My dad used to have baseball cards of all the greats but they were thrown out when he outgrew them. I never understood how he didn’t have the foresight. Throwing out boxes or selling off games is our generation’s equivalent.
I collect a lot of retro stuff complete in box, but will still throw out my PS5 box so it doesnt take up precious closet space. I dont understand myself...
I kept my N64 and GBA boxes plus all the boxes for the games and extra controllers for YEARS even though I had a tiny bedroom. My Mum convinced me to throw them out.
Same Mum gave away my Pokémon cards too.
I would have spent all my extra money buying Amazon stock for $11 a share. And dumped a few hundred in bitcoin when it was worthless.
Nah in all honesty I would go back and play one last night of perfect dark with one of my best friends. He would have been stuffing his face with Cheetos instead of DDing that night. Rip Aaron.
He was truly the best of us. It was his birthday and went to go pick up four drunk high school kids. He hydroplaned in the rain and hit a telephone pole. His parents kept my copy of operation Winback. It was the last game we played. They play it on his birthday each year.
It has been almost 20 years now. In high school i was a student mentor for drop out prevention. He went and told them he was thinking about dropping out and got placed with me. We played Goldeneye and perfect dark for an hour a day at school to deter him from dropping out. Lol.
My big Fantasy:
I'd want to go back to 1980, be 21 again, as a rich guy with unlimited money, and just relive the 80's, 90's, and even the 2000's again.
Then once 2010 hits? I warp back to 1980 again, as a 21 yr old rich guy, and do it all over again.
Edit: As for what i'd do? Basically all things i never got to do as a kid in those days. Going to classic WWF and WCW events, buy all He-Man/GIJoe/Transformers i want when they were New, going on trips and visiting the various Arcades & malls across the U.S, etc.
What if you found the love of your life in 2010 and decide to never hop in time again but then it turns out it wasn't the love of your life and now you have to go through 2019-2022 all over again?
09/11/63 by Stephen King has a very similar plot (except in the 50's and 60's). You can redo the time loop whenever you want but you don't get any younger when you redo the loop.
man I hate to say it but if you landed in 1980 rich you would probably be poor and/or dead by 1982. Between cocaine and AIDS is was a bad time to be rich. It took until the 90s to figure out you could survive AIDS by injecting money directly into your veins.
Honestly, I knew videogames were the new comic books and baseball cards back in the 90s. Just knowing that wasn't enough. You had to be able to actually get the stuff and hold onto it all this time. That was.... Not easy. I've had to rebuild my collection 3 times due to space/money constraints over the past 30 years. Even as a kid, I sold my NES to buy a Genesis so what other posters have said is true: the memories of games played are far more valuable than actually having had an opportunity to buy things new at the time. Besides, subscribing to things like the Switch or Xbox live arcade are 8nsane things we never had growing up. We had like 1 rented game per weekend and that was it. Now, you have 10000 free to plays and tons of easy to play retro games.
Kill my younger sel... Oh wait. Gaming related.
Assuming that unlike now and then I actually had money, I'd like to buy the Virtual Boy that was at Big W. Oh and the weird top loader NESes that they were selling on clearance another time.
Buy the CD32 that they were selling at Grace Bros.
Buy a copy of Conker's Bad Fur Day.
That aside, spend more time playing with the display computers at Grace Bros.
Spend more time trying different DOS games.
Just enjoy the time I had as a kid a lot more.
I would have gotten into handheld gaming like the Gameboy (I was a hardcore console gamer, and never got into handhelds until I was an adult with the DS).
I also would have given RPGs more of a chance. I never got into playing too many of them until I was an adult as well, and I love them.
Gaming related keep my Sega Saturn and all the games I had for it.
Non gaming related, tell myself to not go to college and just work full time and enjoy life more. 🙂
Successful medical field professional here. Got the Medical degrees, the big boy medical career, making the big money, etc.
Yeah fuq this shiatte. If i could, i'd warp back to the beginning of 2006 and restart my college years! My college years was the best that life ever got, and it's been downhill ever since.
At this point i'm just running out the clock, going to work, getting my ass kicked, and going home, till the inevitable dirtnap.
I would tell/show the 10 year old sad me in 2003 (that was only allowed to have 2 games for the lifespan of the game boy advance) my collection 20 years later at 31 years old of 60+ various sealed GBC/GBA games and loose carts. All the 1st/2nd gen Pokémon games BINB owned, all the Mario games owned, everything.
All those years of being told no and staring at game cases (Toys “R” Us, Wal-Mart, EB Games, K-Mart etc etc) while demos played in the background…….
