Oh, cool. Hey everyone and welcome to another episode of the Nerdio of North podcast. It's the nanny podcast hosted by Northern Nerd, I'm on your horse Sam. And I'm the horse Paul.
And we're joined by team podcast Jake and Shuller. Yes, he's a games expert. And this week we are going very old school to talk about our favorite memories and try on some failures in the whole gaming industry. Sure sir.
Failure's from me. A lot of failures. But just before we started I don't know if people would log on for the start We did do a little nice little message for some friends of mine, Gav and Natalie. Unfortunately, Natalie passed away this week and did a brief battle with breast cancer.
She was very young and it was really sad and Gav's a special blow up for me as well. He helped me settle the Nerdio North community and the group as a whole. So I just wanted to say thank you to him and say this episode is dedicated to them. Natalie Gav and the Sun Magnus.
So I know they probably won't be watching it now but it's something for them to look back up there as well. So just wanted to get out of the way as well before we start. Like so have a bit of daff fun shall we say. No it's a lovely trip here that you did and we are all thinking of Gav at the moment and what he's going through.
Sorry I'm not getting emotional as well. No let's uplift it in. Let's okay just give him out. Everything discussed in tonight's episode is our opinions and our opinions alone.
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Let's go on and talk about the most toxic community on the internet. Wow that's a good point though. I've never been saw well emotionally and basically abused online just online gaming started. I've never been called so many things under the name.
I wish I was good at it on my game. I think only game I actually did start being decent. That was FIFA but even now is getting so impossible to play. It's ridiculous.
Well yes so we're going a bit old school. So we're going to talk about our first four years into the world of online game, just gaming in general. So what I'm interested in, what was your first experience with computer gaming? Yeah I will first because everyone seems to become really quiet.
I think mine, I must say when we injected his hour for the charity podcast, not that it was like every hour was my favorite but I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it and it like brought up a jogging memory of like early game and experience. I think I mentioned it on there that mine was a Mega Drive. I think but I did have a computer so it's a keyboard with a tape deck and I remember green and red buttons.
Was it an arm start? I don't know. I had a great gun. Mine did not have a gun.
Good because I remember the gun because he used to fight me down with it. Mega Drive was definitely definitely console wise like the first console I had and I was like I was the only kid on the street who had one. Not on his pitch. Yeah so Mega Drive and obviously Sonic, like kind of a Mega Drive without having Sonic really can't you?
No I think it came packed in so I think most people did have Sonic. So I remember things I can remember like echo. Yeah it was scary. No I just I didn't get it then.
I don't get it now. James Pond. How hard was James Pond? I thought about like a lot of the more bottom games.
You can play the games and to be honest to compute there's the work for you. I'll just do the work for you but games back in the day, even though they were side scoring they made your fucking work for it as well. Yeah he's like going to crumb and you get a claw. You might be able to like argue that the game industry has always had a bit of like adversarial relationship with the fans because it's because of the way design to take money from your half of the time because you'd be like oh you've got to put in more money to have another go.
So like when it trans isn't the home consoles the kind of had a bit of a rough start when they're like how do we make games that you don't have to put money in or put up again. So oh yeah because like before you got in your home like sitting here and stuff like that. But yeah so what about you Charlotte what was your first follow-up into the next game and industry? We got given of somebody I can't remember who I can couldn't the most assistant.
With Sonic built in and all the games and I just remember my dad playing asterisk. It was like age and great or something. Was it like the comic strip? Like as an athlete.
And the lucky day in gave out the Donald Duck one. Yes! I always come inside of magic that game because nobody remembers. No I remember it.
And like me dad playing it if I wasn't getting really united. One of the first games I ever played was a golf game with me dad called putting put in my friends. Like what I remember. It was like a crazy golf game.
Yes! That was like one of the first games I ever remember playing. Now say you must have had a master system at some point. Oh, master system did come before the Mega Drive.
I thought that was the thing when I was... Maybe it was quite hard. Yeah it was more of a blocky square with a version of Master System. It was one way I was like a big block square but then it was one that was a bit more rounded.
Yeah let me go straight to all of that. But you definitely saw that the game in the top didn't you? Oh yes. Yeah.
