Hey guys, thank you so much for your support! You can retweet about this here twitter.com/MRIXRT/status/1710339509777576091 Read more for notes about this video: - Yes, there is a podcast version available on all major Podcast sites! Find more here videogames.transistor.fm/subscribe - Yes, there is a 2 hour extended version. You can see it on my patreon patreon.com/reallycool --- or if you are a TH-cam member you can see it here th-cam.com/video/7ehutnLDJAQ/w-d-xo.html - A viewer brought to attention that a portion of the Mortal Kombat script ended up being taken from a Mental Floss listicle, nearly word for word. Listening to myself read someone else's words was shocking. This appears to have been an unfortunate series of accidents where two bulletpoints from the Mental Floss listicle were copied and pasted into my notes without being correctly marked, and many months later were added into the script. These commonly known facts about the game, that the game was created in under a year, and that it was originally based on Jean Claude Van Damme but later reconfigured around an original character, were later read and mistakenly understood by me to be originally written and not notes intended to be used as a reminder during my writing. I have contacted the author to request permission to keep it in the video.
My dude 12 hours just tells me you were too lazy to edit it down. I would've watched if it wasn't TWELVE, I REPEAT TWELVE HOURS LONG FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. no. When did TH-camrs start thinking videos this long was a good idea, jeez
@@RedceLL1978it has to be longer than the video it's a direct copy of... ... Don't you know how copy cat TH-camrs work? Substitute creativity and talent for length! You seem new here!
Heck after watching this whole thing i must admit. Not only is it the definitive documentary on video games, but its also a twelve hour lesson on the innovations that world has made to make an industry that's larger than film industry. Good stuff man
I believe KnverKnowBest's video, even if less than 6 hours Is More complete and ordered, with More información on the industry starting from.even before arcades.
I studied on volumes and anthologies (art, literature, history, religions, anthropology..) things that are old of centuries and millennia, things that often we cannot experience directly, like all the events in history or ancient texts, paintings and sculptures, or whole cultures as well, that we cannot see but we just found documents and writings about.. and I always ask myself: are they right? Should I have faith in things that other people of the past saw and wrote "objective opinions" about? Well, an history of video-games would be another thing! People do not understand now how much this medium and period have nothing so much different from the golden era of sculptures or the one of paintings or the one of novels and then (recently accepted as such) the one of movies.. now it's the video-games golden era and centuries from now maybe people will read and study about our culture and its maximum artistical expression.. and we are living it and we could understand it better than every other generation of the future of the human kind. (oops, I'm sorry for the lenght; when I started writing I just didn't know I got this in to let out.. 😅 🔥🔥)
I was born a little later but I can relate. We were kings, emperors, we’re lucky. The amount of fun from getting our 16bit console/computer is at least a thousand times bigger than a kid receiving his ps5 today or some iPhone (i feel sorry for them but what one can do?!)
Thank you for this. My cat is basically paralyzed (long story we're working with a specialist.) But since she cant get around, I leave this video on for her. I genuinely believe she enjoys it. She looks at the colorful screens mostly. I like your commentary as well. its not Robotic and AI sounding. And you're also not shouting and flocculating the volume up and down. Thank you for keeping my critter company, and lulling me off to sleep most nights.
This is one of those videos that should absolutely have more views than it has. It’s a monumental undertaking and even though I’m only two hours in, you’ve nailed it so far!
@@reallycool oh I will dude spent the last week watching few hours a night and it's been such a nostalgia trip, showed a lot of it to my son who thinks games began with Fortnite lol. Keep it up 👍
Forgotten Lore section is extremely important. Most gaming history is dictated by what game publishers and poorly researched magazines say. So actual facts and history gets buried.
I kind of like what you said and find very smart and important, as long as we remember that it is like it for every other kind of history and it is not possible to have an objective history of something; there always will be points of view to choice and other to cut off.
Dude, you got me thru just shy of two days of work. Myself and lunch and powebank have been held up in a shack buried in snow waiting for a train thats 16 hours late (derailed four states away) thank you
@@reallycool bro I'm still waiting for it. On my 37th straight hour. Thank God there's a fireplace in here and my bosses check in by radio every 12 hours to know I'm alive. Been a nice little camping trip. No worries though the trains in motion and expected in 4 hours....then 2 days of rest. Keep up the good work
Wow... I thought TH-cam was bugged for a moment, but no. This is actually a 12 hour fully narrated video God, I can only imagine how long this took. I though Joseph Anderson's video's were insane, but this is something else. Welp, might as well start getting an education.
I was just watching "The Entire History of Video Games" by NeverKnowsBest, and I thought that one was long at 6 hours! This is insanely impressive and will have MauLer rethinking what long really means! 😉
Absolutely fantastic video and mindblowing that it didn't instantly blow up immediately on release, as I feel is the case with much of your content. You consistently produce some of the best video game content on TH-cam, I legitimately cannot believe your channel hasn't blown up. One minor correction on the Overwatch segment, the heroes being more fleshed out individualistic characters is not the reason why there's only one of each hero per team, that was a later addition and not an intended design decision by the dev team. On launch, hero stacking was allowed and the devs were adamant about it being in the spirit of fun that they wanted to embrace with the game but the playerbase very vocally expressed their dislike for it and wanted it removed because it was simply not fun to play against 6 of the same characters and it actively broke the game. 6 Symmetras or Meis meant you wouldn't be able to move at all, 6 Bastions burst you down instantly, 6 Soldiers was the optimal meta as he's the most self sufficient hero so you had to deal with 6 slippery fuckers that wouldn't die yet did a solid amount of damage too and at that point you're just playing any other shooter if everyone's just playing Soldier. It was quickly removed from the Competitive game mode after they introduced it but it was still allowed in Quick Play for a while until they eventually removed it there as well (probably as players stopped playing QP in favor of Competitive for the same reason of it not being fun to encounter duplicates of the same hero).
