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project reality or ultra 64 was the biggest flop ever, remember those robotech crazy graphics that show to the world that was never happened

It's funny how the Americans systematically forgot the Amiga CD 32. I know it was never released in the USA, but Commodore was still an American company.

Those XE buttons were not fluorescent. They were pastel colors.

I LIKE THAT YOU MADE A HISTORY OF THESE CONSOLES so the old timers and new generation specially young children and teenagers will know that there was many consoles made in the past! What I do not like in your narration is you pronounce many names wrong! Kitaragi you said, katagari, Kalinski you pronounced as Kalanski, Hitachi you pronounced as Hatachi! Man this will make you bad narator!

"Libary"???

Nintendo 64 was a good console, if only had a CD drive ....... !!!!

There was no Ken Kutagaree, but Ken Kutaragi. Also there was non Hiroshi Yamamuchee, but Hiroshi Yamauchi.

I love it when the algorithm gets it right, you got a new subscriber! Get stuff and I can’t wake to binge watch your other vids.

Good video, but why you keep saying jag-wire over and over right after showing the US commercial correctly pronouncing it as jag-wahr

But I didn't want another year with my Sega Genesis 😂 I spent more time gaming on the PC of my older brother back then, waiting for the next generation console. I wanted Doom-alike games to play in my room hehehe.

Hey! You forgot the FZ-10!!!

You have so many facts either wrong or off by some degree. Probably the biggest one is saying that Nintendo announced they were working with Sony at CES but then changed... Sony showed up the first day saying there was going to be a big announcement the next day when Nintendo was there. The next day Nintendo showed up and announced the Phillips collaboration which was a total surprise to Sony. Sony also never demanded 100% of the rights to the games for the add-on. Also the story of Ken Kataragi is far different than the quick mention you make of it. EDIT - That sounded harsh and I didn't mean it to be. Once you moved on beyond what I talked about it was pretty much spot on and overall I do think this is a good video.

A friend of mine briefly had the Goldstar 3DO, but we didn't play it much. He had a weird game called Captain Quazar which I couldn't get into, but there was another game we all liked called Twisted, which simulated a game show. None of us were very impressed by the system overall, though. I bought a 32X and a few games on the cheap from a friend and hooked it up to my Sega CDX. I had fun playing Space Harrier, Virtua Racing and Shadow Squadron on it, but ultimately it shouldn't have been made because Sega obviously needed to focus on the Saturn. It definitely qualifies as a failure. Seeing that intro vid from the Saturn demo CD made me feel like I was 16 again. It's a shame that this system never got the recognition it deserved. I know that there were a lot of chips inside it which weren't necessarily designed to play nice with each other without very precise coding, plus their devkit and documentation were lacking, but it was still an amazing system capable of great things. My two favorite games officially released in the USA were Guardian Heroes (a side scrolling beat-em-up) and Dragon Force (a war-sim/RPG hybrid). IMO more Japanese exclusives should've been officially released worldwide, but at least we could import them. A few of the good JP Saturn games were Last Bronx, Dead or Alive and XMen vs Street Fighter (the latter of which needed the 4MB RAM upgrade). I definitely liked the PS1 for 3D games, but I found it to be lacking for 2D games (take a look at the PS1 version of XMen vs Street Fighter, it's *AWFUL*). Some of my favs were Star Ocean: The Second Story, Dragon Warrior VII, Street Fighter EX+Alpha and Ehrgeiz. I had an N64 but I didn't feel compelled to play many games on it. IMO they should've made a CD based system instead of sticking with carts. Also, I didn't like the fact that there was no internal menu in the system firmware, which made save file management a chore. I had to constantly turn the system on and off, inserting a new game each time so all the files on my memory cart could be visible. Despite its flaws, I particularly enjoyed playing Super Mario 64, Star Fox 64 and Killer Instinct Gold. These vids are such a fun trip down memory lane. Can't wait for the next one!!

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Oh yeah - gotta love that Jag-wire! 😋

Still have mine in its original box. I always liked the controllers from an ergonomic pov. One thing to keep in mind: do not hit the on/off button repeatedly in a video game fit....it doesn't end well.

$700 in 1993 is about $1,528 today. The Panasonic 3DO was an expensive console.

I remember another Bandai console, the Playdia.

subbed. console wars of the 90s and early 2000s was epic, glad i was old enough to enjoy that time period.

The price of the 3DO was really off putting! The only killer app was the original Need for Speed which was absolutely mind blowingly amazing to look at and play. Most of the other games available were not good or were playable on other machines so it was always going to be a hard sell. As for the Jaguar, it was doomed to fail. Screaming 64 bit but not showing anything that made us go… wow64 bit!! …at a time when 16 bit consoles were still popular was never convincing the market to take the leap. Games sell systems, not technical details and it’s the reason why these systems failed. Microsoft still hasn’t learned this. Nintendo learned this after the GameCube and it’s one of the many reasons they never bothered with the generation war anymore and have trod their own path because they know games should be fun and fun sells.

