The First E3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- The first E3 was an interesting one. Possibly boring at times, but also compelling in just how boring it really was.
Will PlayStation succeed? Will Sega not succeed? What is Nintendo doing here? All’s these questions and more will probably be answered at some point during this video about a few press conferences that happened almost 3 decades ago.
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I’m still waiting for E4
E4 mafia?
@@ChronicAndIronic they really fell off though with E3D
Knowing the industry they’d probably name it E1 instead because “iT’s AlL iN oNE.”
E4 Pokemon?
This made me laugh waaaaay harder than it probably should’ve 🤣🤣🤣
Honestly getting an in order E3 retrospective once a year now that E3 is dead would be pretty neat
Scott the woz already kinda did it
@@uhmm3996 he didnt do all of them tho, plus this channel could provide a different opinion so
@uhmm True but Tyler's input is also totally different in his content.
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Yeah, but how 'bout we get it from a channel that _isn't_ shit?
I'd watch it. I enjoy his viewpoints.
Nintendo ending on an anti-piracy rant is just so on brand
I’m surprised he didn’t mention blockbuster..
Don't copy that floppy!
It reminds me of that infamous "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-movie-piracy PSA from 2005 that only made me want to do it more while singing "You Are A Pirate." Should've listened to Gabe Newell.
@@MarvinPowell1The irony is, in most cases, that intro was pirated when it appeared on home media.
Nintendo and copyright as normally
Dude that "299" moment is fucking savage. I've seen it plenty of times before but it still gets me each time
It's amazing to think that at the first E3, all the way back in 95, they already had two zombies.
It's nice to know that the more things change, the more they stay the same
Hahaha yup.
Especially with Nintendo, lol. Not understanding the internet is helpful? What a shocker, lmao.
sure no more e3, its always the same lmao, yall trolling right !?
@Alice HEY EVERYONE, LOOK. A FRENCH WOMAN
Girl!?!?!?!
It's still strange to think that E3 will become a historical oddity that only existed in a specific time period similar to the Worlds Fair. Some relic of a bygone age when games were a semi-niece industry filled with primarily physical media.
Nah, what's strange is that it even managed to survive past 2013
It really really shouldn't have, companies should have switched to the current format years ago to keep E3 from becoming as bad as the game awards
@@victorkreig6089 I'm sick of the game awards. I never watch them, but that shit has to stop.
@@mintydog06 what do you have against the Doritos pope? Are you trying to slander the Lord of Mt Dew!?
@@victorkreig6089 lmao
The world’s fair still exists and will continue onto the future because the focus of the world fair isn’t exactly electronics but the achievements of nations have or will make in the future it’s nowhere near the same as E3 and the next one will happen in Japan in two years from now.
I was not expecting an hour video about e3 1995, but I am glad it is here
Word.
I will now utter "And then you woke up" after watching every game trailer from now on.
This man's nose for bullshit is immaculate, id love to see his take on what gaming has become today.
the most based man in that time, trully a visionary
A gentleman and a scholar really
That guy is someone worthy of respect, if he still went to E3's in the 2000's and early 2010's he'd be uttering that line every other sentence.
Watching this video while knowing that E3 is most likely ending forever is a very bittersweet feeling. Nothing lasts forever, but E3 was like Christmas for gamers. A whole year's worth of game announcements condensed into a single week, all under one convenient roof. I think I'll miss the live audience reactions the most. It felt like I was there with them, and their cheering hyped me up.
I was at the first E3 with VGA magazine.
Thanks new age gamers for openly wishing E3 would die. Generation FAIL strikes again.
Every major industry has its trade show, but the largest and most profitable entertainment industry can't have its own trade show. 🤦🏻♂️
Very fitting that you'd do a video about the first E3 given that this yearly showcase is basically on it's last legs. Nice view on it's history as well as what it set out to prove for video games.
Think that's why he did it lol
Black man George Floyd wannabe going to be roasted in my video for taking me seriously hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s not on its legs. It has no legs. They canceled it and it’s not gonna come back for atleast a few year if at that… we don’t need E3 anymore. We have the internet and the company’s just can make videos.
To be fair, PC gaming was one step behind for a long time because lack of standards. But in 1995 is where things started changing. DirectX was released, OpenGL was already out some years too.
Yeah the only games I played at the time on Mac were point n click adventures and on rail shooters. Maybe a Wolfenstein 3D or Doom here n there.