Thank you for including Phantasy Star Online. ❤ This game is so underrated, ignored as the pioneer it was and deserve its place in history. Simply put, it is one of the most innovative game of all time and it brought so much to the industry. It's never named nor mention in most top 10 or top 100 in mainstream media, but it really deserve its place next to Zelda OTT, Myst, doom, super Mario bros, etc... It does deserve recognition for changing the industry forever and the way we play console today. Naka may be blamed for the stock fraud, being a princess to work with and Balan wonderworld, and may be recognized for creating Sonic, but PSO is by far its greatest achievement and he did drop the mic on the industry with that title. Anyway incredible video and work man, subbed! I wish there was a glimpse at Panzer Dragoon Saga though, which was as revolutionnary as ff7 (and way more technically impressive) but failed to get recognition because of its late release and the saturn failure.
I actually watched the whole thing (in 10-20 sessions). It was good, but the first half was better than the second. You stop talking about the actual reasons to 'time capsule' certain releases and somewhat start drifting. In the first part, I miss the inclusion of 8 and 16 bit computers, which paved the way for gaming. The advent of piracy and impact on certain games/studios is also somewhat missing; this led to the demise of PC gaming in the early 2000s. Releases didn't come to the PC because they'd be cracked in a jiffy and not sell. After better protection schemes and online authentications, PC gaming bounced back. Overall, very good video - keep up the great work.
Nice trip down memory lane,been gaming since my first 2600. Lost is alot of history in gaming,glad you took the time to chronicle it for those that haven't been at it as long as others. Rich is the history of gaming,as i look back on some of the things i was told one stands out the most. You wont ever make any money playing video games,video games will warp your reality perception. During my DOS years writing my own programs on my 64, i remember thinking one day I wont have to spend hours writing my own programs or copying them from a PC mag. The world has moved on from those days,and gaming has taken off in soooo many ways. To have lived and played these years has been a ride i hope to continue till I MOVE ON MYSELF,and fade into gaming history.
1996 to 2008. That 12 year period is the reason why i love gaming. Being born in 01 Heres some of my favs. 1998 - Metal Gear Solid, Half-Life, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Fallout 2, Resident Evil 2, Starcraft, Tekken 3, Grim Fandango, Banjo-Kazooie 2001 - Halo: Combat Evolved, Grand Theft Auto III, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Devil May Cry, Luigi’s Mansion, Super Monkey Ball, Gran Turismo III, SSX Tricky, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, 2004 - Halo 2, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, GTA: San Andreas, Counter-Strike: Source, Ratchet & Clank 3, Jak 3, Need For Speed: Underground 2, Metroid Prime 2. 2005 - Resident Evil 4, Shadow of the Colossus, God of War, Guitar Hero 2007 - Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Halo 3, Rock Band, Super Mario Galaxy, Team Fortress 2 Honorable mention to 2011 - Skyrim, Dark Souls, The Witcher 2, Batman: Arkham City, Dead Space 2, Minecraft, Portal 2, The Binding Of Isaac 2017 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Resident Evil 7, Cuphead, Persona 5
If you were born in 2001 you were way too young to actually experience gaming in these years. Your childhood was the 2011 minecraft and horror streamer age.
I’m afraid Morrowind NPCs do not have schedules, actually. That element of Bethesda’s games started with Oblivion. Morrowind’s NPCs just stand in one spot or walk around a small area.
An interesting fact about Minesweeper and Solitaire is that they were actually hidden tutorials. They were meant to get people used to clicking on things with the mouse (Minesweeper) and drag and drop (Solitaire). At least that's what I read somewhere :)
Wow... Just wow!! Bro I first saw you on EFAP and couldn't find your channel even though I typed "Moriarty's channel" into TH-cam.... Thank god I finally found it and found this video!!! Not even trying to blow smoke here but this video fully deserves some sort of award!!! Look forward to more content from you man!!! Cheers from Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺 Edit: My choice for most awesome games ever: earthbound & secret of mana
I can only imagine how much work was put into this video! Amazing work! The bit on Phantasmagoria reminded me of a pet peeve I have with that game. Considering all the money that Sierra spent on the studio for Phantasmagoria. It's almost criminal how bad the end product sound came out. It's like nobody on the team had any idea how to setup any kind of sound dampening in the studio. So every line sounds like it's recorded in the middle of a huge indoor arena. When you are in the mansion large rooms/halls you could say it fits. But anywhere else it feels so extremely out of place.
What an opus this video is! The history is correct, and the analysis seems spot on. It deserves so many more views and appreciation. I fear the length of it scares many away. Perhaps the same video, broken into several parts might get more views?
I found you through EFAP after finding them only a couple years ago. I've loved your stuff and can't wait to go through this video. It'll take a while but I'm sure itll be worth the ride. Cheers mate!
@ianweckhorst3200 EFAP or Every Frame A Pause is a media analysis podcast. They'll cover different TH-cam videos or do breakdowns of movies/video games. In one of their early episodes they covered one of Moriartys videos and an episode or 2 later he came on to defend his position and he's since been on frequently throughout the years. The episodes average out to like 8 hours each so it's good to listen to at work for me
I wish I was as excited about my life as when watching this video: "Wow I can't believe this amazing year is already over, but omg the next one is gonna be the best one for sure!" The really good content on TH-cam is sadly not the most popular one, and lots of people are just striving for their brainless 5 minutes here. And to really finish watching your video, it took me a few weeks, even though I specifically looked for something just like this. But I hope you keep doing your thing, and I'm gonna keep listening to this on Spotify this time!
I love reading and watching all videos about gaming history especially after actually playing atari games and learning about the full history on the Atari 50 collection
Sierra and Lucasarts games had such a huge impact on my childhood getting into games. Now as an adult and going back to Sierra's Lord's of Magic I'm blown away but just how awesome they could make games
weirdly enough (NOT) one of the first "disclaimers" that I noticed was about game release and game impact. I immediately thought "Minecraft" and "Among Us". People miss that communication. I played minecraft between 2010 and 2014 and I think it was a beta version during all that time. But yeah, in 2013 it blew up and 2014 MS$ bought it.
