+Duke Jaywalker was totally gonna post this until I saw yours. Almost all of these old school game "trivia" channels, have some glaring issues with their facts. This is NOT that hard people, do your effing homework.
+Duke Jaywalker The reason he didn't mention it is because almost every youtube top 10 is google searched and what I mean by this is: Anyone can make a top 10. step1: think of a concept step2: google facts about that concept step3: take your google search and make a top 10 step4: ???? step5: profit.
Don't be hatin' on knitters or knitting, Gameranx. You have no idea how much work and love goes into each project. The knitting machine would have been awesome.
Tu Maldita Madre That's because u didn't watch the video u big hat wearing fool. Your seat belt must be on too tight suffocating the air that's suppose to go to your brain allowing u to think logicly lmao
Craig B Checked the exact dates: Simon's Quest was first released Aug. 28 1987, Metroid Aug. 6 1986, and Bubble Bobble Aug. 1986 (date uncertain). Thus, it's very likely Metroid was first!
Craig B As I can't (or rather don't feel like digging deeper to) find a specific date for the release other than "August," it's inconclusive. Additionally, as Metroid was Aug. 6, I find it likely Metroid was earlier.
Yoshi was rideable on an NES Mario game called Mario's Missing. Although, it wasn't much of a Mario game to begin with. So, the hardware of the NES could've made a rideable Yoshi.
+BarackObamaLikesPoop Also, there's a hack for SMB3 called Super Mario Bros. 3 Mix, and it contains a fully functioning rideable Yoshi, with the same features from SMW.
+BarackObamaLikesPoop Yeah they didn't give much detail in the video. I've heard that the actual reason was the NES controller only had two buttons, and the mario designers (maybe Miyamoto himself) wanted a dedicated button for dismounting Yoshi. I suppose they could've used pressing A and B together or something, but waiting for a controller with more buttons more or less makes sense.
+taylor sharp it would be up and a. at least it makes more sense that way to me. it would be hard to run and jump at the same time while riding yoshi if it was a and b. to many mistakes would be made
The NES will always be legend, survived a wave where gaming almost wanished, revolutionised the whole style of gaming with the 2D and the debut of the best game character of all time, Mario!. Bro, SMB3 has a very special place in my heart til this day. I remember dressing up as Mario as a kid with a beret 😅😂🤣. Ah, the nostalgia I wanna go back to those simple times! ;') 😌🤗❤️
Most of these "Facts You Probably Don't Know" videos about video games are usually facts that gaming nerds like me already knew. This time you actually found a lot that I didn't know. Good job.
I wouldn't really label that as an "ending," though. The CVII endings offered different narrative conclusions. Despite being variations of the same sequence, the outcomes are quite different, including menacing implications, including Dracula coming back to life.
+Masik Egede their games don't change much. I just don't understand why they can make the same games every year and no one cares but games like cod can't (cod is shit imo)
I knew about Holy Diver, but only because I saw the James & Mike on it a few days before I saw this video. I've also known about the Nintendo TV thing for quite a while. I remember hearing about the lockout chip controversy as a kid in the late 80s, so I knew about that one way longer than any of the others. I didn't know any of the other stuff, though. Good video!
Wow! I've been around the "Nintendo Block" since the release of the console and been a gamer ever since. Still, I wasn't aware of over half of these. Thanks guys. Great video.
Actually, I played the SNES version of Where's Waldo as a kid, #2 I've known about for a while, and #1 I had forgotten about completely until I went to a video game museum in Frisco, Texas.
Thankfully someone got the DW4 (was technically dragon warrior due to copyright issues of course) size correct, it was only 4 megabits or 1/2 megabyte in size. The true reason reason it became a 1 megabyte cartridge was because early emulators were unable to load the game until someone figured out doubling the size fixed the problem.
Similar thing with Galaxian. Marat Fayzullin, inventor of iNES and thus the iNES mapper system, set ROM bank loads to 16 KB, presumably because he wasn't aware of Galaxian's smaller 8 KB size. As a result, there are no "true" Galxian ROM in general circulation; all are overdumped to compensate for iNES' limitations.
Not to mention if he really wanted to talk about "large NES games' Action 52 would be the top, since it is over 2MB of data, because of that crappy mapper.
"What is the biggest NES game ever made? The largest single NES game that I know of is Dragonquest 4 / Dragon Warrior 4. It has 1 megabyte of program ROM. Also, the Japanese game Metal Slader Glory has 512K of PRG and 512K of CHR ROM, making it also a full megabyte. Several pirate/unlicenced Famicom games are also pretty large." Directly from NESDEV website. This is probably where the guy got much of his information. As far as the DQ4 being doubled in size, it seems there is a wiki that mentions this but that was only updated about 10 days before this video went up on youtube.
bootgod's database has been around for a while, and correctly lists DQ4/DW4 as a 512kb PRG-ROM using chr-ram for video data. It would have been a really simple thing to check up on. I think the game was dumped as a 1MB file at one point causing this misinformation.
Each sprite was also a mere 8x8 pixels and could only contain two colors. However, there was a "big" sprite mode where each sprite was 8x16 pixels. The trade off for giving up screen resolution was that each 8x16 pixel sprite could now contain four colors. Barring any sound expansion chips, the NES was capable of producing sound that had five voices - 2 square waves (usually for leads), 1 triangle wave (usually for bass), noise (drums) and PCM (used for sound samples). Each NES game was also programmed using 6502 Assembly because the NES used a modified 6502 Processor. Its graphics were handled by a PPU (Picture Processing Unit).
Another interesting fact about the NES/Famicom family of consoles. The Famicom had an expansion called the Famicom Disk System, which ran on its own proprietary version of a floppy disk(that alone reminds me of the Gamecube's own mini-disks). One of the notable features of the FDS is that it had an additional chip for slightly more complex music.
+The Video Game Mixer Does it matter one is a button smaher or not. Bootsy beated Silver Surfer just from doing that... smashing buttons really fast. A game in which AVGN thought it was impossible to beat, yet here is Bootsy whose button smashing won the game. >_> people should soooo stop the obnoxious, stick up their ass attitude towards button smashing... it fucking works, get over it!!!
Actually I dont mash buttons on Where's Waldo. I just know what he looks like and the game is predictable and has recognizable patterns once you figure it out. I beat it as a kid.
