Sega Mega Drive or Super Nintendo?
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Something about James’ calm voice gives the energy that you’re visiting friends and they’re showing their collection. James just exudes ol’ mate energy
He's an ol' mate you can bring with you.
For me it’s the fact that there’s no “HEY GUYS WHATS GOING ON, ITS YA BOY AND I GOT A GREAT VIDEO TODAY SO REMEMBER TO SMASH THAT LIKE….” etc.
Just a solid guy sharing something interesting with people.
@@josho4228honestly I can’t tell if there’s anyone who isn’t stuck in 2016 TH-cam mindset who does that kind of intro but I certainly don’t miss it
Snes the best
@josho4228 or the fact that they also say "BUT BEFORE WE BEGIN, THIS VIDEO IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY "Company name here"!
Not only is James just a really cool guy, he has cats 🥰
MOAR KITTIES!
TWO PURRING FRANKS?!?!
that's the only thing bad about him
i would let him do anything to me
Dankpods (Wade): Fronk the Chonk
James: C O T S
Hearing the Word Hire in place of rent is funny, is that a normal Australian thing? Also, excited for your channel! Cool history of your vidyagames
I think they're used interchangeably down here.
Another difference I noticed is that we never referred to them as "video stores" as Americans do, we would usually just refer to the name of the store (Video Ezy, Blockbuster, Civic Video).
@@Millennialtomb That’s something Americans do, too. We always said “let’s go to Blockbuster”, not “The video store”. Maybe it’s a regional thing?
@@Zerphses You're probably right.
@@Zerphses In some parts of Australia, people will put an "s" after the name of a store. "Let's go to Blockbuster" would become "let's go to Blockbusters". It probably explains why so many stores down here end in an "s" by default e.g. Coles, Woolworths, Bunnings.
It depends: in the uk, we'd call it a video store unless it was a chain, like Blockbuster.
In much the same way we were going for a takeaway, unless we were going to Subways or Mc-Coronary Disease.
The Mega Drive was the first console we had as well - it was second-hand from someone my parents knew but it came with a copy of a game called Desert Strike (I loved that game and it's sequels BTW). Anyways, one of the games you showed for the SNES, Rock 'n' Roll Racing was a game we borrowed from the local newsagents (who did the whole video hire thing) - both me and my sister liked it so much we ended up convincing the folks to by a copy to keep. A hell of a lot of nostalgia here :D
I'm not old enough to have had a mega drive, but I remember playing desert strike and f-22 interceptor on Fusion and MD.emu. pretty fun game!
SUPA NINTENDO SEGA GENASIS WHEN I WAS DEAD BROKE I COULDNT PICTURE THIS
As someone who was born in the mid 80s, it’s funny to hear little explainers like ‘we used to rent video games from blockbusters’ or ‘we couldn’t use this port, didn’t even know what it was’. But it does make me think about how different we experience these things now, and this sort of seems like a cool historical artefact.
Twice the cat in this one. Very good. Cool to hear about your experience with getting into video games.
Your collection looks freakin sick dude! I know it would be a long video, but I'd love to see a tour of your collection.
I 2nd this request/suggestion!
I used to rent PS2 games and DVD from my central Victorian town's Video Busters. No idea if the two are related or if it was just the video store equivalent of a chicken shop being called Charcoal Chicken
Could have been the same place! It’s likely that game came from interstate
the rf story really resonated with me. as a younger sibling, i was on dedicated cable wiggling duty when my brother and i were playing ocarina of time, and occasionally the picture was good enough to see
Best of luck with your own channel James! I’m not sure if your content will be for me tbh but I love the chemistry and dynamics you guys have on Garbage time so I’m sure this will be entertaining too
As a European, specifically English, Nintendo in the early 90s didn’t have much of a grasp here, so I was a sega boy, master system and mega drive, though later my uncle got a SNES, and I remember I always loved playing it, Top Gear (not related to the tv show) was an amazing racing game that riffed on outrun, had an amazing soundtrack too. Good to see you have you own channel James, can’t wait to see loads of “ol’ mate” fixes
Top gear is awesome, didn't played much of the first but top gear 2 was my favorite game
the second i saw the stickers on home alone game i just screamed “VIDEO EZYYYYYYYYY” out loud in public. I miss that store so much
Me too. Streaming doesn't hold a candle to that place. Shit, neither did Blockbuster.
@@Millennialtomb i still have a copy of meet dave and a few others from video ezy
@@scorpionelite2543 I've got a few Doctor Who tapes from there.
I feel like I had a video ezy in rural australia until about twelve years ago.
