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I have a ton of wonderful core memories of gaming as a kid,

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taking turns with the one controller our family could afford,

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saving up and buying a game with my very own money and actually owning it,

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pulling my very first all-nighter to get that one elusive Pokémon.

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And whenever I compare those memories against modern gaming,

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it's pretty clear to me that video games have changed.

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But can I trust those memories? Were games really better when I was coming up,

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or do kids today have it better, even with all the loot boxes, gigantic downloads, and horse armor?

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To find out, I'm bringing in some fresh eyes to either offer me affirmation

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or to shatter my rose-colored glasses.

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These eight young people are going to be playing and providing their honest feedback on many of the games

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that shaped me into the gamer you see sitting before you.

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And I can hardly wait, just like I can hardly wait, to shape this segue to our sponsor.

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This one I'm excited about. Everybody looks back nostalgically at Roller Coaster Tycoon,

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but the Tycoon games have existed since long before then, and my first exposure was Dino Park Tycoon.

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It was the very first game that I bought with my own money

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from the Scholastic Book Order pamphlet, and it was the very first game that I ever had to upgrade my computer for.

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Not a new GPU or anything like that. GPUs didn't exist yet.

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Instead, I needed a three and a half inch floppy drive

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instead of a five and a quarter inch floppy drive so that I could read the two game disquets

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that it came pre-installed on. Do you have nostalgia for this?

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I do. I know what I signed up for, but I think I'm a little older than you guys think.

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Whoa, what is it, one FPS?

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It's about the gameplay depth, not how many FPS, sir.

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I like this little guy. It looks like he's not wearing any pants. That's gross.

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Does he have a tail? Oh, is he a dinosaur? Oh, okay.

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The bank has approved a business loan of $5,000.

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Of course, back then, you can use $5,000 to open a park.

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That was a lot of money back then. I'm just going to spend all my money.

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I'm broke. Sign me up. Oh, wait, what did I buy?

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These young kids are going to discover that gaming used to be pretty unforgiving.

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They are all going to go bankrupt. In Minecraft, I usually build my houses in the plane's buy-homes,

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so I'm going based on that. So, though you're buying, you spent all your money,

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you'll probably, no, no, I still have $5,000. We can make this work.

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Yeah, you're going to buy dinosaurs, food, and hire people for $1,000.

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Good luck, buddy. Okay, what is this menu? There is a Fences tab on that book.

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Oh my God. UI has improved a lot in the last 20 years.

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But you know what hasn't is the included documentation in games.

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Dino Park Tycoon came with a manual, and honestly, I think games could use a little more of that these days.

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Where's the instructions? He's telling you what to do right there, literally.

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Not that it would help people who can't read. Let's go with wood right now.

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If the dinosaurs break out, that's another attraction. Nope.

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I don't have a lot of money, so I've got to go with one of these cheaper ones.

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So I can get a colophysis or a dino nichis.

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Let's go with a dino nichis. That's cool.

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Okay, we're off. Is that my dinosaur? He's so cute.

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Is that him? Is that Diano? Yeah. How do I navigate to you?

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Oh, there we go. It's about as far as you can see. That's it?

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No, Diano, come back. Well, maybe you shouldn't have built your pen

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in the corner of the park, smart guy. The graphic of the dinosaur is kind of funky.

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He just was like a lizard. How old was Linus when he played this game, do you know?

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Dino Park Tycoon is what? 1990, hold on.

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Don't tell me. I'm going to say 1994.

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Three. 1993, okay. Yeah, so I was seven.

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You know what? Nine-year-old me? Yeah, this would be lit.

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This is definitely stressing me out. I don't like when I'm in charge of keeping things alive

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because then I feel bad. You don't have to feel bad if the things stay alive.

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I always kill them. Oh, oh, okay.

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Wow. I bring him into my family and this is how he treats me.

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No, they escaped.

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This game sucks, Linus. Hey, look, Elijah, think on the positive side.

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At least the game is preparing you for your life. This game is so detailed.

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What was I doing as a six-year-old to play this? Oh my God.

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Were you ever able to get a successful park when you were young? Yes. Yes, I did.

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I ended up making so much money that the counter reset to zero dollars because I just, the counter wouldn't go up higher.

