I love Paper Mario. I see, I click. I'm so excited for the TTYD remake on Switch.
@titans1fan93
6 ай бұрын
Awww man bookborn got me sad about brining up Fry’s downfall. Fry’s and toys r us were my favorite stores to go to as a kid.
@degotas
6 ай бұрын
Man I miss some of those flash games.
@PonderingsOfPete
6 ай бұрын
My thing is Miniclip, brought down by the anti-Flash player revolution. Like, it still exists but it doesn’t have near the catalogue of games that it once did. There are so many niche games that I played there that aren’t available because flash isn’t supported anymore. Random games that were probably created in someone dorm room as a project that they just threw up on the internet (idk but they looked like it at times) and didn’t have micro-transactions, etc.browsing that site and playing random games was a large part of my childhood. and this brings up a majorly depressing point: The games we’re playing now and even the games our kids are playing now won’t be available for the next generations. So many games will be shut down, deleted, lost to time since they require some sort of online support that isn’t native to the disc (among other things). So much will be lost. And we can’t do too much about it.
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
Ok Pete this IS DEPRESSING. I forgot about all the flash games I played growing up, I spent hours. Or those old random computer games that came pre installed on Microsoft computers. Like chips challenge or jewel thief
@alexspeedwagon3701
6 ай бұрын
My miniclip obsession as a child was motherlode, I played that game for hours and hours, and even though I'm pretty sure I only ever bothered to beat it once as a kid, the experience was similar to what I imagine playing minecraft is like for kids today. A couple years ago I went and downloaded a local flash player so that I could experience some of that nostalgia. Part of me was worried I was going to hate it- and it was a lot more simplistic than I remember it being- but damn if it wasn't a chill gameplay experience.
@Mike-di1og
6 ай бұрын
The Ruffle browser extension lets you play Flash content still, as long as it’s still hosted. A bunch of Neopets games can still only be played with Ruffle
@PonderingsOfPete
6 ай бұрын
@@Mike-di1og Bro, this is awesome. I'll check this out. I don't think it'll work for a lot of the miniclip games I'm thinking of cuz they aren't even hosted on the site anymore, but I'm sure I could find some of them on other sites if I tried.
@PonderingsOfPete
6 ай бұрын
@@Bookborn You said depressing, I bring out the depressing. So many hours of fun, enjoyed, but not to be repeated.
@alynam82
6 ай бұрын
Best Buy makes me sad. They're still around, but nothing like they used to be. Mainly because of games and music and movies becoming digital
@TonyB2279
6 ай бұрын
It's all TVs and washing machines now. Washing machines with wi-fi.
@alynam82
6 ай бұрын
@@TonyB2279 exactly! Nothing fun about going there anymore
@MetalGildarts
6 ай бұрын
@@TonyB2279seriously, washers with wifi are a thing now?
@TonyB2279
6 ай бұрын
@@MetalGildarts I'll have to look into that. I admit I was riffing a bit by the time I got there.
@zrmartin
6 ай бұрын
Yeah, we bought a stove with wifi - you can preheat it from work! When the app works of course...
@brianlinden3042
6 ай бұрын
I saw that Fry's in the thumbnail and clicked immediately. I didn't grow up with Fry's but I was stationed in California (first in Pendleton and later in Miramar) for most of the first half of my time in the Marine Corps, im the early 2000s to 2010s, and getting a chance to go to Fry's was always a sublime experience. Plus, I made it a point to stop in before every deployment, so I could always ensure I had whatever dongles, adapters, or batteries I might need to ensure my gadgets work, no matter how austere the environment. I had a similar experienve to yours later in my career, on a detachment to Miramar, where I made it a point in the limited time I had available to stop at Fry's again, and seeing it so close to empty was almost existentially sad. I was also huge into webcomics back then, too, but thankfully most of the ones I followed were the big ones, so they didn't really just vanish.
@CantankerousDave
6 ай бұрын
I always liked the 50s sci-fi themed one in Burbank with the crashed UFO sticking out of the front of the store.
