Lol! Love how "Rinsed" is now part of your gaming vocabulary! It's even to forget that most of us would only get like one or two games a year if we were lucky and it took other friends owning their own games for us to play a ton of stuff. We rinsed every game we had, because that's all we had! And when we couldn't get a console game, we'd hopefully get a cheap Tiger Handheld and rinse those! heh! My memory for when I got certain games the NES era has faded pretty badly, but I still know what I personally had and what I played around friends houses. Back when life was simple. Good times. Great video brother! Unirally! Starwing! Just too good, and no matter how many times I see it, the Mario Bros & Duck Hunt cart was everything to be back then. Two goated games in one. Peak!
Rinsed is just such a good term, haha! That Mario Duckhunt, peak nostalgia! And you're right, you had to hope your friends even had 1 or 2 games you wouldn't have so you could try something new! One of my planned videos is about small handhelds like the Tiger ones, heheh.
I get way into a game that I can’t think of playing another. I’m like I need to get this one done! Plus I get a feel for the game and the moves that I’m afraid if I switch to another I will lose that if I switch to another.
My SNES library was: Zelda Link to the Past MK1, MK2, Fzero, Samurai Showdown, Street Fighter Turbo.. i think that's it but maybe Rock n Roll Racing.. or i rented it a lot.
Oh, for a moment there I thought you were going to talk about finishing games _that you wrote_ . I was like "well, he's got the game dev look going on with his John Romero hair."
Great to see a new video from you..always gives me a nostalgic feeling seeing you friend :) You deffo had to make the most of your games back in the day...I remember with my SNES I had a handful and cherish every one of them, btw, i started uploading Zelda OoT randomizer videos with face camera now :)
We've both come a long way since our days in the foxhole, lmao! I didn't mean to take this long with my next gaming upload, things have been crazy, but I'm working on what might be my most favorite video of all time!!
At the start of your video I saw Starwing and was happy, then heard the music and such and loved it ^^. I try to complete games if I can, but sometimes it hasnt happened, like i havent finished wind waker after all these years, got sidetracked on side quests, and melee was the only GC game i owned for about a year, i rented other games once a blue moon, early gaming was fun, it took awhile to get a game but it was worth it. God bless, and thx for sharing these epic tales of ones childhood, I can relate ^^ Ye i heard about the whole no ninja thing off somewhere in europe, that was interesting to hear.
I've definitely had that so often too, specifically in Elder Scrolls games, where I played most, and for hundreds of hours, but finished none because I keep getting side tracked by side quests!
Man, seeing that Secret of Evermore box behind you takes me back! Such a great game. I was in the same boat as you. I was born in 85 and would get games on my birthday and Christmas. The majority of games I played in between were rentals.
I remember I would only get like one, maybe two, games a year too as a kid, so it was like that for me too in a lot of ways where I ended up only having really not all that many games. I remember a kid I used to play with gave me the Adventures of Bayou Billy once. Never could beat that game. Now it almost feels so overwhelming that buying games just whenever is a lot more accessible or whatever because there are so many games I'd love to pick up and play. I definitely will always have a special place for the NES and SNES especially though.
Isn't it because games are too long these days? To finish Rise of the Ronin. I get up late in the morning and play it in 2 hour sessions. It took around a month but I did it. NES games are usually very quick. I do have a lot of Steam games that I haven't played. You didn't have Zelda 2 or Mario 2 and 3? No Mario World and Super Metroid on your SNES? Impossible. I started buying games for the Wii. Having a job also makes you lose the free time you used to have. 1993 is when the internet became public. It technically started earlier than that.
I try to do that, but at a certain point my ADHD brain decides it's time for something else. Then the other game I was playing gets forgotten for a few months until I go back and finish it. There are exceptions to this. Certain series always keep me hooked until the end.
Maybe it’s an 80s thing (?) kids rarely beat games because most were so hard. Now games are easier but, they overwhelm us with so many games you could never play them all! Gamers will never win, still it’s fun to try.
