I think it's kind of dumb that they've spent more time talking about Leisure Suit Larry than they have about the entire 32/64 bit generation, which was one of the most popular generations in gaming history, not to mention some of the groundbreaking and genre defining games like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, 3D fighters like Virtua Fighter and Tekken, the rise of 3D arcade and sim racing games, and insanely popular platformers like Mario 64. Not even a mention of Zelda Ocarina of Time, arguably the best video game ever made. And, there's 3 more episodes to go. What are they going to talk about? Halo and Call of Duty?
I'm waiting for the day when I can respond to dialogue in my own words and the characters will respond in the same ways that humans do, instead of me choosing between 4 options and getting the same response *cough* fallout 4 *cough*
They went from 1991 Sonic The Hedgehog to 2001 GTA 3. WHAT THE HELL ?? Where are Doom, Quake, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2, Warcraft, Starcraft, Heroes 3, Age of Empires, Half Life, Counter-Strike, Diablo, Alone in the dark, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Carmageddon, NFS, SIM, Unreal, Metal Gear Solid and more ? These games are superstars and are like cult among gaming community. Just like Pac-Man ans Super Mario Bros.
They are also rather sweeping about certain claims too - they say about Nintendo saving the industry, and that if they hadn't brought out the NES, games stodd good chance of going the way of the hula hoop (as they put it). This is clear rubbish. Granted the NES did do a great shot in the arm for consoles again, but it was mostly on the part of RETAILER fear - the public still very much wanted games. Furthermore, even if we assumed that Nintendo didn't exist, there were PLENTY of other games coming out on a variety of other systems - BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Apple II, an loads more. Of course, in programmes like this, you do have to be a bit vague and sweeping on some things, as you only have limited time to cover your topic, however this is WAY too sweeping as to be inaccurate.
Somethings are really confusing. They pass over generations such as the Dreamcast and N64, jump from PSONE to PS2 and from GTA III and GTA: Vice City, but it's a cool documentary
I know this is an American program but it's point of view is far too, well, American. The researchers on this one clearly failed to look beyond anything but the US market. When the rest of the world hear Americans gush about Nintendo saving gaming the rest of us chuckle as it was full steam ahead the whole time for us just on different formats.
I agree, they completely skipped the whole industry in Britain. There seems to be an arrogance in the US that they are the be all and end all. The American woman in this saying if not for Nintendo US it would have gone the way of the hula hoop is just ridiculous. If you'd have told me in 1984 that the games industry has crashed I would have laughed and then went back to playing my Vic 20 games.
@@Sundaydish1 Nintendo still saved the industry IN the US though. With the release of the NES so soon after the crash of 1983, the industry managed to recover over here whilst barely skipping a beat. If not for Nintendo, it might have been another decade or so before we caught back up with the trend. Not to mention, the US has a population of about 300 million people. The effect of tapping into that large of a market can't just be dismissed. Sure people in Britain might still have been playing games, but who knows if that would have been enough to keep the industry on track and moving forward. Perhaps without so large a market to profit from, game companies might have progressed a lot more slowly. If nothing else, the entire industry could potentially be a decade behind, but the capital Nintendo got from investing in the US played a large part in their ability to keep the industry growing and advancing technologically.
@@apictureoffunction Honestly dude that's the arrogance I was talking about. To suggest the rest of us would be a decade behind without Americans is just rude. If anything American games companies today (I'm looking at you EA) are actually stifling innovation and more interested in how many loot boxes you buy rather than push the medium. The size of the market doesn't scale with innovation.
Strange to not quote Miyamoto at all. Lots of muddling in the NES timeline; the early US sales force really went on a limb when they sold the first Nintendo’s in NY; once it became clear it was a hit it was pretty low risk for retailers. It’s a disappointing effort in some ways and seems incomplete. The statement about Atari switching from consoles to computers is just wrong. Atari ran the 5200-7800-Lynx-Jaguar business separately from the ST computer line, but both moved ahead (as much as any Atari console could move ahead).
It was the first racy MAINSTREAM published racy game, which is rather the point, and I doubt the point is that regarding the PS era - sure, there were some great heartfelt moments before then, but that era rather came to epitomise it (and not just on that platform)
They sure like to drive the point home about how "the days of the little man with the mustache are over" despite not only skipping the Super Nintendo ENTIRELY, but also jumping from PS1 to GTA III without mentioning Super Mario 64, without with GTA III wouldn't have had the groundworks for an open world 3D environment game with camera controls. This documentary was going considerably well until they tapped into the 16 bit era, and even then they skipped over SEVERAL consoles, games, and firsts in the video game industry. A lot of people are mentioning how American oriented this documentary is. Even then, how the hell are they not going to mention Mortal Kombat and its controversy, the birth of game rating systems, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom? And don't you dare mention Mortal Kombat without first mentioning Street Fighter II. I don't care if they mention these in the later episodes, you do NOT mention Grand Theft Fucking Auto III without covering these first.
Crazy how they skipped the rise of RPG games on the SNES, they might not have been edgy but they massively evovled the indsutry even before FF7. Also no Mortal Kombat? How do you not even mention that? Especially when talking about edgy games.
Its so typical of a one sided story of history, they failed to even mention the boom in Britain after the Atari crash. kids in bedrooms and college undergrads writing very very popular games for the commodore and amiga and atari ST. this totally revived the market for Gaming, not the NES.
you do realuze the video game industry only crashed in the US right? It didn't crash anywhere else so Video game was revived by Nintendo coz only the US market needed reviving.
+RexZShadow It's called the rise of video games, as in general. To utterly ignore the massively important contributions of the bedroom programmer culture in where it was most popular, in Europe, is extremely unfair. No, it is a typical 'America is the world, oh and Japan because we couldn't quite get away with ignoring Europe AND Japan-- and besides we like Japan better."
Why does the word "family" have negative connotations when associated with entertainment in America? Jesus Christ! Can't you say anything anymore, without people turning it into a sex scandal?
teppolundgren Yeah, at the 13 minute mark, I heard her say that and was like, "Wha???" Why would the word "family" be negative when associating it with entertainment? Most forms of entertainment at that time (and I say MOST) usually included family involvement.
