(Discussion) Games You Missed Out on as a Kid - Retro Bird
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2021
- As kids, you don't always get what you want. For a lot of us, what we wanted was video games! I go over all the various reasons why we missed out on games as kids, and why retro gaming is the perfect solution now that we're adults.
Games You Missed Out On As a Kid - Retro Bird / Games You Never Played as a Kid
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"It's hard to play a game when you're not alive" 😂
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This question made me think of "missing out" on games a bit differently. When I had my PS1, my best friend at the time had a N64 with Super Mario 64. I wasn't interested in beating the game, but I loved going over to his house and just getting in to Bob-omb Battlefield with the Wing Cap and fly around aimlessly. Years later when I got the game for myself, it lost that mystique as soon as I beat the game. I think sometimes having access to a game makes us not appreciate it as much anymore - like when you may or may not have a hard drive full of roms and isos. Possibly.
I like that take!
Relatable
Maybe, possibly.
I can relate to your statement. Also, limiting yourself to one system really helps to appreciate the games more.
As a 21 year old retro gamer/collector I can confirm it’s pretty hard to play games when you aren’t alive yet ; the great thing is that my parents were alive and they grew up on NES ,SNES and mega drive so they support my hobby and interest as well as playing older games with me ! :)
Isn’t it so cool when your gaming hobby can bring the family together for some family time? 👍🏻
Might sound corny but it’s true.
I remember back in the day one of my neighbors his parents were divorced and he had a REALLY HEALTHY library of SNES games, the kid even had the Super Scope! I guess his dad was compensating him for the time they didn't spent together. As I kid I thought he's was very lucky to have all those games but in retrospect I feel bad for him.
Had a friend who was in the same boat. Parents divorced and too busy to spend time with him, resulting in having a Sega CD, Top of the line PC, SNES, and a crap ton of games. But he usually wasn’t a happy kid.
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Yeah, very sad. There is no substitute for a father’s love. Sometimes, my daughter asks me to play with her and she doesn’t even want me to play with the toys. She just wants me to sit down on the floor with her and talk to her while she plays with her toys. It really opened my eyes.
@@totallyfrozen That's beautiful! Mine does the same, just sit at the little table and let her run her imaginary tea party!
The biggest regret was missing out on Chrono Trigger on the SNES. Had the system but was losing touch with gaming when it came out. Would’ve been one last epic adventure before moving on.
Yeah, that definitely would've been a good one to go out on.
Yeah me too. I haven't even heard of it.
It’s usually PC games that I remember missing out on, because my family always had a very run-of-the-mill PC that couldn’t run hardly any games with higher end graphics. I remember not being able to play Return To Castle Wolfenstein, at least not sufficiently well. Once I was older and got a better PC, I finally played through it, and it was…ok. Lol
I went through a PC mag from 2000 and saw a ton of games that I would have loved to play, but I was hooked on some other PC games that I couldn't pry myself away from. I will eventually try those out when I get my old PC out of storage.
Yeah most old PC games have not ages well. Lol! I played Jedi Knight 2 recently and it was so awful.
I missed out on Legend of Zelda and Metroid because I thought those games were stupid. As an adult I have played those games and now seek out the others in the series. It turns out I was stupid. 😆
That can happen!
I was a big Sega Genesis kid in my teenage years, however I completely missed out on Ranger X. I didn't know anything about this game until my early 20's. I picked up the cartridge off of eBay and fell in love. Ranger X is my "Rocket Knight"
On a side note, there were a lot of games I never owned as a kid but because of friends, and rental stores I never felt like I missed out.
Yeah, Ranger X is another game I had no clue about as a kid.
Yeah, rental stores really helped cover the bases, or having friends with other consoles. I had a few that had PlayStation and Saturn while I had N64, was good to network with them.
Same. I have about 10-15 Genesis games that I was like “why didn’t I know about this?!” about. Ranger X, Mega Turrican, Alisia Dragoon…
I really missed out on nearly all of Sega's library. I didn't own a Sega console until the Dreamcast. I was all in on Nintendo's offerings. I was in college when the DC came out and it blew me away when I first saw it.
I haven't gotten around to experiencing all those missed games, outside of getting the Genesis Mini and the Sega collection on the Xbox One.
Dreamcast is my favorite game system 👌
I'm almost done not only collecting every game but I'm trying to complete all of them also and man it is so much fun
I've heard of some people where it's the exact same sort of deal except with Nintendo stuff.
DUDE, Retro Bird basically summing up the entire motivation for the way we Retro Hunt. Some collectors want the rarest or most obscure items, but some of us are simply looking to reconnect with the things that brought us joy back in the day or finally get our hands on something we missed out on as a kid! Also, never knowing Rocket Knight would be a crime... glad it didn't come to that. 🤣🤙
Yeah, glad I found the game eventually.