@brianlinden3042
6 ай бұрын
@CantankerousDave I never got a chance to go to that one, unfortunately, but the "Atlantis" themed one in San Marcos with the giant fish tank was amazing! Supposedly the one in San Diego was "Aircraft Carrier" themed, but honestly I never saw it. It just looked like a store, to me. But what a store it was!
@Dillon__Morris
6 ай бұрын
I lived in the Pacific Northwest for almost 30 years and have never heard of Fry’s Electronics, strange. I do remember being really bummed when my local Borders Bookstore closed
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
I was sooo sad when borders closed 😭
@bookdmb
6 ай бұрын
I feel a bit sad about the decline in indie comic book stores. I used walk with my friends 45 mins to the local shop. We'd get the weekly releases and some tcg packs, then grab a slurpee and maybe play a few arcades. I took my son to the store this summer when we were back in BC. I knew it was closing down, but it was sad to see the dilapidated condition. The owner too, I had joked to my son that he was "king of the nerds" back in the day. I had kind of idolized him. Now, he looked beaten down by life. Still, I told him how I wanted to bring my son to see his shop, how many happy memories I had as a kid there, and thanked him for those times. That brought a nice smile. I try to see the interrelation of decay and renewal, but it can be painful sometimes, the ephemerality of it all.
@artoisr2
6 ай бұрын
Oh man, makes me miss Circuit City. Remember seeing all those Funtastic N64's in the shelves back in 2000. When America Online was a thing.
@aerynnkh
3 ай бұрын
I'm from Eastern Europe and people of older generations would never ever buy electronics online or digitally, you HAVE to get them to the store where they have to touch and try out EVERYTHING, I can't imagine these stores closing here, it's insane to me
@dr.dreep11
Ай бұрын
Cluefinders is such a flashback! I forgot and had played so many of those growing up!!
@radagast83
6 ай бұрын
I grew up not too far from a Micro Center. In the mid-90s the place was always packed, and I mean PACKED. I remember so many computers with game demos that you could actually play, I remember staff everywhere helping people out. Then fast forward a little more than a decade and I start a job near the same store. I hadn't been in about a decade. It was quieter, but still relatively busy. Over the years it got quieter and quieter and emptier and emptier. I moved offices right before 2020, so I'm no longer nearby, but I can only imagine what it's like now.
@EricBrown2112
6 ай бұрын
BookBorn, I can so relate. As I watched your video I was in the middle of digitizing years of content and collateral I have saved, used and referenced. I have old video projects that I need to get digitized, I have old cassettes of indie bands I loved but cannot find on online, lots of memories and nostalgia. The downside is that tech changes so fast and it is all becoming digital. We can certainly back it up, but how many places do I need to back it up to so it survives a crash, a hacking, a corruption, an EMP? ;) Our old Fry's Electronics (which I used to call Tech Mecca) is now a car dealership. Sad. Thanks for the fun, weird, and nostalgic niche nerd video. If one thing is constant, it is change.
@sophiazarifi7235
6 ай бұрын
I loved webcomics. My favourites were Unshelved (I'm a librarian, so I could relate), Sluggy Freelance, and Something Positive 😊
@timothyduch2236
6 ай бұрын
Omg I remember those Cluefinder Games!! Wow, thanks for the nostalgia flashback. I had completely forgotten about those.
@evanb4307
6 ай бұрын
Ahhh thank you for reminding me about ClueFinders! I remember back in elementary school getting the next grade version every year. I don't think I actually ever finished any of them though 😅
@Amantducafe
6 ай бұрын
Sadly there's no Cluefinder community where i can share the experience but my personal favorite was 3rd grade. The music, the story, the plot twist! Come on, Monkey kingdom?! Goo Lagoon?! It was full of personality, jokes and intuitive problems. Monkeys and their shenanigans, plants and their references that i could only catch years later (John, Paul, Ringo and George) it was the best no contest. 4th grade, was still great but the story was dropped for a very simple linear one and 5th/6th grade felt like they just dropped the setting, the story/plot and intuitive games for a more hardcore approach on education. I remember the 5th and 6th were so bad i felt like i was doing homework more than learning through games, i even remember there were problems about BIOCHEMISTRY! 6th grader game about carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen elements to configure and reconfigure.