I’ve just been scrolling through comments entertaining myself, but waow, you should read my comment closer to the top on suggestions regarding video quality and possible sponsors, although most of my comments are just for fun, I’m currently denying all comments containing references to any song that aren’t approved with the following string: (Approved by ianweckhorst) In keeping with the papers please game
2000 gave us a wide variety for sure. I mean from Sims, to Frogger 2, Tony Hawk 2, Diablo 2, there was something for almost everyone. And that was just PC games.
I am only 5 minutes in and I can already tell that this is a special vid. Appreciate the thought and care put into this so far. Mentioning Yu Suzuki , Earthbound, and the thought-provoking query on " What video game would you share as mankind legacy?" Great stuff broseph smith.
Bro I love this video. I'm not even fucking around, I enjoy that u made the video full length. I love being able to come and go watching it and not have to remember which video, bc it's all in one. Thank you.
The one major blind spot I think is visual novels. Would recommend checking out Portopia Serial Murder Case (genre definer), Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney (popularizer in the west), the Fate series (mega popular franchise that started as a visual novel), and Umineko (the pinnacle of the genre)
This should be saved for all time and shown to EVERYONE who makes video games for a living…hell, it should be required viewing! especially for the massively huge publishers who apparently forgot what a video game really needs to be about. *cough* EA. I remember I got really excited whenever an Electronic Arts game came out! NO MORE! At 13, I was like “oh my god this is amazing”, almost 30 years later I’m like, “eh” 🤷♂️
Okay so this took me like a week to get through but its done. So to be honest my main reason for checking this video out was your role in the Newtubers Community. You seem extremely knowledgeable and tend not to sugar code things which has led to me having a respect for you Upon actually checking the video out i have come to the realization that this video is like being a child in a candy shop for me. I have always been interested in looking at my favorite gaming series and going back to its origins looking at the series game to game seeing how it evolves and iterates on itself overtime. so a 12 hour video pretty much doing that but with the entire gaming industry is really like Christmas came a few months early, and yes. the Video was extremely enjoyable and i have had it on as background noise for a while. slightly depressed that i need to find new sources to use as background noise. One game I do feel like should of had at least a brief mention in 2005 is Neversoft's GUN. i really cant blame you for overlooking it as sadly it has been forgotten due to Red Dead Redemption just doing everything it did better. some things of note about the game are 1. The game did the whole Open world western thing before Red dead redemption did. Red dead revolver was out but GUN was a open world unlike that game. a small open world but... still. 2. it was extremely experimental for Neversoft. these were the guys who were making tony hawk games and here they were, making a graphic 3rd person shooter western. 3. the game landed itself in hot water and got boycotted due to its blatantly racist depiction of Native Americans.
@@reallycool completely understandable. 2005 was a super heavy hitting year. fun fact there was set to be a GUN sequel at some point but it got cancelled due to the first games poor sales, i believe there still is a want to make the game though but no plans as of now
Your vermintide 2 onslaught video was really good 👍 you seem like a legitimately good creator. Im excited to see what else you got in store for the future
The assassination of Lord British in UO will always be the example of how griefers will use any mechanic they can to create havoc. And that was when the Internet was a nicer neighborhood.
This is such a fascinating video to me. Except for the Atari I occasionally played with our neighbors' grandson, I never played on any console. We did, however, have computers at home relatively early on, first my dad's work computer and then my older brother's Texas Instruments, and I'm so old I remember my first PC games requiring a run command (I do not miss DOS). So we're talking pre-windows, pre-mouse(!) computers, then later floppies and CD ROMs, but basically early 80s to early 90s PCs (the PCs kept going, I just turned into a teenage girl and wasn't interested again for a coupe decades) which ran a buttload of games, some, I guess, in parallel to consoles, yet it seems that all innovations in gaming were focused on consoles during that time. I've reached the mid-90s now and it seems PCs were still insignificant. I'm really curious to learn when they started making an impact on the gaming industry. Anyway, well done, M.
Pc gaming was extremely revolutionary in those decades as well it's just that i guess their technical capacity and public were far different from consoles so it didnt intersect a lot at that time? But the pc gaming scene was huge still and way more experimental because it was mostly done by "indie" creators and for more niche people since companies didn't think they would be lucrative
2017 is one of the best years in gaming. Period. Yakuza 0, Nier Automata, BOTW, Mario Odyssey, Hollow Knight, Persona 5, Divinity Original Sin 2, What Remains Of Edith Finch, Resident Evil 7, Detention, PREY 2017, Sonic Mania, Gravity Rush 2, Gorogoa, Total War Warhammer II, West of Loathing, Crash N sane trilogy, SOMA, Ys VIII, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice, Evil Within 2, Darkwood, Pyre, PUBG After stagnation of PS3/360 era, PS4/XB1 started some course correction. Along with amazing launch of Switch, it lead to some of the best games in 2017.
Well said. As time goes on since 2020 forward, there has been nothing but amazing year after amazing year. With 2024's line up, it genuinely might top 2017.
I think your comments on the Halo franchise in the 2021 section are a bit hyperbolic. But that's just a personal nitpick, this video is just impeccable. A true accomplishment and should be considered an important contribution to gaming heritage.
I first began playing video games at arcades in South Korea in 1986-1988 and I have loved them ever since. I miss the arcade vibe and I was excited when barcades started popping up. Now I live on a small tropical island that has a VR arcade, but none of the classic cabinet style games. For work now, I help people train their brains using BCI games through neurofeedback. So glad to have grown up during this time. Looking forward to watching this! Saw it on x when Indigo retweeted. Hello to any psvr game cats watching!
Impressive job ,this video is great. I fell asleep with it last night, and i m watching the rest now. But i m sure i ll watch it several times,this stays in my " watch later" playlist!😊❤
Dear Lord, I can only imagine what an absolute insane amount of time this video had needed to be created like this. Massive amount of respect here! Even though a bit late, I'd like to leave a comment for the algorithm :) Keep up the good work! Hope more people will give this video a watch. Edit: How big is the video-file btw? The bitrate can get pretty rough from time to time, guess you tried to keep it smaller ^^
@@reallycool Seeing the length I believe you, I wrote this comment before looking how long the video is... Full respect for going so deep into this very important video!
