E.T. "The Worst Game Ever" (Zero Punctuation)

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  • @zumzum74
    @zumzum74 9 лет назад +840

    I think my favorite thing about this is the fact that everyone thought the whole "Atari buried 3.5 million copies in a landfall" thing was a myth until they found it

    • @alexanderfreeman3406
      @alexanderfreeman3406 2 года назад +67

      It’s half myth. It wasn’t just ET, and they didn’t bury the cartridges but ET sold poorly or because they had too many returns. When Atari started to go under they made some desperate cost cuts, including selling one of their warehouses. Without anywhere to store all the stuff the warehouse was holding, they were forced to just throw it away.

    • @DavidEllis94
      @DavidEllis94 2 года назад +12

      @@alexanderfreeman3406 Yeah, and they threw it away by burying it.

    • @alexanderfreeman3406
      @alexanderfreeman3406 2 года назад +20

      @@DavidEllis94 Atari didn’t bury it. Whatever waste management company that worked for the city did. Almost everything anyone throws away ends up in a landfill.

    • @zumzum74
      @zumzum74 Год назад +29

      @@legitbeans9078 you pointed out a typo in a 7 year old comment. Congrats, you lose!

    • @KingRidley
      @KingRidley Год назад +6

      @@alexanderfreeman3406 okay the point is, the games were buried and everyone thought that it was a myth. And it wasn't.

  • @AgentCamtho1
    @AgentCamtho1 8 лет назад +163

    To think there was a point where the existence of Activision was GOOD for the games industry
    How times change, as Call of Duty: Star Wars Prequel is on it's way

  • @rocknrollstar2798
    @rocknrollstar2798 9 лет назад +1654

    Let's all laugh at an industry that never learned anything teeheehee! hahaha

    • @bobbybob5182
      @bobbybob5182 9 лет назад +4

      Spencer Hill LOLZ!

    • @theshrekening2157
      @theshrekening2157 9 лет назад +18

      Make that into a ten hours.

    • @adampoole948
      @adampoole948 9 лет назад +11

      +Spencer Hill i want it as my ring tone

    • @AllenShircliff
      @AllenShircliff 8 лет назад

      Monster High Games are Cheaper than ATARI ET and Everyone wants to burn them. because the Games Are Terrible

    • @CatraGirl
      @CatraGirl 8 лет назад +2

      +Spencer Hill that jingle is so awesome! xD

  • @TheGeoshark
    @TheGeoshark 10 лет назад +56

    That was probably the funniest end joke since Might and Magic X.

    • @Dreamerx47
      @Dreamerx47 10 лет назад +7

      try the 50 cent game, or maybe gta 5, actually i think child of light had the best one.

    • @zyad48
      @zyad48 9 лет назад

      i gotta see those videos, but as of now, that end joke was by far the funniest I've ever seen him do since I saw the half life review with the "pouch mounted gun tits" part XDDD

  • @TheRelevantusername
    @TheRelevantusername 10 лет назад +15

    "fooled you, it's shiiit!"
    oh god, it's so true. i'm crying over here, from a combination of laughter and revelation.

  • @Larry
    @Larry 10 лет назад +46

    For a British person, you'd think Yahtzee would know that the video game crash (of America) did absolutely fuck all to the UK as we had moved on to program Spectrums by then which created famous people like Peter Molyneux, David Perry and Julian Gallop. So saying it crashed the entire Western hemisphere is a "slight" overstatement.
    Also, E.T. was only partially responsible for the crash, it was more down to the unsold copies of Pac-Man that caused it. E.T. sold 4 million units (it produced 7 million), which was a phenomenal number back then. So far from a failure.
    But people like to whitewash the truth to make a more compelling story.

    • @Larry
      @Larry 9 лет назад +10

      Wheatley from aperture science
      I didn't. I typed it.

    • @terencesmith7231
      @terencesmith7231 9 лет назад +4

      ***** Well aren't you just the smartest person in the room!
      Seriously though, i find you everywhere now. Even that old FF7 parody animation that i hated

    • @johnathanmcnutt7167
      @johnathanmcnutt7167 9 лет назад +4

      The real irony is that Yahtzee's favorite game as a kid was Dizzy. Which is a Spectrum game. Meaning he lived out the video game industry not crashing in England and still apparently thought that there was a video game crash.

