Crazy how he says “sell to young and old” because I remember as a 8 year old kid never playing my gameboy for longer than an hour or two because my grandfather and uncles always wanted to play Tetris
Lmao and they couldn't go buy their own one back then when the economy was good and it was 89 $ for a revolutionary piece of technology dsmnit that sucks 😂 Nowadays if the game boy came out itd be like 1200$ 😂
it was the moment Nintendo realized they could and should marketing their ecosystem to the masses not kids. It's also why a lot of pro gamers despise Nintendo yet strangely still play their games.
Same! I begged my mom for one. When I got it, my dad gave us this big lecture about how it's too expensive and a big waste of money. Over time it pretty much became his Gameboy because of Tetris.
more likely he had the game programmed and just changed the number of pixels in which the game is played ( which the code seemed built to be adapted towards different pixel ratios )
He would not have programmed the whole thing..that is thousands of lines of code. He wrote a new interface / driver to work with the Gameboys hardware. Everything else was left as is.
The even crazier part is that it was programmed in 6502 assembly, and not in C. Most games at that time were written in assembly on the Gameboy because resource limited systems struggle with the overhead of the C language.
It’s amazing to think Hank signed an NDA because they didn’t trust him, only to win them over and even convinced them to change their strategy of selling the game boy with Mario to Tetris instead for a wider market by the end. Legend
It's not on record if this meeting in America actually happened, only that Arakawa told Rodgers about the Gameboy and the plans to release it with Mario, which is where he pitched to bundle it with Tetris instead
@@rafacastillo9611 This is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. It happened EXACTLY like this. I will never believe any other version of those events. GAMEBOY 4EVA!!!!
Nintendo's side of the story is utterly insane. They canceled the game boy some 3 months before the meeting you're seeing here took place because the big boss didn't understand viewing angles
The warehouse that Iwata bought/rented in the US was constantly late on payments. It got to the point the warehouse manager flipped out and yelled at him infront of all his employees. The warehouse manager felt so bad about it afterwards, he apologized and worked out a deal where the payments were more lax to help out Iwata. Iwata made a video game character to honor the help the italian owner gave. It was mario
Be like Nintendo. Make weird shit. If it succeeds. Keep making it. If it doesn’t succeed. Make even more weird shit. Repeat and rinse. That’s why I’am a Nintendo fan.
"Color, you need 8 batteries instead of four, it's too expensive. This gives you 30 hours of gameplay, all for $89." A lesson Sega should have learned before developing their GameGear.
Well actually a major misconception about colour handheld consoles is that the Gamegear was the first to do it, when it wasn’t... it was ATARI with their handheld called the LYNX
@@xavierhutchinson7257 Funny thing about that. I watched a video by Wrestling With Gaming a couple of days ago on the backstory of the Game Boy and, apparently: 1. The Game Gear's design was copied from a from a fake color handheld project that Nintendo R&D cooked up as a "but you can work with us on this next year" face-saving gesture to try to let Citizen down easy after the boss said "I don't care that you signed a preliminary agreement. We're going with Sharp for the LCD." (And, wouldn't you know it, the Game Gear's color screen was made by Citizen.) 2. The Atari Lynx began as the Epyx Handy and Epyx only went to Atari after Nintendo turned them away.
The little detail of the other guy getting excited to play the demo as Henk is explaining that Tetris on Game Boy would appeal to all ages is really excellent.
It's almost poetically beautiful to watch the Game Boy essentially be born in this scene. The system is horrifically primitive by today's standards, but looking at it sitting there brand new with the development cables still attached is a sight of beauty
Last night I was playing on my PS5, this is crazy to think about, how far we have come and how legendary the OG GameBoy was. My generation was the GBC but back then, it was game-changing.
That's Howard Lincoln the vice president of Nintendo of America at that time, and Minoru Arakawa is the president and the son in law of Yamauchi which was seen earlier of the scene
I never had a Gameboy and didn't play Tetris much but this scene is excellent the acting, music the writing and directing is awesome a classic example of show don't tell. I want to see it now.
I fell for the trap of seeing this scene and instantly wanting to watch the film after. Taron Egerton’s good in it but I couldn’t stand the rest of it. Hope you enjoyed it more than I did
2:45 he was right. To this day I own 2 gameboys. One of them gifted to me by my older cousin and the other one by my neighbours when I was 7 and 9. Both of them owned tetris
they have no idea that it wasn't that revolutionary. LCD grey screen handhelds had been around all thru the 80s; why this one cost 5 times as much? a lot of gamers ignored it while SF2 was in the arcades and the 16bit revolution was happening at home. Still it was the right product to make a good present to son or grandson when u didn't know what else to get him.