I knew about half of these and quite a few things that they didn't mention (for example, the Life Fitness Life Cycle--an actual exercise bike that worked with the NES or the Miracle piano keyboard OR the reason why the light gun isn't grey, anymore or that there was going to be a Gameboy adapter for the NES from Biederman Design Labs) but I have to admit, this was a good video with some really good trivia. Good job, guys!
Number 9 is semi-bullshit. Nintendo did say it was impossible to include Yoshi in an NES Mario due to hardware limitations, but it turned out to be untrue. (Yoshi is rideable in the NES port of either "Mario's Missing" or "Mario's Time Machine".)
Ben Phillips miyamoto wanted mario to have an animal buddy to ride, but noticed the nes was too weak. when the snes came to be he realised his original idea by creating yoshi, that's how it went
I'm pretty sure it was due to memory & that Luigi & Yoshi were just one character in terms of programming, but I've not seen much gameplay.... So I could be wrong.
groenekever No. It sould be a gift to children or a very low price. Nintendo wouldn't vanished by this move. And how many pieces you think there where be?
"Where'd you think they got their ideas from?" Not necessarily, if Nintendo hadn't have came up with the idea, someone else would have. It doesn't prove that they got the idea from Nintendo. Awesome video though, the TV/console combo thing was something I certainly never knew about =X
"Survived a while." Kids and their limited perspective. The Nintendo is my favorite gaming specific console and I still enjoy my top-loader to this day. Definitely looking forward to when they [purportedly] start production of the NES Classic back up later this year.
I had a NES with my brothers but we woke up our dad before a 12 hour night shift multiple times that day. He came into the room yanked the NES out of the wall and made fly out a 3 story building LOL. Soooo as a kid most of my Nintendo time was with the SNES and most of my memories as a kid playing Zelda, Mario Kart, Yoshis Island, Star Fox, Oger Battle, Mario Paint and many more. My fav will always be my SNES and I still have it to this day in working order. Every now and then I will play it for a hour or two.
Lets get one thing straight , the NES SYSTEM was not "a good" console..... it was/ IS a wonderful lil console that saved the gaming industries and should be held in the highest regards and be put in museums . Yes I am being serious . Sadly my original NES broke when my 3 yr old cousin spilled his drink over it and it fried . 20 yrs of fun gone in seconds . A moment of silence , please .
The NES did not save the gaming industry in Europe or Japan. Americans need to stop spreading this myth. Europe had a billion dollar gaming industry which was nothing to do with Nintendo.
The reason you can't shoot the dog in Duck Hunt is because they are programmatically part of the background as far as the NES hardware is concerned. Only the ducks themselves are treated as sprites. That Nintendo was already able to do layered backgrounds even back then was a mindjob of itself, but that's beside the point. The point is that unfortunately, the dog was never programmed with any collision in mind. That is, until Vs. Duck Hunt that was primarily only in arcades. In that game, you could enter a bonus round where you could shoot other flying debris for points, but you'd also see the dog running around to chase it. And here, he does have collision, and it will count as a hit. Pretty sure anyone that had the opportunity to play the game on the period-correct arcade cabinets played at least to the point where they could finally nail him. PETA jokes aside, that Duck Hunt dog is infamous for making anyone and everyone hate him earlier and easier than the kind of terrible people that your garden variety celebrity media outlet won't shut up about.
"Most Nintendo games were pretty darn good"... someone hasn't checked that library. XD Sure they have some brilliant amazing games, but they also had a giant pile of turds to bolster than library.
Um. How? I didn't say the Nintendo library was any different to any others. I just disagreed with the "MOST" part of the original statement. I think MOST Nes games were awful, but there were a few golden gems that have outshone their reputation. For every Metroid, Zelda and Mario game, there were 3 terrible sports games, 2 terrible movie-based joypad-fodder, and 1 collection of 52 disasters. :P So nothing nullified... just me being pedantic at worst.
most nintendo games are trash. a small % (maybe 50 at most out of nearly 800) are good quality and even then 10 of those are masterpieces. that's a terrible % of success.
+Eugene Johnson They will be for everyone in the future, when the technology is no longer produced and the original hardware is dead (It WILL die, all things die). So the only way to play will be emulators as not everything will get a compilation release. I thought the proper fans of gaming would care about preservation...guess not.
FYI: Duck Hunt Arcade version has a bonus round where you can actually shoot the dog. His face turns burnt black then later hobbles onto the forground with a crutch and cast all pissed off.
Love the 12 year olds in the comments... "N64 was my fav" "I don't remember the NES, but I consider myself a gaming expert" The internet and online gaming needs to remove these annoying shits and put them back in the nursery. They ruin GTA V.
I consider myself a gaming buff and im 18 so i werent present when the NES was released, and i never had one either however my first games console was a SEGA megadrive, (Genesis in the US) I've had the SNES, and pretty much every console onwards.. I don't think you need to have had the NES to be a gaming "Buff" you just have to appreciate it.
+Julianus Maximianus _I don't remember the NES, but I consider myself a gaming expert_ Are you referring to the guy who said "I didn't know any of these, and I consider myself a game buff" ? The title of the video says, 10 FACTS you probably didn't know. When he says I don't any of these, it implies he wasn't aware of the FACTS presented in the video. Nowhere does he imply he doesn't remember the NES. I remember my NES, I still even have my NES but I didn't know most of these facts in the video. I'm pretty sure everyone who grew up with the NES do not remember or even knew about all these facts in this video.
Metroid and Kid Icarus were both released prior to Castlevania 2. The ending of Metroid also relied on the speed in which you completed the game while the ending of Kid Icarus was determined by the strength of Pit's arrows. (Power ups for the arrow were earned by entering certain rooms after reaching a predetermined score.)