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
Ok but fifth was my favorite 🤣🤣 and I loved Joni getting stolen by the plant people!! But nothing beats the music of number 3 tho for sure
@degotas
6 ай бұрын
The Frys one was sad. I feel you for those web comics that just ended though. Kinda like TV though...
@call_me_pebble
6 ай бұрын
MEMORY UNLOCKED! I loved the Clue Finders games! Especially the 4th Grade Egyptian one. These along with the I Spy and JumpStart games made up the few games we had for the family computer in the late 90s early 2000s. So nostalgic thinking about those games...
@jjjjjjjjjj11ify
6 ай бұрын
I miss video rental stores. A lot more fun to browse random movies. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the Ice Dragon.
@jlodomauthor
6 ай бұрын
Also, maybe not TOO niche but the homestarrunner stuff was gold.
@thing_under_the_stairs
6 ай бұрын
I REMEMBER TROGDOR!!!
@1sttimelurker595
6 ай бұрын
Fry's was where I saw my first Plasma TV! Crazy and sad!
@bulbakirb5789
6 ай бұрын
me only recently discovering your book videos and seeing you post about paper mario, the first is my FAVORITE game of all time. That is insane lmao
@gryftkin
5 ай бұрын
They had a Fry's in Phoenix near where my parents lived and they showed up one morning to buy something and there was a note on the door stating that they were closed and "if you are an employee, please contact...". They didn't even tell the employees they were closing :P I miss CompUSA too :P And the game I remember my kids loving was the Freddie Fish franchise :P
@angusmckeogh659
6 ай бұрын
Fry's has been gone in my home town for about 3 years now. The only thing I couldn't stand about Fry's was the shopping for an item and then pulling the "ticket" from the shelf that you had to take to an associate so that they could get the item from the storage area in the back. It took an hour for me to upgrade my RAM card the last time I was there. Of course, maybe that was just a consequence of my area and theft.
@Meta_Fungi
6 ай бұрын
Fry’s Electronics was my first job out of HS. Great memories lol
@Pharasis90
6 ай бұрын
Oh my gosh; Cluefinders was basically my whole childhood!!! I had no idea other kids actually played those.
@stillbuyvhs
6 ай бұрын
I miss plain HTML & software on CDs. Also, BASIC. Someone else mentioned Miniclip; I'll add in Flash games, Java Applets, & web applets in general.
@tuinhoofd1923
4 ай бұрын
I hope you're enjoying the thousand year door switch remake
@CNavo.TheNextChapter
6 ай бұрын
I miss Fry's so much. I have lived for almost a decade of my life in Omaha NE in my late 20s and we had something very similar to Fry's called Nebraska Furniture Mart that does still exist but not the same with the decline of physical electronics, DVDs, and games. I love making trips to Game Stop, especially the one down in Southcenter next to the B&N but worried for the future of that store as well. Best Buy is no longer "fun" to go to either unless you need some "adult" and "grownup" haha. Finally, I miss Borders probably because I used to work for the company back in the day, while there were some corporate-required displays, local bookstores had free liberty for many other displays and what inventory of books we wanted to carry. Sigh... Great video down memory lane. -Cheers!
@jeremyvanneman8112
6 ай бұрын
1:01 I had the pleasure to visit a Fry's in Burbank when I lived in the LA area - it must have been one of the last ones, and it was amazing! All the nerd stuff and all of the geek stuff together.
@booktubeadvocate
6 ай бұрын
I had no idea that you were a Paper Mario fan! I’m so hyped for the Thousand Year Door remake and I’m hoping it’s a return to form for the series after the horridness that was Sticker Star and Color Splash
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
Oh man HUUGE huge fan. Although I had played and felt extremely connected/loved a ton of games before I played Paper Mario, I feel like it was the first game I felt radicalized about 🤣
@meredithrice4872
6 ай бұрын
ClueFinders were my FAVORITE games growing up. I remember getting them for birthdays and playing for hours. The Egypt one is still my fave, followed closely by Mothra because the music is fire. Thanks for bringing up a fun memory!
