Nintendo’s Luckiest Accident
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- SideQuest - The secret origins of Mr. Game and Watch: nebula.app/videos/lowspecgame...
#Game&Watch #nintendo #gameandwatch
Economic crisis strikes. As Nintendo holds on a thread an unexpected idea might save the whole company.
0:00 Intro
0:27 The origin of the Ultra Hand
2:56 Train of destiny
6:22 Convincing Sharp
7:46 Launch
8:52 Adapting Donkey Kong
Credits
Research and Writing: LowSpecAlex
Voice over: LowSpecAlex
Editing: Henrique von Buren, LowSpecAlex
3D animation: Windy
Art: Maiku no Koe
Spanish Translation, Audio editing and QA: Henrique von Buren
Camera work: LowSpecAlex
Thumbnail design: Maiku no Koe
Social media:
/ lowspec_gamer
/ thelowspecgamer
Source:
History of Nintendo Volume 2 by Florent Gorges
Music by Epidemic Sound: epidemicsound.com/creator
Stock Footage from Getty - เกม
I like how he at first was like “goddamnit I’m stuck with this shitty card company.” Then he literally was like “fuck it let’s make a grabby hand and a calculator.” Then literally created the biggest company in all of Japan 😮
Was that before or after Nintendo had their chain of "love hotels"?
@@SenileOtaku
The grabby hand was after the love hotels, in the 60s eletric toys were brand new in Japan, Nintendo jump to make their own eletric toys as well, it was a sucessful idea and this is how Nintendo started to make toys.
@@SenileOtaku Don't forget the taxis lol
Always fun to see what people can do with the most limited hardware. Unleashes creativity.
you might find this guy interesting
th-cam.com/users/CodingSecrets
True
Sadly with the advances of hardware we see less of this as evident with todays gaming industry
@Ralph Reilly buggy unfinished releases riddles with micro transactions
Giving priority to graphical fidelity over gameplay and story
Modern gaming is a sham
@@Juanguar modern indie games can be pretty cool, using a mix of old design ideas and modern technology
@@catgirlQueer true
I was mostly talking about AAA gaming but yeah there’s a lot of gems in the indie market
Truly a Low-Spec Gaming machine story
I think Mr. Game and Watch's character design is unique on its own. He's maybe just a silhouette that resembled a rubber hose cartoon character, but he has a lot of odd jobs such as a firefighter, a juggler, or a cook that makes him seemed compotent enough to become a Smash roster.
He's also one of the oldest video game characters who is in the same league as Pac-Man, way before Mario and Donkey Kong were debuted.
When he mentioned the oil crisis, I thought 'as usual...'. Then made fun of it himself. Perfection. These videos are seriously underrated.
I love how these videos humanize the people of Nintendo and other tech companies. I have watched many videos on the history of gaming and computing similar to yours, but the way you lay out these stories make it feel like you are watching a movie or are involved with the action, instead of listening to someone read a dry wikipedia article.
It is also great that you strike a good balance of reporting facts and producing entertainment. Many people in your situation might be tempted to change facts to increase the entertainment value, but you do not do that.
You also dive much deeper than most into these topics. Most videos on this topic only include the train story and do not go any further than that.
Wanted to make a fidget toy and a distracted boss hears something else and the misunderstanding leads to a long legacy.
I think what makes these history videos fun to watch is how you interpret them. You managed to surface those quirks and properly explain to us how crazy those quirks actually is. If I was just reading this off from somewhere instead of watching how you interpret them, I wouldn’t have noticed the subtle quirks these stories have.
I remember watching your old videos on optimization years ago when I was trying to get some extra mileage out of an older laptop, and It's fascinating to discover that you've totally changed gears and become a genuinely fantastic gaming documentary channel. I've gone through everything you posted after the rebrand this afternoon, and I really hope you can keep putting out content at this level of quality.
Yet another fantastic video. You can't find these stories (at least, not with your characteristic detail and quality) anywhere else on TH-cam.