Intro correction- Pong was the first console "hit" but you could argue that the Atari VCS "2600" was the first hit. 10- Metroid that came before it had different endings. 9. There is a statement given from Nintendo that said that they weren't able to put Yoshi in the Mario NES games due to limitations, but it was an excuse. Mario is Missing fro the NES had Luigi riding Yoshi throughout the game in platforming stages. An unlicensed pirate port of Super Mario World does a decent job of having Yoshi in the game for the NES. 8. Yes I did know about that game, and there were many exclusive games for the Japanese Famicom that didn't make it to the U.S. and vice versa. 7. Dragon Quest IV is not the largest, larger games include Metal Slader Glory and Kirby's Adventure. 6. I did know about the hands free controller, but most people didn't, so that's a good one for the list. 5. There's actually 2 Waldo games on the NES, and the fact that there is a Waldo game on the NES is common knowledge. 4. This was widely publicized on the internet when it happened. 3. "We don't have any tvs today that have consoles built in!" Yes there are, Sony makes tvs that have built in Playstation 3 systems. 2. Good note, it was more advanced than previous light guns. 1. Cool fact! (Do some research before releasing one of these "FACTS" videos that half a million people will watch and take as "fact.")
The mobile market sucks. It's not even real gaming. Tapping a screen while the game basically does everything for you isn't fun. Nintendo invented throwing the controller after spending your 3 lives. Games should be fun but also should feel rewarding when you play and beat the game after getting sweaty palms fighting that boss. Mobile games usually don't require skill but man do they want your money. Spend $2 here, $5 there to "boost" your minions.
***** they are loads of great games on a mobile such as Angry Bird, Death Worm Sheep Launcher and console ports like GTA, COD Zombies, old PC classics like Doom and Railroad Tycoon and carnivores.
tv/vcr combos have existed in the 1980s and through the 1990s. the comparison of nes/tv combo to smart tv makes it seem ahead of its time, but it wasn't ahead of its time, that was its time. it was right on time. but it is kinda cool, i never knew that existed.
oh my... your own images prove you incorrect instantly, how many names did he get wrong? how many contradictions were made? how was the gamecube dvd console 'not the first time' a console and a tv were combined...seriously, so many facts were mangled, left out, and just aggregated easily without any research. also the google image search images of everything weren't well timed, often stepping on the naration too early. valid critiques only make us better, so i hope you can accept these.
"how was the gamecube dvd console 'not the first time' a console and a tv were combined" Because the My Computer TV-C1 was released in Japan in 1983, and the Super Famicom version was released in 1990. The Gamecube DVD Console was released in 2001. Simple chronological order will tell you why the Gamecube version wasn't first.
Here's one: You can actually play original nintendo games in VR using 3dnes. It's actually really cool. You can also play a couple of gamecube games in VR with dolphin VR... This is actually really promising stuff because it turns out that a lot of Nintendo stuff translates into VR really well.. Something to do with those cell shaded looking, simple graphics makes it easier.
There's another tidbit about the NES that most people do not know. If you look on the bottom of the console you will find a section that can be removed exposing an expansion port.The plans for this port were for a future expansion module that would include a dial up modem. Yes, a dial up modem for online game play. In 1985. The modem was never released and there were never any other modules planned to use the expansion port.
i knew this already, mainly i clean the motherboards of my consoles, and had to pin-mod a son of a bitch known as the 72-pin adapter aka the cartridge slot, saw the expansion port, researched, and learned this and that one of the modems would connect to a SEGA GENESIS online. it was to have games that could be cross-played together by people on nes and genesis, this was called teleplay modem, and was discontinued because console war, but more interesting, one of the founders of ATARI, Nolan Bushnell, worked on its prototype but back out, but before that made Chuck E. Cheese's. all that from a single expansion port. there was another with an adult gambling game modem but was stopped for obvious reasons and the famicom (japan) had a disk (notice the k) drive add-on that data could be stored on a floppy disk (marking it the only console to have floppy drive besides the Sega Saturn japan only) which caused the Japanese Legend of Zelda, Kid Icarus, and Metroid to change for ntsc release (america) giving zelda a battery, and the rest dread password system. hope this was not a bore to you
Dragon Warrior 2 unknown fact: One time I prevented Hargon's attack on Moonbrook Castle and took on the king as the main character. The traditional castle music played throughout Moonbrook, the princess was the one who saved your game, the guards were the merchants and innkeepers, however you still had to fight battles within the castle walls, leading to usually an instant death, unless lucky enough to flee battle. I was also able to walk the character on the walls, water and mountains. Unfortunately, the quest was short because when I turned the console off and later went to play, it was all erased and I couldn't figure out how to do it again. This happened in 1992.
That region control chip in the bonus section is the one that makes NES games to start blinking in a one color screen. You have to remove some pins from it in order to make the NES work again like new. I have my NES working again.
He forgot to mention that the DRM chip in the NES was faulty and is the reason most of us had so much trouble getting the damn system to work, and was removed in the NES-02 (the top loading model) because of that.
The NES used the same 8 bit processor MOS6502 as the Commodore64, Atari 2600 as well as the Apple II & III and I believe the Tandy TRS-80 machines. That processor was used for many years and formed the computer industry for many years.
I taught I really knew everythings about the NES but I'm impress that I still learn and remind me this warm feeling of discovring all these little secret about this mystic console :)
The second one was obvious, but there's an NES game called "Mario is Missing", which contained a section where Luigi rode on Yoshi's back. So they could've had Yoshi in the NES era.
In the late 80s/early 90s Nintendo had a coin-op bar top system that came with a handful of built in games. I remember Fester's Quest, TMNT, Contra, Super Mario Bros 2 being on it. I've tried finding one but have had no luck.
yeah, apparently that technology thing with older tvs makes Duck Hunt unplayable on new tvs because those 2 frames will not play on newer tvs, I have a giant screen tv that's old so we use it for our older consoles and I couldn't hit a thing with it on Duck Hunt
It's possible Holy Diver wasn't released anywhere outside of Japan for a simple reason, the record companies. Ronnie James Dio was signed to Warner Bros. label and Ozzy was at Epic part of the UMG conglomerate. As such, to release the game in the states, both companies would have to sign off on it. The way Ozzy's image is protected, I doubt very much he would have signed off on this being such a minor character. The other thing that sucks about this, is the image Metal had on the nation at the time. Devil worshippers and baby killers only listened to Metal and certainly shouldn't influence the children of America and since video games and the NES in particular were being marketed as children's toys that probably made it difficult to release here.
The part of the NES that actually read the contacts of your game cartridge was a standardized part. If you know the model number and have tinkered inside PCs for a while, you have all the tools you need to fix the #1 NES hardware failure problem.
