Nah they aren't comments. They are admirations. With the occasional mistake, mispronunciations and occasional ticked off viewers....but hey a click is a click.....keep it up
1:04:12 it does means alot to us Americans the hell you mean it's nothing people always trying to bash Genesis all the time and I'm sick of it😡this is what started the console wars now!
1:07:51 bro chill just because snes had graphics and good sound doesn't mean it was better the genesis still holds the better attention then super nintendo not all the games was that great just a few
I am 73 years old I was there before the first game consoles came out. I was very interested and purchased the Atari VCS later to be renamed the 2600. At the time I enjoyed the excellent game play of the 2600. I became the President of the Atari club in Louisville Kentucky. I was impressed with your assessment of video game consoles. I don’t know your age but most people that do their assessments are usually speaking of what they read because most were too young and started with the NES. I am not a Nintendo fan and for good reason. I was at a friend of mine game and computer store called videovisions. I was there when a man from Nintendo and told him that he wanted the NES to have priority over any other game consoles. He told him to put Atari on the bottom shelves or he would pull all NES consoles. That meant SEGA systems too. My friend told him that he is an Atari store mainly selling Atari computers and he will put his stock where he pleases. The man left the store clearly mad. That was how NINTENDO treat their customers. I have never forgotten that. I never had a NES because I bought the Atari 5200 and as far as the controllers. I liked them. Games like pac man were harder to play so I bought a Wico 5200 controller that had a Y adapter which let you play games like pac man like a regular joystick. And as far as the controllers failing a company called Best Electronics made new flex boards with gold contacts with a 10 year warranty. I have had them for years and they still play like new. So the only problem with the 5200 was fixed. Now there is a huge Home brew programmers doing games for the 2600,5200 7800 , ST 1:25 and the Jaguar. Retro games is now a huge market and Atari has embraced it. For the first in many years Atari are bring out new consoles. The Atari 2600+ which will play 2600 games and 7800 games. The Atari 400 mini which will play over 5000 Atari 8 bit computer games and the Atari Game Station pro with will play all Atari, Nintendo, Sega games. I also own a PlayStation 1 and the original XBOX which I bought just about every game for it. I also have a Colecovision. I have the Atari Lynx 1 & 2 . So you keep up the good work. I enjoyed your presentation!
Thank you very much for watching all the way through. I'm 34 years old so there is quite a bit that was before my time but I was fortunate enough as a child to have some exposure to those first generation video games.
If I may ask, what were your thoughts about companies such as Microsoft, Sony and Sega entering the video game market? And what are your thoughts on the modern gaming landscape?
I cannot believe you held my attention this long......i can't believe i hid in the back of a work truck for two hours and didnt get caught....good to be a ghost thanks man
This is absolutely, by far, the best overview of early consoles on TH-cam. Well done!!! Please do more videos like this one, it is definitely your jam.
I like how you include a lot of light humor throughout the video while staying factual. It really helps me stay engaged and not get bored. I was actually able to watch the entire video cause of this and I normally don't watch videos this long so just wanted to say thank you.
The algorithm randomly recommended your video to me and I’m so glad it did. Your delivery and timing with your random inserts of humor is perfect! I’m so excited to finish the rest of this.
Modern documentary "directors" could learn a lot, from a mostly unbiased gameography, as this one. And, at least your commentary is blunt, flat, direct, and to the point. No Punch Outs pulled.
Absolutely incredible! As a lay historian and player of video games since the early 80s with my first console being the Atari 2600, and owned most every major console up until the latest generation, I have seen countless documentaries on the history of video game development and the console wars. This was by far the best. The level of information, knowledge and insight is unsurpassed in this documentary. Can I ask you how you became so knowledgeable and what your sources of information are? Thanks!
I just grew up through it all. I wrote most of the script off the top of my head, but then did some quick google searches to get the correct numbers for sales and to look into a few of the older ones that wasn't as familiar with. Mostly its just from my personal experience.
I can't believe I watched this whole documentary. I've watched the evolution of video consoles since pong. It never ceases to amaze me at the technological advances in that time.
Console competition and exclusives aka the console wars has always been a good thing for the consumers. It has stopped one company from being a monopoly and has helped push innovation for both software and console hardware in fear of the competition.
huh. thats one of the lines and the kind of line, I wish was absent from an otherwise good video. i guess its meant to demonstrate personailty, but it gives me the ick.
Excellent video. I wasn’t born yet for consoles like the Odessey, or pong clones, or even the original Atari. I was just old enough to remember playing the original NES right before the super came out, so sometimes I forget the console wars started wily before Sega and Nintendo. Sometimes I full on forget about the 3DO or that other strangeness Nintendo got up to with their Zelda and Mario titles. This was super entertaining and informative. I loved seeing what those other companies were getting up to, and the addition of their commercials at the time was fun. Still a little sad about the Sega Dreamcast, but I didn’t know the Jaguar was now in the public domain. I watched this video in bits over the last few days. Nice work
I’ve come back to your video all week, bit by bit, on my ride home. Thank you for this. The nostalgia hits hard, had no idea how good I had it growing up between gen’s 5-7. Sony vs Microsoft vs Nintendo, in my opinion, is the diamond age of video gaming. So many gems, in games and accessories. What an incredible history.
honestly i kinda feel like console gaming is dying: 1) Playstation & Xbox release their games on PC now 2) with physical media dying off there is no benefit to get a console instead of buying games on PC 3) hybrids are getting more popular and they have all the benefits of being a handheld & PC/console 4) playing on PC is so much cheaper and accessible 5) you can play pretty much every game that exists on PC 6) mods/rom-hacks enhances any game i used to be a Nintendo enjoyer but ever since i migrated to Steam and when i got my Steam Deck, i started to feel that consoles are just obsolete. The only thing holding it back is the stereotype that you need to tinker a lot with PC games to get a good experience which isn't really the case for me. Steam Proton has been able to fix most instances of a game not booting up for me.
