NUTS FOR NINTENDO special on ABC news 20/20 from 1988
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- Transfered and uploaded from my own VHS tape I recorded back in 1988. This is mostly focused on the big Christmas hype for Super Mario Bros 2 and the Legend of Zelda 2 and how scarce these two games are due to the "chip shortage" (sound familiar?) of the time.
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I bet ABC news never predicted people from the year 2020 would be watching their 20/20 Nuts for Nintendo special.
True
Ikr
right?
Still watching while high in August 2020!
@@treasuretrails this
"You hardly do this if you're a grownup because you have work to do" That kid speaks the truth, now I'm depressed.
So ... I'm no grownup, I guess?
Screw that little twerp
That little kid is probably a depressed adult now
I knew someone that bought a SNES at 55 and played it daily.
Man, those kids can only play 1-2 hours with parental guidelines. I can play 6 hours a day if I want to cause I'm a grownup. Kid logic is questionable.
Respect for all those hard working parents that just wanted to make their kids happy.
message beautiful
b.s boring a.i man if not you might aswell be
Me as a parent: Already have consoles and ready for them to play.
Thanks mom and dad! I was one of those kids like in video was 7 when this aired now 42 still play video games sometimes haha.
Thank you parents wanted to make there kids very happy with the nintendo they were awesome parents back in those days❤
Wow, this is honestly the most sincere and unbiased news coverage of video games (from journalists that don't know much about video games) that I've ever seen. He went out and talked to people and got multiple thoughts to report on, and formed his own stance on an issue after hearing everybody, and had a pretty positive message. I feel like you don't see much of that today.
every story in the news today is there for a reason. to mould public opinion on a specific issue. to manipulate thought. it is essentially propaganda. every major development and change in our society needs to be approved of by the general population. this is social engineering. the media is the tool by which the powers that be use to control the masses and steer them in a particular direction. whether it be the war on the virus or the climate or the big bad wolf from the east, every perceived problem has a solution. for the authorities the solution has been planned years, even decades, in advance. however, the people would need convincing that this solution is a good thing because it is so far removed from their current perceived reality that it may be considered a bad thing. the problem is just a means to an end. the media's role in today's society is to control the reaction by the public to the problem. the powers that be own the media and use it to create a consensus. most people are being manipulated without even realising it. in this decade we have seen an acceleration of the problem, reaction, solution dialectic. our world is consciously being torn down and reshaped by very powerful entities. a new world is not being built. but not to benefit the people at large. in fact, most people will be worse off in this new world. the media plays a very important role in deceiving the public into thinking that the changes that are occurring and the coming upheaval is all for the greater good. it is not...
anyway, nice trip down memory lane with this video. they were simpler times. they were better times.
John Stossel has always been a good journalist who lives in the real world.
nah, nowadays its all about outrage and ratings. and its become far too political.
@@TaysonPlaysGuitar they tell you reality A or B and boy let me tell you…… it’s worse 😮😢😅 #longlivenintendo
The kid said: You can’t play. You’re a grown up. You got work to do.
Me in 2023: Working from home on the clock on a lawn mowing simulator for ps5.
"How many hours do you play?"
"Like, 1 or 2."
WEAK SAUCE
HE IS NOT A TRUE GAMER
***** i bet hes a console peasant
IJustShot MarvinIntheFace Fuck you. Get your shit out of here.
JDraks joking dude. Jeez
***** You know there was a thing called the "outdoors", right?
2 hours a day? those are rookie numbers. you gotta pump those numbers up
Wolfs of Wall Street
@@hanialturk5981 :) yessir
lol
I know right. When i was a gamer 4 hours was the MINIMUM time I would spend playing. Average 6-7 and pulling all nighters was a regular.
All nighters leaving it on so we wouldnt loose progress and continue playing when we woke up...Straight game binging
I remember my mom scored a copy of Super Mario Bros. 2 for my birthday in early November of 1988. She always came through with these hard to get items. She was a shopping pro. I miss you Mom!
My parents didn't understand what video games were back then lol. I doubt they even knew what the system was that I was using. I had a sega master system back in 1988.
This comment just brought a tear to my eye. I still have my mom and I’m grateful every day for that fact.
Such a great comment
Here’s to your mom! Getting those NES cartridges early back in the day was no small feat.
My Dad was the same way, with the N64, Zelda Ocarina of Time and even the Wii. I miss him too.
I'm 45!
This was my life in the late 80s early 90s
I'm 42 (almost 43).
I miss the simplicity of an 80s childhood. Got home, did homework, then could game all I wanted to (if I wasn't playing outside).
I forgot that every man looked like Borat back then.
Very nice
Hahah that’s the best definition of 80s 😅
Yes borat would sell his wife for a copy
Of super mario bros 2
HAHAHAHA
Lmfao
“Do you think this is bad for the kids?”.... “Actually I went out and bought one for myself and my wife and I stayed up until midnight playing it”. THATS RIGHT!
Jeezus Nancy
With a moustache like that you just know they were playing it naked
Keep
My J up By would
I had to show my roommate that scene I was laughing so hard, born in the early 80's we got to experience this magical time.