I try to always tell something I have never seen anyone talk about before
@@LowSpecGamer it shows! Thanks for all your hard work. The animations especially add so much
@@LowSpecGamer So, Nintendo is the oldest and biggest Multimedia Giant ever to roam the Earth; They specialize in Playing Cards, Board Games, Toys, Taxi Services, Love Hotels, Video Games, Clothing, Cartoons, Food, Music, is there anything they can't do?
@@LowSpecGamer
As you are planning on writing a video about Acorn and the:
BBC Micro
BBC Archimedes A3000
Acorn A5000
Acorn RISC PC
Arthur OS
RISC OS
I really hope you can do a video on Teletext (that's the transport format) and MODE 7 (using the Teletext format on an Acorn computer, a special text only video mode)
No other TH-camr has yet done it justice!
Your videos were the main reason for me to renew my subscription to nebula after more than a year of not being subscribed for more than a year to it.
Your storytelling is on point and engaging. The draws showed in the videos are great, simple, clear, and beautiful.
Also not making extended editions but making companion videos is the right choice. I don't want to hunt for the video in nebula and then to forward the video to find where the exclusive nebula stuff is.
That was my rationale too as a viewer. I am glad the idea for companion videos is clicking
8:41 Look at how they're holding the controller! Thumbs underneath and pressing the buttons with index and ring fingers.
Ok was kind of waiting for this episode on the Game & Watch. Didn't get a notif as I forgot to turn on notifications for your channel, but saw it on my feed as I was trying to find something to watch.
That series of events from the meeting of Yamauchi and Yokoi and everything from before the GameBoy was stuff I never read up/watched in the past so this is interesting as it stuff before the starting part of Nintendo history that people typically talk about with the cards to toys and game consoles.
I love the effort you put into this videos, they are a great watch after a busy day at work.
I genuinely appreciate these Nintendo history videos dude, please keep making them!
This is a really interesting video. I honestly didn't know anything other than the whole calculator thing and Gunpei Yokoi's toys. I kinda wish that Game & Watch's name would have been "Micro Game", as it would have been somewhat funny. Okay, I'm going to watch the rest of this video now. By the way, I'm really enjoying these Nintendo history videos, keep up the great work!
These videos are solid gold, man. Keep making them if you can. ❤
Oh wow, nice style and story telling.
Always love knowing about Gunpei Yokoi (RIP) makes me wonder what things he could have made if he was still alive.
Same. His death was a tragedy to the whole industry
Your production style and art really make these stories come alive. Love the new direction for your channel.
I’m watching this video because LowSpecGamer complained it went pretty much unnoticed at a panel at PAX. It’s great! Definitely deserves more views.
Thank you for looking up this video after the panel
The best thing to watch after work. Great video!
This channel easily deserves more subs... Keep up the great work!
Man that Stardew reference was just perfect 😂
At first I followed for the low spec pc gaming and grew a pretty big passion for that. But with the shift in the channel, I grew an even bigger passion for gaming’s history and old gaming hardware. The timing coincides with finding my family’s old NES and SNES stash. I couldn’t love this channel more and can’t be more grateful for the wonderful content
Amazing story and amazing storytelling by LowSpec Gamer, loving your content
I still have my 'Mario's cement factory' game and watch from 1983
Another amazing video that taught me a lot! Thank you for the awesome content :)
Always loved the illustrations!
Oh my god you had to do the stardew valley grandpa bed thing. Incredible.
Oh yes, I really enjoy your videos, please keep doing them!
9:32 hey look, the joycon's dpad😂
Great video thank you
It's funny you chose to use footage of someone playing with a Rubik's Cube like toy for Yokoi thinking up some analog toy, because Shigeru Miaymoto really envied the creator of the Rubik's Cube and for sometime saw him as his rival.
I did not know that. I just could not find a better clip for a hand toy
Source? That sounds like a fascinating story.
7:41
"Making products in even numbers is bad luck"
[Pokemon Red and Green have entered the chat]
I wondered EXACTLY the same when I researched this. Apparently this was some old Japanese business superstition. Maybe the folks at game freak were too young at the time to care.
@@LowSpecGamer To be fair the original plan was to one version with 65,535 different "seeds". Both are odd numbers, sooo....
