When I was a 15 year old freshman in high school in 1992-93, the arcade behind the school had one of the multi-screen versions that had the super stunt track. I played it every day. Eventually, I had recorded the top score on the machine, and only got better until only my initials filled up the entire top ten. The owner of the arcade asked if he could video record me playing the game as a tutorial. I certainly said yes, and while he recorded, I gave tips on it, such as speed and where to line the car up for certain stunts. I even beat my all time highest score while doing it! Every Friday, the arcade had a competition for a certain game in the arcade, and finally the week for Hard Drivin' came. Quite a few people tried to dethrone me, but nobody even got close to my lowest score on the top ten. Everybody was blown away when i actually played it, setting another all time top score. They just couldn't believe that I could drive like that at my age. The truth is, my dad had taken me out to drive in the mall parking lot since I was 8, and out on normal roads since 12. When I was 18, I raced production stock for my wealthy uncle in the private racing club he belonged to. That was lots of fun, but there was excessively difficult new driving training I had to undergo, as racing is quite different than normal road driving.
I knew the game was bad but it wasn't until I started putting this video together that I found out the game was made in just under three weeks. That's a great analogy comparing it to ET. LOL
I've learn how to drive and using stick shift from playing this game in my early teen years. My Dad took me out for my first test drive when I got my permit in his manual stick shift car. While driving he ask me if I had been driving his car when he not around due to me knowing how to stick shift. I said no I've learned it from playing Hard Drivin' '!!!!
I to,d the same thing to my driving instructor back in 1990. He reacted with horror, as though I just confessed to murdering squirrels with a lawn mower. Grownups in my town were absolutely terrified of videogames.
I remember testing this game before it was released. At my favorite arcade “goldmine” in newpark mall california there were some people out front surveying people about video games and offering a chance to test new a game. I signed a release paper and went to a location in the city of sunnyvale which is in the silicon valley. I was not told who the maker of the game was and got paid 20 dollars. There 15 other teenagers and we tested this game for about an hour. We were asked what we thought of the game and what name it should be called. We were all impressed cause this was different than any other arcade game we had seen. It was about a year later when it was released.
Jhayman Myles that’s awesome! I taught myself to drive and I was 12 when my mom let me driver her Mitsubishi Galant 5 speed. Almost got it to third gear when she told me to let my sister try (she was younger lol)
Hard drivin was hands down one of the hardest arcade games I ever tried. I was only 12 back in 89 though! A driving sim with a wheel and pedals back then was fantastic. Great documentary, thanks for the trip down amnesia lane:)
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it. I think the reason it was so hard is because it was a legit driving simulator. I love the game though and still do
Ohh it was the hardest driving game Atari Games ever did...I agree with you on that. I played it back then too and the steering physics was hard to grasp at the very first turn I made in the game. The game later on had its 3-D engine or parts of it be transplanted to a later driving game in 1996 that they did called San Francisco Rush(which THAT game became a successful racing franchise for the home market shortly on the N64, spawning two games and a 3rd that also saw release on the Dreamcast in the early 2000's) in which by that time the company's corporate culture or business in the way they produced coin-ops more or less changed under WMS/Midway ownership.
Absolutely loved this game. It was a game that you could never get mad at, even when you loose. The instant replays of the crash always had me laughing. A total stress reliever after a bad day.
The old Underground arcade at UC Berkeley had an Airborne cab in 1993 and I loved it to death. I had no idea it was so rare, but did wonder why I never saw it anywhere else or ever again. It was a standup cab with a sort of cowl that folded out over your head to deliver surround stereo. The third level was a mountain path where you had to dodge boulders, and if you drove off the track you could keep going until you literally fell off the map, dropping all they way back down to the default game grid. I did that a lot just for fun. I hope someone out there has kept one of these in working order.
A fun trick for us later on was doing an elongated loop inside the tunnel on the Super Stunt Track ( in Race Drivin'). But the best part of both games, was booger-nosed kids couldn't just sit down and floor it around the track to get high scores. You had to DRIVE THE CAR proper.
I had the Race Drivin arcade (the complete and huge model). When I bought my home and moved the arcade, we lowered it in the basement. Sadly it got stuck there and at 600+ pounds, we had to remove and cut parts. In the end I salvaged all the PCB and components and destroyed the cabinet. I sold the parts to a collector. It makes me sad to think about this.