Since it was possible to rent consoles at the video club store, we had fun with the 3DO for some weekend evenings.

My family first had a Colecovision. I’m not sure how old I was but it must have been quite young. I do remember it well though. But it gotten forgotten about once we got a NES.

Sega did what nintendon’t, coming up with a sega cd addon for the genesis and a CD based 32bit system wich nintendo all just didn’t🥲🤣

So much injustice and disrespect the Nintendo's _FAMILY COMPUTER_ is getting from western and current youtubers that they keep butchering its name and relegate it with famiclones. They’re basing its name-butchering with Sharp's TWINfamicom in which famicom by itself is nowhere in Nintendo's branding during the 8-bit era. Even in its heyday, no one has ever called Nintendo's 8-bit Japanese console as famicom let alone becoming prevalent, especially with markets where it's officially sold -- even until now! It's clear as daylight that with games, peripherals and even with the recent mini-console releases, the brand is clearly stated as the _FAMILY COMPUTER_

Never had the chance to experiment with those consoles. Before I got a Nintendo 8-bit, I had the Tandy Color Computer 1 & 3. I bought cartridges, for the Coco 3, at Radio Shack. I remember the games Rampage and Robocop, at the end of Robocop "Thank you for your cooperation" with a low audio quality voice 😂 There were programs codes for games in magazines/books. With the dumb Basic interface, it could be long typing all the codes.

MPEG decoding was just not a big deal in 1994. Adding a dedicated MPG decoder would have added substantially to the price. The 603 was a really crappy processor. A 601 at the same clock speed was faster. The clock speed of the 603 was stuck pretty low. The 603 wasn't used long in Macs. The 603e was the one used in most Mac machines. The Pippin was one of the worst ideas in the history of gaming. It combines all the worst parts of a Mac with all the worst parts of a console and wraps them up into one awful product that isn't very good at either being a console or being a computer. How anyone thought this was a good idea is a mystery to me. The Tandy/Memorex VIS system was also a total failure. Only this awful idea came out in 1992. Bandai should have known what a bad idea the Pippin was. At least the VIS was based on DOS and Windows and not Mac OS. Though Windows 31 was not a good game system, the Mac OS was even worse. This is why Macs were so far behind in games.

btw my parents bought me fire sale at RadioShack " RCA Studio II" not many know about it with good reason. I think they bought a radio control car with just a click side button the went right. when i complained my Dad said you can always have the one with the wire attached. I don't know if anyone is old enough for these references. Keep the good work up!!

well done brother

nice series 🥇

Nintendo made a HUGE mistake by not double-checking their contract with Sony!

I feel that the Emerson Arcadia 2001 is a much better system than the Atari 2600 and close but no cigar to the Intellivision. The controller with the joystick attached is the best of this type of controller design, better than the intellivision, Colecovision or Atari 5200. It controls smoothly and responsively. I wish there was more of a homebrew community as there is so much potential for this system.

I got a TG16 from a video store in 1996 for $25 and it was never opened unpacked or used I guess they never even rented out that particular console console.They had all the best games for $3 too totally complete and not just the CD style case the games went in but they even had the paper boxes the cases went in.I ended up with over 30 of the best games Bloody wolf,Ninja Spirit,Splatterhouse, Military Madness,Alien and Devils Crush and many more of the greats.Being so cheap and that my mom paid for it since I was barely 15 I started letting all my friends borrow it and every time it changed hands everything got more worn and games or at the very least cases slowly became lost till everything was lost to time after less than 2 years.Back in those days I just didn't know what I had at the time or what it would be worth one day back then one N64 or PlayStation was worth fifty Turbo-Graphx 16's and now just one good complete TG16 game would be worth what I paid for the entire lot of the console and games I got in 1996.

cry cry you are the collector that hurts collector. I collect because I like games and I argue that you are the one that hurts collecting doing it for monitary value. Investments has ups and downs that how it works.

The clip of the Magnavox prototype test play is really neat. I also found it neat that my home town of Grand rapids, MI was chosen for play test alongside LA, On the first home gaming console at that. A bit of G.R. history I was not aware of. Great vid

Nice deep compilation! It is slightly distracting every time you say inter-gated instead of inte-grated though. Don't worry, I won't go nucular on ya over it, I'm not that pendantic.

dude. damn good video bro.

sneakerheads and clowns with money stole the retro gaming scene to fleece and run up the values with fake hype just to resell.. glad i got most of my boxed consoles in the early 2000s, the early ebay, etc.. its a shame how the scene has been ruined by these people, its the same SAME guys that resell shoes at those cons, they dont care about gaming or the people buying, they just wanna separate you from your money.