    • @Larry
      @Larry 9 лет назад +4

      Wrath's Attack
      It's a bit of the Superman mentality, he's only really famous/popular as he was the first.
      If they created pac man today, he wouldn't last five minutes. way too vanilla by todays standards

    • @vdesatch6273
      @vdesatch6273 6 лет назад +9

      I think you may be misusing the word "whitewash."

  • @yujiruffhanma3095
    @yujiruffhanma3095 10 лет назад

    Yahtzee's started to do the same thing that Jim Sterling does. He doesn't take in enough breath at the beginning of a sentence, and when he runs out, he starts to talk like a 1900's motor car running on fumes.

  • @Liltwilightprincess2
    @Liltwilightprincess2 10 лет назад

    Did anyone else bounce with happiness when he sang "Little laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee he he" ?
    No?
    Just me?
    Okay.

  • @kgolomokwena6540
    @kgolomokwena6540 8 лет назад

    When Yatzhee mentions the vuvuzela!!! I'm proud to be a South African

    • @StevesSammiches
      @StevesSammiches 8 лет назад +2

      Urgh, I feel sorry that some South African perks up slightly when a vuvuzela is mentioned. Of all things to be affiliated with

    • @marceljones7940
      @marceljones7940 8 лет назад +2

      you do realize he mentioned it because of its immensely negative connotation? aka wc2010

    • @StevesSammiches
      @StevesSammiches 8 лет назад +2

      Kgolo Mokwena That's surprising coming from a complete tosser :P

  • @AliTDV
    @AliTDV 10 лет назад

    Can I just say about the XBox One: My friend's friend bought one and it blew up the same day. He just hooked it up, put a game in there, and bam! No more XBox One.

  • @Ross97512
    @Ross97512 10 лет назад +29

    i see another crash coming.

    • @BearHoggy
      @BearHoggy 10 лет назад

      how?

    • @Ross97512
      @Ross97512 10 лет назад +8

      BearHoggy have you SEEN the triple A industry at the moment?

    • @BearHoggy
      @BearHoggy 10 лет назад +5

      ***** yeah 2015 is filled to the brim with AAA games and there are lots coming out later this year its doing fine

    • @Ross97512
      @Ross97512 10 лет назад +13

      BearHoggy shiity policies, overblown budgets and all this crap.

    • @BearHoggy
      @BearHoggy 10 лет назад

      ***** gaming is absolutely massive now it may have bumps along the way but to crash completely? no

  • @InactiveOwO420
    @InactiveOwO420 8 лет назад +14

    3:48 Best Waifu is Rei BTW.

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 8 лет назад

      +Faintedsquirtle she's better than Asuka?

    • @InactiveOwO420
      @InactiveOwO420 8 лет назад +1

      Haruhi Suzumiya Yeah Asuka is a bitch!

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 8 лет назад

      Faintedsquirtle uh huh.

    • @UnshotSpy
      @UnshotSpy 8 лет назад

      i have no idea what your talking about coz i wasnt born with cancer and autism while being dropped out of the tree by my parents which were apes.

    • @BrandonTrex
      @BrandonTrex 8 лет назад +2

      +Unshot Gaming Well that just came out of nowhere

  • @Retrogamepak
    @Retrogamepak 10 лет назад +3

    Dang anne-may kids and their wafflefoos.

  • @Nots0go0dgam3r
    @Nots0go0dgam3r 7 лет назад +3

    Xbox one does suck , yes, but let's not pretend the ps4 is much better.

    • @d3_sempai
      @d3_sempai 7 лет назад +1

      Nots0go0dgam3r this gen is one of the worst and it's going even further downhill. All you hear now is 4k this 4k that 4k in a river 4k you

  • @cinammonstyx7622
    @cinammonstyx7622 10 лет назад

    I'm not really sure where else to talk about this, but can I bring up the XB1 commercial that keeps popping up everywhere? There's a lot of things dumb about it, but what strikes me is that I know next to nothing about the games they show, other than anything I already knew. There's nothing to hook me, no excitement, it's not even about games, you could put that over a commercial for Foot Locker and nobody could tell the difference. That is all.

  • @FlippySuper
    @FlippySuper 10 лет назад

    I like this kind of retrospective video.Do more of these Yahtzee! This was pretty good!

  • @Press_START360
    @Press_START360 5 лет назад

    Zero Punctation: The show that gets me to openly laugh for the entire episode

  • @Jedimasta21
    @Jedimasta21 10 лет назад

    The fact that he used Rei and Asuka when referring to waifu makes me happy.