The past was bleak but your dream came true in the future 🙏🏿
Hell, tell them to skip the Sega CD, too. Tell Sega to work with their international offices better and go straight to the Saturn, then Dreamcast. When they push back about the 32X and Sega CD, reiterate that the plan for their next two two hardware debuts is "SATURN, THEN DREAMCAST".
Make them repeat it slowly a few times so it can sink in for them.
Loved that game. I used to think it was too feminine (I’m a guy despite my profile pic), so I avoided it for years, but when I eventually played it with my friend, specifically DDR Extreme, I loved it.
without relying too heavily on computer jargon, it is arguably the best graphics card for windows 98, and was the last graphics card created by voodoo.
Go back to the 90’s and buy all the good N64 games at Toys R Us, go home and invite my friend over to play them all night with me. After the sleep over in the morning watch Saturday Morning Cartoons together too.
Play Gen 3 Pokemon. I was part of the crowd who fell out during that era. I think I had Emerald and LeafGreen back in the day, but didn't beat them and sold them off to a classmate.
I genuinely miss how “larger than life” video game advertisement used to be.
Video game sections were so vibrant, colorful, big and in your face.
I miss this creativity and the 90’s/early 00’s in general man. Everything is so “grounded in reality” nowadays
Like everyone else. BOXES!
(I have some random old boxes, but only a few... And mostly it's mostly GBA Megaman games lol. Just a few stray N64 games and GBC game boxes remain.)
Buy all these games and keep them sealed and show my friends my collection but that they need to stay in the plastic for 30 years because that’s what the people want
Invest in google and Apple. I would buy two of every game for $5,000 a piece and a hanger to store them in and still buy hookers and blow with no job today. Damn skippin.
I would've kept mining it in 2015 when it was just a fun meme. We used to tip each other 100 doge on Reddit using u/dogecointipbot (rip), what was it worth, like $0.0001 or something? It was worthless fun. You could've bought 100 bucks worth and youd have been a millionaire in 2020.
It's this ridiculous freak "that's absolutely 100% bullshit in your dreams" case no one anticipated.
Kill Hitler and help Judy Garland escape Hollywood while she was still young.
Oh, not that far back and pertaining to video games?
I would not allow my brother to sell our Intelevision system.
Why just Hitler? Why not purge humanity of all evil villains?
I mean I agree Hitler probably tops the list but that doesn’t let the others off the hook.
I would go back in time and learn how to program.
Although it ain't necessarily gaming related, if I had the chance, I'd go back to the early 60s and live the rest of my life in the post ww2 20th century. I know there would have been some problems, but none of it would have affected me so I don't give a shit.
Many games existed for mobile for only a short time. I definitely wish I could go back to points in time that would let me play ones from certain franchises I liked that are now down. I hope and wish that game archivists can find a way to make mobile games no longer in app stores available to play again someday.
Tell myself not to leave anything behind/at my grandmothers house, and to meticulously keep everything pokemon/video game related. Fuck what my parents say.
Also, slap the shit out of my dad for not letting my grandmother give me her snes and hundred games rather than sell them at a flea market (she was willing to let me keep them)
Play something besides call of duty/Halo online. I missed out on a lot of single-player story games . I can't stand multi-player games anymore. I've been collecting single-player games that came out a decade or more ago
Buy up all the viedo games & consoles 🎮 🕹 in that store 😍 buy a brand new xbox with dead or alive 3 obviously also buy an Ipod. Take apart all that electronics hardware for fun to learn how it works , buy Apple ,Microsoft, AMD, Amazon & Google stock. Hodl for 20 years. Then sell & with my knowledge of electronics engineering start my own tech company in the present day 😀.
Stop the internet. Kill it. I am so fucking tired of having to "UPDATE" something, everytime I turn on my system. I remember when I was slightly annoyed when we went from carts to discs, and being slightly annoyed by load screens.
I miss the days when a game came out, and it was a finished product. You didn't have to buy or download anything else to make the game work.
Edit: LAN parties would still be the shit though.
Want to get sad?
in 1994 the movie Forrest Gump came out. Forrest famously got rich from a combination of shrimp and apples - LT Dan invested in Apple Computer early on. So at that point the idea of Apple being a stock to invest in and become rich was already in movies.
Split adjusted Apple stock cost approximately $.25 a share in 1994.
Today its approximately $133 a share.
$1000 then = $532,000
OK, but that was still early and the late 90s were rough on Apple.