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
The underwater/colonial island one (I think 5th grade?) was my fav but honestly they were all so good.
@Junior6288
6 ай бұрын
Just being able to rent video games in general. As a concept and a service it is essentially non-existent. There’s no local video game rental places where I live (if anywhere anymore) and I don’t want to pay for subscription services like GameFly (do they still exist?). So now it’s “buy it and hope you like it” or “watch someone stream it and see if you think you’ll like it.” As a result, I just don’t buy/play as many video games anymore. 😢
@rutgerniemeijer
6 ай бұрын
Fellow Cluefinders fan here! In Dutch it's called "Junior Detectives" and it was amazing. I still sometimes remember quotes or music from the games.
@brewster_4
6 ай бұрын
There was a webcomic for Doctor Who called the Ten Doctors back in 2007 that was this crazy crossover with loads of characters. The author was planning to do another one in 2013 for the 50th anniversary, but ended up abandoning it.
@johnhenry5835
6 ай бұрын
I used to love going to Frys Electronics in Tukwila, Washington. I was lucky to move before it was sadly empty. Also, big Paper Mario fan!
@hannahlosttheplot
6 ай бұрын
Your description of Clue Finders (which I'm prett sure wasn't a thing in the UK) has just given me such vivid flashbacks to a Merlin themed maths game that I had as a kid - on a floppy disk, no less! Off to see if that exists in a digital format...
@bryancraig6584
6 ай бұрын
frys was part of the inspirations for NOPE
@NYCINYOURAREA
6 ай бұрын
So sad to have to toss those old games on CD, lol. Maybe they will get a remaster. I've been a subsciber for a few months now since you started your ASOIAF reviews and have been really enjoying your channel! I've seen you're a mom and obviously an avid book fan, and as a new dad I am curious if you had any suggestions on some books for younger kids. My son will be turning 1 in a couple weeks so I know he won't be reading on his own for quite some time. But any suggestions for when he does get into reading would be great.
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
Oh man this is actually a video on my list for the upcoming month!! I get asked this a lot and I have a million recommendations 😂
@NYCINYOURAREA
6 ай бұрын
@Bookborn That's awesome! Looking forward to it.
@thing_under_the_stairs
6 ай бұрын
@@Bookborn Very cool! Being a person who doesn't have kids, but has a close relationship with my nieces, it's been really fascinating watching (and helping to shape!) their reading habits as they've grown. I had no idea that kids' books could be so much fun!
@Viksbelle
5 ай бұрын
The author/artist who did Red String has another comic that's still ongoing and pretty good: Love Not Found.
@alexandernewell8583
5 ай бұрын
I also miss Fry's a lot. Used to go to the one in Anaheim with my best friend and my or his dad a few times a month. Great store as long as you didn't need any customer service.
@misternegative4918
6 ай бұрын
I don’t read web comics, but I read comics and I know web comics are probably bigger than ever. There’s a lot that have gone on for a long time. My big niche thing that is “bad” now is just normal comics. Comics don’t sell well anymore so they restart all of the time and there are rarely stories that go on for years and years before creatives change. A lot of the time books will get just 6 issues before changing.
@GideonsRecruit
6 ай бұрын
I grew up with the Animorphs book series (middle grade series). Nickelodeon aired a TV adaptation during their Snick time slot in the early evening. It aired in 1998 and was dropped six episodes into season 2. It probably wasn’t a great show, but my kid self was disappointed; maybe it was for the best because I was disappointed in how the books ended.
@Zivilin
6 ай бұрын
I only knew of Animorphs from the tv series and first discovered they were books as an adult from the indie game To the Moon.
@crylorenzo
6 ай бұрын
Haven't been to Fry's, but it reminds me how there is right now a loss of "third spaces". I remember playing Super Mario 64 at the Toys R Us with other kids. Also, very much yes to the Paper Mario games. Loved the first two so much. Fantastic games. They are remastering The Thousand Year Dorr for the switch and selling it for an expensive price, but I honestly hope they use it as a way to reboot the franchise. Thanks for the fun video!