"Number 2- There is no benefit to getting a console." I would say the cost of a console alone being far, far cheaper than a PC ends that number pretty quickly. Further, this notion that all console games are coming to PC is just a blatant lie. Tell me, master race, how do you intend to play GTAVI? Moving along. Not every game releasing on consoles is fully digital. We (fiancee and I) own an Xbox Series X, PS5, Steam Deck, and Switch right now. I would say a good majority of my games are on disc and can be played offline. I do my utmost to buy everything physical because I'm not paying full price to rent my games. I would also say there are quite a few games that have not appeared on a PC, I'm afraid. Lastly, your attempt at logically trying to spin a PC as being better than a console doesn't really hold water. You say that we should just get a PC instead but still present the very same set of problems. Why in God's glorious name would I pay double+ for pretty much the exact same experience with tons of DRM? Nope. Unfortunately, PC gaming is just as screwed as console gaming. You do realize once Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo takeover full distribution of all console games, they will be coming for the PC next. Microsoft has already openly admitted they wish to aquire Steam and are fine with performing a hostile takeover. The video game industry, as we know it, is heading for a monumental crash, and there is nothing that is going to stop it. No matter your platform of choice, it's all gone. Thankfully, I'm prepared for this little eventuality...are you?
Ooops... one more thing- The Steam Deck is neat but better than a console? It's better than the Switch but does not hold a candle to either the Series X or PS5. Although it is nice to play my Series X and PS5 games on our Steam Deck, that's pretty neat.
@@Sinn0100 PC is cheaper than console because everyone already has a PC (just not neccesairly the most powerful on the market). And if where talking prices and DRM, you don't have to limit yourself to Steam and there are plenty of (free) open source games on PC
@@Sinn0100 you say i'm a PC master race but i literally say in my comment that i used to be a Nintendo enjoyer. I don't care for the highest possible graphics (in fact i prefer older graphics over "modern graphics", the type of gameplay i enjoy is very broad (i only really strongly dislike multiplayer-only and Stealth games). i mostly play indie and fan-games. And lastly i don't discriminate a game for having a specific art style (visually i can pretty much enjoy anything with very rare exeptions like the current Pokemon games)
Nice video on the history of console gaming. I think the Switch has become my favorite console of all time. The hybrid portability, the big library of games and how easy it is to turn on and play got me back into gaming after quitting video games for years.
I also think the switch is great. Pretty much all of the first party Nintendo games are really good too. I also really appreciate the growing library of retro games you can play on it.
This could legit be on loop in a videogame museum and yeah people will only see a fraction of it but when you're done seeing everything else and come back. Chances are extremely high that something you haven't seen of this video is on and you'll watch another chunk of it...at least I would haha
There's actually a national video game museum in Texas as well! It's pretty cool and they have a bunch of rare consoles on display, dev kits, and tons of games to play. If you're ever in the Dallas area definitely check it out! This video would fit right in there.
This is a great little trip through history. I lived it from the NES on, and it’s pretty much spot on. The only things I noticed that weren’t exactly right was that the N64 actually didn’t have Mario 64 as a pack in game. It was kindof a big deal at the time since the NES and the SNES had always come with Mario, but for the first time you had to buy it separately. Also, the only game to ship with the expansion pack was Donkey Kong. Majaoras mask required it but didn’t ship with it, and Perfect Dark actually let you play against bots without the expansion pack, which would have never been necessary had they planned on including it.
I remember the 5200 had a really high price as well. Don't remember but it was a lot more than competing systems. Plus, they made a cartridge that was supposed to play 2600 games. And most of them were defective and broke the actual cartridge slot itself
Blast Processing was actually a term coined by a sega engineer referring to ways to get more colors on the screen , and the marketing team took that phrase and ran with it as a way to describe its very fast CPU, which did really benefit the console.
When you look at the specs between the Sega Genesis and the super NES side by side, the super NES is larger, better, and faster in every way except for a processing chip. And that's the chip that saga used for their best processor marketing campaign. Kind of forget the other 9 other things and run with the one thing that you're better at campaign
@@MediocreUkulelePlayer that’s marketing for ya. Not that I think it matters in totality, the software is what defines a platform more than anything, but you couldn’t go out there and be like “our console is older and doesn’t have as many robust features out of the box”. It wouldn’t make for a great campaign. The amazing thing is what devs were able to accomplish under such incredible restrictive confines of each of these machines
Not the true full story, it's VDP with higher bandwidth DMA did it's thing also. Don't forget it was released 2 years before the SNES and at 1988 was a power house.
I made a TON of money buying Broken 360s and PS3s. I had a reballer so re mounting the GPU fixes it right up. I made almost 150 dollars per unit. the LASER was also a big flaw on the 360 as well as the PS3. and because of the 4 different models of PS3 it became a pain getting the right laser. Gen 1 and 2 were different with Gen 2 having the Backwards Drive, gen 3 and 5 were different. because 5 was a slim. It had a Great media player through. it detected a SMB and Media Server with quick and easy browsing on the network.
I remember Intellivision in Woolworths department store when I was a kid. First game I played was Baseball and it was amazing. But the went out of business fast. Too bad, it would have made great games but only ended up with a handfull.
I got in before 700 subs. Can't wait to look back on this in 3 years when you're at 700k. Great video, so well-written and spoken, and entertaining. Flew by in a flash, and I learned a lot as well! GG!
Great video. Can't believe I sat through it in its entirety though. I am sitting in the oil field all night by myself. Waiting for something to break down and require my attention. I do have a lot of down time during these 12-hour shifts, so great job on all the research you did for this video. Though I would like to point out the Nintendo 64 did have loading times with some of their games such as quake for one though it was very quick absolutely nothing like medal of Honor or Dragon riders of pern for Dreamcast LOL
@@calic737 yep, both power Stone games were pretty ballin', Dreamcast was probably the one system that I collected the most for. I had 60 games not to mention just... tons of peripherals and before it I was always a Nintendo Fanboy. Dreamcast was an underrated underappreciated and an amazing system. I am SO SO glad I can still enjoy playing it through emulation. In fact, after 15 hours of gameplay I defeated Experimental Gimmick Gear in the oil field after only playing a few hours of it just over 20 years ago. Not the greatest game but a pretty good game especially if you like beautiful hand-drawn art and Zelda type games set in a post-apocalyptic setting.