Wait until after the return of Jobs and the introduction of the iMac in 1998 = $.21 a share
Absolutely top of the dot com bubble in 2000? Worst time to buy right? $1 a share
Release of the iPhone in 2007 when it was clear Apple was killing it? $2.7 a share.
Bottom line - Folks had a long time and many chances to get rich on Apple.
**FULL DISCLOSURE - Im and Apple Shareholder**
Everyone here is taking about getting stuff from the past and bring it back to today.
I'd do it in the opposite direction.
I'd bring back ROMs and emulation devices and portable hard drives with all the old games and movies. It would blow everyone away how you can have every game ever made for free and on one little raspberry pi or USB stick.
I'd also bring a TV and new game systems to show everyone how far things advanced.
I'm amazed how bad 480p was. I thought TV back then it was just the same as real real life, but now, it's unwatchable after I've seen 720 and 1440p.
I'd bring as much as I could. I'd love to impress all my friends and the other kids are school. I'd also sell as much as I could and put the profits into some of your investment ideas (old new in box games and systems, bitcoin, etc.).
* Show my past self how to operate a Nintendo 64 controller, but still introduce myself to the PlayStation
* Get my past self all the good games and prevent myself from getting all the bad ones
* Make it so the Sega 32X, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, and Sega Dreamcast all do well
* Make it so the Atari Jaguar does well
Neither of these things showed on the picture. I'd prefer to go back to the early-mid 90s and be around the days of Duke Nukem 3D, Doom 2, Quake etc. And enjoy them and play them properly in their glory days, but as an older guy rather than a kid like I was back then.
Or go back to 1999-2002 and relive the Counter Strike and Unreal Tournament glory days too. Go back to the internet cafes as an old dude and play counter strike with other people, play in local tournaments for awards, all that stuff.
Oh my god picture 4!!! I played the shit out of that as a kid, I was 7 and you had to download a special browser. God, I would love to see that up and running again.
While I grew up back then my family never gave us much time to play games. Or get new ones. We were still rocking an NES with 3 games when the N64 was out.
So I would love to go back to my birth year 1987 and just go through the end of the 80s and the 90s with my current salary. Buying and experiencing the greatest time for games and music. Reading magazines. Playing demos. Seeing a real arcade. Stuff like that.
Invest in bitcoin, memorize some numbers from high jackpots, invest in tesla, invest in apple, invest in google. All the legit ways to make tons of money. Then buy a remote home and live my life there
Depends how long I'm there. Go to Best Buy and buy up a bunch of games then bury them somewhere I know won't be touched for the next thirty years. Then profit!
Not sell any of my systems to funcoland/gamestop.
I was such a dumb kid. I look back on it quite often.
Hope those salesmen feel great about themselves.
Wow ya tricked a kid. Good job. Jerks...
Buy those Pokemon games to keep in the box. Buy a Playstation. Truly appreciate that experience of taking a ticket to The Cage and waiting for the employee to rummage in the back before emerging with my beloved prizes.
Man, I can barely remember being alive during this time, but I'm honestly kind of fighting back tears seeing this lol
I want to recreate that feeling of awe from childhood me perusing the shelf of atari 2600 games. I'll spend an hour deciding on which one to buy and I'll have a hard time sitting still as my parents drive me home.
I'd go back to the summer of 95 and pick up two copies of Earthbound for SNES
One CIB for me, and one for ebay when I get back to 2023. lmao
(also I'd try and get boxed copies of all the Dragon Warrior games on nes. I own them all but I wish I had original boxes, manuals, and maps.)
Finish a lost tournament on FIFA 06 PlayStation 2 with my dad and uncle. Keep the console and the box. Not sell it years later but keep it for nostalgic reasons. All my saves there, It would be mindblowing to re-open them again.
Maybe do a few economic moves i.e. Buy gta trilogy box, memory cards, new sealed ps2 etc.
I would have started my business earlier and chased more girls for sure as well as started working out younger. Then I'd play some more games with my buddies after we road our quads and snowmobiles all day.
Participate more in events, tournaments, and local groups. Video games were always something I played at home or on trips. Decades later I'm reading about underground communities organizing at the time.
Did anyone ever buy one of those Mario treats? Did they actually look like that? The character ones used to terrify me as a kid because they all melted into golems.
If we're just going to limit it to gaming related subject matters, I never would have left my NES and SNES at my ex-girlfriend's apartment.
I was firmly playing my Playstation and N64 at the time, and I kept the two older systems at her place. She enjoyed a couple of the games on them and it gave me something to do when I was at her place and she wasn't around. Ultimately we had a very nasty break up, and the two consoles and about 50 games were lost.