John Stossel was able to explain Mario better than Chris Pratt could back in 1988.
So what? Pratt is just getting paid for another role for his job/income. Idgaf if Pratt is awful at "explaining" things. You're a hater.
@@shen-long9082 It’s called a simple joke Buddy. The joke is that a clueless news reporter who had just learned what Nintendo is was able to explain it better than an actor selected for a Hollywood feature film based off of a AAA franchise that’s been around for nearly four decades now. A franchise that he had known about since childhood and was specifically confirmed by the man who created said franchise back in 1981. Personally, I have no doubt Pratt will deliver a fun version of the character. No where was I being a “hater”.
Stossel and Pratt are both heroes
to be fair Chris Pratt was 9 at the time, maybe with a nes of his own, who knows?
Stossel been a legend for 40 years
A legend in his own mind only. Arrogant piece of shit is a more fitting description.
My wife was born and raised in Central America. She has a degree in business management. Her economics professor down there frequently used Stossel’s specials and segments in her class dubbed in Spanish.
What’s his net-worth?
You mean douche yes...love when he got btch slapped by that wrestler . Lol
Is that the same guy that got slapped up the side of his head? By a wrestler cause he told him wrestling is fake.
violence? what violence? lol they havent seen nothing yet then.
show them Mortal Kombat Fatalities of today and see what happens XD
show them HTF
Don't forget Grand Theft Auto and No More Heroes.
davidevgen llol
eye-hand coordination?
word-mouth coordination please
I like how he corrected her when she said "watching Nintendo" and he said "playing Nintendo". He already gets it--gamer for life!
Then she ended with "now to a much more serious report."
frek yeahhhh lol
Dude is based af. His moustache is also based
Stossel doesn't fuick around
@@jaykelley103 your mom is based.
Makes me sad and happy at the same time. These guys made a lot of childhoods a lot better.
One could say they made children addicts and customers for life.
I would have to agree with you because I too used to have a Nintendo System I remember getting it for christmas.
Videos like this are the closest things we will ever have to a time machine.
"kids will act violent"
CAUSE AFTER PLAYING SUPER MARIO BROS THE FIRST THING WE ALL DID AS KIDS WAS GO ON A KILLING SPREE AGAINST TURTLES
That's not caused by GTA (which is rated 18+), that's some serious mental issues. And shitty parenting. The game is only for adults, and where's this kid getting a gun? The game doesn't come with a real one, so he probably stole it from his parents, which wouldn't have been a problem if the gun was in a locked safe (or the kid was properly diagnosed and medicated).
***** thats the parents fault for being complete dumbasses and not teaching their kid what the real world is
Cinos the Dense potato i must have jumped on 50 turtles those years 😂😂😂
Fuckin adults where retarder back then lmao
fuck the turtals
Parents in 1988: “These video games are violent.”
Parents in 1988: Sees games from 2019, “faints”.
Ct Snappy How funny those kids were playing Nintendo are now in their late 40s and early 30s and they are parents themselves now. I bet you they let there kids playing Fortnite
They don't even have to see games in 2019/2020. Just look at GTA III, or even games from the late 90s.
@@mnoble0902 gta 3 came out in 2001
Most parents weren't as bad as the media of the time portrayed. Maybe video games were pretty tame, but horror movies were pretty graphic at the time (Friday the 13th / Hellraiser) and I knew a lot of kids at the time who would watch them and our parents didn't faint.
Time travel - This game is called "Doom" and this is a plasma wide screen dispay. Now watch the violent intro!
I was born in 91, I almost understand now what it was like to grow up in the 80s, I wish I could have, but then again I was lucky just to be able to be a kid and be in the 90s and grew up with Super Mario Bros 3, Sonic, Mortal Kombat, and all the other wild games from those days, it warms my heart though to see all these kids having fun and seeing how much the environment seemed so much better back then, now the world just seems extremely dark.
You still caught a wonderful era which is awesome.
I was born in 91. I feel you 100%
My brother is 82 and sister 85, so I was lucky enough to play nes, and understand 80s references cause I had them who explained to me. Good times indeed
You won the loterry if you expenrienced the 90s....it was literally the best years for kids...I remember the SNES and Genesis war, all the great games and great movies. I miss the 90s. I didn't know how good we had it.
I Remember when I was young, I remember getting the Nintendo System for Christmas, I was excited about it.
It warms my fart.
I was born in 80' and wouldn't change that period of time of being a kid for any other time. The regular Nintendo is still my favorite system of all time. The controller was simple enough for grandma to play Mario and the games were cute and fun while some felt downright unbeatable. Nintendo really was an entertainment system that brought the family together and it was new and fresh and a big step up from Atari. We all would laugh sharing one tv and not 5 separate individual screens in various rooms of the house. I loved that time of my life. There was tons of action figures, great cartoons, great music, great movies, Mike Tyson and Hulk Hogan were unbeatable along with the rest of those crazy wrestling characters, kids still read books etc..and this was just what we could do inside the house. There was still big reasons to go outside and play and use our imaginations. We were encouraged to go outside. it didn't matter the season we still had a blast. It was a great balance of both worlds
Being born in June of 1980 I couldn't say it any better... Ultimate childhood,was truly a great era
"Kill ducks, kill ducks. Doesn't this bring violence."