Metroid had multiple endings, and that pre-dates Castlevania II by over a year. 3 different endings in fact, based on how long it took you to complete the game. Sound familiar?
Heres a fact you should have include : the little square box under the NES is used to hide an hidden expansion port for an unreleash version o the American Famicom disk system, the Extra audio channel from the famicom cartridge port was repurposed on the unused expansion port on the NES In order th show the unused expansion port, you need to cut the rectangular plastic by cutting the 4 plastic joint.
The NES only had 2 kilobytes of RAM. To put that in perspective, some of the comments written to this video take more space than that. Quite unusually, the NES supported auxiliary processors on the game cartridge itself. Which meant that some NES games could do more than the NES hardware itself. (One prominent example is Castlevania 3 for the Famicom, which music was way more advanced than what the console itself was capable of.)
Technically, the NES did have the specifications to have Yoshi as a character, the developers just couldn't figure it out, there are hacks of NES Mario games that allow Yoshi to be ridden.
5:35 thats actually freakin awesome dude.... knitting your own stuff you would be surprised what you could knit and sell online people go crazy for some retro knitted zelda-sweater
Actually, Metroid had multiple endings, and was released a year earlier than Castlevania II! Busted!!!
This, kind of surprised they missed this considering Metroid's endings are so well known.
+Duke Jaywalker I was looking for this comment. That was the first thing I thought.
+Duke Jaywalker was totally gonna post this until I saw yours. Almost all of these old school game "trivia" channels, have some glaring issues with their facts. This is NOT that hard people, do your effing homework.
+Duke Jaywalker The reason he didn't mention it is because almost every youtube top 10 is google searched and what I mean by this is: Anyone can make a top 10.
step1: think of a concept
step2: google facts about that concept
step3: take your google search and make a top 10
step4: ????
step5: profit.
+humulos i often notice that Metroid gets overlooked in favor of Castlevania. i know they basically define a genera of games together, but still...
I think everyone that owned duck hunt used to try and shoot the dog at some point
Don't be hatin' on knitters or knitting, Gameranx. You have no idea how much work and love goes into each project. The knitting machine would have been awesome.
+Mattheu Farmer maybe you're right.
Gameranx apologies to any knitters offended by this video.
I started self-knitting because of what you did, you better of apologized. I will forever be scarred.
+Mattheu Farmer Man, I really want to take up knitting one day, honestly. I believe it would be a really cool and fun skill to learn! :D
+Mattheu Farmer Yeah agreed
Obvious troll is obvious.
Half of the facts aren't even about the NES
lmao . true
Tu Maldita Madre
That's because u didn't watch the video u big hat wearing fool. Your seat belt must be on too tight suffocating the air that's suppose to go to your brain allowing u to think logicly lmao
red crimson102
people told me about people who insult people for being wrong, go insult somebody else for being wrong.
yeah and other half are not even true
"... The evil game publishers of today." *shows picture of EA*
+It's a Llama So true lol
EA is good compared to Konami
+Batnoodles poor kid you know nothing of this world ahahah Konami is shit , EA is nightmare shit and Ubisoft is way worse than those 2
MrBOx195 Assassin's Creed - Jesper Kyd = SHIT
thronecode all Assassin's Creed after Rogue are shit.....ACIII and Unity are shit
Metroid was released BEFORE Castlevania II, and Metroid also have multiple endings. Sorry bro.
mikel9292 I think Bubble Bobble was actually the first game with different endings
Craig B Checked the exact dates: Simon's Quest was first released Aug. 28 1987, Metroid Aug. 6 1986, and Bubble Bobble Aug. 1986 (date uncertain). Thus, it's very likely Metroid was first!
Thane Eternick I only remember someone saying Bubble Bobble was first from an episode of Black Mirror
Craig B As I can't (or rather don't feel like digging deeper to) find a specific date for the release other than "August," it's inconclusive. Additionally, as Metroid was Aug. 6, I find it likely Metroid was earlier.
Yoshi was rideable on an NES Mario game called Mario's Missing. Although, it wasn't much of a Mario game to begin with. So, the hardware of the NES could've made a rideable Yoshi.
+BarackObamaLikesPoop Also, there's a hack for SMB3 called Super Mario Bros. 3 Mix, and it contains a fully functioning rideable Yoshi, with the same features from SMW.
+BarackObamaLikesPoop Yeah they didn't give much detail in the video. I've heard that the actual reason was the NES controller only had two buttons, and the mario designers (maybe Miyamoto himself) wanted a dedicated button for dismounting Yoshi. I suppose they could've used pressing A and B together or something, but waiting for a controller with more buttons more or less makes sense.
+taylor sharp it would be up and a. at least it makes more sense that way to me. it would be hard to run and jump at the same time while riding yoshi if it was a and b. to many mistakes would be made
Well, that game was very small. And by that time, the devs knew how to keep hardware strain down.
what about the super Mario world bootleg port for the NES. almost all elements made it to the NES version.
*5:03* *"That Smug Bastard!"*
LMFAO! I totally just choked on my coffee, laughing so hard.
There actually was a game boy color game that worked with an embroidery sewing machine.
The NES will always be legend, survived a wave where gaming almost wanished, revolutionised the whole style of gaming with the 2D and the debut of the best game character of all time, Mario!. Bro, SMB3 has a very special place in my heart til this day. I remember dressing up as Mario as a kid with a beret 😅😂🤣. Ah, the nostalgia I wanna go back to those simple times! ;') 😌🤗❤️
Nice touch point out the nintendo seal of quality on superman 64. :)
+clay jack you got it!
tee hee.
Most of these "Facts You Probably Don't Know" videos about video games are usually facts that gaming nerds like me already knew.
This time you actually found a lot that I didn't know. Good job.
Holy Diver didn't have a ridable tiger, I'm disappointed.
+Space Monkey total bullshit 2/10
+Space Munkey you win the internet
yes!
would have been awesome to see it's stripes and know that it's mean. don't you see what I mean?
Best post I have seen in a long time!!! Gotta get away Holy Diver!!!!
woah its been like 20+ years since NES was released but still theres something new that we don't know. Thanks for this vid gameranx.
Didn't Metroid come out before Castlevania 2 and offer different endings based on how quickly you beat the Motherbrain?