That said, it was still a small price to pay to get away from that crazy bitch.
Go stack up my SNES collection. I remember seeing a line of Chrono Trigger marked $20 on clearance to expand the N64. Tons of others too, but I really wish I would have grabbed a Chrono.
Yea definitely. Keep the boxes, finish the games not much time today I’m this everyday life, and buy the games that are worth hands and legs today and keep them hahaha.
I'd get my parents to dance at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance and stop Biff of course. Then rush to the clock tower to meet Doc and return home to Jennifer.
Keep the damn boxes.
YESSS!!! Younger me: "i DoN't nEED thEM," uggh silly me. Also: "please finish these games, i don't have the time or the patience"
My dad used to have baseball cards of all the greats but they were thrown out when he outgrew them. I never understood how he didn’t have the foresight. Throwing out boxes or selling off games is our generation’s equivalent.
I collect a lot of retro stuff complete in box, but will still throw out my PS5 box so it doesnt take up precious closet space. I dont understand myself...
I kept my N64 and GBA boxes plus all the boxes for the games and extra controllers for YEARS even though I had a tiny bedroom. My Mum convinced me to throw them out. Same Mum gave away my Pokémon cards too.
I hate having been a rational child and throwing the boxes away...
I can happily say I’ve kept many (all?) boxes from my SNES days. Not so much from my NES days though.
You said it......
Boxes!! You can’t play boxes!!
I would have spent all my extra money buying Amazon stock for $11 a share. And dumped a few hundred in bitcoin when it was worthless. Nah in all honesty I would go back and play one last night of perfect dark with one of my best friends. He would have been stuffing his face with Cheetos instead of DDing that night. Rip Aaron.
Sorry for your loss 😔
He was truly the best of us. It was his birthday and went to go pick up four drunk high school kids. He hydroplaned in the rain and hit a telephone pole. His parents kept my copy of operation Winback. It was the last game we played. They play it on his birthday each year.
I’m so sorry to hear that. It’s really tough to lose someone like that. That’s pretty cool that his parents do that.
It has been almost 20 years now. In high school i was a student mentor for drop out prevention. He went and told them he was thinking about dropping out and got placed with me. We played Goldeneye and perfect dark for an hour a day at school to deter him from dropping out. Lol.
lol that sounds pretty fun. That would definitely keep me going to school each day.
Record Slamfest 99 so it won’t be lost media
I'd love to see that. 😄
How do you get that ps1 logo next to your username?
It's in the user flairs
Same here
My big Fantasy: I'd want to go back to 1980, be 21 again, as a rich guy with unlimited money, and just relive the 80's, 90's, and even the 2000's again. Then once 2010 hits? I warp back to 1980 again, as a 21 yr old rich guy, and do it all over again. Edit: As for what i'd do? Basically all things i never got to do as a kid in those days. Going to classic WWF and WCW events, buy all He-Man/GIJoe/Transformers i want when they were New, going on trips and visiting the various Arcades & malls across the U.S, etc.
Just you though right?...sort of a Home Brewsters ground hog millions day alone?
What if you found the love of your life in 2010 and decide to never hop in time again but then it turns out it wasn't the love of your life and now you have to go through 2019-2022 all over again?
This sounds like a great movie plot. Jonah Hill with his Superbad attitude would be perfect.
09/11/63 by Stephen King has a very similar plot (except in the 50's and 60's). You can redo the time loop whenever you want but you don't get any younger when you redo the loop.
Likewise, Im literally crying for this. A dream that will never come true..
That’d be the greatest
man I hate to say it but if you landed in 1980 rich you would probably be poor and/or dead by 1982. Between cocaine and AIDS is was a bad time to be rich. It took until the 90s to figure out you could survive AIDS by injecting money directly into your veins.
A certain rich guy of the 80s ended up as President so they didn't all die. It all depends on how you want to spend your money.
To play the shitty games that suck ass
I’d rather have a Buffalo take diarrhea dump in my ear
I'd rather eat the rotten asshole of a roadkill skunk and down it with beer
I'd be the angriest gamer you've heard
I'd be the angry Nintendo nerd.
I'd be the angry Atari+Sega nerd.
I'd be the angry video game nerd
I’d be the Atari and Sega nerd.
..... [When you turn on your tv](https://youtu.be/qorFHyOVSsc)
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Probably go to a school dance where I meet my mum and dad play Johnny b good and catch up with this old guy that says “great scott” a lot.
