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I honestly loved the hell out of this. It's kinda cool to be able to see how many places you'll go back to and floods of gaming memories hit you like a truck. Especially the businesses that just aren't there any more :\
The feelings you talk about when returning to your old gaming hangouts feel happy and sad at the same time. I get that every time I go to my grandmothers as I used to love there. When I go in to my old room (which is now empty) the scent in there reminds of of gaming on the PS1, Mega Drive and N64. It even has the same carpet and I can see the indentations in it from me sat on my chair playing the N64. It creates a mild flashback sensation. Sad and happy all at once :)
TheGebs24 I totally understand what you mean! Going back to those places is indeed a happy and sad experience. They're sad because it was such a special moment in time that we can never quite go back to. It's almost like a lost friend. It's also happy because in takes you back for a brief second to that time and makes you feel connected to it again. I've also heard that smells give our greatest connection to memories. So if it had a unique smell it certainly triggers your emotions even stronger.
Love how much to embrace your nostalgia. Fond memories of gaming past, we all have them and I personally feel really lucky to have grown up in the 90s in the golden era of gaming.
I have a lot of memories playing games for the first time over at friend's homes. I had one friend who lived down the street, and he had an NES in his bedroom. I would go over to his house and play his NES and games like Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, The Legend of Zelda, and Double Dragon, before I even had an NES myself. Once I got my NES, he would just let me borrow his games. I had another friend who lived on the other side of my neighborhood, and his mom picked up an SNES for him and his brothers just shortly after it was released. I remember him calling me and telling me the news, and me jumping on my bike and racing over there. They had it hooked up to the TV down in their basement rec room, and I remember going down there and laying eyes on Super Mario World for the very first time.
This was a great episode and I love how you skateboard to your old neighbourhood. It's fun to go back and feel the memories in the same places. I have a few different game playing places I would go to as a kid and a few friends and cousin's houses. So I'll share my first memory of the very first place I played a video game, which is where I grew up in Tasmania and it was Space Invaders at the local Fish n Chip shop when games were 20 cents and I was about 5 at the time. Last time I went there, the Fish n Chip shop still exists too :)
Ahh man I can relate to this quite a bit. Although I still do in fact live in the same neighborhood where I spent my entire life living at, the many friends I had that lived in the same neighborhood either moved away or grew up and moved on. All that's really left is the memories that I cherish very much. Most of my neighborhood friends had family issues but I seemed to be the only kid with a nice 'normal' family. Especially when it came to my mom since she was extremely kind to everyone and would even treat my friends like her own children in a way and they all loved being around her for that since she kind of felt like the 'true' mom that they never had to them. Because of this, my house was always the hangout place where we would all gather and play Super Smash Bros.
are you kidding me, if you will ever have kids, you are going to be the coolest dad in the world, you cand draw, have a ton of games and storys to talk about, you are a cool skater guy. all of your kids friends gonna love you, wow your are so cool man, it was so nice of you sharing your memmories with us
Great vid! Going back to those places invokes some strong feelings. I grew up across from an arcade, and it shaped my love of gaming for life.. Whenever I'm driving around my old neighborhood, I always think, "That's the first time I played......" Love it.
Absolutely awesome, dude. I have also done the nostalgia tour and I still almost shed a tear when I pass by the two places that used to house my favorite arcades. By the way, your enthusiasm is infectious!!!
Great video man! I actually did this just last year, travelled back to my home town and walked around my old hood early on a Saturday morning. So many gaming memories, one that stands out was skipping school with a friend to play DKC for the first time. That music in the first under water level still floods me with nostalgic memories of that day. Love your channel dude
Only gamer and even person i really follow and keep up with in youtube. your so down to earth i really would love to hangout and talk about old games for hours your the coolest
You should definitely do more of these kind of videos - I get really nostalgic about old locations so this resonated with me really well.. Thanks for sharing how it was for you :)
That is such an awesome video. This is one of the best things about gaming is the memories from them and the people you're with. Nowadays it's just not as personal since everything is about online and streaming and etc, it's still cool because it's easier than ever to share those moments, but they aren't quite as unique of an experience either.
Wow whenever you have talked about you're childhood and where you grew up I used to imagine the neighbourhood in which you lived and it is exactly how I imagined it to be. Great to hear you're memories growing up playing some the most iconic games and taking us to the place where it happened.
Another great share! I honestly feel your pain whenever you reminisce about your old gaming locations. All of my old gaming spots are long gone now. The only way I can try to recapture those moments is inviting friends over for game nights.
