Dad's STRICT POLICY On Video Games And Friends

I still remember loaning out a copy of resident evil 2 for PS1. I got it back with a big chunk of the manual cut in the corner with no explanation of what happened.

My parents didn’t have rules to my video games but I did take really good care of them. There were 2 or 3 occasions where I let someone borrow a game of mine and they ended up mishandling the game so I got to keep theirs. I still remember the games I got to keep. Street fighter 2 for the gameboy I got to keep because they broke my super Mario land. SF2 Turbo on Super NES I got to keep as well lol because they broke my Donkey Kong Country. Capcom vs SNK 2 I kept because they lost my Gran Turismo 3. Id say I got to keep the better game since love fighting games.

Just stumbled upon your channel and find out in the first video I watch that legendary comic book artist Mike Esposito is your grandfather, that's awesome! Did you inherit any of his original works? Although your channel is about videogames I'd love to see you make a video showcasing some of his pieces if he did.

Also your dad was the real OG content creator and OG collector and that is epic and I love it!!!

man I wish i had a dad like that growin up. you guys seemed so close. im sorry hes gone

One could call it being strict, but your dad was no dummy. He knew better. I don't even let my wife borrow my car 🤷‍♂

Mmm I can see both sides. My Dad was a control freak too. I couldn't fart without permission.

My first experience with borrowing/lending games was from the nes era as well. My sister and I got the nes with super mario bros 1/ duck hunt. Neighbor girls got the nes/ mario 3 package and they hadn't played mario 1 so they wanted to trade. That was fine since our parents were childhood friends and we were babysat there . For me the bad experience came in high school when I decided to let a classmate "borrow" a whole case full of pc games for a dbz game for snes. I was even dumb enough to give him back the snes cartridge after he spent a whole school year "forgetting" to bring me my case of p.c. games. That's a life lesson I wish I didn't have to learn the hard way!

He was right, days ago i remember how much it hurts to know my ff7 ps1 was been taken by a friend i have intrust, then never gave it back, another one toke my GC RE3 as well and he pretend he never did and finally GC it self it came back to me broken after i let him borrow it for sometime whats funny that after i retro kept the console for a long time and almost forgot whats the issue and thought im missing cables so i order everything i need to hoke up the GC again and sadly it brought back my memory to where that friend brake it and i was like ah i remember now!

Note: GC had a regional switch which i regret installing it cause since it is not working it will bring me to the JP menu and i cant switch it back to U.S nothing works. Please dont you guys tell me it is easy i can do it my self i will never do it. And i dont think so that a technician here now a days knows how to open this nostalgia aside from that we have horrible technician if u brought a console to be fixed probably you will find a wall sucker screws installed instead.

I remember going over to my friends house for the first time. And his mom literally asked me, "You're not here to steal his games are you?" Definitely was not. And we became best friends after that. Miss that dude. Hope he's doing okay. Thanks for showing me Legend of Mana and Shining Force 2 Curtis! Still love 'em to this day!

Is this the same reason we see many NES games in non original plastic cases in the old video footage? Was the cardboard box put aside to be kept in good condition?

An apology for burning the action figure wouldn't have been enough for me. I would have gotten ahold of the parents and asked them to have their kids pool their allowance to buy a new Egon or replace the burned one with something comparable in one of their own collections.

Heating food in any type of plastic in the microwave is not healthy!!!!!

Dont care how strict he was, your dad ruled man. Great video!

I let people borrow games when I was a kid and you know what happened, I never saw those games again. Ive also had a jealous brother break discs before so this isnt that very strict of a rule imo. Other people are just terrible at taking care of things that arent theirs

My parents encouraged me to load and borrow games with friends. But I lost my copy of Super off-road (just the cart though) for the NES when my little brother's friend asked to borrow it, then his older brother lent the game to one of his friend, and I never got it back. In return I just kept the copy of Road Fighter that I had borrowed from my brother's friend.
Years later I picked up loose cart of super off-road to put in my box. Still nags me to this day that the cart isn't my original copy my parents bought me.

But that was a lesson I learned the hard way. To this day I have a strict policy to never let anyone borrow any of my games. I've had many people ask trough out the years. But I have turned them down.

Thanks for sharing another heartwarming video. I’m a little obsessed too with keeping my collection as mint as possible so I rather give a game away than let someone borrow it. Luckily I’m surrounded by non gamers so is extremely rare when this happens. God bless.

My mom was the same way, except for the handling of discs. It was definitely a learning process when I got my PlayStation in ‘97.

I learned the hard way when my son 2.5 years old snapped black ops 1 in half. Ha literally a week after I got it. Went back to GameStop the next day and got another one .

I agree with your dad 100% TRUST ME I LEARNED THE HARD THAT LENDING WAS NEVER EVER A GOOD EXPERIENCE EVEN WHEN I DID GET MY STUFF BACK IN PERFECT CONDITION IT WAS NEVER WORTH IT AT ALL, And the anxiety of having your stuff gone is just not worth it.

I was like your dad in 95. I was 15 and cd's were like pinnacle of technology. I grew up with cartridges and hard disks. Cd's were music and pc only. I loaned to a friend and my game came back scratched up. That was the only time I loaned a game for a very long time

I'm the same age as your cousin Manny, and my cousins were your age and younger, and back in the 90s, if they wanted to play any game of mine or music that was on a disc, they had to ask me so I could set it up for them

I agree with your dad. I used to freely lend my games out as a teenager. I had games damaged, stolen and never returned. Your Dad was 100% right.

Wonderful Bro !!!! Man brings me back every time I watch these type of video of yours

This is a fantastic video! I completely understand where your dad is coming from and why you will be more lenient with your own daughter if that time comes... Back in my days, I could trade games with my friends for a few days but they were only cartridges back then... Definitely wouldn't do it with Disc based games. Keep up the great work.