@leonwilcox-tp2jg there was nothing revolutionary about the tech. The Epyx lynx was designed before the GB and was far more powerful, but Epyx went bankrupt and sold the lynx to Atari which delayed the release by about a year. Nintendo just realized there was a hole in the market because batteries were holding the market back, so they designed something with early 80s tech to minimize power consumption. I understand there were only 2 games worth playing on GB, Tetris and Pokemon, or 3 if u count SML. In Europe Pokemon didn't sell much, so the only game worth playing was tetris; which meant it was effectively a one game system. 'other game' sale there, more because when u have a catridge system u feel u ought to own other games, but on playing them 99% were lacklustre i.e. not worth playing. To my mind only Dr Mario was worth playing and that was a tetris varient. I was much more interested in 16bit games as were all my friends. The catridge aspect effectively wasn't used, and was ineffective when used. It was also a massive con; my friend with a GB got hold a pirate cartridge that had 30 GB games on; which just illustrated that GB wasn't revolutionary wrt tech, the catridge thing was a sales gimmick that muppet kids fell for. When we played them we realized they were all crap because the GB was inherently insipid at running games. The only thing mentioned about the GB at school was tetris score, who could get 200 lines, that was it, and this wasn't mentioned much. Aside tetris and pokemon, GB was a 'look cool' item rather than a fun item, similar to how adults at the time would get their mobile phones out and place them on tables 'look at me! I've got a mobile phone!'
@leonwilcox-tp2jg there was nothing revolutionary about the tech. The Epyx lynx was designed before the GB and was far more powerful, but Epyx went bankrupt and sold the lynx to Atari which delayed the release by about a year. Nintendo just realized there was a hole in the market because batteries were holding the market back, so they designed something with early 80s tech to minimize power consumption. I understand there were only 2 games worth playing on GB, Tetris and Pokemon, or 3 if u count SML. In Europe Pokemon didn't sell much, so the only game worth playing was tetris; which meant it was effectively a one game system. Other games sold more because when u have a catridge system u feel u ought to own other games, but on playing them 99% were lacklustre i.e. not worth playing. To my mind only Dr Mario was worth playing and that was a tetris varient. I was much more interested in 16bit games as were all my friends. The catridge aspect effectively wasn't used, and was ineffective when used. It was also a massive con; my friend with a GB got hold a pirate cartridge that had 30 GB games on; which just illustrated that GB wasn't revolutionary wrt tech, the catridge thing was a sales gimmick that muppet kids fell for. When we played them we realized they were all crap because the GB was inherently insipid at running games. The only thing mentioned about the GB at school was tetris score, who could get 200 lines, that was it, and this wasn't mentioned much. Aside tetris and pokemon, GB was a fashion item rather than a fun item, similar to how adults at the time would get their mobile phones out and place them on tables 'look at me! I've got a mobile phone!'. I noticed a few non-gamers got gameboys just to look fashionable.
Cmon yes they do, the Game Boy is the most iconic console in history, easily. Even more than the famicom or any modern console, everyone who has played games and even *everyone who hasn’t* knows what a Game Boy is. Kids nowadays absolutely know how revolutionary this was, this is the only console of the time I can say that about.
nah most of us do actually and are kinda jealous we couldn’t grow up in that time of revolutionary gaming systems. Todays games and systems are sick n all but i would’ve loved to have been there in 89 picking this thing up for the first time with everyone else in the world😭
Funny thing was, while Henk said, "It's not perfect," his Tetris demonstration was flawless. Minora and Lincoln immediately asked him to secure the rights!
I imagine that when he actually did it Tetris wasn't scaled correctly to the screen. But for the film it was probably hard to mess up the scale on the prop.
I still remember the Christmas when I got my GameBoy. I was only four years old. My first two games on it was Kirby's Dream Land and Alien Vs Predator, but I got to play Tetris that day too. That afternoon, my mother took me to our local pub and I met a girl there who was playing a Gameboy as well. She had Tetris. We swapped GameBoys and played each others games until it was time for me to go home. I didn't get Tetris for it until years later, though. I had no idea whatsoever how important that GameBoy would be to me over the coming years when I got it.
@@ppcasm9837 Nah, I was already in love with a girl I knew from my class since long before I got my GB. The girl I met that Christmas day was years older than me. And I think she was visiting from America.
Oh this was super cool! Such a revolutionary point in gaming history. The development and release of the Game Boy! Along with the most sold popular puzzle game Tetris! It proved a long time ago to this day, everybody loves puzzle games!
I watched Tetris the other day for the first time. This was definitely in my Top 3 computer game movies and a fantastic film in its own right. The story of Tetris is amazing. But this scene in particular captured the amazement and joy I felt in my childhood when I had a Game Boy for Christmas. The experience of playing both Super Mario Land AND Tetris on that brilliantly-designed handheld…the hours of addictive gameplay, and my dad playing Tetris on the Game Boy, he also had so much fun on The Game Boy as well. The Game Boy and Tetris were a match made in Heaven. It was just revolutionary.
Need to see this movie now I guess. Was 10 when this came out and had one. Tetris definitely was the game that made the system. Still can hear that music playing from it!
God, I was so addicted to that game when I was younger. Would spend hours playing Tetris, then just constantly see little block pieces in our kitchens linoleum floor tiles. 😂
Just saw this movie and loved it, even knowing a lot of it was very dramatized. The look on Henk's face when seeing the Gameboy was just sheer awe, almost knowing he was looking at history on that stand.
Pokemon, mario, yugioh, digimon, shrek, megaman, wario, that game with 99 games…childhood xD. And buying batteries from the store and charging them in the sun
The Atari Lynx, the Sega Game Gear, the Sega Nomad, the Turbo Express, the Neo Geo Pocket. That underpowered green handheld beat the ABSOLUTE SHIT out of the competition.