Im as nostalgic as you I think =) I live 100s miles from were I growed up. And when im there, my tears is coming up from all the memories of my childhood =)
Awesome Video! We all have those special places that formed are love for video games. I had a variety store couple blocks from the house I grew up in that had videogame magazines, pack of videogame cards, and arcade machines. I spend my childhood there.
Not with gaming but I do always feel nostalgic when I go around my home town too and just remember everything that's happened, it's a magical feeling that brings back the feelings you once had at that time. Great video Johnny.
These are my favorite kind of video you make. We all have these similar memories where we connect games to the places and moments in time. Every time I go to my mom's and ride around that side of town I always get these amazing feelings and memories flood. I lived in a really bad area so I can certainly relate to going into the bad places just for the love of an arcade game!
HCG you're so frikkin cool on your board lol you rock so hard keep gaming bro..I remember those Blockbusters for sure too..being able to pick up the N64 boxes and look at the backs..dang! Used to play games at my friend Corey's house, he was so impatient to get the ps2 for Christmas that he actually bought it from his mom 2 weeks before, for the full $300 or whatever it cost. thanks for the memories HCG!
Nostalgia is such a powerful emotion, I could go on all day about my childhood and gaming with friends. Things just aren't the same as they once were. I don't understand why people look at nostalgia as such a bad thing nowadays, some people just find genuine joy in their memories which is why I love this show, because I love remeniscing
this video made me wish I had friends who were into games. all my game memories are me playing alone in my basement. the friends I grew up with were jocks, never played video games, or would never admit to it. i learned pretty quick to not bring up video games ever, cuz i got made fun of for it. you're really blessed to grow up with the people you did johnny. wow im jealous lol.
As someone who has, through the covid19 lockdown, watched all of your videos, reaching this one (i remember the first one) is kinda crazy - its like nostalgia for some time last year when i watched the first one. Double nostalgia! Time is weird eh
I can definitely relate to the feelings of nostalgia you had from visiting your old neighbourhood. I took my wife for a tour of my old neighbour, that I haven't lived in for 25 years, when we were back in the UK this May. So many feelings and memories came flooding back; parks that I'd played football in, trees I'd climbed, places I'd ridden my bike, and of course, friends houses at which I'd played video games. I guess it would be odd to most people the way we associate places in our old neighbourhoods with the games we'd played there but those are extremely strong memories. Thanks for sharing this tour of your old stomping grounds, it was really interesting to watch.
I'll never forget my childhood and formative years growing up in a small rural village in England. When my friends and I weren't pissing off the local residents with our skateboarding, we were round each other's houses playing videogames. It was also a great thrill to visit the arcades at the nearby seaside resort and play the likes of Space Harrier, X-Men, Outrun, Strider, Golden Axe...the list goes on. Great times.
I went back to my old neighborhood last year and I agree, the memories come flooding in. Looking at my childhood home brought back the memory of how I got into gaming. I walked into my room after school and on my bed was this huge box that said Super Nintendo that came with Super Mario World
I recently watched your videos. I initially thought you were one of those TH-camrs who were in it for the fame and money and would just follow suit so that you didn't annoy your viewers. Now I realise you are genuine and really love what you do. Respect. I love your videos. Thanks for the great content.
I first played Sega Rally and Clockwork Knight on my Sega Saturn at a small apartment in London. Fast forward a decade and a half later and now I'm in Malaysia. woo
Great video Johnny! I loved it. I grew up in some small farm town in ontario so all of my gaming memories are there. I used to go down the street to my firend Nick's place. He would always have some cool new ps1 rpg to play or something for snes.
Some great memories, my friend!! The old arcade across the street from my moms house unfortunately closed down a few years ago. Spent some of the best years of my LIFE there! I mastered all the Mortal Kombat games there, and that's where I first played the original Killer Instinct. Such amazing times!!!
My woodpanelled basement with that wood big bubble screen tv in the late 90s on the N64 is where I got started. I also used to walk a block to blockbuster all the time too.
I’ve watched your channel since the very beginning. My account used to be called “RobinHoodFox74 “ but I lost access to it long ago. But man I just had to comment how bizarre it is that after hearing all of your stories about Andrew and the Katos where you first saw Phantasy Star. I weirdly imagined a street that looked something like this! How is it possible that my imagination and the reality match so well haha. I think I once emailed you this video of two Brits talking about the SNES Street Fighter II, doing a guide and you told me that it was a fun little video but they knew nothing about how to play Street Fighter lol. I laughed so much I’ll never forget that. Your channel is still what I watch the most on TH-cam. The positivity you have is one of the best things for sure. So glad Rob is doing better now too!
