Young People React to my Favorite Childhood Games

[David S_rpr1z3 Gauthier]

Video Games have changed. We all have TONS of core memories of gaming as a kid: taking turns at a desktop with a friend, saving up the budget and buying a game with my own money - or pulling an all-nighter to unlock that last secret character …but can I TRUST my memories? Were games really better when I was coming up, or do kids today have it better- even with all their loot boxes, giant downloads, and horse armour? Are console and PC games the same? We’re putting nostalgia to the ultimate test and  bringing in some fresh eyes to help me shatter my rose colored glasses: 8 young people will be playing some of the games that shaped Linus into the Gamer you see standing before you today.

 

 

[ToboRobot]

Old game manuals were sometimes amazing (and closer to a book).

But the physicals maps/posters?  I miss those so much.

And if you like Road Rash, there is a modernish Road Redemption to scratch that itch on steam.

[Needfuldoer]

These kids never knew the pure joy of shooting robots with a staple gun from a swivel chair.

 

 

[Sir_Alex]

Since @LinusTech is bragging about his best childhood games,
Here's some my most favorite childhood games from 90s and early 2000s

 

1. Heroes of Might and Magic 2
   
2. Spy Fox and other Humongous games
   
3. Harry Potter 1 and 2 on PC(Each console had entirely different HP game, wild)
   
4. Super Solvers: Gizmos and Gadgets
   
5. MechCommander 2
   
6. NFS: Porsche Unleashed
   

 

[CasualExtremist]

If this wasn't a part of your childhood, don't talk to me.^/s

If I'm remembering right, I am fairly certain there was a hard reset you could perform on the old HP computer that reset the tokens because this was before companies had much care about gaming. It was pretty much a pile of bloatware, but my nostalgia is doing some heavy lifting in my fond memories of FATE. I think this was also my introduction to Insaniquarium. Both are a bit lack luster compared to now, but for a lower-income household with an old HP laptop for us kids to share/abuse, this ABSOLUTELY SLAPPED.

[GreenLeaf]

love how they called Linus' son "lil seb"

[CasualExtremist]

39 minutes ago, Sir_Alex said:

Super Solvers: Gizmos and Gadgets

When I was introduced to this, I think I had just entered grade school. I was a bit to young for some of the concepts, but holy sh** did you just strike a nostalgia nerve (felt like a fever dream, remembering this)! Thank you for reviving an old memory! What a classic!

[Sir_Alex]

2 minutes ago, CasualExtremist said:

When I was introduced to this, I think I had just entered grade school. I was a bit to young for some of the concepts, but holy sh** did you just strike a nostalgia nerve (felt like a fever dream, remembering this)! Thank you for reviving an old memory! What a classic!

For sure, and it was fun assembling your car to race against the mad scientist.

It got progressively harder after each race.

[unijab]

Damn youngins dont know how good they got it today

[Ha-Satan]

I always thought Linus was older than me I guess because he's been on YouTube so long but it turns out we're the same age, huh

[Zodiark1593]

Man Linus, look at you with your fancy pants PC box. Road Rash for me looked like this. 
 

 

It’s not exactly on PC, but would love to see a younger gen play some Digimon World from the PS1. Played the hell out of this at 9-10 years old. See how well a modern Young-in can take care of a digital pet. (And yes, the below screenshot displays one of the game’s many quirks)
 

 

[smcoakley]

5 hours ago, CasualExtremist said:

If this wasn't a part of your childhood, don't talk to me.^/s

If I'm remembering right, I am fairly certain there was a hard reset you could perform on the old HP computer that reset the tokens because this was before companies had much care about gaming. It was pretty much a pile of bloatware, but my nostalgia is doing some heavy lifting in my fond memories of FATE. I think this was also my introduction to Insaniquarium. Both are a bit lack luster compared to now, but for a lower-income household with an old HP laptop for us kids to share/abuse, this ABSOLUTELY SLAPPED.

FATE was unironically a fantastic little game. I actually replayed it a bit about a decade ago and it was still not bad at all. You could do some pretty wild things in it too with cheats, which weren't difficult to pull off, since much of the game data was stored in plaintext.

[Retrodex Gaming]

10 hours ago, ToboRobot said:

Old game manuals were sometimes amazing (and closer to a book).

But the physicals maps/posters?  I miss those so much.

And if you like Road Rash, there is a modernish Road Redemption to scratch that itch on steam.

Having something to read on the toilet, before phones, and that wasn't the shampoo bottle was a life saver.

