Gaming hosts Josh and Ryan are back with another can’t miss episode. Join us as we chat the gaming trends that have gone extinct over the years. Things that were often the height of video gaming, but have gone the way of the dinosaurs and faded into video game nothingness. It’s a little bit of nostalgia, and a whole lot of fun! It’s another awesome video game filled episode from the Video Gamers Podcast! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Ol’ Jake, Disratory and Gaius Thanks to Legendary Supporter: FitNerdJohn Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What nostalgic gaming trends are discussed?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. Games come and go, consoles are born and die, franchises may take over the world and then fade into obscurity, but the memories we make from gaming will last a lifetime. Sometimes it's fun to think back about what used to be, and that's exactly what we're doing on this episode.
We're going to be covering some of our favorite gaming trends that are now extinct. It'll be a trip down memory lane like no other, but first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh, and joining me, Beanie Babies, Pogs, and Jinkos may be gone from his life forever, but he'll never let go of his precious bandanas.
It's Ryan. Thank God for Amazon, because I have bulk bandanas that I just keep in my drawer, so I can grab one of those bad boys for work. And then, man, shout out to Pogs. I miss those so bad. Those were the bomb.
I never played Pogs, dude. No? No. I know it was a huge fad. I just never actually got into Pogs. It was just a little bit past, like, I missed it. You know what I mean? I think I was just a couple years too old for the height of Pogs and stuff. Gotcha. Yeah. I was a huge fan of JNCOs. I had so many JNCOs. It was ridiculous. I remember my parents looking at me like, our kid's an idiot.
Does this kid not know how to wear proper size jeans? And I was just like, you guys don't know. These are super cool, man. This is what's going on right now. Funny thing is, JNCOs are actually making a comeback, dude.
Yeah, I've seen a lot of those 90s trends are coming back.
Yeah, because they were awesome.
Yeah, 90s. It's the bomb. The bomb.
Well, welcome in, everybody, to the Video Gamers Podcast. Thank you for joining us. I am so excited for this episode. It's been a little while since we've kind of done a, I don't want to say a retro, but maybe like an episode that talks about gaming back in the day, as far as that goes. So if you are over the age of, eh,
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Chapter 2: What are the memories associated with arcades?
You know? Oh, man. I miss those days, dude.
Josh, you guys can't see it. Josh is fired up right now for sure.
I am. All right, Ryan. What's one that you got in mind?
Oh, man. So I'm going to do one that... Let's deal with one that everybody knows. When you think about it back in the day of things you remember, one of the big ones for me was always the cheat codes.
cheat codes looking up your old cheat codes getting all that stuff like who who i mean do you want does anybody really use cheat codes nowadays like they don't exist they don't like what you know back in the day it was like start select l1 l2 r1 r2 left on right up left on right up and then you know there's a million especially for the old gtas like to where you would go you'd look them all up and then you would you would use all those cheat codes just to have fun and go crazy and do stuff that you normally wouldn't do in the game or even
tony hawks put perfect balance on and all those crazy ones but it's just you you don't not only do i not even think about it like i just don't even think like you said they exist anymore i think we call them mods i think yeah just mods now basically you know uh i think the world's most famous cheat code now you might be a little too young for this ryan but contra oh so do you remember that it's called the konami code
Yeah, I'm familiar with it and of it, but I don't remember what it is.
It's burned into my brain forever, dude. I would be 97 years old and still able to... It's up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start. It's just... I mean, it's there forever. Forever. Exactly. And it was the cheat code that gave you 30 lives in Contra versus three. And even with those 30 lives, you probably still weren't beating Contra because that game was hard.
But cheat codes, it was really neat because people have to remember, this was the days before the internet. So how does somebody find out what a cheat code? You can't just go on Google and be like Contra cheat code because Google didn't exist back then.
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Chapter 3: How did cheat codes shape gaming experiences?
Well, speaking of getting a game and taking it home, what do you remember as one of your favorite things when you pick up that new game that you have just been wanting and you can't obviously play it in the car? What do you do? You sit and you just scour through that manual. You look through all the characters. You read their bios. You look at the descriptions.
You look at the controls so you know ahead of time, like, all right, I'm going to be ready. I know that this button does this. This does that. Get a little bit of backstory. Read over the case a few times. Reread everything again because you're still so excited. Oh, yeah. That was one of those that I desperately missed, being able to just sit and browse through the game manuals.