Kid across the st from me introduced me to the NES. SMB, Castlevania, mach rider, duck hunt. I went out and got my own as a result (with my own money) at age 8. This was a great idea HCG. Thank you very much for sharing
i know how you feel about old nostalgic places its seems so surreal for me that i moved into a new apartment and i can see out my window a house that i first ever played many great games like banjo-kazooie,FF9,Pokemon stadium its crazy think how much those memories mean to people too always make me smile when i think about them
I was just driving around my old block the day before this video was released! went by my old friend's house to find out he doesn't live there anymore, after about 14 years. then drove by my old apartment building, and the townhomes next to them after we moved there and then saw my old elementary school again. brought back some cool and awesome memories.
Fun video. Props to you for filming out in public where strangers would look at you and think "what the hell is this guy doing?" Hope we see more of these.
I used to game at my friend's house. He had an awesome gaming room with a pool table in the corner. Eventually, he moved and till this day I still miss that house. Great times playing Sega Genesis, PS1, and N64 games there.
Funnily enough, me and some friend used to go back and skate on the street I grew up on just because the street was really smooth. It was always kind of bittersweet to see my old house and all the memories I had. Having friends over to play PS1 and Mega Drive and playing SNES and N64 at the neighbours house. Man...time flies.
This was a great idea for a vid man. Cool to hear the stories and see the locations. For me it was the Pizza place I worked at for 7 years, in the prime of the place it had the best arcade in town I think there was like 13 video game arcades and 2 pinball machines. Sadly it's a subway now.
I'm lucky since my mom still lives in the same house that they built in 1979 so when I go over and visit her it brings back all the memories of all my gaming I did as a kid up until the mid 90's. We got an Atari in 80, my NES in 87, SNES in 91 and the house still looks almost the same as it did back then with only a few changes. The neighborhood is still the same, what I should do is hook up some of my old systems when I go over there and play them in the old school / retro house lol. I can drive around the area as well and have so many memories from friends houses and walking to school and skipping school too lol
I used to play at an arcade connected to a mini golf course below my house. I skipped school many days to play street fighter 2, killer instinct, and tekken 2. A lot of great memories.
My fondest video game memory was from my best childhood buddy. He had 3 older brothers with parents divorced and they all lived with his dad. Dad was never home during the day so we would swim ,BBQ cheeseburgers, drink beer, smoke cigarettes, and listen to 8 tracks with his brothers. We played the Atari 2600 to death and would have tournaments with all the Intellivision Sports games. In 1982 his father had a special B-day party for him and a truck pulled up to deliver his present. What was under the tarp was something that would leave me stuttering in disbelief. It was a brand spanking new Donkey Kong arcade machine. The neighbor down a few blocks owned the only arcade in the area and he bought it from him. Never played, never plugged in. I'll never forget the first time it powered on and the look on my buddies face. We were two of the luckiest 8 year old kids on earth that day.
Wow! The G. Darius Kimera II track was a surprise. I love Zuntata, that game, and the soundtrack. Would always play NES / SNES / Genesis at my friends' places. We'd even marathon SNES RPGs with everyone taking turns at the controls. We beat Dragon Warrior II / III, Final Fantasy II / IV, III, Secret of Mana, BoF, and even most of 7th Saga that way. Good times. Used to do a thing at Putt-Putt Golf and games called "Super Saturday". About $7 would get you hours of unlimited games in their arcade, and they would cater in pizza. My friends and I did that on many weekends in the mid-'90s. I'd walk several miles just to play Street Fighter II in a 7-Eleven. That was before we could play it on consoles. Now, there is an arcade (more like a museum) about 20 minutes away from me where I've brought my son to play games and pinball. Nothing compares to arcades in a world where online play has lost that truly social aspect of gaming.
We used to have like a big lunch room at our school here in Amsterdam where every kid was hanging out, they had Atari's, NES, SNES, Mega-Drive, it was so crazy, everytime l drive by those nostalgic feelings come back.
