MY VIDEO GAME OBSESSION - Happy Console Gamer

so welcome back to another episode and welcome to my video game Obsession yes look beside me this is my PC engine collection from Japan a couple of typographics games in there as well and I wanted to talk about how does it get to this level and what does this mean is this a problem why do I have a problem what is it all about and I decided today to start talking about one collection in general and that is the PC engine collection that I've gone overboard with I've gone too far in a lot of places I know that and I want to really go in depth today and psychologically explain why it gets to this level and what it means I will ask you guys out there do any of you have some crazy collections things that have gotten out of hand you're like how did it get to this why am I so obsessive about this one particular video game thing that I'm Into You know whether it be Final Fantasy or action games Mario games whatever it may be let me know down below if you've gone to far and yes I've gone too far and I'm gonna move these over to the side a little bit here so I can talk and move I got so many PC engine games here that I can't even maneuver too well okay I think that's a little bit better but yeah I really want to talk about why I got to this level and I've got 300 plus PC engine games that I've been collecting for quite literally around 34 years so it's not something I did overnight it's not something I woke up in the morning and said hey I'm just gonna buy this old system La Dee Da and not even care about it no there's a lot of reasons behind all of this and I want to say one thing I really and I know it sounds impossible I really love all of these games in this collection it really means something to me and I'm gonna I'm gonna start at the beginning if you indulge me and we have to go back to 1989 before I even knew what the PC engine was what is that I was playing the NES and the Master System having a great old time and listen listen I used uh my turbo chips as a bookmarks for wherever I want to get to in here I went up to my local uh Save On Foods it was and they had a book section in there and I would buy the latest video game magazines whenever they were released I was insatiable about it and this is the magazine I bought back in 1989 it's a game pro magazine and I must admit game pro wasn't my favorite back then I really liked egm and then especially into Die Hard game fan but I picked up this issue and I'm just flipping through it no Lottie dog going through it going this is pretty cool this is interesting and then I got to this one section right here and this I've talked about in other videos but I can't stress it enough I saw this here not an advertisement but kind of a looking into consoles that were in Japan that weren't over here yet we have the Sega Mega drive over here let's take a mega drive and I just love these photographs they took you know the like the purpley pink background I thought that was so awesome it made these machines seem like something else I mean it really made them seem like the future which they were about to be so the mega drive there would eventually come over here as the Genesis and so I was very excited about that because there's a big Sega kit but I looked over here I'm like what is that what is that is a little white console that took little credit card size games it took games this size and so you know a lot of us out there right now love the switch because of this very small cartridges this was incredibly small at the time especially compared to an NES cartridge or Master System cartridge you couldn't believe it you're like there's a video game on this and I remember thinking how exciting it would be to buy games for this Japanese only system at the time and go to my friend's house and have like five of them in my pocket you could I said hey let's play this latest game which would at the time be cutting edge stuff and I gotta state that here this technology it's hard to wrap your head around now right like 34 years ago was state of the art it was state of the art and uh I I remember looking at this little white console and thinking wow that it really sparked my imagination and excitement and I was sold I was like so into that and then we found out uh a little bit after that that the turbo Graphics was going to come into this country uh it was a PC engine to the turbo Graphics we were getting an American version of the PC engine and they were bringing out a whole bunch of games and I I have a whole bunch of them right here and that's a love affair into itself which I'll get into in a split second um but we me and my friends got on a bus and we went to a local mall it was called Guilford mall and it was just before Christmas time and I'll never forget it that there's this little store and they had the PC engine core graphics and we could go in the store we could play these games so they had like Batman on there a whole bunch of different games we were playing Shooters and I I realized that this was better than the regular Nintendo which we were all playing back then I was like this is fantastic stuff and we were such stupid young kids we were like 14 years old that I think I've told this in another story as well is that my friend back back in the 80s I mean you had nothing else to do you really didn't at times everybody forgets how much of a boring time the 80s and 90s could be at times it's not like nowadays with the internet the way it is uh but we would be sitting around and my friend would crank call or prank call uh the this little it was even a game store it was like an Electronics place and they happen to have the PC engine and he'd use his crazy voice he'd go hello I'm looking to get the PC engine what games do you have on the PC engine and we at the time I I know it's juvenile Beyond reality we thought this was so funny and it gave us another connection to be able to uh you know talk to the people who own this store who had this magical machine okay that would be the end of the PC engine at that uh time for me in it in its form it's