2008-2013 was the heyday of my gaming adolescence. WaW, MW2, and BO1 were the only COD I played (I just couldn't get into MW3 and all the space laser mega jump Halo crap after that), that and Forza 2-4 engrossed all of my spare time. I tried to get back into gaming after college with an Xbox One and Forza 6/COD MW2, but neither of them held the same nostalgia for me, and they quickly gathered dust. Here I am, 15 years later, looking back on a Christmas spent getting things that I no longer remember or care about, and playing MW2 with my cousin for a week straight. I still look back on this as one of the best times of my life. Maybe next year, I'll get back into gaming.
When I was 12, my parents bought me my first and only Xbox 360 on Black Friday 2009 specifically so I can play Halo 3. I had never entertained the idea of picking up a Call of Duty game. That was until Christmas one month later and I'm so grateful that it happened to be Modern Warfare 2. I remember feeling second hand regret when all my friends sold their 360s when the Xbox One released. Mine is still here 15 years later ❤
still gaming together 15 years later 🥳 christmas & winter nostalgia is some of the strongest. I still have this vivid memory of us and the rest of the friend group going sledding super late at night at a private hill where no one else was around. Very cold but fresh snow. I think it was joe's dad who took us. Fun times. That and building all the snow forts at recess. Those were some of the last memories I had before call of duty hit the scene and gave us something constant to always do during winter months. I had such a similar introduction to cod. My step brother got a 360 for his birthday, and my step mom let us each pick out a game. I picked halo 3 because I've always liked sci-fi. My step brother picked cod4 because he had an older cousin in the marines who also played the game. Little did I know his game would have such a massive impact on my teen years, college years, and even still today.
that hill was next to our old house in bayside! Joe's dad was a legend for that. Recesses at that school were fun too. I remember playing with your step bro, you guys got into cod a year or two before me
Wow this video is so relatable! I was in 7th grade when I got my PS3 and I got MW2 WAW and Fallout 3 Christmas 2009! I remember the first time I played it felt so cool playing with other people in an online game! Now here I am playing Black ops 6 and STALKER 2 😂
"Recorded on a potato" and "Host with mcdonalds wifi" -- Absolutely classic. Having the homies that you have always gamed with and still game with today is lowkey incredible. Some people just don't understand how awesome that is and will crap on you for being a "gamer." Merry Christmas!
Hey Whylearn, I wanted to thank you for the inspiration I’ve uploaded my first TH-cam video. It was rough lol, but I look forward to posting more! I love watching your videos and receiving helpful advice thank you again!
Ps3* for me with LBP. I was in 7th grade too. Eventually I got mw2 and killzone 2. Played religiously when I could I was terrible at first and still enjoyed it.
Had an Xbox 360 in early 2009. Started playing GTA 4 before I started my Call of Duty journey with 2008 World at War to Bo2 2012. Such a great era for gaming. RD1 and then played GTA 5 after CoD declined when Ghosts released. Glorious era on Xbox 360. Even better than the Wii era during that time
Got my Xbox 360 on xmas 2008. Didn't have a modem with more than one ethernet port. Disconnected the computer's internet and went straight to my Xbox. Had host almost every game on halo 3. Friends always to play at my place since we were into splattering with the mongoose 💥
Back when games weren't full of cheaters, sweats, modding, eomm/sbmm, maxed out monetization, garbage manipulated servers. Until the current corrupt heads of Activision get replaced cod will NEVER return back to what it used to be.
I like this type of pace and style of gunplay. It was enjoyable. I wish I could hop on a recent game and enjoy it in the same way but the speed in which characters move and the competitive gameplay really turns me off.
LMAO I used to implement this method of recording gameplay too! 😂 Had a Panasonic camcorder using DV tapes, put it on a tripod, and used to literally film Need For Speed Most Wanted and TimeSplitters Future Perfect on GameCube back in like 2007. Never recorded Modern Warfare 2 until 2018, when I got an HD PVR and did it right.