Cool to see man. Did this with a friend of mine a while back. We were driving in our old neighbourhood seeing it completely changed. When we drove through the old street of ours reviving painfull but also the awesome moments at the same time. Here in the Netherlands around the 90's it was completely different next to the States. There weren't any arcades in my hometown at the time. Yes one but it was too far and you had to be sixteen to get in. So there was a lot of borrowing going around. One time round '92 ( I was like 7 ) there had opened a gamestore in our town. Purely selling games. This was first timer for me don't forget that. Damn I spasmed for about an hour ( I couldnt believe myself "I thought I was dead, landed in heaven" ), my dad always smiled when we talked about that moment. He thought I got a stroke. Seeing all those statues of Mario. I can still remember Altered Beast Flag/Banner against the wall. But for some reasons I hated being a gamer in the Netherlands or the rest Europe because we always cut short of really good games or release date that were set back like half a god damn year ( MGSII). All Because the Germans and French are to lazy to learn Anglais...
TheSolMike Ooh btw the game I got from my dad was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Time with a SNES USA converter. Because the Europeans got screwed over that one too :P
I've gamed at so many places. But my Sega Genesis days started in Corpus Christi Texas. Saturday Morning Cartoons, sleep overs, the smell of Pine Sol as my mom cleaned and pancakes as she cooked and playing SONIC THE HEDGEHOG while "come out and play" was on the radio. Beautiful times :).
I remember as a kid, there was an arcade in Brentwood Mall (where the Starbucks is now) where my dad used to take me all the time. I don't really rememeber most of the games that were in there but being as young as I was I stuck to things like skeeball and some of the older racing games like Final Lap.
The local arcade in my town was the only decent hangout place every weekend but when my parents wanted to go shopping in the mall they let us go to the Arcade. I remembered every kid was around the MK3 machines a lot.
We had a convienience store near my house that always had at least 1 arcade game in it. Me and my friends would come up there and play all the time. The owner/clerk would challenge my older friends to arm wrestling and if they won he would give them chips or a drink. Im going back to that town as soon as I can and visiting all the old stores like you did and see how everything has changed. Been gone since about '92.
The arcade I frequented as a kid was in a mall that doesn't exist anymore. Played such gems as Soul Calibur, Time Crisis, House of the Dead, Daytona USA, and they even have a few older games like Galaga and Xevious. I remember my cousin and I would take turns on the floor working the pedals while the other would shoot in Time Crisis because we were so little.
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I honestly loved the hell out of this. It's kinda cool to be able to see how many places you'll go back to and floods of gaming memories hit you like a truck. Especially the businesses that just aren't there any more :\
AlphaOmegaSin Yeah there really is a lot of emotion in gaming memories its crazy! those old houses I visited just overwhelmed me with nostalgia!
AlphaOmegaSin This is fucking awesome...great vid
AlphaOmegaSin I just drove roads I hadn't been on in not even 5 years, and things have changed so much.
Johnny really is the 90's incarnate.
The feelings you talk about when returning to your old gaming hangouts feel happy and sad at the same time. I get that every time I go to my grandmothers as I used to love there. When I go in to my old room (which is now empty) the scent in there reminds of of gaming on the PS1, Mega Drive and N64. It even has the same carpet and I can see the indentations in it from me sat on my chair playing the N64. It creates a mild flashback sensation. Sad and happy all at once :)
*LIVE THERE... lol
TheGebs24 I totally understand what you mean! Going back to those places is indeed a happy and sad experience. They're sad because it was such a special moment in time that we can never quite go back to. It's almost like a lost friend. It's also happy because in takes you back for a brief second to that time and makes you feel connected to it again. I've also heard that smells give our greatest connection to memories. So if it had a unique smell it certainly triggers your emotions even stronger.
Brandon 360 :( Isn't it a weird vibe?! One thing though 'man' I'm a woman. Don't know many blokes who'd have a pink and yellow avatar lol. Much love
Brandon 360 :D :D
I have mad respect for anyone over 30 who can still skateboard.
Thirty Pixels Think he is over 40.
Littlebarsplays He turned 40 in january last year, he made a video about it. So he's 41 now.
Littlebarsplays 40 exactly
Thirty Pixels 40.7
I kinda knew he was over 40...I was trying not to make him feel old guys. :)
Love how much to embrace your nostalgia. Fond memories of gaming past, we all have them and I personally feel really lucky to have grown up in the 90s in the golden era of gaming.
I have a lot of memories playing games for the first time over at friend's homes. I had one friend who lived down the street, and he had an NES in his bedroom. I would go over to his house and play his NES and games like Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, The Legend of Zelda, and Double Dragon, before I even had an NES myself. Once I got my NES, he would just let me borrow his games.
I had another friend who lived on the other side of my neighborhood, and his mom picked up an SNES for him and his brothers just shortly after it was released. I remember him calling me and telling me the news, and me jumping on my bike and racing over there. They had it hooked up to the TV down in their basement rec room, and I remember going down there and laying eyes on Super Mario World for the very first time.