I also had a Sega Genesis as a kid and always wanted an SNES. I finally got one when I was like 35!
When I was a kid I had a Super NES and wanted a Genesis too. I always wanted to play through the Sonic the Hedgehog games. As the older brother I somehow convinced my little sister to use her hard earned money to buy a Genesis for us both to share, until my dad found out and made her return it. So I never had a Genesis until I finally bought one off eBay about 6 or 7 years ago.
@retro game fan My dad barely wanted us to have a Super Nintendo. He always thought that video games rotted your brains.
I had nes and snes and i had 2 different cousins who had Genesis so i had the best of both worlds.
Your dad seems like an ass, she earned the money fairly it sounds so she should be able to buy what she wants. I would have told him to return stuff he bought. My parents always let be buy what i want is i earned the money if it was legal so like no cigarettes that's an example. My Little Sister did force me to buy Titanic on VHS and that was $27 back in 1997-98.
@@chickenwings6172 When I was a kid, yes I was angry about his decision. In retrospect though I understand that he thought he was doing what was best for us as a parent. It's not that I didn't have video games, I had a Super Nintendo, but he didn't want us to have more than that. As I got older he couldn't really say anything anymore about what we bought and I even bought an N64 at launch myself.
My collection is slowly but steadily growing... games are so expensive those days... (I have like 5 famicom games, 15 mega drive games, all boxed, 20 super nintendo(pal) and super famicom games, all loose, 4 GameCube games(boxed), 17 Wii games(boxed), and 10 gameboy/color/advance games(loose). I am one of those younger retro gamers here. Been interested in it since 2016. TH-cam content creators really helped out on getting the right stuff for enjoying my retro games the most!
When I was a kid I didn't have an NES, I had a Famicom. That meant getting a different set of cartridges to play than the NES. Most games played the same, some slightly different, but virtually all were in Japanese so I missed out a lot when it came to story. I did have an adapter which allowed me to play NES carts, but the other thing about Famicom games was they were much cheaper (knock offs and such). So those games I couldn't buy I rented.
I missed out on the entire master system I didn't even know it existed. And it's probably now my second cartridge games aside from Nintendo in my collection
Nice! I was completely unaware of the Master System as a kid too.
@@RetroBirdGaming I was like a fat kid at a candy store and it was Christmas everytime I played a new game every time. Simply amazing bad or good 🤓
The only reason I got to play a Master System or Atari 2600 as a kid was when my best friend/neighbor and I were invited over an older neighbor's house once. I remember playing Pitfall and I think Centipede on the 2600, but I can't recall which SMS game/s we played. I expected the Master System to be even more impressive than the Genesis, but I was young and dumb.
I missed out on pretty much all the games! I started gaming really late in life but the beauty of that is I’m getting to experience them for the first time now. I consider myself pretty lucky ☺️
I remember I picked up Gunstar Heroes when I was a kid cause I thought the cover looked cool. Glad I did, cause that game rules. Came with a free fruit roll up too, oddly enough.
I got Metroid Fusion when it first came out and loved it but never got zero mission. Luckily managed to get that and some Gamecube gems that I missed in late 2019 before the great price hike.
I have tons of games in my N64 collection that I never knew existed at the time. My absolute favorite that I've discovered and completed nowadays is Goemon's Great Adventure. I really wish it didn't cost so much currently, as I feel it's one everyone with an N64 should get to fully experience at least once at some point.
That's actually a game I found for $5 at a flea market 10 or so years ago. One of the few good finds I ever had.
Been trying to find both great adventure and mystical ninja... Both are about $150 :,(... Guess im still stuck emulating. No idea how a friend managed to own both as a kid so im lucky to know about them.
@@RetroBirdGaming That's awesome! I've never done much game hunting at flea markets or garage sales but would be super proud of that find. Congrats!
Randomly rented goemons as a kid, it was pretty fun!
The one that crushed me is a Christmas memory that is as vivid now as it was back in December '95.
A couple of months before Christmas, my friend gave me an issue of Gamepro he was done with, and while reading it through, I saw a preview for Mega Man X3. I love Mega Man X, I can speedrun the first 2 games, I play them through a few times a year, and they are just near perfect games to me. Back then, it was just a love of all things Mega Man though, so I got really excited at the prospect of a Mega Man Christmas. I would go on to read that preview every day up to Christmas, and MMX3 was the only thing I put on my list.
So, Christmas Eve rolls around and I can't sleep (I was a teenager at the time, but we were fairly poor, so Christmas was always an exciting time for me) and I'm sneaking out repeatedly to check the tree. Looking over everything, I see it: a box with the shape and dimension of an SNES game; now there's really no chance I'm going to sleep, and all I can do is daydream about Mega Man X!
