So for a bit of context, when E3 98 was held at the Georgia World Congress Center, they had two major show room areas. One was the big publisher/developer venue with all the big names, while there was a second, less profiled area for miscellaneous developers and publishers. Moreso, there was a number of hardware makers for console/PC accessories as well as weird entities such as advisory groups and the like. I've been desperately trying to find as much footage of the second area as possible, because a couple developers of personal interest to me had been attending there. Firstly there was a pre-Halo Bungie making an apparently subdued appearance at the show, mostly to show off Myth 2, but also perhaps to show off whatever else they had been working on at the time. Now this second company will probably not be known to anyone reading this, but I'm curious about a short-lived Vancouver-based developer, Mad Genius Software, who actually had built a booth for this second showroom to promote the one and only game they ever released, 1998's Gunmetal. To summarize, it's an FPS game with some elements of combat strategy and hints of the mech genre. It did not sell very well and is insanely obscure today, and I've been interested in documenting as much of it as I can. Sadly, though this does seem like the first time I've found any footage of what might be the secondary showroom area, I didn't spot my targets. I know Bungie and Mad Genius were both within close proximity of each other, so if anyone had ever gotten footage of Bungie, Mad Genius might have briefly shown up in the background as well. By strange luck, somebody online posted a photo of the Mad Genius booth in its complete state and in very good quality to imgur: imgur.com/gallery/sLKp1su Surprisingly not much is documented about the Bungie booth, even if they were a much bigger entity in 1998 relatively speaking than most surrounding booths. Thanks for posting these videos by the way.
Actually after looking at the floor plan of the show www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/original/0/1992/1069892-map_gwcc2.jpg, I realized Purple Moon software was only a few booths away from both Bungie and Mad Genius, but the camera angle implies they were not in the same direction the camera person was facing to capture all that footage.
@@AlbertHamik2 Little old reply but I'm doing something similar for Virgin interactive. Any sightings of them? I don't see them on that floor plan but that's the second building you said, right? Very interesting though thanks for your research!
Where did you get all the information you already have on the company and second room? It all sounds interesting to me and I would love to know what your documenting
I turned 11 years old in 98. I feel sorry for kids born after the 80s. They missed good times. Only one grandparent left. Almost all the old timers I knew are almost all gone. My old childhood home recently got torn down and the mom and pop video rental place we use to rent movies and video games from got torn down. My childhood is slowly disappearing.
Loved the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time content in this video, that game serves the reason why I game and play Zelda now. Thankful to start my gaming off with Ocarina of Time.
The 90s and early 2000s were the perfect stage of technological development because it did not interfere with our daily lives as much and it was the right level of usefulness, we should have been like that forever, but zoomers and tiktok and dating apps permanently stole our happiness
hello, I was actually at this E3. I met the Forsaken girl and Jeremy McGrath amongst others. I was trying to capture my videos recently and the tapes have apparently deteriorated and my capture card keeps thinking there is no signal. do you have any suggestions for capturing my vhs tapes? your footage doesn't appear to be deteriorated and would probably capture fine with my capture card. 80% of my footage now looks like the tracking is out of whack.
This is asmr for me because i genuinely miss the more innocent times so much before normies ruined the internet and smartphones and dating apps ruined society, i actually unironically wish i could be stuck in the early 2000s forever
interesting archive footage since you had to be invited to attend these back then. Honestly appart from the tech and the horrible architecture/sets nothing really changed
It's just so unthinkable to me that social media or smartphones were not around and everybody seemed more chill because mentally ill evil zoomers had no power yet, because of zoomers everything went to sht so quickly and now all entertainment is corporate and soulless and everybody is rude or violent
Best gaming era and young people. Today we have not full games some of them online access or 2gb starter on empty cd and rest 100gb download online what's a trashy time to live for young farts
So for a bit of context, when E3 98 was held at the Georgia World Congress Center, they had two major show room areas. One was the big publisher/developer venue with all the big names, while there was a second, less profiled area for miscellaneous developers and publishers. Moreso, there was a number of hardware makers for console/PC accessories as well as weird entities such as advisory groups and the like.
I've been desperately trying to find as much footage of the second area as possible, because a couple developers of personal interest to me had been attending there. Firstly there was a pre-Halo Bungie making an apparently subdued appearance at the show, mostly to show off Myth 2, but also perhaps to show off whatever else they had been working on at the time.
Now this second company will probably not be known to anyone reading this, but I'm curious about a short-lived Vancouver-based developer, Mad Genius Software, who actually had built a booth for this second showroom to promote the one and only game they ever released, 1998's Gunmetal. To summarize, it's an FPS game with some elements of combat strategy and hints of the mech genre. It did not sell very well and is insanely obscure today, and I've been interested in documenting as much of it as I can.
