There are some things that you only get if you grew up gaming in the late 80s / Early 90s.
Whether it be the lack of a save feature, the never-ending rumour mill, or a long forgotten, nostalgic ritual; here are 10 Things Today's Gamers Will Never Understand.
00:00Today we're going to be taking a look at 10 things today's gamers will just never understand.
00:07You'll moan when games are running in 720p on your Xbox One, but you seriously can't understand real graphical limitation
00:14unless you've played and owned any of the consoles from the mid 80s to early 90s.
00:18You literally have a completely different version of the game across say 5 consoles,
00:21all of which had hugely different graphics and gameplay mechanics.
00:24When the 3 console system came in with platform exclusivity, this obviously died off big style.
00:30The Game Boy was a total revolution.
00:33All of a sudden you could game on the go, and more importantly there was a library of games,
00:36it wasn't just some one shot Donkey Kong handheld.
00:39But it wasn't as if Nintendo didn't know this.
00:41There were countless revisions to the original design, mainly to do with size and colour,
00:44and at least everybody owned two different versions of the console,
00:47mainly because, well, this one was yellow, so I wanted it.
00:50It was a masterclass in customer retention.
00:53Oh, so you're not really sure what to do next?
00:55Well, get ready for either a month of trial and error,
00:57or the long wait until someone you know beats that section and tells you the secret.
01:00The internet was nowhere near as organised as it is today.
01:03There weren't just walkthroughs all over the place.
01:05If you wanted to beat a game on your own and you happened to get stuck,
01:07your only source of information was to head down to the local game store and check out one of the guides.
01:12From finding the Triforce to resurrecting Aeris,
01:15from finding Mew under a truck to naked Lara Croft, the rumour mill was rife.
01:19With no real voice of reason out there but magazines, who loved to stir the pot,
01:23people who wanted so desperately to believe in a rumour would spend hours trying to follow a set of stupidly long instructions just to get their prize.
01:30Now all you've got to do is hit up YouTube and read the first comment that screams fake.
01:34When we moved to disc in the mid 90s, was there anything as satisfying as dropping a pile of cash on something like Final Fantasy?
01:40You'd open it up and there'd just be three discs of pure gaming bliss.
01:44Then you get to disc 2, misplaced disc 1, and you can't actually play the game anymore.
01:48It was something you'd only ever do once, but from then on you made sure that each disc was stored in its correct case across your entire collection.
01:55Passwords, passwords, and more passwords, they were pretty much wiped out by the dawn of memory cards, save for the few primitive titles here and there.
02:03Back in the day, inside every Karo's case there'd be a folded piece of haggard paper with random letters, symbols, numbers,
02:09all of it scrolled on there just so you could resume from where you left off.
02:12You might think the Wii's garish accessories are bad, but try growing up in the 80s and 90s.
02:17Companies were just coming up with anything and throwing it out there for all to buy, even though it often didn't work.
02:22We're looking at you Sega Activator, and you Nintendo Power Glove, or sometimes it just didn't make any sense at all, like most of Namco's peripherals.
02:30The horrible thing was going around to a friend's house and watching how proud they were to own all the stupid things for all of 10 minutes.
02:36Now, this one still stings a bit. You want to try out that big game months before release? Just buy a magazine and get the demo.
02:42Or maybe you keep getting killed, or you just want to change the colour of your car? Buy a magazine and get the cheat codes.
02:48Of course now, you get all of this for free. All that money gone.
02:53Multiplayer is looked at as pretty much an online exclusive thing now, but when was the last time you actually sat down with somebody and played split screen?
02:59Back in the day, that was all you could do, and it would always end in a fight. Local competitive multiplayer was a serious friendship killer.
03:05If you thought your friend was cheating or using your side of the screen to gain an unfair advantage, that's the last thing they would ever do.
03:11After racking our brains, trying to think of the number one thing that younger gamers just wouldn't have a clue about,
03:17it has to be the magic of fixing a cartridge by pulling it out of the console and blowing on it.
03:21It's one of those things that takes you back just thinking about it, and if you never had to do it or you didn't grow up in the cartridge age, you won't get it.
03:28But hey, it was a time and place thing, and a magical one at that.
03:31What are your favourite gaming memories? Let us know if there's anything that we missed in the comments,
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