History of Nintendo - iPod - Zelda - Video games/Atari (videos)

[emz]

History of Nintendo (Part 1) - video 10:00 (http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/56273/)

History of Nintendo (Part 2) - video 10:00 (http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/56274/)

History of Nintendo (Part 3) - video 01:00 (http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/56275/)

Again, as a video gamer, I really enjoyed watching the successful growth of the Nintendo Entertainment System, particularly in North America. From the fall of Atari to a dead video game industry to Nintendo Game and Watch (which I own 2 :D ) to Famicom (which I own as well :D ) which eventually led to Nintendo! And more...

I would recommend that you watch the History of Video games first (below) then proceed to watch the 3 part series of the History of NES. Enjoy!

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History of Video Games - video 46:33 (http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/55853/)

If you are a gamer, you're going to enjoy this video. At first, I didn't want to watch the whole thing because I thought it was going to be too long...but I was hooked from the beginning and finished it til the end.

Great insight on the history of the evolution of video games: from Atari to Nintendo. I didn't know 99% of the information in the video so it was a great eyeopener to me. To most hardcore gamers, they probably know most of this stuff already.

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History of Zelda - video 12:35 (http://www.spymac.com/details/?1799037)

As a Legend of Zelda fan, I enjoyed watching the story's theoretical timeline. I can't wait to finish Zelda: Twilight Princess and see where it fits in the overall storyline.

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History of the iPod - video 43:30 (http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/56001/)

If you own an iPod, it is very interesting to watch how this mp3 player has become as popular as it has. I had no idea how brilliant Steve Jobs was. I actually own an iBook, never an iPod (I actually have an iRiver), and I've always wondered how Apple became as hot as they are today. When I say "hot", I mean teenagers and adults buying or wanting to buy an Apple brand, just to say they own one or because it looks cool.

Again, if you have some time, it's definitely a great video to sit down and watch, if you haven't seen it yet. Kill sometime before school starts again.

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[manixc]

too young to know Pong but remember Testis

[TechRock]

watched it at a friend's house last last week...pretty good but i stop after they finish talking about WoW

[bembol]

No time to view the link/video. Is this the History like shown in PBS-HD...I've seen it several times, pretty amazing!

[sxz]

Oh man I just watched the whole thing and just seeing how much has changed in games over the past two decades is amazing. Hats off to those men who first pioneered this industry.

[sxz]

watched it at a friend's house last last week...pretty good but i stop after they finish talking about WoW

There's no mention of WoW anywhere. It only goes as far as Nintendo and their original Game Boy system + Tetris.

[emz]

Can you believe those twins and those other 2 boys??? Freakin making video games from SCRATCH at 11 and 13 years old!!! Holy! What the heck was I doing at that time? :lol:

Good old Commodore 64 :razz: It's not like computer programming was big those days...so those kids never had classes to create software...but man were they smart!

ps. My favourite part was watching the development of Donkey Kong, "Jumper Man" aka Mario, and Link!

[sexyjen]

nice video

[felix]

That's awesome. Sat through the whole thing. I've never owned an Atari or Pong and the first time I heard of it was when I did a project on video games back in elementary school in grade 7 or so (St. Matthew Catholic School in Markham). Back then I was the only video game/ninja turtle geek in my class.

My first console was the original NES and it looks like my fave #1 Nintendo is back on top again! :cheesygri

[Vertigo]

Thanks for giving me some pleasant nostalgia. ^^

[gflux]

Those games by the twins look really good - not only the gameplay but the graphics too. I love these background stories - they're always more interesting than the products that the industry pumps out.

[emz]

Thanks for giving me some pleasant nostalgia. ^^

me too! :D especially when they played Link's original music for NES.

[cmge]

http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/56001/

If you own an iPod, it is very interesting to watch how this mp3 player has become as popular as it has. I had no idea how brilliant Steve Jobs was. I actually own an iBook, never an iPod (I actually have an iRiver), and I've always wondered how Apple became as hot as they are today. When I say "hot", I mean teenagers and adults buying or wanting to buy an Apple brand, just to say they own one or because it looks cool.