@@nattila7713 The first day of my new job for an amusement company in early 2001, the boss there ask me to throw in the garbage 6 bran new Lazerdisc player. I did not have a car at that time and was too shy to ask to keep them. I was young and it was my first day on the job. 6x Laserdisc player BRAND new in unopened boxes and I put them in the garbage container. I don't like to think about that, but I saved 47 arcade PCB while working there, so at least some of our history is preserved.
I played hard drivin as a kid back at my local liquor store. They had Hard Drivin and Cruisin USA. Certainly was fun from what i remember. I didn't know there was a sega genesis port. I should definitely give that one a look. Another great upload Pat! 👏
Thanks for the comments, the Sega Genesis port is okay but the frame rate is not very good. Best to check it out on the midway arcade treasures 2 Compilation
Race Drivin' had a secret track. If you loaded the original track and then when the game starts immediately turn left there is a circle track with a column in the middle.
Thank you for this thorough review and race down memory lane. HD & S.T.U.N. Runner were my favorite arcade games. In 1990 I received a combo Christmas & Birthday gift in the form of an Atari Lynx with both ports. Both were amazing to me in their own right to have an arcade hit anywhere I roamed. Mastering HD with the laggy controls felt like a feat in itself, but whenever I reached a point of frustration, switched out to STUN Runner. The best part of any of this history is I still have the Lynx, collected many other games since (including Alpine Skiing), and enjoy them for what they are...classics! Subscribed!
I fondly remember when Hard Drivin' hit the arcade at the local state university. The force-feedback wheel was a revelation, even though the speed was rather subpar compared to the super-scalar racing games. Still, the full 3D polygonal graphics were rather compelling. First time around the track, I over-jumped the drawbridge and subsequently wrecked. Later, when I saw the sequel Race Drivin' at the arcarde, I was overjoyed. The extra stunt tracks, as my 18-year-old-self said, "freaking sweet". Or maybe "killer". Something like that.
Yes, that's exactly my feeling when I first saw and played the original arcade cabinet. This was also the first Racing game we couldn't go full throttle around the track. You had to respect the speed limit signs otherwise like you said you were going to crash. I'm pretty sure I over jumped the drawbridge as well Race drivin was so cool when it came out, my absolute favorite was the corkscrew. Thanks for watching
I fondly remember this in an arcade during my late childhood! When in an arcade in Rutland County, Vermont, if not still right in Rutland, on route 4 east and possibly the arcade right in downtown Rutland, Vermont, too! I remember one day of me not wanting to stop playing it! It was a game-boom era at the time, which made sense, because the U.S. economy was very good during that period!
I would love to see something like this done for Airwolf. That way you can feel like Stringfellow Hawk flying Airwolf, and your buddy can feel like Dom helping you inside the Helicopter.
I was the kid at the mall arcade who got the high score, and beat Phantom Photon! I was 17 at the time, and I knew how to drive a stick. The younger kids used to gather 'round the machine when I played, it blew their minds that someone could actually drive a stick...
As a kid, I loved playing Hard Drivin’, which was in the lobby of a local buffet. I had it on my Sega Genesis, but I was so enthralled by the arcade’s key, clutch, and shifter, I’d always choose manual and stall it out enough times at the start to rarely be able to finish a lap.
THANK YOU, PAT!!! I love this series ever since seeing it in a seedy mall arcade in Indy. I'd always try to hit the cow to hear the digitized "moo" as well.
Still own an Amiga 2000 and a original copy of Hard Drivin' with box and all included. It's my first sim and proud of it, now I have a much evolved cockpit (all Fanatec gear on a Sim-Lab P1 chassis) myself compared to that which once was this first "sim racing" arcade cabinet. Many people acclaim Pole Position to be the first sim, but the first sim in the modern sense of the word that was complete including a cockpit view, damage model, real physics, force feedback steering wheel, 3 pedals and a fully working shifter... it's only missing a handbrake! Hard drivin' was way ahead of its time in my opinion. 😎
I also didn't include the PlayStation one version either. I was running low on time with my video which is why I didn't include these two. The Saturn version is excellent though
Yes, airborne was really cool and I wish they would've put that into production. It would be great to play that an actual cabinet. Thanks for the kind words
I can remember playing it on the sega genesis back in the day but always thought the arcade version with a clutch petal was cool. Its funny how many people today cant drive a manual transmission.