This was a great episode and I love how you skateboard to your old neighbourhood. It's fun to go back and feel the memories in the same places. I have a few different game playing places I would go to as a kid and a few friends and cousin's houses. So I'll share my first memory of the very first place I played a video game, which is where I grew up in Tasmania and it was Space Invaders at the local Fish n Chip shop when games were 20 cents and I was about 5 at the time. Last time I went there, the Fish n Chip shop still exists too :)
Your awesome dude
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Ahh man I can relate to this quite a bit. Although I still do in fact live in the same neighborhood where I spent my entire life living at, the many friends I had that lived in the same neighborhood either moved away or grew up and moved on. All that's really left is the memories that I cherish very much. Most of my neighborhood friends had family issues but I seemed to be the only kid with a nice 'normal' family. Especially when it came to my mom since she was extremely kind to everyone and would even treat my friends like her own children in a way and they all loved being around her for that since she kind of felt like the 'true' mom that they never had to them. Because of this, my house was always the hangout place where we would all gather and play Super Smash Bros.
are you kidding me, if you will ever have kids, you are going to be the coolest dad in the world, you cand draw, have a ton of games and storys to talk about, you are a cool skater guy. all of your kids friends gonna love you,
wow your are so cool man, it was so nice of you sharing your memmories with us
Horst Llik you can draw...
Love listening to all these memories, i played a lot of the games you mentioned, but all by myself because nobody i knew played games back then :)
Great vid! Going back to those places invokes some strong feelings. I grew up across from an arcade, and it shaped my love of gaming for life.. Whenever I'm driving around my old neighborhood, I always think, "That's the first time I played......" Love it.
Absolutely awesome, dude. I have also done the nostalgia tour and I still almost shed a tear when I pass by the two places that used to house my favorite arcades. By the way, your enthusiasm is infectious!!!
This is why I love your channel...one of the best video in recent time..thanks for your sharing your childhood memories
Great video man! I actually did this just last year, travelled back to my home town and walked around my old hood early on a Saturday morning.
So many gaming memories, one that stands out was skipping school with a friend to play DKC for the first time. That music in the first under water level still floods me with nostalgic memories of that day. Love your channel dude
Strange that I feel such nostalgia for places I've never been at or have any connection to. Great video John!
your passion for gaming is amazing and this video made me smile
Loved this type of video! Always enjoy hearing about your roots, Johnny! Keep it up.
Only gamer and even person i really follow and keep up with in youtube. your so down to earth i really would love to hangout and talk about old games for hours your the coolest
You should definitely do more of these kind of videos - I get really nostalgic about old locations so this resonated with me really well.. Thanks for sharing how it was for you :)
That is such an awesome video. This is one of the best things about gaming is the memories from them and the people you're with. Nowadays it's just not as personal since everything is about online and streaming and etc, it's still cool because it's easier than ever to share those moments, but they aren't quite as unique of an experience either.
Wow whenever you have talked about you're childhood and where you grew up I used to imagine the neighbourhood in which you lived and it is exactly how I imagined it to be.
Great to hear you're memories growing up playing some the most iconic games and taking us to the place where it happened.
Another great share! I honestly feel your pain whenever you reminisce about your old gaming locations. All of my old gaming spots are long gone now. The only way I can try to recapture those moments is inviting friends over for game nights.
Your one of my favorite channel on TH-cam cuz your a true gamer with real views on the industry keep it up.
It was a nice touch to personalize the stories we've heard in the past by putting a real location to them, great idea for a video Johnny!
I really liked this video, very well done and it's fun to hear about those memories and see those places, thanks for that.
Im as nostalgic as you I think =) I live 100s miles from were I growed up. And when im there, my tears is coming up from all the memories of my childhood =)
Also i enjoyed this kind of video showing us stuff outside the game room and things from your past
This is fantastic and inspiring. I think I'm gonna go do this about my neighborhood growing up and share with my friends :D
One of my favorite videos i can tell how nostalgic it must if been man so much has changed over there years.
Nostalgia is such a powerful thing . Great vid .
Great video mate thanks for sharing some of your childhood locations with us. Always interesting to see where people live. Thanks ;)
This was awesome to see. It's like taking a look at your past. :)
Man you've got some classic memories of some classic games! Street Fighter 2 is still a favorites of mine. Nice skating shots too, I used to dirtboard
Awesome Video! We all have those special places that formed are love for video games. I had a variety store couple blocks from the house I grew up in that had videogame magazines, pack of videogame cards, and arcade machines. I spend my childhood there.