I remember playing one during my childhood. Such nostalgia. It makes me want to buy the remade game and watch now while it's still available
Watch The Things (1982) in the beginning, one of the actors is playing one of these hand held LCD Nintendo devices.
This is great content!
fantastic video!
I'm dissapointed by the lack of views, I'm honestly loving these videos
You can help by sharing it with someone!
I always know I am in for a treat when I get a LSG video notification and this didn't disappoint!
I was first given Donkey Kong on release, I was three years old.
At that time all I could do was stand in place and jump.
I hadn't really got my head around moving, let alone stringing it all together and beating DK.
So, in my young mind, "Game & Watch" was "I play the Game within my limits & learn how to play it better and enjoy watching it get played properly by Watching Daddy play the game"
I told the time by looking at Mickey on my wrist.
I kind of remember that my grandfather mentioned the "boob shaped controller" just like in 9:27
You know its a good day when we get these documentarys
Oil Crisis of 1973, one of the most widespread far-reaching events of the 1900s. I'll be shocked when it doesn't come up in one of your Videos
I had Donkey Kong, Oil Panic and I think Mario Bros and they ran a beer factory or something.
Yep, Mario Bros, I looked it up, it was the BEST game.
And Low Spec Gamer? Well he should clearly own a copy of Oil Panic!
Gunpei Yokoi: So I have this idea...
Hiroshi Yamauchi: JUST DO IT!
Those magical moments when people speaking the same language can still be speaking totally different languages.
finally, I got this channel's notification to get it right, unlike when youtube serves me their videos 1-2 MONTHS from now on
Amazing video, love this kind of storytelling.
Who draws these frames?
This comment reminded me I had not listed the credits in the description. Thanks.
Art is by twitter.com/maiku_no_koe
@@LowSpecGamer happens! you picked a good artist for these fr
Good video's mate
Just realised I hadn't had a notification from your channel in a couple months to find I was no longer subscribed... Looks like you got youtubed
0:59 His grandfather was Father Christmas 😂
the engineering puzzle game Shenzhen I/O has a sandbox mode which challenges you to make a game using these technical limitations.
I used to think those LCD games were junk. I wanted a gameboy. Now I have it all, and those old game and watch games are some of my favorite games. They’re works of art.
Effing H, the "grandfather" made me choke on my morning drink! 🤣
Any idea what the prototype at 6:30 was like? Had they made the custom, graphical LCD and the custom programmed calculator chip?
Calculator chips back then were 4-bit CPUs. They had a certain amount of extra functions built-in to help read keypads and control an LCD, so the software that ran on them didn't have to do all that itself. Still it was very much designed around calculators, which are all very similar in function.
Similarly the software was programmed into the calc chip's ROM at manufacture. You supplied eh Sharp, or whichever chip maker, with your finished software, and they manufactured the chip with the software included, as permanent ROM. No flash memory like modern microocontroller chips.
They had, I think, simulator software that would run on a minicomputer, a PDP-11 or the like, a lot like a modern emulator, but for calculator hardware. You'd test your code on that. But once you'd written the code onto a chip, if it didn't work, you can only throw it away. I dunno what the smallest run could be for a test run.
Similarly not sure about LCDs, I think a few dozen would be the smallest run for a custom display with custom shaped segments.
It could be they mocked up a display using LEDs perhaps and different hardware for testing. I dunno. I'd be very interested to find out how they tested this, especially since it would be the first EVER LCD game! Later ones at least had the confidence of the earlier successes to build on.
Hiroshi's glasses make him look like a Yakuza (Ryu Ga Gotoku) character, I love it!
It's pretty cool that controllers still use a D-pad or a variation of it, to this day.
are the engineers from sharp the guys from dragonar?
I had the burger time and donkey kong micro games, played them til they wore out. The biggest problem is they ate up a lot of those little hearing aid style batteries.
Without Nintendo, I have absolutely no idea what I would have been doing and Xbox and PlayStation wouldn't exist. I'm just thankful we're all gamers and love all three companies
Awesome!
