It shaped the face of gaming. It showed what technology can do. It’s not just a console, it was a stepping stone that will most likely continue for decades to come. All because Nintendo showed the world what technology can do
It did shape the face of gaming and saved the American console industry, but Atari and early computers showed the world what technology could do first...
remember that Nintendo was doomed even before entering the console market and was destined to fail. also Nintendo doing well equals them failing according to the haters.
That's my first console! I respect the NES a lot, but the Snes is the very first thing that could plunge me into a virtual world and gave me a passion for gaming as a whole.
I remember Christmas of '94, I opened up a present and saw the Nintendo branding thinking I'd be getting an NES as it was all I knew for gaming consoles besides Atari at age 7, but it was an SNES. That system really catapulted my love of gaming.
If there's a company that is good at preserving the glories of the past for the new generations it's Nintendo. They know how valuable those games and IPs are. My nephews might not like nes games as much as fortnite, but they know about them. I don't see any other company caring that much about keeping their library alive. They even worked gorgeous 2D gameplay and graphics in Mario Odyssey in a way that is both new and vintage. That's a lot of effort, and I think it's paying off.
Another company that really cares about old ips is thq nordic, they're buying up all of thqs old ips and re releasing them (or planning on it) like destroy all humans and time splitters
I have to say in America we never said snez or what ever crap the English say. We said regular Nintendo and Super Nintendo. Or saying each Letter one at time snes or nes sometimes.
No the PS3 is. It showed us how retarded a 600 dollar console is. Second is the Virtual Boy (I am obviously joking about both of them) Edit: I can’t believe people are trying to argue that the PS3 was only expensive because of the blu Ray player. When in reality the PS3 had a bunch of non needed features. PROOF: When the slim models came out they removed a lot of ports and features If you want to argue just watch this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NuYonZaiV8k.html
MalarkeyMan No, it was $600 because it was a very powerful console and had backwards compatibility. Sadly, the 360 had a year head start and was way easier to develop for. Therefore, PS3 never got fully utilized most of the time.
@@ozkuz4321 Also, the new cell-processor co-developed between Sony and IBM, and the launch PS3's had actually PS2 hardware in them for backwards compatibility. These, plus the fact it had blu-ray player. The PS3 had two models at launch, a 20 GB model for 500 USD and a 60 GB model for 600 USD. Each PS3 cost Sony 900 USD per system, so despite being expensive Sony was still selling them at a loss.
@@Zarflame99_Alt yes exactly that. They sold a lot of ps3 but werent profiting. Ps3 was a failure for sony even though it sold well. I think the cheapest bluray player back then was around 800. Now you can get one for 50. Also remember buying a vizio 26" for 450. Now you can get a 4k 50" tv for 250 to 400.
So you think Nintendo system is top dog the first system before any other systems out there. I like to tell you that is wrong. Atari has that title. Oh I hearing that you going to say Nintendo made their games on this system alone. Sorry again Atari is where Nintendo got started. By dk and Mario. Both started on Atari. That is sad but that is what happen. Make sure to do your history before a big clam.
That's because you got some people that blow with a gallon of spit everytime and you got some that just use air. I never let anyone else clean mine because of that and more then likely always worked.
How old are you Spawn? I'm 37 and anyone around my age knows you're spot on. The NES saved video gaming after the early 80's crash. It also established the most important gaming IP's ever. Mario. Zelda. Metroid. Megaman. Castlevania. Metal Gear. On and on. It also established the blueprint for the modern controller. Up to that point, we'd had joysticks (Atari) and even a remote (coleco vision). The NES controller sat in your hand the same way current controllers do. They also invented the d-pad. Oddly enough, the NES was even designed to have primitive internet capabilities. There was a service where you could check your stocks from your NES, although I believe that was only available in Japan. Read the book "Game Over: Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Video Games". I learned a lot of interesting info from that book.
D-pads existed before the NES. Yokoi only came up with the cross design which, depending upon your preferences, may be considered a downgrade because the Intellivision did 16 directions. I own it so I would definitely know. But even for 8 directions it was only the first console to do it. It was on several handheld systems previously, including Nintendo's own Game and Watch which was also not the first one to do it. Nintendo modified and popularized it, they didn't create it.