What a great video!! Thanks for the insight. Really dug it
Not with gaming but I do always feel nostalgic when I go around my home town too and just remember everything that's happened, it's a magical feeling that brings back the feelings you once had at that time. Great video Johnny.
Great video man! Love your videos! You remind me the good old gaming days. 2:42 Shenmue tree ;)
Great video. Thank you for sharing your memories with us.
These are my favorite kind of video you make. We all have these similar memories where we connect games to the places and moments in time. Every time I go to my mom's and ride around that side of town I always get these amazing feelings and memories flood. I lived in a really bad area so I can certainly relate to going into the bad places just for the love of an arcade game!
This is great. I live for Nostalgia! Thanks for sharing!
HCG you're so frikkin cool on your board lol you rock so hard keep gaming bro..I remember those Blockbusters for sure too..being able to pick up the N64 boxes and look at the backs..dang! Used to play games at my friend Corey's house, he was so impatient to get the ps2 for Christmas that he actually bought it from his mom 2 weeks before, for the full $300 or whatever it cost. thanks for the memories HCG!
Nostalgia is such a powerful emotion, I could go on all day about my childhood and gaming with friends. Things just aren't the same as they once were. I don't understand why people look at nostalgia as such a bad thing nowadays, some people just find genuine joy in their memories which is why I love this show, because I love remeniscing
this video made me wish I had friends who were into games. all my game memories are me playing alone in my basement. the friends I grew up with were jocks, never played video games, or would never admit to it. i learned pretty quick to not bring up video games ever, cuz i got made fun of for it. you're really blessed to grow up with the people you did johnny. wow im jealous lol.
That was great! A friend of mine now lives in the home that another friend I grew up with lived. That old friend introduced me to the NES.
Another awesome vid! I like the history of how gamers born in the 70's grew up. I wish we still had arcades...
This was a genius video. Very different and nostalgic. Absolutely love it!
Nostalgia man, nostalgia, nothing beats it and no one can take it from you.
I first played Mario Bros at my cousin's house, I remember it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.
As someone who has, through the covid19 lockdown, watched all of your videos, reaching this one (i remember the first one) is kinda crazy - its like nostalgia for some time last year when i watched the first one. Double nostalgia! Time is weird eh
Dude, when i go back to my country on vacations, I always take a walk to visit my city´s old arcade places. I know the feeling, nostalgia
Wow thats a beautiful looking neighborhood. so many trees and plant life. totally different from the treeless suburbs Im using to seeing.
Damn mad skateboard skills bro
8-Bit Eric Thanks bro!
wow your place is so awesome and so refreshing the way it looks on this video, I wish we had streets like that here in my hometown.
Great adventure thanks for bringing us along.
I can definitely relate to the feelings of nostalgia you had from visiting your old neighbourhood. I took my wife for a tour of my old neighbour, that I haven't lived in for 25 years, when we were back in the UK this May. So many feelings and memories came flooding back; parks that I'd played football in, trees I'd climbed, places I'd ridden my bike, and of course, friends houses at which I'd played video games. I guess it would be odd to most people the way we associate places in our old neighbourhoods with the games we'd played there but those are extremely strong memories.
Thanks for sharing this tour of your old stomping grounds, it was really interesting to watch.
I'll never forget my childhood and formative years growing up in a small rural village in England. When my friends and I weren't pissing off the local residents with our skateboarding, we were round each other's houses playing videogames. It was also a great thrill to visit the arcades at the nearby seaside resort and play the likes of Space Harrier, X-Men, Outrun, Strider, Golden Axe...the list goes on. Great times.
I went back to my old neighborhood last year and I agree, the memories come flooding in. Looking at my childhood home brought back the memory of how I got into gaming. I walked into my room after school and on my bed was this huge box that said Super Nintendo that came with Super Mario World
My grandparents house brings back those old memories. So many nights playing games on many different systems and my first PC.
Really good video man! Cool stuff, and original.
I recently watched your videos. I initially thought you were one of those TH-camrs who were in it for the fame and money and would just follow suit so that you didn't annoy your viewers. Now I realise you are genuine and really love what you do. Respect. I love your videos. Thanks for the great content.
Great video wish I could go back to my childhood neighbourhood but it's in a different country now. Used to love skateboarding as well!
I first played Sega Rally and Clockwork Knight on my Sega Saturn at a small apartment in London.
