Shigeru Miyamoto was always a pretty big Nintendo icon, just back in the NES days we didn't see much of the Japanese team here in the states. By the 90s with magazines and all Miyamoto was already becoming more and more known in the US. I'd say the modern day US equivalent of Howard is Reggie.
My dad, to this day, uses 'Nintendo' as a synonym for 'video game'. He goes to a casino....video slots are 'Nintendo' slots. App games.... Nintendo games for your phone. For the majority of my childhood gaming time, I didn't even have a Nintendo. He hates video games....but to him, they are all Nintendo.
I'm a grown man and I still LOVE the NES and when it came out and I finally got my filthy paws on one, I was never the same. It was one of the best nostalgic things in my life next to Star Wars of course. Star Wars was first and then Nintendo. Had to clear that up. I will always be a Nintendo Fan Boy/Man. Just kicks Ass. : )
adramelk44 just proud of r.o.b. if u are around 40 you were really impressed by Rob if you were a kid when he came out. I was 6. and then there was the movie short circuit. that was rob in action.
@@metaltom2003 Yes, from its establishment in New York City in 1980 (or after it moved to Seattle during 1981), and he quit the same year both Super Mario World and the system it represented, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, were released.
I remember Christmas of '86, there were two new video game systems available: the Atari 7800 and the NES. I knew I could only ask for one. I was leaning toward the 7800 at first because it was Atari, and who the heck was Nintendo anyway? But the NES ads won me over. The robot, the gun and the graphics just made it seem cooler. (Plus NES was the more expensive console, and even at that young age I had some understanding of the concept that you get what you pay for.) Within a year I knew I had made the right call. Christmas of 1987: I got Zelda AND Megaman!
videogameobsession same here, I live in the NY tri state area so my bros and I got it for Christmas in 85. I wasn't that good at it but I remember watching my brothers play the hell out of early games like Kung Fu and SMB.
Mix a little Sega Mastersystem with Arcade machines with TV commercials tailored for children, with weekend morning cartoons, and you have one kick-ass childhood!
I'm one of those people that loves the '80s unironically. I was a young kid during it, but even looking back now it seemed like such a simple, fun time where everything was over-the-top in a good way.
Nes is my first video game system i ever played. i love it forever. favourite games are mega man 2 and 3, blades of steel, super mario bros. series etc.....
The NES is the greatest video game console of all time!!!! No doubt about it!!! I got my Nintendo Action Set for Christmas of 1989, when I was 7 years old. I still own it and play it today. It was the console that got me into video games.
6:59 you're clearly too young to remember 1986, because we were just 2 years removed from it, and that year not even 1 million systems were sold! Their big breakout year was 1987 when a whopping 4 million systems were sold! Their skyrocket came in 1988 and 1989 especially when they sold an incredible 18 million systems (8 million in 1988 and 10 million in 1989)!
I was 12 in NJ when the NES came out. So I had experienced the Atari and the game crash. It was a strange time during the crash. I mean It's not how many perceive it that we didn't want anymore Video Games. I don't remember any of my friends or kids at school who were hating on Video Games. We wanted to play new Video Games but nothing new game related was being released. There was a sense of well, Video Games are just not a thing anymore. So forget about them. Many of us though like me didn't forget about them. We survived on what we had left over. I for example had a C64 and would play Donkey Kong and Q-Bert on it. I also had the Atari 5200 and was able to buy two new games for it. (Yes, a few games were released during the crash) Ballblazer and Rescue on Fractalus by Lucasarts. They were sold cheap, less than 10 dollars because I assume no one wanted Video Games so sell them cheap. One morning in 85 one of my friends tells me that Steven one of our friends up the block is playing a new Video Game system. We said, shit we gotta check it out! So we ran over there and when we walked into his house a group of kids from our school were surrounding the TV in his living room. They were playing Duck Hunt. I kept asking everyone there, what is this? Where did this come from? Someone told me, it's the Entertainment System! Steven told us his Mom got it for him in NYC. From then on I remember it was full steam ahead. Video Games began growing in popularity again and here we are today
Wait so do u remeber when it was released In your area ? Did u make your mom go buy it ? And I'm asumeing u couldn't even buy more games right because it was not released there ?