@michaelbodell7740
6 ай бұрын
I didn't grow up with it (because I'm too old) but I enjoyed Fry's when I moved to the bay area out of college. I especially liked the themed stores (Mayan Temple in San Jose and Egyptian themed in Campbell). They aren't really fantasy but I still follow the webcomics xkcd (3 times a week update, no real story) and questionablecontent (weekday update, a comic about friendship, romance, and robots). It sucks that lots of digital media (CD-ROM games, old web sites, media in the cloud) are not really preservable easily or not something you can go back to 20+ years later even if you "owned" them in the past. I didn't know the cd-rom games that you mentioned but lots of old 90s games would be fun to play again, but many of them are lost or unavailable.
@DPN010
6 ай бұрын
So many trip's to Fry's and so many times, while wearing a white shirt and tie, that I was asked if I worked there or where something was! 😂
@dickinsonlo6817
6 ай бұрын
hah Fry's got me to sub! love your content. Grew up with Fry's, before they were huge mega nerd palaces... I remember lining up at the components sections waiting to get someone's attention so I can get a tix for new CPU or RAM etc (back when 4 mb (not gb) of RAM cost an arm and a leg... buying floppy discs to dup wares off BBSes, and SVHS tapes to dup anime shows off of rented LDs from Japanese video rental places... those were the days My fav Fry's locations were the UFO one in Burbank, the Shuttle one in Anaheim, and one of the older OG non-themed ones in Costa Mesa
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
Fun fact, while researching for this video I found out that my location growing up was the ONLY non-themed frys! So I didn’t see a themed frys until I moved to California way later in life, in the 2010’s.
@sachaclow2576
6 ай бұрын
Yes! I loved Cluefinders. The Goo song was honestly played on repeat for the whole summer.
@tylersvedin3864
6 ай бұрын
Super Paper Mario was definitely different, but still generally well liked by most people. Sticker Star is the one that was “panned”.
@techsoul5590
6 ай бұрын
HOLY MOLY, I played those cluefinders games, I had completely forgotten them, but they were awesome. Must've been popular to reach us here in New Zealand!
@harlequinne.
6 ай бұрын
I work in computer retail and Amazon is the exact reason a lot of the fun old chain stores have and will continue to die. We are a small mom and pop shop and are more expensive, but have excellent customer service and a lot of knowledge on the products. The only reason we can stick around and compete is because of the expertise and being in a small town that is fairly distant from bigger retailers. That being said Amazon has still had a fairly big impact. Amazon trades convenience for experience. Moving away from physical media was hard too. The days when new games used to come into the store were some of the most exciting days and they're now long gone.
@thing_under_the_stairs
6 ай бұрын
And this is exactly why I never use Amazon for anything!
@agnishom
6 ай бұрын
I have never been to a Fry's electronics. But I can still relate. Brick and Mortar stores (especially bookstores) shutting down makes me sad -- not to mention how they reinforce the monopoly of Amazon :(
@AutkastKain
6 ай бұрын
I love the Mario RPGs. I mostly played the ones for handheld devices like the GBA and DS. But I bounced off of the newest Paper Mario for sure too
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
Man the gameboy Mario games were sooo good. Especially the original. I think that’s still my favorite. Nothing beat the thrill of completing a game you couldn’t save 😂
@AutkastKain
6 ай бұрын
@@Bookborn I haven't gone that far back, but I started with Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga. You know a game was good when you can remember the name without looking it up despite the decade or more it's been since seeing or playing this game.
@moviefiendz
6 ай бұрын
Yeah I had a list of webcomics. There was one about female space rangers. Powepuff Girls Doujinshi, and many more.
@taifurious7017
6 ай бұрын
I went to both the Fry's in Las Vegas Nevada and City of Industry California before they closed. Both were super depressing. Multiple copies of a game would be spread out on a couple shelves just to make it look like they had products. Half the stores were closed off. I used to go to the ones in Burbank and City of Industry all the time. I enjoyed going to new stores to see what theme they had. Definitely the end of an era.
@stillbuyvhs
6 ай бұрын
Windows 98 software will usually work on newer PCs. Windows 95 is a bit harder to get to work. And CD software is better than downloads; no waiting for a slow connection.