This video and the NeverKnowsBest video were both very entertaining and educational (edutainment, like what Mario is Missing was supposed to be but wasn't). Now I'm looking forward to the AVGN version.
I always wanted something like this no bs and silly jokes good voice, and passionate about what you doing.. I wanted to learn even more about my favorite thing to do (playing video games) , and you made it happen so tnx..
It's crazy how long this video is but still completely skips the PC engine, amiga, and other less sucessful consoles. Gonna have to do a 24 hour version some day 😂 jk that's insane
Yeah i'm noticing the lack of representing PC games (im still just over an hour in so idk if it changes that buts already a lot of years without talking about PC gaming)
@@petrus9067 you may check out NevrKnowsBest "entire history of video games." He covers much more of the politics and hardware than just the games themselves.
Dude how many Gigabytes is this thing. I don't only commend you for a job well done, but I applaud you for taking the time and effort to create this. A superior job. Try to get it on prime video. Now I need to take a 12 hour lunch break, don't blame me it's your fault lol
I only just started but man I gotta say you have such a fantastic voice, I can't wait to listen to it for the next several days as I finish this gloriously long video. I know very little about video games and yet I am so intrigued🤌
Great video! I could actually see this as part of a course taught in high school or college in the future. I'm a bit baised, since it was a big part of my childhood, but I think my only disappointment is the inclusion of Five Nights at Freddy's as just a small little bonus, and not even the original game, when it's had such an insane impact on indie games, horror games, game merchandising, and TH-cam. Especially after the movie made such a big splash (which obviously came out after you made the video) I think it's vastly more important and has much more staying power and a much larger cultural impact than games like Fall Guys and some of the other later games on the list. I also felt like your comments on FNAF 4 seemed like boiling it down to it just doing social media marketing, and really understated its influence. But it still was a great video and I'm definitely not surprised that some games that I would've like to see didn't make the cut or didn't get as much coverage. The video's 12 hours long already so I imagine you put an insane amount of work into all of this, especially with going in-depth with so many older and forgotten titles. So kudos to you and thanks for the video!
Hey guys, thank you so much for your support! You can retweet about this here twitter.com/MRIXRT/status/1710339509777576091
Read more for notes about this video:
- Yes, there is a podcast version available on all major Podcast sites! Find more here videogames.transistor.fm/subscribe
- Yes, there is a 2 hour extended version. You can see it on my patreon patreon.com/reallycool
--- or if you are a TH-cam member you can see it here th-cam.com/video/7ehutnLDJAQ/w-d-xo.html
- A viewer brought to attention that a portion of the Mortal Kombat script ended up being taken from a Mental Floss listicle, nearly word for word. Listening to myself read someone else's words was shocking. This appears to have been an unfortunate series of accidents where two bulletpoints from the Mental Floss listicle were copied and pasted into my notes without being correctly marked, and many months later were added into the script. These commonly known facts about the game, that the game was created in under a year, and that it was originally based on Jean Claude Van Damme but later reconfigured around an original character, were later read and mistakenly understood by me to be originally written and not notes intended to be used as a reminder during my writing. I have contacted the author to request permission to keep it in the video.
My dude 12 hours just tells me you were too lazy to edit it down. I would've watched if it wasn't TWELVE, I REPEAT TWELVE HOURS LONG FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. no. When did TH-camrs start thinking videos this long was a good idea, jeez
@@RedceLL1978 lol ok
@@RedceLL1978 haha- oh wait, you're serious...
@@RedceLL1978it has to be longer than the video it's a direct copy of...
... Don't you know how copy cat TH-camrs work? Substitute creativity and talent for length!
You seem new here!
@@RedceLL1978too lazy to edit? Are you blind?
Thanks for the quick history lesson!
I wanted to be concise
"quick". You liar.
@@CarrotsNotCake hey compared to the rest of our lives its but a speck in the ocean of time lol
Love the "quick" quips in this thread.
Super fast
Heck after watching this whole thing i must admit. Not only is it the definitive documentary on video games, but its also a twelve hour lesson on the innovations that world has made to make an industry that's larger than film industry. Good stuff man
Its history of halo an more about first person and third person game
I believe KnverKnowBest's video, even if less than 6 hours Is More complete and ordered, with More información on the industry starting from.even before arcades.
I was born in 1979 and feel very fortunate to have seen what games were like from the start to where they are now.
People were playing games on home computers the year you were born!
God I wish that were me
I studied on volumes and anthologies (art, literature, history, religions, anthropology..) things that are old of centuries and millennia, things that often we cannot experience directly, like all the events in history or ancient texts, paintings and sculptures, or whole cultures as well, that we cannot see but we just found documents and writings about..
and I always ask myself: are they right? Should I have faith in things that other people of the past saw and wrote "objective opinions" about?
Well, an history of video-games would be another thing!
People do not understand now how much this medium and period have nothing so much different from the golden era of sculptures or the one of paintings or the one of novels and then (recently accepted as such) the one of movies..
now it's the video-games golden era and centuries from now maybe people will read and study about our culture and its maximum artistical expression..
and we are living it and we could understand it better than every other generation of the future of the human kind.
(oops, I'm sorry for the lenght; when I started writing I just didn't know I got this in to let out.. 😅 🔥🔥)
@@Throbingkcoc Damn, you're old. I hope you don't quit gaming.
I was born a little later but I can relate. We were kings, emperors, we’re lucky. The amount of fun from getting our 16bit console/computer is at least a thousand times bigger than a kid receiving his ps5 today or some iPhone (i feel sorry for them but what one can do?!)
Watching 12 hours long videos is my only joy in life.
This meme is my only joy in life
Is this an homage to a song? If so, you will be DENIED
@@Nzargnalphabet it's a boogie reference
Oh okay, you have been approved
Thank you for this. My cat is basically paralyzed (long story we're working with a specialist.) But since she cant get around, I leave this video on for her. I genuinely believe she enjoys it. She looks at the colorful screens mostly. I like your commentary as well. its not Robotic and AI sounding. And you're also not shouting and flocculating the volume up and down. Thank you for keeping my critter company, and lulling me off to sleep most nights.
