Personal Memories and Final Game Rankings

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Canva, the thing that makes anything a thing All right, finally, I get a really fun video to do instead of the ones where they force me to watch people with rings in their noses on TikTok, which is like. But this one I'm going to be ranking old video games, which I'm going look at I haven't seen these. I didn't pick them. so please don't tell me I left anything out. I'm just gonna to see them for the first time now. And I'll tell you why I like this idea, but first let me tell you that this is brought to you By our friends at expressvpn dot comot exppressvpN dot comot you want to protect your online information by going to expressvpN dot com slash Andrew Claven show. I use it. You should use it as well. Now, the reason for this is I lived through the invention of video games. I always loved games. Loved board games when I was a kid, loved sports when I was a kid And when I saw pong, I was in college. I was in college when I saw the first pong and I thought it was like the Estone in the movie two thousand one. I was like game automatic game. I was a reporter when space invaders came out and played it so much, I would get rolls of coins and grew a bump on my back my wrist I thought was going to die. it was just from pressing the fire button on space invaders. And then because I have a life and I don't get to play games as much as I want to, I would go away and work and try and make a success with my life. and then I would come back and the next thing that came out would be so incredibly advanced. you know, and finally, you've got the stuff that' just like, you F person and three D and just really graphic. It was so exciting. And one of the reasons I've kind of turned off my games now is I feel they plateau and all the games are basically the same. I'm waiting for the next technology to move them to the next level. So these are games that I encountered along the way of my life that I just remember as being one of the most fun parts of my life as the games got better and better. So let's take a look at them Super Mario Brothers nineteen eighty five. It is What is the gold standard of all games, one of the greatest games, is the game of games, the greatest of games. it is an S. If there was something higher than an S, I would put it on that I would put it there. It's just unbelievable. When I first saw it, I thought to myself a plumber saving a princess while fighting fanged mushrooms Who thinks of that? Obviously, drugs were involved, but it was great. All right, next one. Pac Man, arcade, addictive, liked it. I'll give that an A. I think the clever part of it was catching the pellets, which lets you turn on the ghost and trying to lure the ghost into the corner. I liked it for its simplicity. It was a wonderful game. Let's give it an A. Pong P You know, probably was actually pretty good, you know, and I'll give that an A as well. It was obviously very, very, very simple, but you got to remember, nineteen seventy two, I'm eighteen years old, is the first one I saw. and thought I thought really we had fallen off the edge of modernity. I thought there was no modernity left to walk on when I saw that. So yeah, give that a name Next one, Tetris. Yeah Tetris also A level game. You know, I played Tetris so much when it first came out that I was walking along. I'm sure this has happened to anybody who's played it. You get so addicted to it that the shapes just form in your eyes and you start walking around going, bookshelf, camera, put a book. I'll put them all together and I'll put them makeaking them a shave them. I love the simplicity ong and Tetris another egg. Doom, wonderful gam Th are great. It brings back memories. I love Mmories like the sorry. Doom. was that was just I loved shooting things up. I can't that was I remember that as a first person. Should I give I'm gonna to give that an A still becausecause it wasn't one of the greatest gamame but it was such a good game when it first came out and I'd never seen anything like it. It was just wonderful. Space invaders I gott to give Space invvaders an S in its time, right? I don't want to take it out of its time. Today it looks pretty primitive. but I loved pinball and I was a reporter when it came out, a newspaper man And all the newspaper guys would going and we'd play pinball. We'd discussed the day's stories, and wed play pinball while we were talking it over. And one day this bar across the street from the pinball restaurant, this bar brought out sppace invvaders and it almost destroyed our lives. One of the guys had to quit going into that bar because he had just had a baby and couldn't afford the number of quarters we were feeding into. It's an S game, Space invvaders Legend of Zelda. I hate the Legend of Zelda. I don't care what you think of me. I don't care. I hate the Legend of Zelda. It's boring and it's just too big and nothing happens and the fighting is stupid it I'll give it a Z. I give the Z for Zelda. I hate that game. I know everybody else likes it with me, but I'm right. Sonic the hedgehog, not a Sonic fan Maybe was just too fast for me. I was never a Sonic fan. He always seemed to me like a third rate You know, Mario, but you know always just seemed like a takeoff on that game. A, I'd give it a C. I never liked it. sorry. Civilization. That was a good game. I give that a B. a little not my style, kind of a little too slow and intellectual. I kind of like to press the buttons and kill things. but a good game and really clever. And I can imagine really