"They are animated characters. You just have to pay attention and manage your time."
Words to live by.
he played till midnight
@@ryanbeev Hence the recommendation to manage your time. :P
I learned english by doing that
@@redhawkmillenium I learned english by doing that
Yeah, i often live by those words "Kill Ducks, Kill Ducks!" it really helps me in dark times.
Who else is watching this 9 years later after it was posted thanks to youtube recommendations?
Yeah... wtf?!
Your comment it's 2 years old so that makes this video 11 years old and it just popped up on my recommendation feed
@@oscartristan7173 no
His comment is 2 days old
@@LegendofLaw lol! What a fuck was i reading?? 🙈🙈
Still old as fuck Tho. Lol!
Me! Finally a great recommendation
God, I love John Stossel. I watched 20/20 every Friday in the late 90s/00s when I was in high school. Nice to see he's still around making new content on TH-cam and he's still the same awesome guy!!
Until he turned into a conspiracy theory believing 😊right-wing nut job. Or maybe he always was.
Watching a news magazine in high school, what an awesome and well informed childhood! Not everything was catered to kids except for TGIF & Saturday morning cartoons.
I still remember my mother driving around back then in the 80s trying to find my sister and I a NES and we lucked up and found one at Woolworth. Till this day I still have my original NES and cartridges along with the original box and still play it. Kept my Nintendo Power magazines as well
Parents got ours from Sears or Montgomery Ward back then...still have it. Fun fact, Woolworth is still around under a new name and business.......Foot Locker. Look it up.
Imagine being one of the kids in this and finding this video on TH-cam.. and seeing yourself.
OH.
Are you implying something?
I'm "implying" that that would be crazy.
Im the white kid in the red Jersey.... man good times.....
@@KingNez89: But didn't you say you were born a year after this special aired?
“Mario is an Italian plumber..that fights off killer turtles and deadly ducks”
That’s to much violence for kids, they will stomp on mushrooms and ducks
MAY-REEH-OH is an Italian plumber that fights off killer turtles and deadly ducks
alas we now have full HD videos of people killing themselves live on Facebook
animal abuse
@@jesskcanada world 8-5
Back when you had to be in the same room with someone in order to play a video game with them! Good times!!
I mean…you still can lol
@@FrEDo507 Not really. Internet made the seperation
you still can, what?
You know I get both sides here:
You still can, absolutely.
But you could *only* MP locally back then. It was everything because online didn’t exist yet. It’s much better now of course, but goldeneye/MK/Even Wave Race…on a CRT with 3 pals…. Camaraderie.
@@FrEDo507 There difference is that you can be. Back then you HAD to be.
What blows my mind is that they had a whole call center; you could call in for game advice! Never even knew that when I was younger
I turned 8 in 1988, so I was the same age as the kids in the video. I was playing Nintendo everyday. I still play Nintendo everyday and I am not brain dead yet. In fact, video games inspired me to become a successful software engineer.
they also teach structure/logic/problem solving skills as well as patience (grinding in RPGs).
Video Games Are Fun ,And it helps with eye coordination and brain memory.
How I envy the fact you saw the entirety of the 80s unfold as a child.
I was also obsessed of videogames as a kid and today im a poor looser
We’re the same age then, but I’m a plant maintenance engineer. Lol, I didn’t play so much Nintendo and I’m a little more brain dead . Go figure...
Wow that's the best dad ever! 1,000 miles to buy a video game for his kid.
Now you can download the game without leaving the house. That's why there too many lazy people right now.
where was this at my parents never had this problem and where I lived the stores never ran out of games or systems?
Except it's the beginning of that old "Dad went out to buy a Nintendo game and never came back" story.
lol
You must have lived somewhere with a high population then.
I recorded this too on VHS when I was 9 years old It played at night and I had to pull some strings to stay up to record it. I watched this report several times, I probably commented in this section years ago now. This news report has become a vital piece of human history in my opinion. It was a time before the internet, and we really did have call centers that were helping people pass the game, and sharing secrets. I was there. We had Atari games and Commodore 64 games, but the NES was that one system that was just so premium. It was the big switch from joysticks to D pad controllers
Parents in 88: MARIO IS VIOLENT
Parents in 2020: Yeah, my 3 year old plays fortnite online
Well, the kids in the video are the parents now in 2020. I wonder they care about their kids playing games like Fortnite all the time.
@@Patrick19833 they are all boomer who complains that todays games arent as good as the old times
@@waynicliz No, boomers are generation born between 1946 and 1964
Parents in 88: Video Games might be violent
Parents in 2020: "Wall of Moms"
@@waynicliz Bruhh the younger generation complain more then boomers lol. This generation records everything on social media and has become a snitch bitch, everyone trying to be online police lol
Loony Tunes: Shoving literal dynamite into a ducks mouth and watching it blow his mouth to the back of his head
This is fine
Mario jumps on a turtle
VIOLENCE!!