I can think of very few compliments more valuable, and no audience more worthwhile.
@@reallycool what a masterfully worded response. Keep on doing what you do. I truly appreciate it.
This is one of those videos that should absolutely have more views than it has. It’s a monumental undertaking and even though I’m only two hours in, you’ve nailed it so far!
Thank you, if you like it please share it
I definitely agree
*"I love gaming because it's about family and that's what so wonderful about it."*
―Bilbo Baggins
Classic brillbod borgins
@@flowermaze___ Amen to that.
This must of been such a labour of love it deserves millions of views
Thank you. If you enjoy it, consider sharing it :)
@@reallycool oh I will dude spent the last week watching few hours a night and it's been such a nostalgia trip, showed a lot of it to my son who thinks games began with Fortnite lol.
Keep it up 👍
Forgotten Lore section is extremely important.
Most gaming history is dictated by what game publishers and poorly researched magazines say. So actual facts and history gets buried.
I kind of like what you said and find very smart and important,
as long as we remember that it is like it for every other kind of history and it is not possible to have an objective history of something;
there always will be points of view to choice and other to cut off.
Dude, you got me thru just shy of two days of work. Myself and lunch and powebank have been held up in a shack buried in snow waiting for a train thats 16 hours late (derailed four states away) thank you
That's an incredible compliment, thank you
@@reallycool bro I'm still waiting for it. On my 37th straight hour. Thank God there's a fireplace in here and my bosses check in by radio every 12 hours to know I'm alive. Been a nice little camping trip. No worries though the trains in motion and expected in 4 hours....then 2 days of rest. Keep up the good work
After slowly watching this as a podcast style video on my commute to work I have finally finished it! Great job!
I'm so pleased you enjoyed it
This video... NO! This DOCUMENTARY lasted the entire HALF of my day. WTF!? how do you have so much patience!?
No but in all seriousness thank you.🙏
Wow...
I thought TH-cam was bugged for a moment, but no. This is actually a 12 hour fully narrated video
God, I can only imagine how long this took.
I though Joseph Anderson's video's were insane, but this is something else.
Welp, might as well start getting an education.
it uh.. took a while
I was just watching "The Entire History of Video Games" by NeverKnowsBest, and I thought that one was long at 6 hours! This is insanely impressive and will have MauLer rethinking what long really means! 😉
Mauler as in nerdotic??
Difference is, Mauler is just someone being completely pompous and insufferable for 6-8 hours at a time
i litteraly finished Never's video and YT suggested this one... between the 2 videos, that's 24 hours well spent
@@leftovernoise Personally I really like Maulers stuff
@@markmorris7123 I can't take white supremacists and bigots seriously
Absolutely fantastic video and mindblowing that it didn't instantly blow up immediately on release, as I feel is the case with much of your content. You consistently produce some of the best video game content on TH-cam, I legitimately cannot believe your channel hasn't blown up.
One minor correction on the Overwatch segment, the heroes being more fleshed out individualistic characters is not the reason why there's only one of each hero per team, that was a later addition and not an intended design decision by the dev team. On launch, hero stacking was allowed and the devs were adamant about it being in the spirit of fun that they wanted to embrace with the game but the playerbase very vocally expressed their dislike for it and wanted it removed because it was simply not fun to play against 6 of the same characters and it actively broke the game. 6 Symmetras or Meis meant you wouldn't be able to move at all, 6 Bastions burst you down instantly, 6 Soldiers was the optimal meta as he's the most self sufficient hero so you had to deal with 6 slippery fuckers that wouldn't die yet did a solid amount of damage too and at that point you're just playing any other shooter if everyone's just playing Soldier. It was quickly removed from the Competitive game mode after they introduced it but it was still allowed in Quick Play for a while until they eventually removed it there as well (probably as players stopped playing QP in favor of Competitive for the same reason of it not being fun to encounter duplicates of the same hero).
Some great added information there, thanks!
I might just have to… but no, no I won’t
Thanks
Thank you very much
Thank you for including Phantasy Star Online. ❤ This game is so underrated, ignored as the pioneer it was and deserve its place in history. Simply put, it is one of the most innovative game of all time and it brought so much to the industry. It's never named nor mention in most top 10 or top 100 in mainstream media, but it really deserve its place next to Zelda OTT, Myst, doom, super Mario bros, etc... It does deserve recognition for changing the industry forever and the way we play console today. Naka may be blamed for the stock fraud, being a princess to work with and Balan wonderworld, and may be recognized for creating Sonic, but PSO is by far its greatest achievement and he did drop the mic on the industry with that title. Anyway incredible video and work man, subbed!
I wish there was a glimpse at Panzer Dragoon Saga though, which was as revolutionnary as ff7 (and way more technically impressive) but failed to get recognition because of its late release and the saturn failure.
Happy to;)
I actually watched the whole thing (in 10-20 sessions). It was good, but the first half was better than the second. You stop talking about the actual reasons to 'time capsule' certain releases and somewhat start drifting. In the first part, I miss the inclusion of 8 and 16 bit computers, which paved the way for gaming. The advent of piracy and impact on certain games/studios is also somewhat missing; this led to the demise of PC gaming in the early 2000s. Releases didn't come to the PC because they'd be cracked in a jiffy and not sell. After better protection schemes and online authentications, PC gaming bounced back.
Overall, very good video - keep up the great work.
Nice trip down memory lane,been gaming since my first 2600.
Lost is alot of history in gaming,glad you took the time to chronicle it for those that haven't been at it as long as others.
Rich is the history of gaming,as i look back on some of the things i was told one stands out the most.
You wont ever make any money playing video games,video games will warp your reality perception.
During my DOS years writing my own programs on my 64, i remember thinking one day I wont have to spend hours writing my own programs or copying them from a PC mag.
The world has moved on from those days,and gaming has taken off in soooo many ways.
To have lived and played these years has been a ride i hope to continue till I MOVE ON MYSELF,and fade into gaming history.
1996 to 2008. That 12 year period is the reason why i love gaming. Being born in 01 Heres some of my favs.