I learned to drive a car because of this game. It was the full cockpit version. I always used the clutch and manual gears.. I played it soo much in the arcades on Oxford road, Manchester, UK that my name would always be on the number one slot.. I would have been 16 at the time. Ahhh, great memories. Also, just just before the end of the lap was an off-road piece on the map where you'd drive round a single tower. 👍😉
Wow, this was my all time favorite game growing up. I still make sure I take down phantom photon every time I see it in an arcade. Thanks for all the great info on it!!
Same here, I loved the arcade version then was so excited when I saw it was on SNES. Then I rented it. The slow down problems have been fixed. Kinda funny how the SNES version was the slowest and now it's the fastest. See for yourself ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i9_4mwd7cYg.html
just discovered your channel, and this is great! if you haven't yet, would love to see a documentary on the san francisco rush series too, which many people don't realize was actually developed off of what atari started with hard drivin' and race drivin' all those years earlier.
Great video, thanks Patman! :) I often feel Hard Drivin' is overlooked by history - you don't hear much about it, and I don't know why. In my opinion, the game represented possibly the biggest ever advancement in videogame graphics, and the arrival of the machine in my arcade was one of the most memorable events of my childhood. Along with Daytona and Ridge Racer, these three games almost single-handedly defined the evolution not just of driving game graphics, but of all videogames. I remember going to the arcade, playing Hard Drivin, trying to remember the course, and coming home and drawing it all out. I spent ages obsessing over this game. It was beyond exciting! Oh and it was also the first REALLY expensive arcade game here in British arcades. Until then, games had been no more than 20p (about 36c) but Hard driving cost a whole pound per game ($1.80), so this really was a game-changer, and you couldn't just pour coins into it like with other games - you had to persuade your parents to give you the money! In the run-up to Christmas 1989 I was losing sleep at the prospect of owning this game on the Spectrum. Even if the game was nowhere near as good (it obviously wouldn't be), I just loved the game so much and wanted to own it so badly. I completely agree with you when you said you really need to sit in the arcade cabinet to get the real effect of playing this game. That's really true. Watching a video of the game running does NOTHING to capture the "realness" of the arcade game: the way all the controls felt, the feedback they gave, the vibrations, the noises of the road - the deep hum of the engine, and the sound system which gave you an immersive sense of being there. It's like you could just "feel" the road underneath you. Sadly, I never got to see any of the sequels in the arcade, despite eagerly anticipating them.
Thanks for the comments. I know the game was a pretty big success but I don't hear a lot of chatter about it when it comes to retro gaming such as other classic arcade games. It absolutely was revolutionary at the time and it absolutely was one of the most expensive games to play at the time. It was only $0.50 over here in America but when most of the games were $0.25 it was a bit expensive. I would get a dollar maybe two from my parents and I had to make it last for at least a couple of hours. Four games of hard-drivin and it was gone. LOL I don't recall having this game on the Commodore 64. The first time I played it was on the Amiga and it was a pretty good conversion at the time despite the frame rate. The spectrum port was really good in my opinion. You absolutely had to experience this in a real arcade cabinet. Like you said watching a video of it does nothing for the complete experience. Race drivin was a great game. I loved the super stunt track and especially the corkscrew. Thanks for watching my videos, cheers
I during my college years I started working out and as part of my regimen I would run on the boardwalk that was near where I lived. There was an old arcade that had a Race Drivin' cabinet machine, so I would always stop to take a break by playing that machine. I got really good at it, and many years later- I purchased a partially working Race Drivin' cockpit version on eBay. It took a little bit of research and work, but I eventually got it working. That was over 20 years ago- and I still have that game in my mancave. I don't play it often, but I have logged countless hours on it over the years, and know all of the secrets, glitches, and exploits to get the best times. Revolutionary for its time. I read that Atari marketed and sold several for use as a police trainer.