Morning comes 'round, and it's the usual wait for the folks to get up, breakfast, all that, and then we get to the gifts. My Mom is handing out the gifts one at a time, we watch everyone open each one, etc., and I expect she will give me 'the' present last. After all the hype, all the expectation, I start to unwrap and see that semi-gloss black. A little more, and "Yesssss, a ... ... ... SN Program Pad...?"
A controller...a...controller. I was devastated.
I really tried to be excited for my Mom and thankful for the thoughtful gift, but I suppose she could see it anyway and told me she went all over town and no one had the game. I would come to learn - years later - that the game didn't release until the end of January '96 in North America, but my frustration was compounded by not even being able to rent the game for another year after release because the one Blockbuster in town only had one copy and it was checked out every time I went.
When I finally did get to play the game, it was sweet, but I was never able to track down a copy to buy with the money I had earned from working in the neighborhood; I'd go on to use that money to buy Chrono Trigger, the first game I bought for SNES.
It took about 6 years for me to finally track down a loose copy, and another 5 before I'd track down a complete one. A childhood friend of my wife that she hadn't seen in years came over one day about 6 years ago and we got to talking games and he saw MMX3 and couldn't stop talking about it and how it was the one game he had always wanted that got away. His story had parallels to my own, and he wasn't able to afford the game as he had gone back to school, so I gave him my loose copy. Mega Man fans have got to stick together :)
I grew up in the late 80s and the 90s and had an NES as a kid. I lived in a small town with 1 local rental store and a limited selection of games to choose from. I missed a lot of games that I am proud to have as an adult. The one game I missed as a kid that stands out to me is Contra for the NES. That is the type of game I would have played a ton as a kid.
Bonk's Adventure and Keith Courage in Alpha Zones on the Turbografx-16. Always wanted a TG16 and these games as a kid and finally hunted them down as an adult. Awesome.
Kangaroo for the 2600 I didn't even realize was my first game played until I saw it decades later. It awakened my memories and time traveled me to a much simpler place.
The “one” game I missed as a kid? I felt like I missed a lot! But, I’ll choose MegaRace on Sega CD. I remember seeing screenshots of the cars going through an underwater glass tunnel where you could see oceanic creatures, and the speedometer said something like 300mph. Eventually I looked into it when I started collecting Sega CD games and seeing it in motion on TH-cam didn’t seem as impressive, so I never played it.
I had MegaRace for DOS on the Packard bell computer I had back then. I enjoyed it back then because it looked cool and I enjoyed the arcade style gameplay.
I never played the Sega CD version until 2002 with Steve snakes Kega fusion emulator.
I missed out on so many great games. I had a Master System and then a Super NES, but didn't have a Genesis. Today I love the Genesis library!
Another awesome video! Thanks for sharing!
I didn't have an N64 until later, but I'm really glad I eventually played Ocarina of Time, Mario 64, and yeah Banjo-Kazooie as well.
Yay!
Growing up, my parents were never able to afford video game consoles when they first came out, so I normally got "hand-me-down" game consoles that my mom would find at yard sales and such. I was always at least a whole generation behind with every console I've owned. The Nintendo Switch is the first console I've ever owned where it's been current gen at the time I purchased it. Emulation was a godsend, as a kid, and I never would have been able to experience games like Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga, Harvest Moon 64, Metroid Fusion, etc. otherwise. I would have missed way, way more as a kid if it hadn't been for emulation. One game I remember always wanting to play, as a kid, was Star Wars Episode I: Battle for Naboo on the N64. I had seen it at a local video store and I remember being really interested in it.
I missed out of the entire Ratchet and Clank series as a kid because my stoic bullheaded child self refused to learn the shooting controls and I hated the one game of the series I had. Replaying that game gave me a nostalgia and I played most of the series by now. My favorite gaming franchise.
That's what I'm doing now. Favorite game system was my first growing up which is the SNES. So I'm starting from the ground up and getting all the SNES games I missed out on and then buying back all my old childhood games.
It's been a treat to gradually find and play all of those games I read about in Nintendo Power and The Parent's Guide to Video Games back in the day.
From the former, stuff like Bomberman Hero, Gex 64, ODT, and even Quest 64 looked so cool and mysterious, and I've had fun catching up on them, even if not all of them are top-tier.
And from the latter, I discovered gems like Star Fox, The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse, and... *Rocket Knight Adventures!*
That game for me was NiGHTS into Dreams. I remember reading and loving the original 3 part NiGHTS Archie comics (which I now have) in a grocery store and being deeply drawn towards its art style. Then we got a PlayStation, and I just wanted a Sega Saturn so badly but my parents were never going to buy a Sega console. Luckily we had a neighbor a few doors down who actually had a Saturn and a copy of NiGHTS with a 3D Control Pad. I got to play it once before he moved away. I have since owned a Saturn 3 different times years after it was discontinued and always had NiGHTS as my first game for it. While it isn't my all-time favorite Saturn game now, I love it and still play it all the time.