@@cdlelondon I am 40yo and been gaming since I was 8.I wasn't even aware of the existence of game consoles until a few years down the road. I started with the CPC 6128 and the Amiga. Home computers were all the rage in Europe.
Metal Gear is not a Nes game. The Nes port of the MSX game Metal Gear is terrible and Kojima had nothing to do with it. In the real game snake swims in like in MGS1, in the NES version he arrives by plane and there are 3 other soldiers with him who are never seen again. Also in the NES version you never fight Metal Gear. The Nes version of Metal Gear is something that should be forgotten by history since its not a good game and never was.
Why would anyone dislike this video? Spawnwave is one of if not the most elite gaming channels on the net. Awesome work Spawn Wave. My 5 and 2 year olds are starting to play the nes and other classics with me and they already care more about gameplay than graphics. Much respect!
Yeah people dont like gaming news hosts to be video game fan boys. Retro fanboy. Modern fanboy. How dare he discuss all gaming platforms and design his studio around all things currently gaming.
17:28 Not *entirely* true actually Spawn. The Snes has unbalanced hardware between graphical power and processing power. In order to cut costs, the Snes uses an underclocked Ricoh chip running mostly at a paltry 2.68 mhz to 3.68 mhz and in some games it runs even slower, this resulted in alot of slowdown in early games like Gradius 3, Super R-Type, Castlevania 4. Even Lttp, MMX, Contra 3, and Super Metroid etc struggle with slowdown occasionally when there isn't even that much happening on screen. As a result, despite releasing 2 YEARS after the Genesis, it can't hold as many sprites, render as smooth animation or scroll as much parallax as the Gen can. The Snes's lack of processing power is something that ppl in their personal love/bias towards it, ignore. It does host some beautiful graphics however, and possess the Mode 7 ability however, which is a neat advantage. N64, has power on paper but the 64s architecture has a memory contention problem which bottlenecks cpu performance. Basically the cpu and gpu both compete for ram and only one can access it at a time, very stupid design decision, hence most N64 games run at low or poor frame rates ala Goldeneye, Zelda and many others. Ps1 runs more consistently and has more 60fps games despite having a much lower cpu clock speed. (Forsaken 60fps on Ps1, 30 on 64) for ex. The Gamecube and the Nes were really the only Nintendo home consoles that were well engineered, powerful and balanced between graphics and performance for their respective eras. Despite their shortcomings, the Snes and 64 still did push the industry forward in their own unique way.
Opps, sorry I hope I didn't hurt your precious image of the "almighty Snes or N64". But facts are facts mate. The consoles are still great despite their shortcomings though.
@Vegito Charmara one of my teachers in my nursery had a SNES and she used to lend it to my aunt with a couple of games. I loved that thing whenever I went to my grandma's I hoped they had it because all I had was flash games that took 20 minutes to load because I lived in a village. Super Mario world and donkey Kong country were my favourites. In August when we did go to Hungary we borrowed it to play on and it sure was fun
It's good to appreciate it but really, as someone who grew up with the NES, I'm glad the 8 bit era is over. Now the 16 bit era, that is where gaming really came into its own. To this day Super Metroid is still worth playing.
That says you're not into "instant gratification" or getting a reward and "exp" for losing. Your reward for gaming is the playing the game and defeating the game itself. It says something about your character. You're old school. And that is a good thing these days.
As someone who's now 22 years old and my first ever console being a Sega Master System which was handed down to me by my sister, even I knew how important the Nintendo Entertainment System was. It's an icon of gaming, a symbol. Being in the UK, the NES wasn't really ever a popular console over here, it was mostly home computers and Sega Systems that took the country by storm. But it's undeniable how huge of an impact it had in the States, their clever tactic to bundle it with ROB was essentially their Trojan Horse, if it weren't for that spark of ingenuity from the marketing team, I doubt gaming would've had come back as powerful as it did. Or at least if it did, it'd be by someone else. I'd always wanted to get my hands on an NES to experience it for myself, but since the NES Mini was around, it was the perfect choice for someone like me, I'd much rather let someone who had the system beforehand have the actual console and me to have the Mini. I'm grateful for what Nintendo did back then and revitalised gaming to the mainstream audiences again, I just hope we don't have to suffer another video game crash again, the video game industry has become such a giant success, it's very easy to forget what made it special in the first place.