    • @blackadder5517
      @blackadder5517 3 года назад

      "You've been doing this for 20 years.
      20 years..."

  • @muskatDR
    @muskatDR 7 лет назад +1963

    E.T is the cause of activision?
    I never imagine it was THAT bad

    • @thegardenofeatin5965
      @thegardenofeatin5965 5 лет назад +267

      @Evi1M4chine Both Activision and Electronic Arts put out some damn good games back in the day. Then some "daddy's little accidents" graduated with their MBAs and said to themselves "I'm gonna go into the video game industry. I bet there's profits to be abused out of those."

    • @violentpursuit
      @violentpursuit 5 лет назад +112

      @@thegardenofeatin5965 I believe the names you're looking for are Bobby Kotick and Andrew Wilson

    • @Gojiragon
      @Gojiragon 5 лет назад +4

      HEYOOO!

    • @MasouShizuka
      @MasouShizuka 5 лет назад +38

      @@thegardenofeatin5965 Yes, EA published some nice games back then. My personal favourites like CnC Generals and Tiberian Wars 3. Then they got raped and somehow turned to the dark side.

    • @hardwirecars
      @hardwirecars 4 года назад +5

      @@MasouShizuka fairly sure the guys that made cnc no longer worked for ea when that happened and yes tiberium wars was fucking amazing the first time a rts used super weapons it was glorious.

  • @bizmonkey007
    @bizmonkey007 9 лет назад +1904

    Atari was arrogant. They made a $20-30 million dollar bet on E.T. and left the completion of the game to one man who only had 5 freaking weeks to make it.
    That's nuts.

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 8 лет назад +12

      +bizmonkey007 didn't THQ do something similar? U draw?

    • @natnew32
      @natnew32 8 лет назад +82

      "Hey, can you get this game finished in five weeks?" "Ok."

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 8 лет назад +6

      natnew32 sounds like what happened last gen.

    • @patcollins4023
      @patcollins4023 8 лет назад +67

      There was Parasol Stars, which got cancelled because the programmer's wife had too many pub drinks and smashed 2 months worth of his work in a drunken rage.

    • @andysee6996
      @andysee6996 5 лет назад +59

      Said man had also made Yar's Revenge and Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600. Both games were big successes and he even said he was "overflowing with hubris" and thought five or six weeks was plenty of time to make a game. I would heavily suggest looking up the Howard Scott Warshaw episode of Video Game Story Time for more information.

  • @DUANEYAISER
    @DUANEYAISER 7 лет назад +787

    "The public are fickle but not particularly smart." Precise and so funny!

  • @DoomandHazmat
    @DoomandHazmat 10 лет назад +436

    Someone needs to make a ringtone out of the new song "Lets all laugh at the industry that bever learns anything tee hee hee"

    • @cleanycloth
      @cleanycloth 10 лет назад +67

      Well, it's easy...
      Download the audio from the video via Torch, convert to mp3 then drop in Audacity. Cut the audio, save it, drop on your phone, and set it as your ringtone.
      Eeeeeaaaaasyyyy......

    • @keeponrockin999
      @keeponrockin999 10 лет назад +56

      c0d3r3d *star wipe* The more you know!

    • @Butterworthy
      @Butterworthy 10 лет назад +13

      c0d3r3d See, and now I'm going to have to do that when I get home.

    • @wolfpax181
      @wolfpax181 10 лет назад

      c0d3r3d But we're laaaaaazy, we want someone else to do the work for us!

    • @mikey9835
      @mikey9835 10 лет назад +6

      I would play that ringtone at the next Microsoft conference xD

  • @WrathOfMega
    @WrathOfMega 8 лет назад +427

    "celebrating 25 years of kool aid man"
    *HORK*

    • @GeorgRockallSchmidt
      @GeorgRockallSchmidt 8 лет назад +8

      +WrathOfMega oh yeah!

    • @luckystriker842
      @luckystriker842 5 лет назад

      @bradley1245325 Not really. Any lasting traumatic impact on the general population has diminished in the years.

    • @nathancox7509
      @nathancox7509 3 года назад

      I think the current video games industry is seriously overhyped, waste of existence. Most of what they put out is sh*t, or in an Indy title/ Nintendo game, and they have more sense, then greed. Especially since most Indy developers/Nintendo learned the lesson along time ago.