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That's insane. What was I doing? You're doing good. Okay. Most people have lost by now.

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Lost? Yeah. How do you lose? I'm broke. Wait, I'm broke.

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Wait. How do I make money? Can I sell my land? Well, if you needed to buy dinosaurs to make money,

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so you might have lost already. I don't know if I'm going to be able to pass the business

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down to my children seeing the way they manage a business.

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Well, I can't hire an employee because I have no money. Well, I can't buy a dinosaur because I have no money

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because I spent it all on food for the one that escaped.

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I lost already. Yep. What the f- What is this game, man?

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I don't even know how to read. Wait, what do you mean?

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Wait, I can't get a better- I can't- Oh yeah, actually lost, lost.

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Okay, what would you rank this at a 10? In today's day and age?

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Like a two or three. The fact that you are not good at a game

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does not make it a two out of 10 game. This- you know what?

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I'll let the rest go. I could totally see how for the time and for Linus,

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because you know, if he's Linus, this would be like a banger.

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I think that if I put a bit more time into this, I could probably do pretty well.

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Yeah, I think these games are really fun, actually. I think they're really good. I just need a little bit of time to figure this out again.

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Okay, I like him. Seven out of 10. I don't know. I really liked it.

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I like games like that. I feel like if I started again,

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now that I've actually clicked all the buttons, I would have a better understanding

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of what I need to do to do a bit better. But so far, it was very discouraging, I will say.

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Well, I'm sorry your generation can't handle a little discouragement.

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I liked it though. That was cute. Actually, we're great. I love your generation.

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You're great. I honestly, I wouldn't mind playing this game a little bit more.

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Like, it's kind of- it's cute, it's fun. No, no, I actually kind of want to download it and play it.

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Yeah, like if they had a Switch port, I would play this in bed, you know? Like, it's cute.

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You suck. Lies played this for fun. You suck.

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Do you see why your dad would like this game back today? No.

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Just because you lost immediately.

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Whatever. Adjusted for inflation and factoring in total ownership cost,

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tie fighter is probably the most expensive game that I ever played.

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I needed a full system overhaul in order to run it and a new expensive peripheral

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in order to have a good experience. But boy, was it ever worth it.

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This, this one holds a very special place in my heart and I probably have more hours in tie fighter

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than all the other ones here combined. I have a treat for you.

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Oh, okay. Linus's childhood joystick.

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What? Top gun. And that is the joystick I used to play it on.

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That's not actually my one from when I was a kid.

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I lost it when I moved, but I treated myself to a new one as an adult

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and it was worth it. I also have a cheat sheet for you because you're going to need it.

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Oh, these are profiles. Yeah. Oh.

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Oh, I probably just type.

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I was like halfway into your keyboard to pop up or something and then like re-control it.

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Oh, that hurt me a little bit. Okay. I feel really embarrassed now.

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Not as much as I'm going to hurt you if you say anything bad about this game, Elijah.

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Why are you so fast? Oh, I was supposed to move it slowly.

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We'll hover over stuff.

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I thought it was booting so you were telling me to move the mouse.

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Enjoy this menu. I did it. Oh, you figured out too fast.

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Yeah, I'm much called an intelligent being.

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Oh, dude, this is actually pretty smooth once you're in game. Interesting.

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Okay. I've never used one of these controllers anywhere but in arcade.

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I've never used one of these controllers.

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Oh. What do you think of these graphics?

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Um, I'm quite surprised. I'm loving it.

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What graphics? Okay, like now that we're in space, the graphics are like, they're not great, you know,

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but like for being from, you know,

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whenever this game is from, they're like fine. You know what I mean?

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I personally don't care about graphics so much if the game is fun and actually understandable,

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which this game is not understandable, but I'm much called an intelligent being.

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Oh, no, I got a read.

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Oh, that was a six shot. Elijah's Elijah's in the zone.

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I knew I could count on you, Elijah. Dude, I'm starting to like Star Wars now.

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This is the most I've liked Star Wars in the last decade. This takes an insane level of concentration.

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I need some lessons from Han Solo. There we go. All right.

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Full throttle. Space bar to match speeds with your target.

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Don't hit this. Don't hit it.