Love your comment Potato - your right about the NES not being super common in the U.K - the big winner in the 80s with me and a lot's of other peep's were the home computer's (thinking mid 80s here) the Commodore 64 and Spectrum. Happy gaming. 🙋🏻♂️
I was born in 1990. So my last memory of this system. I always had a sega. And 64 and ps1. My earliest system. But when i had to go to my grand mothers house in the summer. She had one where my cousin use to live with here. So i have spend many nights over there nothing elese to do running mario all night. Good memories
As much as I hate to say it, The Atari was just as important for popularizing the idea of the "home video game console". The Nintendo really saved the day in North America when it came to the crash for sure. I seem to remember somewhere they designed the look of the North America version very specifically to make it seem less like a video game machine are more of a general appliance. Think it was from the Norm guy over at TheGamingHistorian. A lot to take in when considering the importance of each console. Lessons learned from failures and successes alike.
BG3 The Atari 2600 can never be overlooked, it would be quite a different industry if the Atari 2600 didn’t exist. They were the first to come out with interchangeable games using cartridges. Brilliant system, that I spent a zillion hours on. Extremely important system, and up there with the NES as far as importance, I’d say it’s a tie.
@scott rand The Fairchild Channel F was the first console to have interchangeable cartridges, and came out a year earlier. It used a CPU that Fairchild developed themselves (Fairchild Semiconductor was one of the *founding members* of Silicon Valley) and it had a unique controller design, but only about half the power of the VCS. Once the VCS came out it mopped the floor with all comers, the Channel F included. By the time Fairchild quit selling it in 1983 it was regarded as a relic that almost nobody knew about.
@Rooflesoft Games The Atari was definitely important, but near THEIR end, the games were just crappy....the problem was that Atari, and a lot of other companies, didn't know where the gaming industry was headed. And Atari DID NOT gamble in the favor OF the gaming community. Nintendo did. Nintendo stepped in without money or reputation, where Atari and Sega could have... Nintendo raised the bar.
Good work on spreading a very important piece of gaming history. But I have to say that even if it wasn't specifically a "gaming console", the Commodore 64 was way more important for our generation in Italy (and I'm sure other parts of Europe too). It had similar specs but what I'm most fond of were the AWESOME audio chip (way better for my tastes). The transition that you explain from Atari 2600 (or VCS) was massively passed to Commodore at the time. That was a time when there wasn't any PC gaming so, keyboard or not, all gaming platforms were competing directly. And just a little note, we had D-pads on some of the Nintendo Game&Watch series and they were extremely popular so I wasn't "shocked" at the NES controller (probably 4 directions only tho). But I admit it was an advancement over most of the joysticks.
The design of the American NES was also meant to resemble something many already had in their homes, a VCR. That's why it was that and not a top loader, the top loader still resembled the older consoles and made retailers wary of it, so they went with a VCR type design
You need to face facts Spawn... we're getting older, the newer generation will not appreciate what came before it... it's the way of young people. They grew up in a time where only Sony and Microsoft were considered the main competitors, and Nintendo is this weird anomaly on the side
Asa young person I actually have always taken interest in older games/ movies. etc and what came before, I'd say it depends. there's even an anime called high score girl out atm covering that huge era of gaming
I disagree somewhat. Sure, teenagers might not make the connection yet but look at the success of games like undertale and shovel knight. Also the resurgence of vinyl records. It's not completely analogous, but I'm thirty eight and I never gave a crap about records until a year ago, and now I have sixty albums. Every generation does it, and every generation gets it eventually.
Meh. It isn't just the USA that views the NES that way. The Famicom was a smash hit in Japan, and I'm sure plenty of other countries viewed the NES as a pioneer for modern gaming. Europe is the minority. Also, as much as Europeans hate to admit it, America has far more influence on the industry than those smaller countries.
Nintendo only started giving a shit about the European continent once the Mega Drive started cleaning up. We got the SNES with Mario 4 before Super Mario 3 on the NES appeared, that's how reluctant Nintendo were to do business here and partly why the Sega Master System trounced the NES here.
If the NES was so important to the video game market, then I'd love to see Spawn take apart some old home computers like Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari XE, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, 486 PC, etc., if only so we can see what he has to say about them.
