News Report: Nintendo's Revival of the Video Game Industry. December 1988

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This nine-minute December 30th, 1988 TV news report from MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS describes how Nintendo of America revived the once-dead video game market with its NES console. A rare look inside Nintendo of America in Redmond, WA including its assembly factory, R&D labs and game play counselor office. Howard Phillips and Masahiro Ishizuka are interviewed about their work for Nintendo. Child psychologist Laura Kastner is also interviewed concerning her theories on how video games may consume a child's time, and if parents should question the amount of gameplay time their child has.
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“The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” 1988-12-30, NewsHour Productions, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, americanarchive....

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@juandiegotorres9632 4 года назад

Psychologist clearly doesn't know that Metroid's protagonist is a female

@brightcolorsarecool279 4 года назад

That was not common knowledge back then and you could beat the game without her gender being revealed.

@ryandevan2793 3 года назад

@@brightcolorsarecool279 exactly!

@juandiegotorres9632 2 года назад

@@brightcolorsarecool279 it was more of a joke but ok

@creativecatproductions Год назад

She doesn’t know Samus is a girl, but Metroid fans are overwhelmingly men. Not even boys anymore. 😛

@Ballowax Год назад

@@creativecatproductions probably because the boys who played Metroid NES are all grown up now

@artmaknev3738 4 года назад

1:34 - I want to hear stories of those people who worked at the assembly line

@Irreve-rsible Год назад

If you're still interested, Nintendo brought back the phone line with interviews from a few of the people when the NES mini released. I can link you a video showing all of the small, but still interesting interviews.

@joshwilliams7692 Год назад

@@Irreve-rsible What's the link?

@Irreve-rsible Год назад

@@joshwilliams7692 Here's a link to a GameXplain video, showing off all the content they released for it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6I4ocosREKY.html

@joshwilliams7692 Год назад

@@Irreve-rsible Thanks!

@Irreve-rsible Год назад

@@joshwilliams7692 You're welcome

@dspencer8827 8 месяцев назад

The console and games industry will never be what it was .it will need a miracle to be better

@gamewizardks 3 года назад

The punk kid at 5:42 with the Black Flag T-shirt. Awesome!

@marcusvitruvius597 2 месяца назад

I've got some cool gameplay for that girl's corporate ladder game the psychologist suggested. It's a game where the girls have to freeze eggs and monkey branch on a carousel to avoid crashing into a wall. Something tells me those girls would have loved that game! 🤣

@xtalksx 3 года назад

I believe our channel names require us to be mortal enemies for the rest of time.

@heinoustentacles5719 Год назад

Lol

@phillipicus7446 10 месяцев назад

I don't think Nintendo was reviving the video game industry as much as it was probably transitioning it to better systems and doing what Atari wouldn't do

@EF-fc4du Год назад

Hrm I don't remember these counselors.

@Dan-di9jd 5 месяцев назад

I also LOL at some of the worries. Little did they know that just less than 15 years from that point people be playing games for 100+ hours and many do nothing else but play video games all day. I also think parents today are no where near like the ones in the 80s. I grew up in the 90s so yeah we had to go outside when we played too much but now if my kids wanted to play games all day I'd be like sure, have at it see ya.

@gusionparsley1491 3 года назад

0:53 That's the reason why Pokémon became a hit.

@derickthekingofguitarhero2919 3 года назад

Only on Saga Futaba Futaba 0:37

@collectiblesnrandomstuff544 Год назад

Omg parents should not tell their kids how long they can play for, mines never did .

@ItsWithakayLee 4 года назад

I think that psychologist is projecting her own fantasy onto the ideal girl gam 😂

@jaspermcminnis5538 4 года назад

And people still think this.

@jaspermcminnis5538 4 года назад

You would think that after how long the industry has been around people would show it more respect and realize that it's a really creative form of art like movies. But I guess some things will never change.

@danielpaul9523 Год назад

She's pitiful!

