The Complete History of the Console Wars 

I think it's awesome that everyone is dropping comments. I really appreciate all your support.

I cannot believe you held my attention this long......i can't believe i hid in the back of a work truck for two hours and didnt get caught....good to be a ghost thanks man

I love how this starts

The presentation is gripping. I was just going to check it out and finish it later but now I have to finish.

Fantastic video!

Blast Processing was actually a term coined by a sega engineer referring to ways to get more colors on the screen , and the marketing team took that phrase and ran with it as a way to describe its very fast CPU, which did really benefit the console.

Such a good video, only just found your channel and i never wouldve guessed you only had 600 subs, you deserve way more!!!!

I’m saving this video to watch later, and will watch the whole thing with my 10 year old son. Great first 5 minutes!

I got in before 700 subs. Can't wait to look back on this in 3 years when you're at 700k. Great video, so well-written and spoken, and entertaining. Flew by in a flash, and I learned a lot as well! GG!

This was such an awesome video. I can only imagine how many hours, days and week you spent on this. You also have a great voice, don’t try to be a comedian and don’t use obnoxious acronyms like “SNESSS”. It’s like sitting down with a friend you’ve known for years. Awesome job. New subscriber and can’t wait to see what you have coming next!

This was so well put together. Well done! Really enjoyed this walk down memory lane. Have been a gamer since the late 80s so a good chunk of this video really spoke to my nostalgia. You deserve more likes and subs for this kind of work. Keep at it!

I just found this after watching the Xbox documentary, watched the whole thing and I am sad it was over even at over 2:44 hours, this was great dude. So many nostalgic memories.

i actually watched this 3 hour long video… had to subscribe 😂

Great video

You have an incredible way with words. Describing the sound of the Atari 7800 as "threatening" had me crying for some reason.

So I've watched a few of these documentary's on this and this one is the newest one and most complete Great job watched it completely.

Excellent video! Humor could use some work (I liked some jokes though), but overall a fantastic survey of the history of the gaming industry through the various console generations; you presented the nuances, various consoles and add-ons, and significant games in a digestible manner that provides a great foundation for understanding gaming history. Great work, my friend!

I grew up with both Snes and Genesis, but I was lucky enough to have a 6 button, and I had never even heard of the *start* function key.. my friends had to bring their own controller if we wanted to play against each other.

Excellent video and very informative! I remember arguing for team Nintendo while riding the school bus back in the day. Lol. Keep up the great work and your channel will grow fast! Subbed!

This was fantastic Calic! This channel is criminally under viewed . The effort you put into these really shows!

Amazing work. Love to see the passion with documenting this important history!

I'm a 40 yr old millennial, games was pretty much always good for me. I mean at 4 I played Atari and loved it because it was better than board games. But a year later I got an NES and I was amazed and loved it. Then sega Genesis, 64, PlayStation, PS2...etc. It was incredible to see the evolution of gaming since I was a kid. Corporations are pay to win is ruining gaming now though. I find I love indie titles on PC the past few years. Nintendo still has my heart of course.

Your sense of humor and jokes are incredible. Thank you.

Great video man! I love these long games videos that I can just sit back and enjoy. Takes me right back to my childhood.

Bro cooked that intro Ong

Love this video! The N64 didn’t initially have a pack-in game. You had to buy Mario 64 separate if you wanted to play it at launch. Keep em coming!

Seriously epic video dude, I can't imagine working on something this long. Great job compiling all the clips / commercials and facts. One small thing I noticed, the Atari Jaquar controller you showed is the 2019 Pro version. It actually is a fanastic redesign, with more responsive buttons and the 3 addition buttons making it the first 6 button controller for the system. The original controller only had 3 buttons (plus the num pad allowed for overlays - AVP for example).

Awesome video!

Wow. This video blew me away. You deserve WAY more subscribers!

Nice! Thanks for your diligent work putting this together, exceptional!! Very entertaining and well narrated.

subscribed at minute 2 when I caught on how back you went :D, can't wait to watch it all

This is quite the undertaking and very well done. Nice work!

Well played Sir. Very good documentary. You captured more than most.

"To get it home and have it look like this... That'll be a bill please." lol

Great video! I love the way you tell stories

Great video man keep on doin your thing. Good combo of editing and knowledge

The Colecovision certainly does flicker. That's why I always preferred the Intellivision.