The “expansion slot” at the bottom was actually a port used to test the boards and see metrics on a computer screen before placing it in the casing. They developed a bunch of computers that could be hooked up to these boards and it made testing much easier, saving costs.. you did not have to put a cartridge in, connect the power and do everything else to make sure the board functioned. That part was left to later in the production line, effectively eliminating the possibility of a faulty board making it through all the way to the end with the casing and all, and only then find out that the board itself was faulty to begin with
Great Vid but Sega would have saved gaming with the master system but the NES over shadowed them and stole the 3rd party games. Nintendo wishes they could get the 3rd party today right?
PS2? What excactly did the PS2 do that was so revolutionary? It's just another great system with great games. I mean the PS1 at least made CD's popular
I miss G4 Tech TV. I currently have about 40GB of archived G4 content on my PC and need help finding more old shows. SPAWN WAVE CAN YOU HELP ME!?!? (or anyone else) thanks :>
I still count the generations of gaming history starting from the release of the NES. Nintendo single handedly created the industry we have today (a publishing model where the platform holder approves software), and they did it at a time when Videogames had been largely abandoned in the US.
The NES is over hyped, has so much fake nostalgia and ultimately only really popular in the US. The UK didnt need rescuing from the video game crash because it only crashed in the USA. Whilst the USA was playing crappy Ataris , we were gaming, programming on computers like the Spectrums, Commodores, Acorns and MSX, heck, even the Sega Master System was more popular. It had much better graphics too
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is the most important console ever made because it's my favorite video game and Nintendo system of all-time and is described as "America's Favorite Home Video Game System" and "The World's Most Popular Home Video Game System". I'm hoping to get more games and accessories for the system soon.
Now if we trace it all the way back to Japan. It's known as the Nintendo's Family Computer. Nice little top loader with the wired controller fixed with the console at the sides. So yes, the NES was supposed to be a top loader originally and got a top loader model later on.
I got my first NES in 1988 when I was 4 and again in 1989.. not sure why me and my brother had 2.. anyway.. the original NES is iconic.. without it being a success, we wouldn’t have an 8th generation of gaming consoles. Newer gamers don’t know about this system and are having trouble with games like Mario 3.. lol I’d like to seek them try playing the NES Battletoads game lol. But the point is games back them had patterns that we had to learn in addition to learning how games would cheat. Gamers today think today’s games are hard? Heh try playing gen2 (NES, Sega Master System era) games with an actual challenge
It's funny...I never got into console gaming until the original Xbox although I was definitely around early enough having graduated from Grad school in 1983. Til that point my focus was on more PC/Apple II gaming - remember Space Quest and Police Quest and Karateka. I did own one of the original Pong consoles...that only played Pong. I do remember my college boyfriend buying his kid brother an Atari 2600. I wanted an N64 when it came out but it was always sold out so I never got one til years later.
It was milestones ahead of anything at the time or before it. I like Atari too, but I remember when the Nintendo NES was released, it was the 1st video game system you could sit down for hours and just play 1 game without getting bored, because so many of the NES games had multiple levels/worlds and hidden hacks.
Embarrassing (but true) story: so, from 1984-1987 I lived in Japan. And in 1985, I passed by a countertop store display featuring Super Mario Bros. and the Famicom hooked up to a television. I picked up controller one, and I played with it for a while, but my attention wandered (I was 13-it happens), and concluded it wasn't for me. Eighteen years later, I buy my first Nintendo for unrelated reasons-the GameCube.
I’m 42 yrs old , just got back into collecting, I appreciate the valuable information in these videos ...... I received a NES for Christmas in 1989 , with the recent craziness in America, these are a great escape.... I hope they don’t “cancel” video games. May the Schwartz be with you......
You actually go on line or do anything you wanted to just like a computer! If you own a actual NES then watch out and don't sell it unless you get a couple thousand dollars for it 💯👍🙏❤️🤷🏼♂️
You think it is important due to your age, similar to current teens who would see a PS2 perhaps as being the critical system. Due to my age? I would think of the Atari 2600 that started the console craze...it is not the first or only console, but a dominant force during the late 70s. Regarding quality? Nintendo has strict licensing and control, but there are hundreds of unpolished, terrible titles on the NES as well.