@GreenTeaViewer Год назад

2nd wave feminist type

@ma.2089 Год назад

@@danielpaul9523 lol she’s a psychologist not a kid. I doubt she plays games, hence wouldn’t know a good game. Not pitiful, just ignorant

@TheBLBShow 3 года назад

3:11 kudos to whoever was playing punch out there. That was some amazing gameplay

@ikec2894 Год назад

Never thought I would see anyone put the smackdown on Mike in my lifetime 😅

@leftyfourguns Год назад

It was probably Howard Philips, the Game Master himself!

@madhatter3640 2 месяца назад

I can beat the whole game in 20 minutes without getting hit

@trentoninnewjersey 2 месяца назад

@@madhatter3640 ok no need to brag. But honestly I'd love to see a youtube video of that as it sounds awesome!

@emmettturner9452 2 месяца назад

@@trentoninnewjerseyThere are literal speed runners and people who can beat it blindfolded on RU-vid these days.

@yellowblanka6058 Год назад

Oh yeah, every little girl wants to play "climb the corporate ladder", lol, that child psychologist could not be more wrong on everything she said.

@Toad64 4 года назад

I can't get over how good the quality is of this news report from 1988! Thanks so much for uploading this. I love seeing news reports from this era as they deal with Nintendo's meteoric rise in popularity!

@nlee4566 3 года назад

Yes! Nothing like it. Especially from this era.

@MiketheratguyMultimedia Год назад

@@nlee4566 To be fair the Cabbage Patch craze was about as big if not possibly bigger (not an apples to apples comparison so it's hard to say) but yeah, it's arguable that the reason video games even still exist is because of Nintendo.

@FrankJoseph911 Год назад

This isn't 1978 Beta recorders and early VCR. 1988 had good recorders as long as the tapes were kept in a climate controlled environment all these years.

@damin9913 3 месяца назад

80s tv quality was so peaceful and magical 😊

@MrNicholas7 4 года назад

1988 Psychologist: The only way to get girls interested in video games is to give them the goal of beating out men. 1989 Reality: Tetris

@AzafuseKingTora 3 года назад

also Pac-Man 8-9 years earlier

@derekmetcalf7657U.S.A 3 года назад

@@chadwarden1179 names like that ruined another generation"feminism"🦹‍♂️🦹‍♀️

@derekmetcalf7657U.S.A 3 года назад

Truth 👨‍🚒

@derekmetcalf7657U.S.A 3 года назад

Truth be told Mike Tyson's PO Is only won if you follow the code's

@derekmetcalf7657U.S.A 3 года назад

That's y games died"the corporate latter"

@SameNameDifferentGame 4 года назад

Thanks for preserving this, man!

@modernkiwi6447 3 года назад

Old news reports need to be preserved like this They’re just as historically significant as any other piece of media

@X_Leonhart 2 года назад

7:36 Feminists saying stupid things since 1988.

@AlexRN 4 года назад

Thank you for preserving this. I was born when the NES launched in the US so the earliest I remember is the tail end of the console’s domination before the SNES so seeing these early years is always fascinating to me.