Looked it up castlevania 2 came out in 1987. Metroid was a year earlier with 1986 as the release date. so they glt that fact wrong.
yeah I reacted to that aswell. now 1+ million people gonna be clueless on which game which was first with multiple endings.
Yes it was, and yes it did. If you beat Metroid fast enough, Samus would remove her helmet revealing she was female.
I wouldn't really label that as an "ending," though. The CVII endings offered different narrative conclusions. Despite being variations of the same sequence, the outcomes are quite different, including menacing implications, including Dracula coming back to life.
Symantics...
Dude, that was amazing. I was expecting stuff I already knew.
Evolution of Graphics on Nintendo?
they haven't changed...
Ausse🐰wabbit
how?
+Masik Egede their games don't change much. I just don't understand why they can make the same games every year and no one cares but games like cod can't (cod is shit imo)
+Ausse🐰wabbit because nintendo games are good, while COD (as a whole, individual games can be neat) is not.
Ausse🐰wabbit
they make new level design in every new console
I knew about Holy Diver, but only because I saw the James & Mike on it a few days before I saw this video. I've also known about the Nintendo TV thing for quite a while. I remember hearing about the lockout chip controversy as a kid in the late 80s, so I knew about that one way longer than any of the others.
I didn't know any of the other stuff, though. Good video!
i still have the nes, anybody else???
+The Suicide Saint yeah, mario and punch out were the best
+The Suicide Saint i had castlemania, but my little brother broke the cartridge
Yup. Still use it regularly.
I have Retron 5 plays Most nes snes and sega.
Have one myself but still restoring.
First time watching your channel and you won a subscriber mate!!
my fave was the 64 😊
Mine too
mine was pc. i am a pc gamer since i was like 5-6
+{OfiR} PCs are great but you can get every game especially Nintendo games and emulautors don't count.
+IN3ViTABL3 CONS3QU3NC3S yes emulautors are great but you don't get the full experience
It is the best system with the best games ever
Wow! I've been around the "Nintendo Block" since the release of the console and been a gamer ever since. Still, I wasn't aware of over half of these. Thanks guys. Great video.
"Hearalded the birth"...Atari, Commodore, Mattel and Coleco must be feeling very confused.
Yeah, remember Paul Norman and his Forbidden Forest games for the C64?
I've been checking out a bunch of your vids today. Good stuff! Subscribed.
I knew about the HOLY DIVAH! one because of James Rolfe.
James and Mike Monday's
Cinemassacre for the win
the ROM is easy to find online. it is a pretty good game
Actually, I played the SNES version of Where's Waldo as a kid, #2 I've known about for a while, and #1 I had forgotten about completely until I went to a video game museum in Frisco, Texas.
Dyonus how's that museum?I live close to it but havnt gone,I hear they have am 80s arcade
Love the NES, so glad it came out when it did, perfect timing for the age I was. Addicted me for life to gaming.
DQ4 is 512 KB not 1 MB (Kirby is 768 KB and the only 1 MB cartridge is Metal Slader Glory )
Galaxian is 16 KB
Thankfully someone got the DW4 (was technically dragon warrior due to copyright issues of course) size correct, it was only 4 megabits or 1/2 megabyte in size.
The true reason reason it became a 1 megabyte cartridge was because early emulators were unable to load the game until someone figured out doubling the size fixed the problem.
Similar thing with Galaxian. Marat Fayzullin, inventor of iNES and thus the iNES mapper system, set ROM bank loads to 16 KB, presumably because he wasn't aware of Galaxian's smaller 8 KB size. As a result, there are no "true" Galxian ROM in general circulation; all are overdumped to compensate for iNES' limitations.
Not to mention if he really wanted to talk about "large NES games' Action 52 would be the top, since it is over 2MB of data, because of that crappy mapper.
"What is the biggest NES game ever made?
The largest single NES game that I know of is Dragonquest 4 / Dragon Warrior 4. It has 1 megabyte of program ROM. Also, the Japanese game Metal Slader Glory has 512K of PRG and 512K of CHR ROM, making it also a full megabyte. Several pirate/unlicenced Famicom games are also pretty large."
Directly from NESDEV website.
This is probably where the guy got much of his information. As far as the DQ4 being doubled in size, it seems there is a wiki that mentions this but that was only updated about 10 days before this video went up on youtube.
bootgod's database has been around for a while, and correctly lists DQ4/DW4 as a 512kb PRG-ROM using chr-ram for video data. It would have been a really simple thing to check up on.
I think the game was dumped as a 1MB file at one point causing this misinformation.
Each sprite was also a mere 8x8 pixels and could only contain two colors. However, there was a "big" sprite mode where each sprite was 8x16 pixels. The trade off for giving up screen resolution was that each 8x16 pixel sprite could now contain four colors.
Barring any sound expansion chips, the NES was capable of producing sound that had five voices - 2 square waves (usually for leads), 1 triangle wave (usually for bass), noise (drums) and PCM (used for sound samples).
Each NES game was also programmed using 6502 Assembly because the NES used a modified 6502 Processor. Its graphics were handled by a PPU (Picture Processing Unit).
What about Metroid with multiple endings? Should that not be the first?
No, because you probably kmow about that already. Im not sure, but i know how to find out. Gimme a sec...ill be right back....
Hey bro...im having a convo with someone at the moment and i need to know if you know about the two metroid man levels
@@jasonspades5628 metroid man levels? Not ringing a bell. I only played the first Metroid and Super Metroid, but mostly remember the first one
So, i just spoke with a friend of mine, and he said it wasn't ringing any bells. He only played the first metroid and super metroid.
Neat video, I almost wish that knitter peripheral was a thing. The SNES is my favorite Nintendo console... favorite console ever really.
metroid was released before simons quest and had time specific endings
Joseph Demjanick this is 100% correct wonder why it wasn't given more credit
metroid gave you 5 outfit endings, Simon's quest had 3 different story endings
I knew 3ish of these. also that knitting thing looks AWESOME
Legend of Zelda was the first game to have a save feature, correct? You forgot that fact
Just sucked having to take it apart to change the battery. Still, the first game I binged, sundown to sunup.