Loved this subscribed straight away, sonic 3 being so good looking at the time was a good memory to me I got it imported from Japan with a converter to play it in the UK and I am sure it was about 70-80 quid back in the 90s crazy money but it was worth it
As a kid who grew up through all this, SEGA never had a chance. I remember the first time I played SEGA at a friends house and my thought leaving was “So how is that better than Nintendo?”
The Bally Astrocade actually had 4 joystick adapters. I remember playing 4 player football. It was amazing back then as the unique controller allows you to move the quarterback and separately control where his arm is pointing.
I think Microsoft is testing out streaming by streaming XBox Series games to an XBox One. They will probably start putting an XBOX app on TVs so you don't need a console and they will just stream it like Stadia did
Like Ubisoft sayd...Peopel will love to pay for Games without owning them ...maybe .At the Moment it looks more like X Box Consumers dont buy Games and still have not more GamePass Subcribers on PC/ Konsole then Switch or PS .Didtn MS say something about if they dont get 100 Mill Subscribers till 2028 they leaving Field? and make Games for Switch and Playstation couse PC Gamers dont buy theyr Games 2 Times on Steam for GamePass Dudes?😅
This was such an awesome video. I can only imagine how many hours, days and week you spent on this. You also have a great voice, don’t try to be a comedian and don’t use obnoxious acronyms like “SNESSS”. It’s like sitting down with a friend you’ve known for years. Awesome job. New subscriber and can’t wait to see what you have coming next!
The problem with the 7800 was that it was tech from 1983 so it was pretty outdated by the time it came out. I realize it’s only a year behind the famicom but they desperately needed to add some sound hardware and whatnot
Yep Atari kept trying to push dated hardware onto the market and the market wasn't having it. Putting the 2600 sound chip into the 7800 was just stupid (though some cartridges came with the slightly more advanced pokey chip from the computer line). I get the logic since they thought 2600 compatibility would help them sell more units but man did it sound terrible for the time. It saddened me since I was an Atari fan growing up with an Atari 800. Atari and Sega are prime examples of market leaders fumbling the ball massively.
This was done really well and nostalgic to see some of the old commercials. I also appreciated that there was little to no bias during this because of personal preferences for a specific system you owned as ive seen others do. For me, i jumped around from system to system over the years for certain games, looks, price, etc and rarely fell victim to being a fanboy of a certain system; i had an Atari 2600 first, got a NES, then Genesis but still wanted an SNES yet couldn’t afford it, Sega CD, N64, Playstation, PS2, Wii, etc. i jumped around to be able to play games i like.
@ you did really well at not coming across as favoring one system or another, and i personally didnt notice any leaning towards Nintendo over other systems. 👍
Seriously epic video dude, I can't imagine working on something this long. Great job compiling all the clips / commercials and facts. One small thing I noticed, the Atari Jaquar controller you showed is the 2019 Pro version. It actually is a fanastic redesign, with more responsive buttons and the 3 addition buttons making it the first 6 button controller for the system. The original controller only had 3 buttons (plus the num pad allowed for overlays - AVP for example).
Oh really I didn't know we had a new controller for it. I did notice that there were two different kinds, but I didn't know it wasn't an original design. I love all of the fan made and independent games.
This is really important. The SNES refurbished systems have an updated chipset. When the PS1 came out that there was a trade in of old consoles. Nintendo actually refurbished them with a new chipset. You can tell the difference because the shells of those refurbished consoles have a yucky looking tan color. Most sellers don't realize this. I didn't find out myself until I bought one in about 2,000 when they were around $25. It really makes a difference. Most games perform 15 to 20% better. If you don't have one of these. Find one yesterday!
That's interesting, I didn't know about that. I just thought the yellowing thing was from sun damage. I knew that the two halves of systems cases could be from different batches or factories.
This is nostalgic sweetness that I can't stop stuffing my present date hate filled eyes with. And you are hilarious. And some of the best most obscure references that really took me back. Much love!
I had a pong and Odyssey2 as a child then a genesis with cdrom. I played Nintendo on my brothers system and rented Super nintendo systems lol. The biggest change was the Voodoo 3d cards for pcs. I bought a pc and never looked back lol.
3DO.i bought one trip Hawkins still owes me a version of à IRON MEN Z FOR IT I BOUGHT MINE FOR $300 AND IN LESS THAN A YEAR. IT WAS DONE. SINCE THEY COULDN'T UPDATE IT WITH THE M2 UPGRADE THAT THEY PLANNED ON. WHAT A PITY.
Dude the quality of this video is insane! The production of this 3 hour banger must’ve taken you months of unpaid work! This has a quality that big channels just don’t deliver, because it would cost them more time/money than they would earn from it. That‘s why they don’t even bother. But you, you created this out of passion and it is amazing!
Great video. There are so many retrospective videos about retro games and computers but I enjoyed yours so much more than the others I've seen. Subscribed.
This is such an impressive video, ive just reached the part where you come on to the Commodore 64. I'm from the UK and I was a child in the 80s and from what I remember, the console crash wasn't as noticeable here because it was all about the Sinclair Spectrum or the C64. That Timex in the video was the ZX81 in the UK. It now makes sense as to why games on the C64 picked up do much after the crash as US Gold and Epyx were big here with games like Summer Games 2, Winter Games, Impossible Mission, Ballblazer and Bolderdash.
I've had a lot of people from the UK tell me about how the crash wasn't really noticed over there. Ballblazer has such a cool perspective I really like that one.
This was so well put together. Well done! Really enjoyed this walk down memory lane. Have been a gamer since the late 80s so a good chunk of this video really spoke to my nostalgia. You deserve more likes and subs for this kind of work. Keep at it!