Lending my things was always a TERRIBLE decision. It NEVER turned out well for me, especially in the childhood years. I lost more than just all my N64 games, but MANY other irrelevant belongings that I wont talk about.

This isn't the public library.

I let a guy I worked with borrow my fucking GameCube GBA player. I was 18 years old at that time.

That. That’s a “borrowing” burn.

Of course, I never got it back.

This is fairly common and your dad was right. I'm the same way about borrowing.

You can buy a ps5 limited edition lol

My Dad was similar to yours in the beginning. He went way downhill later in life. He died years ago. The last game we played together was NFL Blitz on N64.

My parents were the same way, though I got away with it a bit more as I got older.

I would say 30% of the games I have loaned out never came back.

100% hard agree with dad. Never let your friends borrow your games, no matter what.
P.S. I still have my original "The Real Ghostbusters" Egon Spengler action figure, as well all of the rest of my Ghostbusters toys.

I remember when I had Chrono Trigger everyone wanted to trade me like 3 of their games for it.

When i was about 10 i had a friend who lived like 3 blocks away. We weren’t best friends but hung out occasionally, we borrowed nes games from each other all the time. One day he asked to borrow like 5 of them, didn’t think any thing about it and dude literally moved away the next day never to be heard from again lol. Don’t remember any of the games being crazy rare or anything but just kinda evil that he did that. I actually found him on facebook a while ago i should ask for my games back

Yea I learn that the hard way when my "friend " borrowed starfox 64, majoras mask and other game that i cant remeber, never to return it, later in college, lost starfox 64 3D, and cherry on top, I let a friend borrow my xbox one x and boom, again, so yea.. he was right

*shows video of dad struggling to take out disk

Bring Back Twisted Metal!

Yeah I don't know, an NES cartridge isn't going to come back any less functional than you lent it out as. It's not like you're lending the case and the manual etc. Your dad seems like he was an only child growing up.

Messed up yo

In a way I think your Dad was also protecting you from that hurt you experienced when you were 3. That must have been heartbreaking even for your father to see you like that. Great video! Thanks for sharing.

Awesome video Tyler! Your dad was 100% right! As a kid, in the early 90s, I loaned an expensive and dear to me game (streets of rage 2) to a classmate and he decided to give it to someone else. My dad and I spent hours looking for that other kid. And when I finally got my game back.. it was dead. The cartridge itself was undamaged, but the game did not start. It was just black screen..and there was no way to get that game before my next birthday, as it was expensive and rare to find (early 90s man). I cried. I regreted loaning the game so much.. up until this day I wish I had never loaned my favorite game to that kid..
Your dad was right. 100% right.

My parents were the same way I wasn’t allowed to let anyone borrow my games or I couldn’t borrow anyone else’s games. I still don’t let no one borrow my games and I’m in my 40s. I work hard for the things I want and I like to keep them in pristine condition as long as I can.

i remember a let someone borrow my pokemon red cartridge for their tony hawks pro skater 2 ps1 disc. i was reluctant, as i was actively playing it and it had my save data. but he wanted to play it so badly, i felt a little sorry for him. i thought hey what the heck this tony hawk game is pretty cool. after a few weeks, i never heard from him again. he disappeared and left me with his game. i was sad, but figured it would be okay, as i didn't like to dwell on bad situations. turns out, the tony hawk series ended up being in my top games of all time and shaped who i am today. when i reminisce, i hope that kid enjoyed pokemon red as much as i enjoyed tony hawks pro skater 2.

Hey Tyler been a subscriber now for a while and although I mostly lurk, felt the need to comment here I and my brother also lost our dad to covid back in 2021 and although he wasn't a gamer and didn't really understand how I felt about it,

But he respected my hobby nonetheless my brother was the one that got me into them and I'm of a similar age to you and I do remember playing SMB and golf with my dad on NES when I was like five anyway love the channel love the content hope y'all have a Happy Thanksgiving

Is this the origin story of you getting "non burnt Egon" at Christmas one year? lmao I always wondered what that meant from that video, cool to know. I figured maybe there was a "burnt Egon" action figure that was just like a purposeful feature of the toy. Bigger kids can be butts sometimes, I know cuz I was one, I'm the oldest of 5 siblings, I was the butt.. Sorry guys!

Edit:welp 2 seconds later and theres the confirmation.. mystery solved.

This is hilarious, cause the reason I stopped lending games, is because one of the games shown here.
I let friends and acquaintances borrow my games for almost a decade, from Atari 2600/Odyssey/Intellivision to nes/super nintendo
and genesis. But I had Roadrunners Death Valley Rally for the Snes, was one of my favorite games, for almost 2
years, so I got my play out of it. But a neighbor boy I sometimes hung out with wanted to borrow it, I said ok, and he
asked if I wanted to borrow Sword of the Vermillion for the genesis, unfortunately I said no and that he could borrow it with no trade.
Well about 3-4 weeks later I go to his house, and ask for it back and he says he already gave it back to me. After a few more days
of trying and even talking to his parents I never got it back. I did hear a rumor from an older kid he knew, that he heard that neighbor boy
say " Since he gave it to me for no trade, he isnt getting it back." I never let anyone borrow my stuff again after that, after hundreds of trades,
even trades where I took nothing in return, it just took that one time to ruin it for everyone. I never did buy another copy of DVR, it isnt a rare game
and I should buy a copy soon since I still have the box and the manual, before it gets too pricey. But it was hilarious to see you talking about
borrowing games, and see Death Valley Rally being played, thanks so much for that, blast from the past!!!!