I don't remember now. Was it any? I should have gotten a picture of a master system. And then when you brought it.
Well as well they were like tiny and sweaty and had like three buttons on them. Yes I definitely didn't have that on for all that. I remember being like fitting in the hand. Well yeah like the Mega Drive one was like a batarang.
Like a black and black. Isn't it really funny how it's still it's like 2022 and controllers really haven't changed that much. I'll be getting into them 64 and then you're re-ish like with that controller. That was the worst one for that.
But no, what about you Jake? What was your first? Because you and Charlotte are the youngsters of the group really. Yeah technically.
Yeah I'm pretty sure I like touched a regular Nintendo and played like Mario and maybe like Chip and Dale. Sorry. It's a pretty good touch. Yeah it wasn't mine.
I just like had a quick go and I got like dragged away from it. I think it's like one of me parents friends house or something like that. But this was actually my first foray. Not with the Super Game Boy.
Look at this though. It's all yellow. This is great for the audio version by the way. It's gonna say like no one else is gonna know what you're putting up.
No. So just anyone who's listening on any of the podcasts on the audio version, Jake show us a certain Nintendo or SNES for us. Yes. Super Nintendo with the Super Game Boy attachment.
Gotta press the giant eject button. Yes. The modern consoles do that. I don't even know how to take it.
I only have to give it every time I want to do it. The one that's difficult as possible for you though is that because I want to do the game show version. That's why. But yeah like yeah, set in the scene Christmas 1995 I believe.
Got that to me first tiff deck at the same time. Wow what a Christmas. And I even got that Batman Returns game which was also set Christmas. So I was like a side scrolling beat him up.
I've got that from the drive on the most of the season. Yeah I think they were like pretty similar but like it was great. It was like obviously all the Tim Burton enemies like the guys with the huge skull the Devil Men. You could like throw them in other shop windows and stuff like that and bash the heads together.
You definitely like Batman. Mine was a little bit earlier because I didn't actually get a console but I did. Actually the first console was probably the master system. I was a Sega boy.
I didn't dare look into the world of the dirty world of Nintendo. But mine was a stand to me first. It was an Amstrag 64. It was a tiff deck.
One where the tiff deck was built into the keyboard. On the side. On the side yeah. That's what it has.
We weren't rich enough to have a Commodore. The Commodore 64 people they were the special people. But Amstrag was because I remember you got a Christmas card for Christmas. I can't remember the year but it was just amazing.
But the problem was what we had back in the day. You could have two monitors with it and the early monitor was green. Like all colors were green. Yes.
So nothing like within bring up the colour monitor for about three or four years after the release. But a lot of the games were in full colour. Some of the games were all movie related at the time. Gremlins 2 and a new batch game which was absolutely from the maze.
Back to the future too where you're basically a marbly on the skateboard. But the best ever game I've defined anyone to say is a complete this game. The foot and light is Dizzy Egg. Dizzy Egg.
I was obsessed with playing with Dizzy just simply because of the shapes and I think the movement of the ability. It wasn't as simple as because I didn't have control. Like a controller wasn't there. You had to use the keyboard.
So space bar used to be the jump and used to use the arrow keys to move around. But they're like PCD and now we're playing World of Warcraft without a mouse. But you had a jump in certain places. So if you were in a millimetre out from this and wise, you'd never made the jump.
And you had to try and creep past the dragon. If the dragon woke up it would kill you. I would never pass that for a dragon. I'd tell you what, it was the most really interesting thing.
But another broad-out later on the Mega Drive which didn't really have the same fit. But the nostalgia was there still because it was Dizzy Egg. But the best one ever. Like say again, I think I snapped a Tf I was that angry with it.
Because that's what the game it does. It brings out the worst. Oh god yeah. But it was barf versus the Sveest mutants.
And I've probably told a story to people before. But the whole point in the first level of barf versus the Sveest mutants is you've got to find things in the game to get rid of anything that's pink. Because the aliens are attracted to anything that's pink. And I'm wondering that only show is colours in green.
It was fogging impossible. And I didn't have a clue what was going on. So being barf sims and you want to skateboard flying about jumping over people. You pick up like a little cherry bombs and you have to send cherry bombs off like to scare off things that were pink or you've got to put them.