"NO! YOU CAN'T JUST BEAT UP BAD GUYS!!!"
"Haha turtle go bonk"
You're dessssppppicable. I think that's how daffy says it
Im sure if you do some research..... people hated LoonEy Toons too. Road Runner and Coyote come to mind. It was a part of, at the time, THEIR generation so it was fine. Old people always find a way to trash newer generations. It's gone on forever. There is nothing more violent than Looney Toons. I watched Daffy Duck get his head blown off and beak blown backwards.
@@troymiller319 Exactly this. The kids in this news report are probably the same ones complaining about kids now and their "evil cell phones" and "awful social media"
Yes but the cell phones and awful social media is worse because it has kids disassociating and lacking personality and taking up too much of their time and reliance amd causes the desire for instant gratification, laziness and amongst many other things. Video games and looney tunes did not
It’s been 35 years and still addicting
John Stossel is seriously a legend of a reporter! I seriously enjoy every piece of work he has done, and the entertainment he adds to it. Could watch him report a drying Orange.
Why are most reporters today not as magnificent as that man. He was so unbiased and fair and he had the most amazing moustache. I guess the internet has caused the news business to get to fast causing lots of myths to be said as fact without research.
I need a high five man, that comment was beautiful.
Ok slap your hand against your screen really hard so we high five through space and time ready... GO
Yep, John Stossel has a show on FOX Business Thursdays at 9PM Eastern. He's great!
He's on FOX wow. Seems like the opposite kind of person to be on FOX.
***** Would you care to explain your opinion
I wanna be a kid in the late '80s, early '90s again. Life and gaming was fantastic.
hell yea memories..
And those were the years it actually was cold and snowed in the winter.
+TheSpiral01 Move to Indiana, last winter was unbearable.
+PlayStation Fanboy It was the economy. We were enjoying, basically, what previous generations had worked for. Everything was just ... nicer.
+PlayStation Fanboy Yeah but it kinda prepared me for games today. I feel like a lot of kids don't realize how awesome some games are today because they didn't have to grow up only playing a couple games, with no internet and DLC. I've seen games change so much so I feel like I have a better appreciation for a lot of it than most kids that just grew up with Call of Duty, GTA or Xbox Live.
44 almost 45 here lol. I turned 10 that year in good ol' 1988. Great times. Nintendo was definitely all the rage at the time. Me and my friends spent hours at a time playing. Even the grown ups were addicted to the games. Such great memories.
Wow, back in '88 I was 11. I'll be 46 next month!! Nintendo was super popular back then, so was the Sega Master System. Memories man.....
All the kids in this story are 35-40 years old now!
That's crazy but you're right time flies fuck time
Kravis63: Yeah, I'm 42,and would have been 8 when this story came out.
IHaveSwatches yeah, I’m one of them as well. Hello.
Yup, I'm one of them. I was 10 years old at this time
I’m 37, those were the days!
8:30 "i dissasembled it"
**** Removed power cable****
I was thinking a soldering gun was involved...
@@thohangst I thought she might have opened up the top and disconnected everything from the board... lol
Well baco then we barely knew technology or Nintendo until 1988
I didn’t realize she knew how to roll with 72 pin connectors. Bravo 👏
Karen
Its not a toy! It's a lifestyle! Me and my late dad, lived it and my dad passed away while playing skyrim.. RIP, Father! ❤
Shor took your father to Sovngarde.
I have a lot of good memories growing up, in the 80's.(Not just the video games but life in general). Everything felt so laid back, and the news wasn't so doom and gloom all the time. I do miss the 80s look, in the malls and in houses etc etc.
Even in the 80s, Nintendo was still shipping popular merchandise in short supply!
They know what they're doing, they a toy company.
And they'll keep getting my money, too.
Nah, it was a 'chip shortage' they said and it was total BS. 🤣 I busted my ass hunting all over for Zelda II at the time, the bastards.
I loved 20/20 then too and remember seeing this when it aired.
@Philip Tucker oh don't misunderstand, I got and beat it. And yeah it was...different. hehe
@Philip Tucker let's not be ridiculous here. 🤔
Nintendo was always on some BS, even back in the 80s.
The anchor at the end is my personal hero. The one adult in the whole damn special to actually go and experience it himself has nothing but good things to say about Nintendos console, even when the lady smugly belittles him for enjoying his time playing video games.
I don't care if he's been wrong on other unrelated stuff since, but here he's dead-on and actually did his research.
Would be cool to see if he still plays
@@brendan25 John Stossel still does news, on TH-cam nonetheless. I don't know about him playing games still but he's worth a watch if you have the time!
That's just women in general. They don't like seeing anybody have fun. Everybody has to be sad and depressed like them hehehe
@@cococooley2589 Ok incel.
@@boskee
Yes
I was born in ‘90. One thing kids will never get to experience in the future and even now, with games all going digital, is walking into a store and seeing game boxes piled high. Searching frantically through the racks and finding that one game you’ve been after for weeks. Peeling off the cellophane and excitedly reading the manual on the journey home. It was a dopamine rush that can never be experienced by just clicking on a game in an online store. You can’t covet it, look after it, display it on your shelf. Physically owning a game is special. An online game is not “your game” it’s just a game. Those memories released when you’re digging through boxes in your childhood bedroom and you come across your copy of Zelda, Pokémon Blue etc can’t be replicated.