Great video!! I watch a lot of gaming history channels, going to be watching your channel really closely!

My first ever home console i played & owned was the Sega Master System 1. I was 3 years old at the time & since then grew up to be playing Sega & then later Sony Playstation ❤

Really enjoy the video and your voice is so relaxing and easy to listen to I look forward to checking out more of your content

I'm going to assume that the 1984 film "Cloak and Dagger" was Atari's attempt at saving the 5200 and the video game industry. The movie is centered on a young gamer named Davey played by Henry Thomas who was a rising star fresh off his breakout role in ET. Davey spends most of his time playing video games. The plot of the film begins when Davey witnesses the murder of an FBI agent who with his dying breath gives him an Atari 5200 game cartridge that contains military secrets. Davey must now guard the important cartridge with his life and prevent it falling into the hands of an evil terrorist organization who are hell bent on getting ahold of the sensitive information it contains. Atari designed graphics for the fictional Cloak and Daggar game and got a lot of product promotion from their brand being featured in the movie. I consider it to be a timeless classic from my childhood. Unfortunately, it was released a year after the video game crash of 1983 which did not help it achieve the results Atari was hoping for. When you consider the poor performance of the Atari 5200 it is easy to see why the movie did little to restore public interest in video games.

Cannot believe your subscriber count after seeing this amazing video! So good dude, keep it up :)

Awesome work 👏 👌 on the research and great choices on the commercials and game clips. Keep up the work as you just got a new subscriber.

Respect for the work you put into this :)

Great video! I love this sort of stuff. I also love Paul Rudd being in the SNES commercial.

I live in the US, Illinois to be exact, I never saw a single commodore 64 growing up, was in grade school from 86 to 92, we only had IBM's and apple 2's

Excellent video, clearly a lot of time and patience went in to this. Only small critique is that you stated Mario 64 was a pack in title, which it wasn't. Great work overall though!

Great content! Thank you Calic.

The problem with the 7800 was that it was tech from 1983 so it was pretty outdated by the time it came out. I realize it’s only a year behind the famicom but they desperately needed to add some sound hardware and whatnot

Great video! Instant subscription.

Keep it up with excellent content like this, and your channel will blow up :-)

3DO with a $700 price tag 😂, Neo Geo is the only system that had reason to demand that kind of tag. Neo Geo was no joke.

You did an awesome job with this video!

I really enjoyed this documentary on the history of the console wars. It was quite nostalgic hearing some of the audio used at some sections of the presentation

