Sega Mega Drive or Super Nintendo?

It was not recent.
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[BlairBearStare]

Something about James’ calm voice gives the energy that you’re visiting friends and they’re showing their collection. James just exudes ol’ mate energy

[benmason]

Not only is James just a really cool guy, he has cats 🥰

[Lurkley]

As someone who was born in the mid 80s, it’s funny to hear little explainers like ‘we used to rent video games from blockbusters’ or ‘we couldn’t use this port, didn’t even know what it was’. But it does make me think about how different we experience these things now, and this sort of seems like a cool historical artefact.

[Wok]

The Mega Drive was the first console we had as well - it was second-hand from someone my parents knew but it came with a copy of a game called Desert Strike (I loved that game and it's sequels BTW). Anyways, one of the games you showed for the SNES, Rock 'n' Roll Racing was a game we borrowed from the local newsagents (who did the whole video hire thing) - both me and my sister liked it so much we ended up convincing the folks to by a copy to keep. A hell of a lot of nostalgia here :D

[thegammakat]

Twice the cat in this one. Very good. Cool to hear about your experience with getting into video games.

[Fatcat]

the rf story really resonated with me. as a younger sibling, i was on dedicated cable wiggling duty when my brother and i were playing ocarina of time, and occasionally the picture was good enough to see

[scorpionelite]

the second i saw the stickers on home alone game i just screamed “VIDEO out loud in public. I miss that store so much

[FeatureHistory]

I used to rent PS2 games and DVD from my central Victorian town's Video Busters. No idea if the two are related or if it was just the video store equivalent of a chicken shop being called Charcoal Chicken

[SpikedPie]

Hearing the Word Hire in place of rent is funny, is that a normal Australian thing? Also, excited for your channel! Cool history of your vidyagames

[kweef]

Your collection looks freakin sick dude! I know it would be a long video, but I'd love to see a tour of your collection.

[Alacarte]

As a European, specifically English, Nintendo in the early 90s didn’t have much of a grasp here, so I was a sega boy, master system and mega drive, though later my uncle got a SNES, and I remember I always loved playing it, Top Gear (not related to the tv show) was an amazing racing game that riffed on outrun, had an amazing soundtrack too. Good to see you have you own channel James, can’t wait to see loads of “ol’ mate” fixes

[blackroseruby]

The first ever console I have vivid memories of playing was my great grandmothers SNES. Jamming out levels and (eventually) beating Super Mario World with my brother is what I remember my world being at 5 years old. Ironically, the original SNES is 13 years older than me. The console is in my hands now, in its yellow, gray, and purple US spec glory.

[RestoreTechnique]

DankPods but instead of MP3 players and a pet snake, it's retro gaming a cat.
Edit: oh damn you're actually mates with him and have a channel together. 🤦‍♂️ Makes sense now

[Therealadriaanvisser]

Best of luck with your own channel James! I’m not sure if your content will be for me tbh but I love the chemistry and dynamics you guys have on Garbage time so I’m sure this will be entertaining too

[gordonwiley]

Very nice collection. N64 and game boy color were my earliest consoles, my dad woke me up late one night to show me he bought mario kart 64 and we played for hours. Before that I always just watched him play PC strategy games.

[OzRetrocomp]

1:34 If it's the Video Busters I'm thinking of, it used to be on Grange Rd at Welland. It was massive and now it's a Chemist King (apologies to non-Adelaide people reading this who probably don't know or don't care about this comment lol). BTW love the cats.

[Subject]

Man this is a great channel. Thanks dank pods for telling us that this exists.

[Karcade]

During this era of gaming I just played my cousins systems. My family were very low income so I didn't get my own game system until the PS2. This was my first gen of real gaming I remember and what I think of when people say retro, my mind doesn't even think of NES first lol.
Obviously channel grew quick but happy to be here, loved the personal retrospective

[VectorLog]

I thought this was gonna be a bait and switch where james was all like "actually i was a turbografx kid" and then the video cuts to james with like 3 arms with 7 fingers to each hand

[Tendies]

I've learned so much about video game history thank you so much James for all the videos!!