Video Game Time Capsule: The Complete History of Gaming

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Bro half of these history insights make no sense lol “portal was groundbreaking for being a little game packaged along with two other bigger games”, “viacom realized they couldnt just buy their way to success, unlike activision who acquired existing IPs”, “kojima made sony make ps3 backwards compatible”, like what. And most of it sounds like a ramble that sounds like this: “how do we find meaning in controllers and accessories, how do we create connections with resources at our disposal, and how do we identify consumer interest and bargaining power?”

Where is half life 3

Great informative video. My only critique is the insane amount of time spent glazing Halo and Bungie. There are more infuencial games than just Halo out there. 4 minutes spent on WoW which is still going strong and vastly more influencial...

It took me a full week to go through this whole video, but hey! It was 100% worth it. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, my friend :)

Hot take but I actually prefer Final fantasy 2 -(Three in Japan.)-Over Final fantasy 3-(Six.) mainly due to the ascetics and music.

Speaking of No Man’s Sky, that game has to be one of the most inspiring comeback stories in gaming history.

The devs looked at how disappointed the player base was and used those launch funds to ACTUALLY FIX THERE GAME!
They’re still making updates to this day and each one is better than the previous.

The devs did good.

so what are the Top 5 Years in Gaming History

W

It's crazy that even with a 12 hour video, I could think of at least double the amount of games included in this video that were also influential in their own way. The gaming lore is crazy deep.

Starting video.

Going to sleep.

Great video. Sadly, the Mist footage at @2:21:10 was the remake, not the original. Sony was also not in the console race in 1992.

Finally some good short form content

3:09:13 WAIT, HIS NAME WASN'T QUAKEGUY???

If only it was 35 hours cough cough The Walking dead telltale series Gameplay cough cough

Ghouls and ghosts et al is the original souls like

This is a great video to fall asleep to. You need to cover the screen with something though as there are a lot of flashing lights that can wake you up.

>talks about Myst
>shows another game

what.

Either you're REALLY good at writing, or a lot of this script is AI. There are some words I have never heard before.

Hold on, are you Professor Messer?? You sound JUST like him.

If only I did sell a vast majority of my collection years ago, I would have my DS, 3DS, Wii and GameCube along with my Pokemon games. It's okay, we rebuild. They will always be there.

Why is it starting in 1980? The commercial start was in 1971. Sooo many arcade- and console games came out in the 70ies. Starting with Computer Space (1971), then the revolutionary Pong (1972) for Arcades and later for home. The Magnavox Odyssey, the Fairchild, Atari VCS, the PET and the Intellivison.

And games like Gunfight, Sea Wolf, Tank, Sprint, Night Driver, Breakout, Combat, Space Invaders, Galaxians, Lunar Lander or Asteroids. These were the beginnings. Classics!

9:20:51 Wtf is up with that DS4 off to the side?

3 SEC IN AND I PAUSED THE AI VIDEO............12 HOURS OF THIS AI LOL NO THANKS AND I AM BLOCKING FURTHER FEED FROM YOUR CHANNEL. NO ONE LIKES AI CHANNELS.

7:05 I’ve never heard anyone other than myself call the Pac-Man ghosts by their “names” rather than their “nicknames,” as specified by the arcade cabinet version. Their names are Shadow, Speedy, Bashful, and Pokey; which reflect their differences in AI, so I’ve always found them more helpful than the nicknames.

I think Street Fighter 2 was one of the most important games to ever be created.

amazing , thank you !

thx I needed a vid liek this

Take a shot every time he says estimate hahaa

12 hours, you gotta be kidding in the golden age of ADHD boyo

claim to be complete video game history, starts in 1980

The story about the Spectrum and its games are wildly exaggerated and not aligned with the truth or what actually happened. The Spectrum was the most popular machine in the UK (for a couple years) but for the rest of the world. Where Atari, Commodore, Apple, TRS80/DRAGON, MSX were much bigger.

weird choice to call ffvii the proper name but not ffx, why not say Final Fantasy 10? You didn't say Final Fantasy "V" "I" "I" but you say Final Fantasy "X" ew brother

This video is a masterpiece

How does this not have a million views?
Thank you for the trip through the past 32 years of my life.
Made me realize how much gaming has been a part of my life.

If you didn’t grow up on Half-Life, I am so sorry for you! What an amazing experience that was.

This video pushes the envelope on what a retrospective video game YouTube video could be

Zelda isn't overlooked because Miyamoto didn't consider it an ARPG, it's not considered because its predecessors like Dragon Slayer and Xanadu (and later successors to those like Ys 1&2) that it was in part based on were far more influential to the ARPG genre in Japan than Zelda was. Zelda's popularity and influence were almost exclusively in the western hemisphere until Zelda 2 and A Link to the Past.