Yesterworld: The History of the 1983 Video Game Crash & E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2017
- Exploring and investigating the infamous E.T. video game, it’s impact on Atari, and the video game industry crash of 1983.
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So basically mistreated atari employees made Activision. Guess they wanted everyone else to feel their pain forever.
lmao don't forget they're called activision blizzard now and woo boy yeah that's a lot of pain
Originally, Activision made good games, like Pitfall, but the problem was with the console's lack of quality. This is what Nintendo had such draconian policies early on until it began to work against them down the line.
One part of this reveal that is ironic is that a studio that was formed out of former employees of a first party company in the US would one day be bought and owned by a first party company in the US.
I had ET in its "heyday". I honestly didn't think it was THAT bad of a game. I had fun playing it. I remember going around and picking up the Reese's pieces and collecting the parts for the phone. I think I recall ONCE being able to beat the game. To call it the demise of video games of that time frame is exactly as that man said "stupid".
Same here, it was tough but all the game settings made sense with the movie scenes.
The Worst Game Ever Played Was Superman 64
I see your Superman 64 and raise you Hong Kong 97.
Sonic 06: A M I A J O K E T O Y O U?!
@@ryanbedoya8848 at least 06 had good music
Good summary of the topic. E.T. wasn't, and isn't the worst game though, maybe just the most disappointing. It didn't bother me at all though. At the time, I just took it out and played something else. It probably soured a lot of parents on paying 40 bucks for a game, not knowing if it was good or not.
When playing the game for myself and capturing the footage, while I definitely saw the problems and frustrations many would have with the game (and could see the impact of it being so rushed), I kept thinking, "This is what considered the WORST game ever made?"
It's unfortunately just become this symbol of the gaming industry collapse, and is wrongfully associated as what caused it, which has since snowballed into being worse than it is. And while now people practically expect movie-game adaptations to be a disappointment, I think people had unrealistic expectations, since they didn't have the (unfortunate) benefit of seeing years, and years of bad movie games.
exactly.. the movie was SO loved and SUCH a smash hit..that the game was just perceived as THAT much more disappointing by comparison.. but let's be honest, it wasn't good, so it's probably as good a symbol of failure as any..
Such a fantastic video man! Really concise and engaging production. Keep it up!
Best review in youtube. Others just ripped the wiki and never mentioned dates or financial records. But you must change 2017 with 1985 in 4:53
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Awww, little Seth Green!
You deserve a ton more views and subscribers, man! Your quality is incredible. Keep it up! I loved the videos on the theme park rides keep making them! Very interesting.
I love your channel! Quality content! Thank you so much!
Thank YOU for watching!
Excellent videos! I love movies, video games and Disney World, so you really are batting a thousand here! 😀 Please keep making videos, especially Disney ones! 😀
It makes you wonder what state if any, games would be in today if it weren't for a resurgence in video games due to popularity of the NES?
I've often wondered that myself.
Well I’d say commodore or SEGA would have taken the Market if Nintendo didn’t step in. SEGA was dabbling in consoles over in Japan themselves and Europe was largely unaffected by th games crash with many consumers just going to commodore home computers. So one of the two would have kickstarted the American market again.
Yeah. The videogame crash didn't affected european and japanese markets and companies. I think if the NES wouldn't came to America or Europe, the market would be mostly dominated by computers and some consoles.
The idea that you have to pay extra to finish/continue a story in a video game is kind of shitty to me.
EA: GIVE ME ALL YOUR $&!?ING MONEY!!!!!
If you ask me, any DLC that features extra story should be either extra modes or extra storylines that you don't need to play to get the full story. A good example of this is Persona 3 FES' The Answer, as well as this underaided Xbox 360 game I've played that has 3 extra storylines.
This deserves to be Trending!
Next time anyone blames E.T. in front of me for the crash of Atari, I will send them here. I am not as much of a gamer as some people here probably are, but I do LOVE E.T. and I hate that these "legends" give him a bad rap.