I had the Famicom and all the kids in the neighbourhood had one (I grew up in Asia). We were always swapping games and IMO the Famicom looked more 'fun' with its colourful little cartridges although I read that the NES was deliberately made to not look like a game console. Still have a Famicom and play the classics every now and again ...
I remember when I used to get in trouble at school and my mother would take away my Nintendo Entertainment System. I found where she hid it in her room and used to wait until she went downstairs and take it out and play it. I remember I used to get far in games and then have to turn it off when I heard her coming upstairs and rush it back into her room and put it back in the same position. Then she would come inside of my room like, "What are you doing?" I would say I was watching television, but I lied. Rest In Peace, mom.
Geoff good gamer 29 those were my first games too. me and my little sister would sneak into the living room early in the morning on weekends just to play Duck Hunt.
It was awesome. I was fortunate enough to get my mom's hand me down Atari. And for some reason, my mom bought the Sega Master System, which I liked, but when I saw Super Mario Bros. for the first time over at my friends, I went and convinced my mom that the NES was what we needed. It was awesome.
Duck Avenger Yes, you can tell that he is still a hardcore gamer to this day. I am certain he has a Nintendo Entertainment System still hooked up in his home somewhere..
I remember we got the launch edition of the NES, but I definitely don’t remember the robot lol 😂 I’m sure my parents didn’t even bother to set it up lol
i remember the 1st time that i saw NES with Mario Bros and Wrecking Crew games in my friend basement... it was in 1988 i believe, i was 4 years old. I received NES at the same year Christmas 1988, because i asked it to my parents very quickly!
Ian's not dead. Pat sent him to the NES classic factory to get that shit under control and pump out some of these things. Have fun in China Ian. Don't spend to much time in the Opium dens of Hun street or get hooked on baby chick fetus eggs while your there.
Any plans for any more Video Game Years episodes? I have the 3 Volumes on DVD and that is easily my favorite show on youtube and even ranks up with some of my favorite "regular TV" shows. You, the Game Chasers, Norm, Dan and several others were nice enough to autograph Vol 3 for me back at Too Many Games last year.
Best segment in this series! Yes I do remember NES coming out, but not the hype. I just knew my cousin had an NES with ROB, Gyromite, then later Super Mario, and I wanted it!! and then it was the NES life for many years after that! I never had Atari or others before that so that began my video game life. :DDD
And the now iconic ROB has been in Smash Bros since Brawl on the Wii and The Legend of Zelda is returning to its open world roots. Everything has come full circle.
I'm not sure video games were dead before the NES. I knew a lot of people that still owned Atari systems at that time and were still playing. I do remember stores were flooded with Atari games. I think the market was just so flooded or over saturated with shit consumers were confused. I remember big chain stores having mountains of games on clearance. My buddy and I would go in and pick through them.
Considering how good that choice was, it's nothing to blame him for. Besides, we eventually got Lost Levels anyway, right now you can play it on the SNES, Wii, Wii U and Switch
4:14: "But luckily, we had this arsenal of 16 games! Of which, probably 10 or more of them were really good games." Hahahahaha! A Nintendo rep just said that there were probably 6 games that were crappy.
I wonder why these get so little in terms of views. I think this video game years series is absolutely great entertainment. Because of these clips I went right ahead to watch the full episodes but even they got only 5-figure views counts. weird.
4:58 I really wish they gave us the option in the home version the shoot that mutt! the only way you can get your revenge is through the arcade version lol
O.O I would of LOVED to be a Nintendo sales person!!! XD OF COURSE.... -_- I was only born THREE YEARS AFTER. Lol. I still have mine.... and lots of cool gamez! ^_^ ROCK ON NES!