At least they don't have to deal with game shortages.
I keep coming back to this video for years, I can watch this over and over for some reason
when the name "20/20" is about to actually be the year
Yiked
@CrazyMangoz I bet someone in 2020 will go down to this comment and reply, “I’m from 2020.”
Hello folks from 2020!
"That's funny, the name of our show almost sounds like the YEAR 2020. Man, I wonder what things will be like in the future..." Pussy Power! No more free speech! Add me on Instagram! "No. No. Let's not think about it. Let's play Mario."
*new years quote* nine eight seven six five four three two one, Hi this is Barbara Walters and this is 20/20.
Female Reporter: Now I know how you’re spending the holidays, watching Nintendo.
Male Reporter: Playing Nintendo
My guy became a gamer at that moment.
I felt proud for him
fyi, barbara walters is the female reporter and john stossel is the male reporter.
"Female Reporter" "Male Reporter" JFC. You don't even know who these people are, do you, kid? That's BARBARA F***ING WALTERS and JOHN F***ING STOSSELL. I don't mean to hate on you, but you need to do a little research.
Playing Nintenda LMAO😂😂😂 They ain't even saying it right lol noobs JK JK
@@MickeyD2012 Didn’t know their name just commented after I saw the vid but thanks for the heads up
This is history in the making. Those kids are in their mid 40s now.
Yep
Yep, I'm 46 and definitely had one
OMG! Thanks for bringing memories of my childhood in the 90's. I'm 40 and i still play nintendo. I have just passed the legacy to my 9 year old nephew who enjoys playing nintendo, super nintendo and sega genesis with his auntie🥰
School sucked and these games were great. I'm 40, and I turned out just fine.
Indeed. I hope the kids in the story are also doing well today. I remember watching this with my step-dad I had an instant crush on the four-eyed girl 😊🤣
Yeah. I played Nintendo in 1988 as a 10 year old. Now I'm 41 and doing just fine. Lol
So those kids are pushing 40 today. Lol
@@TheMrKobeBryant2012 Yep. 43 here. My Goodness those were the days. I personally feel our generation was the last great one sadly. By the time we were old enough and ready for responsibility online gaming started to take off and that was the beginning of the end. Not for us being able to play games per say but doing what those kids were doing in the story huddled together after school exchanging ideas and sharing the controller ya know... actually being social.
@@TheMrKobeBryant2012 Are you doing just fine? Is that your final answer? Phone a friend? 50/50? Ask the audience? ; )
Who remembers Nintendo magazine, GamePro, and Tips and Tricks?
Idk if they still do that with a support number to help the player now we have the internet so I guess there's no use for that anymore
@@Master_Viccc Yeah the internet killed the magazines unfortunately.I can remember going into the store to copy the cheats I needed with pen writing them on my hand lol
Nintendo Power was awesome. I still have most of them.
@@westingtyler2 that's awesome. Remember the little scratch off cards that came with them? I remember putting a light behind them trying to cheat 😂
I miss Nintendo Power :(
This is how a report on any subject should be done, the reporter talked to all sides of the matter without any preconceived bias. Things really have changed
I found a brand new nes with a purple controller added in the box unused with the plastic still covering the console at a thrift store for 24.95. Brought it home yet just keep it in storage. Still has never been used. Not a bad toy forbbeing over 35 years old. Ill be passing it down to my grand kids one day.
Crazy to think all these kids are in late 30's early 40's now.. time flies.
40+ ye
Behold the ravages of age!
Still young.
I'm 31 and will be 32 this Jan. 26.
Old man: Now your playing with power!
“-Watching Nintendo.”
*corrects her*
“-PLAYING Nintendo.”
Savage.
That's at the very end of the video.
LOL, what a lame ass that lady is.
That lady is trying her hardest to look young but her attitude sells her out lol even this guy's wife was okay playing.
lol.. come on guys. “That lady” is Barbara freaking Walters. How do you not know that? She’s possibly the most famous female news anchor in the world. Maybe you guys should limit video games and start paying attention lol 😂
That’s what I was thinking XD World renowned journalist she is, but the gaming trends never impressed her.
Then she came back at him with "Now onto MUCH more important matters...."
I remember watching this as a child when it first aired. I was still trying to get my parents to get me an NES at the time.
John Strossel is an amazing reporter, he's still going on TH-cam. Absolutely love his videos
Parents, 1988: "Too violent!"
Doom Guy, 2020: "Hold my chainsaw."
Glad to see history repeat itself it makes history class seem useless
@@redlightningstrike2008 If anything history classes can be learned to see what will happen again and perhaps learn or even benefit of such an event. Because somehow history just managed to repeat itself someway or somehow.