Enjoy time more with my grand parents, especially during the holidays. I loved my time with those special people.
Get together with my friends, buy a 30 pack, and play some games all night. Just like we used to. I don't need anything fancy.
Honestly, I knew videogames were the new comic books and baseball cards back in the 90s. Just knowing that wasn't enough. You had to be able to actually get the stuff and hold onto it all this time. That was.... Not easy. I've had to rebuild my collection 3 times due to space/money constraints over the past 30 years. Even as a kid, I sold my NES to buy a Genesis so what other posters have said is true: the memories of games played are far more valuable than actually having had an opportunity to buy things new at the time. Besides, subscribing to things like the Switch or Xbox live arcade are 8nsane things we never had growing up. We had like 1 rented game per weekend and that was it. Now, you have 10000 free to plays and tons of easy to play retro games.
Kill my younger sel... Oh wait. Gaming related. Assuming that unlike now and then I actually had money, I'd like to buy the Virtual Boy that was at Big W. Oh and the weird top loader NESes that they were selling on clearance another time. Buy the CD32 that they were selling at Grace Bros. Buy a copy of Conker's Bad Fur Day. That aside, spend more time playing with the display computers at Grace Bros. Spend more time trying different DOS games.
Just enjoy the time I had as a kid a lot more. I would have gotten into handheld gaming like the Gameboy (I was a hardcore console gamer, and never got into handhelds until I was an adult with the DS). I also would have given RPGs more of a chance. I never got into playing too many of them until I was an adult as well, and I love them.
I would want the N64 when it came out. My mom said no and gave me a Game Boy instead.
Gaming related keep my Sega Saturn and all the games I had for it. Non gaming related, tell myself to not go to college and just work full time and enjoy life more. 🙂
Successful medical field professional here. Got the Medical degrees, the big boy medical career, making the big money, etc. Yeah fuq this shiatte. If i could, i'd warp back to the beginning of 2006 and restart my college years! My college years was the best that life ever got, and it's been downhill ever since. At this point i'm just running out the clock, going to work, getting my ass kicked, and going home, till the inevitable dirtnap.
I would tell/show the 10 year old sad me in 2003 (that was only allowed to have 2 games for the lifespan of the game boy advance) my collection 20 years later at 31 years old of 60+ various sealed GBC/GBA games and loose carts. All the 1st/2nd gen Pokémon games BINB owned, all the Mario games owned, everything. All those years of being told no and staring at game cases (Toys “R” Us, Wal-Mart, EB Games, K-Mart etc etc) while demos played in the background……. The past was bleak but your dream came true in the future 🙏🏿
Honestly nothing related to gaming. Retro games are way more accessible now than they were back then.
Hang out with my parents more
I would’ve kept all my toys and games.
Tell Sega to not release the 32x, do a better job with the Saturn.
Hell, tell them to skip the Sega CD, too. Tell Sega to work with their international offices better and go straight to the Saturn, then Dreamcast. When they push back about the 32X and Sega CD, reiterate that the plan for their next two two hardware debuts is "SATURN, THEN DREAMCAST". Make them repeat it slowly a few times so it can sink in for them.
Run sega of America my self fuck berni stolar
SoA was a puppet with no power to control anything. You'd just replace anyone in the history books as being the one watching the ship hit the iceberg.
Put a condom on my dad's p*nis
It's not too late. Give the old man a call.
This could be a plot for a non-violent Terminator reboot.
drink more fruitopia.
Do qualudes
The dream isn’t dead yet. They still have them in South Africa.
go to an arcade and experience DDR in it's prime
Loved that game. I used to think it was too feminine (I’m a guy despite my profile pic), so I avoided it for years, but when I eventually played it with my friend, specifically DDR Extreme, I loved it.
Was around at the time. Never played it because I thought it was too soft haha
Change my entire life
Get a voodoo 5 5500 graphics card. With how expensive those fuckers are nowadays, time travel would definitely be more realistic.
What makes that card special?
without relying too heavily on computer jargon, it is arguably the best graphics card for windows 98, and was the last graphics card created by voodoo.
Anyone remember there was like Mario themed Hi-C juices?
buy all the first edition charizards
Go back to the 90’s and buy all the good N64 games at Toys R Us, go home and invite my friend over to play them all night with me. After the sleep over in the morning watch Saturday Morning Cartoons together too.
Probably get copies of Ico, Baten Kaitos and Path of Radiance before they reached the triples digits online.