You can't build the fire things for the window that's smashing anything that's pink in the window. So for about two years of playing the game, I never even got past the first, like not even the first street because I couldn't see anything in that thing. And I didn't know why. That was just because we didn't have Google where we could search like for walking.
Oh like I did not know why. Why can't I get through this? And I'm all around the broader like boots so you can walk through like for two minute like the cheats and stuff like that. But in the day of we had no companions or walkthroughs.
So for two years of me, I did not know why I couldn't get past the first level until I got a colour monitor. It sounds like you got taken into my colour blind world for a while. Because I wouldn't be able to give you that. Oh no.
I want to ask a question. What's the game where you've lost the most hours too? I am probably very simple. Theme park.
Theme park? Theme park. Really? Yeah.
Mine will definitely be like various Pokémon games I imagine. So many batteries would have been twisted. Mine was so stupid. Mine was Kuber and Mama for the DS for the 10 dollars.
For the 10 dollars for the DS. Wow, I lost DS to that one. DS. I used to get what I call Nintendo on or 10 to 1 because my arm would be up here and it just cramped in like the centre part of the way my elbow was.
I couldn't move my arm for DS. I still get it now on the switch, but not as much because I can learn to put the game down. But Kuber and Mama really got us badly and I know you can get it for the switch as well. I'm so tempted.
We have obviously the same park. I love that game. Just like in my head, the idea was pretty important for you to build your rollercoasters. I know the broad end of modern days go back then when you were okay.
It was just everything and you had to keep with the park. When you completed the game, it was the most anti-kind moment. It wasn't just hours you spent days and weeks building this park so that you could be at profits and stuff like building a fucking business. But at the end when you completed, that was always my pride and joy.
It was the end screen, getting to that end screen and saying it finished probably is something that you always wanted to do. Never always used to happen, but you always wanted to see it. But with AIM Park, all it was was with the top half, kind of you were okay. It's the KXA in Well Done.
I never realized that because I heard so many rumors, my friends at school will complete balance because they would tell you like, oh, if you complete the theme park, you go into the game and you can go on the rides and stuff and I thought, that'll be amazing seeing the rides from the perspective of one of the people in it. We didn't have the graphics back then to do that. But as I said, these are the kids I told you about the two-minute sheets where you've done a certain chord and a lot of profit on the strip. That made it to win the magazines as well, so it wasn't all the kids.
It was in theme park too though, by the way. Yeah, you could go on and race. Oh, like when I was just making a child's would have seen that. What were you playing on, like a PC or like a PlayStation?
And it was on a naked drive? Oh really, there was one for that as well. I think I could play the PlayStation one. After the PC one.
That would be better with the mouse, definitely. Yeah, the people who want to definitely want to race. Don't get those type of games. My husband loves them, like he's just done Jurassic Park, where he's just built Jurassic Park, like he has a version of it and he's pretty messed up like really messed up.
Because the dinosaur's always get out. Yeah, well, it's a bit about that one. Actually, the guys have a lot of that in. Just a surprise as well.
Okay, then. You can always tell when the dinosaurs are getting loose, because they can come to you with the right choices. The dinosaurs always suck. You're not set up like a toilet stall block and be like, I don't want this a lawyer.
You're going to. That's what you're going to ask it. It's quite real. They do actually eat guests.
Yeah, so. Yeah, absolutely. He loves stuff like that. Like he loves building games like Skyrim.
Anything where he can get his teeth into, like really getting his teeth into. I think last year, he thoroughly enjoyed, which he was so disappointed. It was all the way. Like any donut was Witcher 3.
Like he was so bummed out with the fact it was over. Yeah, I think I've still got some quests left in Witcher 3. So I could go back one day. Yeah, it was really good.
As well, because I remember the excitement I got. Actually, I did have the Master System. My version had Alex the Kid built in. So she got Sonic built in.
I'm very jealous. Alex Kid was rubbish, man. Yeah, sorry, I'll have to correct you, because it's not Alex the Kid. Because the game has come for you, Paul.