Just imagine this world if Tetris was never even thought about, and every gameboy was packaged with Super Mario Land. That’s a world I never would want to live in.
I remember getting my OG Gameboy. We got three games with it and Tetris was one of them. I swear that game rewrote something in my brain because I quickly ignored the other two games. It wasn’t until Pokemon came out that I cared about any other Gameboy game
The hours of game play I put into my old Gameboy throughout my childhood and into my adulthood. I never stopped playing it, the games, the memories, this scene gives me a smile and a tear of nostalgia to my eye.
I am a video game collector. I have an extensive game collection of NES, SNES, DS, gameboy, gameboy advance, ps1, ps2, Xbox, 360, ps3, Xbox one, etc. I probably play gameboy Tetris more than any other game in my collection
I am glad that Tetris became a biopic movie about licensing agreements between the USA and the Soviet Union. There are some inaccuracies, but it felt real to us. *10/10 Would play Tetris again*
I remember I got the Gameboy the following summer after it had launched. I was excited to have it, but was disappointed it didnt come packed with Super Mario Land. So I fired it up, and when I finally put the Gameboy down, I thought, well Tetris is actually ok... then I realized 2 hours had passed when I thought I had been playing for only 15 minutes.
I remember when the Gameboy first came out and I got one, I couldn’t care less that it wasn’t in color. The fact that it was a portable gaming console was already enough to blow my mind.
That looks like a computer lab, so I'm guessing they probably worked in developing the hardware, and like any other lab, you need to keep your work station and yourself clean.
That was more like a hardware lab, not a software development quarter. Besides, Nintendo is a Japanese company and yes they (especially in the 80s) take pride in wearing appropriate uniforms at work.
This was hardware lab, the team they are apart of is called R&D1(Nintendo Research & Development No. 1 Department). Considering professionally electronics are made and tested in clean type rooms this isn't strange at all.
If it's oxidation from sitting around or corrosion from water damage you may be able to fix it by opening it up and giving it a good cleaning. Isopropyl alcohol and a tooth brush and some cotton swabs will take care of most stuff. If you have corrosion, neutralize with white vinegar, then clean with alcohol. For thick oxidation, an abrasive like a fiberglass pen works wonders. If it's having trouble powering on, you may need to clean inside the power switch. There are a few ways to go about that. The best way is to desolder the metal shield over it and directly clean the contacts with a fiberglass pen, but if you can't do that, trying to spray some contact cleaner in there and then working it back and forth might be enough to get it going again. Game Boys were built rock-solid so most of their issues are just related to being dirty. I have managed to fix a lot of broken ones from eBay. If you have any buttons that don't work as well as they used to, I would also recommend going over the contacts on the board with a fiberglass pen as that's usually from oxidation as well. They're pretty simple to work on compared to home consoles or anything DS or newer. I would apply the same tools and techniques to any cartridges you can't get to play or that only works every few times (don't blow in them). Open them up, clean with alcohol and/or fiberglass pen on the pins. Works every time. If you don't have the Y bit screwdriver for the Game Boy or the Game Bit for the cartridges, both are in the iFixit Mako kit in various sizes and that's what I'd recommend most people get. You can also mod better screens into these things if you want. Helps a lot with being able to see.
A revolutionary console, the game boy. I wasn't born when they came to the world, but knowing what I know now.. the technology is nothing short of amazing. For its time, that's an incredible feat of engineering.
I grew up with the Wii and DS, but I have great respect for the game boy, I played with one at boarding school that was donated by one of the teachers, I played Tetris on it for hours
The game boy was the first of it kind in home entertainment no one had ever thought a video game something that by this time had only been to game consoles an arcade an pc a hand held game was something out of this world
The device that changed everything, the entirety of this scene is what gamers all around the world can relate to, being told about this new device and being given a chqnce to try it, the emotions on tarons face looking at the device are what every gamer feels when they see a console or handheld for the first time, for them its the moment that changed everything
Some ppl don't undetstand that with such simple Monochrome graphics, it didnt need more than 8Kb of RAM. The graphics data waa tiny, so other than the bits of game code the data that needed to be loaded to RAM was miniscule. Go play Zelda Link's Awakening & you'll understand what can truly be done with just 8Kb of RAM. Also remember that this is KiloBITS, not KiloBytes, so it's literally equivalent to just 1 Kilobyte of RAM, or the size of a small text file. Text actually took up more space than the graphics data did back then! It's why games with heavy dialogue like RPG's took up so much data & required bigger ROM chips on the carts, thus often making them more expensive than other games. It's why SNES RPG's were so expensive back in the day when stored on game carts vs CD. CD's could store around 700MB of data! That was a HUGE increase over the standard ROM chips. It's why so many game companies chose the PS1 to release their RPG's on back in that era. Nintendo shoehorned themselves out of the RPG market by choosing to use Cart media for the N64, and why they tried to release the 64DD. Losing Squaresoft as a game company was a huge blow. They realized their mistake pretty quicky. To me the N64 was their first real failure as a game company... Yes I know it was popular, but mainly becauee most kids got one for Xmas & simply didn't know any better. Nintendo saw the failure of FMV based games & were scared off from CD based media. But as we know now, that was simply a misunderstanding. It wasn't the CD Media that was the problem, it was the FMV based games. As we clearly know, FMV based games are just not fun to play. They don't work well to base the gameplay itself on the video playback. Road Avenger was one of the very few FMV games that was actually entertaining.
