Post images, videos, articles, and other fragments of video gaming history from the 1980s, 1990s, all the way up until 2007.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtL5YnozEHU
willst thou soar? or willst thou suck?
News story about some kid winning a Sega contesthttps://youtu.be/UFQrhp84jDo
>>11662371The man. The myth. The legend.
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>>11662402>>>/wsg/5843728
>>11662357bro is absolutely cooked
https://youtu.be/MTzyz2TgGls
>>11662358What is this post referencing?
>>11662428they were pissed that SNES wasn't backward compatible with NES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQsC6aAIOSsRIPAlso every post is a repost and I forgot to save the video another anon posted the other day about RTCW
>>1166308218+ website bud
>>11663106there were legitimate technical reasons why it wasn't possible and even the Genesis needed an extra add-on to play Master System games but the average tech illiterate boomer parent in '92 knew nothing of that, they just thought they were being grifte
>>11663082>i willst suck
>>11662371Internet destroyed that kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itIJ3IL2miM>(10/1/1982) - Pac man video game (Atari 400) tournament on the big scoreboard at ye old County Stadium. PM Magazine following the youngest member in the tournamentFound this gem like 10 years ago.
>>11663206neat a shitty inaccurate home system port of the game that isn't even based on the original source code
>>11663206>worlds largest pacman contest in a giant ballpark>still being played on 20" consumer tvsi miss these sorts of tech limitations
>>11662357As a kid staying from school I did see an n64 report on nbc of the N64 launch reported with the utmost seriousness with a next generation starts now kind of attitude.This is along the lines but not the same.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpOWhgO-oFIAs far as I know ps2 was the last console they bothered having on the mainstream news, will they even bother to report the Switch launch, they probably won't even report anything if Shingeru Miyamoto dies.I also remember some idiotic news report on Australian TV basically saying sonic the hedgehog on master system causes epilepsy, them video games companies got to do something they victims said. So for the next few years many games would have a blue piece of paper saying flashing light might cause issues, I think even gameboy games up to 1997 did it but I never saw an ps1 games with it.>>11663139I think sound was hard to simulate and mappers upto mm3 could probably be made to work with a few changes but still it would be a massive headache for support even if only 50 games didn't work. Well Sega did it and they were a much smaller company so not it its some impossible task.
>>11662428>"Some parents are refusing to be taken in">"How people market things to make you spend more money"Gotta love how these idiots who acted like the only reason the SNES was made was to double-dip on games that definitely could have existed on the NES and that they were too smart to fall for it. I remember reading interviews where people basically said exactly that, that all the SNES games could have been made on the NES if they wanted to but they wanted to "scam" people by making them buy another console.The only point they had was in the "you can't mix'n'match" and even that only was half right, in that the SNES was not backwards compatible, but they are also idiots for complaining about the NES not being forwards compatible. Imagine them acting that way with computers "Why can't Doom run on my Commodore64? Do you have any idea how much I paid for this in 1982? This is just a scam! A computer is a computer!"
>>11663139>even the Genesis needed an extra add-on to play Master SystemThe Genesis/ MD has all of the hardware needed internally to run Master System games. It even uses the same 9-pin controller ports, so you could plug master system controllers into the Genesis /MD. The Power Base converter added a SMS cartridge slot and card slot . Back then the Power Base Converter was sold at roughly $20.00 and Sega would even give it away for free in some promo deals. But considering the low sales numbers of the Sega Master System in the North American market, Sega only put the Power Base Converter out on the marketplace long enough to just please the Master System user base. There were a lot of complaints about the SNES not being backwards compatible, because parents didn't want to get rid of all of their old 'tapes' that they invested hundreds of dollars in and wanted them to be playable on the newest Nintendo hardware. To be honest, the WDC 65C816 derivative in the SNES could run 6502 code. Maybe they could have found a way to add a NES mode in the SNES PPU, but the audio would have been a problem. Maybe they could have released an adaptor like Sega for older SNES games?
>>11663198Had the unfortunate circumstance of being one of the very first autistic retard children on earth to be given unsupervised internet access.All his life he's been a decade ahead of the curve of societal sickness.
afaik the NES's dual bus setup was the biggest obstacle to why backward compatibility wasn't possibe
>>11663198You can't know that. While for sure they harassed him on a criminal level and I am very suspicious of the type of people who did it/do it, saying it's why he went how he did is unknown. Lots of people have gone down the same route without facing any internet stuff.
>>11663387i wonder if these same people thought the Intellivision could have run SMB3?
>>11663458Never heard of that one, was it actually a big argument back then?
>>11663342>As far as I know ps2 was the last console they bothered having on the mainstream news, will they even bother to report the Switch launch, they probably won't even report anything if Shingeru Miyamoto dies.You're kind of right... many because cable subscription service TV was losing viewership to ever growing popularity of the video game market. These days cable TV is on its last legs being propped up by an aging baby boomer generation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioi6Ns7PWHghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFZKz5XqxQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9sxhMLTzVg
BBC Archive has some great stuff in it. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp5kxJAhpetmcS2Qg7I16RVRx8ecCOw0H
>>11663939The making of Die Hard Trilogy is actually pretty fascinating. https://youtu.be/HVgokAf416Q?list=PL2--W5T9mC31UNO5dEdMEhy4lCd11n20R
>>11663939BBC Archive, in general, has just such a great wealth of unique and interesting contentBut on topic, the most recent video about Olympic rowers playing fucking Doom in-between work out sessions is amazing
>>11663082Xenogears
>>11663939sneak peek at SMB3 level editor in this onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5b0EpChH8&t=3m14s
Are american shitposters aware that american studios poached a lot of british devs?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l25IionYlp0Or, when the guy means he saw a lot british devs in L.A., he actually only saw 1 or 2 and is being nationalistic?