Real talk about video game collections back in the day! I was born in 83 so I can totally relate but I will say I was a bit luckier than most because I had most major and minor systems by the time I was 12 at the same time like my first console was Master System, then NES, Genesis, Gameboy, Game Gear, and Super Nintendo. I even had Game Genie for Gameboy, NES and Genesis. So because of that and video rental places I got to play tons of games especially during Christmas and Summer break from school. But games that were actually mine in my collection? Less than 10 per system. But, another thing happened that I'm also super lucky to have found back then was emulation. One day in 1997 I was browsing a Geocities website someone had up with Nesticle for MSDOS and about 15 games like Contra, Punchout, Mario 1, Mario 2, etc. From there in a short amount of time I found other DOS emulators like Magic Engine for Turbo Grafx 16, ZSNES, KGen, Callus for Capcom Arcade games, MAME, etc. Your main topic about finishing games...I feel ya on that too! If it's an older game that I enjoy and it's short unlike most RPGs then I'll push myself to beat it. But if it's RPG or modern games, unless it's super good like God Of War 2, the Resident Evil 4, or a Zelda game then I won't finish it and will just move on to something else. 😎
I left a huge reply here but now I don't see it anymore ugh. The Game Gear is in my top 5 wanted gaming systems, I hold and played it only once as a kid and remember finding it really comfortable. I still own my NES Game Genie and added a ton of hours to my games specifically using moon jump codes, haha! And I agree, I find myself often forcing myself to finish games that haven't totally sucked me in!
I never finish games because many of them are too difficult or i simply get board. However i agree with you. The biggest problem for most people is having too many choices. When you only had 10 games you'd play them multiple times. 😊
I hear you. I'm the same generation - born in the 80s, grew up in the 90s mainly and a little in the early 2000s, - and what kids might not really get today is how OVERSATURATED the landscape of gaming is. It is just insane. Games left and right, some of them for very cheap and you can download them in under a minute from anywhere in the world. For US, it was different but in a GOOD WAY, I would say. I didn't even get to play NES much - just a few games in the 90s - and I remember when I was super young, we had I think an Atari, and joust was on that. But my STRONGEST memories, the games that I ACTUALLY HAD, were on SNES, and I had far less than you, even - in my house, TOTAL, we only ever had: Super Mario World Jurassic Park (SNES) THOSE WERE IT, from 1993, when we got a family super nintendo, until 1995. For 2 years, I had JUST THOSE to play. So you can imagine we played them a LOT. In 1995, I got as a gift Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, one of the BEST platformers of all time, to this day. I played THAT a lot. For another gift in 1996 I got TMNT Tournament Fighters (or "Hero Turtles", depending on the region) - which was a fighting game. Then maybe around 1997 I got Primal Rage on SNES, and I owned that too. That was it, other than one place I stayed at for a bit had Megaman X, another place had Terminator vs Robocop - and that's literally ALL of them other than ones I might have rented from the video store or someone had that I borrowed, like Street Fighter or Turtles in Time. Then, 1997 came, Final Fantasy VII came out, and I KNEW I had to have my own PS1. Later I'd go on to buy my own games like Dino Crisis 2 (PS1), Final Fantasy VIII and IX (PS1), Chrono Cross, Legend of Dragoon and so on. BUT even though I got a lot more games that I OWNED once I got old enough to make my own money, it's still very different from what people TODAY have at their disposal. Like right now, I can get on my PS5 - I live in the EU - and with a VPN, download US exclusive games, Japan exclusives, etc, EASILY. I have several games in my collection that I never have even TOUCHED - I just grabbed them because they were really cheap - like Skyrim. Never got around to it. The reason I never finish many of them is first, because I got older and I just have more things to DO, more responsibilities and less free time than when I was a kid, but also because I just have so MANY options I CAN'T give them all my full attention. So, in recent years I have taken to dialing back, and being very selective about what I buy. Like I just bought FFVII Rebirth and I AM going to 100% that because Final Fantasy VII is on a TOTALLY different level from other games and even other Final Fantasy games - it' the stuff of legends. I recently, after not having a TV to even play no for 2 years, finally got the platinum trophy for Horizon: Forbidden West - but I have no intention of getting the ultra-hard mode trophy because stressing myself out for a game that I like but not THAT much