I cannot get past that you say "hire" as apposed to "rent". In my mind you're telling the game you "hired" it for a long night of hard gaming, as your folks are out on a date and they gave you money for pizza and whatever else you'd need :P
Looking forward to jameschannel cause it means james has a channel
The first ever console I have vivid memories of playing was my great grandmothers SNES. Jamming out levels and (eventually) beating Super Mario World with my brother is what I remember my world being at 5 years old. Ironically, the original SNES is 13 years older than me. The console is in my hands now, in its yellow, gray, and purple US spec glory.
I think you were scammed, mate. You wanted to get a dog, but they have you two. I think they knew they were off-brand, so they gave you two so you wouldn't complain.
this is the second cat! this is getting out of hand.
Very nice collection. N64 and game boy color were my earliest consoles, my dad woke me up late one night to show me he bought mario kart 64 and we played for hours. Before that I always just watched him play PC strategy games.
God it's so refreshing to hear "seega mega drive", and even "mega CD". I swear I've spent so much time listening to Americans, I was starting to think I just hallucinated that name.
I sure do remember those 90s TVs too... we had ours so long I had to buy an RF unit for my N64. Didn't realise we needed one the day I bought it of course, so I have vivid memories of that first night trying to play Ocarina of Time though just... impossible amounts of static.
Sega genesis just sounds terrible to me being used to the word mega drive it sounds like a Phil Colin's songs gonna start playing when you boot it up lol
Also I agree so many Americans on here hearing "Sega CD" over and over I actually forgot It was called mega CD over here lol 😅
@@HollowRickI beg to differ. Sega Genesis sounds cooler than Sega Mega Drive
DankPods but instead of MP3 players and a pet snake, it's retro gaming a cat.
Edit: oh damn you're actually mates with him and have a channel together. 🤦♂️ Makes sense now
In all honesty, I don't care one bit for consoles or whatever, but I decided to give James a watch because... well, we like James. And yeah, we do like James. The calm energy (and the genius of that portable Super Nintendo video) had me sticking around. Keep 'em coming.
I find it interesting that you say that you hired video games from video stores, here in America we would say that we rented them
Genesis does what Nintendon’t
I didn't grow up in the 80's and 90's but i certainly did grow up with the Super Nintendo. my dad put ZSNES on my laptop back in the day and it was how I got my fascination with retro games, especially the SNES. 15 years later and I have an actual Super Nintendo, with the holy grail of JRPGs, Chrono Trigger.
Damn this video has 7K likes and only 8 dislikes, almost a 1:1000 ratio. Everyone must've enjoyed it
I'm a youngin so my first console was a Playstation 2, although the DS, Xbox 360 and PS3 were all out by that point. The first console I played on a whole lot, though, was my DS. I love the DS so much.
Hey James... I hope you see this message...
i would love it if you would do a video on your experince of owning your FSM Niki.
- how you came to own one for so long, -- the appeal of it...
and why (if you see it like this too) you are different to most car people who all seem to only like a very narrow selection of vehicles... most seem to only want the same thing, eg V8, turbo, luxury, power, status mobiles
I got best of all the worlds when I was younger. At my Grandma's, I had a retrobit 2-in-1 nes & snes console, where I mostly played Mario 3 and World with my grandma, while at my mum's, I had a Sega Genesis with sonic 2, golden axe, some manky tetris wannabe, as well as an N64 only with Mario 64 and Zelda OOT. I unfortunately only have the retrobit console today, but for a kid born in 2005, I couldn't imagine a better collection of games to grow up with. . .
I had both but because of that never had a ton of games for either. Still I made pretty decent buying decisions and managed to live the best of both worlds. But why are we burying the lead here, whats up with the kitties?
I thought this was gonna be a bait and switch where james was all like "actually i was a turbografx kid" and then the video cuts to james with like 3 arms with 7 fingers to each hand
As much as I do like the SNES, I am always gonna be team Mega Drive.
Both are great systems tho😊
James, do a video on "Toy Story" for Mega Drive. Trust me...
CATS
GOOD
The Australian SNES looks so slick, So much better than the ugly North American version!
Man this is a great channel. Thanks dank pods for telling us that this exists.
During this era of gaming I just played my cousins systems. My family were very low income so I didn't get my own game system until the PS2. This was my first gen of real gaming I remember and what I think of when people say retro, my mind doesn't even think of NES first lol.
Obviously channel grew quick but happy to be here, loved the personal retrospective
Why "or"? I had both consoles ofc. :)
As an American, the use of "hire" rather than "rent" trips me up. Here in the states we say "hire" for people and "rent" for inanimate objects, but I guess it's different in Oz (as are many things).
Hire tends to be used for short term things, so you'd hire a car for a week, but rent the gas bottle for your welder.
do aussies call it "hiring" games instead of renting?
James the cat section has to be a lot longer. There is a couple frames that's not enough cat for anyone.