Same here. I had the game when it was new, and it wasn't that bad. It was buggy, sure (and those were fixable, too: www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/ ), but compared to the kinds of games available on the Atari 2600, it was actually pretty good. I suspect most of the people who "know" this fact about E.T. being the "Worst Game" have never played it, or else only played it with an eye to modern gaming. Look at the context of the other games on offer at the time, and it's a miracle that the main character was recognizable as E.T., the game had a decent rendition of the movie's theme, and it actually had a story-driven gameplay with a beginning, middle, and end. This was rare enough to be pretty unique on the platform, in my experience. I've played much worse on the Nintendo, yet those games are often lauded despite the bugs and "challenging" bad design.
I found the Raiders Of The Lost Ark roughly as bad to play as ET, the difference being time spent on sound and graphics etc.
@@JosephDavies I got it for Christmas in 1982. It wasn't until decades later that I heard it was reputed to be the "worst game ever" -- and I wholeheartedly agree. I beat plenty of Atari games but finally gave up trying to make it to the end of E.T. (and I'm sure I burst into Donald Duck hysterics every time I played it!).
et. 10/10 ign
drewstew gaming that sums up ign these days
Atrocious design, awful ideas...8/10 - typical IGN review.
That’s how ign is,,, they give any game even if it’s shit a 8-10/10
I'm watching this in January 2020 and there has been an announcement in Australia concerning our most well known game store, chain, EB Games. They have announced dozens of store closures over the next few months. The downturn in the retail sector is happening........ Dude you predicted the future!!!!
Xycron told me about you and I agree that your video quality is top-notch
No, I don't think another game crash is imminent at all.
Without making a whole essay of the thing it boils down to:
1. The industry is a far different place now then it was in the 80's. It's already a massive and expansive industry already taking in billions of dollars each year. And that the industry itself is diverse enough that we have sub-industries for each platform: console, PC, and mobile (potentially VR, but it's still kind of early). Much so that what happens to one tends to not affect the other sub-industries. So expecting that crash to crash the same way as the first one? Try to imagine a big crash happening to the movie industry...aka not likely.
2. People are still putting money towards the bad business practices. Stuff like overpriced season passes, DLC that (might) have been cut from the game and resold later, microtransactions...people are still buying into them. The reason why the game crash went the way it did was because the consumer base was way smaller, and that everyone did decide to not buy anything to negatively affect the companies. Here, that simply isn't happening where enough people are saying "no" to the current bad practices. For every guy that says "no" to a +$50 season pass, there's 10 other customers willing to put down the money to buy them.
So no. A game crash as bad as the one of '82-'83 isn't happening anytime soon.
2:50 Seth Green
Holy crap! He looks exactly the same!
For real??? holy
@@happyfacefries that's really him
Enjoy all your stuff. Mad Love
I see “Swordquest” there at 5:29! I would love for you to do a video on that game, the contest, the prizes, and what happened to them! After all, the ‘83 game crash usually gets the blame for the fact that last game was never released, and thus the tournament was sadly never completed.
Oddly enough, that game is what got me into comic books as a kid (each game came with a comic book with clues).
Another great video!
Similar to the gaming market back then, there are a slew of TH-cam channels with top ten lists and supposed informative history lessons that are just absolute crap. I'm glad I clicked on this recommended video. It was of surprisingly high quality and I look forward to future uploads. :) Subbed!
This was a great video. ❤
The Worst Game I've Ever Played Was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on PS2.
I remember renting that on the GameCube! I also remember returning it before it's due date and unfinished...
Yesterworld Entertainment Plus it was a really strange departure from the gameplay style I enjoyed on the previous two PC titles in the series.
Chelsey Thomas I thought it was ok
I never got to play it, Because the CD was bad.
What?! That was one of my favorite movie-based games on the PS2! I LOVED getting to fly the hippogriffs!!
Another great video about another great topic
Very much appreciated!
Loved how u used that clip of the movie trading places at 7:10 I love that movie it made me laugh so much
YES! I don't know why but you are soooo awesome!!!!