@MrColimon25 4 года назад

The feminist 🤣🤣🤦‍♂️

@ryandevan2793 3 года назад

What find particularly fascinating is at 3:48 because I think it kinda shows a little bit more of the process of how Nintendo localized their games for the west. First Nintendo of Japan would ship Famicom games to Nintendo of America in 2 ways: the first as mentioned in the news report was electronically, (I guess this worked almost like emailing the ROMS) and the people of Nintendo of America would use special EPROM programmers to put them on NES cartridges which they would test in an American NES console, and the second was shipping Famicom and Famicom disk system games to the US. In fact if you look on the desk, you can see a Sharp Twin Famicom, Presumably so they could play both Famicom and Famicom disk system games without the need of a Famicom and Famicom disk system separately. actually if you've ever seen The Gaming Historian documentary about the making of Super Mario Bros 2 (which all leave a link to at the bottom) then you'll know the story goes that when the Japanese Super Mario Bros 2 was shipped to Nintendo of America in the summer of 1986, Howard Phillips had tested the game to see if it should be sold in America. But when he played it he found that it not only looked way to similar to the first game but it was also so difficult he found it more frustrating then fun, And that's why the American Super Mario Bros 2 was instead a westernized version of Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic. It kinda makes me wonder if that Sharp Twin Famicom was the Famicom Phillips used to test the Japanese Super Mario Bros 2. link to The Gaming Historian documentary about the making of Super Mario Bros 2: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2EUYSN5aFcE.html And on a side note is that a Sega Master System on the desk?! Naughty Nintendo of America! Why did they have a master system on the desk? Maybe to get inspiration from the competition perhaps? who knows.

@gamewizardks 3 года назад

I don't think email was viable commercially until the early 90's. Yeah, the technology existed, but Internet infrastructure sucked. Second, not sure if email was sophisticated enough in the mid-80's to allow attachments. It's still possible that they could have been transmitted by terminal software, though, but at low baud rates. Then, you have to think about flashing the code to physical ROM chips. It wasn't as easy back then. I honestly think the news report is embellishing the process. That actual prototypes exist on cartridges is all the proof we need to know that the processes of flashing the EPROMS was likely done somewhere else and then physically shipped overnight or by slower method to Nintendo of America during the NES period/early SNES period. (And maybe even the N64 era)

@ryandevan2793 3 года назад

@@gamewizardks thanks for the extra info

@ryandevan2793 3 года назад

@@gamewizardks and I’m not saying that it was exactly like emailing an attachment I just said that as an analogy, But I think you’re right.

@PCEngineGaijin 2 года назад

Even at the time, the file size of the game code was incredibly small. It would have been much faster and cheaper to transfer the files over long distance phone lines, rather than burn roms and ship them. Especially if the team in Japan was making daily revisions. There was plenty of PC software at the time to transfer files directly from one computer to another over a phone line. I’m actually surprised I never considered this process, but it totally makes sense.

@alexbleks 2 года назад

@@gamewizardks email goes back to the 70s

@IvanPavlov Год назад

“Let’s make a game about beating up men and going up in the corporate ladder” said no game developer ever.

@ChrisMusson-kv8ph 3 месяца назад

Modern video game developers are self hating men and lesbian cat moms.

@MazinGo-1972 3 года назад

Girls were discouraged by Adults in playing video game more then anything. I sure didn't care about saving a princess or even beating a game most of the time. I just enjoyed the experience.

@Videospiel-Man5730 3 года назад

i mean the princesses appear for like 30 seconds!

@MrVariant 3 месяца назад

@Videospiel-Man5730 explains the crappy shoehorn nowadays lol I'm not gonna even get started on the failing all female gimmick esports team. 4:55 psychologist is right. It's crazy when people play 5+ hours per day. Does explain the console war elitists and addicts. 6:15 just sell the game over pay for help. 6:43 more men involved and she said that properly. Similarly, card games are 90% men. 7:43 she goofed. Could've just said female protagonist or puzzle games like tetris. I wouldn't expect her to know dq3 which got a coat of paint remake, but you can choose an all sexy/vamp women party that gets the most level growth.

@Ccortanaa Год назад

December 1988, the date this was reported? The most magical time of my LIFE. I was 12, mom just bought me a NES, it was my dream. She took me to a KB Toys to let me pick out my first game, i was so torn! There were two games i wanted so badly, Kid Icarus, and Metroid. I chose Metroid and i never looked back. Dozens of games later over the next few years, i eventually sold most because i was so hyped about the SNES (it was the only way for me to fund my SNES!). I wish i had kept some of the NES games, but it's all good, both systems brought me memories that i will take with me to my grave.

@Skazellino 3 месяца назад

Metroid definitely the wise choice.