In the UK, we got the NES in 1987... It wasn't a success because everyone already had a computer like a Commodore 64 or a ZX Spectrum which had games from £1.99 plus you could then buy a blank cassette and record the game data onto the cassette for your friends... Either that or spend over £100 on a NES or Sega Master System with games from around £15
Atari really open the floodgates to the gaming industry. I remember soon after I got the atari 2600 in 1981 the coleco vision console came in, the intellevision, the activision, the commodores etc The market was saturated with systems. But the nes was something different even I got into using it soon everyone had one and so it began to this day.
One4All All4One the Commodore 64 was way beyond a gaming system. I actually wrote basic game with the sprite technology. Everyone in my Neighborhood had a C64. Never had the NES. I had the Atari2600, 5200, SMS, SGenisis, and the crappy Jaguar.
The 64 was an affordable computer with programming capabilities and a game library. I had the vic 20 my parents bought me. When you think about the IBM's were out of the realm of the regular consumer so these fit the niche. Like said his was an interesting time. A revolution of sorts for the home consumer. It paved the way for the pc at home, game consoles, laptops, tablets, smartphones etc
Why is it Americans always think they saved video games? There wasn't a crash anywhere else in the world, and Sega was what everyone was buying, not Nintendo in Europe.
I think this video series tried too hard to mimick the style of cheap History Channel type, sensationalistic documentaries, instead of going for a less rigid, more unique format.
and this is why I can't stand the hate that nintendo gets today, we need to show the company some respect, yes they've made a few mistakes in marketing these past few years and yes they don't market to the graphics whore gamers, but if it wasn't for nintendo we wouldn't even have gaming today, there would be no ps4s or xbox ones, and if these millenial gamers can look past the no-5trillion-K-graphics argument and see how fun wii u games actually were, nintendo wouldn't have such of a terrible stigma right now, they wouldn't have lost faith in the wii u and we would have even more games for it now
I was right there in the front lines for the launch, way back in the day. I haven't the faintest recollection of that robot. The zapper is a much bigger deal, then and now. And even that would be hard to argue as a system seller.
Because including ROB in the initial launch of the NES was how Nintendo got it labeled as a "Toy". Stores refused to stock video games after the market crashed.
If ROB helped it brand it as a toy, then why would Nintendo have to, according to the video, take on all the risk of failing sales? Lets not pretend ROB played a role-even a minuscule one-in making the NES a sales phenomenon. It was all about Super Mario.
Classic Nut I wouldn't say that, I'd say the Odyssey and the Atari set the framework for gaming. They established that consoles would connect to TVs, on channels 3 or 4, interchange cartridges, plug in controllers.
Its good to see howard phillips after all these years
I definitely second that... he was the face of nintendo in the late 80's... strange how since the Wii, Shigeru Miyamoto has become that now.
Shigeru Miyamoto was always a pretty big Nintendo icon, just back in the NES days we didn't see much of the Japanese team here in the states. By the 90s with magazines and all Miyamoto was already becoming more and more known in the US. I'd say the modern day US equivalent of Howard is Reggie.
Yeah its sort of weird watching people that were maybe 5 or 6 at the time of launch discussing it.
this is from like 2012 but yeah the point still stood in 2017 I guess
My dad, to this day, uses 'Nintendo' as a synonym for 'video game'. He goes to a casino....video slots are 'Nintendo' slots. App games.... Nintendo games for your phone. For the majority of my childhood gaming time, I didn't even have a Nintendo.
He hates video games....but to him, they are all Nintendo.
lol
I just arrived in the USA when this game system came out. From the killing fields of Cambodia to playing the NES in my uncle's living room in America.
you leveled up. 🎉
I'm a grown man and I still LOVE the NES and when it came out and I finally got my filthy paws on one, I was never the same. It was one of the best nostalgic things in my life next to Star Wars of course. Star Wars was first and then Nintendo. Had to clear that up. I will always be a Nintendo Fan Boy/Man. Just kicks Ass. : )
I have a rob that has been setting on my bedroom dresser for about 20 years he watches over my while I sleep.