isn't worth it to me, and I'm fine just having fully done everything in the BASE game. That's the other thing. Now, every game seems to have DLC. Things keep coming. Expansions, things to buy, you're just never DONE with it, and I don't like that. I don't like trophy culture on these platforms - Playstation, X-Box, Switch - because it tends to force you to do gruelling things you don't want to do, like "beat everything AGAIN, but in under X hours and on ultra-hard mode where everything kills you in one shot and has 3 times as much HP" - to come out with some extra mode and throw a trophy on that, that's to me not fair, and most of all not FUN. A game should be challenging, not maddening. Fun, not frustrating. The point of a game is to enjoy the journey and RELIEVE pressure, escape life a bit - not fill your down time with moments where you want to throw the system through the window. When extra modes are throw in - often poorly designed and not well thought out in terms of how enjoyable the content is rather than aggravating - people who THOUGHT they 100% completed a game now have to slog through that and it's not enjoyable. Maybe to a masochist, but not to most people. That's why I love classics like Final Fantasy VII, IX, Yoshi's Island, etc. They're there, complete, no BS trophy culture, you just either unlock everything and get everything and complete every stage or you don't. They have some challenges, but nothing the right setup of gear and materia or a bit of platforming practice won't solve. But then take the NEW VII Rebirth - still a VERY good game, except that it DOES have really unnecessary additions that just add stress, like the Jules competition - you have to be PERFECT with your timing not just of button presses but also press the buttons with the right amount of PRESSURE at the right time - half presses, full presses, etc - and it just makes it really a nightmare experience when you do that part, which is, SURPRISE, needed t get the 100% completion trophy. Only...this is a remake of sorts and this kind of stressful thing was not IN the original. It's a needless addition that detracts joy instead of adding it. So, I end up getting burned out on many modern games for that reason - unreasonable challenges and grinds that just practice won't change - they'll ALWAYS be hard and stressful. Now, I'm not saying older games didn't have very hard parts - they did - but often you didn't HAVE to do it, it was an optional part, and no trophy system was added to make you feel like you can't "count" having beaten it if you don't do this stupid, stressful task 800 times in a row. That's boring, and makes me want to quit. I will tolerate it with Rebirth ONLY because I will always 100% anything FFVII related - no matter how hard - because I'm just that big of a fan - but there are VERY few games I want to do that for, so I simply don't buy them if I think they'll annoy me. One is Stellar Blade. Looked fine, but when I played the demo, it occurred to me that if I bought it, it might annoy me too much to finish and I'd just end up wasting the money - so I chose not to. In the last 4 years, I've only bought 4 games brand-new at full price - an average of 1 a year. Which is about the rate as when I was a kid. I like it better that way.
The gaming market is absolutely oversaturated with games. Tournament Fighters is still one of my most wanted games! Time is absolutely another factor to finishing games, so many more responsibilities as an adult. I also feel sometimes DLC, instead of giving more content, simply prevents you from moving on to the next game.
I do try to complete a lot of the games I start, but I also like to go back and play them again.. But Now days there are so many games I have fallen behind..
The amount of games endlessly being released is overwhelming! I don't even get to play every single one I want anymore! So much choice, so little time.
Lol! Love how "Rinsed" is now part of your gaming vocabulary!
It's even to forget that most of us would only get like one or two games a year if we were lucky and it took other friends owning their own games for us to play a ton of stuff. We rinsed every game we had, because that's all we had! And when we couldn't get a console game, we'd hopefully get a cheap Tiger Handheld and rinse those! heh!
My memory for when I got certain games the NES era has faded pretty badly, but I still know what I personally had and what I played around friends houses. Back when life was simple. Good times.
Great video brother! Unirally! Starwing! Just too good, and no matter how many times I see it, the Mario Bros & Duck Hunt cart was everything to be back then. Two goated games in one. Peak!
Rinsed is just such a good term, haha! That Mario Duckhunt, peak nostalgia! And you're right, you had to hope your friends even had 1 or 2 games you wouldn't have so you could try something new! One of my planned videos is about small handhelds like the Tiger ones, heheh.