Fast forward a decade and a half later and now I'm in Malaysia.
woo
Honey Hoshii Sounds like an adventure.
Great video Johnny! I loved it. I grew up in some small farm town in ontario so all of my gaming memories are there. I used to go down the street to my firend Nick's place. He would always have some cool new ps1 rpg to play or something for snes.
Some great memories, my friend!! The old arcade across the street from my moms house unfortunately closed down a few years ago. Spent some of the best years of my LIFE there! I mastered all the Mortal Kombat games there, and that's where I first played the original Killer Instinct. Such amazing times!!!
GREAT video. Always nice to see some gaming history. Looks a nice place to grow up.
My woodpanelled basement with that wood big bubble screen tv in the late 90s on the N64 is where I got started. I also used to walk a block to blockbuster all the time too.
Very cool episode was fun to see where you grew up :)
I’ve watched your channel since the very beginning. My account used to be called “RobinHoodFox74 “ but I lost access to it long ago. But man I just had to comment how bizarre it is that after hearing all of your stories about Andrew and the Katos where you first saw Phantasy Star. I weirdly imagined a street that looked something like this! How is it possible that my imagination and the reality match so well haha. I think I once emailed you this video of two Brits talking about the SNES Street Fighter II, doing a guide and you told me that it was a fun little video but they knew nothing about how to play Street Fighter lol. I laughed so much I’ll never forget that. Your channel is still what I watch the most on TH-cam. The positivity you have is one of the best things for sure. So glad Rob is doing better now too!
Kid across the st from me introduced me to the NES. SMB, Castlevania, mach rider, duck hunt. I went out and got my own as a result (with my own money) at age 8. This was a great idea HCG. Thank you very much for sharing
Nice memories man, great video :)
I remember growing up and playing PS1 and PS2 at my grandma's house. Such good times.
i know how you feel about old nostalgic places its seems so surreal for me that i moved into a new apartment and i can see out my window a house that i first ever played many great games like banjo-kazooie,FF9,Pokemon stadium its crazy think how much those memories mean to people too always make me smile when i think about them
I was just driving around my old block the day before this video was released! went by my old friend's house to find out he doesn't live there anymore, after about 14 years. then drove by my old apartment building, and the townhomes next to them after we moved there and then saw my old elementary school again. brought back some cool and awesome memories.
Makes me think back to the old neighborhood I grew up in. (Bellingham WA) Good times...good times
Fun video. Props to you for filming out in public where strangers would look at you and think "what the hell is this guy doing?" Hope we see more of these.
I used to game at my friend's house. He had an awesome gaming room with a pool table in the corner. Eventually, he moved and till this day I still miss that house. Great times playing Sega Genesis, PS1, and N64 games there.
This awesome, don't think any other TH-cam gamers have done a video like this
Funnily enough, me and some friend used to go back and skate on the street I grew up on just because the street was really smooth. It was always kind of bittersweet to see my old house and all the memories I had. Having friends over to play PS1 and Mega Drive and playing SNES and N64 at the neighbours house. Man...time flies.
Really cool vid, love all the video game memories videos.
You should have tried to sneak into the basement of your old house :-)
Lol you really are a crack up on that skateboard Johnny :D What a lush and beautiful place to grow up
This was a great idea for a vid man. Cool to hear the stories and see the locations. For me it was the Pizza place I worked at for 7 years, in the prime of the place it had the best arcade in town I think there was like 13 video game arcades and 2 pinball machines. Sadly it's a subway now.
I'm lucky since my mom still lives in the same house that they built in 1979 so when I go over and visit her it brings back all the memories of all my gaming I did as a kid up until the mid 90's. We got an Atari in 80, my NES in 87, SNES in 91 and the house still looks almost the same as it did back then with only a few changes. The neighborhood is still the same, what I should do is hook up some of my old systems when I go over there and play them in the old school / retro house lol. I can drive around the area as well and have so many memories from friends houses and walking to school and skipping school too lol
Is good to see the childhood places
I used to play at an arcade connected to a mini golf course below my house. I skipped school many days to play street fighter 2, killer instinct, and tekken 2. A lot of great memories.
My fondest video game memory was from my best childhood buddy. He had 3 older brothers with parents divorced and they all lived with his dad. Dad was never home during the day so we would swim ,BBQ cheeseburgers, drink beer, smoke cigarettes, and listen to 8 tracks with his brothers. We played the Atari 2600 to death and would have tournaments with all the Intellivision Sports games. In 1982 his father had a special B-day party for him and a truck pulled up to deliver his present. What was under the tarp was something that would leave me stuttering in disbelief. It was a brand spanking new Donkey Kong arcade machine. The neighbor down a few blocks owned the only arcade in the area and he bought it from him. Never played, never plugged in. I'll never forget the first time it powered on and the look on my buddies face. We were two of the luckiest 8 year old kids on earth that day.