I remember back in the day looking at the Sega CD in magazines and thinking the graphics were realistic since they used fmv video and wanting to play games like mad dog mcCree and who shot johnny rock. I got to play them recently and even tho they didn't hold up to my expectations at the time I was happy to finally play them because they were always back in my mind for some reason 😄
Hahah I get what you mean with that!
This topic is spot on. So many fantastic games through the 90's and early 00's. I loved SNES but had little access to Sega Genesis. Also, purchased a PlayStation and completely missed out on GameCube.
Seems like a lot of people missed out on the GameCube. It's too bad.
I was so ignorant of much of the Genesis library until a few years ago. Shinobi 3 and Gunstar Heroes are so incredible I couldn't believe I hadn't heard of them before. Both easily top 10 16-bit games.
Yes, both excellent games!
There are definitely a whole slew of games I missed out on because I was simply unaware of them. My prime impressionable years for video games came right at the tail end of the PS1 to the beginning of the PS2. I remember reading about Sly Cooper and thought it looked pretty fun but never really made much of a point to play it until years later in my mid-ish 20's. I now love it and the PS2 trilogy is one of my favorites on the console! Also, I had no idea Rocket Knight Adventures existed until I actively sought out good Genesis games and man, that is probably in my top 3 of Genesis games or even just platformers in general.
I regret missing the story of Final Fantasy 7. Many of my friends had it and I've been playing it there, so I didn't see any reason in investing time to complete a playthrough myself. I played the 8 which I enjoyed back then but in retrospect there is no comparison
A game that specifically comes to mind was Klonoa 2:Lunatea's Veil on ps2. I had the Jampack demo as a kid and finally got around to it years later and lived it.
I got my lil step-bro toilet paper, but I also got him a video game.
Man, there are STILL games I wanted to play that I never did, I sort of want it to stay that way for some reason. Bonk's Adventure is that game. I just always remember seeing it in gaming mags and it just always holding a spot on my memory shelf. The other game I did get to play eventually was Panzer Dragoon. Hell, the whole Saturn's catalog I missed out on, and was glad to finally get them all! Even the Sega CD and 32X, I wanted to play them but never did. Damn I wish I frequented stores, I'd probably nab one up from the clearance bin.
It sucks for younger kids, they have this problem because they were born late.
I would sometimes borrow Bomberman 64 back in the 90’s. I never had my own copy until a few years ago, and I’m really glad I bought it! I never knew there was a sequel called The Second Attack until I watched gameplay on TH-cam a while back!
I'd have to say Kickmaster for the NES. I discovered the game in the late 2000s, and I thought it was such an awesome concept. It feels criminally underrated.
I missed out on getting Seaman on my Dreamcast. It was after their sad announcement about leaving the console market. And it was always gone off the shelves when I looked. I own it now and it wasn’t too pricey for a complete copy from eBay.
Ahh this was much more of a thing when we were kids, huh?! Being a Sega kid I missed out on all those legendary Mario and Zelda titles on SNES. Then moved to PlayStation missing out on Xbox games like Halo and GOW. Now the problem is finding time to go back and play all the games you missed out on!
My parents were anti-video games growing up! So I never owned a console ever as a kid. I grew up being an in-between gamer. I carried a small notepad & on the 1st page was all my buddies with what console they had. The rest of the pages were my save features for what games they had. Once Super Castlevania 4 came out it looked more like an Egyptian Hieroglyphs! I grew up in the Atari era, but wasn't a big fan, so I missed out on H.E.R.O, but have since corrected this as an adult. That game for Atari still plays good to this day. I'm a Retro Grandpa this year!
Great topic. I had a PS2 as a kid but really wanted the OG Xbox to play Midtown Madness 3 because I had Midtown Madness 2 on my dad's PC. So when I started working I bought an OG Xbox and MM3 but didn't get the wow I was expecting. Still it was satisfying to have it after all those years and therea loads of great games for the OG Xbox I've been playing
Majora’s Mask was a big one I missed. I loved Ocarina of Time as a kid and didn’t get to play Majora’s Mask until years later. Thankfully the game absolutely lived up to the hype!
All right! I'm a fan of the 3DS version.
@Resident Zombie To be fair Majora’s Mask got butchered BIG TIME by the 3DS version, that was a super disappointing remake for many, it certainly was for me. It’s really not indicative of just how good the game really is, it felt like Nintendo messed up in every way imaginable. Ocarina of time 3D was very faithful though, so if you didn’t like that version you wouldn’t change your mind from playing it on the N64.
Ghouls 'N Ghosts for the Master System. I remember looking at the screenshot on the side of my Master System 2 box and wanting so bad to play it. I am glad I got a copy as an adult, it is an amazing port!