Bro when this thing hit Puerto Rico where I live at the South a town called Salinas I had the Atari and I used to play in a black n white TV cause the Atari use to mess up color TV's in those days so my grandma didn't want me playing in the main TV we had at home but when Nintendo drop the NES it change the way games were mentioning to be play graphics sound mechanics bro and that R.O.B was the go beyond thing a robot that play with u gyromite for the 80's that was beyond times bro
There actually were Atari games that scrolled the screen, usually shooters, but there's also Pitfall 2 which has vertical scrolling, and Jungle Hunt which has horizontal scrolling and even parallax scrolling, and of course, scrolling games already existed in the arcade before the NES came out... Also, I understand the NES being the most important console in North America, and maybe even Japan, but unfortunately, it didn't make much of a difference in the rest of the world, Europe for example didn't have a video game crash, people were gaming on micro computers at the time, and the games, although not nearly as good as what was on offer on the NES, were significantly cheaper, easier to find, and of course, easier to pirate, so when the NES finally arrived in the continent, it actually had competition, unlike in North America, so they kinda failed to grab the European audience, especially with Sega offering games with better graphics for cheaper... Although I think the praise Nintendo gets for the NES is earned, the reason why they were so successful in North America is because they arrived at the right time with the right product, and took advantage of that to enforce business practises that screwed everyone else over, and potentially robbed Sega, NEC and Atari of a fair shot against Nintendo in the region...
"although not nearly as good as what was on offer on the NES" You think that you're the autority of fun? like, how the fuck can you objectively gaudge a completely subjective form of entertainment that is video games? Grew up with the NES myself, but I can't see myself comparing the NES library with that of the C64. Each to their own.
Spawn Wave mentioned LJN!!!!!!!!!!!!! they did an amazing game on the Dreamcast called Spirit of Speed. All gamers and Dreamcast lovers need to get that game
The fact that so many kids at my school have no idea about anything concerning the NES, SNES, heck even the gamecube makes me kinda sad because there are so many amazing games that are just overlooked for not being current or flashy and popular.
Cannot stress this enough but the big video game crash was something that was mostly impacted only the US. PAL regions was not hurt too much since they had the Master System.
Hard to deny the influence the NES had... at least in the states. Too bad I was born too late for it and had my first experiences be on the N64 and PS1. There's not much going back after that. Hitting up those old NES games, ehh... they don't hold up too well for me.
I'm a teenager and I think a lot of NES games have held up very well. Take SMB3 for example, it's old but it feels just as good to play as modern 2D Marios and platformers in general.
@@TheMindOfThomas Not really. There are very few NES games that I think aged well. Not even SMB1. The only real game from the original NES that holds out well in my opinion is Mario 3... Now the SNES I can play that shit all day. The SNES has everything, kinda like the GameCube actually. Both are the refinements of the first systems of 2d/3d games as we know them now. I only think the reason the Wii U/360/ps3 are clunky is because they are the first forays into HD. The DS is wierd since it was both a souped up 2d machine as well as a early 3d machine... But because they already had experience in both it holds out well enough.
The problem is that Nintendo keep rereleasing the shit that doesnt hold up at all. Take the Nintendo Online games for instance. Over half of them failed to hold up before the NES era even ended Tennis, Baseball, Pro Wrestling, Soccer, Ice Climber, Ghost and Goblins, Donkey Kong and Mario Bros, which are trash compared to the arcade versions. People see these games that we didn't even like back then and decide thats the whole damn console. If they'd just be able to see things like Shatterhand, or Chip and Dale, or anything post 1987 they'd probably enjoy it more.
There was an accessory that, I believe, used the bottom expansion called the "Telstar Command" if I remember correctly. I saw it advertised in EGM, but never saw it in action, or reviewed. I think it was a modem accessory that would allow multiplayer over the phone lines. Nowadays, you kids call it online multiplayer.
Im same age as u are and i ve been playing atari as a kid. Well there was no nintendo in my country and even the atari was a fake one with games built in :-) so i ve enjoyed it quite a bit...but many times it was impossible to figure out what u r supposed to do in that game..as there was no instructions and no internet so u could just ask somebody :-D
I remember being in awe of the NES. I loved playing Atari and Colecovision at the time. But when I first saw the commercial for the NES I was blown away! I never imagined that video games could be so realistic (heheheheeee).
From the NES era I have a hard time playing Atari, although I do love the Commode 64! There are some games I like on the Atari like Battle. Maybe the saturation of bad games which lead to the crash makes it hard to find the gems?