Wow! The G. Darius Kimera II track was a surprise. I love Zuntata, that game, and the soundtrack.
Would always play NES / SNES / Genesis at my friends' places. We'd even marathon SNES RPGs with everyone taking turns at the controls. We beat Dragon Warrior II / III, Final Fantasy II / IV, III, Secret of Mana, BoF, and even most of 7th Saga that way. Good times.
Used to do a thing at Putt-Putt Golf and games called "Super Saturday". About $7 would get you hours of unlimited games in their arcade, and they would cater in pizza. My friends and I did that on many weekends in the mid-'90s.
I'd walk several miles just to play Street Fighter II in a 7-Eleven. That was before we could play it on consoles. Now, there is an arcade (more like a museum) about 20 minutes away from me where I've brought my son to play games and pinball. Nothing compares to arcades in a world where online play has lost that truly social aspect of gaming.
Zach B awesome you knew it!! :D and same!
We used to have like a big lunch room at our school here in Amsterdam where every kid was hanging out, they had Atari's, NES, SNES, Mega-Drive, it was so crazy, everytime l drive by those nostalgic feelings come back.
old ass man on a skateboard lololol love you Johnny!
love this episode!
Great vid man like usual!
Cool to see man. Did this with a friend of mine a while back. We were driving in our old neighbourhood seeing it completely changed. When we drove through the old street of ours reviving painfull but also the awesome moments at the same time.
Here in the Netherlands around the 90's it was completely different next to the States. There weren't any arcades in my hometown at the time. Yes one but it was too far and you had to be sixteen to get in. So there was a lot of borrowing going around.
One time round '92 ( I was like 7 ) there had opened a gamestore in our town. Purely selling games. This was first timer for me don't forget that. Damn I spasmed for about an hour ( I couldnt believe myself "I thought I was dead, landed in heaven" ), my dad always smiled when we talked about that moment. He thought I got a stroke.
Seeing all those statues of Mario. I can still remember Altered Beast Flag/Banner against the wall. But for some reasons I hated being a gamer in the Netherlands or the rest Europe because we always cut short of really good games or release date that were set back like half a god damn year ( MGSII). All Because the Germans and French are to lazy to learn Anglais...
TheSolMike Ooh btw the game I got from my dad was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Time with a SNES USA converter. Because the Europeans got screwed over that one too :P
The way you look and the fact you skateboard you remind me of Simon Pegg from Spaced
Zero Frost LOL I am getting that a lot lately! :)
Holdin' onto the youth... Here comes the grim reaper RUN!
Dilbo Baggins i just googled that, he looks exactly like him O_o
I bet he also hates phantom menace too xD
Dilbo Baggins Did you ever watch Big Train?
Love videos like this
I've gamed at so many places. But my Sega Genesis days started in Corpus Christi Texas. Saturday Morning Cartoons, sleep overs, the smell of Pine Sol as my mom cleaned and pancakes as she cooked and playing SONIC THE HEDGEHOG while "come out and play" was on the radio. Beautiful times :).
I Remember going to sunrise mall Aladdin castle and peter piper pizza
I remember as a kid, there was an arcade in Brentwood Mall (where the Starbucks is now) where my dad used to take me all the time. I don't really rememeber most of the games that were in there but being as young as I was I stuck to things like skeeball and some of the older racing games like Final Lap.
The local arcade in my town was the only decent hangout place every weekend but when my parents wanted to go shopping in the mall they let us go to the Arcade. I remembered every kid was around the MK3 machines a lot.
We had a convienience store near my house that always had at least 1 arcade game in it. Me and my friends would come up there and play all the time. The owner/clerk would challenge my older friends to arm wrestling and if they won he would give them chips or a drink. Im going back to that town as soon as I can and visiting all the old stores like you did and see how everything has changed. Been gone since about '92.
The arcade I frequented as a kid was in a mall that doesn't exist anymore. Played such gems as Soul Calibur, Time Crisis, House of the Dead, Daytona USA, and they even have a few older games like Galaga and Xevious. I remember my cousin and I would take turns on the floor working the pedals while the other would shoot in Time Crisis because we were so little.
This was suuuuuper interesting dude! Died laughing at the Math building part! xD