😥I MISS the days when Console boxes gave screenshots of Games that could be played on it.
Now, it's just a picture of the Console and maybe some tech blurb or a pictures of it in various situations/being used.
For me, I remember being like 5 years old and at my mom's boyfriend's at the time's house and playing Super Mario Sunshine. This was around 2006 I believe. Knowing very little about games at this time. I didn't get past the airport at the beginning of the game. I got Fludd and thought it was the coolest thing ever and just started messing around with it enjoying spraying the water. I loved it. However, I didn't have this game for my GameCube at home. For quite some time, I wondered if this game even actually existed or if it was just my imagination until I decided to look it up on the internet one day and found out it was real. That was some experience. I hope to get an original copy for my GameCube soon.
Power Stone on Dreamcast. When I got it in my 20s, the sad realities of work and school didn't let me lose my soul to the game like I would have with more free time as a kid, so maybe this was a good thing.
Jet Force Gemini sticks out. I watched my friend's older brother play it and it looked like such a cool and foreign world to explore. I wasn't allowed to play T-rated games until I turned 13 so naturally I missed out on a lot. I finally got the game in the Rare Replay collection and will sit down and play it someday.
I grew up on Mario kart 64 and always wanted to know what the interior of the castle was like. When I discovered super Mario 64 at my cousin's, my 7 year old mind was blown and I was obsessed with this "new" game that I couldn't play and wouldn't for years to come. Still one of my favorites
On the console side I didn't miss much if anything luckily. Me and my sister started off on the Atari and Coleco my dad got us in 1983.
I DID miss out on the arcade explosion of 1980 - 1983 though, was way too young born in 80. I was lucky enough to experience the later 80s/early 90s arcade scene which was still going in certain malls and 7/11s. Just wish I experienced the arcade scene at it's infancy, it must've been amazing.
I was pretty blessed, had a few consoles. Didn’t get too many games but always had 8-10 games plus reveals and borrowing from friends.
Missed out on the Tg-16, Neo-Geo, Saturn and Dreamcast. I’ve rectified a lot of that recently. 😁
Easy answer really, I missed out on Sega Genesis, I wanted one and Sonic so bad but I had the SNES and loved that, just always wanted to have the ability to play any game I wanted. Guess I just had to wait until I was an adult.
I feel like it was impossible to grow up with every ps2 game. There was just too big of a library.
There are positives as well: at least every ps2 owner has a different library that characterises him.
I'm so happy to have finally got around to playing Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. No way I would have known about the Turbografx as a kid. Thankfully, the Castlevania: Requiem Collection on PS4 exists and I grabbed it on sale. The collection could've included more than just the games (art, the option to change to the original voice lines), but as someone who never played Rondo or Symphony, having two solid emulations is important enough.
This would then lead me to buy a used DS to play the GBA and DS Castlevania games, and those are great so far. As a kid, I would see these games come out pretty much annually, but never bothered to dive in. The formula needed a breather and we hungered for the next big thing. Thankfully I am now ready for it and happy to finally do it.
Nice! I think they're coming out with a compilation of the GBA Castlevania games as well.
@@RetroBirdGaming Oh thank goodness. I really didn't want to drop over $100 on Aria of Sorrow
Just bought Requiem today! I have played some Rondo in the Coregrafx Mini, but looking forward to time with both.
The biggest series a missed out on was the Pokemon series. I knew about the show, I collected the cards but I had no idea that the games existed until after I sold my DS lite.
I missed out on The Legend of Zelda and only got to play it at a friend's house. I remember being in awe at the time by OoT and didn't play it until the GameCube era. It was really cool going back and finally having a chance to play it as an introduction to the series.
Great video! I missed all Sega consoles growing up. Had a friend with a Megadrive so I got to play some of those games but other than that nada. It’s been a real treat to get a Saturn, Mega SD and Dreamcast later in life and I’ve now got nearly 150 games for those consoles! Best type of experience - nostalgic for the design and ethos but the games are brand new to me. Awesome.
Metroid and Super Metroid. I knew of the games, but never gave them a chance till the nes and snes classics came out. Now it’s one of my favorite series. Excited for Metroid Dread!
One of the games I thought was stupid, and played it and realized I was the stupid one, was Zelda Wind Waker on the Gamecube. I was in the camp of "graphics on N64 titles were better" and sadly never gave it a chance. Then I realized the love everyone had for it and have always enjoyed Zelda games so I gave it a shot. Man, oh man, that is such a great game. This was also right around the birth of my son, so Wind Waker also got me through those long sleepless nights. What an ending!!
Wait, there were people that said N64 graphics were better than GameCube?