Pc's could do 3D better too with the consumer price graphic cards, so an advantage in running, developing and porting games.
@@reeyees50 To be fair Doom engine was the only thing PC had to show in 1995, it was truly a miracle in software since it was all done to run in CPU, and even if the game was 2 years old at that point you needed a PC that costs 10x more than a SNES that could also run Doom in 95. 99% of the games that were not made in doom engine could be done in the consoles of that time. people forget there was a time that pc coun't even do scrolling. even when they managed to do it with Commander Keen it was not smooth, and we had games like Mario World. With the release of OpenGL it was where things really started to change, Quake would be released next year too. But the new consoles that were 5x cheaper than a PC like Playstation and Saturn could do decent 3D too. So it would take some time.
Ya, for awhile it was a hassle. Needing to know all the DOS commands and then later with Windows. All the hardware and drivers needed.
There was solid truth in consoles being better because you could just pop it in and go. Of course those days are over now.
Still try to get physical media when I can though.
I'd say when motherboards started shipping with the AGP buss and cards became affordable, that's when things REALLY changed. My first card was an nvidia riva TNT2, actually still on the old PCI buss, but man it absolutely BLEW me and my friends' minds at the time.
Playing half-life and the counterstrike beta over dial-up? I was king for a day baby haha
It's nice seeing that now that E3 is at its end, more people are looking back in its origins
I was at this show, and attended each show except the two that were held in Atlanta up until 2005, and that was my last one. It was great early on, as it wasn't over crowded as it got in later times. Sadly, as the internet expanded and TH-cam became a thing, almost anyone could attend, and down the drain it began to go. So many great memories over the years, and I was sad to see it go, but it was long overdue, as it was just a shell of it's former self. Thanks for the look back in time.
2001 is still the best E3 in my humble opinion, so much going for it, so much presence, and the crowds were still really really awesome along with all the insane products being shown off there
I never got to go to an E3, but I've gone to PAX and a comic con in recent years. What a miserable experience. Overcrowded with stinky people (like "I don't bother wiping, showering, or wearing deodorant" bad), while most of the convention is just booths where people are peddling junk. I imagine later E3 conventions were similar.
@@victorkreig60892000 for PS2 unveiling
@@RobertK1993 nah, nowhere near as good. I'm talking the entire thing not individual conferences
I was at the first E3 with VGA magazine and all of them since. The first show was the best to me.
I disagree.
Every major industry has its trade show, but the largest and most profitable entertainment industry can't have its own trade show. 🤦🏻♂️
Holy shit I can't believe the fucking Nintendo rep of all people went on a Neuromancer rant in the middle of an E3 conference
Nintendo honestly in many ways doesn't change. New consoles and controls but still the same ideas on how to feed you content.
Still worried about piracy today instead of offering a better way to consume the content than piracy.
@@mittensfastpawNintendo _can't_ compete with pirates because they do the same thing: sell you old/old-school games on old tech for cheap/free. Nintendo calls it Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology, emulation calls it preserving the past and says the past should be free because it's not the future, the cutting-edge that still deserves some compensation as opposed to the past which in their opinion has made its money back and now belongs to the people, and in a head-to-head fight with pirates, it often boils down to service and these days, service often boils down to Internet distribution. Gabe Newell has the luxury of making his famous observation from the throne of Steam, Internet gaming personified. Nintendo and Internet being in the same sentence has been a meme since the Wii.
Would be cool if you had a e3 series where you cover every single e3 in this detail.
Or at least up until you could find them online, like mid-2000’s.
@@fonalone Thanks now I'm getting flashbacks to that
I think it would've been nice for E3 to make it to 2025, so they could have a 30 year celebration, but honestly, they probably should've cut it off at 25 years, Covid probably interrupted that, somewhat, so now it's dying a slow death instead, I think it really did die this year right?
Yeah everybody both big and small pulled out of E3 so they cancelled it. But now all the developers are having their own scheduled shows online throughout the year instead.
E3 was dead by 2013 lol
@@macuser7048 The game awards and Jeff fest are the new E3. E3 was about bringing EEEEveryone together for a concentrated burst of customer attention.
@@Horatio787 The Game Awards SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. But Nintendo Directs have a 50/50 chance of being good.