I had received 3 gameboys in my life from various people, One as a gift from my dad, one as a hand me down from my uncle, and one as a give away from a friend. All theee had Tetris. And im talking about the original gameboy from the 80s or 90s im not sure when it came out.
just a great easter egg. IN the minute 2:18 when he open his briefcase, we can see a sega genesis and something like super Mario or nintendo catalog in yellow color. Even more epic
8-bit graphics, 4.19 MHz and 8kb of RAM was considered highly advanced and impressive for its time. To put it into perspective, my custom PC has a Ryzen 5 5600X with max speed of 4.5 GHz and 32 GB of RAM with a Radeon RX 6600 (28 ray accelerators, 8 GB VRAM, GDDR6, 128-bit interface) Other people have better specs than I
I watched this movie at home. When the Game Boy was presented, I immediately pressed pause. I went to my store room and dug out this old box that hasn't been open in over 15 years. My Game Boy was in there along with about 50 cartridges. I put in fresh batteries but it wouldn't turn on 🤣
That's why he asked if it was program in C , I was a c programmer before but no idea how he'd done it. He also asked about the pixels he already had the game in his diskette he made adjustments in this video it may be on the spot but in reality it took him hours
@@forestlink6673 not even that, most games(if not all, but i dont know for certain) of the game boy were programmed in assembly, and both tetris and super mario land are no exception, so this scene was hella imposible
I was moving out of my house a few weeks back and found my old gameboy colour behind some shelves, the thing still works and would you knew it the cartridge was tetris.
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Crazy how he says “sell to young and old” because I remember as a 8 year old kid never playing my gameboy for longer than an hour or two because my grandfather and uncles always wanted to play Tetris
Lmao and they couldn't go buy their own one back then when the economy was good and it was 89 $ for a revolutionary piece of technology dsmnit that sucks 😂
Nowadays if the game boy came out itd be like 1200$ 😂
@@andrew-rn9ui 89 dollar counted for inflation back then is like 1000 today
@@kamal_jab it's something like $225, a bit more than a switch lite
it was the moment Nintendo realized they could and should marketing their ecosystem to the masses not kids. It's also why a lot of pro gamers despise Nintendo yet strangely still play their games.
Same! I begged my mom for one. When I got it, my dad gave us this big lecture about how it's too expensive and a big waste of money. Over time it pretty much became his Gameboy because of Tetris.
Love how he just programmed Tetris on a device he's never seen before - with sound effects - in 5 minutes flat!
Well like portrayed, the scene is not...perfect...but you get the idea...
more likely he had the game programmed and just changed the number of pixels in which the game is played ( which the code seemed built to be adapted towards different pixel ratios )
He would not have programmed the whole thing..that is thousands of lines of code. He wrote a new interface / driver to work with the Gameboys hardware. Everything else was left as is.
The even crazier part is that it was programmed in 6502 assembly, and not in C. Most games at that time were written in assembly on the Gameboy because resource limited systems struggle with the overhead of the C language.
@@ppcasm9837 The Game Boys CPU is based on the Zilog Z80, so it should have been Z80 assembley.
It’s amazing to think Hank signed an NDA because they didn’t trust him, only to win them over and even convinced them to change their strategy of selling the game boy with Mario to Tetris instead for a wider market by the end. Legend
It's not on record if this meeting in America actually happened, only that Arakawa told Rodgers about the Gameboy and the plans to release it with Mario, which is where he pitched to bundle it with Tetris instead
@@rafacastillo9611 This is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. It happened EXACTLY like this. I will never believe any other version of those events. GAMEBOY 4EVA!!!!
Impressive, now let's see Paul Allen's Gameboy
Oh my god, he's got the transparent purple colored case, and a color screen...
Genius comment. Genius.
Nintendo's side of the story is probably just as crazy. They avoided bankruptcy like a dozen times with unusual innovations.
Nintendo's side of the story is utterly insane. They canceled the game boy some 3 months before the meeting you're seeing here took place because the big boss didn't understand viewing angles
And now theyre sidestepping bankruptcy by sueing everyone who blinks in their direction
The warehouse that Iwata bought/rented in the US was constantly late on payments.
It got to the point the warehouse manager flipped out and yelled at him infront of all his employees.
The warehouse manager felt so bad about it afterwards, he apologized and worked out a deal where the payments were more lax to help out Iwata.
Iwata made a video game character to honor the help the italian owner gave.
It was mario
@@Spoopball what the fuck are you talking about? iwata wasn't rented the warehouse in america or created mario
Be like Nintendo. Make weird shit. If it succeeds. Keep making it. If it doesn’t succeed. Make even more weird shit. Repeat and rinse. That’s why I’am a Nintendo fan.
"Color, you need 8 batteries instead of four, it's too expensive. This gives you 30 hours of gameplay, all for $89." A lesson Sega should have learned before developing their GameGear.
Same thing with the turbo graphix. That thing chewed through 8 batteries in no time flat.
Maybe if the game gear had a backlight but no colour then maybe it would have been more successful.
gamegear's music chip was worse too imho. thats why gameboy has the modern software LSDJ for making music and the game gear doesn't.