When you said "because you thought they were stupid" I felt VERY exposed, I remember one time I was at Walmart and saw super smash bros brawl and thought it was a dumb Party game with Mario slapped on the front, then I play it years later and I felt so dumb and disappointed in myself because I missed out on so much fun memories and nostalgia
hahah :)
As a kid I was only allowed to have 5 games for my snes. Super Mario World, street fighter 2, John Madden football, batman forever and toy story... Yeah I missed out on quite a few snes games and no matter how much I begged for more games my parents would never give in. They thought 5 games was more than enough lol but I made up for all that loss as an adult. Better late than never.
I'm sure there are plenty, but the one that stands out to me most in my memory is reading and re-reading the Game Players Magazine strategy guide for Snatcher. Obviously a game I'd never own as a kid, both because I was way too young and because I didn't have a Sega CD, but the style just looked so good it blew my mind.
Missed out on majority of PS1 bc for most of my childhood, I only had Muppet race mania and Muppet Monster adventure & those are some of the best memories i have
Although the NES was my first console, I grew up in the PS1 era and was instantly a fan, so I missed out on pretty much the entire Nintendo library besides the first Super Mario Bros. Like most kids, it was one console at a time, so I always went the Sony route. Like you, I bought a Super Nintendo in my early 20's with the Donkey Kong Country trilogy and I instantly fell in love and went from just buying childhood favorite games on the Playstation and PS2, to full blown retro game collector.
the only thing coming to mind for me now is the original Xbox.. it was too expensive at the time and I already had a PS2 and GameCube.. now I LOVE it - it has the best looking version of pretty much every game on it that's also on another platform.
My brother and I had Street Fighter 2 on Genesis and we only had 3-button controllers. We had an SNES too, but Grandma bought us the Genesis version...
Mutant Doom Troopers for the Genesis!
I played ThunderHawk 2 for the ps1 when I was a kid and I recently picked up a complete in box version of the original for the Sega CD
Me and my sister were fortunate enough to have had alot of good games as kids. The only thing I really regret is the fact that alot of them got sold away. I have been on a mission to buy back my childhood favorites one step at a time lol xD
Yeah, I'm in the same boat wishing a lot of mine hadn't been sold away.
I played a ton of NES and SNES through the 80's and 90's, but never touched a Castlevania until the '10's.
I never got to play super mario world growing up (didnt even know it existed). Played it last year, and its my favorite game of all time now.
Nice!
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My only answer is that I didn't understand how to play Dr Mario until way later even though I was aware of it since a young age and tried to play it several times. I was too used to Tetris, but when I finally figured Dr Mario(s simple mechanic, I'm dumb) out, it became my 2nd favorite puzzle game
Early Genesis games like Strider, Golden Axe and Revenge of Shinobi. I was an NES/SNES kid. I made my choice and was willing to live with it, but I knew I was going to miss out on some great stuff on the other side. It was especially tough as the Genesis was out first, so I was still rocking the NES while others were playing those titles…
I had a Genesis pretty early, but couldn’t get many games. I was aware of Revenge of Shinobi, Golden Axe, Strider, etc. but never got them at the time. I was so blown away by their “arcade quality” graphics. Honestly at the time they were very impressive. I always wanted Golden Axe. I rented it a lot. 😄
@@charliehustle2591 Don’t get me wrong, I wanted a Genesis! I was just being cautious because I didn’t want to go all in on ‘Master System Episode 2’ if things didn’t pan out. When the SNES was officially announced as ‘coming soon’ I locked in. Love playing Genesis as a retro gamer though, it’s truly an awesome console…
Chrino trigger. Had a snes during its peak, had no idea the game existed until near adulthood. Another thought, here I was giggling that you didn't have a snes as a kid and didn't till your 20s, but here I am 35, just getting a genesis
Owning a PS1 as a kid I missed out on so many games like Resident Evil 1-3,Silent Hill,FF 7-9 And Metal Gear
I started playing video games on the Fairchild F. So it's not so much missing out on games as a kid, it's missing out on games as a teenager. Minimum wage job, really no disposable income. Might as well rent a copy of Dark Castle
There are two other categories of 'games you missed out as a Kid' that I want to point out too
i. Regional barrier: There are many great games that were never released overseas but stayed in Japan for a long period of time so we couldn't get to play them before.
ii. Language barrier: Some games couldn't even be played without knowing the certain language like for example: Without knowing Japanese, we couldn't play certain games. I am grateful to the retro gaming community that some games got fan-translated as a result even though it is not 100% accurate but something is better than nothing.
Excellent examples!
@@RetroBirdGaming Yep and I almost forgot one more category
iii. Controversial category: Games that we couldn't play at all cause the game might have contained issues that our parents didn't want us to play them when we were kids in which we can now play them.