So do I...
are you robot-kin?
adramelk44 just proud of r.o.b. if u are around 40 you were really impressed by Rob if you were a kid when he came out. I was 6. and then there was the movie short circuit. that was rob in action.
They can sometimes be dangerous.
Pat the NES Punk pat lol how can rob be dangerous ?
Wow. I never knew Howard Phillips was a real person. I only knew him as the cartoon character in Nintendo Power.
jobezg Not only is he real, he was the president of Nintendo of America for quite some time.
@@metaltom2003 Yes, from its establishment in New York City in 1980 (or after it moved to Seattle during 1981), and he quit the same year both Super Mario World and the system it represented, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, were released.
Holy christ...Duck Hunt a second player could control ducks?!?! i honestly never knew that!
Were you young enough to remember the NES launch in 1985 or 1986? What did you think of the time? Were you excited?
Pat the NES Punk No, I was born in 2001... So that sucks
I remember Christmas of '86, there were two new video game systems available: the Atari 7800 and the NES. I knew I could only ask for one. I was leaning toward the 7800 at first because it was Atari, and who the heck was Nintendo anyway? But the NES ads won me over. The robot, the gun and the graphics just made it seem cooler. (Plus NES was the more expensive console, and even at that young age I had some understanding of the concept that you get what you pay for.) Within a year I knew I had made the right call. Christmas of 1987: I got Zelda AND Megaman!
I was born in 1986,Pat
i was in the UK so we didn't really know about it.
videogameobsession same here, I live in the NY tri state area so my bros and I got it for Christmas in 85. I wasn't that good at it but I remember watching my brothers play the hell out of early games like Kung Fu and SMB.
Mix a little Sega Mastersystem with Arcade machines with TV commercials tailored for children, with weekend morning cartoons, and you have one kick-ass childhood!
I'm one of those people that loves the '80s unironically. I was a young kid during it, but even looking back now it seemed like such a simple, fun time where everything was over-the-top in a good way.
I got my Nintendo for Christmas 1988, .. memories. 😁
is anyone else else getting a real "VH1 I Love the 80s" from this? not so much the content, but the format the video is filmed?
Nes is my first video game system i ever played. i love it forever. favourite games are mega man 2 and 3, blades of steel, super mario bros. series etc.....
The NES is the greatest video game console of all time!!!! No doubt about it!!! I got my Nintendo Action Set for Christmas of 1989, when I was 7 years old. I still own it and play it today. It was the console that got me into video games.
Same here, I got the red gun with duck hunt/Mario bros game
6:59 you're clearly too young to remember 1986, because we were just 2 years removed from it, and that year not even 1 million systems were sold! Their big breakout year was 1987 when a whopping 4 million systems were sold! Their skyrocket came in 1988 and 1989 especially when they sold an incredible 18 million systems (8 million in 1988 and 10 million in 1989)!
I was 12 in NJ when the NES came out. So I had experienced the Atari and the game crash. It was a strange time during the crash. I mean It's not how many perceive it that we didn't want anymore Video Games. I don't remember any of my friends or kids at school who were hating on Video Games. We wanted to play new Video Games but nothing new game related was being released.
There was a sense of well, Video Games are just not a thing anymore. So forget about them. Many of us though like me didn't forget about them. We survived on what we had left over. I for example had a C64 and would play Donkey Kong and Q-Bert on it. I also had the Atari 5200 and was able to buy two new games for it. (Yes, a few games were released during the crash) Ballblazer and Rescue on Fractalus by Lucasarts. They were sold cheap, less than 10 dollars because I assume no one wanted Video Games so sell them cheap.