Well actually a major misconception about colour handheld consoles is that the Gamegear was the first to do it, when it wasn’t... it was ATARI with their handheld called the LYNX
@@xavierhutchinson7257 Funny thing about that. I watched a video by Wrestling With Gaming a couple of days ago on the backstory of the Game Boy and, apparently:
1. The Game Gear's design was copied from a from a fake color handheld project that Nintendo R&D cooked up as a "but you can work with us on this next year" face-saving gesture to try to let Citizen down easy after the boss said "I don't care that you signed a preliminary agreement. We're going with Sharp for the LCD." (And, wouldn't you know it, the Game Gear's color screen was made by Citizen.)
2. The Atari Lynx began as the Epyx Handy and Epyx only went to Atari after Nintendo turned them away.
The little detail of the other guy getting excited to play the demo as Henk is explaining that Tetris on Game Boy would appeal to all ages is really excellent.
Very smart of Nintendo to package Tetris with the Game Boy!
Except BPS aren't around anymore they went defunct in 2001
Same reason why the Wii was so good because it came with Wii sports
@@SilentRealm6677 now it called blue planet software and they founded the tetris company
“It’s call the Game Boy” gives me shivers every time I watch
It's almost poetically beautiful to watch the Game Boy essentially be born in this scene.
The system is horrifically primitive by today's standards, but looking at it sitting there brand new with the development cables still attached is a sight of beauty
Despite the technical errors in this scene it is my most favourite scene. As you said, it kinda is a magical moment.
@@creeperprinz1062 also the BGM perfect fit to this historical/magical moment
I got all my goosebumps seeing this poetically scene
Last night I was playing on my PS5, this is crazy to think about, how far we have come and how legendary the OG GameBoy was. My generation was the GBC but back then, it was game-changing.
I love how he makes the face of a little kid when the white haired dude says “go ahead try it”. He looks so happy. Like a kid at Christmas
That's Howard Lincoln the vice president of Nintendo of America at that time, and Minoru Arakawa is the president and the son in law of Yamauchi which was seen earlier of the scene
Yes! I love it how his face says, 'Really, can i??'
His face says "It's beautiful" without the line needing to be said.
I never had a Gameboy and didn't play Tetris much but this scene is excellent the acting, music the writing and directing is awesome a classic example of show don't tell. I want to see it now.
I fell for the trap of seeing this scene and instantly wanting to watch the film after. Taron Egerton’s good in it but I couldn’t stand the rest of it. Hope you enjoyed it more than I did
@@sam_marley Jesus... This movie was amazing.
2:45 he was right. To this day I own 2 gameboys. One of them gifted to me by my older cousin and the other one by my neighbours when I was 7 and 9. Both of them owned tetris
There were Game Boy advertisements showing middle-aged business travelers playing Tetris
I myself have a Play it Loud Edition Game Boy in High Tech Transparent, and a Game Boy Advance in Glacier Blue!
I know this feels like an extreme dramatization but as a kid, this is exactly what it felt like when the gameboy launched. alien technology.
Today's kids have no idea how revolutionary the Game Boy actually was when it was released.
they have no idea that it wasn't that revolutionary. LCD grey screen handhelds had been around all thru the 80s; why this one cost 5 times as much? a lot of gamers ignored it while SF2 was in the arcades and the 16bit revolution was happening at home.
Still it was the right product to make a good present to son or grandson when u didn't know what else to get him.
@leonwilcox-tp2jg there was nothing revolutionary about the tech. The Epyx lynx was designed before the GB and was far more powerful, but Epyx went bankrupt and sold the lynx to Atari which delayed the release by about a year.
Nintendo just realized there was a hole in the market because batteries were holding the market back, so they designed something with early 80s tech to minimize power consumption.
I understand there were only 2 games worth playing on GB, Tetris and Pokemon, or 3 if u count SML. In Europe Pokemon didn't sell much, so the only game worth playing was tetris; which meant it was effectively a one game system.
'other game' sale there, more because when u have a catridge system u feel u ought to own other games, but on playing them 99% were lacklustre i.e. not worth playing. To my mind only Dr Mario was worth playing and that was a tetris varient. I was much more interested in 16bit games as were all my friends.
The catridge aspect effectively wasn't used, and was ineffective when used.
It was also a massive con; my friend with a GB got hold a pirate cartridge that had 30 GB games on; which just illustrated that GB wasn't revolutionary wrt tech, the catridge thing was a sales gimmick that muppet kids fell for. When we played them we realized they were all crap because the GB was inherently insipid at running games.
The only thing mentioned about the GB at school was tetris score, who could get 200 lines, that was it, and this wasn't mentioned much.
Aside tetris and pokemon, GB was a 'look cool' item rather than a fun item, similar to how adults at the time would get their mobile phones out and place them on tables 'look at me! I've got a mobile phone!'
@leonwilcox-tp2jg there was nothing revolutionary about the tech. The Epyx lynx was designed before the GB and was far more powerful, but Epyx went bankrupt and sold the lynx to Atari which delayed the release by about a year.
Nintendo just realized there was a hole in the market because batteries were holding the market back, so they designed something with early 80s tech to minimize power consumption.