Japanese form but I was fascinated about all the Japanese games on this machine I thought this is so cool and all that then we got the turbo graphic system which came uh just to play the turbo chips itself you could just only play these on them to begin with and so the initial games came out some amazing games like legendary ax I know a lot of people don't like Keith Carriage I thought Keith courage looked amazing it looked like a cartoon at the time you know it was an action platformer game following following like Mario yes it was no Mario but it was pretty cool I love being able to change into a Mech I thought it was great but legendary ax um Dungeon Explorer was so exciting that you could play with your friends in a gauntlet style way Arrow blasters I could go on and on about every single game JJ and Jeff I mean I mean a game that was very Japanese uh based on a show over there uh that we got over here they changed the name it was like you know Cato in Japan and they just call it JJ and Jeff and strange stuff I like the turbo Graphics but then all of a sudden there was some competition in the country the Genesis came out that Genesis came out which was amazing which I did get for Christmas uh you know that winter in uh the winter of 1989 and it was glorious it was glorious and this is what happened the Genesis crushed the turbo graphics and then the Super Nintendo came out and any momentum that the turbo Graphics was gaining was crushed it just was such um a small system with such a small Market that it was very Niche that not a lot of people knew about it not a lot of people um had them I knew one kid in my entire high school that had a turbo graphics and we would talk about it on the way home and we talk about like vigilante the game side view and all this kinds of stuff anything that we could talk about about the triple Graphics we did because that was all we had there was no internet I couldn't go watch some some idiot like me talking about the triple Graphics um so we you know the only excitement we got was talking to him and uh really cool kid his name is cool deep from what I remember he's a really nice guy in our school and so uh yeah that was my excitement talking to him so I got into the turbo Graphics big time and then that Christmas I told uh the story many times my parents bought me the CD add-on and so the the PC engine in Japan got a CD add-on and then they created a Duo an all-in-one machine later on but we had the topographics and then we got the the topographic CD-ROM which was super expensive and I'm telling you I didn't have many Christmases like this but my parents bought me the turbo Graphics CD player I've said it many times in the show and I play these books one and two that Christmas morning and it was like a game changer and why why I'm so obsessed this is what it's all about this is the first time and it was the first console CD-ROM technology released at that time here's the first I I had one of the very first action RPGs on the console which is ethics one two it had orchestrated music which you did not hear in the NES or the mega drive or the Genesis you know or on turbochips they could do that with a CD-ROM technology at the time it was this was like groundbreaking and I can't stress it enough you had to be there it was groundbreaking when you first listen to music playing off a CD game now we take it all for granted you know you hit the Skyrim music now blasting you're like yeah yeah that's just awesome music but I mean at this time I was like in the 90s like early 90s 1990 you're like whoa like 1991 you're like oh my God and it had cinematics where you could see characters talking so in the past you'd have RPGs and you'd just see flat things of characters but now they could talk and you could hear their voices and it felt like I know I know this is cheesy but it felt like you were really was talking to you it made you more you know get more immersed into the story made you feel more part of it it made it feel more real that was what was so unbelievable and then after that I would get more CD games and stuff like that I talked about those on the channel over the years and it was always something that was very near and dear to my heart I think because it realistically the turbo Graphics bombed in this country but yet in Japan look at this the PC engine was alive and exciting and big so many RPGs so many games that people have not still to this day have not heard about and after that it became my little thing once in a while to go to a store and find a PC engine game and uh and rent it or I'd buy it and uh over the years I just start collecting little games here and there and I started to research into it and I started to find out about all of the games on this uh console and uh it really sparked a passion that I still have and this is something I want to stay I really want to State this because I knew everybody to see the thumbnail and they're like oh there's Johnny bragging uh his gaming collection and that's what I want to say this collection is for me personally I personally believe that there's not a lot of people now who even know what this is or who would even really care and it's it's nothing of a bragging I didn't buy all these games to brag I bought all these games because I love them because they really are a part of my youth and my childhood of me growing up in the 90s being 14 15 16 up to 21 you know up to now um you know it's about that time period and about all of these games and all about all these and realistically again what it is about I said oh and heavily anime based and I've always been such an anime fan and I'm especially early 80s anime I am crazy for I'm still buying so many Blu-Rays to get all my Classics that I grew up with and this represents that time period this is what these games have this is what they are on my shelf when I walk in and I look at the shelf and you look you just see Japanese titles and all of these I was a very strange kid I was one of the if you as I said kids in my school who even knew what a turbo Graphics was never mind the PC engine