@trentoninnewjersey 2 месяца назад

did you ever buy another NES though for nostalgia?

@VaultVenturer 2 месяца назад

I know exactly what you mean.

@kawsakiTV 2 года назад

3:42 Dude just said the early NES games sent “electronically” to the United States from Japan. 😳 Early internet FTW! 🙌

@jross9919 Год назад

Computer File transfer protocol were a thing sinse the 60's, internet was just a marketing name invented to sell it

@jr2904 3 месяца назад

@@jross9919 file transfer isn't the same as the internet. It's all networking anyway, the Internet was just the biggest world wide network

@bofadeez. 3 года назад

no one gonna talk about how my man gave some kid the wrong instructions on how to get in -1 at 5:50???

@StoopidOnDaBeat 2 года назад

lmaooo the minus world

@JetPlayzMC 3 года назад

I didn’t know that the minus world glitch was already found in the 80s

@TheBLBShow 3 года назад

Same but his explaination was kinda weird

@adamb89 4 месяца назад

Yep I remember a bunch of kids used to hang out at the walmart where they had an NES on display to play. That's where all the secrets would get traded. Found out about the minus world, the JUSTIN BAILEY code, holding up and A on controller 2 to save the game in Zelda without dying, etc.

@xXxmajikmanxXx 3 месяца назад

As a person that lived back then :D, I would hear about it at school and think they were lying because there was no way to prove it back then and you would hear all kind of crazy secrets in the games, and you couldn't tell what was real or not, didn't find out until later which ones actually were fact and fiction lol

@jaspermcminnis5538 4 года назад

The psychologist was annoying as hell.

@danielpaul9523 Год назад

Thank you!

@thedukeofaaron 3 года назад

And little did they know at this time. Samus was a female the whole time....

@JonPonikvar Год назад

"None have surpassed Zelda in popularity. The game is a complex high-tech adventure fantasy, and it can take up to 90 HOURS to successfully complete..." 90 HOURS?!! Who the heck is taking 90 HOURS to beat the original Zelda??

@jokkemursula8731 4 месяца назад

Of course it's waaaay shorter than that when you know what to do, but back then it very well could have taken some people that long to figure out all the cryptic nonsense without help or a guide.

@lightfeather9953 3 месяца назад

Does everyone look up cheats and guides now? Most nes games were never beat by the kids who owned them. I know that's hard for some young people to comprehend.

@JonPonikvar 3 месяца назад

@@lightfeather9953 lol I grew up in the early 80s. I had at least a half dozen friends who all had their own copies of the original Zelda. Not a single one of them took 90 hours to beat it. Sure, we didn't have the benefit of the internet and walkthroughs, but we had Nintendo Power, and the playground, where countless gaming strategies and theories were shared between kids. I do not know a single person who took 90 hours to beat Zelda. The claim in this video is simply hyperbole.

@Harkness78 Месяц назад

Yeah lol, no one would take 90 hours to beat Zelda. Like 20 max, if you got stuck you are not going to just wander the game world for an aditional 70 hours, you would just give up.

@cooldude333 19 часов назад

It was a different time my friend. No walkthroughs on RU-vid, no let’s plays, no online forums. Games were more ‘figure it out as you go’ back in the day. Unless you bought a dedicated strategy guide or a copy of a gaming magazine, you’d basically have to play for hours on end until you found what you were looking for.

@BowsetteKoopa 4 года назад

This was fantastic, I've already recommended a few of my friends watch this.

@slottygw2wvw842 4 года назад

some antifa millennials?

@TheAntManChannel 3 года назад

Take it from me. I lived through this time. You either had one or you were a square.

@BennyMcGhee Год назад

Had these kids never heard of cigarettes, alcohol, and weed??

