A Short Visual History of Videogames

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khdownes1

@PlantainHurricane Judging by your comments about nintendo and consoles in general, I’m going to assume you’re a dedicated PC gamers, and are offended that I left out your preferred gaming medium to make room for all those “childish” console games.
Fact is; popularity-wise, in the 80s consoles(specifically Nintendo) completely owned anything in the PC industry at the time.
example: how many people have even heard of Elite, or Miner Willy.
Now how many people have heard of mario, sonic or tetris?
khdownes1

@PlantainHurricane I would have liked to include everything from the Spectrum to Vectrex, but due to tight deadlines(this being a uni project) I had to leave out things like handhelds and home computers. basically leaving only the most prominent players in the videogame industry as a whole
The crash destroyed retailers confidence in the console industry. Home computers continued to do well because retailers saw them as more than just fad toys
Thats why I called this a BRIEF History of videogames
PlantainHurricane

Pretty, but riddled with inaccuracies and glaring omissions. The arcade and PC gaming worlds are woefully underrepresented and completely missing respectively, and the “great crash” of the Atari age never really “destroyed” video games at all, the market just moved to arcades and PCs. Nintendo didn’t “save” anything, other than possibly by making gaming more childish and simplified compared to PC and arcade cabinets of the time.
cyther39

this is cool!
great visuals! especially the 3d console models but you should have included the current generation consoles like PS3 and Xbox360.
khdownes1

@XSidRapedMyCatX Thanks man, I’ve also got it uploaded on Vimeo. That version has 100k views.
XSidRapedMyCatX

Wow, I would think that this video would have 100,000′s of views, but only 3,407!? Damn man, you really deserve more credit for this.
paintedship

of course my beloved colecovision was left out. Atari games were awful next to that.
rebelwithoutacause59

this is brilliant, thank u.
whatatidymess

MS Paint is ace!
ArcadeGames

Don’t forget Computer Space(before Pong)!
ZpVisions

This is amazing! Great Job what did you use to composit all that . Your 3d IS amazing!! Check Out my visual effects and motion graphic movies! Best one is Creepy Walls
MrHabibi420

khdownes1 should do a visual history of the mental retardation that afflicts his family, and how this said afflication has hit him triple fold and caused him to create youtube video’s that give autism a bad name. Can’t be much worse that the literal shit he keeps dumping onto youtube for everyone to make fun of. Wheres Cops on Bikes 2, shitheel? Guess financing crappy short films using savings from flipping burgers and serving fries must be pretty tough in todays economy.
diegodaudt

I love the annotations! 2:35 “But my mom says I’m cool!”
khdownes1

In Australia, most people pronounce it “Seegah”, in America, most people pronounce it “sey gah”

But theyre both wrong, it’s really pronounced “Seh gah”
TehLulShow

Why do you pronounce sega. Ceega?

its pronouced Sey Gah
deedsnz

This must have taken you aaaages. The 3D consoles look amazing and the animation is very very good too. You must have got a very very high grade for this.
kashiobez

sega should make a new console
Nighthawk94

great job loved it you should continue it to the ps3 wii and xbox360 just a shortened continued version it would be awsome 5/5 and fav!
ryanrubi

nice work! i love it! =)
xtianvideo

GREAATTTTTT
ClickForOutkast

“which was .. purple” lol
jdigitalseven

The AES was a 100% true arcade experience at home but games were $250 and the system was $600….most people rented it due to cost…now you can buy consolized MVS units which games are MUCH cheaper!!!! theres probable a history on youtube about SNK…the maker of Neo Geo
jdigitalseven

It was released mainly in Japan, then US…If you ever played the red MVS arcade units where you could pick up to 4 different games to play that was a Neo Geo.
khdownes1

Was the NEO Geo AES very popular? I don’t it was released down here in Australia, so I don’t know much about it.
There’s a lot of consoles I didn’t include like the colecovision, or the PC-engine etc. I just tried to keep it to the most mainstream consoles.
jdigitalseven

What about the Neo Geo AES:(….1991-2003 (last game was 2003 so really 1991-2001/02)

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