“Now on to a more serious report..” she had no idea how big this would be
LOL. I thought she was a bitch back then and she still is. However, I had no idea she was actually HOT at one time and I saw her on this show for a long time. She treated John Stossell like he was the red-headed step-child with his report. What an Elitist BItch!
I would've been 8 throughout the whole year of '88 except New Year's Eve. This is so nostalgic to me. My family and I would obsessively play Nintendo along with my cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. What memories! ❤
Bro, I remember this time. I lived in Brooklyn and everyone wanted that game. My cousin and I was lucky to be able to get Super Mario Bros. 2 for Christmas and none of my classmates were able to get it.
He even joined the little ones and watched them play. That's true journalism.
I like how far we've come with technology. Parents no longer have to worry about video games corrupting their kids. They have to worry about the internet corrupting kids. In fact, parents probably wish their kids would play more video games instead of going on facebook, twitter, instagram.
GTA V corrupts no body. In fact, it probably makes society a little safer by giving an outlet for mayhem.
+Eric West are you the eric west from shannondale?
Marcus Brody nope. that's not me. I know there is a famous Eric West but he's a nice guy. I'm not him.
Yep, and the next generation we'll be fine with Facebook, Twitter, etc. and "worried to death" about whatever the new technology is. It's human nature.
***** Agreed, but you also must admit that every generation of parents think they were the last "good" generation and their kids generation is the one that is sending society to hell. Your grandparents generation did it, your parents generation did it, we do it, our kids will do it when they become parents, etc. And yet every generation turns out just fine (if not better) in the long run. It's human nature to whine about those younger than us. We all do it.
"Is the shortage real? Or are they holding back supplies?"
Some things never change.
yep. they did it again with the NES and SNES classic edition systems in 2017!
well back then chips were not everywhere like today with tons of companies producing very expensive manufacturing the advantage of companies like commodore owned there own factory and even supplied chips of various types to others eg Apple lol
@North American TH-camr not really for the stuff these use only so many chip fabs and everyone is using them
you dont wanna go ordering a shit ton and be fucked cause like said you are fighting many other companies wanting there chips done to you have a window to order and have to best guess what you need
and hope there are no issues at the fab itself during all this
also expensive and time consuming if you have to respin chips due to a flaw in design etc
so no matter what era there is always factors issues etc etc
eg switch and the nvidia design flaw though in that case it cost nvidia more than nintendo since it was nvidia design and not nintendos
but it cost them a lot in sales of games now due to the exploit and now that you can emulate the switch too already if you are a PC gamer
tbh buying a PC is the better buy if you shop right you can build a PC same price you pay for a PS4 and have better graphics and be able to play many other platforms eg mame/gc/dc/ps1-3/etc etc etc
i built my daughter a PC with i7-2600k few years ago and bought a 4k tv 43" for $500
she plays all that on it how she played BOTW zelda etc
ofc it is overclocked and tbh it paid for itself cause it also mined crypto lol whole setup actually made money haha
has a 290x in it
@@Video-Games-Are-Fun You lie!
@North American TH-camr Still all they do is produce whatever the pre-order amounts are and then X amount. They definitely are not going to go crazy and be sitting on 1.5 million unsold copies of a game or even worse a 1.5 million unsold systems.
This brings a smile to my face. Much fun was had not only playing on my NES, but going to a friends house and playing contra. If he wasn't a baseball fan, you'd go to another friend's house and play RBI Baseball. If he wasn't a football fan, you'd go to the friend that had Tecmo Bowl. Despite playing Nintendo, we still found plenty of time to play outside. Sports, snowball fights and trading baseball cards were big in my neighborhood. There were kids everywhere playing outside.
I've watched this video several times when i was 8 (now im 24) and started using youtube, always impressed with old games (cause they were away differente of what i was used to see on ps2 and xbox, almost something from another world)
Good days
He wasn't kidding when he called it an addiction. I still play mine all the time, even after 31 years. Long live the NES!
Extremely based. Good shit, angie
I live in a van down by the river now. Thanks Nintendo!
@@jaykelley103 sthu.
Its amazing Nintendo still sells millions of game systems almost 40 years later. Atari died out after the 2600.
@@user-or6yn8pm3c - I just bought my first Nintendo Switch, this last year. I’m addicted for sure. We never had an NES growing up, but our neighbors had the Atari 2600 and an NES.
I'm not proud of it, but I called Nintendo Hotline for The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past.
My parents were not happy about that phone bill lol.
Thought it was a 1-800 number or somthing... gotta look at the back of mine.. but is is suppose to be fee, unless on cellphone... my parents had the brick phone at the time, and I never used it... to expensive..
You’re not alone brother lol...
@@titanicwhiz iirc it was just a long distance call
Aahh... The days before TH-cam letsplays.
What were you Stuck on?
Classic I played every day al night miss those days much simpler
The nostalgia is a little too aggressive with this one 😂 I still remember Christmas morning 1986 when I got my Nintendo
01:08 wow over thousand miles to travel and visit dozens of stores just for one game? Legend.
@CAS It seems you did not live the 80's like I did, that game was so much fan in those years. We did not have the games of today or power PCs or consoles.