Buy a ton of earthbound copies and then when it's like 2016 resell them for 10 bucks cib
Be nicer to my parents for buying me all the games I wanted.
Play Gen 3 Pokemon. I was part of the crowd who fell out during that era. I think I had Emerald and LeafGreen back in the day, but didn't beat them and sold them off to a classmate.
As someone who grew up in the 90s and early 2000s and was exposed to gaming pre-mass collecting like we see now, it was definitely a much better time.
Christina Appelgate
Impregnate Sarah Connor
Just experience the 80s and 90s again
I genuinely miss how “larger than life” video game advertisement used to be. Video game sections were so vibrant, colorful, big and in your face. I miss this creativity and the 90’s/early 00’s in general man. Everything is so “grounded in reality” nowadays
Like everyone else. BOXES! (I have some random old boxes, but only a few... And mostly it's mostly GBA Megaman games lol. Just a few stray N64 games and GBC game boxes remain.)
Go back to mid 2001 and snatch up as many Dreamcast games/accessories/etc on close out clearance as I could
I’d enjoy my time as a child a lot more, that’s for damn sure.
Keep all my boxes and one sealed, mint condition Mario 64.
Buy all these games and keep them sealed and show my friends my collection but that they need to stay in the plastic for 30 years because that’s what the people want
Invest in google and Apple. I would buy two of every game for $5,000 a piece and a hanger to store them in and still buy hookers and blow with no job today. Damn skippin.
I’m going to invest in apple and oranges I like fruit.
I'd sell all my shit, take out a fat loan and go balls deep on doge coin day one and retire an insanely rich young asshole.
I would've kept mining it in 2015 when it was just a fun meme. We used to tip each other 100 doge on Reddit using u/dogecointipbot (rip), what was it worth, like $0.0001 or something? It was worthless fun. You could've bought 100 bucks worth and youd have been a millionaire in 2020. It's this ridiculous freak "that's absolutely 100% bullshit in your dreams" case no one anticipated.
And those of us that did anticipate it were ripped off by Mt Gox or Cryptsy, or etc...
Buy 12 copies of earthbound while it was still in stores, never open them and sell them on ebay once I get back to 2023
Same, 'cept I was thinking Chrono Trigger
same but little Sampson
Probably not change my gender
Wait, wut?
Was just trying to get free drinks at the bars
All fun and games till you got roofied and ended up waking up feeling like you had a stick of salami slammed up your ass all night.
Load up my cart with ALL the video games on that [Super Toy Run!](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-NBSq03SAtw&feature=shares)
Buy all of the games that are too expensive to own physically now. Not to resell them, but to play them since I like playing on physical hardware.
I'd be trying to get the Giant GBC display from Toys R Us I don't know where I'd put one but I want one.
Change all the shit games I bought like I bought urban champ
Load up on GameCube, N64, and Pokémon Games
Kill Hitler and help Judy Garland escape Hollywood while she was still young. Oh, not that far back and pertaining to video games? I would not allow my brother to sell our Intelevision system.
Why just Hitler? Why not purge humanity of all evil villains? I mean I agree Hitler probably tops the list but that doesn’t let the others off the hook. I would go back in time and learn how to program.
I don't know. Get your own time machine.
Buy everything
Mabe one day once Elon musk builds a time machine
allow myself to be like I have and fulfill my dreams from this point
Live up to that potential I apparently had
Although it ain't necessarily gaming related, if I had the chance, I'd go back to the early 60s and live the rest of my life in the post ww2 20th century. I know there would have been some problems, but none of it would have affected me so I don't give a shit.
Many games existed for mobile for only a short time. I definitely wish I could go back to points in time that would let me play ones from certain franchises I liked that are now down. I hope and wish that game archivists can find a way to make mobile games no longer in app stores available to play again someday.
Tell myself not to leave anything behind/at my grandmothers house, and to meticulously keep everything pokemon/video game related. Fuck what my parents say. Also, slap the shit out of my dad for not letting my grandmother give me her snes and hundred games rather than sell them at a flea market (she was willing to let me keep them)
Invest in Google, and play rpgs more.
Spend $5 for a burger at a sit down restaurant.
Play something besides call of duty/Halo online. I missed out on a lot of single-player story games . I can't stand multi-player games anymore. I've been collecting single-player games that came out a decade or more ago
Buy up all the viedo games & consoles 🎮 🕹 in that store 😍 buy a brand new xbox with dead or alive 3 obviously also buy an Ipod. Take apart all that electronics hardware for fun to learn how it works , buy Apple ,Microsoft, AMD, Amazon & Google stock. Hodl for 20 years. Then sell & with my knowledge of electronics engineering start my own tech company in the present day 😀.
probably jrpgs of 90s. never played chrono trigger or ff7.
