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

@ikec2894

Жыл бұрын

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

@leftyfourguns

10 ай бұрын

It was probably Howard Philips, the Game Master himself!

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 жыл бұрын

Yes! Nothing like it. Especially from this era.

@MiketheratguyMultimedia

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

@brightcolorsarecool279

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ryandevan2793

3 жыл бұрын

@@brightcolorsarecool279 exactly!

@juandiegotorres9632

2 жыл бұрын

@@brightcolorsarecool279 it was more of a joke but ok

@creativecatproductions

Жыл бұрын

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

@Ballowax

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@Irreve-rsible

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@Irreve-rsible What's the link?

@Irreve-rsible

Жыл бұрын

@@joshwilliams7692 Here's a link to a GameXplain video, showing off all the content they released for it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aH1o0cWoo7Wre7w.html

@joshwilliams7692

Жыл бұрын

@@Irreve-rsible Thanks!

@Irreve-rsible

Жыл бұрын

@@joshwilliams7692 You're welcome

Thanks for preserving this, man!

@modernkiwi6447

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

@TheBLBShow

3 жыл бұрын

Same but his explaination was kinda weird

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.

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

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.

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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZHmJu7WHZcSsk6g.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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@gamewizardks thanks for the extra info

@ryandevan2793

3 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@gamewizardks email goes back to the 70s

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

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

@deezy81

3 жыл бұрын

Would love to see some game counselors be interviewed..

@afriend9428

2 жыл бұрын

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

@GizmoFantasyCrew

Жыл бұрын

@@afriend9428 Damn that took a turn

@kawaiipotatoes7888

Жыл бұрын

Kids are polite back then now we have fortnite squekers.

@GizmoFantasyCrew

Жыл бұрын

@@kawaiipotatoes7888 Oh no don't even mention them

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

@jaspermcminnis5538

3 жыл бұрын

And people still think this.

@jaspermcminnis5538

3 жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

She's pitiful!

@VisiblyJacked

Жыл бұрын

2nd wave feminist type

@ma.2089

Жыл бұрын

@@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

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

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

@slottygw2wvw842

4 жыл бұрын

some antifa millennials?

@TheAntManChannel

3 жыл бұрын

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

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!

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 жыл бұрын

lmaooo the minus world

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 жыл бұрын

also Pac-Man 8-9 years earlier

@derekmetcalf7657U.S.A

3 жыл бұрын

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

@derekmetcalf7657U.S.A

3 жыл бұрын

Truth 👨‍🚒

@derekmetcalf7657U.S.A

3 жыл бұрын

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

@derekmetcalf7657U.S.A

3 жыл бұрын

That's y games died"the corporate latter"

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

@samuelshin593

10 ай бұрын

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

@samuelshin593

10 ай бұрын

What? You think we were stupid?

@samuelshin593

10 ай бұрын

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

10 ай бұрын

We legit invented everything you use today idiot!

@phillipicus7446

6 ай бұрын

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

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

@jross9919

Жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

i mean the princesses appear for like 30 seconds!

8:29 Dragon *TREE*

@troywright359

Жыл бұрын

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

"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

16 күн бұрын

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.

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.

Fascinating stuff! Stuff like this makes the experience of playing these classics somehow more immersive

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

I love this stuff its fascinating

Thanks for this upload

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

@locksmith9580

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Thanks for updating this! 😎

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.

Great upload! Thank you👍

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

This is gold .

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

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).

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@southsidesaiyan8641

2 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@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

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

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

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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@PaloJaurez

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

HOWARD PHILLIPS! He's a real person!! I remember Howard & Nester comics in Nintendo Power magazine!

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

2 жыл бұрын

"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?!"

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

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

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 😋

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

Nice video!

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

@jackson5116

Жыл бұрын

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

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! :)

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

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!

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

@gamingguy9006

Жыл бұрын

XD

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.

Good old times

8:26 dragon 3? Lol

@Ayumuobsessed

Жыл бұрын

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

@alexbleks

Жыл бұрын

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

4:23 90 hours to successfully beat Zelda 1?? .....eh without a guide perhaps in the 80s lol

My first NES game was Final Fantasy

GOOD VIDEO

Good afternoon! Please tell me if it is possible to use fragments from this video for public purposes - for editing a documentary being created about the history of computer games?

@savesgaming

7 ай бұрын

You're certainly welcome to, but I'm not the owner of the video, the original source of the video is in the description: americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-h41jh3dq9s#at_2903.324065_s

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

@Gillian_Seed

Жыл бұрын

Thats how u play contra if you wanna beat the game

Minus world? That's really quite interesting

My grandmother called it "nee-yendo" but I called it a good childhood...

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

6:33 LOL, I couldn't care less about the idea of a "maiden in distress" when I was a kid playing Zelda. It was all about the adventure and exploration for me.

Dragon tree is my favorite game

The psychologist was annoying as hell.

@danielpaul9523

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@TheMahayanist

Жыл бұрын

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

1:04 before anyone knew what iron Mike sounded like

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

ZELDA!!!! Awesome video!

My sister was born in 1988

Dragon Threee

As a girl who remembers when Zelda and Metroid, I loved Zelda for the secrets. Metroid I loved because she was a kick ass girl. Rare in those days.

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

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

@heinoustentacles5719

Жыл бұрын

Lol

I do miss the 80s

The feminist 🤣🤣🤦‍♂️

I don't know but I'm watching this in at 240p like it should be... lol

4:59 honestly that’s nothing compared to the grind today and sea of thieves if you’re trying to get a blessing or a curse now a days I’d rather take the 90 hours instead of weeks months, or even years to grind

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.

These games will never catch on.

That doctor never heard of Metroid

“High Tech” hell yes! 😎

6:37 A flock of seagulls 😂😂😂

Hrm I don't remember these counselors.

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."

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

3:48 wait what

I'd truly seen Nintendo commercials & playing used to in 1980's as a autistic kid.

I’m most surprised they used to make Nintendo products in the US! Probably also in Japan not in China

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

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

I love the Psychologist! AHHAHA

Only on Saga Futaba Futaba 0:37

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

@AlexRN

4 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

No maps

@SatoshiMatrix1

4 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@AlexRN and tge limited attack range

it took one company its name was Nintendo and their mascots name is super Mario

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

I wish they made a Dragon III II but instead they made that Dragon IV series instead....

@revaryk6868

4 жыл бұрын

Man, I sure wonder where Dragon V went!

@Ben-do1bf

4 жыл бұрын

@@revaryk6868 They don't want us to talk about Dragon V

@troywright359

Жыл бұрын

Dragon Tree was the best game

noone ever says that video games are better entertainment than anything else

@TheMahayanist

Жыл бұрын

Except industry revenue.

@bloomblock2768

Жыл бұрын

Except the fact that it is bigger than music and cinema COMBINED.

@nil0bject

Жыл бұрын

@@bloomblock2768 yeah, and how does that make it better? also, what fact? bigger? you don't explain yourself very well

@bloomblock2768

Жыл бұрын

@@nil0bject It makes that people prefer games several dozens of times over Hollywood and Spotify joined forces is that simple, bigger investments, bigger market share, bigger products, bigger brands, bigger profits, BIGGER, thats It, whats so hard to understand?

@nil0bject

Жыл бұрын

@@bloomblock2768 well, the confusing thing is that you replied this to my comment. do you not understand what i am saying?i was commenting on generalisation.... did you miss that?