@BigSchu22
6 ай бұрын
I grew up in Northern California and was saddened by the downfall of Fry's as well... luckily I live near a Micro Center on the east coast, which I love! Still so crazy that Micro Center flourishes while Fry's died... I know Fry's had some sketchy sales practices and bad customer service, just like Circuit City. Remember CompUSA and Good Guys??
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
Omg I LOVED comp USA!
@BigSchu22
6 ай бұрын
@@Bookborn Same! It felt like the upscale electronics store haha
@trevon444
6 ай бұрын
The paper Mario thousand year door is one of the best games of all time
@jaginaiaelectrizs6341
6 ай бұрын
I was never the biggest webcomic reader, I always meant to get into them more than I actually did, but then I quit the internet for a few years and never totally came back except for youtube. But _Vampirates!_ and _Teahouse_ those are the discontinued webcomics that stick with me the most.
@catdevlin2974
6 ай бұрын
I played the Mathra ClueFinder game over and over again growing up! Even when I was taking calculus in high school I went back and played it again, it was the only one I had and I wish I’d gotten to experience more of those games!
@paigeturner1606
6 ай бұрын
Ouch my heart cant take the super paper mario slander😭😭 i played all paper marios and thats my favorite💀
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
I’m sorry look away look away 🙈🙈🙈 I just was sooo sad that we didn’t have companions in the same way
@paigeturner1606
6 ай бұрын
@@Bookborn thats so true though I did love the companions too😫
@dirkrousseau462
6 ай бұрын
Cluefinders! Loved the 3rd grade one! I still remember the monster song
@dylanbeazer2506
6 ай бұрын
Cluefinders was freaking awesome. Math Blaster as well
@s.r.dragonreads4915
6 ай бұрын
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that has tried to look for cluefinders! I would love to get my kids to play them.
@apebblemaster4570
6 ай бұрын
Cluefinders! My siblings and I played them! And we still have the CDs! And boxes, too!
@shinymk6562
6 ай бұрын
I only played Thousand Year Door till around the dragon boss fight, so I can't wait to buy it and finish it at last! I meed it to sell hot cakes and show the team that this is what we want in Paper Mario. Thousand Year Door for the win!
@Earth2Stephen
6 ай бұрын
So my depressing thing has more to do with me than anything else. I miss having TIME to play single player games. These days I'm just too busy :(
@T1mefortim
6 ай бұрын
Yeah, they're re-releasing thousand year door for $60. But I'm surprised you bring up Paper Mario and Cluefinders. I didn't realize how many people can relate to missing Cluefinders.
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
yikes I didn't know they were putting that heafty price tag on it lol I was hoping it would be through the monthly thing like playing Link to the Past and stuff (although I guess they aren't porting but doing an entire remake...)
@MetalGildarts
6 ай бұрын
See that’s the problem with these remasters: they charge more for them than they did the original back in the day.
@chand911
6 ай бұрын
Ugh, that unfinished webcomic one hurt my heart.
@demopem
6 ай бұрын
Wait, what? Fry's gone? ☹ I'm not American, but I lived in the Bay Area for awhile in 1999-2000... and Fry's were huge! The place where you could grab a shopping cart and walk up and down the isles like in a supermarket and pick out everything you needed to build your own desktop computer.
@WillowGardener
6 ай бұрын
You are the coolest person I've never met. Apparently granular nerd complaints make me very happy.
@Conduit23
4 ай бұрын
Woah. I worked at Fry's way back when. RIP.
@poodlemuffin
6 ай бұрын
Long term fantasy webcomics are still huge, they’re mostly just on sites/ apps like Webtoon these days.
@carlinc.christensen3478
6 ай бұрын
Two excellent Webcomics that I would recommend is "Scurry" and "Comic Aurora". Comic Aurora is still going and the author is active on KZitem and Tumblr. I highly recommend them! A nerd thing that depresses me is when the specific print or run of a book is no longer available. I makes me so frustrated when i can't find them anymore online!
@OrcaneVault
6 ай бұрын
I remember Fry’s in its heyday as a kid, it did feel special especially since the closest one to us was a bit of a drive. And I had a lot of fond memories of playing the Cluefinder games. The Egypt one stands out on particular for me. Did you play the Freddi Fish games as well?