@gamingguy9006 Год назад

@mikejsretroarcade4612 3 года назад

I was 14 when this video was made... how come I didn’t know there was game counselors to give you game tips, I feel cheated 😂 oh well I always figured the games out myself

@davidnec571 3 года назад

They were advertised in the Nintendo Power magazine, that's how I knew about them. I never got the chance to use them because it was a 900 number that would charge you based on how long the call was, so I didn't want to increase my parents phone bill.

@KDubb-ws9zc 2 года назад

If you didn’t have Nintendo Power magazine then you were out of the loop so to speak

@PaloJaurez 2 года назад

I’m realizing that’s how you get the full value out of a game. Now with people uploading gameplay on RU-vid, it makes it harder to not cheat. Final Fantasy is one where I am losing that value.

@MiketheratguyMultimedia Год назад

I collect every bit of vintage Nintendo news (1985 - roughly 1993) that I can, I was about 7 when the machine hit American stores so it's one of the fondest things from my childhood. I don't know if I've seen this footage before and even if I have, likely not in such great quality. Thanks a lot for this upload!

@Lumberjack_king 4 года назад

I love this stuff its fascinating

@spotalarm1068 2 года назад

8:29 Dragon *TREE*

@troywright359 2 года назад

he must have misunderstood the japanese pronuciation of the word 'three'

@unclegoose3864 2 года назад

That feminist lady was funny and looking back so out of touch. lmao

@Davidevgen 3 года назад

seeing all those nes m82 demo unit is a thing of beauty lol

@Wardfolio 7 месяцев назад

Howard Phillips from the "Howard and Nester" comics in Nintendo Power!🤩

@aimwell8813 4 года назад

1988: NINTENDOES ARE TOO ADDICTING 2020: THE OCULUS IS TOO ADDICTING

@TYBG85 3 года назад

Holy shit. I forgot about the Nintendo Tip Line. They had them in the back of the manuals for like 1.99 a minute knowing damn well its gonna be kids calling it with their parents cc info.Even back then video game makers were scamming us lol. Now they do it with microtransactions.

@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures 3 года назад

"To.... jump on.... the Shy Guy's head... many... factors must be... considered. The wind... is blowing from the west at... a rate of... 8.... 8... knots..." "C'mon, c'mon, don't you know this is costing me money?!"

@nickelodeonstuff1572 4 года назад

If you're doing "Then" and "Now" comparisons in 1988... you're not going to see much of a difference, but I guess even then they realized Atari looked like shit even with similar 8-bit hardware out

@colinrussell2017 3 года назад

I remember those "game counselors"! LOL. Life before internet.

@deezy81 3 года назад

Would love to see some game counselors be interviewed..

@afriend9428 2 года назад

*They are out-of-work now and broke!?* ☹️

@GizmoFantasyCrew Год назад

@@afriend9428 Damn that took a turn

@kawaiipotatoes7888 Год назад

Kids are polite back then now we have fortnite squekers.

@GizmoFantasyCrew Год назад

@@kawaiipotatoes7888 Oh no don't even mention them

@SuperZombiepimp 3 года назад

I always get tried of people saying we will have another crash i always rolled my eyes at this when the industry is at a all time high hell you can't even find a new ps5 or a sx

@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 3 года назад

We don't have retail glut nowadays, so yes. There will never be another video game crash, let alone a global one.

@southsidesaiyan8641 3 года назад

You can’t find a ps5 because they just didn’t release nearly enough systems. I can understand not being able to easily get one at launch but it’s been almost a year and it’s still very hard to find a ps5, that’s ridiculous. Sony mismanaged the hell out of this release.

@Icybubba 2 года назад

@@southsidesaiyan8641 Yeah, well part of the reason is because they're spending resources still making PS4's. That's why it's much easier to find a Series X or absolutely a Series S where you can just walk into your local Target or Walmart and buy one

@lightfeather9953 3 месяца назад

Yet now 2024 RU-vid and Reddit comments are filled with people whining that the industry is worse than ever, saying that it won't be solved unless we have a communist revolution to 'end corporate greed'

@danielmarquis5258 Год назад

Idk, I met some girls when I was in middle school that had a Nintendo and loved it, mostly for Super Mario Bros. Also, the ending music of McNeil Show made me think of my father who used to watch this. I lost him last July due to complications with Diabetes and Dementia. I miss him so much.