Again, if you have some time, it's definitely a great video to sit down and watch, if you haven't seen it yet. Kill sometime before school starts again.

hmmm i have one beef with that vid.. they said the 3rd gen was the first PC compatible ipod?.... errr 2nd gen ipods were PC compatible...

[Emancipated]

Haven't watched it but Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had a pretty big footprint int he beginnings of the game industry, I'm willing to bet.

May be he's a conceited blow hard but from the interview I heard with him, he made it sound as if he was the one who invented video games. Apple and their egos. Damn.

[emz]

hmmm i have one beef with that vid.. they said the 3rd gen was the first PC compatible ipod?.... errr 2nd gen ipods were PC compatible...

I couldn't imagine the Discovery Channel being wrong about that sort of thing... I tried to do a quick google search on which generation was PC compatible but I couldn't find anything definitive, not even on Wikipedia.

[emz]

bump for a new "History of" video! The Nintendo Entertainment System!

[pookiefan]

That last video of the NES was pretty cool to watch. I had no idea Gamegenie was sued and that the foundation of the NES is one of the main reasons why we have the Wii, the Xbox 360 and the Sony PS3 today!

Negative reviews from the focus group? What's wrong with those kids? :confused: :lol:

[McLaren]

So thats what that Nintendo stamp of approval seal was on those game boxes!

[jayehs]

hmmm i have one beef with that vid.. they said the 3rd gen was the first PC compatible ipod?.... errr 2nd gen ipods were PC compatible...

3rd gen ipod was the first ipod to be officially pc compatible (ie. supported by Apple). 2nd gen ipod worked on pc but only by using 3rd party apps & other "hacks"

[cmge]

2nd gen ipod worked on pc but only by using 3rd party apps & other "hacks"
mine didnt need 3rd party or other hacks to make it run... it just worked out of the box fine with PC

[Bachelor]

Wow, I didn't know that the Nintendo DS system is NOT an original concept; it started out decades ago as the "Game and Watch". You can see it in the History of Video Games file at around the 28:16 mark and you see it more clearly in the first (?) History of Nintendo file. I cant believe Nintendo had a dual-screen portable video game system way back in the 80's and have basically re-introduced it in the 21st century (with a touch screen) as the DS!

http://www.axess.com/twilight/console/detail/gw.jpg
Info here: http://www.axess.com/twilight/console/detail/gw.html

[_pOtEnZa_]

wow, nice find, never listened to that one before, cant believe they had a 100 yen shortage after the release of space invader lol, i didint know that the famicon meant family computer, and geez, i never had nintendo cereal, was it us only ??

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Nintendocereal.JPG

[CodecX81]

That Zelda video was truly the coolest retrospective I have ever seen. Now I GOTTA get a Wii, to complete the series in the proposed timeline.

[JLee]

icons is a great show

[emz]

wow, nice find, never listened to that one before, cant believe they had a 100 yen shortage after the release of space invader lol, i didint know that the famicon meant family computer, and geez, i never had nintendo cereal, was it us only ??

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Nintendocereal.JPG

Perhaps it was only in the States. But i do know that if Nintendo ever came out with another box of cereal...I would probably go buy it and try it, just because :lol:

[jhardy]

Too bad there's little chance of Tengen Tetris on the virtual console. The Nintendo version paled in comparison to the arcade.

[pm_john]

Very neat stuff, thx :razz:

[Ojam]

mine didnt need 3rd party or other hacks to make it run... it just worked out of the box fine with PC

Are you sure you had a 2nd and not 3rd, lots of people confuse the two because the 2nd looked just like the 1st and mistake the 3rd to be 2nd gen.

2nd gen.
http://www.cellink.com.au/products/images/ipod%201g.jpg

3rd gen.
http://www.edgereview.com/ImagesAAG/audio-new_ipod.jpg

[kevthewiz]

too young to know Pong but remember Testis

"Testis" lol