One morning in 85 one of my friends tells me that Steven one of our friends up the block is playing a new Video Game system. We said, shit we gotta check it out! So we ran over there and when we walked into his house a group of kids from our school were surrounding the TV in his living room. They were playing Duck Hunt. I kept asking everyone there, what is this? Where did this come from? Someone told me, it's the Entertainment System! Steven told us his Mom got it for him in NYC. From then on I remember it was full steam ahead. Video Games began growing in popularity again and here we are today
Wait so do u remeber when it was released In your area ? Did u make your mom go buy it ? And I'm asumeing u couldn't even buy more games right because it was not released there ?
Howard Phillips, the original NES (of America) hype man. That Reggie guy can't wrap up Howard's controller cord.
I had the Famicom and all the kids in the neighbourhood had one (I grew up in Asia). We were always swapping games and IMO the Famicom looked more 'fun' with its colourful little cartridges although I read that the NES was deliberately made to not look like a game console. Still have a Famicom and play the classics every now and again ...
Really impressed that Howard Phillips made a cameo.
I remember when I used to get in trouble at school and my mother would take away my Nintendo Entertainment System. I found where she hid it in her room and used to wait until she went downstairs and take it out and play it. I remember I used to get far in games and then have to turn it off when I heard her coming upstairs and rush it back into her room and put it back in the same position. Then she would come inside of my room like, "What are you doing?" I would say I was watching television, but I lied. Rest In Peace, mom.
This is cool,I actually didn't get the NES until the early 90's, that's what got me into Super Mario bros.+ Duckhunt,punch-out.
Geoff good gamer 29 those were my first games too. me and my little sister would sneak into the living room early in the morning on weekends just to play Duck Hunt.
Me and My twin would Sneak upstairs to play the nes with our Older Brother Cas
When My parents bought me NES, I was remember Play that NES whole day , Oh good times
Great memories. This was a beast to edit but very fulfilling. Nice to see it in individual segment form.
It was awesome. I was fortunate enough to get my mom's hand me down Atari. And for some reason, my mom bought the Sega Master System, which I liked, but when I saw Super Mario Bros. for the first time over at my friends, I went and convinced my mom that the NES was what we needed. It was awesome.
I loved this one I could see how much passion that guy Howard Phillips has for games.
Duck Avenger Yes, you can tell that he is still a hardcore gamer to this day. I am certain he has a Nintendo Entertainment System still hooked up in his home somewhere..
The guy has always been a big kid who loves video games.
I remember we got the launch edition of the NES, but I definitely don’t remember the robot lol 😂
I’m sure my parents didn’t even bother to set it up lol
i remember the 1st time that i saw NES with Mario Bros and Wrecking Crew games in my friend basement... it was in 1988 i believe, i was 4 years old. I received NES at the same year Christmas 1988, because i asked it to my parents very quickly!
I'm not usually a fan of these Video Game Years videos, but this one was excellent. More of this quality please!
I still remember getting my NES for christmas.
As a kid I always thought the dog was crying cause you missed the ducks
Isra Gu 😂
This one was awesome! I wished it was longer.
I love Howard Phillips.
Ian's not dead. Pat sent him to the NES classic factory to get that shit under control and pump out some of these things. Have fun in China Ian. Don't spend to much time in the Opium dens of Hun street or get hooked on baby chick fetus eggs while your there.
I thought the clay pigeons were space ships when I was a kid.
Any plans for any more Video Game Years episodes? I have the 3 Volumes on DVD and that is easily my favorite show on youtube and even ranks up with some of my favorite "regular TV" shows. You, the Game Chasers, Norm, Dan and several others were nice enough to autograph Vol 3 for me back at Too Many Games last year.
My X-Wife hated gaming when the 83 crash happened she with glee said I told you these games where worthless. Did I say she is my X-Wife
I am R.O.B. the robot. Acronym for Robotic Operating Buddy. It is time to play Nintendo.
the best youtube series no one watches. great job good episode!