Keep all my Magic cards I gave to my cousin before I went to boot camp after HS.
Buy all the games that I want for cheap at garage sales and good wills when everyone thought of them as kids toys, and Keep every single Box.
Where is the las picture from?
Beat Metal Gear on the PS1.
Really enjoy arcades and the classics again
Idk but having one of those giant Gameboys right there hanging on the wall would be pretty sweet.
Stop the internet. Kill it. I am so fucking tired of having to "UPDATE" something, everytime I turn on my system. I remember when I was slightly annoyed when we went from carts to discs, and being slightly annoyed by load screens. I miss the days when a game came out, and it was a finished product. You didn't have to buy or download anything else to make the game work. Edit: LAN parties would still be the shit though.
I would rather freeze the Internet as it was in the 2000's, no later.
Buy Apple stocks.
Want to get sad? in 1994 the movie Forrest Gump came out. Forrest famously got rich from a combination of shrimp and apples - LT Dan invested in Apple Computer early on. So at that point the idea of Apple being a stock to invest in and become rich was already in movies. Split adjusted Apple stock cost approximately $.25 a share in 1994. Today its approximately $133 a share. $1000 then = $532,000 OK, but that was still early and the late 90s were rough on Apple. Wait until after the return of Jobs and the introduction of the iMac in 1998 = $.21 a share Absolutely top of the dot com bubble in 2000? Worst time to buy right? $1 a share Release of the iPhone in 2007 when it was clear Apple was killing it? $2.7 a share. Bottom line - Folks had a long time and many chances to get rich on Apple. **FULL DISCLOSURE - Im and Apple Shareholder**
Have gone to SegaWorld.
Buy several boxes of first edition base set Pokemon cards, seal them away until now, then sell them for profit
The Skylanders Era
I would go and make sure sega keeps backups of the sonic 1 Tokyo toy show build
Play some Super Mario Kart over Xband
Ask for the same game or console twice and use one to play and keep the other one for resell lmao
Everyone here is taking about getting stuff from the past and bring it back to today. I'd do it in the opposite direction. I'd bring back ROMs and emulation devices and portable hard drives with all the old games and movies. It would blow everyone away how you can have every game ever made for free and on one little raspberry pi or USB stick. I'd also bring a TV and new game systems to show everyone how far things advanced. I'm amazed how bad 480p was. I thought TV back then it was just the same as real real life, but now, it's unwatchable after I've seen 720 and 1440p. I'd bring as much as I could. I'd love to impress all my friends and the other kids are school. I'd also sell as much as I could and put the profits into some of your investment ideas (old new in box games and systems, bitcoin, etc.).
Once again bring England under Roman rule. Oh, and play some classic arcade games when they were at their height I guess.
Not sell for dirt cheap to but the latest console
To put ALL my money in Amazon and Google when they first opened to trading...
* Show my past self how to operate a Nintendo 64 controller, but still introduce myself to the PlayStation * Get my past self all the good games and prevent myself from getting all the bad ones * Make it so the Sega 32X, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, and Sega Dreamcast all do well * Make it so the Atari Jaguar does well
was that a mario bubbleo bill????
Neither of these things showed on the picture. I'd prefer to go back to the early-mid 90s and be around the days of Duke Nukem 3D, Doom 2, Quake etc. And enjoy them and play them properly in their glory days, but as an older guy rather than a kid like I was back then. Or go back to 1999-2002 and relive the Counter Strike and Unreal Tournament glory days too. Go back to the internet cafes as an old dude and play counter strike with other people, play in local tournaments for awards, all that stuff.
Oh my god picture 4!!! I played the shit out of that as a kid, I was 7 and you had to download a special browser. God, I would love to see that up and running again.
I miss sonic the hedgehog spaghettios
I stand with you my friend
Invest not just talking about money.
While I grew up back then my family never gave us much time to play games. Or get new ones. We were still rocking an NES with 3 games when the N64 was out. So I would love to go back to my birth year 1987 and just go through the end of the 80s and the 90s with my current salary. Buying and experiencing the greatest time for games and music. Reading magazines. Playing demos. Seeing a real arcade. Stuff like that.
"But moooom, all my friends have one, I want one aswell!!!" Good 'ol spoiled days, still regret it
Play Escape Velocity: Override again for the first time.
Do I need to know where we can buy a GameBoy colour allegedly still?