Seeing lil' man come into his own in these latest videos is awesome and a credit to Linus... until he starts slating old games

[Blasty Blosty]

Just gonna leave this here

 

[DeerDK]

Aww man, I recall playing the Road Rash demo over and over again with two of my best friends back then. 

Guys, you are nostalgia milking right now, and I'm loving you for it.... 

[DeerDK]

1 hour ago, Retrodex Gaming said:

Having something to read on the toilet, before phones, and that wasn't the shampoo bottle was a life saver.

I usually stored a Jumbo book (little thick Donald Duck comic book) in hollow space in the radiator. The relatively often dissappeared and returned to the shelves, so I guess my parents were on to me, but it didn't stop me 

[VirusDumb]

dude I'm a huge road rash fan, but these people are like wayyyyy older than me

[NuttyComic]

Being a kid of the 90s, one of the first games I remember playing (outside of watching my Mum play Wolfenstein 3D) was the educational game, Adiboo.

 

 

 

[KidKid]

16 hours ago, David S_rpr1z3 Gauthier said:

Video Games have changed. We all have TONS of core memories of gaming as a kid: taking turns at a desktop with a friend, saving up the budget and buying a game with my own money - or pulling an all-nighter to unlock that last secret character …but can I TRUST my memories? Were games really better when I was coming up, or do kids today have it better- even with all their loot boxes, giant downloads, and horse armour? Are console and PC games the same? We’re putting nostalgia to the ultimate test and  bringing in some fresh eyes to help me shatter my rose colored glasses: 8 young people will be playing some of the games that shaped Linus into the Gamer you see standing before you today.

 

 

I love some of my dad's favorite video games from when he was a kid. Pacman, Galaga, and Donkey Kong. Simple but awesome. 

[KidKid]

I love some of my dad's favorite video games from when he was a kid. Pacman, Galaga, and Donkey Kong. Simple but awesome. I played them all.

[Ha-Satan]

This was the first game I ever played lol:

 

 

I don't think I ever got more than three or four screens in.

 

[AWatson]

1 hour ago, Ha-Satan said:

This was the first game I ever played lol:

 

 

I don't think I ever got more than three or four screens in.

 

Oh wow, that unlocked a memory I didn't know I had . Pretty sure I played this but not sure what on. Might have been the Commodore 64 or the Amiga ports. Maybe the MS-DOS version though. 

[Ha-Satan]

6 minutes ago, AWatson said:

Oh wow, that unlocked a memory I didn't know I had . Pretty sure I played this but not sure what on. Might have been the Commodore 64 or the Amiga ports. Maybe the MS-DOS version though. 

Yeah, I played the original version on my dad's Mac II. By the time I played it (I was maybe 5 years old, so '92 or '93), this was his "old" computer that he still had sitting around in his office at work. He would take me up there and let me play on the old computer while he tried to get work done on his main machine.

 

Eventually that "new" machine also got made available to me and I was able to play Spectre on it:

 

 

A few years later, when we got a better PC at home, I remember spending a lot of time playing Sim City 2000 and Need for Speed II (with the keyboard only LMAO). But by that time I had gotten a Playstation so I moved over to mostly console gaming for the rest of my childhood.

[AWatson]

This video was great. Half for the sheer nostalgia factor for some of the games on it, but also just getting me to dig out old memories of games. 

 

I was thinking about it and I would probably organise my own "list" by consoles. They came out before I was born, but I've got very vague memories of playing games like Frogger and Rainbow Islands on my Mum's Commodre 64/ZX Spectrum (she had both, not sure which!) but probably the earliest solid memories are playing things like Golden Axe and Mortal Kombat on my uncle's Amiga, or Sonic & Tails on my Mum's Sega Megadrive. Trying and failing to reach the end of The Lion King / Aladdin on my sister's Sega Game Gear. Watching my Uncle play the original Tomb Raider and try to scare us by letting the dinosaurs/bears eat him. Too many others for a forum post.

 

PCs came later for me, all on the "family computer". Dark Colony is probably the earliest PC game I remember playing myself (I'd have been ~7), although I remember watching my Mum play through Myst (and failing to help in any way). Dodgy disks full of cracked games used to appear at home from my Dad's work (including my first introduction to Warcraft 1 and II and CIV). Eventually, I'd go to a relatively well-off friend's house who had THREE PCs all hooked up by LAN (mind blowing to me at the time), playing stuff like Unreal Tournament, various RTS games like Starcraft and C&C games against him and his brother.

 

Warcraft III was probably my biggest PC gaming obsession when it came out. I sunk so many hours into the custom maps online .

[bluehawk]

It's funny how parents were and still are worried about violence in video games but many of us were just playing games managing cities, amusement parks, etc basically homework games.