I live in the US, Illinois to be exact, I never saw a single commodore 64 growing up, was in grade school from 86 to 92, we only had IBM's and apple 2's
Growing up i was so obsessed with blood and gore being added in video games getting my first real taste of it in Doom. I wouldn't say i am morbid or sociopathic, i think i just subconciously loved it because it brought a level of realism to games you just didnt get before. The graphics where not that great by todays standards so our minds filled in the gaps. That just made some games even that much better. (Or scarier)
There was definitely something really visceral and cool about the blood - I think mortal Kombat was the pinpoint where it was noticeably realistic (even though there were earlier games that had gore) but for me it was games like doom and resident evil where games started to get hardcore
I just found this after watching the Xbox documentary, watched the whole thing and I am sad it was over even at over 2:44 hours, this was great dude. So many nostalgic memories.
Nintendo now only makes mobile games. That cracked me up! What a shame they are not making "Empty World -Post Apocalypse - Bow and Arrow Edition 12" or "Generic 1st Person Space Shooter 124". Buy your new weapon skins now!
I'm going to assume that the 1984 film "Cloak and Dagger" was Atari's attempt at saving the 5200 and the video game industry. The movie is centered on a young gamer named Davey played by Henry Thomas who was a rising star fresh off his breakout role in ET. Davey spends most of his time playing video games. The plot of the film begins when Davey witnesses the murder of an FBI agent who with his dying breath gives him an Atari 5200 game cartridge that contains military secrets. Davey must now guard the important cartridge with his life and prevent it falling into the hands of an evil terrorist organization who are hell bent on getting ahold of the sensitive information it contains. Atari designed graphics for the fictional Cloak and Daggar game and got a lot of product promotion from their brand being featured in the movie. I consider it to be a timeless classic from my childhood. Unfortunately, it was released a year after the video game crash of 1983 which did not help it achieve the results Atari was hoping for. When you consider the poor performance of the Atari 5200 it is easy to see why the movie did little to restore public interest in video games.
I grew up with both Snes and Genesis, but I was lucky enough to have a 6 button, and I had never even heard of the *start* function key.. my friends had to bring their own controller if we wanted to play against each other.
Same. I was fortunate enough to have the Nes, Snes, and Genesis when I had to get rid of a system like the Nes I ended up with a Sega CD but tbh honest I'd prefer to have just kept the three original systems.
@johnwilliamson8367 yeah, my snes broke right around Christmas of 95 and I ended up with a Saturn instead of waiting for the PS1... long story short, I got the PS1 the next Christmas... wish I would have kept panzer dragoon though
@@aguynamedguy309 my mom broke my Genesis in a fit of rage that sucked. Granted I only played it every so often. Had an Addams Family Game that I played to the point of ad nauseam. It was a platformer and pretty decent one.
PS1 I regretted not getting just due to the sheer volume of titles. I ended up with the N64 had a bit of a wrestling obsession. N64 had titles that were good just not many that genuinely interested me. I admit though at the time Goldeneye 007 had me obsessed along with Resident Evil 2. I eventually ended up with a PS2 which somewhat made up for it
I think it's awesome that everyone is dropping comments.
I really appreciate all your support.
Nah they aren't comments. They are admirations. With the occasional mistake, mispronunciations and occasional ticked off viewers....but hey a click is a click.....keep it up
Hell we can bother you all night
1:02:30 When Sega genesis was born❤❤❤❤
1:04:12 it does means alot to us Americans the hell you mean it's nothing people always trying to bash Genesis all the time and I'm sick of it😡this is what started the console wars now!
1:07:51 bro chill just because snes had graphics and good sound doesn't mean it was better the genesis still holds the better attention then super nintendo not all the games was that great just a few
The presentation is gripping. I was just going to check it out and finish it later but now I have to finish.
I listened on 2x
I’m saving this video to watch later, and will watch the whole thing with my 10 year old son. Great first 5 minutes!
That's awesome I hope you guys have a good time!
Have you watched it yet?
Fantastic video!
I am 73 years old I was there before the first game consoles came out. I was very interested and purchased the Atari VCS later to be renamed the 2600. At the time I enjoyed the excellent game play of the 2600. I became the President of the Atari club in Louisville Kentucky. I was impressed with your assessment of video game consoles. I don’t know your age but most people that do their assessments are usually speaking of what they read because most were too young and started with the NES. I am not a Nintendo fan and for good reason. I was at a friend of mine game and computer store called videovisions. I was there when a man from Nintendo and told him that he wanted the NES to have priority over any other game consoles. He told him to put Atari on the bottom shelves or he would pull all NES consoles. That meant SEGA systems too. My friend told him that he is an Atari store mainly selling Atari computers and he will put his stock where he pleases. The man left the store clearly mad. That was how NINTENDO treat their customers. I have never forgotten that. I never had a NES because I bought the Atari 5200 and as far as the controllers. I liked them. Games like pac man were harder to play so I bought a Wico 5200 controller that had a Y adapter which let you play games like pac man like a regular joystick. And as far as the controllers failing a company called Best Electronics made new flex boards with gold contacts with a 10 year warranty. I have had them for years and they still play like new. So the only problem with the 5200 was fixed. Now there is a huge Home brew programmers doing games for the 2600,5200 7800 , ST 1:25 and the Jaguar. Retro games is now a huge market and Atari has embraced it. For the first in many years Atari are bring out new consoles. The Atari 2600+ which will play 2600 games and 7800 games. The Atari 400 mini which will play over 5000 Atari 8 bit computer games and the Atari Game Station pro with will play all Atari, Nintendo, Sega games. I also own a PlayStation 1 and the original XBOX which I bought just about every game for it. I also have a Colecovision. I have the Atari Lynx 1 & 2 . So you keep up the good work. I enjoyed your presentation!
Thank you very much for watching all the way through. I'm 34 years old so there is quite a bit that was before my time but I was fortunate enough as a child to have some exposure to those first generation video games.
Wonder what the market will look like when I'm 72.
If I may ask, what were your thoughts about companies such as Microsoft, Sony and Sega entering the video game market? And what are your thoughts on the modern gaming landscape?
Have you played cyberpunk 2077? Remember the braindances? That's how videogames will be.@martyfromnebraska1045
I love how this starts
I'm gay
Definitely an epic intro!
@@G.G.___162 yummy
Had me dying
kylekorona Soooo...it made you..happy?
Such a good video, only just found your channel and i never wouldve guessed you only had 600 subs, you deserve way more!!!!
Hey I really appreciate that. I'm glad you're here!