I get way into a game that I can’t think of playing another. I’m like I need to get this one done! Plus I get a feel for the game and the moves that I’m afraid if I switch to another I will lose that if I switch to another.
I definitely sometimes wish I was more dedicated like that too.
My SNES library was:
Zelda Link to the Past
MK1, MK2, Fzero, Samurai Showdown, Street Fighter Turbo.. i think that's it but maybe Rock n Roll Racing.. or i rented it a lot.
I'm in the same boat, man.
I definitely like hearing that, haha!
Same here friendo's
Oh, for a moment there I thought you were going to talk about finishing games _that you wrote_ . I was like "well, he's got the game dev look going on with his John Romero hair."
When I was a teenager I wanted to become a game dev, but the education I was following, and the people there, were so boring, I quit. 😅
Great to see a new video from you..always gives me a nostalgic feeling seeing you friend :) You deffo had to make the most of your games back in the day...I remember with my SNES I had a handful and cherish every one of them, btw, i started uploading Zelda OoT randomizer videos with face camera now :)
We've both come a long way since our days in the foxhole, lmao! I didn't mean to take this long with my next gaming upload, things have been crazy, but I'm working on what might be my most favorite video of all time!!
At the start of your video I saw Starwing and was happy, then heard the music and such and loved it ^^. I try to complete games if I can, but sometimes it hasnt happened, like i havent finished wind waker after all these years, got sidetracked on side quests, and melee was the only GC game i owned for about a year, i rented other games once a blue moon, early gaming was fun, it took awhile to get a game but it was worth it. God bless, and thx for sharing these epic tales of ones childhood, I can relate ^^ Ye i heard about the whole no ninja thing off somewhere in europe, that was interesting to hear.
I've definitely had that so often too, specifically in Elder Scrolls games, where I played most, and for hundreds of hours, but finished none because I keep getting side tracked by side quests!
Man, seeing that Secret of Evermore box behind you takes me back! Such a great game. I was in the same boat as you. I was born in 85 and would get games on my birthday and Christmas. The majority of games I played in between were rentals.
I think I rented maybe 1 game in my life, most other games I would borrow them. I still have the strategy guide that came with my Secret of Evermore!
The 49% achievement rate in your thumbnail makes me sad because I DO finish my games and I am sitting at like 39%, haha.
I was afraid the 49% was too small, haha! Love that you picked up on it, I was actually shocked when I took the screenshot I thought it was much less!
I always try to stick to one game
my backlog is huge, there's no way ill be able to finish them in a year or 3 lol
I always say that if tomorrow they stopped making video games, I'd still be set for life already!
I remember I would only get like one, maybe two, games a year too as a kid, so it was like that for me too in a lot of ways where I ended up only having really not all that many games. I remember a kid I used to play with gave me the Adventures of Bayou Billy once. Never could beat that game.
Now it almost feels so overwhelming that buying games just whenever is a lot more accessible or whatever because there are so many games I'd love to pick up and play.
I definitely will always have a special place for the NES and SNES especially though.
It's absolutely overwhelming! Man, I borrowed Bayou Billy once, hated it, haha! I do own it now but never got far either.
Awesome video :D
Thanks, man!
Isn't it because games are too long these days? To finish Rise of the Ronin. I get up late in the morning and play it in 2 hour sessions. It took around a month but I did it. NES games are usually very quick. I do have a lot of Steam games that I haven't played.
You didn't have Zelda 2 or Mario 2 and 3?
No Mario World and Super Metroid on your SNES? Impossible.
I started buying games for the Wii.
Having a job also makes you lose the free time you used to have.
1993 is when the internet became public. It technically started earlier than that.
You game like me, brother. Subscribed 85 seconds in.
That is honestly a relief to hear, haha! Thanks for the turbo sub!!
I can only play one game at a time.... when it's done, then I move on. Unless the game sucks or is too difficult.
I try to do that, but at a certain point my ADHD brain decides it's time for something else. Then the other game I was playing gets forgotten for a few months until I go back and finish it. There are exceptions to this. Certain series always keep me hooked until the end.