Hey, I don't accept any slander of the Jaguar and 3D Saturn controllers, they're pretty good actually. In all seriousness though, putting that aside, this was a great and informative video and I found myself rewatching this multiple times! There are a few things I wanna comment on though. -I would personally like to give a special mention to the Atari 8-bit computer line. The first line, the 400 and 800, launched in 1979, pre-dating the Commodore 64, and even its predecessor, the Commodore VIC-20. The Atari computer was some really powerful stuff by the time it came out. For reference, it had the same architecture that would later be used for the Atari 5200; so much so that if you compare a game that's on both the 5200 and the 8-bit computer, they look and sound identical (The big difference, of course, is that you can play them with a controller that is good and actually works lol). It was the biggest competitor of the Commodore 64 (Well, in North America anyway. The story of early gaming in Europe is a whole other can of worms that throughout the 80's and early 90's, that region was very home computer centric). Though it wasn't as successful as the C64, the Atari computer line still did well in its own right, it's still loved by many, with the 400 getting the mini console treatment recently, and it has a larger library of early arcade ports (late 70's-1984) out of any other 8-bit system. -The term "Blast Processing" was thought to be referring to the Genesis' CPU being faster than the Super Nintendo's, which makes sense. Though it was later figured out that the term was referring to the system's CPU blasting data to the CRAM (Color RAM), allowing for things like mid-frame color palette changes (An example would be how water is displayed in Sonic 1's Labyrinth Zone) or having static images that display more color than the usual 64 color on-screen (If I rememeber correctly, I think Toy Story on Genesis used that trick for the story cutscenes). -While it is true that the SNES clears the Genesis when it comes to comparing the same game on both systems, there is a big advantage the Genesis has, specifically when it comes to platformers; a higher resolution. Which would result in the Genesis versions having a better view on what's ahead, while the SNES version is cropped. And in some cases, the sprites being cleaner. A higher resolution can sometimes affect gameplay, especially if you wanna see what's ahead of you. -Regarding that Jaguar controller, what you showed and described was actually the Jaguar Pro Controller. The regular Jaguar controller had 3 face buttons instead of 6. Also, when you were talking about the Famicom controller, at one point, at 42:24, you showed an image of what looks like an unofficial bootleg (there is no Famicom controller, official or licensed, that had SNES-style face buttons). -I noticed you didn't mention those "other" super consoles that came out between the SNES and the Saturn, like the NeoGeo CD (A system that played NeoGeo games on CDs that's meant to be a more cost effective way of playing them; though plagued by its slow load times), Commodore CDTV (The competitor of the CD-i, essentially an Amiga 500 computer in a VCR-like case and a CD-ROM drive), the FM Towns Marty (The first ever 32-bit console, basically a consolized version of the, at the time, powerful FM Towns PC) and the Amiga CD32 (The first non-Japanese 32-bit console, basically a consolized version of the Amiga 1200 computer with a CD-ROM drive and no keyboard), though I understand this video would be too long if those were brought up, but I still felt they are interesting in their own right. -As a Lemmings appreciator, it makes me glad you mentioned the hidden Super Scope feature in Lemmings 2 :) -Apart from oversaturation, another big reason why there wasn't a lot of third party support for the Jaguar was because it had a rushed, buggy and complicated hardware, and the development documents provided were also incomprehensible. Said reasons are also why a lot of Jaguar games don't look that much better than what you'd see in an SNES for example, cause they couldn't take full advantage of the system's capabilities. -You said the Saturn and 32X came out *side-by-side* in *North America*. While it is true they did come out a few months apart there, it's actually the Japanese Saturn release and the American 32X release that came out side-by-side (literally a day apart); not helped by the fact that Japan saw the release of the 32X around a month after the Saturn. -I do think it's important to mention how, up until the North American launch, the Saturn in Japan had actually briefly outsold the PlayStation (The former sold around half a million units by the end of 1994 VS the PlayStation's 300,000 units) -Regarding saving on N64 games, most N64 games actually had their saves stored in EEPROMs rather than batteries. The only games on this system that have a battery are games that have SRAM. (In which there are 14 of) -Here is an odd thing regarding the N64 Expansion Pak. The first US release of Space Station Silicon Valley is the only game that doesn't work with the Expansion Pak. After some point, the game will crash, so the Jumper Pak was required to play the game. This was fixed in the second US release and the European release. I know this was a really long read, I apologize for that. Just wanted to put out my own say of things, as well as make some corrections. Once again, great video! Hope you have a nice day ^^

I can assure you those "ass" graphics looked amazing. We had never seen anything like that before back then.

52:20 A common misconception. The first Battery-Backed cartridge was Pop & Chips for the Epoch Super Cassette Vision.

PORT MONT A EWE Translation Port Mon Toe God i get a kick outta that.... By the way that old guy comparing intellivision to atari is George Plimpton. He had that special voice everybody loved. Well at least before Robert Stack came along and narrated Unsolved Mysteries. Seriously I could listen to either of them read the phone book cover to cover.... Ryan Seacrest aint got shite on them lol

Keep the good work!

I love this so much. But i especially appreciate that you're playing music from the SNES version of Gradius 3 in the background. Greta job. Now it's time to pull out the Suoer NES and do a playthrough of Gradius 3 😁

41:51 there it is.....square button pre recall Famicom......I want one so bad

when you have MJ sponsoring genesis in a commercial say goodbye to Nintendo lol

amazing video great work really love it 5 stars

honestly i kinda feel like console gaming is dying: 1) Playstation & Xbox release their games on PC now 2) with physical media dying off there is no benefit to get a console instead of buying games on PC 3) hybrids are getting more populair and they have all the benefits of being a handheld & PC/console 4) playing on PC is so much cheaper and accesable i used to be a Nintendo enjoyer but ever since i migrated to Steam and when i got my Steam Deck, i started to feel that consoles are just obselete. The only thing holding it back is the stereotype that you need to tinker a lot with PC games to get a good expierence which isn't really the case for me. Steam Proton has been able to fix most instances of a game not booting up for me.

I'm new here. Glad to find this channel so early. 654 subs.