1998 - Metal Gear Solid, Half-Life, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Fallout 2, Resident Evil 2, Starcraft, Tekken 3, Grim Fandango, Banjo-Kazooie
2001 - Halo: Combat Evolved, Grand Theft Auto III, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Devil May Cry, Luigi’s Mansion, Super Monkey Ball, Gran Turismo III, SSX Tricky, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy,
2004 - Halo 2, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, GTA: San Andreas, Counter-Strike: Source, Ratchet & Clank 3, Jak 3, Need For Speed: Underground 2, Metroid Prime 2.
2005 - Resident Evil 4, Shadow of the Colossus, God of War, Guitar Hero
2007 - Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Halo 3, Rock Band, Super Mario Galaxy, Team Fortress 2
Honorable mention to
2011 - Skyrim, Dark Souls, The Witcher 2, Batman: Arkham City, Dead Space 2, Minecraft, Portal 2, The Binding Of Isaac
2017 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Resident Evil 7, Cuphead, Persona 5
Why is there like no likes on this epic LONG comment?
If you were born in 2001 you were way too young to actually experience gaming in these years. Your childhood was the 2011 minecraft and horror streamer age.
@@FeiFongWang They meant 1901, They old as dirt.
@@FeiFongWang I was poor so I started on ps2 then later as I got older I bought myself a ps1 but yes I did spend the most time in the xbox 360 era
I'm 3 hours in and loving it. This has to be one of the most thorough videos on game history I've ever seen. Thanks for putting the time into this
Thank you for the kind words! Please consider sharing it if you enjoy it
I’m afraid Morrowind NPCs do not have schedules, actually. That element of Bethesda’s games started with Oblivion. Morrowind’s NPCs just stand in one spot or walk around a small area.
I, too, am afraid of Morrowind NPCs
U just had to find a flaw in this 12 hour goodness patch
@@NEStalgia1985there's more than one "flaw," but it's just constructive criticism.
12 hours? Wow this is the biggest video I have ever seen on TH-cam! Love the effort you always put in your videos! ❤️
Not into Elder Scrolls analysis, I see.
@@Allen.Christian Why did I know this reply would be here before I expanded the answers
get ready for the morshu bible reading, feat. the third ":"
There are also some ETS 2 videos that run 12 hours too.
An actual long video that isn't a music video on a 10 hour loop. Whoa.
An interesting fact about Minesweeper and Solitaire is that they were actually hidden tutorials. They were meant to get people used to clicking on things with the mouse (Minesweeper) and drag and drop (Solitaire). At least that's what I read somewhere :)
Wow... Just wow!! Bro I first saw you on EFAP and couldn't find your channel even though I typed "Moriarty's channel" into TH-cam.... Thank god I finally found it and found this video!!! Not even trying to blow smoke here but this video fully deserves some sort of award!!! Look forward to more content from you man!!! Cheers from Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺
Edit: My choice for most awesome games ever: earthbound & secret of mana
Thanks and welcome
I can only imagine how much work was put into this video! Amazing work!
The bit on Phantasmagoria reminded me of a pet peeve I have with that game.
Considering all the money that Sierra spent on the studio for Phantasmagoria. It's almost criminal how bad the end product sound came out. It's like nobody on the team had any idea how to setup any kind of sound dampening in the studio. So every line sounds like it's recorded in the middle of a huge indoor arena. When you are in the mansion large rooms/halls you could say it fits. But anywhere else it feels so extremely out of place.
What an opus this video is! The history is correct, and the analysis seems spot on. It deserves so many more views and appreciation. I fear the length of it scares many away. Perhaps the same video, broken into several parts might get more views?
Thank you for this upload. You have a great voice, easy to fall asleep to. You deserve more viewers, but atleast you earned my sub
I found you through EFAP after finding them only a couple years ago. I've loved your stuff and can't wait to go through this video. It'll take a while but I'm sure itll be worth the ride. Cheers mate!
Awesome! Thank you!
I don’t know what EFAP is and at this point I’m afraid to ask
@ianweckhorst3200 EFAP or Every Frame A Pause is a media analysis podcast. They'll cover different TH-cam videos or do breakdowns of movies/video games. In one of their early episodes they covered one of Moriartys videos and an episode or 2 later he came on to defend his position and he's since been on frequently throughout the years.
The episodes average out to like 8 hours each so it's good to listen to at work for me
I wish I was as excited about my life as when watching this video: "Wow I can't believe this amazing year is already over, but omg the next one is gonna be the best one for sure!"
The really good content on TH-cam is sadly not the most popular one, and lots of people are just striving for their brainless 5 minutes here. And to really finish watching your video, it took me a few weeks, even though I specifically looked for something just like this. But I hope you keep doing your thing, and I'm gonna keep listening to this on Spotify this time!
I love reading and watching all videos about gaming history especially after actually playing atari games and learning about the full history on the Atari 50 collection
you deserve more then 29k subs this channel is a gem
Sierra and Lucasarts games had such a huge impact on my childhood getting into games. Now as an adult and going back to Sierra's Lord's of Magic I'm blown away but just how awesome they could make games
Awe inspiring work right here! Thank you soo much for making this. ❤
What an efficient, concise summary!
weirdly enough (NOT) one of the first "disclaimers" that I noticed was about game release and game impact. I immediately thought "Minecraft" and "Among Us". People miss that communication.
I played minecraft between 2010 and 2014 and I think it was a beta version during all that time. But yeah, in 2013 it blew up and 2014 MS$ bought it.
this is incredible! amazing research and information. can't even imagine how long this took to make, great job!
Going to be listening to this on my way to and from work, thank you for this video!
thank you for listening
This is by far one of the most impressive videos I've ever seen. Is this a compilation, or did it just this just take forever to make?
it is not a compilation
I’ve just been scrolling through comments entertaining myself, but waow, you should read my comment closer to the top on suggestions regarding video quality and possible sponsors, although most of my comments are just for fun, I’m currently denying all comments containing references to any song that aren’t approved with the following string:
(Approved by ianweckhorst)
In keeping with the papers please game
I was completely caught off guard by elite dangerous, I had no idea that game had such a long run, and it explains why so many old people play it
wow can't believe how criminally underrated this is keep up the awesome content bro like 12 hours of editing for only 150k views you deserve more
Thank you, please consider sharing me :)
@@reallycooli will!