Best segment in this series! Yes I do remember NES coming out, but not the hype. I just knew my cousin had an NES with ROB, Gyromite, then later Super Mario, and I wanted it!! and then it was the NES life for many years after that! I never had Atari or others before that so that began my video game life. :DDD
And the now iconic ROB has been in Smash Bros since Brawl on the Wii and The Legend of Zelda is returning to its open world roots. Everything has come full circle.
I thought the clay pigeons in duck hunt were flying saucers aka ufos as a kid
I'm not sure video games were dead before the NES. I knew a lot of people that still owned Atari systems at that time and were still playing. I do remember stores were flooded with Atari games. I think the market was just so flooded or over saturated with shit consumers were confused. I remember big chain stores having mountains of games on clearance. My buddy and I would go in and pick through them.
When mountains of games are on clearance, that means consumers aren't buying them and retailers are scared to stock anything new.
isn't Howard Phillips the reason we didn't get the real super Mario Bros 2?
irregular mana He was a major figure in the Nintendo Entertainment System making it over here, so that can be forgiven.
Yea and thank God for Howard Phillips! I'm glad we got our SMB2!
Considering how good that choice was, it's nothing to blame him for. Besides, we eventually got Lost Levels anyway, right now you can play it on the SNES, Wii, Wii U and Switch
The music starting at 2:50 sounds very familiar to me. Is that from a SNES game? Which one??
King Voxel I did the edit of this one for Retroware. I got the music background music from incompetech.
thanks for the reply. I love it!
Gamer Going Grey good ! Your editing skills are great!
was it ever said if we're able to download that intro/ending music anywhere?
So Rob's last name is Batteries Not Included?
Lol was thinking the same thing
awesome!
I've always wanted a R.O.B. :(
More Howard, please
4:14: "But luckily, we had this arsenal of 16 games! Of which, probably 10 or more of them were really good games."
Hahahahaha! A Nintendo rep just said that there were probably 6 games that were crappy.
0:15 in and loving it already. Time machine, please!
The nes still kick ass today. 😀👍🎮
does anyone know the outro song?
I wonder why these get so little in terms of views. I think this video game years series is absolutely great entertainment. Because of these clips I went right ahead to watch the full episodes but even they got only 5-figure views counts. weird.
4:58 I really wish they gave us the option in the home version the shoot that mutt! the only way you can get your revenge is through the arcade version lol
Haha, Ian is wearing a M-Theory shirt. I used to go there all the time when they first opened up in San Diego.
I was born in 1980 so 86’ for me was a great year Christmas 🎄 Day
I remember when super Nintendo came out. I was like what the hell kind of controller is this😂I was used to the original a and b only
Got Nes first year of release. Need to bust out vhs home videos and find footage
0:38 rip mario
Did that announcer just say to use the zapper to play Kung Fu?
" The incredibly accurate zapper " .... my ass it is
O.O I would of LOVED to be a Nintendo sales person!!! XD OF COURSE.... -_- I was only born THREE YEARS AFTER. Lol. I still have mine.... and lots of cool gamez! ^_^ ROCK ON NES!
Now they will do it again with the Switch.
incredibly accurate zapper lmao
Hogan's Alley and Gyromite are awesome
Howard just looks naked without the bow tie.
6:00 John Stossil Reporting
I loved my nes. These guys never get laid. Even if they are married. Look at that depressed hoodie guy.
yes, really depressed and sad. let me give you a nintendo entertainment system to make you feel better. NOT.
E ROCK Ok, all of them are virgins but Howard Phillips is definitely not. He's the man!
yall finally got to the NES. Damn. Didn't yall start this like 4 years ago?
Who's the guy next to Pat??
Raigā I think he died last year
ProJared!!
In the UK, we got the NES in 1987... It wasn't a success because everyone already had a computer like a Commodore 64 or a ZX Spectrum which had games from £1.99 plus you could then buy a blank cassette and record the game data onto the cassette for your friends... Either that or spend over £100 on a NES or Sega Master System with games from around £15
Yeah, I really don't see how UK companies made any money back then when piracy was so easy.