Last one, you're spot on about scrolling. I think people forget that great games capture one's imagination. Scrolling, as you said, allowed people to explore and imagine what they might find, even if it wasn't too much different. That is why I sank 100 hours into No Man's Sky back when people hated it.
The NES outperformed the SNES in all area's. The graphics were better, the 64 colours are way more pleasing than the what-to-do-with 32k of the SNES. The sound is better. 3 channel wavetable chiptunes are more pleasing than near-CD-quality with huge RAM problems making the programming a mission impossible. The CPU is faster: most games that run on both NES and SNES are more complex on the NES with more enemies on screen. The case looks better, especially if you compare to the grey and purple turd the US got. The game selection is better, the NES appeals to 4-100+, woman, men and all gender variations. The SNES was way more focussed on high school male kids.
I like to view the NES from today, not from its role in history, as some others said, C64 and ZX were king here, and no crash occured. If you want to buy a vintage console in 2023 that is mind blowing, my first advise is to get a PC Engine, but closely after comes the NES. The games look gorgeous, the CPU was able to handle quite some complexity and the variety of game types is unmatched. You feel at home right away. It looks dated but in a good way. The SNES does not come close. The SNES had some major issues with the sound chip and the CPU speed, greatly limiting game play options. Thats why the NES kept rocking along the entire SNES timeline. Many of the games that came out on NES and SNES side by side are simply better on the NES. How amazing is that for 1983 hardware?
North America was so SOURED by video games that Nintendo did whatever they could to draw direction AWAY from the fact that the NES was a video game console. The front loader was designed to mimic the act of putting s VHS tape into a VCR, something the average American family was comfortable with. The inclusion of ROB the ROBOT was (again) to make people think the NES was DIFFERENT from a video game console. Finally, it's called the "ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM" to (again) draw attention away from the "video game" concept. They also promised retailers guaranteed sales and personally delivered and merchandised the Nintendo JUST to get them into the stores because no retailer wanted a video game console in their store at the time.
Truly brilliant tech n tear down video Jon(SW). The NES is without doubt the most important Console of all time. I was playing games before the NES drop in the Arcades and with the Atari systems. I had two Atari systems, one of the top loading Cart systems and one of the cassette tape loading systems but it was the NES that has made me the hardcore gamer of today, which I will always have a special place in my heart for Nintendo forever, even when I have retired from gaming. The best gaming time was the SNES n Arcade days no question and the Golden time for overall gaming was from the NES-SNES-N64 really magical times n memories, thanks too Nintendo 💜👌.
$150 for a game back then with today's inflation standards?? that's CHEAP... DLC, MICROTRANSACTIONS, GAMES THAT RELEASE HALF FINISHED AND BUGGY!? $60 dollar games of today are expensive.
without Nintendo, Sega never would've gotten involved in home entertainment. mean microsoft wouldn't have collaborated with the Dreamcast, causing the Xbox to never come to be. and the Playstation wouldn't have been suggested to Nintendo by Sony who wouldn't have made one in the first place. yeah, things like the Atari 2500 and other consoles are cool; but Nintendo's consoles are really what kicked things off.
The NES is the most magical system ever made. Mega Man 2, Mario 1, Mario 2, Mario 3, Zelda, Contra, Punch Out, Duck Hunt, and many others. 1986 to 1991 were the most magical years. While the SNES was better, it didn’t quite feel as atmospheric as the NES.
Yeah indeed, the nes was actually only designed with old arcade games in mind, hence why it only had 2 KB of video ram to store 2 screens, what supermariobros did was refreshing that 2K ram chip to allow scrolling,but since the game itself did not had ram in it, you could NOT go back to the previous screen, metroid did use a mmc1 chip to allow multi scrolling at points and it also added extra ram to allow you walk back to previous sections of those levels. Supermariobros 3 allowed multi directional scrolling diagonally all atonce thanks the mmc3 chip wich also included extra ram to store items or to remember previous parts of a level. Those mmc chips also allowed bankswitching to increase the size of games from 40K to 1MB wich allowed extending the game length,add more graphics and dpcm sound effects to the game, bankswitch was also used for tile updates to simulate multi scrolling backgrounds,before that,40k games had to recycle the same graphics in clever way’s to fake new graphics. So the nes turned out to be a very very weak system but those mmc chip radically extended the capability’s of the nes to be close to a 16bit system, so a stack 8bit cpu was not enough, with another 8bit mmc chip on top of it (thus 2 X8)the nes could MIMMICK to be a 16bitter. Battle touds etc,,proves it.