..and i thought an 8 hour Bomberman video was insane
That video length is going to make my head collapse in on itself
Watched the video over the course of 3 days and it was incredibly educational and entertaining, I'm very thankful
This is the most beautiful thing I've seen in a long time...
2000 gave us a wide variety for sure. I mean from Sims, to Frogger 2, Tony Hawk 2, Diablo 2, there was something for almost everyone. And that was just PC games.
I am only 5 minutes in and I can already tell that this is a special vid. Appreciate the thought and care put into this so far. Mentioning Yu Suzuki , Earthbound, and the thought-provoking query on " What video game would you share as mankind legacy?" Great stuff broseph smith.
Bro I love this video. I'm not even fucking around, I enjoy that u made the video full length. I love being able to come and go watching it and not have to remember which video, bc it's all in one. Thank you.
The one major blind spot I think is visual novels. Would recommend checking out Portopia Serial Murder Case (genre definer), Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney (popularizer in the west), the Fate series (mega popular franchise that started as a visual novel), and Umineko (the pinnacle of the genre)
Yes, visual novels are important, but it was hard to decide what to include outside of just "This genre exists."
@@reallycool hope I helped you!
This should be saved for all time and shown to EVERYONE who makes video games for a living…hell, it should be required viewing! especially for the massively huge publishers who apparently forgot what a video game really needs to be about. *cough* EA.
I remember I got really excited whenever an Electronic Arts game came out! NO MORE! At 13, I was like “oh my god this is amazing”, almost 30 years later I’m like, “eh” 🤷♂️
Okay so this took me like a week to get through but its done.
So to be honest my main reason for checking this video out was your role in the Newtubers Community.
You seem extremely knowledgeable and tend not to sugar code things which has led to me having a respect for you
Upon actually checking the video out i have come to the realization that this video is like being a child in a candy shop for me.
I have always been interested in looking at my favorite gaming series and going back to its origins looking at the series game to game seeing how it evolves and iterates on itself overtime. so a 12 hour video pretty much doing that but with the entire gaming industry is really like Christmas came a few months early, and yes. the Video was extremely enjoyable and i have had it on as background noise for a while. slightly depressed that i need to find new sources to use as background noise.
One game I do feel like should of had at least a brief mention in 2005 is Neversoft's GUN. i really cant blame you for overlooking it as sadly it has been forgotten due to Red Dead Redemption just doing everything it did better. some things of note about the game are
1. The game did the whole Open world western thing before Red dead redemption did. Red dead revolver was out but GUN was a open world unlike that game. a small open world but... still.
2. it was extremely experimental for Neversoft. these were the guys who were making tony hawk games and here they were, making a graphic 3rd person shooter western.
3. the game landed itself in hot water and got boycotted due to its blatantly racist depiction of Native Americans.
I think Gun is a very neat game, but I already had so much to talk about here
@@reallycool completely understandable.
2005 was a super heavy hitting year. fun fact there was set to be a GUN sequel at some point but it got cancelled due to the first games poor sales, i believe there still is a want to make the game though but no plans as of now
Your vermintide 2 onslaught video was really good 👍 you seem like a legitimately good creator. Im excited to see what else you got in store for the future
The assassination of Lord British in UO will always be the example of how griefers will use any mechanic they can to create havoc. And that was when the Internet was a nicer neighborhood.
This is such a fascinating video to me. Except for the Atari I occasionally played with our neighbors' grandson, I never played on any console. We did, however, have computers at home relatively early on, first my dad's work computer and then my older brother's Texas Instruments, and I'm so old I remember my first PC games requiring a run command (I do not miss DOS). So we're talking pre-windows, pre-mouse(!) computers, then later floppies and CD ROMs, but basically early 80s to early 90s PCs (the PCs kept going, I just turned into a teenage girl and wasn't interested again for a coupe decades) which ran a buttload of games, some, I guess, in parallel to consoles, yet it seems that all innovations in gaming were focused on consoles during that time. I've reached the mid-90s now and it seems PCs were still insignificant. I'm really curious to learn when they started making an impact on the gaming industry.
Anyway, well done, M.
Pc gaming was extremely revolutionary in those decades as well it's just that i guess their technical capacity and public were far different from consoles so it didnt intersect a lot at that time? But the pc gaming scene was huge still and way more experimental because it was mostly done by "indie" creators and for more niche people since companies didn't think they would be lucrative
This is fascinating especially because you mentioned Descent. Legendary game, audio, story, and universe.
Yo I remember commenting a while back waiting for ur new video but 12 hours dawg u def delivered
I was definitely working on one
Thank you for this 12 hour gift, longman.
I just watched a 6 hour one of these, and thought "their will never be a longer one of these". Boy was I wrong!!
I'm happy to provide
😂
Finally finished the video after 2 weeks! Amazing stuff here and thanks for all the work you put into it :)
I'm happy you enjoyed, thank you for watching
2017 is one of the best years in gaming. Period.
Yakuza 0, Nier Automata, BOTW, Mario Odyssey, Hollow Knight, Persona 5, Divinity Original Sin 2, What Remains Of Edith Finch, Resident Evil 7, Detention, PREY 2017, Sonic Mania, Gravity Rush 2, Gorogoa, Total War Warhammer II, West of Loathing, Crash N sane trilogy, SOMA, Ys VIII, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice, Evil Within 2, Darkwood, Pyre, PUBG
After stagnation of PS3/360 era, PS4/XB1 started some course correction. Along with amazing launch of Switch, it lead to some of the best games in 2017.
Well said. As time goes on since 2020 forward, there has been nothing but amazing year after amazing year. With 2024's line up, it genuinely might top 2017.
Mgr would make it perfect
A video like this is my dream. So hyped to watch this for the next 3 weeks
Did you used to do narration for documentaries or something? Your voice sounds oddly familiar.