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
I didn’t play freddi fish but my husband did so now our daughter just started! You can find it online 🥹
@MagillanicaLouM
4 ай бұрын
This is a fresh wound, but CoolMath's end for me. Future generations will never know the vibe of being in the computer lab but you finished what the teacher assigned and so there was only one place to go (that wasnt blocked on school computers).
@jasonbailey9139
6 ай бұрын
My kids loved JumpStart games when they were young. Looked like they were similar....though we haven't moved since they played them, so there is a small chance those CD-ROMs are in my crawlspace....though I have purged a lot of obsolete stuff over the years. I'll likely just create image files of the ROMs and build a VM so my grandkids can play their parents favorite games...like Barbie Horse Adventures. I'd only walked into a Fry's once back in the mid 00's and it did seem like an incredible store. Sorry for you loss.
@BigT4489
6 ай бұрын
Holy shit Clue finders. That goes way back....one of those educational games my mom forced me to play, especially that jungle one. I don't think I was ever smart enough to finish it lol Those ole niche computer games from that era come to mind too, like the first few backyard sports games or Lego spy team. I also really miss the old game kiosks from the GameCube/PS2 eras, straining neck to try demos in the stores, a core memory. Game magazines too! Nintendo power and EGM introduced me to so many games I never got to play or experience, but I could dream. All the this now obsolete media that got the word out on media I might enjoy. I miss print copies of Shonen Jump too Don't even get me started on the early internet websites too like New grounds
@AB-ee5tb
6 ай бұрын
I miss this old goosebumps cd rom game “attack of the mutant” it was such a cool story
@fcsolis
6 ай бұрын
It's called midlife crisis. Early onset. Fave show by you. Thank you.
@stillbuyvhs
6 ай бұрын
Webcomics still exist, but it's hard to find anything that's not on a major social media site or on a site owned by a big business.
@chefjakes7314
6 ай бұрын
If you like the paper mario games you should try showing your kids the Mario and Luigi rpg’s. I’m not sure how you access them (I think the switch online has a GBA emulator), but especially super star saga and bowser’s inside story have so much humor and charm.
@futurestoryteller
6 ай бұрын
Wow, you really are a friggin nerd. Good for you! Or like, bad, for you, I guess, under the circumstances. =( I think the niche nerd thing that depresses me is when you find a random piece of amazing artwork online and realize that the poster hasn't touched their profile in a whole year. Especially if nobody really engaged with it
@vintagesf
6 ай бұрын
Brick and mortar stores used to be an experience to be shared, perhaps with a meal or coffee attached. Online shopping … solitary. 2020 - 2022 accelerated the inevitable. It just is. We need to find other reasons to get out with family and friends and there certainly are options. BTW, I’m one of those webcomic creators. Remember meeting Pete Abrams of ‘Sluggy Freelance’ at a Con when we were on the same panel.
@rpg_haven
3 ай бұрын
Wow, a fan of the first Paper Mario. Good taste
@maddz8586
6 ай бұрын
I vaguely remember playing I think the 3rd grade Cluefinders! We played a lot of Pajama Sam 😂 core memories right there
@passmorebooks
6 ай бұрын
I remember the Clue Finders games! I didn't play them as much as my older brothers did, but my family had so many great CD ROM games like that that I miss now. My favorite was The Hobbit. I also really enjoyed reading web comics back in the day, just didn't find any of the ones you mentioned, and I think I was the one who dropped off instead of the creators. 😂
@jenw5056
6 ай бұрын
That Fry’s in Renton at The Landing started to die when they got rid of 90% of the movies. I used to love looking at the movies there. I think that happened around 2016. It was never really the same after that. 😢
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
Hello fellow Seattle-ite 👀
@jenw5056
6 ай бұрын
@@Bookbornchillin on the eastside over in Bellevue 👍. Really miss our Uncles Games that closed at the Crossroads Shopping center when their rent was hiked way up. Both local comic book stores suffered the same fate. Just too expensive in the greater Seattle area. Absolutely love our Half Price Books though. Great place to find books, music, and movies.