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I don't know how to slow down. Oh, I freaking crash.

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Is this what you thought applying space ship in Star Wars was like? Uh, no, I never knew you could crash.

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I can't hear you because I'm locked in.

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What? The song's bopping. The game is busting, you know.

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Right? Like this gets five big booms, if I'm being honest.

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Boom. No, no, no. Do not include that, dude.

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Honestly, after playing it for a little bit, like I could definitely, I could see how you could get lost in this game for like a bit.

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And yeah, this game plays nothing like I've ever played before.

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This controller is very unique.

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I'm not into this. I'm not into this. What would you rate it out of 10?

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Ah, freaking two. Relationship ended.

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I thought she was cool. I think it's a good game,

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and I know people that would really like it. It's not my style.

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I think the controller's fun, and it's fun to play for like a few minutes.

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But as soon as I realize how bad I am at it, I just want to quit.

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At least she got the diagnosis for why she didn't like it right. This is like a seven.

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Nice. I'd unironically like boot this up and do something with it.

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Hit space bar to activate the tractor beam. Whoa.

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I like to complete the mission. Let's go.

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I had a 41% accuracy. I feel like that's pretty good actually

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for being out in open space. Road Rash was the kind of game

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where if my parents had any idea what I was doing on the computer, there's no way they would have let me play it.

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I mean, on the one hand, yeah, sure. It's not like super sexual, like a leisure suit, Larry, or something like that.

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But on the other hand, my aunt in particular, who was the one who financed the computer upgrade

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that allowed me to play it. This was one of the other games

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I was playing on that same tie fighter machine. And by the way, I did play this game with a joystick.

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Was not into violence. Road Rash is nothing but violence.

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Yeah, what do you think of this aesthetic? It banged. How old would Linus have been when this came out?

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Yeah, that's cool. If I were a 10-year-old boy, I'd be so into this.

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Dude, if I was four years old, this is the coolest thing in the world right now. Oh, yeah.

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Are these people all determined for me to not like them? Whoa.

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Elijah just said Road Rash would be cool if he was four.

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This ain't no Paw Patrol. Okay, yeah, I know you were right. Vibes for days with this cut scene in the soundtrack.

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Oh, yeah. Women, yes. We all love babes.

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You know what I'm saying? And chains and explosions?

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They really threw everything in here. Dude, this is a boys game.

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Motorcycles, women and explosions. For the boys. For the boys.

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Why are we street racing? Isn't that illegal?

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I can't tell if I raised them real right or real wrong.

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Space bars. Oh, I got to punch them? Yeah, you do. Oh, heck.

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Yeah, oh, I'm behind. This reminds me of Cruisin' USA.

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I used to play that a lot in my N64. Cruisin' USA wishes it was Road Rash.

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Yeah, I've only played games like this at the arcade never on my own time.

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I'm surprised again. I love it. It's quite beautiful and the soundtrack helps a lot.

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It kind of captures, I guess, the whole 90s in my view.

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Dude, this game has a banger soundtrack.

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What do you think of these graphics? Also equally not good.

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You don't think there's a charm to how janky they are? No.

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If the frame rate was higher, maybe. You know, one thing that's really surprising me

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is how smooth some of the graphics and animations feel,

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but how clunky your movement feels. Like, I feel like it's like one FPS to do the switching lanes

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and leaning, but the background is very smooth right now.

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It's kind of strange. The graphics of this game is poppin'.

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What do you think of that poppin' in the background? Background being kind of formed as you drive.

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Honestly, I don't mind it. Like, it's noticeable, but only when I'm looking for it.

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You know when I'm immersed in trying not to bump into anybody?

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Not a problem. Hey, buddy, I got something for you. Hey, come back.

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Yo! Oh!

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Damn. Oh, car, car.

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Oh, no! I was doing so good.

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My leg.

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I was so not ready to have to do that.

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Dude, this walker's shame, dude. Man, kids today have no idea.

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Like, when Lakitu or whatever he's called like comes and rescues you and Mario Kart 8,

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he's like two seconds. Dude, no, man.

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I have to run all the way back to my bike. Well, maybe you shouldn't crash so bad.

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That's actually cool. I like that. Yeah. See, she always throws me in one direction

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and she's like, never mind, I'm cool. Except about TIE Fighter.