  • @tenjenk
    @tenjenk 8 лет назад +300

    I remember when AVGN talked about this and wanted to be there when they found the landfill. Ages ago.
    A few years ago they did find it but by then he had a child to take care of and couldnt travel there

    • @basbruines890
      @basbruines890 8 лет назад +1

      +tenjek rip

    • @FizzleFX
      @FizzleFX 8 лет назад +13

      +tenjek and then he made a HOWL MOVIE ABOUT IT

    • @bootmanbill2362
      @bootmanbill2362 8 лет назад +2

      +Miguel Sanchez whole

    • @bobbobson110
      @bobbobson110 5 лет назад +3

      Children really ruin everything.

    • @ethanedwards3357
      @ethanedwards3357 4 года назад +3

      @Nick Fanchette Least he delivered on that promise. Unlike ANOTHER INTERNET CELEBRITY (looking at you, Phil Burnell...)

  • @rcmini1000
    @rcmini1000 10 лет назад +420

    You came here for a raging video? Fooled you its fair judgement!

    • @linusdn2777
      @linusdn2777 5 лет назад +11

      All of his rage is fair judgement

  • @FortressWolf97
    @FortressWolf97 Год назад +42

    Let’s be real here, Yahtzee. If the Atari didn’t fail with ET and Nintendo didn’t rule the American gaming culture, all our games would be based on movies. Who knows, maybe Disney would see a profit in the gaming industry and be OUR Nintendo, which is a far more horrifying thought.

  • @scytheman_
    @scytheman_ 9 лет назад +476

    The Custer chasing E.T. was a nice touch indeed

    • @Bakamoichigei
      @Bakamoichigei 8 лет назад +23

      +Sir5EsQ_ Right? :D That definitely got the second biggest laugh from me, the first being the end punchline.

    • @Lyubimov89
      @Lyubimov89 8 лет назад +36

      +Sir5EsQ_ your statement demands clarification.
      It's Custer, fully erect, chasing after E.T. who is utterly flaccid.

    • @richstaubin333
      @richstaubin333 6 лет назад +8

      Mr Scythe I own clusters revenge only because I couldn't beleve it existed. Like buying uranium ore on Amazon

    • @beats0me
      @beats0me 6 лет назад +7

      Rich St Aubin it exists because people weren’t patient enough to wait for the graphics or technology to advance enough to create their weird porn games

    • @thegardenofeatin5965
      @thegardenofeatin5965 5 лет назад +3

      @@beats0me Ooh man. Look up "Edith IBM 1401."

  • @BastetFurry
    @BastetFurry 10 лет назад +194

    "Foooled you, its shiiiit!"
    Just can not stop laughing. xD

  • @sweatygenius
    @sweatygenius 9 лет назад +212

    "Fooled you, it's shit!"

  • @Vixikats
    @Vixikats 9 лет назад +159

    No matter how many times I watch it, the "Fooled you, it's shiiit!" at the very end always makes me cry laughing...

  • @jarodwilfrid8505
    @jarodwilfrid8505 8 лет назад +111

    "FOOLED YOU IT'S SHIT!"
    Probably most big overhyped games now.

    • @Ward1706
      @Ward1706 8 лет назад

      *coughs* Watch_Dogs *coughs*

    • @jarodwilfrid8505
      @jarodwilfrid8505 8 лет назад

      Want a nice game? Too bad, we want your money!

    • @iambicpentakill
      @iambicpentakill Год назад

      I mean, if it's overhyped, by definition...

  • @SawyersFilms
    @SawyersFilms 10 лет назад +529

    The shit part at the end made me laugh longer then i should have.

    • @SawyersFilms
      @SawyersFilms 10 лет назад +15

      Queen Chrysalis Oh i know what the microshit is ;)

    • @NegitoroIsBestShip
      @NegitoroIsBestShip 10 лет назад +14

      SawyersFilms Microshaft

    • @lilbud2188
      @lilbud2188 10 лет назад +9

      The worst part is i have an xbox one and i cracked up

    • @satanicdude
      @satanicdude 10 лет назад +1

      came here to say that

    • @masakox7900
      @masakox7900 10 лет назад

      congrats for be fanboy splerg like the rest of the comment section

  • @theodorehodbor5080
    @theodorehodbor5080 9 лет назад +254

    The amount of Flappy Birds that have taken to the air probably would block out the sun and the earth would become basically one giant cave being powered by bacteria that make energy from eating rocks.