I'm only trying to save you. It was like, you had to play like rock, paper, scissors against the bosses. So it was like a random chance that you might just lose and about how you'd done. How many items you bought, like the super car and the bike and the pogo stick and all that stuff.
You'd lose one game of chance and you're done for. I'll just, I've just spent the last hour getting Alex Kid and one level we mixed up for those companies in this game. But it's not. I can't even play that little robot kid.
Yeah, it was a bad boy. Hang on. When the boy was the one that changed into the dragon. Oh, I think the Master of Boy.
I was thinking the Master of Boy. I remember getting his Sonic for the Master System and being totally blown away like how good Sonic was. I went around me cousin's house, but he only had Sonic for the Mega Drive. And one from, I think it was Eitbit to 16 bit.
And I didn't, I was at 16, 132. I'm not sure. That was it, 16, I think. Yeah, the 16.
Well, the, the, the made-by blast process. That was the big market. I was just completely blown away. Like the graphics at the time, the change from the Master System where again, the Mega Drive was still blocky, but the colors and everything seemed a lot more vibrant and it just jumped out a lot more.
But probably Sonic was the first ever game actually completed from start to it. Wow. And getting all the Kia's Emeralds. Because when I found out about the Kia's Emeralds, I was all about that shit.
I wanted to get to the Sonic at the end. That was how you get through. I remember, I said it was a difference between the two. I think with the Master System, there wasn't the special levels.
But when the Mega Drive, if you hit one of the balloons and then you start seeing the sparklies go around, and you'd jump in and then you're in the special way and get your Kia's Emeralds. Because then I think it wasn't Sonic 2 where the Kia's Emeralds was hidden. Am I correct? Am I talking to all the bullshit now?
I think there might have always been tied to bonus games. Maybe Sonic and Knuckles did it some weird stuff, because there was probably like a ball. Yeah, there'd been a lot of changes in that. But yeah, I think because Sonic 1, I'd have the half pipe you used to have to go down.
Or was that 2? That was 2 because Kia's could be in that one as well. Yes, I could see it in my mind. Or was that Tony thing?
Wasn't it a pinball machine? Yeah, I had to jump and hit something. Yeah, that was all. That was all region.
But then Sonic 3 was a sphere that you ran around and you had to collect. You had to change everything. Yeah, you had to run around the outside of all the shapes. And if you touched one red one, you just kicked out with the bonus stage.
Again, you can understand why so many kids, I know I'm sorry to trigger anyone. I come up with effects because of the colours. And everything was just so bright and fast moving. It's probably created a whole generation of kids with problems, something as well.
Yeah, it could be anxiety and trust issues, because the game's the trade them so that. Is that what this is? They're a lot more friendly now, luckily. They're doxels.
I was other than Chip. Were we all Sega people? I know it sounded like he was a Nintendo boy there. Look at the face.
I'm not looking at the other consoles I brought. I've already talked about Game Boy. I always wanted it once. I always wanted it.
The advanced version. How was that advanced? It was about as powerful as a Super Nintendo. So considering the match to shrink down a Super Nintendo by 2001 or something.
The year 2000, the first Game Boy Advance. That was very impressive at the time. But yeah, I think I've told this on the original game's hour. But I had a friend who had a Mega Drive, so I used to climb over the fire escape and vice versa.
So we both shared consoles in that way. So that's how I played all my Sonics and Streets of Ridges and stuff. But yeah, I think I was pretty much the only kid who had a Super Nintendo for some reason. I have no idea why.
But you feel so cool though, I'm not title. So? But then it was like my friends had Mortal Kombat and stuff like that. That was always the thing because I think Sega had Mortal Kombat, Nintendo had Street Fighter.
Yeah, it was a bit. They both had both, but there was no Bloed. I think in Super Nintendo Mortal Kombat. Really?
I've got the Mega Drive, you had to put the Blood Cheething. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, like Street Fighter II, Turbo, I think I got that with the console and didn't know how to play it. I know how to play Street Fighter now, but it took me a long time to actually learn how it worked.
I thought the M-Tob over at Live's, like, Anth was obsessed. Like, we've got Master Cheet Boogs. Yeah, I'll all the note. Yeah.