Raiders of the Lost Ark was my favorite Atari game!
Vincent Priceless Wow..you are a first hahaha I played it and damn..
Vincent Priceless How about Pac Man??
Just another Hank Hill Account Pac-Man on Atari is shit, it doesn’t resemble the original. And it’s sound effects sounded like a garbage dump
good video
It's odd to admit, but I wish history would repeat itself when it comes to videogames.
I don't recall in "Game Over" that they found so my different games in the land fill. Spring cleaning/bankrupt , I get it. I'm from that era so it's easy for me to understand that "Who would ever want this, just throw it away" kind of thinking. Shame. But I feel ya what you mean. Shoot, Kill, die.... There has got to be funner games to make and play
My issue itself doesn't lie within the genres of games, but rather the whole bag of nasty practices that are now considered normal by consumers.
I simply wish a complete crash would be the telling to the companies that their DLC'S, paid DRM, nasty microtransactions and the seemingly lack of care to create good final products wouldn't be tolerated anymore.
bag of nasty practices? You mean dumb kids acting like children or bad parents?
Maxie Pattie
Well, nasty practices to which the bad, uninformed and ignorant consumers, who are still consumers like you and me, gobble up.
You are my kind of guy... MAD LOVE!
5:06 YESTERWORLD KNOWS ABOUT MY FAVOURITE SHOW?!?!?!
90%. *90, PERCENT!* That's a virtual monopoly! Why does no one frown upon Nintendo for that!?!
it was way more expensive to keep the ET copies in the warehouse more than the prices before they were slashed before everyone hated it. It's not a lie.
The worst game ver played for me is a mobile Kim Kardashian game. Don´t ask why I did it though..
Your profile picture scared the shit out of me
Anyway, how’s your sex life?
I remember playing Pacman on the original Atari console at cub scouts way back when...quite crappy indeed.
Atari's mistake in pulling out of a deal with Nintendo benefitted the latter, resulting in the creation of FamiCom and NES; meanwhile the damage brought on by the Video Game Crash in 1983 could not be undone.
I remember playing the Atari in the 80s. I played ET and I didn't like it. But I was like 4 or 5 when I played it, so I didn't know what I doing.
I love yesterworld there one of my favorite youtubers
I loved this video until you showed the frame of Battlefront.
I try to live with no regrets, but the fact that I spent over a hundred dollars on that game and then forgot about it one year later will haunt me until I die.
good recap bro
I love seeing those old timey arcades and how mind blowing things like Pong were to people. We're kinda spoiled when it comes to games now.
A very informative video indeed. But this video game collapse is local only in North America. You should have mentioned the state of gaming on a worldwide status too.
Kool-Aid Man was my favorite Atari system game. If you ever get a chance play it, it's seriously fun.
Games used to be super expensive in the 1980's so when they crashed the costs tumbled - so people could pick up a Vectrex for Under £30.00 instead of something like £160.00
Or Colecovisions for like £60.00 instead of £199.99 so yeah the crash was great for people who jumped on board when it happened loads of cheap games to keep them occupied - then they could maybe get a home computer for a little while and then take up the new consoles when they started to appear in the later 80's and early 90's
I bet a lot of people started an interest in games BECAUSE of the crash.
Nice
They dug the games out in the 00's I believe because there was nostalgic demand especially for NIB 2600 stuff.
Minority report for the GameCube. The only reason I bought it was because it was on clearance. worst $5 I have ever spent
you have an awesome voice. reminds me of a male version of shima
That’s why you shouldn’t rush or extremely cutting budgets of projects
We had the ET game growing up. It was pretty bad, but my sister and I somehow managed to beat it once or twice.
As someone who plays A LOT of Atari ET isn’t even bad
I don’t understand
It’s like Adventure once you read the instructions it’s painfully simple.
Games like Swordquest and Raiders are complexly incomprehensible by comparison to ET
A better question is: If Atari wouldn't have gone bankrupt, what would the game industry look like today?