Nice video on the history of console gaming. I think the Switch has become my favorite console of all time. The hybrid portability, the big library of games and how easy it is to turn on and play got me back into gaming after quitting video games for years.

Hey dude, I like your style, I'm in. Keep it light and funny!

excellent video

Man I'll never forget how jealous I was of the dude in my neighborhood who had the original Mortal Kombat for the Genesis and knew the Blood Code. My SNES copy was too dang squeaky clean lol!

Hey kid, for Christmas your getting the Bally astrocade.....oh great thanks dad so much....oh but you can't pick it up till January .....ohhhhh man

This was a great video into our history in gaming

This is the first time i hear 32X being talked about positively.

Shoutout to the snow dogs DVD game lol

I was there, I was there 3000 years ago...

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This video was really good

Awesome video and history wow

That Sega Saturn remote that looks like a Sony discman just sucks

an amazing watch honestly.

You forgot about how 3D Blu-ray helped in 2010 and 2011 by making the PlayStation 3 the world's cheapest 3D Blu-ray player especially if you already owned the PlayStation 3 is the world's cheapest Blu-ray player. They also made the world's best 3D screen for gamers the PlayStation 3D TV. But what killed 3D shortly after that was the promised Super Bowl that was reneged on. It was it was abandoned because it was found that 70% to 90% of people would be unable to watch the Super Bowl if it was broadcast in 3D due to 2D incompatibility.

Great video.

I think Microsoft is testing out streaming by streaming XBox Series games to an XBox One. They will probably start putting an XBOX app on TVs so you don't need a console and they will just stream it like Stadia did

Nice job. Almost complete.

To be honest, I only wanted to take a quick look because 3 hours is a bit daunting. I would recommend making the whole video into 6 or 12 parts. Don't get me wrong, I think it's really good, but I suspect you'll scare a lot of people off with 3 hours. The first 2 hours are much more detailed, which I liked. The last 20 years definitely went too fast for me. I watched the whole thing anyway;)

The 2600 was not off the shelf parts entirely, the TIA (Stella) or Television Interface Adapter was custom and designed by Jay Miner. Pretty decent video for a zoomer though ;)

Competition is good for the consumer, once the industry is monopolized horrendous monetizing will only get worse :/

Ballblazer was one of the first games put out by Lucasfilm games / Lucas arts. Best way to play 5200 games is with an Atari 8 bit computer.

War.... war never changes. Epic video thank you.

The funny thing about Sega's blast processing is that they claimed that it made games like Sonic possible and that Nintendo couldn't handle quick scrolling. There's a prototype game called Bio Force Ape for the NES that is just as fast, if not faster. It's a game that was developed during the NES' lifespan, but was never officially released. Turns out the NES had blast processing all along!

That's funny. And hour and 42 minutes in. The video footage is used from. The Angry Nintendo Nerd.

2:02:00 I worked at a Blockbuster video the summer of 2000 and we rented tons of NES and SNES games. But NOT A SINGLE DREAMCAST GAME was ever rented and not a single console sold! The finally threw them in the bargain bin for pennies on the dollar! I still remember the games were only $3.99 and they still didn't sell!!!!

Now you can get an android box with many different games from many past consoles, IN ONE BOX.

Quality presentation

Hey great vid. What is the tune playing starting around 1:23:00? Thanks.

PORT MAN TOW.....CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR

No matter how often I hear it said, it still feels surreal that the Gamecube was a financial failure. The Gamecube was the first home console I was allowed to have and at the time, it felt great to be a Gamecube owner - it had so many great games that also would go on to be well-remembered classics. So much so that it took me well into 2009 or 2010 to learn the console wasn't very successful. I never put much stock into the console wars mind you - it's just always such a stark dissonance.

Great video gaming encyclopedia

So would sega still be making consoles if they hadnt had the saturn early launch damage....?

For games such as Street Fighter, I much preferred the sega 6 button layout vs the SNES layout. With the sega controller, you can hold the controller in such a way that your right hand fingers layed on the abc/xyz buttons. Capcom even made a 3rd party controller setup like that called the Capcom Pad Soldier for Genesis & SNES. This was not possible with the default SNES controller and required you to use the awkward left shoulder button. Modern controllers are not as bad since they have 2 buttons on the right shoulder.

Amazing video, you know your shit