He's even got like a proper thingy, joysticky thing, you know, the big ones, the big chunky ones. Yeah, I've got a few of those. You can see it's probably ones. Probably ones.
And it was, it's really fancy. So all around GX, the problem for all these. No, GX, really? It's all in the lines.
Me and my dad have sold all of ours. Yeah, it is. Like, I want it to go out. That's right.
I want it to go out to the podcast. And I'm going to be really cold and dark. Yeah, it sounds like you had a bit of a museum going on over there. They have all the games, like all the consoles, which is still weird, which I'm quite impressive.
Is it not just the Wall of Charlotte, is it? That's what I call it. Like, the Shrine of Charlotte. Shrine of Charlotte.
The Charlotte's Fig there as well. But yeah. Now now. What was everyone's favorite console if you had to pick one?
Because I've got mine to hand. And it's got a bit of a stupid story to it. So like, remember when like video game magazines and stuff would give you stickers and things to put on your consoles and stuff like that. So this is what happens when a sticker stays on for years and years.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Wow. Yes.
My Nintendo 64 is my favorite console ever. This has been everywhere with me, like to me, not as every weekend. Other friends houses. It's got the best game of all time in it right now.
Super Mario 64. Even though it had the most clunky worst put together control part in ever made. It made no sense. And it was so cumbersome to navigate and like that button on the bottom.
Why the fuck was the button on the bottom? You mean the Z trigger? Oh, it's useful. It's something that I think it's.
That was how you shot in GoldenEye. It was like, oh, the gun. I guess I'm just dead. I guess I've just stuck home syndrome myself to the end.
Sixty for pride. When you go back to the games, it did have the best games. Like Mario 64 changed the landscape for any type of games. That was the one that went, this is what Game and Can Be totally good.
But probably some of the fondest memories is the Mega Drive. And some of the games are game out. Change, not just like with the Mario ones changed. Side-swirling or getting into games like things like as was mentioned before.
Straight fighter. Straight fighter too. Absolutely brilliant learning. Like seeing a special trying not pressing special gotten too early.
And you know what a sense of thing is. Because you've got to build up out. You always start with, it depends which character you got. Someone was like in a rubber muncher or something but with a car.
If you press it too early, it was like, oh, I was not going to leave that for the boss. Yes. Sorry, you're on Streets of Rage now. I think you might have said Street Fighter.
Oh, sorry. Yes, Street of Rage. I'm sorry. That's my fault.
Yeah. I can't tell you that. Yeah. No, no, but yeah.
Honestly, like, Streets of Rage, exactly right. And I think in like, in like, Streets of Rage 2, like the special button would drain your health slightly. Yeah. If you actually let me hit like the C button or whatever it was, you would start doing this move and then like your health would be going down.
You're like, no. What was the last Street of Rage 3 in the came out? It was one of the... It was the last one.
It was the last one. Yeah. It was on the game pass now, yeah. Me and Kev played that during lockdown and just finished the end of the two days.
Nice. We've had nothing else. Who did you play? I can't remember what you got to unlock all the old characters as well.
In the well-known proper graphics from like the Mega Drive and stuff like that. Oh, there's a... So playing that, playing those graphics on like the modern graphic background, which was my god's name. Yeah.
I think it was really hard but it was brilliant. I think I always used to pick Max and two because he was like a wrestler. But I'm fine with Axel as well. You know the grand of us like a supreme move in the video history.
I can remember as well because we used to have the same type of bad guys, just different things. We'd end the use of change. There was a like a female one that when you punched it screamed and kind of cow it. So you couldn't like do multiple hits and it was like the most...
It was like punched and she said, BOW! And like I'm crawling the floor and you're like, GIGGLE, I WANNA HIT YOU AGAIN! Yeah, bye. Bye.
Bye, Street of Rage 2. It was like Dominatrix's with electric whips that were attacking us. So that was fair game. Everything you want.
Yeah, everything you want. The graphics are a lot better than you want. It was like we had names and stuff as well. That would pop up when you only when you were punching them in the health hood shop.
It'd be like this weird name's like Galcy Aaron. Just like I guess it was translated from Japanese. It's called Ben, Knuckle Over There, which is a cooler title. That is such a better title.