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We're not good after that. Yeah, I think they did a really good job with their sense of speed and the depth, you know?

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Like, the way that the roads just kind of bend

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and you're just kind of like moving with it too. I am not getting a sense of speed.

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Definitely not. Just chilling. But I am getting a sense of cool.

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Like, look at this. All my buddies dapping me up, patting my back.

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I have a chalice. Oh, babe, kissing your helmet. Whoa.

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Boy, this was pretty cringe. Look, she's so proud of me.

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Winner of all the games that I played today.

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This one has made me feel the best about myself. Oh, that's great. Like, by far.

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So you're number one. If only I was this cool.

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Oh, I won. I thought you were in second. I definitely was not in first place.

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Yeah, if you're not first you're last. Yeah, player one finished in second place. That's not a winner game.

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Well, it's winner-ish. You're a winner for thinking this game is cool enough

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and playing it. How would you rate this game out of 10? 9 out of 10.

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Simply. Let's go. I got to download this on my own PC.

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Let's go. I got to play it. I give it a 10 out of 10. That was awesome.

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I loved it. I like this little cut scene they have.

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I like the one at the beginning. The music's cool. I think the look of the game is really, really good.

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And I like that you can see the little motorcycle thing at the bottom.

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It's very immersive. Oh, it's worse than the Star Wars one. I'd give it a 5.

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I'd give that game a 5 out of 10. Do you start to feel sorry for people

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that lived through the 90s? Yeah.

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They deserved better. Ah, Civilization 2 Test of Time.

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More like test of my childhood budget. This was the first game that I ever had to spend

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my own money to upgrade my GPU for.

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I brought it home. I installed it and it was all like, You do not have DirectX 6 or whatever.

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Compatible hardware. So knowing absolutely nothing about computers,

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I went to bargain bytes in Mission BC and I said, Hey, I need DirectX, whatever.

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And I need at least, I think it was like 16 megabytes of VRAM.

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And I got a GeForce something MX. And that was so that I could have 3D rendered emissaries,

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which quite frankly, I didn't feel added that much to the game.

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Should have just gotten the original SIP too. What the f... What do I do?

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Same thing you always do, Sammy. Get good. First task is to find a suitable site

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and found your capital city. The best city sites are near rivers, grasslands,

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coastal areas and areas near special resources. Oh, this is just Minecraft.

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I'm not going to lie. I love these graphics. See, my friends were into these kinds of games.

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I never really got into it so, so much, but uh... Whoa, this is crazy.

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I used to play a game like back in the day called Rise of Nations.

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Oh, yeah. And there used to be like a mode that you could start. It was like Nomad mode where it wasn't the default way to start the game,

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but I guess that's just how you start every Civ game.

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Like where you walk around first and find a good place to start.

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I love that he's like, yeah, I played this game called like Rise of Nations.

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Like, Blake, we've never heard of Rise of Nations. Come on.

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Everyone knows Rise of Nations, right?

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Pre-requisites, none. Already own.

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Tree. Dude, Linus, this sucks. I'm sorry.

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I usually like to go for the military win because I have like no time to spend,

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so I want to win fast as possible and with like more action. Discover a friendly tribe of skilled mercenaries.

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Let's go. We are going. You've just built your first military unit.

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I don't even have a place established yet. This UI looks more busy.

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Wow. Okay, this is a lot of information to take in. I'm not going to lie.

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I feel kind of lost right now. It hasn't shown me anything about taxes,

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luxury science or production or food. Production of what?

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What am I producing? Yeah, are you feeling overwhelmed? Oh, I am.

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And I do not have my tutorial to help me. This game might be worse than the dinosaur game, guys.

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Like the UI is so bad. It's crazy because you don't think about like how good the UI is going.

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I don't even think the UI is that bad. They're all harping on the UI.

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I mean, everything you need is right there. You just have to read.

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Oh, cheat. Leave a like if you think I should cheat.

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Hell yeah, of course. In the top bar, enable the cheats.

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What does it do? It'll unlock the ability to use cheats.

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I'm good. Okay, sure. I'm using my pure intelligence.

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Okay, uh-huh, uh-huh. I know what an adjective is. He's doomed.