loving it. I wouldn't you know, people who like Zelda I hold it against them. know, it's just we can't be friends anymore. It I'm joking. I can still be friends with you. I'll just, you know, laugh at you inwardly. But civilization, that's a game I can understand, really loving, but for me, it's a big. All right. This video is sponsored by ExpressVPN Your internet provider can literally see and log everything you do online. in the US, they can even sell that data to advertisers It's creepy. That's where ExpressVPN comes in. It creates an encrypted tunnel for all your internet traffic so your ISP can't see what you're doing. They'll have nothing useful to sell. Plus, it lets you change your virtual location to access content from over one hundred five different countries, which opens up a ton of possibilities. What really sold me is that ExpressVPN is rated number one by CNet, PC World, and the Verge is consistently faster than other VPNs, has twenty four seven customer support, and their privacy policy has been independently audited multiple times. You can connect up to fourteen devices simultaneously, and they even have servers in all fifty US states. use I use it because it's simple Think about it works behind the scenes, find out how you can get up to four extra months by scanning the QR code on screen, clicking the link in the description box below, or by going to exppressvpN dot com slash Andrew Claven Show. Froggger. Oh my God, that brings back memories. So Froggger, I loved Froggger because it was one of the first games that you could play for computers, especially MSDOS computers, which I worked on for a long time Be DOS computers It got really visual before they caught up with max. And so Froger, you know was cool because up until then you were playing like just word games. So youd type in, walk down I walked through the forest or something like that. And then it says, you know, you see a little house and you say, oK, I go to the house. And then suddenly Froger came in and you could see it. you know, writers do anything they can not to actually work So Farger filled that void for me. Obviously a kind of simplistic game, I give it a B. Megaan. you know, the only reason I'm gonna give Megaman an S. I couldn't play it. You had to be able to press the buttons in a certain way where you could climb a wall and shoot at the same time. But my son Spencer loved that game Like nobody's business. And so I give it an ask for him. I'm giving it an ask for Spencer. He loved that game and it was one of the first bosses I think he ever beat. I think the Eagle guy he beat was just you know, he's like the size of a football and he was sitting on the floor playing and that was the first time he ever beat it and it gave him more self esteem than he probably deserves. He did love it. And I loved watching him play it and watching him try and film it. so I'll give it an S for Spencer. Dragon's lair. That was the three D one. It should have been great, but it wasn't I'll give it a C. but it was like the first really three D game. You could play it in an arcade and it looked like if I've got the right game, I think I have, and it looked like a cartoon. so that was very shocking. but that wasn't a very good game. Castlevania, the old Castlevania, I didn't like at all. One of the ones in the later versions, that was a really nice one did like Castlevania, I wasn't that interested in that. that was a see. Resident Evil. Oh man, Resident evil. That was so good. That's an S game. That first one. scary. One of the first really scary games. now we're getting to nineteen ninety six and they really look like games look like today. And I remember getting stuck on the first five minutes of it because I couldn't figure out had a slight and itss controls I can't quite remember what it was. I got stuck and I'd come back day after day after day and finally, I figured out where the control was and started to play just a really scary fun horror movie of a game. All right, next, dot com was you know, it was kind of cool. It's time because if you'd never been to a carnival, so let's give it'll give it a be. it's generous Crash Bandy Cot, another S game, one of the great games. I think the only game that kind of came out of that Sper Mario thing that is an S game. We walked into a used game circcus and those days you traded for them. I guess you don't do that anymore, but those days you bet tradeed in your old disk or a new disk. And I said, if you got anything we like Super Mario, you got anything like that and And they said, Yeah, try this Srash Bandic Cot We loved it. It was great. and all of them are great. The first one was great. The second one I think is probably the best, but an absolute S. Keep going. Donkey Kong was fun. It was fun. It was you know, B plus. It was a fun game now. It's great. The newest one it's on the Switch two or whatever it's called. That one is really was really good that's it. We're done. All right. those were that really took me back. I loveved those games. and I love those games. I love watching the art form develop. you know, it was just so so exciting. It was like being there when they invented movies or when they invented writing or something like that. It was just every day something new. I wish it were still like that, but now it's kind of plateaued, but who knows? there's more good stuff to come If you'd like to pretend you're an Italian plumber trying to save a princess, like and subscribe. It won't help, but you'll get more good content and also subscribe to the Andrew Clavin Show wherever you get your podcast