This Is Makeing Me Sad And Nostalgic I Remember Playing Halo 3 At A Friends House Which Made Me Want A Xbox 360 I Ended Up Getting A 360 In December 2010 Mann I Wish I Could Recapture That Magic To Gen Z Who See This Comment Lifes To Short So Enjoy Theses Small Moments Of Happiness You Never Know When It Becomes A Distant Memory
@ yeah man you and I are the same age so everything you talk about from this time I relate too. I had my 360 in 07 though for halo 3. I was bad that year at school my mom pranked me by taking the xbox out the box and putting rocks in the box. I was so sad I started crying lol eventually later that night she gave me the actual xbox told me to be good the next school year and I did my best lol but yeah anyway keep up the great work
This is the most relatable thing ever. I will never forget playing MW2 for the first time. Such a great year
You are only a christmas noob once!
@@whylearntech true!
2008-2013 was the heyday of my gaming adolescence. WaW, MW2, and BO1 were the only COD I played (I just couldn't get into MW3 and all the space laser mega jump Halo crap after that), that and Forza 2-4 engrossed all of my spare time. I tried to get back into gaming after college with an Xbox One and Forza 6/COD MW2, but neither of them held the same nostalgia for me, and they quickly gathered dust.
Here I am, 15 years later, looking back on a Christmas spent getting things that I no longer remember or care about, and playing MW2 with my cousin for a week straight. I still look back on this as one of the best times of my life.
Maybe next year, I'll get back into gaming.
This video was a blast from the past! Thank you for inspiring me to make a video with my own take on exactly this!
2009 I got the PS3 for Christmas with Batman Arkham Asylum and Infamous 🔥elite
Everything about this game man... just an absolute masterpiece and brings back so many memories for us all. Thats how you know it was a good game
It's wild that we all lived somewhat similar lives but in different places
When I was 12, my parents bought me my first and only Xbox 360 on Black Friday 2009 specifically so I can play Halo 3. I had never entertained the idea of picking up a Call of Duty game. That was until Christmas one month later and I'm so grateful that it happened to be Modern Warfare 2. I remember feeling second hand regret when all my friends sold their 360s when the Xbox One released. Mine is still here 15 years later ❤
still gaming together 15 years later 🥳
christmas & winter nostalgia is some of the strongest. I still have this vivid memory of us and the rest of the friend group going sledding super late at night at a private hill where no one else was around. Very cold but fresh snow. I think it was joe's dad who took us. Fun times. That and building all the snow forts at recess. Those were some of the last memories I had before call of duty hit the scene and gave us something constant to always do during winter months.
I had such a similar introduction to cod. My step brother got a 360 for his birthday, and my step mom let us each pick out a game. I picked halo 3 because I've always liked sci-fi. My step brother picked cod4 because he had an older cousin in the marines who also played the game. Little did I know his game would have such a massive impact on my teen years, college years, and even still today.
that hill was next to our old house in bayside! Joe's dad was a legend for that. Recesses at that school were fun too. I remember playing with your step bro, you guys got into cod a year or two before me
Wow this video is so relatable! I was in 7th grade when I got my PS3 and I got MW2 WAW and Fallout 3 Christmas 2009! I remember the first time I played it felt so cool playing with other people in an online game! Now here I am playing Black ops 6 and STALKER 2 😂
Love this, I also saved archived footage, recently made a video on it. Stuff like this is priceless!
I don't know how you keep cranking out banger after banger at such a high rate. I can't keep up. Lol. Great vid as always man. 🤙🏻
I liked your video on Christmas noobs better 😂😂 keep up the great vida as well
"Recorded on a potato" and "Host with mcdonalds wifi" -- Absolutely classic.
Having the homies that you have always gamed with and still game with today is lowkey incredible. Some people just don't understand how awesome that is and will crap on you for being a "gamer."
Merry Christmas!
Hey Whylearn, I wanted to thank you for the inspiration I’ve uploaded my first TH-cam video. It was rough lol, but I look forward to posting more! I love watching your videos and receiving helpful advice thank you again!
happy to see you get started! checking it out now, good luck :)
Ps3* for me with LBP. I was in 7th grade too. Eventually I got mw2 and killzone 2. Played religiously when I could I was terrible at first and still enjoyed it.