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Kill civilization? Holy, this is maybe God.

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We're going to get rid of all the Vikings. Oh, no, you can't.

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No, you can't play Civ to cheats.

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Yeah, for the French.

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It was so easy. It was just one button.

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Oh, reveal map. Should I just go for it? Yeah, go for it. Okay, entire map.

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Let's go. Yo! Sheesh!

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Look at all these buffalo I can kill. Yeah, how the hell was I going to find these guys?

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Dude, their cities suck, comparison. Like, look at that little house.

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Stupid robot. Should I use cheat mode? I know. Force government?

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What does that mean?

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Oh, God. Depending on which one I pick, the comments are going to be really mad.

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What would you rate this game out of 10? Two.

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Do you think this is the worst game you've played today? Worse than the other ones.

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You know what's funny is, I think it's less about how good this game is

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and more about just how lost these guys are in the UI

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and not having an instruction manual and also having so many other forms of entertainment

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that are so much more instantly gratifying.

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Like, you couldn't enjoy Civ until you had invested

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probably a solid five to six hours in it.

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Realistically, right? While I find modern game frustrating,

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in that you have to fight with obtuse controls or play through six separate tutorials

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before you can enter an online match, in a lot of ways, it's not really any different.

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Personally, for me, it's a two. You didn't even explore anything.

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But I know the game is good and I could have fun with it if I understood it.

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So maybe a five. You know, I'll give it a middle answer.

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I'm not too sure how I feel about it. I don't mind older games in the sense that like,

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you know, I do like the challenge of like just kind of mucking about and figuring it out.

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You know, if I were just sitting at home playing this on my own or if this had just come out,

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I don't think that I would have minded like, taking some time and just being bad at the game

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for like an hour or two or three until I, you know, I had it working enough, you know?

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Zero. Get out. Zero. Yeah, get out. It's just not my type of game, though.

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I could see someone sinking a lot of time into this game. But for me, this is like a one or a zero.

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I would never play this again. Now, I wasn't sure which Warcraft to go with for this.

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Foundationally, for me as a gamer, Warcraft 2 probably would have been the answer.

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I spent so many hours in Ties of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal

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playing through the single player campaigns. I also literally had to learn how to do virtual private networking

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so that I could play multiplayer with my friend. But the one that I played the absolute crap out of

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and the one that I think is a more important piece of gaming history given that it gave rise to, you know, I don't know,

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Dota, not to mention popularized tower defense for an entire generation of gamers,

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has got to be Warcraft 3. It's also the one that I played exclusively in French

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for the first couple of months that I had it because I happened to be at a homestay where the family was French.

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Not bad. Looking pretty good. That's pretty nice.

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This was 2002. 2002, baby. Dude, this is crazy.

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This right here is why people thought the Warcraft movie was going to be good.

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Wow, that's very good for 2002.

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This probably takes up like half of the storage that the game takes.

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It's almost like a movie trailer from my 2025 eyes.

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I'm quite impressed with how it looks right now.

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It honestly looks really good. Like his wing is shaking.

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You can see the feathers on it. Wow, I'm not going to lie.

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I think this is pretty nice. It looks like Blizzard had a pretty nice budget

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even before the acquisition. This is pretty good. Wait, they're cooking.

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Dude, Blizzard should just stop making games and just make movies at this point.

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Yeah, the Warcraft movie was really good. Well, okay. Yeah, we'll ignore the Warcraft movie.

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Can you believe they made it live action? What were they thinking?

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I remember being online because I didn't get a gaming computer

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that could play real games until much later. But I just remember being on forums of people joking about how you had graphics like this

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that are so beautiful and so nice. And then you get into like the actual game and it's like a PowerPoint slideshow kind of thing.

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And I think this is like a great kind of example of that.

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Wait, what? This is sick.

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You can see his hair. It looks soft. It looks so good.

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There's a lot of games that come out now that you wish looked this good, at least the cut scenes.

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I mean, it's obviously like you can tell us from back then, but this is good from back then.

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I don't know what to say because I'm actually blown away. No, sorry.

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I do remember this. I don't know why, but it like threw me back.

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I have played something. It might have been this one. Like unlocked a memory kind of feeling.