@CAS i was disappointed with SMB2 when it came out. got it for christmas that year
@B3ro1080 Indiana.
@CAS should we ban you?
Crazy how in 2020 he could just buy and download the game from the PlayStation store in a few minutes from the comfort of his couch
It's been 32 years, we still don't know what Joe did to Jane.
Joe ate Jane last cookie
@@funnyparty36 More like ATE her Cookie.
Joe be sniffing Jane
Their 31 year old son is playing Nintendo
*FBI Files theme plays*
I love how they say the kids are obsessed with the screen and they show them just staring at it moving around interacting with it yet the parents just sit in front of the screen and do nothing
I was a kid during that time, and I remember my parents freaking out trying to find copies of games. So glad we have digital downloads now.
I was 8 years old when this aired. These games lit a fire of imagination and love for technology that has been life long. I'm now an engineer and still in love with these games. So much so that just this year I built a retro console out of a raspberry pi that allows me to play every one of these classic games in one box. As I get older, the games and adventures stay the same. I didn't choose the 8bit life, the 8bit life chose me.
You just revealed your age
@@Orangeflava so?
@@bobbyjones-uv5cn ....what 😋
I was 4 years old. I didn't know this was a report ever existed until I discovered it today.
I came for the report. I stayed for the quality cringe.
There are two catagories of games: sports and adventure. Those are the only two.
Adventure was used loosely back then. it could mean RPG sometimes.
@Fluffynator Even on the black boxes
@@rainehappy7097 yeah. "adventure" would cover mario bros., Doom, zelda, final fantasy, frogger, and galaga back then.
@@westingtyler2 Galaga would be in the Shmup genre now. :)
@@westingtyler2 True, but that was a gross oversimplification, even back then. It's like saying "There are two genres of movies: romance and westerns. We have a very broad definition of romance."
All these kids are my age, growing up with Nintendo has been the best parts of my life.
I still remember coming come from school and my Dad had a NES hooked up ready to go when my brother and I got home. Was the best moment ever playing Super Mario Bros. with my brother and my Dad for the first time! Now I play it with my son on the Nintendo Switch and showing him the games I first played while he is now playing games like Minecraft and Roblox. What can I say......video games are awesome!
I awakened on my seventh birthday in 1992 with an NES hooked up and seven games waiting for me. I was in Heaven 😌
You! My man, iz a good dad. :)
PANZERFAUST90 why were people so scared of the SNES back then? Even my parents waited till ‘95 to buy one
Cool story!
Back in the day your dad would toss the football or baseball with you, now it's "get your controller" lol
Its crazy to think Josh who's aged 8 is now 35 to 36. Jason age 7 is now 34 to 35 Julie age 11 is now 38 to 39.
its crazy how time go's by.
Yeah I know DX
+J o n a t h a n crazy hey! I cant believe people age!
Im 37 and was one of those kids. Ahh yesteryear, the memories.
+J o n a t h a n I'm 36, going on 37. I still got my NES. The thing that defined my childhood, teenage years, and my adulthood. Nintendo was the very thing that was my making. It even became popular on the theater screens with the 1989 movie "The Wizard".
+Myspace Tom go back to MySpace and bring it back today to exacty the way it was in 2006
Back in 2000 my neighbor had a son who was 6 or 7 years old but couldn't spell "cat". He had terrible attention span issues and struggled with any text book anything.
One day when he got home from school i showed up with a Playstation and talked his parents into having him try out Final Fantasy 7. 2 weeks later he was reading and writing sophisticated words and even developed quite a bit of math skills.
Nowadays it's not unusual for some video games to be used as educational tools.
I call bs on this 100%.
This is a time capsule that takes me way back to my early childhood when I was just 4 years old. I miss those days. It was a helluva lot of fun, and a true night and day difference compared to today. It was a much simpler time where social media didn't exist to make everyone miserable, people didn't have smart phones to stare at all day and ignore everyone around them, and when a whole lot more people would actually go outside because there was much more reason to do so. While some will still go outside, half of them just stare at their phones. (I saw one young girl run straight into a post one day. I thought that was pretty funny.)
The whole "brain dead" from playing games theory is absurd. They require a helluva lot more thinking then TV and movies, but of course that doesn't get pointed out here. When is the last time anyone needed to strategize watching television? How about needing good hand-eye coordination? To this day, some older people with zero gaming experience still see games this way. They complain about how bad they are, then they go home and watch hours of TV. Such hypocrites.
That reporter guy was awesome! He got right into the whole "Nintendo is insanely popular" thing. He went to one of those Nintendo playing parties and seemed like he was having a blast. Even buying one and keeping it for himself. Now THAT is how you cover a news story, people.
Too bad he's now a alt-right nut who actually advocated removing the FDA.
That’s John Stossel. He is still doing that kind of reporting on his YT Channel.
I bought my daughter one for her 9th birthday but secretly it was for me.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same with me and my Daughter at Christmas time in the 90'd, but it was a PS1
My dad molested me on my 9th birthday.
Not sure if I can blame violent video games for this
Our mom used to play it after we went to sleep 🤣 told us when we were older.