I understand there were only 2 games worth playing on GB, Tetris and Pokemon, or 3 if u count SML. In Europe Pokemon didn't sell much, so the only game worth playing was tetris; which meant it was effectively a one game system.
Other games sold more because when u have a catridge system u feel u ought to own other games, but on playing them 99% were lacklustre i.e. not worth playing. To my mind only Dr Mario was worth playing and that was a tetris varient. I was much more interested in 16bit games as were all my friends.
The catridge aspect effectively wasn't used, and was ineffective when used.
It was also a massive con; my friend with a GB got hold a pirate cartridge that had 30 GB games on; which just illustrated that GB wasn't revolutionary wrt tech, the catridge thing was a sales gimmick that muppet kids fell for. When we played them we realized they were all crap because the GB was inherently insipid at running games.
The only thing mentioned about the GB at school was tetris score, who could get 200 lines, that was it, and this wasn't mentioned much.
Aside tetris and pokemon, GB was a fashion item rather than a fun item, similar to how adults at the time would get their mobile phones out and place them on tables 'look at me! I've got a mobile phone!'. I noticed a few non-gamers got gameboys just to look fashionable.
Cmon yes they do, the Game Boy is the most iconic console in history, easily. Even more than the famicom or any modern console, everyone who has played games and even *everyone who hasn’t* knows what a Game Boy is. Kids nowadays absolutely know how revolutionary this was, this is the only console of the time I can say that about.
nah most of us do actually and are kinda jealous we couldn’t grow up in that time of revolutionary gaming systems. Todays games and systems are sick n all but i would’ve loved to have been there in 89 picking this thing up for the first time with everyone else in the world😭
Funny thing was, while Henk said, "It's not perfect," his Tetris demonstration was flawless. Minora and Lincoln immediately asked him to secure the rights!
I imagine that when he actually did it Tetris wasn't scaled correctly to the screen. But for the film it was probably hard to mess up the scale on the prop.
I still remember the Christmas when I got my GameBoy. I was only four years old. My first two games on it was Kirby's Dream Land and Alien Vs Predator, but I got to play Tetris that day too. That afternoon, my mother took me to our local pub and I met a girl there who was playing a Gameboy as well. She had Tetris. We swapped GameBoys and played each others games until it was time for me to go home. I didn't get Tetris for it until years later, though. I had no idea whatsoever how important that GameBoy would be to me over the coming years when I got it.
And here I was, waiting for the greatest love story of all time with the "I met a girl there who was playing a gameboy" and then you just disappoint.
@@ppcasm9837 Nah, I was already in love with a girl I knew from my class since long before I got my GB. The girl I met that Christmas day was years older than me. And I think she was visiting from America.
this part it is a masterpiece
Oh this was super cool! Such a revolutionary point in gaming history. The development and release of the Game Boy! Along with the most sold popular puzzle game Tetris! It proved a long time ago to this day, everybody loves puzzle games!
I watched Tetris the other day for the first time. This was definitely in my Top 3 computer game movies and a fantastic film in its own right. The story of Tetris is amazing.
But this scene in particular captured the amazement and joy I felt in my childhood when I had a Game Boy for Christmas. The experience of playing both Super Mario Land AND Tetris on that brilliantly-designed handheld…the hours of addictive gameplay, and my dad playing Tetris on the Game Boy, he also had so much fun on The Game Boy as well.
The Game Boy and Tetris were a match made in Heaven. It was just revolutionary.
Need to see this movie now I guess. Was 10 when this came out and had one. Tetris definitely was the game that made the system. Still can hear that music playing from it!
The birth of the gaming industry.
God, I was so addicted to that game when I was younger. Would spend hours playing Tetris, then just constantly see little block pieces in our kitchens linoleum floor tiles. 😂
Just saw this movie and loved it, even knowing a lot of it was very dramatized.
The look on Henk's face when seeing the Gameboy was just sheer awe, almost knowing he was looking at history on that stand.
the score is so gooddd
Cutie angelic choir sounds.
Pokemon, mario, yugioh, digimon, shrek, megaman, wario, that game with 99 games…childhood xD. And buying batteries from the store and charging them in the sun
The Atari Lynx, the Sega Game Gear, the Sega Nomad, the Turbo Express, the Neo Geo Pocket. That underpowered green handheld beat the ABSOLUTE SHIT out of the competition.
Two epic games never die 🎲
I just watched this movie yesterday and absolutely loved it. what an amazing movie. very well done.
"Henk god damn Rogers" is certainly a line of all time
My mom has never been a gamer. Literally the only game she ever played was Tetris on the gameboy and she was addicted.
Just imagine this world if Tetris was never even thought about, and every gameboy was packaged with Super Mario Land. That’s a world I never would want to live in.
This dude escaped with his life and Tetris. He could have been killed or imprisoned in the Soviet Union.
I cant stop watching this clip. It's just that good
I remember getting my OG Gameboy. We got three games with it and Tetris was one of them. I swear that game rewrote something in my brain because I quickly ignored the other two games. It wasn’t until Pokemon came out that I cared about any other Gameboy game
I have a back lit game boy and I recently got my Japanese copy of Tetris the other day, I'm hooked on Tetris.
The hours of game play I put into my old Gameboy throughout my childhood and into my adulthood. I never stopped playing it, the games, the memories, this scene gives me a smile and a tear of nostalgia to my eye.