Covid had nothing to do with it. TH-cam killed it.
the nintendo show feels like a super dry internal meeting 💀
That's how the conferences were before that for electronics. It was suits comparing percentages to please shareholders. This was the first time they actually had shows and booths set up to advertise the games like this to my memory.
34:00 holy shit they were OBSESSED back then as well.
I find it fascinating that people such as myself become super interested in the past 20-30 years when it comes to their interests like gaming. It's not too long ago once you think about it, and yet people get super nostalgic over this time. It's almost like people just ignore the previous decade of their lives until it hits two decades, which prompts them to get sentimental about it.
Personaly I was born in 1997 and didn't get into gaming that much up until 2011, so I like to look back to this era because I want to know what did I miss out.
There’s certainly some truth to this. “Retro” console prices are a good indication of how they’re perceived by the public at large. Consoles tend to bottom-out 1-2 generations after their launch, only for the retro market to pick up on them during the next generation or two. Cultural factors certainly play a part here, but it’s worth noting how SNES prices stabilised long before those of N64’s did - which have both effectively levelled off now. GameCube is an oddity, as it underperformed from the word go, and is hard to judge - console prices seem levelled off, but the games are another thing. To me, the most interesting “modern” console, is the Wii (worth noting, I worked in second hand gaming around 2016-2018). Wii prices seemed to bottom-out around when the switch released, and while they’re still low, they’re beginning to creep back up a little, and I think we can expect to see that continue. Some Wii games even back then, were a pretty penny second hand, and that roster will probably only expand in coming years.
That’s just Nintendo’s line up as an example, but it seems true of other manufacturers too.
My parents were into gaming as early as the mid 1970s when the second generation consoles (Intellivision, Atari 2600, Arcades, and Colecovision were released). My mom was an Atari Arcade person, while my dad was an Intellivision person (for about one week until he got bored, but he doesn't mind seeing what gaming has become over the years since he and my mom were born in 1965, so there's that). And then when we were born our parents bought games that were from their childhood onto the PS1 and N64. My dad still this to day still has his intellivision with the two controllers and game cartridges in the box, just that the console doesn't work anymore nor do the controllers. My mom had her Atari 2600 at one point, but lost it somewhere when they moved to have a family int he 90s, and still to this very day.
To me I'm glad my siblings and I grew up during the very early days of 3D gaming (both 5th and 6th generation consoles) as well as the music, movies, and TV shows we grew up in the 1990s and early 2000s. However, by the time the 7th generation came to an end, that's when I stopped buying new games for newer consoles and shifted my attention towards VIdeography, Djaying, and Emulation instead. Nowadays I play all of my games on PC, while sometimes playing them on retro consoles once in a while, but not much anymore. In my spare time I watch videos like these to see what others may say about E3's in the 90s and early 2000s. And I would say for the first three years felt like going to board meetings, while later on became a convention conference hybrid, up until its death in 2022.
@@csabaszabo6859 you missed a LOT... well, i mean, i suppose i am a little jealous in a way. You can still play a massive library of games now, for the first time, and without having to wait. I get into the rarer games these days that i missed out on, either because they weren't in English (yet) or i just didn't get to them.
So if you ever want any recommendations on what you should check out, games going back in the past, let me know. I could point out quite a few games which, at least in my opinion, shouldn't be missed. Oh and I'm aware of the prices on classic games now, but they're all either available online with English patches or ported in HD on modern devices.
I always like the 90's the best...
In 95', I got my first PC. A 486 DX66. The first thing I did with it was install Doom through DOS.
Then I went on the internet to try and find porn, but my mom picked up the phone, thereby severing my modem's connection and I only got to see half of an image.
did it at least make it to the nipple line? 😂😂
@@hurgcat No, just the top of her head showing off a beautiful red crop of 90's mall hair and some dude's grimacing face.
😂😂😂😂
If Nintendo was really worried about India, China and Thailand rampant piracy, why they bother to bring those games here at a affordable price?
And of course look forward to how Nintendo makes retro gaming as inaccessible and difficult to get, that many think is morally right to pirate their games.
The fact they didn't consider Latin America back them made more piracy target
@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez They still don’t target Latin America. Their eShop have limited function compared to other countries and only gave install codes for games.
@@lumirairazbyte9697 I mean you are not wrong, yet it's more than in the past
Ironically I came within minutes of getting E3 tickets back in 97' as a 17 year old, knew a guy who worked for funcoland. It was every gamers dream to go, and yet none were invited!