Please keep using these they are gold
definitely a trade off between nostlagia and gameplay quality
Remember Christmas 2009 like it was yesterday 😢
Yup felt the same when i got my PS3 Christmas 2010, felt magical
Had an Xbox 360 in early 2009. Started playing GTA 4 before I started my Call of Duty journey with 2008 World at War to Bo2 2012. Such a great era for gaming. RD1 and then played GTA 5 after CoD declined when Ghosts released. Glorious era on Xbox 360. Even better than the Wii era during that time
Warm holidays 💯
hope you had a nice coffee today
Got my Xbox 360 on xmas 2008. Didn't have a modem with more than one ethernet port. Disconnected the computer's internet and went straight to my Xbox. Had host almost every game on halo 3. Friends always to play at my place since we were into splattering with the mongoose 💥
omg! carnaval, loved these mappacks back in the day :O
Great video! Merry Christmas!
Back when games weren't full of cheaters, sweats, modding, eomm/sbmm, maxed out monetization, garbage manipulated servers. Until the current corrupt heads of Activision get replaced cod will NEVER return back to what it used to be.
I like this type of pace and style of gunplay. It was enjoyable. I wish I could hop on a recent game and enjoy it in the same way but the speed in which characters move and the competitive gameplay really turns me off.
LMAO I used to implement this method of recording gameplay too! 😂
Had a Panasonic camcorder using DV tapes, put it on a tripod, and used to literally film Need For Speed Most Wanted and TimeSplitters Future Perfect on GameCube back in like 2007.
Never recorded Modern Warfare 2 until 2018, when I got an HD PVR and did it right.
dang you got a PVR very late!!! My dazzle still sucked, and then by the time I could game again, I just used the xbox record feature and an elgato too
Best times in my life playing
Mw2
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas as well!!! Enjoy
This Is Makeing Me Sad And Nostalgic I Remember Playing Halo 3 At A Friends House Which Made Me Want A Xbox 360
I Ended Up Getting A 360 In December 2010 Mann I Wish I Could Recapture That Magic
To Gen Z Who See This Comment
Lifes To Short So Enjoy Theses Small Moments Of Happiness You Never Know When It Becomes A Distant Memory
Bro want us to cry 🥲
I want us all to cry, but just in a happy way
We literally have the same story bro…Im 28 and literally started with mw2 and stopped buying after bo2. The magic just wasn’t there anymore.
I got my first 360 I think in 2010 best year of my life
@@pureakkuracy7510 heck yeah, hoping many more great years in the future
Lil bro
It's Carnival, which was added in june 2010
the gameplay itself is not from 2009, just the story of when i got the xbox. This was probably from around 2010, don't have the date on it
@@whylearntechI understood, but it would be even nicer to see a 2009 raw christmas footage. Keep it up, 2007-2013 the best era of online gaming.
unfortunately didn't have any recordings from that year, this is around the earliest I had, I wish i had those videos
@@whylearntech Me too, my old pc is down because of old malware that was spreading on the Internet and I had some rare gameplay footage from 2007
Another great video!
This Christmas I got an iPod nano such a cool gift
I had one of those too! Incredible gift
@ yeah man you and I are the same age so everything you talk about from this time I relate too. I had my 360 in 07 though for halo 3. I was bad that year at school my mom pranked me by taking the xbox out the box and putting rocks in the box. I was so sad I started crying lol eventually later that night she gave me the actual xbox told me to be good the next school year and I did my best lol but yeah anyway keep up the great work
It was Christmas 2011 for me
I recorded my webcam to my TV too as a kid 😂 but sadly I never saved them!
i only had this from my original youtube channel haha
you are so wise.
thank you, sometimes i have good days
Bro I also got an Xbox 360 on Christmas 2009 as well 😅
a great time to get one!
How old were you in 2009 Christmas?
7th grade so 13?