People don't understand either because nowadays like almost every game comes with a tutorial kind of built into it. Yeah. And so they're like, what did you guys need game manuals for? But these game manuals were, were really in depth.
And a lot of times they were almost like works of art in and of themselves, because it's like you said, like sometimes they would introduce you to the characters and have like little write-ups like you're playing as, you know, Mario, you know, you know, or something like that.
And it would give you like a bio on Mario, a bio on peach and, and you know, Luigi or whatever the game was that you were playing. And like a lot of times there was art or screenshots from the game in the manuals as well. And then the other cool thing was like you said, the controls, right? Because the manual would actually tell you how to play the game, but you didn't know. Like, that's the thing.
Like you'd be like, wait a minute, dude, I can triple jump. You didn't know that, but the manual's like, now to triple jump, press A, followed by A, followed by A. What? No way. And then you get home, and the first thing you do would be like, I want to see this triple jump, man.
Yeah, I want to try this out for sure. Yeah, speaking of, dude, check this out, man.
Ryan is showing me a Metal Gear Solid manual for the original PlayStation.
This is my original copy from 1998 that I got when I was a kid. Dude. It has the table of contents, and it's got all the... Maybe I'll throw some pictures up on our Discord or something.
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Chapter 4: What was the excitement of midnight game releases?
Or it was a release that you knew was coming out and you would run to that section. There's the one copy left. Yeah, it was the one copy left because if it had the box behind it, you knew that it was in stock. The worst feeling in the world was just seeing 20 boxes of something and then no boxes behind it. And then what would you do, Ryan?
If it was really a game you wanted and the boxes weren't on the shelf, what was the one thing that you would do right after that?
You'd go up to the front and see if they had anyone turn any in.
absolutely every time yeah you'd be like um excuse me uh has anybody returned uh halo two and they'd be like oh let me check you know and then they'd start digging through and half the time it was like no sorry sorry but every now and then you'd see them open it up clip it and they'd be like oh yeah here's one and you were just like yes
yeah exactly and then you you get that and you're in the car and then they get the pizza and you're just smelling the pizza and you got your game and just life is great you know mom can i eat my room please and then they're happy because they got a babysitter for the night so they're just like yeah go ahead go go off and play and you just disappear and do nothing but game for the rest of that night and uh it just you know man yeah that's that's one of those peak like childhood things
It really is. The main thing was you don't ever, ever return that game late. Yeah. At least in my family. Dude, if you forgot that that game was due back, because you always got two days, right? Yeah. Like you got a Friday night and Saturday and it had to be back. I don't know. Like, was it Saturday night or Sunday? I don't remember. It's been a while.
But it was like, if you forgot to turn that game and your parents account got a late fee slapped on it. Boy, were you in trouble then?
Oh, yeah. And those were expensive back then, too, for a late fee. So it was a big deterrent. But yeah, you would not be getting a game for a while. That's for sure. Oh, man.
I miss those days, dude. My brain just went into some insanely happy place right there.
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Chapter 5: Why are game manuals significant to gamers?
But then at the bottom of the page, it would be like cheat code and be like, you can get this item or this weapon or extra lives or something like that. And it really just, it added that layer to games that is awesome. Now, again, I'm a little bit older than you, Ryan. And so before strategy guides got really popular, if you got stuck in a game, you had zero option except for one thing.
And that one thing was an old... I don't remember if it was 800 number... I think it was 1-900, if I remember right, because you knew you had to pay, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you could call... Now, famously, Nintendo is the most famous for this. You could call a Nintendo game counselor. And there was a whole show on this, dude, that was awesome to watch. And you could call this 1-900 number. And a real live human would pick up because we didn't have these phone answering things back then. And push two. A person would pick up. And say like, hey, my name's Jeff.
I'm a Nintendo game counselor. What can I help you with? And you'd be like, hey, Jeff, I'm playing Final Fantasy and I don't know where to find this thing, you know? And then Jeff would be like, oh, awesome, dude. Final Fantasy is such a good game. Where are you stuck at? And they were just like, they were people that like... You thought they knew these games inside and out.
Yeah.
And it was the most amazing. You felt like you were talking to the professor of Nintendo.
The grandmaster.
Yeah, legitimately, because there was not a question they could not answer.
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