I agree, very impressed with this vid and I’m not even done watching it yet.
No, 600 is deserved. It's a biased, childish, and stupid video.
I cannot believe you held my attention this long......i can't believe i hid in the back of a work truck for two hours and didnt get caught....good to be a ghost thanks man
Hope you watched it twice, just in case u missed anything
Stan, you're fired
You were supposed to be fixing my Internet ass
I used to do drugs in the back of my work van.
@RByrne I thought you were doing a Mitch hedberg joke🤣
This is absolutely, by far, the best overview of early consoles on TH-cam. Well done!!! Please do more videos like this one, it is definitely your jam.
Thanks I really appreciate that
Great video
I like how you include a lot of light humor throughout the video while staying factual. It really helps me stay engaged and not get bored. I was actually able to watch the entire video cause of this and I normally don't watch videos this long so just wanted to say thank you.
I'm happy to hear that, I know exactly what you mean.
Your sense of humor and jokes are incredible. Thank you.
Great video! I love the way you tell stories
If this was 10 hours long I would have kept watching. A+++
Cannot believe your subscriber count after seeing this amazing video! So good dude, keep it up :)
I really appreciate that, we're just getting started!
The algorithm randomly recommended your video to me and I’m so glad it did. Your delivery and timing with your random inserts of humor is perfect! I’m so excited to finish the rest of this.
Modern documentary "directors" could learn a lot, from a mostly unbiased gameography, as this one.
And, at least your commentary is blunt, flat, direct, and to the point.
No Punch Outs pulled.
Absolutely incredible! As a lay historian and player of video games since the early 80s with my first console being the Atari 2600, and owned most every major console up until the latest generation, I have seen countless documentaries on the history of video game development and the console wars. This was by far the best. The level of information, knowledge and insight is unsurpassed in this documentary. Can I ask you how you became so knowledgeable and what your sources of information are? Thanks!
I just grew up through it all. I wrote most of the script off the top of my head, but then did some quick google searches to get the correct numbers for sales and to look into a few of the older ones that wasn't as familiar with. Mostly its just from my personal experience.
@@calic737very cool! You have a great memory. 😂
I can't believe I watched this whole documentary. I've watched the evolution of video consoles since pong. It never ceases to amaze me at the technological advances in that time.
As veteran of the console wars, chicken sandwich wars and the war on christmas, i can confidently say that war never changes
Okay, I still got 2 hours and 43 minutes to go here, but gotta comment - that was a helluva intro!! Thanks!
Thank you, Japan
It's a miracle we still have home video game systems. Truly.
Console competition and exclusives aka the console wars has always been a good thing for the consumers. It has stopped one company from being a monopoly and has helped push innovation for both software and console hardware in fear of the competition.
I absolutely agree with you
“Drop a fat stack” that’s the line that earned my sub.
huh. thats one of the lines and the kind of line, I wish was absent from an otherwise good video. i guess its meant to demonstrate personailty, but it gives me the ick.
@@professorlaser7132ok professor laser
Excellent video. I wasn’t born yet for consoles like the Odessey, or pong clones, or even the original Atari. I was just old enough to remember playing the original NES right before the super came out, so sometimes I forget the console wars started wily before Sega and Nintendo. Sometimes I full on forget about the 3DO or that other strangeness Nintendo got up to with their Zelda and Mario titles. This was super entertaining and informative. I loved seeing what those other companies were getting up to, and the addition of their commercials at the time was fun. Still a little sad about the Sega Dreamcast, but I didn’t know the Jaguar was now in the public domain. I watched this video in bits over the last few days. Nice work
Thanks I really appreciate that. Watching commercials from the past feels like peering into another world.
Sir, you are a whole video game museum in persona. Respect and love!
I’ve come back to your video all week, bit by bit, on my ride home.
Thank you for this. The nostalgia hits hard, had no idea how good I had it growing up between gen’s 5-7. Sony vs Microsoft vs Nintendo, in my opinion, is the diamond age of video gaming. So many gems, in games and accessories.
What an incredible history.
It was a time to be alive!
honestly i kinda feel like console gaming is dying:
1) Playstation & Xbox release their games on PC now
2) with physical media dying off there is no benefit to get a console instead of buying games on PC
3) hybrids are getting more popular and they have all the benefits of being a handheld & PC/console
4) playing on PC is so much cheaper and accessible
5) you can play pretty much every game that exists on PC
6) mods/rom-hacks enhances any game
i used to be a Nintendo enjoyer but ever since i migrated to Steam and when i got my Steam Deck, i started to feel that consoles are just obsolete. The only thing holding it back is the stereotype that you need to tinker a lot with PC games to get a good experience which isn't really the case for me. Steam Proton has been able to fix most instances of a game not booting up for me.
I used to only ever play games on console but even I'm moving over to PC
"Number 2- There is no benefit to getting a console." I would say the cost of a console alone being far, far cheaper than a PC ends that number pretty quickly. Further, this notion that all console games are coming to PC is just a blatant lie. Tell me, master race, how do you intend to play GTAVI? Moving along.
Not every game releasing on consoles is fully digital. We (fiancee and I) own an Xbox Series X, PS5, Steam Deck, and Switch right now. I would say a good majority of my games are on disc and can be played offline. I do my utmost to buy everything physical because I'm not paying full price to rent my games. I would also say there are quite a few games that have not appeared on a PC, I'm afraid.
Lastly, your attempt at logically trying to spin a PC as being better than a console doesn't really hold water. You say that we should just get a PC instead but still present the very same set of problems. Why in God's glorious name would I pay double+ for pretty much the exact same experience with tons of DRM? Nope.
Unfortunately, PC gaming is just as screwed as console gaming. You do realize once Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo takeover full distribution of all console games, they will be coming for the PC next. Microsoft has already openly admitted they wish to aquire Steam and are fine with performing a hostile takeover. The video game industry, as we know it, is heading for a monumental crash, and there is nothing that is going to stop it. No matter your platform of choice, it's all gone. Thankfully, I'm prepared for this little eventuality...are you?