Sadly, though this does seem like the first time I've found any footage of what might be the secondary showroom area, I didn't spot my targets. I know Bungie and Mad Genius were both within close proximity of each other, so if anyone had ever gotten footage of Bungie, Mad Genius might have briefly shown up in the background as well. By strange luck, somebody online posted a photo of the Mad Genius booth in its complete state and in very good quality to imgur: imgur.com/gallery/sLKp1su
Surprisingly not much is documented about the Bungie booth, even if they were a much bigger entity in 1998 relatively speaking than most surrounding booths.
Thanks for posting these videos by the way.
Actually after looking at the floor plan of the show www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/original/0/1992/1069892-map_gwcc2.jpg, I realized Purple Moon software was only a few booths away from both Bungie and Mad Genius, but the camera angle implies they were not in the same direction the camera person was facing to capture all that footage.
@@AlbertHamik2 Little old reply but I'm doing something similar for Virgin interactive. Any sightings of them? I don't see them on that floor plan but that's the second building you said, right? Very interesting though thanks for your research!
Where did you get all the information you already have on the company and second room? It all sounds interesting to me and I would love to know what your documenting
I turned 11 years old in 98. I feel sorry for kids born after the 80s. They missed good times. Only one grandparent left. Almost all the old timers I knew are almost all gone. My old childhood home recently got torn down and the mom and pop video rental place we use to rent movies and video games from got torn down. My childhood is slowly disappearing.
Loved the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time content in this video, that game serves the reason why I game and play Zelda now. Thankful to start my gaming off with Ocarina of Time.
New Twelve Tales footage!!
Nice to see footage of Conker 64 before it became Bad Fur Day. Hope the beta gets dumped online someday. 🙏🏻
Conker Twelve Tales at 7:52 😀😀
The 90s and early 2000s were the perfect stage of technological development because it did not interfere with our daily lives as much and it was the right level of usefulness, we should have been like that forever, but zoomers and tiktok and dating apps permanently stole our happiness
The unseen Gerudo Training Ground footage is so cool
I'm thinking the Zelda footage here is from an earlier build of OOT. Certain textures and things look different
If only the people playing Twelve Tales could know the value in what they're playing here
I feel so sorry for that young boy playing Batman and Robin on PS1 😂
Good eye Miles! 🤣🤣🤣
As bad as it is im sure it felt somewhat revolutionary playing an open world 3d batman game for the first time ever
We didn't know any better!
Very good quality of the footage. Hope there will be something like that for Tomb Raider III
Yes I definitely hope for the same thing as well🙂
No Rayman 2 unfortunately :( but happy to see more E3 98 stuff popping up still!
I know, right? Rayman 2 is an amazing game.
@@vampirerobot It's my favorite :) and the 98 trade show has some very interesting differences and areas that were never in the final build.
RIP E3: 1995 - 2023
I was there. From the very first one. Good times.
How was a kid at E3? I thought it was only open to those in the gaming industry and over 17?
Best Link statue I’ve ever seen
hello, I was actually at this E3. I met the Forsaken girl and Jeremy McGrath amongst others. I was trying to capture my videos recently and the tapes have apparently deteriorated and my capture card keeps thinking there is no signal. do you have any suggestions for capturing my vhs tapes? your footage doesn't appear to be deteriorated and would probably capture fine with my capture card. 80% of my footage now looks like the tracking is out of whack.
Wonder where that Link statue is right now
Its dust 😢
Back when Duke was on top of the world good times
This is asmr for me because i genuinely miss the more innocent times so much before normies ruined the internet and smartphones and dating apps ruined society, i actually unironically wish i could be stuck in the early 2000s forever
interesting archive footage since you had to be invited to attend these back then. Honestly appart from the tech and the horrible architecture/sets nothing really changed
Ooooh CD Roms! The future is here!
It's just so unthinkable to me that social media or smartphones were not around and everybody seemed more chill because mentally ill evil zoomers had no power yet, because of zoomers everything went to sht so quickly and now all entertainment is corporate and soulless and everybody is rude or violent
4:35
My brothers!! 😃
Very cool South Park stand
You can clearly see the Dev cartrige It had sticker on It
harry and megan? lol 10:04
There's a guy dressed as Duke Nukem.
I didn't know South Park was in E3 😳
yep
7:40 So close to the Zelda and Ganondorf puppets but nothing on video. 😩
Best gaming era and young people. Today we have not full games some of them online access or 2gb starter on empty cd and rest 100gb download online what's a trashy time to live for young farts
You sound fun at parties. 🙄
@@LizLevan truth is always painful
Modern E3 is nothing like this
There a panel during comic cons
7:21 Vim aqui por isso 8:48 e isso
Pokemon, catch them if you can.
Rip E3 1995-2021?