@LupinKing 3 года назад

The little intro jingle they played at the beginning gave me so much nostalgia for a time I only just barely remember

@Lumberjack_king 3 года назад

The past is fascinating isn't it ok well it's interesting seeing how things have changed

@Monotonegent 4 года назад

Dragon Threee

@CMRetroGaming 2 года назад

flash in the pan, this "Nintendo" will never take off it's just a fad. hehehehehe

@SatoshiMatrix1 4 года назад

I suppose I should be greatful these clueless reporters got any details right at all, but "Dragon 3"? Imagine if you were watching a forign news report on Xbox games and they put in as much care to get things right. Oh The American games are ones like Grand Auto. Duty Call. Mad Anne Football. Fort Nighttime.

@AlexRN 4 года назад

Right? I mean it was right freaking there! The title was clearly shown and it’s written in English: Dragon QUEST 3. How can they butcher that into Dragon 3? It doesn’t make sense.

@chocolixo 3 года назад

it is like that in brazil, the news called streamers professional gamers just because they play video games and are rich

@leftyfourguns Год назад

Nintendo made people care about video games again through sheer force of will. It’s honestly one of the most remarkable marketing achievements ever.

@alexbleks 2 года назад

8:26 dragon 3? Lol

@Ayumuobsessed 2 года назад

That’s Dragon Quest III he didn’t say the word quest

@alexbleks 2 года назад

@@Ayumuobsessed yes ,. and that was my point ^^

@modernwize 2 года назад

7:34 --- you can't make this stuff up.

@Dakobah20 4 года назад

Thanks for this upload

@thezombiehistorian 3 года назад

5:40 That kid's nail is black from playing the game so much. That and his two friends have pulled out half of their hair watching! Note that the half they each pulled out is the half closest to the game screen, quite devilish! :)

@gene3910 Год назад

Imagine going back in time and showing them what we have now.

@samuelshin593 Год назад

Nothing. I was alive back than and i already was imagining photo-realistic games.

@samuelshin593 Год назад

What? You think we were stupid?

@samuelshin593 Год назад

bet you're soo stupid you donate to solar roadways instead of real science like ionic field superposition or finding gravitons escaping our universe. I bet you're soo stupid you don't even know what light is which is electromagnetic wavelength with photon particle carriers based on upquarks downquarks strangequarks, etc. With antiquark equivalent with gluon particle binders located at apex of bulbous areas of higgs boson field. Hey idiots i bet even your telomeres are retarded and couldn't reduce an iota of oxidation of ion channels. It's idiots like you who don't know crap

@samuelshin593 Год назад

We legit invented everything you use today idiot!

@phillipicus7446 10 месяцев назад

The reason we have stuff like this now is because of stuff back then

@bluetarantulaproductions6179 5 месяцев назад

When I was a kid there were a few rules if my siblings and I are either play games or watching TV. 1. Homework first (if any) 2. Read two chapters in a book (if there is no homework). 3. 1hr & ½ for television (unless it was Friday night or Saturday).

@Suhadisgood 3 года назад

When that Nintendo was here I was shopping for arcade machines instead

@williamsisk6707 3 года назад

Little punk rock kid rockin the black flag while nerdin out on Zelda. Righteous.

@gokujapan 2 года назад

meanwhile at sega the sega genesis have been release in japan and it will be in america in 1989

@hithere4719 Год назад

Oh man cherry tomatoes are so freaking flavorful and easy to grow. During the summer you can cook this every day with just what ripened that afternoon 😋

@iratemusic4575 Год назад

Today, video game business is really big.... I mean really bigger than sports, NBA, Netflix, etc.