I read that first line the wrong way...
@@Toothily 😂😂😂 same
Credit where credit is due, Tom Kalinske nailed many predictions that would happen 20 years later.
Nintendo seriously has been on this rant for so long. Decades later.
I'm interested in this "Juagwire" console you keep talking about. Never heard of it before!
It's a piece of poop.
Yes, nobody can mispronounce Jaguar like the Americans :)
@@mintydog06 Yes, no stupid Brits can remember that American English is its own language with its own pronunciation.
That Nintendo presentation was painful even in the clips you showed. I’ll never understand why they didn’t just show off Silicon Graphics demos, they had more than enough by 1995 and knew that’s what they were using for the Ultra 64
never change nintendo, you never will
100% Agreed. I still can't believe they were talking about piracy nearly 30 years ago, and they still maintain that to this very day. How unfortunate and behind the decades Nintendo will always be, no matter what present year it is.
Damn, Tom from Sega almost 100% called the future. Sure there were a few dated statements, but his predictions were understandable at the time. Think about how fast all this happened. The market nearly died in 82 and by 85 Nintendo was slowly reviving it with the NES. Then only 10 years later we have 3D games, digital audio, laser discs, joysticks, voice acting, video cutscenes, major Hollywood movies based on games, etc. It all went so fast that anything seemed possible. From the crash in 82 up to E3 95 the entire industry had been built. More time has passed between the release of the PS3 and now.
This could be the start of a retrospective series for your channel, Whimsu
Fantastic video as always. It's been at the very least a couple of years since I watched any recent content from either of your channels, and I'm kind of in awe of how they've seemed to evolve since then. Your commentation is more articulate and I've noticed a much-improved sense of earnestness in your voice, with the script containing generally more hard facts and less goofy side jokes. Truthfully I've enjoyed both styles, but this video essay may be the best I've seen yet. Keep it up.
I never knew that about the Saturn launch, that is hilarious. I understand why they did it, but can you imagine waiting for it, then it comes out, households haven’t saved up enough for it yet, there’s almost no games, the stores it got delivered to had no marketing for it, and the ones it hadn’t been refused to sell it.
Technically the M2 released but only in arcades because of it’s prohibitively expensive consumer cost. So if you want to see what it looks like which is basically a mid step between the PS1 and the Dreamcast it’s out there
There are also some Dev Kits out there to buy. There is an interesting House of the Dead type game called Evil Night, that is running on M2 hardware in an arcade.
Nintendo really hasnt changed with its extreme disdain for anyone daring not to only officially buy their official version of the game eh?
Nintendo to this day makes statements about how it doesn't get why anyone would desire to play older titles.
This is why their online system sucks ass.
@@mittensfastpaw I've seen likewise statements from sony execs as well, even going so far as to denigrate those who do and not understanding why anyone would play such 'ugly games' lmao
These men in suits really dont care about games, or even play them in most cases, they just want to make money.
@@WelcomeToDERPLANDThey're desperate for everyone to play only new AAA games because the newest games have the newest monetization systems designed to suck every spare moment and penny you have into one game instead of enjoying a library built up over years.
@@autobotstarscream765 Yeah, I mean that's literally like 95% of game devs these days though.
Nintendo takes it to the extreme with them actively ruining people's lives who play fucking emulators for games impossible to play otherwise these days.