They would have died out with Sega when Sony destroyed the competition with the ps2
The worst? Well, three come to mind as competing for title of “worst”. One of them was Spore Creatures, which was ridiculously hard and unexpectedly violent, and another was this one My Little Pony game where you’re throwing a party for Pinkie Pie...and it’s too easy, it’s super boring, and there are not anywheres near enough options. The third would have to be America’s Test Kitchen, which can barely even be considered a game, in my opinion.
Yeah I lost faith in the gaming industry after the ps3.
Paying the company just to play games on internet you already pay for it idiotic. I was one of the few that saw through the scam early and I have not bought a game or console since.
I wish this would change especially with how bad the production is on the current generation of consoles it’s just sad how dumb humanity is that this type of extortion of profit over quality is constantly repeated.
That said I did buy 1 digital game and immediately regretted it through steam. I wish our world was better educated but sadly it is only getting worse
10 unused Bosses\Boss Phases in Video Games.
I played E.T. for the Atari, and it was pretty bad. The Kool-Aid Man game you showed was far worse, with the pitcher you controlled getting knocked about the play field while "Thirsties" drank all the money in the pool.
You forgot to include Sonic 06 as part of rushed games. (And maybe Sonic Boom:Rise of Lyric. Maybe throw in Forces there?)
The Vuon is my favourite system! There i said it!!
Yesterland entertainment can you please do a video about muppet land a canceled land at disney's hollywood studios?
this is why i hate when gamers nowadays turn a cold shoulder to nintendo. if it weren't for them, we may not have video games today at all!
Sorry, but its not realistic to expect consumers to be loyal for something that happened 30+ years ago.
And its not as if Nintendo is doing badly or something. That all their new hardware sells out very quickly shows an obvious demand for their products, even if its only one corner of an incredibly large modern industry. Nintendo has always had their role to play in the industry and likely always will, even if they are no longer the near-monopoly they were 30 years ago.
Well, Nintendo had the best selling consle in 2017, so well just have to see. Gamers dont care about the history of the industry. Thisd is the same community that insists that graphics are more important than gameplay, mind you.
jakealvarez913 I know. Microsoft and Sony fanboys don’t understand it. But it’s true.
I just find it funny that Atari basically commuted piracy against Nintendo by breaking into their lockout chip, then sued them claiming they were making too much money
Did any of those games unearthed still work?
I honestly have no clue, but I'd imagine the ones kept in the original packaging did.
At 8:04 what is that clip from
While I appreciate the work you've done on making a balanced video (not just going over the same things) but you only mention it once that this only happened in North America. It's was a very different situation in Europe and Japan.
A valid point. I had contemplated having a section about how the industry was/wasn't effected in other parts of the world, as well as its impact on the arcade game industry. I always hope those who watch will be inspired to look into a subject themselves to discover aspects that I may not go into for pacing reasons and to keep the narrative focused.
But in the future I'll keep this in mind, as I could see how those completely unfamiliar with the story might assume otherwise, and a short line or additional prefaces of "north america" would clear up any confusion.
Worst game I ever played was Action 52 on NES.
It was the worst. I won't let age and mellowing out over time sway me. The worst.
cant say it will happen again
Another crash, what are the odds of that? Highly unlikely due to high profit margins and sales and the population of gamers. Even if that did happen, it wouldn’t last for more than 2 years and we’d quickly recover from that mistake like nothing happened. I really wish that scare mongers would just be behind bars already.
it's true. I remember how crappy the games got in the early 80s. the one good thing was I remember buying up games on clearance at $1 each around 85 or so
@ 0:31 James "T.he 'Fro" Kirk, is that you?
Worst game ever hmmm. Superman on N64
Superman Returns on PS2
couldn’t get past the first level 😂
What about Sonic 06?
Atari sued Nintendo for monopolizing the market even though they did the exact same before Nintendo came... ok.