I really, really wish I knew you could replace the battery when I was a kid. I lost all my saves because the battery died. :/
+astrosteve - You can't take it with you. :(
Download the classics on the WiiU/3DS virtual console. Then you can experience it all over again :)
I still have my Zelda with the same battery iin it. It works still
Another interesting fact about the NES/Famicom family of consoles. The Famicom had an expansion called the Famicom Disk System, which ran on its own proprietary version of a floppy disk(that alone reminds me of the Gamecube's own mini-disks). One of the notable features of the FDS is that it had an additional chip for slightly more complex music.
Did he say that Where's Waldo was "Impossible to beat"??? That's one of these easiest games TO beat!! I can beat it in like 10 minutes..
Did you click everywhere?
+The Video Game Mixer Does it matter one is a button smaher or not. Bootsy beated Silver Surfer just from doing that... smashing buttons really fast. A game in which AVGN thought it was impossible to beat, yet here is Bootsy whose button smashing won the game. >_> people should soooo stop the obnoxious, stick up their ass attitude towards button smashing... it fucking works, get over it!!!
Actually I dont mash buttons on Where's Waldo. I just know what he looks like and the game is predictable and has recognizable patterns once you figure it out. I beat it as a kid.
I knew about half of these and quite a few things that they didn't mention (for example, the Life Fitness Life Cycle--an actual exercise bike that worked with the NES or the Miracle piano keyboard OR the reason why the light gun isn't grey, anymore or that there was going to be a Gameboy adapter for the NES from Biederman Design Labs) but I have to admit, this was a good video with some really good trivia. Good job, guys!
gameranx presents 10 NES Facts You Probably Already Knew.
The hands free is so thoughtful in my opinion.
I love that they thought to help kids who just want to play like everyone else.
GOD bless
1.00 Megabytes = 1.048,576 Bytes.
depends
John Smith THANK you
Great video! What's the background music? It's pretty cool.
Number 9 is semi-bullshit. Nintendo did say it was impossible to include Yoshi in an NES Mario due to hardware limitations, but it turned out to be untrue. (Yoshi is rideable in the NES port of either "Mario's Missing" or "Mario's Time Machine".)
+Ben Phillips I was thinking that very same thing.
Ben Phillips miyamoto wanted mario to have an animal buddy to ride, but noticed the nes was too weak. when the snes came to be he realised his original idea by creating yoshi, that's how it went
I'm pretty sure it was due to memory & that Luigi & Yoshi were just one character in terms of programming, but I've not seen much gameplay.... So I could be wrong.
Yeah there's no hardware limitation. You could just replace the Mario and Yoshi sprites with a single sprite when the two touch.
Not to mention Super Mario 3mix (SMB3 hack)
Technically, in the beginning of Mario's Time Machine for NES, Mario was riding on Yoshi. However, that came out on NES in 1994.
Hands Free:
Only 120$ for the disabled kids.
Nintendo... because we care.
+Vincent GR people wil work for free indeed
groenekever
No. It sould be a gift to children or a very low price. Nintendo wouldn't vanished by this move. And how many pieces you think there where be?
Are you suggesting disabled people are incapable of generating income?
4cyl_LOL
Not at all, just a goodwill move.
+Vincent GR lmao ok
"Where'd you think they got their ideas from?"
Not necessarily, if Nintendo hadn't have came up with the idea, someone else would have. It doesn't prove that they got the idea from Nintendo.
Awesome video though, the TV/console combo thing was something I certainly never knew about =X
No the NES did NOT kick-start consoles. That goes to the Atari 2600 which made consoles and home video games popular in the first place.
Yeah, I don't know. NES definitely re-kick started it then.
"Survived a while." Kids and their limited perspective. The Nintendo is my favorite gaming specific console and I still enjoy my top-loader to this day. Definitely looking forward to when they [purportedly] start production of the NES Classic back up later this year.
talks about evil corporations, shows EA
+1
I had a NES with my brothers but we woke up our dad before a 12 hour night shift multiple times that day. He came into the room yanked the NES out of the wall and made fly out a 3 story building LOL. Soooo as a kid most of my Nintendo time was with the SNES and most of my memories as a kid playing Zelda, Mario Kart, Yoshis Island, Star Fox, Oger Battle, Mario Paint and many more. My fav will always be my SNES and I still have it to this day in working order. Every now and then I will play it for a hour or two.
Lets get one thing straight , the NES SYSTEM was not "a good" console..... it was/ IS a wonderful lil console that saved the gaming industries and should be held in the highest regards and be put in museums . Yes I am being serious . Sadly my original NES broke when my 3 yr old cousin spilled his drink over it and it fried . 20 yrs of fun gone in seconds . A moment of silence , please .
buy another one there are like 60 dollars on ebay with wires and controllers
The NES did not save the gaming industry in Europe or Japan. Americans need to stop spreading this myth. Europe had a billion dollar gaming industry which was nothing to do with Nintendo.
The reason you can't shoot the dog in Duck Hunt is because they are programmatically part of the background as far as the NES hardware is concerned. Only the ducks themselves are treated as sprites. That Nintendo was already able to do layered backgrounds even back then was a mindjob of itself, but that's beside the point. The point is that unfortunately, the dog was never programmed with any collision in mind.
That is, until Vs. Duck Hunt that was primarily only in arcades. In that game, you could enter a bonus round where you could shoot other flying debris for points, but you'd also see the dog running around to chase it. And here, he does have collision, and it will count as a hit.
Pretty sure anyone that had the opportunity to play the game on the period-correct arcade cabinets played at least to the point where they could finally nail him. PETA jokes aside, that Duck Hunt dog is infamous for making anyone and everyone hate him earlier and easier than the kind of terrible people that your garden variety celebrity media outlet won't shut up about.
"Most Nintendo games were pretty darn good"... someone hasn't checked that library. XD Sure they have some brilliant amazing games, but they also had a giant pile of turds to bolster than library.
As does every. Single. Console. And. Arcade. Cabinet. Not. To. Mention. PC. And. DOS. And. Apple.
You: *stammer*
SILENCE.
Point? I mean, I agree, but no-one was disputing that. :/
Um. How? I didn't say the Nintendo library was any different to any others. I just disagreed with the "MOST" part of the original statement. I think MOST Nes games were awful, but there were a few golden gems that have outshone their reputation. For every Metroid, Zelda and Mario game, there were 3 terrible sports games, 2 terrible movie-based joypad-fodder, and 1 collection of 52 disasters. :P So nothing nullified... just me being pedantic at worst.
most nintendo games are trash. a small % (maybe 50 at most out of nearly 800) are good quality and even then 10 of those are masterpieces. that's a terrible % of success.