Oh my god. Why would they not call them that? Street of violence happen. It's a fighting game.
It's one that was walking around the streets and punch loads of dudes kind of games. I can picture early things in the head of it. Yeah. It's got amazing music as well.
The new one was a lot of phones for the real ones. Because you could find like if arcade machines in levels and if you hit them like a teaser, you can get like original boss levels. Oh, cool. Yeah, cool.
Cool. The thing's coming in my head. Well, mine's going to be a little bit more modern-ish-ish. Because my favorite console ever was me Xbox 360.
Oh, that's a good one. It's only because it's the console that I would never class myself as a gamer. But when I had a bad time, a couple of years ago, a few years ago now, and I put Batman on, then it was under 360. And it just started like my massive love affair of gaming.
And you know, a guy always said the gaming goes very well with mental health, really helps out. And it really, really does. And the Xbox 360 is where it all started from. And then after Batman, I went and bought the Lara Croft game.
And I just like totally fell in love with Tomb Raider. And it just started from there. Oh, games of war, I forget games of war. I have my favorite game ever.
I fell in love with that franchise. And it's the only time I've ever joined online gaming was through games of war. Yeah, that's starting like when you're loading up the game and you're going through what I get, Mark's Phoenix up with Jill. And you see like the bodies hanging there.
And the longest coming at you and stuff like that, that was like mind-blowing. I can remember people talking about that when it first came out. It was probably like the last time, because like, you know, as you get older, people stop being so amazed by stuff. Yeah.
I can still remember people who must have been like college or uni-towing, still remember people being like, oh, he's a war. It looks amazing. Yeah. It's all loved.
It's good with the chainsaw. It was my favorite. So honestly, I wouldn't say it was bad. I had the Airlands if I didn't have a Lancer.
But that wasn't bad. It's been a bit of a recession. I think I brought out a few years. It's got like a HLE version, I cleaned up version for the Xbox One.
Oh, see, this was at Maddy Dine. I remember when it came down to buying a new console, because we've always been PlayStation always. And I was like, do I get an Xbox just to be able to play a game of war again? Because only one that I have.
I have two Xbox 360s for some reason. And quite a few PlayStations. I think I have three twice for some reason. Yeah, spoil.
Yeah. Yes. And we just got DSS lying around the house as well. I found two the other day.
It was like, why are we just? Because we got so much. We got so much. We got so much.
I would hate to turn it on and see how many nintendoog's doing. I really want to talk about that. I'm not. Oh.
That poor booger. Someone posted a screenshot of the map from Nintendo because you know how you could draw a line to take your dog on a walk. And lots of people were like, this is just like unlocked a memory for me because I know what it's seen in Nintendo for years and years. My poor booger dog is probably nintendoog.
What was your favorite console? Um, as much as I was a Seeker kid, I think my favorite console was the GameCube. You were going to see it now. Wait, what do you mean this?
Yeah, I knew he was going to do that. Look at this handy dandy handle. It's so much better than Xbox One PS2. If I thought it was indestructible, that bad boy.
It wasn't even a second ago. It's still. We've got two because my sister broke it first one. Oh, right.
We've got a purple one. We've got a purple one and that one broke and we've got a black one though. And that sounded didn't break. Our boardage purely just a resident evil.
It was the only reason I bought it for. It was the party games for us. It was like, we would only want to have a game. I would literally come from school and all my friends would already be there.
Sit around and tell me on the game. You're on Mario Kart Double Dash or Donkey Kong or Mario Party. I would walk in and they would just all be sitting there and be feeding them. And that's why I love the game because that's what I remember.
Like all the friends around and all of a laugh and the part games that I loved. Yeah, it wasn't a bit of a flop door for Nintendo. I don't think I think it was the last console that Nintendo brought out before the Wii. Yeah, that's the one before the Wii.
It was kind of like competing with the PS2 and the OG Xbox. So obviously the PS2 ran away with that generation and the Xbox was kind of a slow start, but then invented online game and something. So they had their thing. But yeah, like me and Charlotte loved it because we had one.