At first I had a bit of a hard time thinking about the question since I managed to get into retro gaming at a relatively young age. I mean in a manner where I was specifically looking for them since we had a PS1 with the only game on it being Monster Rancher as far back as I could remember. Anyways, back to the question, I started thinking about it in a different manner when all of a sudden it clicked. I didn't have a Wii or a DS during their time. I didn't particularly mind at the time, but now I look back and I think about all of the games I couldn't play at the time. I was able to play a few games visiting someone else's house, or even getting to play Wii Sports Resort in gym during the 6th grade at times, but I never had them. Even when I did eventually get a Wii in 2013 my library wasn't really that huge. I just started off with New Super Mario Bros Wii and Sonic and the Secret Rings. I enjoyed both of them, even if Sonic and the Secret Rings does have really bad controls, but there's still so much more out there I couldn't go back to yet. I have memories of Mario Kart Wii that I want to revisit these days, I want to play Mario Galaxy 1 for the first time, I want to play Smash Bros Brawl and experience the Subspace Emissary. Gosh dang. For the longest time I didn't even have either of the Wii Sports titles. It was only until this summer that I finally got my hands on Resort. Oh my god that game is such a fun time and I'm so glad I can finally play this game whenever I want. It was quite a close call too since I just barely won it on an ebay auction. It had the full cardboard box with the Wii Motion Plus addon and the sleeve for it and all of the papers and such, and I only got it for 21.72. If I hadn't bumped up from 20 dollars to 21 dollars, I would've lost. It's one of the most exhilarating moments I've experienced with collecting since it was pretty much the first auction that I won that other people were participating in. Oh gosh and the DS, there's so many games I want to play on it that I missed out on. I could never get the DS Sonic games, or gosh the DS Pokemon games. Heck I just missed out on Pokemon in general for a while just because I didn't have the hardware for it, and even if I did, I was way more focused on Monster Rancher. I still am to this day. Like I have all of the mainline entries of it, and I've only played the first two generations of Pokemon. Yeah I might not pick up physical copies of the other ones until the 3DS games due to the current prices on them, but I at least want to experience them. I can't wait to get an R4 cartridge so I can play them on my DSi for relatively cheap. There's probably a lot more out there i could go into with other systems, but the Wii and the DS are the main ones that'll always come to mind when it comes to games that I missed out on when I was younger.
I remember not thinking Rocket Knight Adventures would be anything special, but Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers was already rented, and the box art for RKA is pretty distinct with that tan background. Learned REEEEEAAAL quick how good THAT game is.
I'm always jealous of those who played it back in the day. If only I had known about it.
@@RetroBirdGaming yeah it was a good find. There were so many good games in that era of Sega genesis. The Sega Genesis is the most underrated console out there. Even more so than PC engine / turbo grafx. So much hype for the Super Nintendo and meanwhile the Sega Genesis has so many amazing games of so many genres that a game like rocket Knight adventures could slip through the cracks.
awesome topic bro...again the reason i got into your stuff(crap sounds bad) your view of stuff is so much different or better than other game channels.
Glad you're liking it :)
I missed out on Super Metroid and also Metroid Prime. I played both of those within the past year and they are both incredible games.
skyblazer! my parents had a super nintendo i played as a young child, and that brand of action platformbig would have really been been up my ally.
Game I missed out on that I have now: Conker's Bad Fur Day
Game I missed out on but still have yet to play/own: Elemental Gearbolt
In '95 I got my cousin to trade his SNES for my Genesis for a summer. It was lots of fun to play at home a bunch of Nintendo games.
My first ever experience with Doom was the SNES version. At the time, I had no idea I was playing one of the very worst ports of this game that was ever released. I wore that damn game out and absolutely loved every single minute. I had no complaints about graphics or input lag or any of that stuff because I had never even seen the PC original except in small screenshots in magazines. A few years later, around 1998 or so, I got my hands on the PS1 port, and I just couldn't believe how much better it was. It wasn't until probably 2005 or so when I finally got to play the PC original for the very first time. Of course I was blown away by how much prettier and smoother it was overall, but it also made appreciate just how good the old original 1993 Doom really is, design-wise...even a severely watered down barely playable SNES port was somehow still fun and atmospheric enough for me to name it as one of my all-time favorites. I recently tried Doom on the Sega 32X, the Jaguar, and the GBA through emulation, and even though those ports aren't that great either, I would've absolutely loved all of them if I had played them first back when they were released.
For me it had to have been Conkers Bad Fur Day for N64. There was no way I could have played it when it first came out as I was 6-7. But it's a really fun game
I never really missed out on games when I was young. I was not privileged, so I was late to the party for owning them as I got my first NES in 1992 when I was 13, but it got destroyed so I replaced it with a top loader in 1994. Being able to work for people and find rides to Funcoland, I was able to catch up on owning any of the games I wanted to. Same in 1996 when I bought my first GameBoy, and in 1997 when I got my SNES. My real missing game era was after I was in my twenties, was getting set to be married, then the lay off happened. Been struggling with getting bills caught up and needs met, so I pretty much didn't the DS Family existed until 2014 when the system was already 10 years old and the DSi XL was 4 years old. At that point I bought a used DS Lite as a special gift to myself for digging out of debt and started getting caught up with DS games. I may have gotten a bit off subject, but have finally found and purchased Super Mario 64 DS a couple weeks ago and am no longer missing that experience.