Ooops... one more thing- The Steam Deck is neat but better than a console? It's better than the Switch but does not hold a candle to either the Series X or PS5. Although it is nice to play my Series X and PS5 games on our Steam Deck, that's pretty neat.
@@Sinn0100 PC is cheaper than console because everyone already has a PC (just not neccesairly the most powerful on the market). And if where talking prices and DRM, you don't have to limit yourself to Steam and there are plenty of (free) open source games on PC
@@Sinn0100 you say i'm a PC master race but i literally say in my comment that i used to be a Nintendo enjoyer. I don't care for the highest possible graphics (in fact i prefer older graphics over "modern graphics", the type of gameplay i enjoy is very broad (i only really strongly dislike multiplayer-only and Stealth games). i mostly play indie and fan-games. And lastly i don't discriminate a game for having a specific art style (visually i can pretty much enjoy anything with very rare exeptions like the current Pokemon games)
I’m so glad I found this video. I’ve had a good portion of these going back to the Atari 2600, intellivision, Colecovision, and Panasonic 3DO
Nice video on the history of console gaming. I think the Switch has become my favorite console of all time. The hybrid portability, the big library of games and how easy it is to turn on and play got me back into gaming after quitting video games for years.
I also think the switch is great. Pretty much all of the first party Nintendo games are really good too. I also really appreciate the growing library of retro games you can play on it.
The card readers in the front of the early PS3s were a cool addition tbf.
This could legit be on loop in a videogame museum and yeah people will only see a fraction of it but when you're done seeing everything else and come back. Chances are extremely high that something you haven't seen of this video is on and you'll watch another chunk of it...at least I would haha
Are there any video game museums? That's a really fun idea.
@calic737 There's at least one haha. It's in Berlin, i've been there a couple of years ago
There's actually a national video game museum in Texas as well! It's pretty cool and they have a bunch of rare consoles on display, dev kits, and tons of games to play. If you're ever in the Dallas area definitely check it out! This video would fit right in there.
This is a great little trip through history. I lived it from the NES on, and it’s pretty much spot on.
The only things I noticed that weren’t exactly right was that the N64 actually didn’t have Mario 64 as a pack in game. It was kindof a big deal at the time since the NES and the SNES had always come with Mario, but for the first time you had to buy it separately. Also, the only game to ship with the expansion pack was Donkey Kong. Majaoras mask required it but didn’t ship with it, and Perfect Dark actually let you play against bots without the expansion pack, which would have never been necessary had they planned on including it.
I remember the 5200 had a really high price as well. Don't remember but it was a lot more than competing systems. Plus, they made a cartridge that was supposed to play 2600 games. And most of them were defective and broke the actual cartridge slot itself
Blast Processing was actually a term coined by a sega engineer referring to ways to get more colors on the screen , and the marketing team took that phrase and ran with it as a way to describe its very fast CPU, which did really benefit the console.
I didn't know that, so it actually does mean something!
When you look at the specs between the Sega Genesis and the super NES side by side, the super NES is larger, better, and faster in every way except for a processing chip. And that's the chip that saga used for their best processor marketing campaign. Kind of forget the other 9 other things and run with the one thing that you're better at campaign
@@MediocreUkulelePlayer that’s marketing for ya. Not that I think it matters in totality, the software is what defines a platform more than anything, but you couldn’t go out there and be like “our console is older and doesn’t have as many robust features out of the box”. It wouldn’t make for a great campaign. The amazing thing is what devs were able to accomplish under such incredible restrictive confines of each of these machines
Not the true full story, it's VDP with higher bandwidth DMA did it's thing also. Don't forget it was released 2 years before the SNES and at 1988 was a power house.
@@opaljk4835 Yep, doesn't matter. As i do love both systems!
Great video. I am sure this took forever to research and make. Very much appreciated. I watched the entire thing. Keep up the great work.
Thanks, I really appreciate that!
It was all about imagination back then. I'm 43 and I love all video games.
You're absolutely right
I made a TON of money buying Broken 360s and PS3s. I had a reballer so re mounting the GPU fixes it right up.
I made almost 150 dollars per unit. the LASER was also a big flaw on the 360 as well as the PS3. and because of
the 4 different models of PS3 it became a pain getting the right laser. Gen 1 and 2 were different with Gen 2 having the Backwards Drive, gen 3 and 5 were different.
because 5 was a slim. It had a Great media player through. it detected a SMB and Media Server with quick and easy browsing on the network.
“port-man-tow” or if you're trying to sound French, “poor-tah-mon-toe”
Excellent presentation! Thanks. Grew up with the start of the VCS and really enjoyed this story
TurboGrafx-16 : The very first actual Graphics Processing Unit, released on the day I was born. I love it.
I remember Intellivision in Woolworths department store when I was a kid. First game I played was Baseball and it was amazing. But the went out of business fast. Too bad, it would have made great games but only ended up with a handfull.
My man, you have a bright future on this platform. I just sent this to all my retro homies and dropped a fat stack.
how does this guy not have more subscribers, I’m only 40 minutes in and i’m so hooked. Love the vid.
Thanks man I really appreciate that!
I've been watching your big epic video about years so minutes at a time these past few days. I'm up to PS4 error. This was really cool.
I got in before 700 subs. Can't wait to look back on this in 3 years when you're at 700k. Great video, so well-written and spoken, and entertaining. Flew by in a flash, and I learned a lot as well! GG!
LMAO I meant to type 70k but ya know, why not? 😂
I am all for him having 700k!
He puts in so much more work tan those big content farming people who destroy TH-cam!
I can assure you those "ass" graphics looked amazing. We had never seen anything like that before back then.
Oh Definitely. Having a home console back then would have been the coolest thing.
This was fantastic Calic! This channel is criminally under viewed . The effort you put into these really shows!
Great video. Can't believe I sat through it in its entirety though. I am sitting in the oil field all night by myself. Waiting for something to break down and require my attention. I do have a lot of down time during these 12-hour shifts, so great job on all the research you did for this video. Though I would like to point out the Nintendo 64 did have loading times with some of their games such as quake for one though it was very quick absolutely nothing like medal of Honor or Dragon riders of pern for Dreamcast LOL
You are right about the short loading times on some N64 games.