@@WelcomeToDERPLAND Which is funny because due to their behind-the-times nature, they've only started getting around to making storefronts instead of games and still make actual proper games, albeit basically Xbox 360 games on a handheld "console" that's two hardware generations behind like every Nintendo handheld in comparison to the actual home consoles of this gen (PS5 and Xbox Series S/X); if anything, Nintendo has the opposite problem that their wildly successful strategy of selling old and old-school level of tech new games on old tech at cheap prices, which they call Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology, is basically what the pirates do as they're also just behind the cutting edge and thus one of the great safeguards against piracy, which cannot be stopped and can only be competed against, is to be technologically ahead of them, and Nintendo turned its back on being on the cutting-edge and more powerful than PCs, and thus uncopyable as no fake experience could live up to the one true authentic authorized Nintendo-approved Seal of Quality experience, after having been on this untouchable cutting-edge with the NES and SNES being the top-of-the-line for their time, still having cracks but the pirate copies often being imperfect and the Ninty tech actually being far ahead enough to stop the pirates for _years,_ sometime after the PlayStation disaster in which Nintendo decided that anyone other than them having both the cutting-edge and any control of their IPs other than them was unacceptable, dumped Sony to cede control of their IPs to the monkeys rubbing sticks and stones together at Philips building the overglorified toaster known as the infamous CDi, defaulting to being behind at least one competitor in at least one area at all times to sell Ninstalgia for cheap and cede the role of biggest and most expensive hardcore console to someone else, starting with the Game Boy (for which Gunpei Yokoi coined the term Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology to show their business model of affordable and reliable in exchange for being downright primitive in comparison to contemporary competition such as the Game Gear and mopping the floor with all of them) and the N64 being the all-powerful Silicon Graphics-powerful Ultra 64 Project Reality *AND YET STICKING WITH CARTRIDGES WHILE FLIRTING WITH HAVING AN ADD-ON WITH F@$%ING FLOPPY DISKS* as if it was the Famicom in the _80's_ while CD-based technology left Mario and all 64 of those bits in the dust and the no-longer-Nintendo PlayStation dished out killer karma.
Now Nintendo is at hardware _parity_ with pirates who can pirate every Nintendo game at will before it comes out (unless Pokémon Shitpost and Violation blow up the pirates' computers with their brokenness, the ultimate anti-piracy!), leaving them with the only other defense at hand: besting them in service, to quote the great Gabe Newell, who had the advantage of making that famous observation from the throne of Steam, Internet gaming made manifest, while Nintendo and Internet...are words that form a meme by being in the same sentence together.
honestly Tom was right on the money on 2D games being phased out. it's different today obviously but for a few years between PS2/PS3 era, 2D games were basically non existent
More historical e3 recaps, please!
Honestly I could happily watch you do an in-depth breakdown of every E3 chronologically. It'd be so fascinating to see how gaming and E3 both evolved over time
Good job Tyler! You made me sit through almost an hour of a previously uninteresting topic for me
I also hope Ridge Racer is a good game
Both Ridge Racer and Daytona USA were good. Sega kind of fixed Daytona USA over time with later revisions, but I think Sega Rally ended up doing better overall on the system.
Riiiiddggee raaccer! Remember that one?
Psx was namco's heyday
@@donnydarko7624 Tekken, Pac Man World, Soul Edge, Klonoa, Ridge Racer, ect.
@@donnydarko7624 Then you had the Namco Museum games
Man, remember the turn of the century when everyone finally got their right ears activated?
I think the midway presentation makes sense, you have to remember that industry professionals are also members of the public, a choreographed fight can still get your attention. Also, keep in mind that for arcade games, the people in the audience might be the ones actually buying them.
I was there, I worked in the Arcade Industry at the time. To this day I have the Screwdriver Sega was giving out at their booth
Nintendo didn't care. They still don't.
sega doesn’t care either since every sonic game comes out being unfinished
My god, Nintendo was *always* the company that could care less about their audiences and more about their profits...
Couldn't care less.
Nintendo has always been the video game company controlled COMPLETELY by the Japanese branch of the business. You will always hear the stories of how SEGA and Sony of America fought against the misguided whims of the Japanese higher ups. You never hear these stories about Nintendo, because there was, and still is, no fight. What Japan wants, Japan gets.
I really do believe if it wasn’t for how incredibly talented Nintendo Japans development teams were and still are, the business would be dead.
Their engineers have great ideas and some flop some succeed. Their business angle though yeah that's different.
sega is worse
I find that "rpg" comment funny when the Playstation would become some hidden gem console for rpgs, and of course the reason most people in the west even GOT INTO "JPRGs" with other games.
Final Fantasy X 💘
The US bashed on them for years back then because they were considered too nerdy. FFVII is what got everyone's attention and had Nintendo stuck with Sony, they would have profited from it's success.
Breath of Fire III and IV baby!
Ah yes, back in the day i always expected E3 news on July...when the next issue of magazines after the event would share the news
Tips & Tricks, Nintendo Power, PSM, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Game Fan, ect.
yep It was an exciting time getting the E3 issues of all the mags
I can't wait for you to do more E3's... The Ninth or even the Tenth or even possibly the Eleventh E3 video should be really interesting...
Fun fact: people in 1995 only had hearing exclusively in their left ear
where did you get this information
I’m still wondering what happened to E1 & E2
1995 was the turning point from 2D to TRUE 3D.