The Mega Drive VS SNES debate will surely never be settled. I went with the SNES at the time, purely for Super Mario All Stars. I have great memories of playing Street Fighter II on it. And it also introduced me to Sim City, which I loved, and through that I was eventually lead to the later Sim City 3000 on Windows which became one of my all time favourite games that I still play to this day. So I wouldn't want to go back and change history, and lose out on all of that, but having owned a Mega Drive after the 16-bit wars were over I now feel that I prefer the Mega Drive to the SNES overall. I cannot argue that one is better than the other, but I certainly tend to find myself playing more Mega Drive through emulation these days than SNES.
3:07 FUZZY FRANKS!
Damn this somehow reminds me of going to my cousin house and seeing some of these games😂
Commenting for the algorithm gods. You got this James!
TWO CATS!!!
What a beautiful lovely story jj❤️😭
You don't know how calming it is just hear someone local on the internet saying SEE-GA not SAY-GA. SA GREAT! I started on a Master System II w/ Alex Kidd built in however it was the Super Nintendo and Nintendo from then on with my family. Thankfully this was still the 90s when an 8yo could go across the road and visit a neighbour (adult or friend) on their own so I still had access to SEGA consoles throughout the years through neighbours and as such they had access to Nintendo consoles through us.
Pretty sure one of those cats is also named Frank.
Aye I have a similar story, I played the Mega Drive at my cousins place and LOVED it. So when I begged my parents for weeks to get me one... they got me an NES. Not an SNES an NES... this was around 2000. So the lord knows where my Dad found an NES with a stack of games, but it sparked my love for Nintendo... I still got a PS1 a little later because "dem graphics dad"
Also without the sticker I wouldn't have figured out hire = rent. Fun.
I love the Aussie pronunciation of Sega
The SNES was the first console I ever used as a kid despite being a couple of years too young to have been there during its golden days. A friend of mine (who had a much older brother) had one at home and we used to always play Super Mario World on it. Today it's without a doubt my favorite retro gaming era. Mostly because the games have aged better than what came before and what came after.
Happy to see more from ya!
Woah 2 cats? This is even better than I thought
You're going casually through your collection and my eyes glow up when I spotted LHX Attack Chopper, loved that game when I was a kid.
Mega drive by far mate
Wow! James tamed an Australian cat
I love stories like that, can you make a video about a console you had after the SNES? I would really love that!
Great short form story, mate! Cheers on the channel 🎉
holy crap, that green video ezy sticker on the Home Alone box brings back memories of riding my bike to my local one.
The genesis was my first console i played, handed down from my dad and i loved playing sonic, i never experienced an super Nintendo so i guess i'd say im nostalgic for ole sega
Ooh, Puggsy! That's a very weird game. It has janky physics (but for the time they were very impressive) but by far the best thing about it is the soundtrack! Highly recommend giving it a listen
I got myself a mega drive in 2014 what a lovely console. I think about getting a new controller and an Everdrive for it.
Since i have seen a bit of Pinball Video games: What is your favorite Pinball Machine?
One of the major things I miss from video rental places was the carpet. I don't know if they gave 'em the go over with a shampoo machine or something every night. But once the late 00's hit they started smelling more...stanky haha. Like...slow death I guess. Aw.
I had a Genesis and everyone else I knew had a SNES, no fighting we got to play eachother's consoles Was funny that they all really wanted to play the Genesis since I was the only one around who had one. . .
AND A SEGA CHANNEL
I remember getting a Mega Drive for a crazy discount cus the seller said it didn't display but it only came with the RF cables. After using AV cables the console worked with no issue
I will fight you on DKC2 "still holding up today", but I'm probably outnumbered 1mil to 1 on that.
Also love the minous; please, more cats.
We were well covered:
- Us: SNES then 64 and PS2
- Neighbours: Megadrive and NES
- Friends: PS1, PC, Dreamcast
I love those side end labels you’ve got on some of you SNES carts. I would absolutely love to get some of them for myself as they’d be perfect for the cramped way I’ve gotta store my games. Where did you get them?
I have never heard someone say "hire" instead of "rent" and it's fucking with me. Also "the seega mega drive," because the word "mega" tells you how sega is supposed to be pronounced. It's like people who say "reecees pieces"
the thumbnail says "My Childhood". this makes me want to see James' childhood report cards. i can imagine the comments his teachers wrote him. "James is a very curious and creative child. Even I was impressed with his ability to transform my teacher's desk into an aquarium for the fish he caught at the nearby pond. We consider repair bills to the damage he caused our classroom (in his resourceful efforts to repurpose materials) as an investment in nourishing young James's creative spirit"
Wade: 🤣🏃🤸🙀😁
James: 😌👍
I had a Mega Drive. My childhood best friend had a SNES. That's the ideal setup! If he came over to my house, we'd rent a Mega Drive game, and vice versa. Got the best of both worlds.
Could you possibly show that Action 52 off? That's a neat piece imo
why is james's frank has hair ?
Hy house has been Nintendo + PC since I was 4.