Atari really open the floodgates to the gaming industry. I remember soon after I got the atari 2600 in 1981 the coleco vision console came in, the intellevision, the activision, the commodores etc The market was saturated with systems. But the nes was something different even I got into using it soon everyone had one and so it began to this day.
One4All All4One the Commodore 64 was way beyond a gaming system. I actually wrote basic game with the sprite technology. Everyone in my Neighborhood had a C64. Never had the NES. I had the Atari2600, 5200, SMS, SGenisis, and the crappy Jaguar.
The 64 was an affordable computer with programming capabilities and a game library. I had the vic 20 my parents bought me. When you think about the IBM's were out of the realm of the regular consumer so these fit the niche. Like said his was an interesting time. A revolution of sorts for the home consumer. It paved the way for the pc at home, game consoles, laptops, tablets, smartphones etc
I’m sorry but Ian looks really board in some of these shots!!! 😂 His face says”Damn I don’t want to be here!!”
Why is it Americans always think they saved video games? There wasn't a crash anywhere else in the world, and Sega was what everyone was buying, not Nintendo in Europe.
what is the robot never seen it b4
Brilliant
I think this video series tried too hard to mimick the style of cheap History Channel type, sensationalistic documentaries, instead of going for a less rigid, more unique format.
Nintendo should come back with the game cube but updated Version🕹
We want Ian, We want Ian!!!!!! haha
So much risk, but Nintendo is so genius.
dude everyone just said the same thing in a slightly different way
video games are not dead, text every one you know
That one guy sounds like Steve O
Dope
Sad that he retired his bowtie
Wait, those weren't clouds? lol
How does this have such low views???
Unfortunately no, I was born in 1988
and this is why I can't stand the hate that nintendo gets today, we need to show the company some respect, yes they've made a few mistakes in marketing these past few years and yes they don't market to the graphics whore gamers, but if it wasn't for nintendo we wouldn't even have gaming today, there would be no ps4s or xbox ones, and if these millenial gamers can look past the no-5trillion-K-graphics argument and see how fun wii u games actually were, nintendo wouldn't have such of a terrible stigma right now, they wouldn't have lost faith in the wii u and we would have even more games for it now
Top 5 NES Games: NInja Turtles 2, Mario 3, River City Ransom, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Double Dragon 3(japan version! NA version sucked)
What? I don't even remember that robot, why is everyone pretending he was central to the NES' launch?
I was right there in the front lines for the launch, way back in the day. I haven't the faintest recollection of that robot.
The zapper is a much bigger deal, then and now. And even that would be hard to argue as a system seller.
then you probably weren't at the first launch, the first launch bundles ALL had the rob unit
Because including ROB in the initial launch of the NES was how Nintendo got it labeled as a "Toy". Stores refused to stock video games after the market crashed.
Micro Aggressor you are a liar then. all first series NESes came with Rob. So there is no way you were there at launch
If ROB helped it brand it as a toy, then why would Nintendo have to, according to the video, take on all the risk of failing sales?
Lets not pretend ROB played a role-even a minuscule one-in making the NES a sales phenomenon. It was all about Super Mario.
Who are you people talking to? FFS, look at the goddamned camera.
That weird Irish music you're playing the t he background reminds me of projectile vomit thanks to the L.A. Beast. kind of kills the moment.
Best console ever. Slightly better than the SNES. More great games than SNES. The original and set the framework for gaming.
Classic Nut I wouldn't say that, I'd say the Odyssey and the Atari set the framework for gaming. They established that consoles would connect to TVs, on channels 3 or 4, interchange cartridges, plug in controllers.
Kung Fu? With the zapper?.. lol wtf?
Little lizard guys named wat???.. lol
Howard Phillips is so creepy!
great video but sorry I have to say the sega master system was a much more superior piece of kit.
Good video. Horribly irritating presenters though......