@@mereanawi6194 My plan worked so good that I bought my other daughter a ps4 for Christmas. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bought one for myself the kids got there other games. I’m still lovin the old school games. Just sucks duck hunt only works on the old tube TVs though
What’s amazing is that no matter the time difference, kids will be kids and act the with the same innocence.
Love how stossel corrected Walters at the end "playing Nintendo", not watching
Little did they know that mortal Kombat was about five years out. LMAO.
LoudNProud and Doom 7 years.
@Tidder T Doom was released in 1993.
XBOXRULES Sony is the home of censorship now.
XBOXRULES haha 👍🏻
LoudNProud mortal kombat is mine. Best game ever made 1,2 and 3
This is so nostalgic, I remember in the 80s going out sledging and having snowball fights in the winter, followed by all huddling around the Nintendo on a CRT TV in the evening - those were the days.
Almost seems like the dark ages compared to now where every kid has his own TV, phone, tablet, laptop, mobile internet, wifi internet, gigabit internet, friends contactable 24/7, online gaming, millions of websites offering free informatin.
@@cattysplat I was born in 80' and wouldn't change my childhood for any other period of time. The regular Nintendo is still my favorite system of all time. The controller was simple and the games were fun and some downright challenging. We had tons of action figures, video games, classic cartoons, the music was great, Mike Tyson was unbeatable, Hulk Hogan and all those wrestling characters, kids still read books etc..and that was just the entertainment we found inside the house. We still spent most of our time using our imagination outside. It was a great balance of both worlds.
I used to beat up people with sledgehammers also. Nostalgia at finest.
Aaah yes those old CRT TV's. If you could manage to lift even a 32 inch TV yourself, you were ready to train for a spot of the Olympic weightlifting team💪💪💪
Truer words were never spoken.
I got a Nintendo for Christmas in 1988 when I was 13 I played the hell out of it for many years until about 2000 by the time I was 25, I recently bought 3 NES game systems I keep one in each room one of them has 1800 classic NES games but today I'm 47 years old and it doesn't thrill me like it did during my youth but it brings back memories and makes me feel better
Wish I could go back. Thank you so much for uploading this.
I'm still playing Nintendo in 2019 and I've been playing since 1989!!
@Chozeh Abaddon You sound like an idiot, I still have mine too and I fucking enjoy playing than any new console
"now on to a much more serious report" damn Barbra way to kill the mood lol
Lol... What was the more serious report tho?
What a boomer.
Lets face it, she's always been a bit of a bummer.
why dont u kids go watch some more nintendo.
@iwillnever4getu Nintendo isn't news. It's corporate greed, dumbing down humans.
I remember watching this segment in the fourth grade. What people don’t realize is that this was the equivalent of a TH-cam teaser. This was the first gameplay we could see beyond the game commercials. “You can pick up your enemies and THROW them?!” I didn’t get Super Mario Bros 2 as Christmas gift until it was in stock by FEBRUARY.
There will never be a era like this ever again. The magic was so real. Nintendo changed everything. You will never see this reaction from a game system again. The kids today are spoiled by these new game systems. Word of advice. Start your kid on Nintendo and watch them have the same love you did. They will never value the most popular game systems ever if they start with PS5 or XBox.
I think the next biggest reaction was Playstation, for sure. Beautiful times though for sure
Back in my day... 🙄
@@Digital_Ghost_ my dude this is fair
Wow, even before Mortal Kombat they were still complaining about video game violence? REALLY?!
Apparently seeing the gruesome scene of a over weight Italian plumber jump on a fucking turtle is just too much for kids to handle. All while happy go lucky music, characters and bright colors make the event even more traumatic. It's so stupid.
+Johnny “ACBlackJ0ck” Takigero The second anything becomes popular, the buzzkill patrol will be there to find some sort of problem with it.
+Ryan Clair There are just some kids who dont know and decide to do jump on actual turtles and pick up mushrooms from the ground.
+Johnny “ACBlackJ0ck” Takigero Idle pessimists will always find something to bitch about.
Yea they are jealous they don't have all that money
1988:
11 year old Kid: *plays contra or punch out*
Mom: Johnny! I told you those games are too violent
2018:
8 year old: *plays call of duty*
Mom: okay sweetie, have fun
So true
Lockwood Studios haha, don’t forget GTA
Absolutely incredible News segment and an absolute pleasure to the very last second.
I was 12 in '88. We loved Nintendo. We played for an hour or so, but it got boring and we went outside. In the summer, I was outside running from morning until evening. Not like today with games and open worlds. The graphics. Games are a different animal these days.
Imagine if they saw PS4 back then. They'd go into cardiac arrest
really hahaha. the games today are worse than horror movies back then lol
@Aleksander Stokholm Sondrup-Ottsen 9C Østerhåbskolen so you think a movie like Nightmare on Elm Street is worse than Call of Duty, or the Last of Us??
Imaginr mortal kombat 11
@Aleksander Stokholm Sondrup-Ottsen 9C Østerhåbskolen When i said Worse, i didn't mean Bad, I mean worse as in far more scarier. Context, dude, Context.
Lol sure would