>>11663106This seems to be a common complaint.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0MbGdkbeEU
Here is some segments from Otaku documentary from 1994 (france doc, german dub and english subs).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V52Fto40syMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sD8uoy8T_0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwlK2c5yL4o
>>11663198Always feel bad for that guy. I did the surface level "Oh heh. What a dumb comic and strange kid" and moved on. The psychopaths who made it their life mission to engage and destroy are far worse then Chris chan.Ironically I've noticed the same people who destroyed Chris are some of the biggest butthurt austistic faggots on the internet as well. Just better at not spilling it all out online
>>116651378:23 nice litho of the mouse drawing at his desk.
>>11665137>Super Mario All Stars testerGuys I think we found the guy responsible for not finding the block breaking glitch
>>11665137>2:16Uemura throwing a line of baloney which is contradicted by his other statements that work on the FC started in '81.
I love this stuff so much, I remember going to stores in the 80s and 90s and just looking at the game boxes and imagining what kind of games were hidden under that cover art.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfZWyHt4jTMThis channel has some more videos like this. I wish there were better compilations of videogame stores from TV/News
>>11665218He also told contradictory stories about why the front loader NES was designed as such.
People's reaction to a new Zelda trailer at E3 2004. The guy screaming "OH MY GOD" at 0:24 is great and Miyamoto nerding it up with the fucking sword really takes the cake.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98VjTbC4gC4
>>11663395petty sure the genesis was meant to have much more impressive technical specs regarding color, but they had to compromise for master system b/c
>>11662371kek
>>11665428It was more because they would have had to put 128k VRAM in the MD and that was not cost-effective.
>>11663969Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) used to have really good archive on their website called Elävä Arkisto (Living Archive), but they fucked up UI and search so bad, that it's almost impossible to find old stuff anymore. There is/was lots of commodore and pc stuff like >>>/wsg/5844920I will be forever mad about this.
>>11665213motherfucker ruined the cart
Official presentation of Baldur's Gate in Argentina.
Local multiplayer tournaments sponsored by local publishers/importers in Argentina. Prizes were mostly free hours in the cybercafé where the tournament took place, T-shirts, posters, copies of the games being played and, for the very best, optical mouses.
This was the server that made Bigone 2000 happen. The organisers of the tournament had aspirations of creating a Mercosur league in collaboration with the Cyberathlete Professional League.
>>11663198>Internet destroyed that kidIt didn't help but he was doomed because of his shit parents
>>11666595Those hopes were quickly shut down when they were told that such a tournament would require parity in equipment, something not feasible without a sponsor willing to bring machines.Attendees had to bring their own computers, and there was no standard to follow, if it boots and it can play, you can join in.A journo covering the event was specially shocked by this computer.
>>11665289>I wish there were better compilations of videogame stores from TV/NewsSame.
>>11662428>>11663387Seems utterly bizarre, but I can sort of understand their mindset given that Atari 2600 was on the market for so fucking long and that's what most of these boomers knew. So the concept of having to buy a totally new game system that is incompatible with the previous one, is a foreign concept to them.
>>11663082Ocarina of Time commercial (being edgy).
>>11663139>it wasn't possible
>>11664997>american studios poached a lot of british devsTomb Raider is not an example of this, tho. It was published by a British company, not an American one.
>>11662357>they made the music, well, less annoying
>>11663387Nice of you to act like people would be computer/technology savvy in an era where people still carried around address books and taped Seinfeld on VCR.They weren't saying that stuff because they're stupid, they're just uninformed, because that sort of knowledge just wasn't common back then. Videogames have been around now for just about 40-50 years, back then it was barely 10, AND it was a child/nerd/social outcast niche. No self-respecting working adult would come home and think to himself "boy, I sure can't wait for the next generation of videogame consoles with better graphics and sound". They just saw it as their kid's toy they rented a game for every couple of weekends.
>>11665137>france doc, german dub and english subsWhy?
>>11672353The boomer early gen x equivalent would be singles records, there are so many similarities. It was a new technology that their parents sort of dismissed, they anticipated the newest releases, material just 2 years old was considered outdated and then it became so commonplace and cheap that the next generation sort of took it for granted like how zoomers expect at least a couple of the monthly epic free games to be a AAA game from 2 years ago.
Post old gaming news from Japan Americans are cringe
would my moms original receipt from when she bought me my N64 count?
>>11662371daily reminder this guy has a fucking gf somehow and I dont
>>11663387>all the SNES games could have been made on the NES if they wanted to but they wanted to "scam" people by making them buy another console.how is this wrong? Take a look at gaming today, all this indie slop could be made on sega genesis and games actually are (like Cave Story ported to genesis)
>>11673418It's not news but it's a historical artifact
>>11673332Do it yourself, fag.
>>11662357https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdSoLqOrd8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IySoIFGDXsI
Japanese review of Thief: The Dark Project from ye olden days of 1999https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/990219/game2.htm
>>11675174Nice.
>>11669089LEL...