Dreamcast was really cool, Power Stone is probably my favorite on there.
@@calic737 yep, both power Stone games were pretty ballin', Dreamcast was probably the one system that I collected the most for. I had 60 games not to mention just... tons of peripherals and before it I was always a Nintendo Fanboy.
Dreamcast was an underrated underappreciated and an amazing system.
I am SO SO glad I can still enjoy playing it through emulation. In fact, after 15 hours of gameplay I defeated Experimental Gimmick Gear in the oil field after only playing a few hours of it just over 20 years ago.
Not the greatest game but a pretty good game especially if you like beautiful hand-drawn art and Zelda type games set in a post-apocalyptic setting.
Can't wait rewatch the whole thing in a week
Loved this subscribed straight away, sonic 3 being so good looking at the time was a good memory to me I got it imported from Japan with a converter to play it in the UK and I am sure it was about 70-80 quid back in the 90s crazy money but it was worth it
I got the Genesis that was bundled with Vector Man 😂.... I can't believe how fun and challenging that game was lol😂😂
You have an incredible way with words. Describing the sound of the Atari 7800 as "threatening" had me crying for some reason.
As a kid who grew up through all this, SEGA never had a chance. I remember the first time I played SEGA at a friends house and my thought leaving was “So how is that better than Nintendo?”
Your voice sounds like those voices that used to be on kid show that reads stories or teach lessons
The Bally Astrocade actually had 4 joystick adapters. I remember playing 4 player football. It was amazing back then as the unique controller allows you to move the quarterback and separately control where his arm is pointing.
That's awesome, I didn't know that.
Such a good video. As a 42 year old who has played games my whole life, this was a good look back. Thank you.
This video was really good
By far the best video on the topic. Keep up the good work. RESPECT!
I think Microsoft is testing out streaming by streaming XBox Series games to an XBox One. They will probably start putting an XBOX app on TVs so you don't need a console and they will just stream it like Stadia did
Stadia would have been really cool if it wasn't so slow. I feel like once they iron out that process it will be really cool.
@@calic737 I didn't have an issue with it, but my internet is really solid since my work pays for it
Like Ubisoft sayd...Peopel will love to pay for Games without owning them ...maybe .At the Moment it looks more like X Box Consumers dont buy Games and still have not more GamePass Subcribers on PC/ Konsole then Switch or PS .Didtn MS say something about if they dont get 100 Mill Subscribers till 2028 they leaving Field? and make Games for Switch and Playstation couse PC Gamers dont buy theyr Games 2 Times on Steam for GamePass Dudes?😅
I just realized your comment was 3 months ago… sure enough, the are releasing/ or maybe already did release an app for amazon fire stick!!!!
@@MrZombs123There has been an app on Samsung TVs for a few years
Well played Sir. Very good documentary. You captured more than most.
This was such an awesome video. I can only imagine how many hours, days and week you spent on this. You also have a great voice, don’t try to be a comedian and don’t use obnoxious acronyms like “SNESSS”. It’s like sitting down with a friend you’ve known for years. Awesome job. New subscriber and can’t wait to see what you have coming next!
Still have R.O.B. In his box.
The problem with the 7800 was that it was tech from 1983 so it was pretty outdated by the time it came out. I realize it’s only a year behind the famicom but they desperately needed to add some sound hardware and whatnot
Didn't help it sat in gce's warehouse singing where's my money
Yep Atari kept trying to push dated hardware onto the market and the market wasn't having it. Putting the 2600 sound chip into the 7800 was just stupid (though some cartridges came with the slightly more advanced pokey chip from the computer line). I get the logic since they thought 2600 compatibility would help them sell more units but man did it sound terrible for the time. It saddened me since I was an Atari fan growing up with an Atari 800. Atari and Sega are prime examples of market leaders fumbling the ball massively.
The 7800 was just a recycled 5800 with the outdated tech of the 2600.
Imagine taking a Steamdeck back to 1983. It’d blow everyone’s mind 😂
This was done really well and nostalgic to see some of the old commercials. I also appreciated that there was little to no bias during this because of personal preferences for a specific system you owned as ive seen others do. For me, i jumped around from system to system over the years for certain games, looks, price, etc and rarely fell victim to being a fanboy of a certain system; i had an Atari 2600 first, got a NES, then Genesis but still wanted an SNES yet couldn’t afford it, Sega CD, N64, Playstation, PS2, Wii, etc. i jumped around to be able to play games i like.
For the video I wanted to be as unbiased as possible. I was all about Nintendo growing up so that's where my bias would be.
@ you did really well at not coming across as favoring one system or another, and i personally didnt notice any leaning towards Nintendo over other systems. 👍
Brilliantly done, a very pleasant watch. One of the best videos I've seen on consoles wars.
Seriously epic video dude, I can't imagine working on something this long. Great job compiling all the clips / commercials and facts. One small thing I noticed, the Atari Jaquar controller you showed is the 2019 Pro version. It actually is a fanastic redesign, with more responsive buttons and the 3 addition buttons making it the first 6 button controller for the system. The original controller only had 3 buttons (plus the num pad allowed for overlays - AVP for example).
Oh really I didn't know we had a new controller for it. I did notice that there were two different kinds, but I didn't know it wasn't an original design. I love all of the fan made and independent games.
I had the saga channel. I had the sega CD with the 32X I had to it was awesome.
This is really important. The SNES refurbished systems have an updated chipset. When the PS1 came out that there was a trade in of old consoles. Nintendo actually refurbished them with a new chipset. You can tell the difference because the shells of those refurbished consoles have a yucky looking tan color. Most sellers don't realize this. I didn't find out myself until I bought one in about 2,000 when they were around $25. It really makes a difference. Most games perform 15 to 20% better. If you don't have one of these. Find one yesterday!
That's interesting, I didn't know about that. I just thought the yellowing thing was from sun damage. I knew that the two halves of systems cases could be from different batches or factories.
This is nostalgic sweetness that I can't stop stuffing my present date hate filled eyes with. And you are hilarious. And some of the best most obscure references that really took me back. Much love!