I like the Stardew Valley reference at 1:00
Came back to comment (after watching it like 3 times now because of how good the quality is with the LowSpecLore vids) and it looks like you forgot to add this vid and the Virtual Boy one on the playlists.
Will fix. Thanks
Is this a re-upload? I could have sworn I have seen this video before.
Help, I’m too big of a lesbian to cope with the panel of Yamauchi partying at the hostess club!! It’s too much!! (The artist you’ve hired for this series always does a wonderful job, but, wow, I can really tell they put a lot of attention into this one!)
The meeting I had with her to describe that specific drawing was a journey. She executed it way better than I had envisioned
Holy crap the artstyle is good
did you do the art here? looks good
Never realized that one event could have so much far reaching consequences lol
God your content is so so SO good. I wish I was mega rich to just bankroll you to do it non-stop. Gonna join the patreon lol, you're a legend.
Thanks! Nebula is a dollar a month or so for a yearly plan and nebula subscribers matter a TON when funding this series
6:30 Why does the prototype have four mode selection buttons?
9:15 that prototype looks *awfully* like a modern controller analog. Coincidence or inspiration?
"Mis dieses" al dibujante
Awesome video! Anyone know what's the Game and Watch Encyclopedia called?
History of Nintendo volume 2
Why are these videos so addictive?
I love this channel. Your ability to tell these stories is very entertaining. Keep these kinds of videos up!
That grandpa was hired from Stardew Valley..i knew it
This feels quite history of how Nintendo really saved without infringing the Copyright of Universal Studios Film King Kong.
It's funny about Side quest because had a tap open for side quest before watching this Vid
yo nice video
Just the title of this video caught my attention XD
Donkey Kong and Octopus were two of the best game & watch games.
Is me or is the letter from grandpa a reference from stardew valley
Vengo de la version en español (guiño guiño)
I had to search for your channel just to see that you have uploaded a new video 2 weeks ago. Its weird because this is not the first time and i am subscribed with the bell and all.
Make sure you have the bell set to all rather than personalized. On personalized TH-cam just ignores videos that under performs in the first day, which tends to be the norm when a channel pivots like I did
Love the stardew valley reference
Fui a buscar en el de español este video y se habia subido y visto hace dias XDD
*Deletion of the Videos was a dirty move*
Not deleted. Unlisted. They are on the playlist section.
Awesome
Ironically, Nintendo's latest console gets rid of the iconic d-pad in favour of a gimmick nobody really cares about (though the Lite thankfully leaves it in)
When you say the Game Boy series is complete you just mean the original and its variants right? I know that the subjects of your videos don't necessarily follow any chronological order but the fact that you have already talked about the NDS makes me worried we're not getting any GBA episodes. Which would be a huge shame because there are so many questions I have about its development.
For instance, After having already produced the GB light, how did the GBA release without a backlight?
Was there a reason for moving the controls to the sides?
Did the lack of connectivity with older GB models cause any internal controversy given the success of Pokemon?
What was the inspiration behind the clamshell design of the SP?
Why didn't the SP have a headphone jack? Was it an oversight?
What's the story behind the e-reader?
What was the vision for the GB Micro? It dropped the 'Advance' from the name like it was supposed to be another 'definitive' Game Boy but also lost its backward compatibility. Then it releases with a price within spitting distance of the NDS which was already a year old at that point and only months before the DS lite's release. Honestly, the Micro intrigues me most.
Nice
Wish I could afford Nebula, but it does not have regional pricing.
At a dollar something a month it is very, very hard to make it cheaper for any region
0:59 stardew valley reference??
I would buy a black and white comic in your art style on these gaming historical moments.
I WOULD PAY!! 💳💥💳💥💳💥
Wasn't this video published 5 days ago in the Spanish channel? 🤔
Yes
Favorite new channel.
Please where can i get a copy of the history of nintendo all volumes in English? They aren’t available on Amazon
I think only volumes 1 and 2 have been translated, and they are made in limited prints. Which is a shame because they are great
🙏
Always sign the patent yourself 😂
I would get Curiositystream and Nebula if i could pay with Paypal or Klarna or S-Direkt or anything else usable from Germany but not a frigging credit card.