Yeah if a game sucks I'll definitely drop it! If it's too hard, like some get, it definitely goes on the back burner!
Admit it, you are too bad to beat games.
You should watch me play a Souls game, I go full on Leroy Jenkins lmaooo
Maybe it’s an 80s thing (?) kids rarely beat games because most were so hard. Now games are easier but, they overwhelm us with so many games you could never play them all! Gamers will never win, still it’s fun to try.
It's absolutely fun to try and I agree, the difficulty factor is absolutely valid!
Real talk about video game collections back in the day! I was born in 83 so I can totally relate but I will say I was a bit luckier than most because I had most major and minor systems by the time I was 12 at the same time like my first console was Master System, then NES, Genesis, Gameboy, Game Gear, and Super Nintendo. I even had Game Genie for Gameboy, NES and Genesis. So because of that and video rental places I got to play tons of games especially during Christmas and Summer break from school. But games that were actually mine in my collection? Less than 10 per system. But, another thing happened that I'm also super lucky to have found back then was emulation. One day in 1997 I was browsing a Geocities website someone had up with Nesticle for MSDOS and about 15 games like Contra, Punchout, Mario 1, Mario 2, etc. From there in a short amount of time I found other DOS emulators like Magic Engine for Turbo Grafx 16, ZSNES, KGen, Callus for Capcom Arcade games, MAME, etc. Your main topic about finishing games...I feel ya on that too! If it's an older game that I enjoy and it's short unlike most RPGs then I'll push myself to beat it. But if it's RPG or modern games, unless it's super good like God Of War 2, the Resident Evil 4, or a Zelda game then I won't finish it and will just move on to something else. 😎
I left a huge reply here but now I don't see it anymore ugh.
The Game Gear is in my top 5 wanted gaming systems, I hold and played it only once as a kid and remember finding it really comfortable.
I still own my NES Game Genie and added a ton of hours to my games specifically using moon jump codes, haha!
And I agree, I find myself often forcing myself to finish games that haven't totally sucked me in!
I never finish games because many of them are too difficult or i simply get board.
However i agree with you. The biggest problem for most people is having too many choices. When you only had 10 games you'd play them multiple times. 😊
I hear you. I'm the same generation - born in the 80s, grew up in the 90s mainly and a little in the early 2000s, - and what kids might not really get today is how OVERSATURATED the landscape of gaming is. It is just insane. Games left and right, some of them for very cheap and you can download them in under a minute from anywhere in the world. For US, it was different but in a GOOD WAY, I would say. I didn't even get to play NES much - just a few games in the 90s - and I remember when I was super young, we had I think an Atari, and joust was on that. But my STRONGEST memories, the games that I ACTUALLY HAD, were on SNES, and I had far less than you, even - in my house, TOTAL, we only ever had:
Super Mario World
Jurassic Park (SNES)
THOSE WERE IT, from 1993, when we got a family super nintendo, until 1995. For 2 years, I had JUST THOSE to play. So you can imagine we played them a LOT.
In 1995, I got as a gift Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, one of the BEST platformers of all time, to this day. I played THAT a lot.
For another gift in 1996 I got TMNT Tournament Fighters (or "Hero Turtles", depending on the region) - which was a fighting game.
Then maybe around 1997 I got Primal Rage on SNES, and I owned that too.
That was it, other than one place I stayed at for a bit had Megaman X, another place had Terminator vs Robocop - and that's literally ALL of them other than ones I might have rented from the video store or someone had that I borrowed, like Street Fighter or Turtles in Time.
Then, 1997 came, Final Fantasy VII came out, and I KNEW I had to have my own PS1. Later I'd go on to buy my own games like Dino Crisis 2 (PS1), Final Fantasy VIII and IX (PS1), Chrono Cross, Legend of Dragoon and so on. BUT even though I got a lot more games that I OWNED once I got old enough to make my own money, it's still very different from what people TODAY have at their disposal. Like right now, I can get on my PS5 - I live in the EU - and with a VPN, download US exclusive games, Japan exclusives, etc, EASILY. I have several games in my collection that I never have even TOUCHED - I just grabbed them because they were really cheap - like Skyrim. Never got around to it.