I loved my SNES. Aside from the iconic Nintendo IPs, I was particularly enamored by Final Fantasy II (which was really IV). I thought the soundtrack was phenomenal, plus the Active Time Battle system was revolutionary back then. There were a lot of great RPGs for that system that didn't get the recognition they deserved, such as Arcana, 7th Saga and Lufia and the Fortress of Doom. I wasn't a fan of the Genesis at first, but I eventually realized it was an amazing system near the end of the generation. Sonic 3D Blast wowed me in particular; that game truly pushed the Genesis to its very limit. I ended up getting my hands on a used Sega CDX for 60 bucks at Funco Land and played not only Genesis games, but great Sega CD games like Lunar: The Silver Star and the CD version of Eternal Champions. Never had a TG16, but I bought Air Zonk on my Wii and had a blast with it. I loved playing Neo Geo games in the arcade, especially the Samurai Shodown and Fatal Fury/King of Fighters series. I'm psyched for the new Capcom fighting game compilation because it's going to have Capcom vs SNK 1 and 2. Fantastic vid yet again!! I was a huge Saturn fan, so I can't wait for the 5th gen vid!! Happy New Year man!!

I need to fix the Atari pinball I found still lol. History is just fantastic on why systems made or didn't make it and just in general. Amazing

If bigger is badder why didn't they release the Supergrafx in the United States. If only they had release the TurboGrafx16 with Supergrafx chips inside things might have been different. Supergrafx more powerful than the Sega Genesis.

Everyone complains that the 5200 controllers were the worst controllers ever made. I thought they were fine when i was a kid until they broke. They didn't last was the only problem i remember.

My first console was an Odyssey 2 my parents got before I was born. There is a solid chance the first game i ever played was "Speedway!"

I randomly found a tg16 for 30 about a year ago on marketplace. I bought a multicart because the cost is to high for games. I must say the US library is lacking. It does have some absolute bangers but overall its library is weak

Not a direct comparison because it wasn't the same game, but try a H2H on the sports games. If I remember correctly the O2 had them beat (at least my opinion as an O2 owner)

Why I hate the SNES and NIntendo. Sep87 N announce. Getting a bit tilted by the computer men. That doesn't mean they hadnt been working on the snes since 1985, which is likely. This put's the development of the snes 85-91 but in truth it was probably 84-88. But with the NES doing so well, they delayed the snes release date for an additional 2 years. This puts the snes development date as actually 85-89, which is an earlier development date to the point in time the Mega Drive was designed (86-89). Nintendo also chose a slow clock speed for their system, which is 2.68Mhz and it doesn't increase to 3.58Mhz except to communicate with different components in the board. So even with a fastrom cart in the machine, it will still run the system at 2.68Mhz. The cpu they chose can go as low as 1Mhz and it needs to change to 1.79Mhz to access certain peripherals. This is a baffling choice because the cpu they chose starts at 4Mhz as the cheapest model. So they are downclocking the slowest 56c02 cpu on the market from 4 to 2.6 mhz. For some reason the Apple 2gs did the exact same thing and it ruins the games. They move so sluggishly, playing the snes, for most of the games (there are a handful I can tolerate) is an exercise in patience and futility. The very worst games console of all time is the snes. Because unless you like stories, it falls flat on it's face in all areas. The media _loved_ it though. The best quality of a 2d game is it's speed, which was pointed out in this video. A 3D games must be slowed down because you are constantly orienting yourself. So which runs the games fastest? It's the PC Engine. Because of it's simple design and fast cpu and internal bus. The PCE bus was almost 16bit but ended up as 8bit although this didn't affect the speed it meant the vram was halved. It seems all the 16 bit machines had their vram halved at some point in development and the spaces on the boards are still present as there was clearly no time to redesign the layout or it didn't matter. So all the 16bit console are rocking half the detail or variety of unique sprites, tiles or frames of animation. I think this might be due to the snes having such a confusing memory architecture that they couldn't figure out how to get 128KB of vram to work. The Mega CD has 256KB of vram which could have been used as well as the cd music to enhance smd ports but they didn't always make the extra effort to do that. So I feel the pushing of 2D graphics rom the 16bit consoles is easily won by the PC Engine and it's revisions and ultimately, the DUO added vram using the hu-cart port and cd-rom combined for the most impressive 16bit games available at home in terms of moving sprites quickly at speed. The SNES is pure tragedy. What a hunk of junk. All show. No trousers. Snooze fest of slow monotonous games. Everything just looks wrong. The colours are weird. Take Contra 3. They try so hard to use as many subtle colours as they can to emphasise the 'power' of the console and it's amazing semi-transparent colour shape overlays that always look jank. Sorry. The mode7 rarely works (too hard to program) and the music and sound effects are generally milktoast or out of tune. This whole console seems designed to give you a headache. Maddest console ever designed and a complete insult to the direction 2D games were going, it could barely run them.

Excellent history as always. I've got a couple of those systems and it was awesome to hear some facts I didn't know about them. Thank you

I lost interest and turned off at "Alex The Kidd" 🙄

I just realized that you're missing the handhelds from the 8- and (now this) 16-bit video. Lynx, Gameboy, Game Gear (the major players, so to say,) should all be here.