@VampireNoblesse 4 месяца назад

Metroid NES, the 1st game I ever finished! (that actually had an ending, and not just an endless loop like most Atari 2600 games) ... gwad, loved Metroid & it's atmosphere!

@chinookr7259 3 месяца назад

1:35 mark, actual Americans doing manufacturing work...now, it's all been sent overseas so that the CEO can pocket the difference in pay.

@MegaLiterally Месяц назад

Beating up men going up a corporate ladder sounds like the worst idea for a game ever - this whole fight against misogyny is overblown and unnecessary - also she’s hot

@john005_ 3 года назад

Wow nintendo had factories in the USA, is it still true today or is everything made in asia (china, vietnam, india,etc)?

@ravenzyblack Год назад

It’s all made in China today.

@Dan-di9jd 5 месяцев назад

I did recall Atari all looked the same. It's also way too complicated for me as a kid but games like astroid were good. I think NES had way more variety to their games. Most of them were simple like simply move to the right until you're done. But some games had good variety like Contra I recall you had like 3 different types of game. A move to the right, a move going upwards, and then a move going forward. So it felt like you're doing something different and fun.

@Thepopcornator 2 года назад

"Video game sales hit $1.1 billion." It's funny how quaint this seems 34 years later, when individual games regularly do that.

@jackson5116 Год назад

5 years before that in 1983, it was triple that at $3 billion.

@johnny19817 5 месяцев назад

I love these videos coming from the video game industries. I was not raised in the US😢. Nintendo is known in my country from mid 1991.

@piercehubbard4086 3 месяца назад

None will ever surpass Zelda!! They should have waited to see how the industry blew up in a few years when the SNES came out.

@icedude_907 2 года назад

I'm still in school. I did not expect a feminist from before I was born talking about how the concept of a "princess in another castle" attracting young boys to play NES games, and an attractive game for girls being to crush men in a business ladder. I disagree with both, but it's interesting to see that these discussions were a thing even back then.

@heinoustentacles5719 Год назад

This kind of crap has been slowly creeping to prominence for over 100 years. By the '80s it was already institutionalized.

@TheMahayanist Год назад

@@heinoustentacles5719 crap? Video games aren't crap.

@pseudonym3690 Год назад

I wonder how many children back then were dragging their parents to the TV when this ran to show them which Christmas present they were wishing for that year

@franccoeurguy4735 Месяц назад

2:19 oh yeah Howard Philipps !!!!

@SeanSolomon11287 3 месяца назад

Dragon 3 I remember playing dragon 3 skipping work getting in trouble 😂

@JohnSmith-zl8rz Месяц назад

5:46 that was so lame! what's the point of getting help to finish the game? inmoral

@jamesonshekmeister 3 месяца назад

5:49 Bro straight up tells that kid how to get stuck forever is Super Mario Bros.

@damin9913 Год назад

Nintendo just isn't what it use to be anymore today it just all about how much money they going to make from one damn game

@BrianBeeby 2 дня назад

The video game crash of '83-'84 was another industry America gave up on and gave away. We empowered an Asian island nation to absolutely dominate the home video game market for an entire generation. With the NES in its heyday, I would always ask "Where are the American home video games?" I have fond memories of the NES in my childhood, but I don't view the past with the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia. I know how strong NES fandom is, but when you have little to no competition, your product or service tends to suck. Just about every NES game seemed to be some sort of side-view, side-scrolling, run-jump-shoot-repeat rehash or Super Mario-type clone. It would be almost a relief to see a non-sideview, non-platform-jumping game like Fester's Quest or Day-Dreaming Davey, no matter the quality. I guess that's what happens when you become the Microsoft Windows of home video gaming. Perhaps that's no surprise since Microsoft and Nintendo of America are in Seattle.