I think your comments on the Halo franchise in the 2021 section are a bit hyperbolic. But that's just a personal nitpick, this video is just impeccable. A true accomplishment and should be considered an important contribution to gaming heritage.
I first began playing video games at arcades in South Korea in 1986-1988 and I have loved them ever since. I miss the arcade vibe and I was excited when barcades started popping up. Now I live on a small tropical island that has a VR arcade, but none of the classic cabinet style games. For work now, I help people train their brains using BCI games through neurofeedback. So glad to have grown up during this time. Looking forward to watching this! Saw it on x when Indigo retweeted. Hello to any psvr game cats watching!
Hello. Happy to see a fellow gamecat
I really appreciate the amount of effort put into this… seriously needs more views! subbed cant wait to see what else you do!
Impressive job ,this video is great. I fell asleep with it last night, and i m watching the rest now. But i m sure i ll watch it several times,this stays in my " watch later" playlist!😊❤
Thank you
@@reallycool u're welcome,and u just won urself a new suscriber.😊 keep the amazing work!
This video really laid the groundwork for Candy Crush Saga.
Hahaha. Came to the comments to see if anyone mentioned the far-fetched connections. Nicely done
@@tacomonday2 Would you say that line added a sense of urgency for you to comment?
cool easter egg at 11:58:43
Don’t forget that most of Miyamoto’s work was equally done by Tezuka!
Good God how did I miss this channel, thank you for your hard work. Amazing video!
The only thing better than this would be a 24 hour video on BLINX THE TIME SWEEPER
12 hours of greatness
💙 I'm definitely downloading this so i have something i can dip in and out of if I ever don't have signal.
Hi. You spent so much time on this video. You deserve my like and sub just for that reason alone. Now I have a video to fall asleep to for a month.
I find it wild that I've lived through all of this history.
Great content man, I can just imagine the effort for doing this, admirations
Dear Lord, I can only imagine what an absolute insane amount of time this video had needed to be created like this. Massive amount of respect here! Even though a bit late, I'd like to leave a comment for the algorithm :)
Keep up the good work! Hope more people will give this video a watch.
Edit: How big is the video-file btw? The bitrate can get pretty rough from time to time, guess you tried to keep it smaller ^^
Thank you. It took about nine months from start to finish.
2:06:51 I am LOCKED IN to this history. I’ve always loved VG. One thing I wanted to point out:
The word kumite is pronounced “koo-mee-tay.”
New mrixrt video WHAAATTT? Cool to see you back! ❤️
I've been working on this since like December ;)
@@reallycool Seeing the length I believe you, I wrote this comment before looking how long the video is... Full respect for going so deep into this very important video!
This might be one of the most insane videos I’ve seen on the platform. Colored me impressed.
Thank you
This video and the NeverKnowsBest video were both very entertaining and educational (edutainment, like what Mario is Missing was supposed to be but wasn't). Now I'm looking forward to the AVGN version.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who watched both 🤣
I always wanted something like this no bs and silly jokes
good voice, and passionate about what you doing..
I wanted to learn even more about my favorite thing to do (playing video games) , and you made it happen so tnx..
It's crazy how long this video is but still completely skips the PC engine, amiga, and other less sucessful consoles. Gonna have to do a 24 hour version some day 😂 jk that's insane
Yeah i'm noticing the lack of representing PC games (im still just over an hour in so idk if it changes that buts already a lot of years without talking about PC gaming)
@@petrus9067 you may check out NevrKnowsBest "entire history of video games." He covers much more of the politics and hardware than just the games themselves.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention that the "speed up mechanic" in space invaders was a complete accident and was never intended.
the serendipity of too many entities in memory
Such long video wow
Huge respect for putting all of this together, really cool 😎
1hr in 11hrs left. Great video as always. Will try finish it in week...
Been watching this like its a full season of a series 😄
Been watching this for the last week
This video is a true TESTAMENT of a serious dedication for bringing positive influence to gaming community and a whole mankind
I wish golden sun would've been more popular than it was. Just a few years earlier and it could've been revolutionary
I’m 1 hour and 30 mins in and I love the effort you’ve put in this video. A great learning experience so far. Just wish I saw this sooner!
thank you
Looooooooooooong ❤
I think after the length of your last video, we might have a new Longman!
Mewbshlie long man is bad /s
Dude how many Gigabytes is this thing. I don't only commend you for a job well done, but I applaud you for taking the time and effort to create this. A superior job. Try to get it on prime video. Now I need to take a 12 hour lunch break, don't blame me it's your fault lol
Good lord this is one hell of a video.
Hey mrixrt! Your graphic at 9:20:05 says “$1 Billion” but your script says “$4 Billion”. Love the video! Keep up the great work, sir!
You're an absolute MADMAN! Can't wait to watch this whole thing
Excellent content. Keep up the excellent work.
I only just started but man I gotta say you have such a fantastic voice, I can't wait to listen to it for the next several days as I finish this gloriously long video. I know very little about video games and yet I am so intrigued🤌
Thanks for listening, and thanks for the compliment!
This added a layer of strategy to the game
This game is about breaking boundaries.
You have successfully outdone the longman himself well done 👍
Great video! I could actually see this as part of a course taught in high school or college in the future.
I'm a bit baised, since it was a big part of my childhood, but I think my only disappointment is the inclusion of Five Nights at Freddy's as just a small little bonus, and not even the original game, when it's had such an insane impact on indie games, horror games, game merchandising, and TH-cam. Especially after the movie made such a big splash (which obviously came out after you made the video) I think it's vastly more important and has much more staying power and a much larger cultural impact than games like Fall Guys and some of the other later games on the list. I also felt like your comments on FNAF 4 seemed like boiling it down to it just doing social media marketing, and really understated its influence.
But it still was a great video and I'm definitely not surprised that some games that I would've like to see didn't make the cut or didn't get as much coverage. The video's 12 hours long already so I imagine you put an insane amount of work into all of this, especially with going in-depth with so many older and forgotten titles. So kudos to you and thanks for the video!