@Caucasians_In_Ethiopia
5 ай бұрын
My mom was pregnant with me while she worked as a cashier at Fry's. My grandpa used to take me there all the time where I'd find some other kids to play games with while he shopped.
@aredfoot
6 ай бұрын
Omg I miss the Cluefinders and Laptrap
@brianhgold
6 ай бұрын
The Paper Mario franchise makes me so, so sad, too. Nintendo forgot what made the first two games so good. (It got much worse after Super Paper Mario) BUT THE SKYWARD SWORD HATRED!?!? Oh no. I love that game.
@theBuzz76
5 ай бұрын
You should check out if there's a Micro Center near you. I've never been to Fry's but it sounds similar!
@crimsonraen
6 ай бұрын
I never went to Fry's, but Circuit City and Best Buy were fun in a similar way. For video games, I often went to Walmart.. Not to mention all the various video rental stores that had games!
@TheCronedoggy
6 ай бұрын
Fry's was legendary in the nerd community but I was pretty poor until I got a job out of college, and by then they were on the way out
@IsaacDeJong
6 ай бұрын
I played Cluefinders, butr I remember nothing about it sadly. There was another edutainment game I loved, Goofus and Gallant.. That was a good one too..
@louiscorreia8152
6 ай бұрын
I love Cluefinders, when my daughter was in 3rd grade I managed to get my old copy to work on an old laptop I had that ran windows 7 using an external CD drive (that I probably got at Frys) I couldnt find my copies of 4th-6th grade though, we'll see if I can manage to get 3rd grade to work again when my youngest is old enough.
@-lisamchuk
6 ай бұрын
Webcomics! Yes! I still to this day have a bad habit of starting them from the first page and then never finishing - but just the other day discovered one is being published soon as a graphic novel (A Witch’s Guide to Burning by Aminder Dhaliwal). So there’s at least hope I’ll finish that one!
@SidheRelik
6 ай бұрын
Oh man, Red String! I had completely forgotten about that webcomic until now. I don't think I actually ever finished it... If you like the early Paper Marios, I hope you've also played Super Mario RPG! My husband got me to play Paper Mario by saying it was kind of a spiritual successor to Super Mario RPG. SMRPG is really fun, and I'm both scared and excited to play the remake... I hope they didn't change it too much!
@micah4797
6 ай бұрын
I was literally just thinking about Fry's yesterday! Going even further back, we had an Incredible Universe near where we lived, which was a super cool electronics store, but it got bought out by Fry's and converted to their more basic warehouse design. I also went to a Fry's around 2020/2021 and found their barren shelves super depressing. Somewhat fortunately, though, I have a Micro Center near where I live, which fills a similar role if you're looking for computer parts (I was actually there buying parts yesterday, hence why I thought of Fry's in the first place).
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
Wait wait wait you had an incredible universe?! So did we! Ours turned into frys. Incredible universe was even more exciting as a kid because they had a children’s center where your parents could drop you off for babysitting while they shopped. I LOVED that place. Got to sit on squishy chairs and play computer games
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
Wait wait was this common or did we grow up in the same area lol
@micah4797
6 ай бұрын
@@Bookborn Haha, I'm not sure how widespread that store was. Mine was near Dallas.
@Bookborn
6 ай бұрын
@@micah4797I did some research lol. Turns out there were 17 Incredible Universes, and six of them got turned into Fry's. Mine was in Oregon haha
@micah4797
6 ай бұрын
@@Bookborn Super interesting. I know there's a few KZitem videos out there documenting the rise and fall of Fry's; I think I remember one mentioning the Incredible Universe buyout.
@kristofferrosvall8709
6 ай бұрын
I relate to the unfinished web comics. But it's about regular american comics. One of them, Black Magick, started back in 2015 and the last issue was published in 2020, with 16 published issues of a planned 30. Another thing that is not as niche. But reading something that is beloved by so many and it not living up to expectations or even disliking it. I'm 20 pages from the end of Dune and I don't really like it and that makes me sad. (Or maybe I'm just stupid 😅)
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