The world was about to witness the power of 3D accelerated graphics like never before; the future was present that year.
I believe PC games were of growing concern to these companies because of its innovative software development teams who continue to push boundaries within the computer ecosystem and targeted hardware assets.
I seem to remember Gaming Palooza Empire uploading videos of CES 1990-1994 to E3 95 and early 00s in his channel but got removed for some reason (copyrighted music that fit the era).
Just on that note @ 23:20~ however: Sony had every right to shit on Nintendo; Nintendo broke off their deal with Philips CD-i prototype perhaps to still gain more assets which Sony felt betrayed even when the Playstation was in production. Nintendo created the monster now already owning a huge market share in the industry.
E3 1995 is still probably the most-interesting E3 to date simply for its strong historical significance. It signaled the beginning of the end for Sega wherein Microsoft would eventually take their place, and the rise of the PlayStation which is still the biggest major player in the industry today.
The decisions made on that day in May of '95 ultimately cemented where the future of gaming would go.
Really puts into perspective the modern gaming landscape. I think the most interesting thing to happen recently in gaming was google failing to get into gaming but Meta/Facebook had a very successful jump into gaming with VR
@Doggedly handsome everyone knew stadia was gonna fail 😂 If I was Google I wouldn't have bothered with streaming & just made a chromebook based games console ot gaming laptop/PC with exclusive 1st party games & definitely NOT shut down your 1 & only 1st party studio after releasing 1 game which is gone since server based stadia games can't be emulated
Ah.. Sega and Nintendo. Forgiving eachother's pasts faster than any controversial race relations in history. We could learn from them.
Did you notice how they always took little jabs at each other? lol It was like Pepsi vs. Coke.
Yeah that's anywhere near similar
the next failed conference doesn't come for awhile. The 2013 Microsoft conference.
On the topic of Nintendo, I don't feel they really have changed since 1995. They still don't really compete with anyone. They do their own thing and that is what has become the expectation.
I guess we could just blame it on the 3rd Gen console curse.
What strikes me about this conference is the parallels between the Sony-Sega dynamic, and the Sony-Microsoft dynamic that we saw in the 2013 E3 when the PS4 and Xbox one were announced. Sony had a similar "Presentation" with the sharing games thing that was a joke one clip slide show, as a jab at Microsoft's convoluted DRM that was planned to be implemented on Xbox. Also the crowd going wild at the lower price tag happened at both conferences as well.
I love to see a video on the second E3. He’ll just do every year.
i was watching for six minutes before i thought "damn hes taking a long time to set the stage" and then i realized the video is nearly an hour long
hell yes!
I was there. I was interviewing with trip for a position at 3do. Couple of things not present here. When you walked in, sega gave you a ticket. After they announced that the Saturn was available, every 15 minutes until the day was over they gave away a free Saturn if they drew your number.
Also, the big Nintendo thing, besides a playable dk2, was killer instinct. It was the advertisement on the badge lanyard. I still have mine after all these years
@Vatali Sega giving away free Saturns through the day was cool. I wonder how many was given away in total. 3D0 screwed up so badly .
Very insightful. E3 was the talk at school whenever tech tv was around. Nowadays there more music performance and cgi game trailers than games and systems devices. Kids now will have such a drone like experience to the gaming community😅
I'm so old I can easily recant all the the times I was in middle school and I be reading the current month's issue for Electronic Gaming Monthly and GameInformer in the library during lunch.
12:03 To be fair, that's where the industry was at for a long time. 2D gaming became antiquated when the 3D consoles and PC shooters really started coming into their own. So it wasn't exactly a missed prediction, he just wasn't projecting far enough into the future to see that it would turnaround and make a comeback. It wasn't until fairly recently that 2D games started making a resurgence again... like, early/mid 2010s or so, when Indie developers who grew up playing 2D games started putting their own creations on XBLA and making bank. That's when the rest of the industry finally started to take notice.
Honestly, I remember picking up a magazine announcing the PlayStation. After seeing screenshots of MK3, Ridge Racer, Rayman, Gex, and Air Combat- it was a day one purchase for me. I traded all my SNES games to pay for it.
The "riddle based puzzle game" referred to at E3 in 1995 was clearly Myst. Everyone in the room would have immediately known this.
Yup, that's the problem with videos like this made by people who weren't even born when the events occurred, they have very little historical context.