I remember playing sit down version of Hard Driven at Myrtle Beach.We were there for a week & I played Hard Driven every day! By 1990 I stopped playing video games for a decade so this is why I have never seen any home versions & learning about Hard Driven 2! I ❤️ your channel. The PS2 looks just like the arcade version! It’s harder to play I admit because all you use our buttons instead of a wheel & shifter.Thanks for the video
Thank you very much, glad you like the content. This is always one of my favorite racing games just for the fact that you could jump over bridges and go through loops :-)
I first experienced this on the GameCube and thinking how it was so ahead of its time being that the game came out 1989. I was really impressed with it for how old the game was.
This is very timely, last night I was at the California Extreme pinball and arcade game show playing Race Drivin' over and over with other attendees (hi, "Kid Dakota"). I completed the Super Stunt course (!!) and only got 82, 000, so the tales of people scoring a million are crazy. In the 90s arcades it was such a struggle even getting to that super high crest after the corkscrew that I was never able to refine my technique on it (I think shift into 4th and coast down the vertical drop). The game told you to use the clutch when shifting gears, but I think you can shift from gear to gear without penalty. I would use the Speedster but I think the original Roadster had less twitchy handling. In addition to being an early true 3D polygon game and a realistic simulator, Hard Drivin' was an early open world game. You could drive all over. I wasted money driving around the backs of buildings looking for Easter eggs. Besides the cow ("MOOO!") and the circular skidpad, you could hit the speed limit signs and they would immediately flatten with an unrealistic "KLANG". The physics was accurate until you crashed, and then the game would do crazy things like catapult the car backwards far faster than it was traveling, or spin for no reason. 11:03 I never saw a two-cabinet linked Race Drivin', that would have been so fun. Arcade-History says only 100 units of the Panorama three-monitor arcade version were made ($13,995 in 1991 dollars is $31,000 today). I never heard of a five-screen version, their page says "Several 3 and 5-screen versions of this game were modified for use as driving simulators for use by human performance researchers. For a time the 5-screen version served as a platform for a high-performance driving simulator program." Someone brought a prototype of Hard Drivin's Airborne to CA Extreme years ago, that was great. It's playable in MAME online at the Internet Archive's Internet Arcade.
It's probably one of the shortest games on the Genesis, but I really enjoyed playing this as a kid and making that cow moo. Never got a chance to play the arcade game but it looks awesome.
stunts was my first game played on a PC(486 DX 50 with 8 MB of RAM). a dream became true! i still own some machines which run dos and i play it from time to time! it's just great! i can remember how many tracks we build and exchanged in shool for competition... :)
Great video! I was 13 when Hard Drivin' came out and spent most of my paper route money on it. As a commented far down the page noted, the game could only be played for so long before it would just fall to pieces and glitch out. I recall it was over the 500,000 mark, which took about an hour. Race Drivin's physics would slightly different and would was able to break 1,000,000 several times on the Stunt Track. The real winner, though, was the Super Stunt Track. You could gain time and play forever. My PR was over 5 million, which took four and half hours. Did that at 15, and had never driven a car. I remain opposed to automatic cars to this day.
That's crazy. I just completed the Super Stunt course at California Extreme pinball and arcade game show and only got 82, 000. Please make a video with commentary of your techniques in a real cabinet or using MAME! It was such a struggle even getting to that super high crest after the corkscrew that I was never able to refine my technique on it.
Just discovered your channel Pat. Great video! And believe me, playing this game on C64 as a young kid, it felt a heck of alot less than minus five frames per second!
The reason the console frame rates were low in a lot of the home ports at the time was because almost none of the consoles could replicate the arcade hardware. Hard Drivin used parallel processing of 7 different CPUs to generate the gameplay experience (68010, ADSP-2100, 2x TMS34010, TMS34012, 68000, TMS32010. Its successor, Race Drivin replaces one of the TMS34010s with a DSP32C, and adds a math ASIC. Many of the consoles have one or two CPUs of a lot less power: * Super NES: Ricoh 5A22 (65C816 derivative) Gameboy: Z80 NES: N2A03 (6502 deriviative) Genesis: 68000 and Z80 Atari ST: 68000 Atari Lynx:: 65SC02 Amiga: 68000 PC: 286, 38, 485
Excellent video on my absolute favorite game series. I was 15 back in 1989 and learned how to drive a manual on the full sit down version of Hard Drivin’. It must have been 3 years later I hopped in a 1970’s Toyota Corolla with a manual and drove it on a dirt back road with friends like I had been driving a manual for years. It was my first time. I would love to own one of these one day to share the experience with my son. There was one playable Hard Drivin’ at the arcade casino at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk a few years back. Not sure if it’s still there or not.