Something I find really fun to engage with in the whole Nintendo vs Sega thing, especially SNES vs Genesis is the difference in their sound chips. The SNES had that really capable Sony sound chip that could do a lot of amazing things...if the programmers bothered. This is why games scored by the likes of Koji Kondo and David Wise have such standout sound tracks, where a lot of other games had that distinctive strings ensemble sound they all used. The Genesis on the other hand used an off-the-shelf Yamaha FM synthesis chip, the same one in a PC Ad Lib card. It was really easy to compose for, so there's tons of great music on the Genesis from lots of composers, but there aren't those rare treats that push the hardware to new heights like on the SNES.
It's just an interesting and fun way the 16 bit consoles were different. I like music from both consoles.
Of course Sega Mega Drive is cooler! You can play Dune 2 pvp on it!
*like both machines!* ❤ ❤ ❤
“I wanted a Mega Drive and I got a SNES. I was so disappointed.”
Yes! Good man.
“I convinced my mum we should trade the Super Nintendo in and buy a Mega Drive, then I was happy.”
I knew James was a legend!
“Altered Beast was great.”
Nah, you lost me.
"Revolution X was really good"
James was killed by lightning only minutes later. Weirdly it was a sunny day with not a cloud in sight
Hey James! Saw you had a drum freaks arcade cabinet. There’s a V6 cab in Sydney that I and one other person play frequently and we do out best to maintain it and keep it playable but we really are struggling with the CRT! How do you stop yours from being so dim with age and are there any fixes you’d recommend us giving a go? The red tom is impossible to see on our screen 🥲.
Excited to see if you do any videos on your Popn cab too! There’s only one other one I know of and it’s privately owned in Sydney.
Sweet collection! Hoping to match it myself one day 🙌
Sega Mega drive, I got it in 2024 on my birthday. Came with 81 games
The first console I ever played in 96 when I was four was a sega master system my cousins were playing Castle of illusion and sonic the hedgehog and it blew my mind just being able to control what was happening on screen I remember thinking it looked like a cartoon haha me and my older brother asked our parents for one but being 96 it had just been discontinued In the UK and my mum especially wasn't into buying used consoles at the time as she wanted a warranty lol so that Christmas we ended up getting a sony PlayStation 1 with Crash bandicoot and Resident evil.. ahh good times
Ive got a pal mega drive sealed in the box and a brand new copy of street fighter 2 as well I have a pale super nes to I had to get one from qutar very hard to find outside of its region.
The Sega Master System was the first games console I had, but my friend had a Mega Drive and I was super jealous of him. Looking back I don't feel as jealous as the SMS did have some good titles. Still, could've done with a SMD!
The Mega Drive was cooler, and it had sports games and violence.. The Super Nintendo was a bit too 'Disney'. But I would begrudgingly say the SNES was more fun.
I've learned so much about video game history thank you so much James for all the videos!!
JAMES
AU: “hired” a vidya
US: “rented” a vidya
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This language is silly and differences should be acknowledged and celebrates
Love ya mate
AHHHHH GLOBAL GLADIATORS! I'm so happy someone else owns this game and it wasn't a fever dream from my sugar fueled childhood.
As a man who is not fond of PAL consoles, I’m glad there was the NTSC consoles showed off for a bit
Hire games... ahh those were the days. I, too, have my own copies of my beloved games that I hired... T2 Arcade Game, Super R-Type, Super Smash TV...
Man, I hope whoever came up with the idea of the boxy Super Nintendo is burning in hell. I kinda like the purple accents, though.
P.S: I love you, James
My first console was a PlayStation 2 and I remember very vividly playing Manhunt, God of War 1 and 2 and GTA SA on it. I was like 5...
I too wanted a megadrive after playing sonic, altered beast, and some Tetris wannabe with jewels.. and a wall..
Instead my parents got me a Nintendo 64.
Thanks mum ❤❤❤
This is like a weird alternate universe dankpods, even with animal at the end and all!
I had mega drive 2 always wanted a snes and super mario world
Games:
Sonic 2, sonic and knuckles, desert strike, space harrier 2, super street fighter 2 turbo, mortal kombat 1, mortal kombat 2,
Echo the dolphin omg 😂😂😂... that was the most pointless game as a kid....I remember wondering what was the objective because it was not obvious playing the game. I still dont know.
THIS COMMERCIAL DEBATE WAS RESOLVED BY YOUR TASTE IN MUSIC AND WHAT YOU WERE WILLING TO SPEND .
"Most electricians aren't really suited to fixing electronics" Truer words have never been spoken. And I say that as an electrician. Drill or something like that, sure, fixing something electronic, just get a new one.
Huh, odd linguistic quirk, but I have never heard someone refer to temporarily obtaining a good as hiring it. Like, in US English, you can only hire people. Anything else is renting.