@@charlesjerome4609 I do think it was more of a misunderstanding of what the abbreviation meant. Remember, America was NOT use to Role-Playing Games much like Dungeons and Dragons did back in the 1980s, and heck, even Zork on the MS-Dos at that time. So the term ended up having the wrong full name of the abbreviation until that got fixed in the late 90s early 2000s.
The E3 video we werent expecting
Woah... The first E3 happened 2 months before I was born!
So weird seeing E3 falling this year...
Except 2D games DID die. For several years, in fact. From the late 90s to the mid 2000s, the only 2D games you would find were pretty much just flash games on the internet. And JRPGs for some reason. It wasn't until the pixel art fad had taken off and indie games started to rise in popularity that they would become common again.
Great work. Very informative. I wish there was a nice coffee table book of the entire history of E3 with photographs of each year.
You should do videos on all the E3s all the way up to 2019, would be a great series to watch.
This is fantastic analysis, and I’d love to see this as a series giving an hour summary of each year.
Honestly if someone made an announcement of a console the same day they are showing off during the massive social media era that would have been an epic campaign.
Wouldn't work today. Everyone has a cell phone. As soon as stock becomes available at the big box stores such as Target and walmart, those minimum wage workers would be taking pictures and sharing it online for clout. Secrets just don't exist anymore
Not really. It would still piss off retailers and confuse buyers.
@@sirlimen333buyers would know beforehand. This was an anomaly and was forced by Sega Japan.
It’s funny how Nintendo entered e3 without much enthusiasm and in the end it was Nintendo who kinda (not really) killed off e3 by doing their Nintendo directs
Love the longer videos, both here and on KH
I actually have an Enos Lives music CD from the first E3 in 1995, random find in an LA pawn shop. Nice little piece of history, no idea how many were made.
that pc vs console myth thing is 100 percent accurate, i have an insanely expensive computer to play games on in 2023 and im still wondering why its so hard to just plug and play a game and if i really needed that extra power and comfort over simplicity and accesibility for games.
Howard Lincoln might've well just said "We need to move forwards, not backwards. Mono means one, and rail means rail."
Crazy that E3 is probably shutting down after all these years. And so suddenly too.
Suddenly? There hasn't been an E3 in a few years now. It's been dead. When Keighley hosted his Summer Games Fest last year, E3 was dead for good.
@@Redarmy1917 2021 was the last.
Still the greatest mic drop moment in the entire history of E3.
$299
I had the sega channel in 1995 it was the best thing for a 8 year old kid with ADHD for sure…
Hilarious that guy recording was saying the same shit people say nowadays about game trailers.
"$299"
Do you plan on doing any more? I'd love to see a series about the early E3s.
Thank you, tiny cat, for this look back at history. It was great!
Silly animated cat guy for one whole hour. Now that's
Can't believe people unironically called the Internet "cyberspace" back then
Thats what it is though
People called it that for 2 decades.
Got to love the American 90's perspective on PC gaming. In Europe playing on computers was the norm from the early 80's onward, only the mid 2000's shifted focus on consoles.
I had - _ahem_ - *rrrRRRRRRRIIIIIDGE RRRRACERRRRRrrrr* as a kid. It was pretty fun.
Always love seeing a video from you!
Love the longer, more in-depth video
Oh man, I'm so glad you upload here more often. I love everything you make so freakin much.
The dark souls of E3
great stuff man, loved this one, thanks for your work!!
Maybe a retrospective series, a video/E3 edition thing? that'd be a really cool thing
It’s always a good day when you release new video Tyler
I always remembered back than getting gaming magazines every month without fail just to keep up, if it wasn't for those gaming journalists I wouldn't know a damn thing
16:13 they did not invent saturday
-burger40
Still cherish my Saturn to this day, the best gaming times of my life : D
It had many solid titles that later got ported.
would love to see a series on e3 year by year to watch how it evolved and eventually died
This video was aweosme! All I really knew about E3 1995 was the early satrurn launch and the sony "$299" Mic drop. It was great to see the whole show touched on! I hope to see videos of other E3's in the future!
3do low-key pulling off the Ubisoft trailer well before Ubisoft did it themselves
note that sega would later release sega games on pcs
Some better, some worse.
Solid video! Only complaint is the sound in some of the older clips played only on the left speaker. In the future, could you please convert mono audio to stereo?
Bro this is sick, you should do a video on E3 1996 next.