 40 bucks for each game.
And yet parents pay gobbs of money to fortnite these days
@@wschmrdr $40 for an SNES game? Ha! SNES games ranged from $50-70, with some games (like Final Fantasy III/VI) costing even more than that. N64 games regularly ran around $70. And that's not even adjusted for inflation.
@biscuit NO U
hahahahaaaaa
I will never forget when my father came home with that brand new SNES the day it went on sale! Playing Super Mario World was like jumping 50 years into the future for me and my brother 😂!
The SNES was a great upgrade over the NES back in the day. Felt like a bigger upgrade than the PS4 to PS5 does now.
Maaaan I know how you feel because when I went from a regular Nintendo to playing Mario on 64 was a the best feeling any video game has ever done for me to this very day
It has Yoshi which is dinosaur propaganda. They never existed. Only the gullible believe in the alleged fossils which are easy to fake.
@@xuimodBecause it was a bigger upgrade. Also Super Mario World to this day is better than 99% of PS5 games because back then they put effort and heart into their product.
@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 ur an idiot.........super mario wold is nothing comparied to games today ps5 or other wise.......i had over 40 games on snes and id trade them all for current gen games(maybe not final fantasy 3, chrono trigger or some rgps but only for the nastalga)
ur just sound like a salty ass pc or xbox gamer the way you single out ps5........also fyi there is a REASON nintendo fell out of the console race and oppted to only make first party games for a hand held. cuz sony pushed them out, because nintendo can ONLY make mario games.
Advice to my 7 year old self: skip the baseball cards - buy SNES games instead!
Technically no, eBay prices for most SNES games are about the same as when they were new. Games you'd want to buy(that are actually worth owning because they're good) hover around $30-$40 on eBay, which translates to about $60 in 1991 dollars.
Or tell your young self to save them then sell them 25 years later to make a fortune.
Think of how much the games would be worth if you had them never opened though, and it's not like you couldn't still enjoy the games because you could just rent SNES games from the video store back in the day.
Neo SonicStrike still have my link to the past and super metroid sealed. maybe worth more later though.
The kids jumping around were having so much fun.
I wish I could jump around.
-"$200 for a video game? The outrage!!"
-"Honey, am going to spend $200 on my hair at the hair stylist"
Gotta say, their mentality does make some sense. Spending money to look hot and get laid seems like a much better use of money than video games.
If it worked that way for guys there’d probably be far less gamers.
@@denimchicken104 Oh, sure, because your looks and where you put your d*ck are the priorities in life, sure, sure.
I'll rather spend my money in something that makes me happy, rather than doing so on things that only make others happy.
@@youmakenosense7437 you make no sense.
@@thetermiNatery2k doesn’t apply. His name was not “IMakeNoSense”
$200 in 1991 is like $500 today