Real great video and made me find this channel. What a joy! Great research and information on the sequels and ports. I hope I can find a way to experience this game on the Arcade, I'm making an exposition on the Azores and I wish people had the oportunity to try this :D
Entertaining & informative ! :) You have my full endorsement ! Just learned about your channel from a comment on my video, Let's Compare ( Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge ). Excellent videos !
Another great one! Hard Drivin and Race Drivin were real Sims. I mean, I will love to the grave all Yo Suzuki's racing masterpieces at Sega, and also Ridge Race, from Namco. But this was something else. This was a simulator, I was 18 and taking driving lessons to get Driving License. So I guess it happened to me too... This game help me, and what a surprise, it was actually originally thought to be and aid for driving schools. Thanks for all the input on the ports, damn shame the C64 version. I had the ZX Spectrum version, and later Amiga, so just imagine me practicing on the ZX by the morning, then running to the Arcade after lunch. Big Arcade called "Meta" @ Costa de Caparica, Portugal. Videogames, beach time and sunsets in the early 90s. Cheers from 🇵🇹
Thanks. It was a huge deal when it first came out in the arcades because nothing had been done quite like it. If I ever do worst arcade conversion ever the 64 version will definitely be near the top
I'm pretty sure the original Hard Drivin was released with 3 screen support as well. I can remember playing SO many variations, standup, sitdown with single screen, sitdown with 3 screens off the top of my head.
Thank you, I didn't think the Amiga version was that bad. Of course it was not going to be as good as the arcade game. I was very disappointed in the Atari Lynx version with its choppy frame rate.
Always love your documentaries. Original games that are genuinely interesting to learn about. Be cool to see one about the games of Indiana Jones. I had a terrible one on C64. What a stinker 😛
It’s hard to believe now, but I remember doing the math back in the day and a buddy and I probably spent $1000 each playing this game, 50 cents at a time. Can’t be right, can it? Hard Drivin’ must have earned the title of world’s first driving sim for consumers. It broke new ground with its force feedback wheel and realistic physics. You know those physics were legit because they were advised by Bill and/or Doug Milliken, engineers and authors of the ‘bible’ of vehicle dynamics called ‘Race Car Vehicle Dynamics’. I remember dreaming about how fantastic such a game could become in the future, and here I am today, a sim racing hobbyist with an infinity better driving ‘cabinet’ on my desk that has cost me roughly the same amount I spent in quarters 34 years ago in that arcade!
The force feedback on the wheel in the original standing arcade machine is id say better than quite a lot of wheels of today it's impressive how truly next generation this game is and was.
Oh absolutely, it's one thing to tell people what kind of an arcade cabinet this was but it's another to try it out for yourself. It was way ahead of his time
There are a lot of things that are still high end in the cabinet. The brake uses a strain guage which means it's not how far you push the pedal, it's how hard. Much like real brake pedal it takes up pretty quick but as you excert more pressure, the braking is harder. If I remember the swivel chair version locked the shifter with a solenoid unless you used the clutch. Also I think the steering was a 2+ turn potentiometer. The swivel chair also locked into place so you wouldn't swing out during game play.
In 1989 - 90, I was driving about 30 minutes to the other side of town to pump quarters into that thing. When it wasn't down, and waiting for a replacement potentiometer. I invested so much time and money in that thing, the only person that was any competition, was the guy that ran the arcade. He got to play for free. Didn't take long for him to figure out the fastest lap times would be achieved by crossing the Finish Line airborne. Very airborne 😂. He never gave me an exact price, but when I questioned, he told me it was about three times as much as the average arcade stand up. I remember wondering how long it would be before FF technology was affordable. I think the answer to that was about 8 years. Oh How Far We've come. I'm in my early 50s, and the recent thought of upgrading my 10-year-old equipment got me thinking. Not only how much longer I plan for it to be a hobby, but the amount of time I've already been into it, and where it all started. It was without a doubt, this game. Thank you for the content! It was an excellent history lesson
Fantastic, glad you enjoyed it. Not One of my more popular videos but I always enjoyed this game. I might have to go back to visit it at some point. Thanks for the nice words especially on Twitter :-)
Great video. I had a full-sized version of this game back in 2001. I found it for $400. I had to drive 1000 miles to pick it up, and it worked great. Sadly I had to move and sold it because it wouldn't fit in the new house. I wish I never did.