4:07 Just a couple of years ago Vizio TVs came out with OnLive gaming built in.
Check Emuparadise for Holy Diver. They might have the rom for use in a NES emulator.
+Eugene Johnson They will be for everyone in the future, when the technology is no longer produced and the original hardware is dead (It WILL die, all things die). So the only way to play will be emulators as not everything will get a compilation release. I thought the proper fans of gaming would care about preservation...guess not.
FYI: Duck Hunt Arcade version has a bonus round where you can actually shoot the dog. His face turns burnt black then later hobbles onto the forground with a crutch and cast all pissed off.
Love the 12 year olds in the comments...
"N64 was my fav"
"I don't remember the NES, but I consider myself a gaming expert"
The internet and online gaming needs to remove these annoying shits and put them back in the nursery. They ruin GTA V.
I consider myself a gaming buff and im 18 so i werent present when the NES was released, and i never had one either however my first games console was a SEGA megadrive, (Genesis in the US) I've had the SNES, and pretty much every console onwards..
I don't think you need to have had the NES to be a gaming "Buff" you just have to appreciate it.
What does people liking Nintendo 64 have to do with 12 year olds?
+Julianus Maximianus
_I don't remember the NES, but I consider myself a gaming expert_
Are you referring to the guy who said "I didn't know any of these, and I consider myself a game buff" ?
The title of the video says, 10 FACTS you probably didn't know. When he says I don't any of these, it implies he wasn't aware of the FACTS presented in the video. Nowhere does he imply he doesn't remember the NES. I remember my NES, I still even have my NES but I didn't know most of these facts in the video. I'm pretty sure everyone who grew up with the NES do not remember or even knew about all these facts in this video.
+Julianus Maximianus I'm 12 and I own an NES. And I didn't inherit it, I got it from Amazon. I love playing it.
Metroid and Kid Icarus were both released prior to Castlevania 2. The ending of Metroid also relied on the speed in which you completed the game while the ending of Kid Icarus was determined by the strength of Pit's arrows. (Power ups for the arrow were earned by entering certain rooms after reaching a predetermined score.)
#1 The CEO of LJN isnt satan
Just a Laughing Joking Numbnut
LJN is in league with SATAN
Intro correction- Pong was the first console "hit" but you could argue that the Atari VCS "2600" was the first hit. 10- Metroid that came before it had different endings. 9. There is a statement given from Nintendo that said that they weren't able to put Yoshi in the Mario NES games due to limitations, but it was an excuse. Mario is Missing fro the NES had Luigi riding Yoshi throughout the game in platforming stages. An unlicensed pirate port of Super Mario World does a decent job of having Yoshi in the game for the NES. 8. Yes I did know about that game, and there were many exclusive games for the Japanese Famicom that didn't make it to the U.S. and vice versa. 7. Dragon Quest IV is not the largest, larger games include Metal Slader Glory and Kirby's Adventure. 6. I did know about the hands free controller, but most people didn't, so that's a good one for the list. 5. There's actually 2 Waldo games on the NES, and the fact that there is a Waldo game on the NES is common knowledge. 4. This was widely publicized on the internet when it happened. 3. "We don't have any tvs today that have consoles built in!" Yes there are, Sony makes tvs that have built in Playstation 3 systems. 2. Good note, it was more advanced than previous light guns. 1. Cool fact! (Do some research before releasing one of these "FACTS" videos that half a million people will watch and take as "fact.")
Atari burned same way mobile is now, tons of crapware on the market
Accept most mobile games are "free" to play where Atari was not. Won't see the same crash yet, at least not when free-emium games are the top earners.
The mobile market sucks. It's not even real gaming. Tapping a screen while the game basically does everything for you isn't fun. Nintendo invented throwing the controller after spending your 3 lives. Games should be fun but also should feel rewarding when you play and beat the game after getting sweaty palms fighting that boss. Mobile games usually don't require skill but man do they want your money. Spend $2 here, $5 there to "boost" your minions.
They not all bad, its like saying every console or PC game is great.
***** they are loads of great games on a mobile such as Angry Bird, Death Worm Sheep Launcher and console ports like GTA, COD Zombies, old PC classics like Doom and Railroad Tycoon and carnivores.
Anthony Arevalo Please tell me when I once mentioned graphics, please don't quote me on comments I haven't even said!!!!!!
tv/vcr combos have existed in the 1980s and through the 1990s. the comparison of nes/tv combo to smart tv makes it seem ahead of its time, but it wasn't ahead of its time, that was its time. it was right on time. but it is kinda cool, i never knew that existed.
oh my... your own images prove you incorrect instantly, how many names did he get wrong? how many contradictions were made? how was the gamecube dvd console 'not the first time' a console and a tv were combined...seriously, so many facts were mangled, left out, and just aggregated easily without any research. also the google image search images of everything weren't well timed, often stepping on the naration too early. valid critiques only make us better, so i hope you can accept these.
"how was the gamecube dvd console 'not the first time' a console and a tv were combined" Because the My Computer TV-C1 was released in Japan in 1983, and the Super Famicom version was released in 1990. The Gamecube DVD Console was released in 2001. Simple chronological order will tell you why the Gamecube version wasn't first.
+rexfellis plus the PS2 and original Xbox both could play dvds right off the bat and both came out before even the original vanilla Gamecube.
Here's one: You can actually play original nintendo games in VR using 3dnes. It's actually really cool. You can also play a couple of gamecube games in VR with dolphin VR... This is actually really promising stuff because it turns out that a lot of Nintendo stuff translates into VR really well.. Something to do with those cell shaded looking, simple graphics makes it easier.
10 things most actual gamers knew
My favourite will always be the N64. So many memories behind that, and some of the games have aged quite well.
"Most Nintendo games were pretty darn good" lolwat? >90% of the NES library is unplayable garbage.
