The Second Console Generation - StaticSquidd
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ธ.ค. 2022
- After Elias lost his memory, it's only appropriate for him to check out the second generation of consoles.
Most gameplay from World of Longplays, unless otherwise stated. longplays.org
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Music Used:
Apple Kid's Theme - EarthBound
File Select - Donkey Kong (GB)
Port Town - F-Zero
Underwater - Super Mario Bros. 3
Minigame - Tomodachi Life
Bowser - Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Fighting - Final Fantasy 7
Password - Mega Man 6
Staff Roll - The Monopoly Game 2
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Where the hell am i
There was one big console you forgot... the Bally Astrocade. That was considered the Neo Geo of the second generation. Probably inflation-adjusted the most expensive system if all time. I was just released a little after the 2600. Selling for $300 when the Atari sold for $200.
Bal ly had the arcade quality at home.
I would actually split the second generation into two sub generations with Activision releasing their first game as the splitting point. An Atari didn't allow anything to be made for the 2600, Atari actually sued Activision for making unauthorized games. The federal government said the system clones and third party games were legal because they were using off the shelf parts and code knowledge that's already in the market.
That's when you had the Quaker Oats games and Kool-Aid man and Chase the Chuck Wagon type games.
And I found quite a few in the 90s in thrift shops for 5 bucks, often with four joysticks and quite a few games until around the time Macklemore released his Thriftt Shop song.
And even though the controllers offered these ungodly keypads, the baby that got thrown out with the bath water was ambidexterity in controls. In 6 of the nine consoles that were out, you can play either left or right handed from OEM equipment. And on the 2600 there were third party solutions for lefties.
By the way other than the astrocade what's the 9th console. I forgot about it until I stumbled upon a cartridge of it in 2002 it was the Arcadia 2001 from Emerson. Yeah I forgot about that one too until I saw it at a cartridge for it in a thrift store in 2002.
How in the actual fack do you have only 587 views in a super great video like this
7:08 the vextrex to me is easily the coolest console of the 2nd gen the graphics are superb for the 2nd gen.
There are FAR more homebrews for the Vectrex than official titles released during its lifetime in the market.
Vector Patrol e.g. is simply a jaw dropping masterpiece and a very faithful arcade conversion of Moon Patrol.
Not do you not have more subs?! Love your videos and sense of humor! Keep up the awesome work!
Good Video as always.
If you keep making them I will keep watching them.❤
The Atari 5200 did have a 2600 adapter, but all these system changers and clones had compatibility issues.
Love your style! Keep up the good work!
Great video not sure why youtube hadn't recommend to this to me before.
Great Video, i hope you will continue this series 👍
This is the Cambrian explosion of video games
The D-pad came first on the Cosmic Hunter cartridge on the MB Microvision.
Granted, it is a membrane version but still it is a 4-way controller.
Can't blame people for jumping ship onto micro computers like the c64 as the c64 was a big step up in graphics and sound compared to 2nd gen consoles
That is hardly surprising considering that the first 2nd Gen. console preceded the ZX Spectrum and later the C64 by six years.
That is an eternity in terms of computer evolution.
The ColecoVision was actually much closer to the Sega SG-1000 then the Famicom. Both machines were Z-80 based and due to this could run each others code. There was even a knockoff Chinese console sold in North America that played ColecoVision along with SG-1000 game carts!
I talk about that one in the third gen!
@@staticsquidd And so you did! Here I thought I was laying down some hot historicality. 😆 Excellent series so far!
Dude I had the Intellivision 2, with the add on to play Atari. I was the man! Basically everyone could bring their games to my house.
Great video!
The best generation ever
I love your videos
The MSX standard of computers was specifically made to avoid the problem of everyone trying to make their own proprietary machine and suffocating each other. Companies could get into the computer market with minimal R&D and customers could buy any of them secure in the knowledge that software will be plentiful.
I like that with the memory loss gag, the video is 14 minutes long, almost 15.
Another 2nd Gen Console you missed is the Bally Professional Arcade (or Astrocade) from 1978.
Though it was very faulty and had a tendency to overheat if left on for too long, it had amazing graphics for its time (and considering what came out during that era, that's saying a lot). Not to mention, a trans woman helped design that console (Dave Nutting Associates Alumni Jamie Fenton who also created the arcade games Gorf and Robbie Roto).
The Astrocade didn't sell too well, but it earned a large following in the homebrew game designer community. Not to mention it made a cameo in the 1983 Comedy Film National Lampoon's Vacation.