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Yeah, it did. Like the moment I saw the icons, I was like, whoa, I know this.

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Like I know how this looks.

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Even the dialogues in French. I wasn't ready. I don't know what I expected.

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What are you saying? Oh, come on. It wasn't a nightmare young leader.

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It was a vision. Follow me. I will reveal what the future holds. I don't know what any of this means,

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but I'm ready to go all the way. Ayo.

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These graphics are way better than the other ones. This game still looks good.

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I do very much love these graphics. I think modern polygonal gaming would be actually fire.

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I just, maybe I'm the only one that thinks that, but I just think that if games were able to toggle,

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that would be kind of cool. That's totally a thing in remasters,

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including in this game actually. Position, attack.

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This is your challenge. Oh, okay. Sorry, animals.

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I'm not going to lie to you. Part of the reason why I went and attacked that is I'm just so used to like, I don't know, games where it's like,

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oh, you attack this thing, you kill it, you get some meat, you know what I mean? Like, but I guess that's not really the move here, right?

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Like you're not going to get random items from

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just innocent animals sitting around. Dude, the computer definitely got louder.

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It is struggling to render this. Are we going to really attack a sleeping person?

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Absolutely. Sorry, buddy.

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It's either you or us. It's track. He's got two heads.

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That's crazy. That's crazy. And he's already dead.

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I don't need any more guys. I'm as tough as I can be. I feel like this is probably one of the easier ones

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that I've played today. This is very difficult when I don't know what everything says.

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The coolest thing about when I picked up this game was that it gave me an experience

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that I otherwise never would have been able to have and made it a little bit easier for me to relate

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to all the people who, you know, literally will pick up

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a language like English or Japanese because a gaming experience or a community

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that they want to participate in is inaccessible

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or not big enough in their native tongue. And I think that's one of the reasons that I was

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so drawn to including it, even though obviously it's going to be a bit of

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a struggle for these guys. Oh, I could totally see why kids would be like

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mad into World of Warcraft. If I didn't have other things to do and I just wanted to waste time with my friends,

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World of Warcraft. This is not World of Warcraft. You included that on purpose.

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I give it a 6 out of 10, a 7 out of 10. Yeah, probably a 7.

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It's fun. I like it. I like the look of it especially

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and the controls are fun. I like the setup at the bottom. I like the map.

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It seems very easy to understand, but there's just not a whole lot to do.

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So I'm kind of bored. Okay, you've only done a tutorial mission so far.

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But I gotta say the pacing of the tutorial compared to modern tutorials is pretty slow.

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I could see people getting disengaged with it. I wish it was English.

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I haven't done any fights yet, so I don't know, but it's better than the other ones.

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That's fair. What would you rate this game out of 10? Uh, probably 6 out of 10.

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6 out of 10? So this is the number one game? Yeah. I'll give it like a 3, a 3, or a 4.

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It's not, again, it's not my type of game. I don't play these games.

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Yeah, it's a little cerebral for you. Having watched all that,

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my rose-colored glasses are a little cracked

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for some of the games, but for others, honestly, are pretty much

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unshattered. And I think there's two major things

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that kind of hold younger people back from enjoying these games.

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Number one is how good they have it today in terms of the quality and the creature comforts

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available in modern games. It's true that a game like Road Rash

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really doesn't have a ton of depth and replayability compared to a lot of what you can get today.

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As for the ones that did have the depth, whether it's Dino Park Tycoon or Civ or Tie Fighter,

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it's clear to me that there's nothing to really draw them in and force them to invest the hours

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into it to reach that point of enjoyment. And when I say force them, obviously,

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nobody, you know, had their hands on our head making us look at our computer screens

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when I was a kid, but we didn't have as many games.

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They were so expensive per title and there just weren't as many of them.

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So what we did have, dang it, we tried to bring whatever fun was in them out of them.

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And so for that reason, because I had the experience playing with them,

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I would have no trouble going back and enjoying some of them, if not all.

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If you guys enjoyed this video, why not check out the playlist of times that we've had young people try previous versions

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of Windows and macOS. We have to do iOS 1.

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Oh gosh. We should do it. There'd be no reason not to because it had no app store.

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Let's do it. So there's nothing to like.

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That's it.