I am a video game collector. I have an extensive game collection of NES, SNES, DS, gameboy, gameboy advance, ps1, ps2, Xbox, 360, ps3, Xbox one, etc.
I probably play gameboy Tetris more than any other game in my collection
Just like Roller Coaster Tycoon, Sim City, and Minecraft eh!
I am glad that Tetris became a biopic movie about licensing agreements between the USA and the Soviet Union. There are some inaccuracies, but it felt real to us. *10/10 Would play Tetris again*
There’s something so satisfying about this scene. It reminds me of the Woody cleaning scene from Toy Story 2
Now lets see Paul allens gameboy
I remember I got the Gameboy the following summer after it had launched. I was excited to have it, but was disappointed it didnt come packed with Super Mario Land. So I fired it up, and when I finally put the Gameboy down, I thought, well Tetris is actually ok... then I realized 2 hours had passed when I thought I had been playing for only 15 minutes.
This really is a superbly constructed scene.
I like the fact that they definitely used a Retromodding shell.
What do you mean? There was original Shell but Gameboy logo Label was removed
@@Franxy108 Wdym? Nintendo is too stern about logos and trademark, they would never do that, i think you just saw a reshell.
@@CallMeJoy_wastaken that’s the video editing magic!
@@Franxy108 oh sorry, I misread the comment. In the near end of the movie before the credits, they show that bank guy playing a Gameboy with a label,
I remember when the Gameboy first came out and I got one, I couldn’t care less that it wasn’t in color.
The fact that it was a portable gaming console was already enough to blow my mind.
Do game developers back then looked like a freakin scientist?
That looks like a computer lab, so I'm guessing they probably worked in developing the hardware, and like any other lab, you need to keep your work station and yourself clean.
That was more like a hardware lab, not a software development quarter. Besides, Nintendo is a Japanese company and yes they (especially in the 80s) take pride in wearing appropriate uniforms at work.
This was hardware lab, the team they are apart of is called R&D1(Nintendo Research & Development No. 1 Department). Considering professionally electronics are made and tested in clean type rooms this isn't strange at all.
I remember my first game boy, sadly it no longer works. :(
I’m now 25
If it's oxidation from sitting around or corrosion from water damage you may be able to fix it by opening it up and giving it a good cleaning. Isopropyl alcohol and a tooth brush and some cotton swabs will take care of most stuff. If you have corrosion, neutralize with white vinegar, then clean with alcohol. For thick oxidation, an abrasive like a fiberglass pen works wonders. If it's having trouble powering on, you may need to clean inside the power switch. There are a few ways to go about that. The best way is to desolder the metal shield over it and directly clean the contacts with a fiberglass pen, but if you can't do that, trying to spray some contact cleaner in there and then working it back and forth might be enough to get it going again. Game Boys were built rock-solid so most of their issues are just related to being dirty. I have managed to fix a lot of broken ones from eBay. If you have any buttons that don't work as well as they used to, I would also recommend going over the contacts on the board with a fiberglass pen as that's usually from oxidation as well. They're pretty simple to work on compared to home consoles or anything DS or newer.
I would apply the same tools and techniques to any cartridges you can't get to play or that only works every few times (don't blow in them). Open them up, clean with alcohol and/or fiberglass pen on the pins. Works every time. If you don't have the Y bit screwdriver for the Game Boy or the Game Bit for the cartridges, both are in the iFixit Mako kit in various sizes and that's what I'd recommend most people get. You can also mod better screens into these things if you want. Helps a lot with being able to see.
We the lucky few that lived through this time.
Never ever would I swap that for anything today.
It changed the world the way star wars changed the world.
We never know how valuable something is until later.
We had 2 of these , my dad got one for himself too, oh the nostalgia 😢
What is the song when he's first shown the Gameboy?!?! I'm dying and Shazam can't help.
just search youtube for "It's called the Gameboy - Tetris movie ost" and you'll find it.
th-cam.com/video/ZRkPORbysmY/w-d-xo.html This is it from the OST
The music sells it.
The power in this scene was amazing. We all knew what it was. We all knew what it would become. It was still amazing to see it unveiled.
Damn when I wacht this scene I was so excited as that guy cool music also
the pinnacle of 1980s technology in the palm of our hands.
Omg i nearly cry watching this. I miss my old gameboy
What did you do with it? I saved mine.
I remember when watching this scene, despite seeing it in the trailer I was like experiencing a holy vision from the Heavens
A revolutionary console, the game boy. I wasn't born when they came to the world, but knowing what I know now.. the technology is nothing short of amazing. For its time, that's an incredible feat of engineering.
I always loved how Ben Miles in literally in EVERYTHING and most people don't even know his name of the top their head.
i still feel blessed I got a gameboy as a kid and i love tetris still
I grew up with the Wii and DS, but I have great respect for the game boy, I played with one at boarding school that was donated by one of the teachers, I played Tetris on it for hours
This device broke my mind when I got it. Best game experience ever.
