So let's start Banjo-Kazooie. This is on an actual Nintendo 64, for the very first time. Let's see if this game is fun — I have no idea what to expect right now, so this should be interesting. I didn't play this back in the day, so this really is my first time playing it. I like the sound effects. "Hi there, Tooty. What are you going to do today?" Jerry, that is the worst accent. I don't understand it — it's not Indian at all. It's like watching a cartoon wake up and say, "I want to go on an adventure." Wait, I'm not an Indian bird — why do I sound Indian?
Figuring Out the Camera and the Mighty Flip
I love how the N64 games all have different camera controls. "Try this then, Beaky — tap R to move the camera." Why? What? Why would I tap R? "Hold R to keep the camera behind your feathery butt." Okay, all right — so if I hold R, the camera stays. Oh look, we're moving the camera. We're almost ten minutes in and we just figured out how to move the camera. Whoa — if you push this button forward it looks in first person, and you can lock it behind you like that. Okay. I've actually learned it helps to read the directions first.
"You must stand—" what the— "hold Z and then press A for the mighty flip." What? Wait, hold Z — whoa. All right, so I held Z and that did a mighty flippity-flap jump. Wow, that's a big jump. Why wouldn't that just be the default jump? Oh, that's pretty cool — so this is kind of a platforming game. Ah, look at that. Why wouldn't the default just be Z — like, just push A? All right, we're getting this down: hold Z, push A, and it takes you on a big huge jump, and we get a little ring right here. We got one ring, and you can kind of fly-glide. All right. Hey, how you doing, little mama? Let me whisper in your ear, tell you something that you might like to hear: let me touch your controller and see if it's soft. Oh, I'm just playing. No — I already did this one. Stop. I already did that one.
Canker Sores, Nose Breathing, and the Rats in My Garden
I've got this canker sore in my mouth that has been burning, which is rude, and then I've been having some kind of stuffed-up, runny nose. I refuse to breathe through my mouth, though, because in my experience nose breathing is so much better for you. Oh — there's a bee attack. Okay, so I wake up at like 6:30 today — six in the morning, before my wake-up time at seven — and I'm just taking deep breath after deep breath, over and over again, through my nose, slowly, like, God, this is annoying. Then I drowned a rat out in the backyard, because I can hardly have a garden in my yard — these mice, I guess it's a mouse, these mice just rip up and eat my entire garden. So I got this cage out that doesn't kill them, but then I need to get rid of them somehow. If you've got any suggestions, let me know. I've been drowning them, and then I'm taking these slow breaths with my nose stuffed up, thinking about these rats drowning. I'm like, all right — so now we're fighting vegetables in the game instead of eating them. Oh look, you can peck with this peckerhead. He literally is a peckerhead. Look — oh, he is a peckerhead.
The Power of Focus (and Keeping My Wife Impressed)
Something I've learned in life is the power of focus. I don't need to make everyone happy. I don't need to pay attention to everybody. Wow, that worked pretty good. Just like I don't need to impress every woman in the world — I need to impress my wife and keep her impressed. I like the idea of keeping my wife turned on all the time. Then I'll rip a big huge fart and she'll be like, "Oh, you're keeping me turned on all the time — everyone just heard you let one rip." Now I'm gonna make you dance — yeah baby, shake that ass — whoops, I mean, girl, you know you're my wife. All right, just lose it. I already did this one. "Press B to dive under—"
The Game Freezes
Wait — what just happened? Did the game just freeze right now? I think the game just froze — or did the capture card freeze? What just happened? I've got nothing. Everything's frozen up. All right, we turn the game off today — the whole game just froze up. That stinks. Oh well — it's just tutorials so far, though. That's weird; you don't usually see old Nintendo games freeze up. Because I know you're tired of the usual nacho regular — let me touch you, gonna feel something unusual. Dude, oh no. Can we scroll past this? It didn't let me save back there. All right, I think I can skip past all of this. I think we're just gonna hit Start and A and see how much stuff— oh my God, I've got to get all that stuff again. That's rude right there. That is so rude. I can't skip this. Oh my God. No — I'm gonna hit B. No. B. I'm hitting B all day. No, I'm good. All right, can we skip? No. I said no. I don't want the basic moves again. I don't even want all those basic moves again.