Another game which was similar to this was released on PC called Stunts. You could make your own course, and the graphics were decent for the day. Of course it was digital steering so you could drive with a keyboard, but it was fun. The neat thing was you could make your own courses... I still have many of the courses I made back in the day, broke it out used dosBOX and got the old game working...
I had that one back in the day but it was called 4D driving on the Amiga. It was fantastic for its time and you're right, it was fun making your own courses. Thanks
One of my first arcade memories... this and TMNT Arcade game... small arcade in a local drug store in Brunswick, Maine ... had to be 89 ... very impressive to a 8 yr old .
I had this on the Spectrum back in the day... and played it in the arcade too! It was interesting because if you let go of the steering wheel it would centre itself!
Im so thankful for this game and its successor. Because of it i became a better Kart racer, learned how to drive a manual before i ever had to touch a real one, learned how to find the best racing line, recover from oversteer, and made me feel comfortable when i started in SCCA and PCNA HPDE's. Sure, it wasn't perfect, and there was still (and is still) a bunch left to learn that can only be learned in a real car driven "in anger", but im so grateful that i was born in a time and place where it was available to me. Thanks for the video!
This was the first time I ever drove a stick shift and thanks this video I'm hearing that more and more people had the same experience. It really was ahead of his time. Thanks
I was hoping you'd have a review of this. I LITERALLY learned to drive a manual trans because of this game. I had the shifts down pat, and when I bought my first car, it was a 5-speed manual...no problem. Also worth noting is that the girl that ran the arcade in my mall clearly didn't understand electronics. One night I was having some fun with it, popping the clutch, and she threatened to throw me out of the arcade because I was going to....get ready for it.....burn out the clutch on the game. lol
I was lucky enough to have this right around the corner of our apartment in San Francisco. Billiards Palacade. I had the whole scoreboard to myself, since I figured out a way to keep extending time. Great Video, I did not know about some of these home ports. I've been doing so much research to get into sim racing.. got the wheel... got a seat... got some racing games.... but now I've shifted attention to see if I can play this instead with my setup. 😆
That's fantastic. My brother-in-law is also into sin racing and has the steering wheel, gearshift, paddles etc. of course he races stock cars in real life as well
The arcade version basically taught me how to drive. I also had the Game Boy version. It was actually very playable and kind of amazing that they got it to run. i am sure it took an enhancement chip.
The hard drivin CPU board was the most expensive. It was actually two large boards, each containing about 120 TTL chips. There was 3 CPU: TMS34010 for graphic DSP... For 3D computation Motorola 68010 for general computing. Despite all this, the refresh rate was probably 10 per second.
Thanks for the thumb up. I was impressed by the capacity to create a real 3d world ; the first driving game that allowed to turn around, drive in opposite direction. I liked to crash the car on the loop and observe the replay of the accident.
I learned how to drive manual transmission playing this game and then went on to pass my license test driving a manual trans car. Thanks Atari!! I also have the upright version of Race Drivin in my arcade game collection. An absolute must have if you can fit it into your house lol
I actually,, swear to god, learned to drive with Hard Drivin'. And to drive shift stick. And I got my dad into the arcade to show him that game. After that moment my dad gave me the keys of the car. I drove back home that day. That important is this game to me.
This is the real Max Behensky. This video gives me much more credit than is due. Hard Drivin' and Race Drivin' were developed by the Applied Research group at Atari, headed by Rick Moncrief. I was the lead programmer, but the crucial idea of making a driving simulator using real physics and the same sort of technology used in airplane simulators was Rick's. The rest of the group consisted of Jed Margolin (hardware engineer). Erik Durfey (technician), and Stephanie Mott (programmer, and my future wife). Everyone in the group provided ideas and helped in the design. Others at Atari made significant contributions as well. Doug Milliken helped with the vehicle model. The Wikipedia entry on Hard Drivin' has lots of good information. If you want to see a video of me a few years before I worked on Hard Drivin' (without a bag over my head), do a youtube search for "Atari Cambridge Research Part 4". With the exception of giving me too much credit, this is a great video, and the history is pretty accurate.