The worst game I've played technically was Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on the PS1. The Sorcerer's Stone was the bomb but Chamber of Secrets was too glitchy to actually play. I really want to give it to LA Noir, but it was a really good game, just had a ridiculous "plot twist". Still bitter about that...
I think I still have an original copy of the Atari ET game lol
Whao.
E.T Looks like a video game when video games began
it is
I thought the E.T. game sucked when I was a kid. I played it recently and thought it was funny as hell.
5:33 Johnson & Johnson presents - The Tooth Protectors - The Video Game!! Awesome! YES! I think a crash is coming now in 2020. Hundreds of games, who knows what is any good. And we are at the tail end of this generation of consoles with PS5 coming in 10 months, XBOX Series X? And nothing from Nintendo... ugh.
Atari may be dead but their Totally Spies games on the Gameboy still rock
The worst game I ever played was Superman 64, I was really excited to play it at the time but was dissapointed very quickly.
ah yes, Activision, the scourge that touches all.
also, if you buy the black carts for the nes, you can't use a top loader or third party dual loader (i.e. nes/ snes/ Sega player)
Space ace 1989
Worst game for me was Shaq Fu. sigh. the stench of disappointment.
If there's a game that's worse than sonic 06 then you know you messed up
I was doing some thinking and I am idea I was thinking you know Universal Studios allows you to come to the park for a think it's 100 and it's 35 days a year wouldn't it be neat if you could just pick what should those days you want to come instead of being told what days you can't come now I'll pay for that
my sweet videogame that innate ever played is pimp my ride
I would have to say the worst video game I ever played was Hydelide for the NES.
The worst game that ive ever played was Pac-man world 3. I remember being incredibly disappointed as a kid playing it. It was jarringly bad compared to the 2nd one.
the worst game I have in my opinion is really hard to decide but for a fact I suck at racing games and my favorite is Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones for PS2 it's the best game I have, I'm amazed at the graphics quality it looks like a PS4 game in my opinion
X Men on the NES is probably the worst commercially released game I have played. If we add in computers with shareware and the like I have probably played worse but yeah, the NINTENDO SEAL OF QUALITY was bs.
I have a Atari Flashback 2
WarningPageGaming I have a real deal Atari 2600
7:04 heyyyyyy wasn't he from M.A.S.H?
Yes Mr Alan Alda.
Bring sega back damn it! lol jk, good vid man.
So basically, Atari backed out of a deal with Nintendo and boom, creates their own enemy. Meanwhile a few years down the road, Nintendo would do that same thing with Sony.
Then the PlayStation came out. And Sony and Nintendo became enemies.
It's almost inevitable that this will happen again for video games bc the market is way too over crowed with cell phones, consoles and downloading ability which will eventually eliminate people buying anything from the store. You can see just from the short clip u showed all the glitches that they cause bc they are rushed to the market before they can be finely tuned.I stopped playing with them on a regular basis right before the PS2 days. I sparingly played the PS2 with GTA3 but that was only bc it was a quick faze in college
Studios Ben Spielberg in a part I meant Steven Spielberg I hate auto correct
Worst video game I've ever played???? I don't think I've ever played one I didn't think I would enjoy. But I can name two that I have that have glitches so bad that they can't be played anymore... Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare and Fable III. It SUCKS because I LOVE those games, but due to rushed production and lack of customer service, they have glitches that stand in the way of me playing them. :(
Spielberg! Says the ceo of Atari What Steven Spielberg says ceo of Atari says I hate your game so much we will tell the company universal studios to never make a ride from this at there park studios Ben Spielberg yells noooooo! 7 years later universal Orlando resort opens with e t adventure
the worst video game that i've played, in terms of quality i think is a tie between Kitten Corner for the DS and The Lion King for game boy. the lion king's problems lie in how difficult it is to actually progress through the game without cheating. graphically it can be pretty hard to see too, but i'll give it a pass, given the time it came out. Kitten Corner has little to no gameplay and despite the adorable (customizable) kittens, there was just nothing to do. (save for some minigame puzzles)