The reason I never finish many of them is first, because I got older and I just have more things to DO, more responsibilities and less free time than when I was a kid, but also because I just have so MANY options I CAN'T give them all my full attention. So, in recent years I have taken to dialing back, and being very selective about what I buy. Like I just bought FFVII Rebirth and I AM going to 100% that because Final Fantasy VII is on a TOTALLY different level from other games and even other Final Fantasy games - it' the stuff of legends. I recently, after not having a TV to even play no for 2 years, finally got the platinum trophy for Horizon: Forbidden West - but I have no intention of getting the ultra-hard mode trophy because stressing myself out for a game that I like but not THAT much isn't worth it to me, and I'm fine just having fully done everything in the BASE game.
That's the other thing. Now, every game seems to have DLC. Things keep coming. Expansions, things to buy, you're just never DONE with it, and I don't like that. I don't like trophy culture on these platforms - Playstation, X-Box, Switch - because it tends to force you to do gruelling things you don't want to do, like "beat everything AGAIN, but in under X hours and on ultra-hard mode where everything kills you in one shot and has 3 times as much HP" - to come out with some extra mode and throw a trophy on that, that's to me not fair, and most of all not FUN. A game should be challenging, not maddening. Fun, not frustrating. The point of a game is to enjoy the journey and RELIEVE pressure, escape life a bit - not fill your down time with moments where you want to throw the system through the window. When extra modes are throw in - often poorly designed and not well thought out in terms of how enjoyable the content is rather than aggravating - people who THOUGHT they 100% completed a game now have to slog through that and it's not enjoyable. Maybe to a masochist, but not to most people.
That's why I love classics like Final Fantasy VII, IX, Yoshi's Island, etc. They're there, complete, no BS trophy culture, you just either unlock everything and get everything and complete every stage or you don't. They have some challenges, but nothing the right setup of gear and materia or a bit of platforming practice won't solve. But then take the NEW VII Rebirth - still a VERY good game, except that it DOES have really unnecessary additions that just add stress, like the Jules competition - you have to be PERFECT with your timing not just of button presses but also press the buttons with the right amount of PRESSURE at the right time - half presses, full presses, etc - and it just makes it really a nightmare experience when you do that part, which is, SURPRISE, needed t get the 100% completion trophy. Only...this is a remake of sorts and this kind of stressful thing was not IN the original. It's a needless addition that detracts joy instead of adding it.
So, I end up getting burned out on many modern games for that reason - unreasonable challenges and grinds that just practice won't change - they'll ALWAYS be hard and stressful. Now, I'm not saying older games didn't have very hard parts - they did - but often you didn't HAVE to do it, it was an optional part, and no trophy system was added to make you feel like you can't "count" having beaten it if you don't do this stupid, stressful task 800 times in a row. That's boring, and makes me want to quit. I will tolerate it with Rebirth ONLY because I will always 100% anything FFVII related - no matter how hard - because I'm just that big of a fan - but there are VERY few games I want to do that for, so I simply don't buy them if I think they'll annoy me. One is Stellar Blade. Looked fine, but when I played the demo, it occurred to me that if I bought it, it might annoy me too much to finish and I'd just end up wasting the money - so I chose not to. In the last 4 years, I've only bought 4 games brand-new at full price - an average of 1 a year. Which is about the rate as when I was a kid. I like it better that way.
The gaming market is absolutely oversaturated with games.
Tournament Fighters is still one of my most wanted games!
Time is absolutely another factor to finishing games, so many more responsibilities as an adult.
I also feel sometimes DLC, instead of giving more content, simply prevents you from moving on to the next game.
I do try to complete a lot of the games I start, but I also like to go back and play them again.. But Now days there are so many games I have fallen behind..
The amount of games endlessly being released is overwhelming! I don't even get to play every single one I want anymore! So much choice, so little time.
Born in 85 in Canada. I had a similar experience to you. Good video :)
It's crazy how I always felt alone in this, great to see similar experiences!