I had a pong and Odyssey2 as a child then a genesis with cdrom. I played Nintendo on my brothers system and rented Super nintendo systems lol. The biggest change was the Voodoo 3d cards for pcs. I bought a pc and never looked back lol.
Best line of the entire Doc was at the beginning of the Atari section "These games still looked like ass" LMAO! Greatest doc on TH-cam right here.
Great video!
3DO.i bought one trip Hawkins still owes me a version of à IRON MEN Z FOR IT I BOUGHT MINE FOR $300 AND IN LESS THAN A YEAR. IT WAS DONE. SINCE THEY COULDN'T UPDATE IT WITH THE M2 UPGRADE THAT THEY PLANNED ON. WHAT A PITY.
subscribed at minute 2 when I caught on how back you went :D, can't wait to watch it all
Dude the quality of this video is insane!
The production of this 3 hour banger must’ve taken you months of unpaid work!
This has a quality that big channels just don’t deliver, because it would cost them more time/money than they would earn from it.
That‘s why they don’t even bother.
But you, you created this out of passion and it is amazing!
Great video. There are so many retrospective videos about retro games and computers but I enjoyed yours so much more than the others I've seen. Subscribed.
This was a ton of work, congrats on a well edited and written piece of gaming history.
Great video, the intro sequence is gold.
Great video man! I love these long games videos that I can just sit back and enjoy.
Takes me right back to my childhood.
Been wanting to know the name of get for decades. I remember playing it as a quid an could never remember. Thought I imagined it lol.
Legit! Fantastic video with so much detail.
Great jokes in here and lots of nostalgia. I wasn't expecting to enjoy this video as much as I did.
"To get it home and have it look like this... That'll be a bill please." lol
Amazing work. Love to see the passion with documenting this important history!
This is such an impressive video, ive just reached the part where you come on to the Commodore 64. I'm from the UK and I was a child in the 80s and from what I remember, the console crash wasn't as noticeable here because it was all about the Sinclair Spectrum or the C64. That Timex in the video was the ZX81 in the UK. It now makes sense as to why games on the C64 picked up do much after the crash as US Gold and Epyx were big here with games like Summer Games 2, Winter Games, Impossible Mission, Ballblazer and Bolderdash.
I've had a lot of people from the UK tell me about how the crash wasn't really noticed over there. Ballblazer has such a cool perspective I really like that one.
This was so well put together. Well done! Really enjoyed this walk down memory lane. Have been a gamer since the late 80s so a good chunk of this video really spoke to my nostalgia. You deserve more likes and subs for this kind of work. Keep at it!
This is quite the undertaking and very well done. Nice work!
I live in the US, Illinois to be exact, I never saw a single commodore 64 growing up, was in grade school from 86 to 92, we only had IBM's and apple 2's
I was there and this is pretty darned accurate. Well done.
Growing up i was so obsessed with blood and gore being added in video games getting my first real taste of it in Doom. I wouldn't say i am morbid or sociopathic, i think i just subconciously loved it because it brought a level of realism to games you just didnt get before. The graphics where not that great by todays standards so our minds filled in the gaps. That just made some games even that much better. (Or scarier)
I thought Killer instinct was so immersive because of how mature it was
There was definitely something really visceral and cool about the blood - I think mortal Kombat was the pinpoint where it was noticeably realistic (even though there were earlier games that had gore) but for me it was games like doom and resident evil where games started to get hardcore
I just found this after watching the Xbox documentary, watched the whole thing and I am sad it was over even at over 2:44 hours, this was great dude. So many nostalgic memories.
That was a really good one too.
Awesome video dude, keep it up and you will get a bigger audience without a doubt.
Quite the video for such a tiny channel! That's pretty inspiring as just started a channel, albeit with very different content.
yeah we're just getting started!
Wow. This video blew me away. You deserve WAY more subscribers!
Best video game documentary I've ever seen!
Excellent work. I watched the entire video through.
Nintendo now only makes mobile games. That cracked me up!
What a shame they are not making "Empty World -Post Apocalypse - Bow and Arrow Edition 12" or "Generic 1st Person Space Shooter 124". Buy your new weapon skins now!
I'm going to assume that the 1984 film "Cloak and Dagger" was Atari's attempt at saving the 5200 and the video game industry. The movie is centered on a young gamer named Davey played by Henry Thomas who was a rising star fresh off his breakout role in ET. Davey spends most of his time playing video games. The plot of the film begins when Davey witnesses the murder of an FBI agent who with his dying breath gives him an Atari 5200 game cartridge that contains military secrets. Davey must now guard the important cartridge with his life and prevent it falling into the hands of an evil terrorist organization who are hell bent on getting ahold of the sensitive information it contains. Atari designed graphics for the fictional Cloak and Daggar game and got a lot of product promotion from their brand being featured in the movie. I consider it to be a timeless classic from my childhood. Unfortunately, it was released a year after the video game crash of 1983 which did not help it achieve the results Atari was hoping for. When you consider the poor performance of the Atari 5200 it is easy to see why the movie did little to restore public interest in video games.
I grew up with both Snes and Genesis, but I was lucky enough to have a 6 button, and I had never even heard of the *start* function key.. my friends had to bring their own controller if we wanted to play against each other.
Same. I was fortunate enough to have the Nes, Snes, and Genesis when I had to get rid of a system like the Nes I ended up with a Sega CD but tbh honest I'd prefer to have just kept the three original systems.
@johnwilliamson8367 yeah, my snes broke right around Christmas of 95 and I ended up with a Saturn instead of waiting for the PS1... long story short, I got the PS1 the next Christmas... wish I would have kept panzer dragoon though
@@aguynamedguy309 my mom broke my Genesis in a fit of rage that sucked. Granted I only played it every so often. Had an Addams Family Game that I played to the point of ad nauseam. It was a platformer and pretty decent one.
PS1 I regretted not getting just due to the sheer volume of titles. I ended up with the N64 had a bit of a wrestling obsession. N64 had titles that were good just not many that genuinely interested me. I admit though at the time Goldeneye 007 had me obsessed along with Resident Evil 2. I eventually ended up with a PS2 which somewhat made up for it