Compared to today's games but back then we thoroughly enjoyed nes games
There's another tidbit about the NES that most people do not know. If you look on the bottom of the console you will find a section that can be removed exposing an expansion port.The plans for this port were for a future expansion module that would include a dial up modem. Yes, a dial up modem for online game play. In 1985. The modem was never released and there were never any other modules planned to use the expansion port.
i knew this already, mainly i clean the motherboards of my consoles, and had to pin-mod a son of a bitch known as the 72-pin adapter aka the cartridge slot, saw the expansion port, researched, and learned this and that one of the modems would connect to a SEGA GENESIS online. it was to have games that could be cross-played together by people on nes and genesis, this was called teleplay modem, and was discontinued because console war, but more interesting, one of the founders of ATARI, Nolan Bushnell, worked on its prototype but back out, but before that made Chuck E. Cheese's. all that from a single expansion port.
there was another with an adult gambling game modem but was stopped for obvious reasons
and the famicom (japan) had a disk (notice the k) drive add-on that data could be stored on a floppy disk (marking it the only console to have floppy drive besides the Sega Saturn japan only) which caused the Japanese Legend of Zelda, Kid Icarus, and Metroid to change for ntsc release (america) giving zelda a battery, and the rest dread password system.
hope this was not a bore to you
***** thanks
So many wrong 'facts'. At least do your homework before you post a video like this.
Loved the video. Awesome!
Dragon Warrior 2 unknown fact: One time I prevented Hargon's attack on Moonbrook Castle and took on the king as the main character. The traditional castle music played throughout Moonbrook, the princess was the one who saved your game, the guards were the merchants and innkeepers, however you still had to fight battles within the castle walls, leading to usually an instant death, unless lucky enough to flee battle. I was also able to walk the character on the walls, water and mountains. Unfortunately, the quest was short because when I turned the console off and later went to play, it was all erased and I couldn't figure out how to do it again. This happened in 1992.
Ok there was 3 I didn't know. Good job!
The Adventures of Lolo 1, 2 and 3. Great puzzle games for NES. I've still got them.
I actually didn't know most of these, good on you
That region control chip in the bonus section is the one that makes NES games to start blinking in a one color screen. You have to remove some pins from it in order to make the NES work again like new. I have my NES working again.
Many of these games are still fun to this day. Good game design goes a long way.
He forgot to mention that the DRM chip in the NES was faulty and is the reason most of us had so much trouble getting the damn system to work, and was removed in the NES-02 (the top loading model) because of that.
Regarding systems built into televisions, there actually was a PS2 built into an HDTV a few years back in the UK... Sony Bravia KDL-22PX300.
First video I've seen by GameRanks. Approved 👍
The NES used the same 8 bit processor MOS6502 as the Commodore64, Atari 2600 as well as the Apple II & III and I believe the Tandy TRS-80 machines. That processor was used for many years and formed the computer industry for many years.
I taught I really knew everythings about the NES but I'm impress that I still learn and remind me this warm feeling of discovring all these little secret about this mystic console :)
I love the NES!! Lovely video! Blobby
Dragon Quest (WARRIOR) IV is one of my favorite games for the NES. 1MB of pure JRPG goodness!
The second one was obvious, but there's an NES game called "Mario is Missing", which contained a section where Luigi rode on Yoshi's back. So they could've had Yoshi in the NES era.
I thought this might be a stupid typical youtube video but I was surprised. This was pretty interesting, makes me miss my NES.
'There were other consoles before but the NES really started it all...' Wow. Just wow. That's a huge rewriting of history right there.
In the late 80s/early 90s Nintendo had a coin-op bar top system that came with a handful of built in games. I remember Fester's Quest, TMNT, Contra, Super Mario Bros 2 being on it. I've tried finding one but have had no luck.
yeah, apparently that technology thing with older tvs makes Duck Hunt unplayable on new tvs because those 2 frames will not play on newer tvs, I have a giant screen tv that's old so we use it for our older consoles and I couldn't hit a thing with it on Duck Hunt
you have earned a sub with that knitting thing.
I absolutely freaking ❤ *YOSHI!!!!* He's so freaking awesome!
It's possible Holy Diver wasn't released anywhere outside of Japan for a simple reason, the record companies. Ronnie James Dio was signed to Warner Bros. label and Ozzy was at Epic part of the UMG conglomerate. As such, to release the game in the states, both companies would have to sign off on it. The way Ozzy's image is protected, I doubt very much he would have signed off on this being such a minor character. The other thing that sucks about this, is the image Metal had on the nation at the time. Devil worshippers and baby killers only listened to Metal and certainly shouldn't influence the children of America and since video games and the NES in particular were being marketed as children's toys that probably made it difficult to release here.
The NES originally had a package that came with a robot called ROB. It wasn't very good. It sure looked cool though.
The part of the NES that actually read the contacts of your game cartridge was a standardized part. If you know the model number and have tinkered inside PCs for a while, you have all the tools you need to fix the #1 NES hardware failure problem.
Metroid had multiple endings, and that pre-dates Castlevania II by over a year. 3 different endings in fact, based on how long it took you to complete the game. Sound familiar?
Heres a fact you should have include : the little square box under the NES is used to hide an hidden expansion port for an unreleash version o the American Famicom disk system,
the Extra audio channel from the famicom cartridge port was repurposed on the unused expansion port on the NES
In order th show the unused expansion port, you need to cut the rectangular plastic by cutting the 4 plastic joint.
The NES only had 2 kilobytes of RAM. To put that in perspective, some of the comments written to this video take more space than that.
Quite unusually, the NES supported auxiliary processors on the game cartridge itself. Which meant that some NES games could do more than the NES hardware itself. (One prominent example is Castlevania 3 for the Famicom, which music was way more advanced than what the console itself was capable of.)
Technically, the NES did have the specifications to have Yoshi as a character, the developers just couldn't figure it out, there are hacks of NES Mario games that allow Yoshi to be ridden.
The 10-NES chip was the main reason Sega was able to ultimately get a leg up on them during the 16-bit era.
"It had to have that little mark on the game case: Nintendo's seal of quality"
background picture is Superman 64 😂😂
That knitting machine actually sounds really cool!
5:35 thats actually freakin awesome dude.... knitting your own stuff you would be surprised what you could knit and sell online people go crazy for some retro knitted zelda-sweater
imagine if they did that knitting machine idea today, but with a 3d printer instead of a knitting machine....