never mind anime nobody even knew what anime was in North America when I was into it and again that's not a bragging thing it was just my passion I discovered all this richness from Japan that was so tangible and exciting I I still to this day as I say I look in and I look at my shelves I get excited seeing all these different titles and I'll go and play all these I had a PC engine the other day where I was just playing so many of these games and yes don't worry I'll be covering so many of them in upcoming episodes got lots planned for this year Lots planned but it's interesting to start off as an innocent kid that looked in a magazine and saw this thing in Japan and was like Hey you know but it wasn't just like I saw it it was like oh that's neat my imagination was like getting crazy thinking about bringing games over that I didn't even own to friends of mine place and the possibility of RPGs coming to this country that you know we would not get any other way and I ended up getting you know years later and I still to this day I researched so much of it like like with books like this I I you know back the kickstarter PC engine topographic 16 pcfx this is a fantastic book for anybody who is a uh you know in love with a PC engine or somebody who doesn't even know about it this book I'm not sponsored by any of these guys but I I picked these books up personally because I love them and again lately this really sparked my addiction again this PC engine the box art collection by bitmap books I love bitmap books in general and flipping through this uh book again it's all in the box starts and the that's the thing you gotta get into the Box stars are so phenomenal for this machine that each game I buy it I buy it for the place and time that it was the boxer and obviously the game the music what it represents and all of that uh these games are like a museum of history and of artwork at that time and Imagination and these games have it all you wouldn't believe the amount of incredible box arts and that's what this book sparked to me flipping through it drinking tea that's what I do these days drink tea and I'm flipping through it and I'm just like hey I don't know about this game or I don't know about that game and I'm taking photos with my iPhone and then I'm going I'm getting a few more games and then before I know it I'm in another PC engine enthusiastic explosion in my mind I'm going down incredible rabbit holes with these games and this history and it's like it's crazy I mean this machine and these games uh are just unbelievable with the breadth of games that they have there's so many platforming games so many RPGs so many racing games and action games and and uh just like first person Adventure style of games that I I think are incredible and still to this day they capture my imagination and uh yeah when I look at this collection it just genuinely makes me happy it makes me remember who I was and where I'm from and it keeps me on track of who I really am and it's funny somebody say oh well like uh video games like make you who you are no I am who I am but these games have littered my life with such pleasure and such Intrigue and such a adventure if you would call it that uh and taking me on some really interesting uh you know roads into some of where these things lead to and you wouldn't believe it there's some fascinating games in here and as I say we're gonna talk about a lot of them this year and I just want to come in and talk about my passion for video games in general I used the PC engine today as an example of somebody going a little bit over the top and getting a few too many games but wanting to justify why and that's the reason why I have all of the games in my collection that's why I have all my Super Nintendo games my new Geo games my switch collection now my PS5 collection is because this is a passion for me and it's not just something I woke up one day and was like yeah I kind of like video games it's like no no no we've got a problem we've got a severe problem that I really really enjoy I mean to be honest with you I could be into a lot worse things I could be really into drugs or heavy drinking or anything like that or smoking with something I gave up 15 years ago uh but no this is my drug and this is um for myself my healthier way to deal with my life and uh and all of that and I I really enjoy it and it's really it really gets me up every day and puts me in a good mood and and especially having you guys uh being able to to watch you know this stuff and uh to watch me talk about it I have somebody to talk to finally you know not just like that kid that was in high school I only had cool deep back then to talk to you about the turbo graphics on a rainy walk home in Vancouver weather in the you know in the winter of 1989 still remember very very well and uh yeah it's nice to be able to that I can talk to uh somebody about this crazy Affliction of mine and uh yeah I'm really curious guys like what are some of your video game obsessions I'm sure a lot of you out there have some different ones some some crazy ones some Tifa collections or whatever it may be some statue collecting from gaming what is your thing what is your thing these are all my things but I want to know what your you know obsessive compulsive uh video game collecting is down below it's gonna be really fascinating to look at it you know definitely invite everybody else to read some of the responses because it's going to be really neat to hear about what other people find so interesting thing about video gaming and where it took them in their lives and my life took me here I said unfortunately and uh something I truly truly really enjoy so I just want to thank you guys for watching this episode and sticking with me right to the end here and I'll say my line so anyways guys until next time

Channel: HappyConsoleGamer

Views: 74,123

Keywords: video game addiction, big gaming collection, pc engine, old box art, great old games, vidoe games 1989

Id: muAAKwLofAk

Length: 20min 11sec (1211 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 20 2023