Let me slap this carrot up right here. Come on — just slap that carrot up. Come here. Here's an onion. This is making me hungry — I want a carrot and an onion right now. Oh yes. Some of these old games are like — huh, it's hard to even make sense of them sometimes. Like, what am I doing right now? I played twenty minutes, the game crashed, and we're stuck in the initial area. Oh my goodness, we're struggling with the platforming — I am blown away.
Where's Waldo Was Horrible, Bad Boys Was Amazing
The top two games recently have been Where's Waldo, which was horrible, and Bad Boys Miami Takedown, which was amazing. All right, we got up there — let's see if we can get this key over here. Oh nice, all right, there we go — we got all the way in there. If I do not fit, I'm gonna make it — girl, you can take it, don't stop, I like the way you grind with that booty on me. I like how the bird is doing all the work swimming, and this dude — this character, I don't even know his name — this character is just doing nothing while the little bird swims.
A Growth Mindset Finds Opportunity Everywhere
Dude, what an incredible thing: I bought that Bad Boys game for less than ten dollars at my game store, and it's going to hit over a thousand dollars in ad revenue. Man, I love that I have a mindset of finding opportunity where others don't see it. My mindset is that the world is full of opportunity — that there are opportunities all over the place, just laying around. All you've got to do is have a mindset of growth, have a mindset that the world is full of opportunities, and you're going to find them — you will see opportunities where others don't. I'm grateful for all the time you spend watching my streams. I hope that when you watch, you feel better and you learn something new — and the most valuable thing you could learn is the growth mindset.
I'm listening to this book called Mindset by Carol Dweck, and she talks about the growth versus fixed mindset. The fixed mindset says, "I am who I am — this is how I was born," or "at some point as a kid, this is how I've always been." You'll know you're in the fixed mindset if you're always trying to prove yourself. With the growth mindset, everything that happens is an opportunity to learn and to grow; with the fixed mindset, every opportunity is a chance to prove what characteristics you've got. You can see I'm very much a growth-mindset person. I look at things like failure as an opportunity to grow and learn something — not something to be ashamed of. In fact, this whole strategy I'm doing with my livestreams is based on an acceptance of failure: most games I play are essentially going to fail. They're not going to have been worth much of my time in terms of playing the game, and they're not going to be a big viral success. But if I'm willing to play hundreds of different games, I will find some massive successes — and I might not have been able to predict which ones those would be beforehand. Like, who knew so many of you would like watching that Bad Boys stream?
Clearing Up the Bad Boys Story
I need to make a clarification on that Bad Boys stream, because the comments on these livestreams are hilarious. On the Bad Boys stream, I said at the beginning — within the first minute — that I lost my virginity the night I asked this girl to come up to my room. I didn't say dorm room; I didn't give much context. I just said that Bad Boys was on when I lost my virginity. Then two minutes later, I said that when my sister visited, we watched Bad Boys. So a bunch of people in the comments put both of those together, which was hilarious and obviously totally unrelated. My sister visited me — I asked my mom when — and my sister visited in '94 or '95.
Frozen Twice — We're Calling It
And then — this game just froze again. Man, this game is busted. Oh well. I don't know if it's my N64 or what, but this game just froze, and I don't know what else we can do. The whole game just froze — this game's not playable anymore. All right, well, I'll just trade this in, and whoever buys it from the game store next can get stuck with it. I don't know why the game froze like that twice, but I'm going to guess at this point that if I play it again, it can freeze another time, so I don't know if it's even worth starting over. What do you think — do we start a new game, or do we wrap this game up now? This game froze twice. I think we'll call it and start up another one.
That was Banjo-Kazooie on real Nintendo 64 hardware: twenty minutes of tutorials, one mighty flippity-flap jump, two hard freezes, and a cartridge headed back to the game store. If you want to see which of these old games turn out to be hidden gems and which ones get traded back in, you can watch more sessions like this one on my Games playlist.