@savesgaming День назад

There was absolutely nothing wrong with Japan dominating the home video market. There will always be someone that will take a product and innovate, and there's nothing wrong with that. Japan saved the home video game market while other companies such as Atari, Coleco, entered the expanding home computer market already dominated by Apple, Commodore, etc., and were not successful. Plenty of other developers from within the U.S. and around the globe were able to harness the power of the NES, develop games for it and profited big-time from the system. Fester's Quest was developed in Japan, while Day-Dreaming Davey was developed in Utah. The NES inspired millions. I highly recommend you take a closer look at the NES game list, because it wasn't just side-scrollers, but RPG's and shoot-em-ups and more. American developers (from coin-op arcade companies to small developers) were still developing entertaining and fun games for not just the NES, but for arcades and home computers as well.

@LordSpleach 2 месяца назад

Yes, Japan loves DRAGON THREE! lol

@SPMask 3 года назад

4:40 Regretting her words as every kid out there wants to be a twitch/youtuber.

@BB-gd5pk Год назад

Thank you White and Asian people for creating this industry

@juliansilva7744 2 года назад

GOOD VIDEO

@rustymertz Год назад

6:42 imagine a man exclaiming this basic logic in 2023. He’d be cancelled.

@CuriousChronicles82275 2 месяца назад

Dragon three? Or was it Dragon Quest 3😂😂😂

@meganrivenburgh1821 3 месяца назад

The title but for Nintendo💀💀💀

@wiilover07 2 месяца назад

8:26 Dragon 3? 😂🤣😅

@epiclemon9927 8 месяцев назад

5:53 is this talking about mario bros???

@gamebit9063 2 года назад

Dragon 3! Lolol

@PaloJaurez Год назад

These games were way ahead of their time and easily still hold up today.

@locksmith9580 Год назад

I still own my nes snes n64 and game boys. All still work. My Xbox consoles don’t. Things back then were made to last. Now things are made to be disposed of and replaced in a couple years

@PaloJaurez Год назад

@@locksmith9580 Nintendo mastered to be here for both a long and good time.

@charbokh 9 месяцев назад

6:37 A flock of seagulls 😂😂😂

@mapdoor1418 3 года назад

With that, one of the oldest champions of the video game industry was born.

@Gravy_Master Год назад

4:32 What is going on with that hybrid grip?!

@Gillian_Seed Год назад

Thats how u play contra if you wanna beat the game

@Cobra-yo7fx Год назад

Nice video!

@stephensanders2104 3 месяца назад

thats me in the 80's having the nes :p

@AsclepiasAcida1 4 года назад

90 hours to beat Zelda 1. Jesus Christ what was taking so long?

@AlexRN 4 года назад

Bad game with stupidly high difficulty, that gave no directions, and the few hints it did it delivered in broken nonsensical engrish will artificially extend a 10 hour game into 90 easily before the age of the internet. And I say this as a massive Zelda fan but those two first ones on NES aged like crap.

@Seafoamgaming 4 года назад

No maps

@SatoshiMatrix1 4 года назад

Well, 90 hours is probably an exaggeration, but the point was that this was before the internet and there were only the most vague hints of what to do or where to go. So yes, if you were playing the Legend of Zelda in 1987, it did indeed mean many hours of wandering around trial and error, attempting to burn every bush you see, bomb every wall, learn every possible secret you could. Maybe even draw your own maps by hand on paper. Such things were not uncommon. The fact that the game can be speedrun now in less than an hour is the whole exact opposite of what the original Zelda experience was like when I was a kid. It truly was this massive adventure.

@juandiegotorres9632 4 года назад

@@AlexRN and tge limited attack range

@extraaccountt-t7470 4 года назад

CHADTRONIC!!!!

@charliewhite3905 5 месяцев назад

Dragon tree is my favorite game

@DamienNightmarish Год назад

If I owned a company producing games, I would advertise my product this way: "Give your son a video game, because while he is addicted to video games, he will not be using drugs."

@afriend9428 2 года назад

*They forgot to mention that Zelda was the most expensive video game back then for $40 or $50 Dollars a pop back then!?!*