To learn more about the Bally Astrocade, Atari Archive made a video looking at its history
There was also the Emerson Arcadia 2001, RCA Studio II, and the VTech CreatiVision. And that doesn't even cover the huge number of non-US consoles.
@@EvilAng3la And the APF MP1000
Hahahaha even king pele is on this video rip rey pele
thank god there wherent any ad breaks in this video or else you wouldve never finished!
The wild wild west of gaming
I actually chose the Odyssey2 over the 2600 back in the day. Never regretted it. Memory limitations meant all the games (except Turtles! - the best game on the system) were single-life games, that restricted replayability, but the games didn't suck. It is noteworthy that the vast mojority of early titles were all written by one programmer (actually an Intel salesman).
The inclusion of graphic primitives (circles, squares, spaceships and a distinctive little stick-man). meant that the 2K cartridges could deliver great games in the limited space (Of course the 2600 eventually had 4L & 8k cartrisges) The system also sported excellent controllers, which I prefer to the CX10/CX40 that Atari offered. Unfoirtunately, in North America, they were hardwired into the system, so I couldn't take them with me as I progressed to home computers in 1982.
I've always wanted a Vectrex, it's such a cool console
The only Intellivision game that made good use of the numpad was Tron's Deadly Discs. It let you fire and run in different directions.
Night Stalker is my fav game on that system, it does the same.
The "Crash generation" was before my time and I have neither memory or nostalgia for any of the games of this era... save for, of all things, how the controllers look. I have encountered examples of the controllers in the homes of cousins and so on and even if I didn't play the things I was allowed to play with them, and those numpad-ridden unwieldy things do something for me still. I'm sure they were ergonomic messes back in the day, but the look of them (and how they could be repurposed in cheap sci-fi b-movies of the era) has done SOMETHING to endear them to me, so there's at least that they got going for them.
I did play Game & Watch games though, but they were old and starting to fade even back then- more something to play when the TV wasn't free for using the NES / SNES.
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I've got the Atari 2600, the Intellivision, the Vectrex and the Philips Videopac G7000/Odyssee 2 from this Generation.
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the 2nd console generation? What's next, the 3rd? The 4th? The 5th? The minor fall and the major lift?
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solid job as always! could use more 5200...
The 5200 was a 16kb, 8 bit Atari computer, which was a great piece of powerful hardware; however, the 5200 controller was not good. The Intellivision should have been released in 1979, not 1980. Nevertheless, a well made video.
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I keep seeing this simplified view of video game crash from younger people, at that time it wasn't viewed in the same way as y'all present it. It was a home console crash, not a wider video game crash. For some perspective home computers and consoles were looked at as much more closely related than they are today, most companies even made both with their consoles just being stripped down versions of their computers. In fact this was part of the failure of the 5200, it was literally just a stripped down version of their 8bit computer line but at near the same price point. It later had a more successful run as the Atari XEGS which was a cheaper version of the computer version marketed as a game console after the newer more expensive computer was released. And that leads us to the reality of the crash, the price war that was raging in the home computer space had brought those down to the price of consoles. It wasn't that people stopped buying video games, they were just buying the computers instead consoles. Remember the PCs we are talking about weren't our modern machines, they took game cartridges and were much closer to consoles than computers are today often even using the same controllers and peripherals. In 1983 you could buy an Atari 5200 to plug into the tv to just play games, or at near the same price you could buy an Atari 600xl that also plugged into the tv and took cartridges that played the exact same games, but also could be used for word processing, spreadsheets, writing computer programs, access to bulletin boards systems and more. In the mid to late 80's when computers became more complex and the technological gulf(and price point) between them and consoles widened again, people returned to buying consoles. A relatively more modern equivalent would be cellphones, most people moved from basic dumb phones pretty quickly once smartphones came down to a similar price point, it wasn't that there was a cellphone crash because people stopped buying flip-phones it was just people moving on to a more featured version of the same product. Thanks for coming to my lecture.
I forgot exactly what I said but I believe in here I do mention that people preferred computers to consoles and that was a factor in the crash
@@staticsquidd You did, I was just highlighting just how similar computers at the time were to consoles, since a lot of people that are only familiar with modern Mac or PC's might not realize just how 'console like' early 80's computers were.
You forgot the Sega SG1000! It was a second generation console (almost a clone of the Colecovision)
I talked about it in the third gen video
SG 1000 came out on the same day as the Famicom (Japanese NES) didn't it? That's 3rd Gen
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I loved the second gen erection but the first gen erection will always be MY #Favorite! #Bangladeshi I alway get home from the coal mine an play Aventure Atari
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Well that got messy 😳
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Good video