I wish I have a gameboy with tetris
The game boy was the first of it kind in home entertainment no one had ever thought a video game something that by this time had only been to game consoles an arcade an pc a hand held game was something out of this world
The device that changed everything, the entirety of this scene is what gamers all around the world can relate to, being told about this new device and being given a chqnce to try it, the emotions on tarons face looking at the device are what every gamer feels when they see a console or handheld for the first time, for them its the moment that changed everything
This movie is amazing, and this scene totally made me choke up. I grew up on that shit, I mean.. It changed everything. Forget about the iPod.
Imagine showing a switch to these dudes.
The guy who plays Howard Lincoln absolutely nailed it.
"Now your playing with power. Portable Power!"
Some ppl don't undetstand that with such simple Monochrome graphics, it didnt need more than 8Kb of RAM. The graphics data waa tiny, so other than the bits of game code the data that needed to be loaded to RAM was miniscule.
Go play Zelda Link's Awakening & you'll understand what can truly be done with just 8Kb of RAM. Also remember that this is KiloBITS, not KiloBytes, so it's literally equivalent to just 1 Kilobyte of RAM, or the size of a small text file.
Text actually took up more space than the graphics data did back then! It's why games with heavy dialogue like RPG's took up so much data & required bigger ROM chips on the carts, thus often making them more expensive than other games. It's why SNES RPG's were so expensive back in the day when stored on game carts vs CD.
CD's could store around 700MB of data! That was a HUGE increase over the standard ROM chips. It's why so many game companies chose the PS1 to release their RPG's on back in that era.
Nintendo shoehorned themselves out of the RPG market by choosing to use Cart media for the N64, and why they tried to release the 64DD. Losing Squaresoft as a game company was a huge blow. They realized their mistake pretty quicky.
To me the N64 was their first real failure as a game company... Yes I know it was popular, but mainly becauee most kids got one for Xmas & simply didn't know any better.
Nintendo saw the failure of FMV based games & were scared off from CD based media. But as we know now, that was simply a misunderstanding. It wasn't the CD Media that was the problem, it was the FMV based games. As we clearly know, FMV based games are just not fun to play. They don't work well to base the gameplay itself on the video playback.
Road Avenger was one of the very few FMV games that was actually entertaining.
i got a gameboy for my 12th birthday and as a 46 year old man.. to this day... still the greatest gift I ever received.
The face when he look at it the first time, is the same face I made when I got mine back then
I had received 3 gameboys in my life from various people, One as a gift from my dad, one as a hand me down from my uncle, and one as a give away from a friend. All theee had Tetris. And im talking about the original gameboy from the 80s or 90s im not sure when it came out.
I can see super Mario land prototype arts on the walls.
just a great easter egg. IN the minute 2:18 when he open his briefcase, we can see a sega genesis and something like super Mario or nintendo catalog in yellow color. Even more epic
It will never take off...
Dayum! He rewrote the C code to fit it in a Z80 Assembly Device in a few minutes.
and thus, the history began...
I finally got one and it works
Playing Tetris has been proven to Reduce PTSD symptoms.
Only thing that bothers me in this scene is the little bit of Mario Land music followed by the death music.
What song is playing behind all this anyone?
It's from the movie's soundtrack, you can find it on youtube if you look
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@@witzskiI have a request for you ☺ 💕
That sucks no one ever told you. It's called darude sandstorm.
No it's not 😂😂😂@@Gameboy-Unboxings
8-bit graphics, 4.19 MHz and 8kb of RAM was considered highly advanced and impressive for its time.
To put it into perspective, my custom PC has a Ryzen 5 5600X with max speed of 4.5 GHz and 32 GB of RAM with a Radeon RX 6600 (28 ray accelerators, 8 GB VRAM, GDDR6, 128-bit interface)
Other people have better specs than I
I watched this movie at home. When the Game Boy was presented, I immediately pressed pause. I went to my store room and dug out this old box that hasn't been open in over 15 years. My Game Boy was in there along with about 50 cartridges. I put in fresh batteries but it wouldn't turn on 🤣
Bummer
Welp now I need to see this movie.
Team Game Gear!!! And it’s 6 batteries lmao
So it's coded in C, would the Arduino IDE or Codeblocks in a modern PC allow me to program anything on the original Gameboy?
So this guy ported his Tetris code on the GameBoy and made new graphics assets for it on the spot?
No obviously it's an exaggeration of how it actually happened, that's how all movies are .
That's why he asked if it was program in C , I was a c programmer before but no idea how he'd done it.
He also asked about the pixels he already had the game in his diskette he made adjustments in this video it may be on the spot but in reality it took him hours
@@forestlink6673 not even that, most games(if not all, but i dont know for certain) of the game boy were programmed in assembly, and both tetris and super mario land are no exception, so this scene was hella imposible
Whats the soundtrack here? I cant find it in the soundtrack album.
(Somehow gets a game over while still playing)
I was moving out of my house a few weeks back and found my old gameboy colour behind some shelves, the thing still works and would you knew it the cartridge was tetris.
wait so all he did was goof around with the pixels. does that mean GB tetris has the same killscreen?
Is this movie on dvd ?
1:51
“*wheeze”
1:57
“*WHEEZE”
Bro coded up Tetris in 2 minutes
Name of the song?
I think it was part of the original soundtrack.
Nintendo changed the world before Apple.
And Right Before the Berlin wall fell.
Really wish i can travel back time to this moment to show them ours latest games in 2024 🤔