I didn't get a Game Boy until 1996 either. Heck, might've even been 1997. It was a Pocket though.
I missed out on games i still haven't played, like
banjo-Kazooie
There are 4 consoles I never played or knew anyone that had as a kid and visiting them as an adult, I was blown away. The Turbo Duo, The Sega Cd, The Sega Saturn, and The Gamecube. I’ll never forget trying out these consoles, their controllers, games and the unique look and feel they had and most of all how fun they were.
Wow. Didn't know anybody with a GameCube. That's wild. I mean, people had their issues with it back then but still :) Thanks for sharing that.
Amazing video friend! I hope you’ll never run out of video ideas 🙂
I have a pretty huge list right now, so I think I should be good :)
The castlevania series is one that I completely missed out as a kid, finding out about them and playing them as an adult, believe me, it felt like if I discovered zelda for the first time. I love the games, both the classic style and the metroidvania style are excellent. The atmosphere is so unique and the gameplay is allways satisfying.
I had the exact same revelation, only it was just a few weeks ago! I always knew the series existed and that it was supposed to be good, but I never felt the need to play it. Boy did I miss out! Played through every game (haven't beaten most non-metroidvanias yet though, need to get good first...) recently and I'm in love with the franchise. I'm just sad now that it's another "dead" series it seems...
@@tardigrade9343 Yeah, the same. The metroidvanias are great! but the classics are great too, specially the original, super castlevania 4 on snes, castlevania bloodlines on genesis and by far my favorite Castlevania Rondo of Blood on turbografx CD but can also be played on psp.
I would even say I prefer it over the metroidvania games. Highly recommended.
And yeah... the series is pretty death, fortunately plenty of indies are inspired by them, specially the bloodstained series. Those have also great classic castlevania games.
@@diegog1853 I've played Rondo of Blood daily for the last few days haha
The music is so goood. But I'm not so talented at these kinds of games so I still have a long way to go until I beat it.
I'm still hoping that one day, all those dead Konami IPs will be revived. I mean, there's money to be made with these. Demand is clearly there. Who knows, maybe some day a new CEO will step up and stir the company back into the right direction!
@@tardigrade9343 Try unlocking/using Maria Renard, at least while you get used to the game, she is sort of the easy mode. Takes more damage but is way more agile and powerful, an can be unlocked early on.
And yeah I hope Konami can get back into the console market, I don't know, maybe sony or microsoft end up buying it or something, at this point I trust them more than konami to do justice to the IPs
@@tardigrade9343 And if you want to play with Ricther, try practicing the back flip that he can do by jumping in the air, the timing is kind of tight but it is really awesome and useful in a lot of situations.
I love your videos - interesting topic - nice work! I followed everything pretty closely because I read Gamefan and Next Gen magazines, mast of the stuff I missed came from Japan that I’m now starting to experience while I learn the language
the game I didn't know even existed until I was 31 years old was mole mania on the Gameboy. I absolutely love that game now and would never let it leave the collection.
I'm so old that my only video game console growing up was the Atari with knobs that played Pong and Breakout. (Can't remember the name/model of the console.) We found it after my dad died and sold it. My son grew up with Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS, and still has his GameCube and Wii.
I decided recently to get a Game Boy Advance and start playing retro Game Boy games, so everything is something I missed out on as a kid! I'm having lots of fun learning about the system and playing the games -- great distraction from ongoing pandemic restrictions. I'm currently playing Zelda: Link to the Past and Spyro: Season of Ice. (Am also having fun with Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2.)
Shadowrun sega genesis. Love that game but completely missed it as a youngster. Same with Rocket Knight adventures.
I remember reading about the N64 a year before it came out and wanting Mario 64 real bad and couldn't wait. I still haven't gotten it yet.
For me that game is WWF No Mercy for the N64. I was aware of the game, but being a bigger fan of the rival company WCW I never gave it a chance. So glad I've since played it as for many it is the gold standard of wrestling video games and one of the most modded. It's a lot of fun, and I can't recommend it enough. 😎🤘
I grew up with a Super Nintendo and bought gaming magazines every month, but somehow I failed to understand how awesome the Mega Man series is. In fact, I almost completely ignored it, which is incredibile, considering that Mega Man is now my favorite franchise. I only started playing Mega Man and Mega Man X games in 2013 or 2014. Back in the 90s, Capcom was just synonymous with Street Fighter to me (and I guess to many other kids and teenagers).
Nowadays getting socks for a gift is awesome because I don't want to spend my money on things like that lol