Well, the Famicom DID have an attachable disc system. Many popular games were actually designed for its enhanced capabilities and had to be adapted for a western disc-less release. Some (Zelda) did it more grecefully than others (Metroid).
I absolutely love this video and I hope to see more like it for the Super Nintendo, N64 and GameBoy etc. Have you checked out YellowSuperNintendo's channel? He does a 'Time to Buy' series about the pros and cons of getting older consoles now. He doesn't go into any real technical detail, but it's a nice overview on games and peripherals worth getting. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B5_fRso_mCg.html Keep up the awesome, Spawn Wave!
I am so sick of everyone calling out on the "blow into the cartridge". Sure the moisture from your breath corrodes the pins OVER TIME, but it WORKED! I have had countless instances where popping a cartridge in and out multiple times did jack, but the moment I blew the dust out of it, bam, game on!
Spawn wave has moved up to number one on my list of people I'd love to meet. The guy is like a walking encyclopedia. It would be fascinating to talk with him for hours and hours about the past 30 years in gaming. I got my NES in 1990. I was four.
Thanks for linking to my icon episode. "Most important system ever made"? Highly contentious but, perhaps it's personal nostalgia talking, I'd almost have to agree since it's one of the most highly influential systems. They did many things right and what's often not talked about is how well they knew and catered to their real market, the kids. You could write in and they'd respond and go to good lengths to help you out if you were stuck in a game. And of course they had their own official magazine, Nintendo Power, that entertained and spoke to their real customer base and at least superficially pretend to listen to your criticisms when writing in. They also gave you the opportunity with Power Points, I think it was called, collected by maintaining an NP subscription, that allowed you to get free stuff as I once did such as a N64 shirt. Nintendo understood the business aspect pretty well and that the "magic", or the immaterial such as the culture surrounding their product, was just as much the material product. I think that customer catering is seen manifested to this day by the many loyal 30+ adults that still look highly to Nintendo and buy their products. Very informative channel, btw.
The best way to permanently fix the 72-pin connector, is to buy the 3rd-party replacement part called the Blinking Light Win. It completely erases the need to push the games down anymore, and while the grip on the carts is tight at first, it does loosen a bit over time. As far as I know, its the only reliable fix that's out there. Here's the website - www.arcadeworks.net/blw Also, here's the Gaming Historian's review of it - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6lJeRoIMPno.html
Atari games were expensive no doubt but as for bad games I have no idea what your on about. You do not even give any examples. I know fire fly was a bad game that none one talks about which is far worse then E.T. and I have no idea what you mean by spending money on a game that barley functioned while showing a clip of wall physics in Combat looking as if it were a failure. Combat is a fantastic game and if you did not know how to avoid walls to bad so sad. you made a video that made it only appear the game looked not functional. Also the Nes controller was not so futuristic. Many systems had multiple buttons. Sure most were dial pads but you had a Vetrix and it mas lots of buttons and was shaped much like the NES. D - pad I was the first and Atari used it on the 7800 which is the only fact you seem to get right.
I know this isn't a "how to fix your NES video" but I'm surprised you missed the NES 10 chip. Basically the blinking screen we would get after powering up the system was programmed into the hardware for anti-piracy and it would force us to press reset over and over. Unfortunately it affected licensed games as well. Disabling that is a must and it's easy. Anyway you know your stuff so I'm surprised you missed it or forgot to mention it here when bringing up the board. Also I agree the NES is basically why we have consoles today. I had Atari 2600 and when it was sunny out I forgot about it real quick and went outside and played. When I got my NES and it was sunny outside, oh you bet yo ass them shades went down and I played the NES instead.
Said by a typical Gen Y who grew up on it. No one knows what the 7800 or the Master System would have done without one company forcing retailers to only carry them.
Personally I think it was the ps1 that was the most important its showed that games didn't need to be side scrolling games for kids .. they showed you could a good game with a real story ... although the nes was amazing alot of fond memories as a kid