It was just one of those. If you had one, you loved it. That was like the first one where I saved up money from birthdays and stuff and knew the release date. And down to like, I think I had to go to Korea or my Vindigson's at the time in town in England.
That was like taking me 120 pounds up of the counter to the camera game. I think it was so precious. I didn't know that one. I need to find it.
Like I said, the first hand editions, I just always got this Wii and send Mary Street next to where part lane is now. And using next to Heart Rat seems to be a second hand game shop there. Oh, the swap shop. The swap shop, yeah.
That's where I used to go to get all my games and stuff. I remember probably trust paths before like trying to trade in crap games for the better ones. I remember being excited because I got the power in just beating up game for the Mega Drive and I tend to be one of the worst beating drops I've ever played on in my life. No, there's certain games I love for the Mega Drive.
And I'm going back with the Mega Drive because actually I'll come back to that because we'll talk about the game group. I'm sure at the same time as the GameCube that came out, it was the console that killed Sia'Gorath. The Dreamcast wasn't that came out the same time and that just destroyed. It has not a little bit before.
Yeah, 999 when the Dreamcast, that was its famous release date. It died in 999. Yeah, it was a bad. Oh, no, it was a brilliant console.
The graphics was state of the starts, but I think it just couldn't compete with the PlayStation got released around the same time. Yeah, it was a bit of a wrong place, wrong time sort of thing. My cousins had one and yeah, it was great. Sonic Adventure was kind of nuts at the time to see Sonic in 3D with that giant whale that chases you through the level.
It had some good stuff like Soul Calibate and the fighting game. That was so good on Dreamcast. Some of that stuff did jump to GameCube because you probably played Soul Calibate too, Charlotte on GameCube. That was excellent.
I had Lincoln from the Legend of Zelda. Because I know it's like the name JXV wrestling fans and I know all the wrestling games I have to come up with was a wrestling game. I think it was WWF Royal Rumble for the Dreamcast and it was absolutely unbelievable. Like the graphics was better than anything that we got on the PlayStation for the time being.
But it was a big hit of console like Fox Seger for a long time. Best wrestling game I'll always be smacked down with the PlayStation. We saw that out. It's an embassy for the N64.
No, it was WWF Royal Rumble for the Mega Drive. I don't know what the whole world you're on. Who else had the undertake when he was expecting? Trying to do it with the wrestling game with three buttons.
That was a hard day. At least we can all agree that they're really terrible now. That's something everyone can agree on. It's interesting that you were saying the GameCube sort of killed it before the week.
Because obviously the Wii did take on a life of its own. Again, I was there for the midnight launch doing me a little Nintendo kid shooty. Not knowing that it was going to explode. I just wanted New Zelda game.
Let me just grab it all the Wii. That's in the garage? It is actually a fully functioning GameCube as well. You could put the GameCube discs in and obviously the four controllers.
Maybe didn't like what the GameCube turned out to be. But we're like, let's just shove one in the Wii. That was the first one where the emulator is quite easy to get on as well. You could play all the old games and stuff like this.
There's an there's quite easy on that just by having a flash drive. I remember that being a big thing for the Wii. Yes, so you could buy them legit but they would trickle them out like one game and one. We would all sit on early websites and think, what's the new Virtual Console game this week?
And it'd be like, I know like James Pond three or four cards. You'd be like, oh no. That was a terrible game for the VEDI game. I think that all terrible the James Pond games.
But when it was the thing you'd rented for that weekend. It was certain games that people went absolutely nuts over. But like, tell me the best thing. But when you played on them, you're like, this is bullshit.
Cool spot. I never got the love of back cool spot. If Sammy doesn't know Cool spot is the 7th mascot, which is a red dot with sunglasses from the 7th butles. Pretty much yeah.
But are you joking? No, no, I don't have a Google search of Kill's watch. I mean, that doesn't 7 up still have the dot in the logo. It's just not alive anymore.
It's not like someone should have gone soon with that shit. What about mikka kids? Like the McDonald's game? Don't even play that.
No, but I don't know. Oh wow, it really is, isn't it? It's like a cool spot. It really is.
It's even riding the 7th butles. I'm not even joking. Wow. Okay.