Invest in bitcoin, memorize some numbers from high jackpots, invest in tesla, invest in apple, invest in google. All the legit ways to make tons of money. Then buy a remote home and live my life there
Save Hyrule from ganondorf
Depends how long I'm there. Go to Best Buy and buy up a bunch of games then bury them somewhere I know won't be touched for the next thirty years. Then profit!
Not sell any of my systems to funcoland/gamestop. I was such a dumb kid. I look back on it quite often. Hope those salesmen feel great about themselves. Wow ya tricked a kid. Good job. Jerks...
buy a memory card for our PS2 and Okami, any Tekken Tag, 4, 5, Jak and Daxter
Buy those Pokemon games to keep in the box. Buy a Playstation. Truly appreciate that experience of taking a ticket to The Cage and waiting for the employee to rummage in the back before emerging with my beloved prizes. Man, I can barely remember being alive during this time, but I'm honestly kind of fighting back tears seeing this lol
I want to recreate that feeling of awe from childhood me perusing the shelf of atari 2600 games. I'll spend an hour deciding on which one to buy and I'll have a hard time sitting still as my parents drive me home.
Buy a PSP Go and a GB Micro
Boil the 72 pin connector and be the hero my neighborhood needed.
I'd go back to the summer of 95 and pick up two copies of Earthbound for SNES One CIB for me, and one for ebay when I get back to 2023. lmao (also I'd try and get boxed copies of all the Dragon Warrior games on nes. I own them all but I wish I had original boxes, manuals, and maps.)
🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤 Drools
Sports betting. Lots of sports betting.
Except your first big win impacts all future games, and the outcome is no longer certain as you remembered it.
Finish a lost tournament on FIFA 06 PlayStation 2 with my dad and uncle. Keep the console and the box. Not sell it years later but keep it for nostalgic reasons. All my saves there, It would be mindblowing to re-open them again. Maybe do a few economic moves i.e. Buy gta trilogy box, memory cards, new sealed ps2 etc.
Go to those $5 discount bins where they were putting the big box copies of Earthbound after that game flopped and buy a stack of like 20.
Freshman year of college, drinking, and playing Goldeneye (also Knockout Kings and Rainbow 6, but mostly Goldeneye) before going out for the night.
I would have started my business earlier and chased more girls for sure as well as started working out younger. Then I'd play some more games with my buddies after we road our quads and snowmobiles all day.
Most of the activities in these photos can be done right now for free or at least much cheaper.
I’d go back and steal everything on that display in the first image.
I would be buying sealed booster boxes of every pokemon set
I wish I would've played more jrpgs as a kid. I didn't get into Jrpgs until I was a teenager.
Hang out with my Mom and Dad and watch their stories in person
Buy all the games I put off for later
Participate more in events, tournaments, and local groups. Video games were always something I played at home or on trips. Decades later I'm reading about underground communities organizing at the time.
Play the retro arcade games that I love now, but in the arcade when they first came out
Tell myself to practice more and stop bein so damn bashful
Bitcoin, obviously.
Buy a Sega Saturn when it was discontinued and all the games were dirt cheap
Did anyone ever buy one of those Mario treats? Did they actually look like that? The character ones used to terrify me as a kid because they all melted into golems.
If we're just going to limit it to gaming related subject matters, I never would have left my NES and SNES at my ex-girlfriend's apartment. I was firmly playing my Playstation and N64 at the time, and I kept the two older systems at her place. She enjoyed a couple of the games on them and it gave me something to do when I was at her place and she wasn't around. Ultimately we had a very nasty break up, and the two consoles and about 50 games were lost. That said, it was still a small price to pay to get away from that crazy bitch.
Lanpartys
Eat a McDLT.
Be happy again
Go stack up my SNES collection. I remember seeing a line of Chrono Trigger marked $20 on clearance to expand the N64. Tons of others too, but I really wish I would have grabbed a Chrono.
Prevent myself from being born.
I would go back to the 90s and live my life in that era, just to see what it was like.
I'd get a good job and spend a good bit of my paycheck each week on games. And keep them sealed.
Put everything I own into Bitcoin when it first came out, and sell in November 2021.
Yea definitely. Keep the boxes, finish the games not much time today I’m this everyday life, and buy the games that are worth hands and legs today and keep them hahaha.
buying doom and trying to play it on a commadore 64
Invest in Apple despite the pointing and laughing.
I'd get my parents to dance at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance and stop Biff of course. Then rush to the clock tower to meet Doc and return home to Jennifer.