That's when we start cashing in on literally everything. I think the thought when it's our turn, no games like week, because before you used to get one game every month, then we'll get like 10 or 15 new games every week and kind of... You're looking at one of your... That's true.
But some of the best games and some of the hardest games, like I said from our youth as well, I'll go back to the Mega Drive because there was some of the ones I used to be obsessed with. Like Golden Axe was absolutely brilliant. Ennis shinobi, or should I be? Ennis shinobi I think.
Ennis shinobi is that well done, that lost Robert's son. Oh God. I'm a boarder, boarder, boarder. That version of the game that you had though, I'm pretty sure it had Spider-Man as one of the bosses but it was ripped out.
Sorry, it was ripped out. Yes, because he kind of got all the football walls. So they had to change him to be fully pink, but I think in the first run it was just Spider-Man. Just put him in the game, they didn't have permission.
Because I remember one of my friends, I did North Years, it was a special button you could press, but if you press the jump and fight at the same time, you've done a assault and fired all your spikes out at the same time. And that was revolutionary when I found that out. I was like, I can do this game now. The one game which I'm a little bit upset to see, I was obsessed with and I used to play it all the time as Michael Jackson's been more than.
Oh God, yes. I didn't have it but a friend dude. Again, I'm going to make jokes because I'm sorry if you're like Michael Jackson, but it was a game where you had to go around and push us and find kids. Oh yes.
You had to find like seven kids in every level. And you were dressed like Michael Jackson's nooker. And if you hit the fallen soul, you turn into the Michael Jackson space robot. Yeah, find all the bad dudes.
And I think when you got like the kids, bubbles would then drop on your shoulder and show you that point your way to the end of the level. Yeah. So I thought you were wearing certain bittings when you've gone through like the smooth criminal boots. You've done the Michael Jackson spinning through your hat.
That was how you kind of attack your attack board. But then to unlock the kids, you had to do the Michael Jackson thrust ball. Ow! So you were thrusting out kids to unlock them as well.
And I think if you like used up all of your life energy, again, there was something with all these games about like draining your life away. You would do like a little dance maneuver and all the enemies would join in like the thrillers on. The world all die. Wow.
I'll tell you what, find right now on Eevee. It's a fucking expensive game to get. Is it an imagined bloody hell. Yeah.
But that's the way time of time. I love that as a kid. When it had the music in it, it had like some move criminal like on a mega drive version. Yeah.
So like early-game music was the best. Like the same tune. Mario, Alex did do do. You cannot get stuck in your head on feet.
I can tell people once the first thing about gaming when we were kids. Never used to have estate points. And you played on a mega drive, you had to play on it for hours to complete it, otherwise you had to start all the way from scratch. I can remember my mum had a I was like a kind of board with cages on them because she was addicted to a mean bean machine.
It was a sonic spinner. Yeah. And she had like all the levels like, like a colaccord in fact to get the levels where you got to go and she had them all written down. Yeah.
That was like a match three game wasn't it? It was like a TETRICY. Yeah. Dr.
Robotnik's mean bean machine. So the names man. My, my, my, my, my, my was obsessed with puzzle bubble puzzle bubble puzzle bubble puzzle. There's both.
The puzzle bubble puzzle bubble puzzle was like the thing where you've played the things that was a bubble bubble. That one, I think it was that one. She was absolutely obsessed with it. It was a big man thing.
I'm really low to be original. And so I was the same. She used to be his game. But I want to play Tetris all the time.
Oh, yeah. I've been a big guy. I've been came out in the TV. Jesus Christ me man.
I'm used to take all the time. I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like a little 75 on be high bed. And it's like fucking hell man. Oh, yes.
The best console. The skybox. The battle chair. I remember I was progressed.
Tiger electronics. You mean as well? Oh, yeah. The Mario Square one where you had to jump from things and dodge and stuff.
That was early game. And then it went to like, if you have, if you have the company like the Commodore 64 and stuff like that, they're moving on to like the console wars, like Sega, Nintendo, stuff. And then play a system. Now we've got in phones where you get anything game.
We've got, like, as you said, skyboxes that game out with be high for them on. And that was it. That was it. But I'll ship as well.