    • @theodorehodbor5080
      @theodorehodbor5080 9 лет назад +13

      ***** Then THAT'S what the bacteria would eat to make energy.

    • @Darkman9000
      @Darkman9000 9 лет назад +8

      Theodore Hodbor So... Birdemic 3?

    • @willferrous8677
      @willferrous8677 9 лет назад +5

      Theodore Hodbor THAN WE WILL HARDCORE-PC-GAME IN THE SHADES

    • @BoboMagroto26
      @BoboMagroto26 9 лет назад +1

      Theodore Hodbor Bird flu 2.0

    • @Hyper_Vyle
      @Hyper_Vyle 9 лет назад

      Khan!!!!

  • @DaSpineLessFish
    @DaSpineLessFish 10 лет назад +1057

    I wonder if Yahtzee likes Evangelion.

    • @sillychinas
      @sillychinas 10 лет назад +183

      Rei>Asuka

    • @aKzDViNePaCcO
      @aKzDViNePaCcO 10 лет назад +10

      I know Right!

    • @NetMoverSitan
      @NetMoverSitan 10 лет назад +37

      He's not too big on JRPGs, so it's unlikely.

    • @DaSpineLessFish
      @DaSpineLessFish 10 лет назад +64

      kevin chen Unit 01> Unit 03

    • @sillychinas
      @sillychinas 10 лет назад +149

      Well, maybe he likes anime, because Evangelion is a show, not a Japanese RPG.

  • @olivermendez4452
    @olivermendez4452 10 лет назад +94

    "So i downloaded an emulated version. Naughty yahtzee!"
    I'm freakin dying here!

  • @IkeNicol
    @IkeNicol 10 лет назад +65

    Did anyone else laugh their tits off when they heard Yahtzee's song
    "Let's all laugh at an in-dus-try that never learns anything, tee hee hee"

    • @gabrote42
      @gabrote42 10 месяцев назад

      This aged like a fine wine

  • @joshwood1345
    @joshwood1345 10 лет назад +58

    "Fooled you, it's SHIT!" I lost it right there

  • @Sephirothsenior
    @Sephirothsenior 10 лет назад +120

    Microsoft didn't fool anyone. Everyone knew the Xbone was going to be shit

    • @KingOfTheBeez
      @KingOfTheBeez 10 лет назад +65

      They fooled me. I thought it didn't actually play video games from all the E3 press conferences.

    • @Soraking007
      @Soraking007 10 лет назад +1

      ***** it still doesnt its just some guy walking on the sdcreen upon start uip saying dont play a game its shit just go watch tv but watch it through MEEEEEE!!! because you paid for a tv box that doesnt do anything it should. i amk of clurse kidding if ms get rid of the tv shit in the console and stick to what the ps4 did they could still be the second best console in the world because they worked out nobody wanted their shit from the start.

    • @TheMilos1984
      @TheMilos1984 10 лет назад

      *****
      Oh, God....

    • @cathoderayguns
      @cathoderayguns 10 лет назад +5

      I knew when I saw the "TV TV TV TV TV TV TV Sports Sports TV" conference that it was shit, but I had high hopes before that because the 360 was so good.

    • @wildroses2009
      @wildroses2009 10 лет назад +6

      Oh, I have to completely disagree with you there. I'm sure Microsoft managed to fool themselves.

  • @BFedie518
    @BFedie518 9 лет назад +74

    "Fooled you it's shiiiiit"
    Probably still my favorite ZP line ever XD

  • @Seedr0
    @Seedr0 10 лет назад +32

    "Japanese company hadn't grabbed the american console market and practically raised a generation"
    Music reviews, meet game reviews.

  • @kirbynat493
    @kirbynat493 10 лет назад +71

    "Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee hee hee!"
    I love that, and yes we should. Maybe then at some point they'll get clues.

    • @icurnvs776
      @icurnvs776 10 лет назад +1

      That song is now my ringtone! It is both delightfully whimsical and true in its message and meaning. :)

  • @MaskofPoesy
    @MaskofPoesy 10 лет назад +230

    So I have to thank Nintendo for anime to hit mainstream...
    fuck.

    • @ezdepaz4363
      @ezdepaz4363 10 лет назад +27

      Your pic is my choice of wifu.

    • @rennaaa6667
      @rennaaa6667 10 лет назад +8

      Ez dePaz waifu*

    • @AIWARAS619
      @AIWARAS619 10 лет назад +11

      Ez dePaz
      I approve of your choice.

    • @USAFace666
      @USAFace666 10 лет назад +7

      Hal Steel ya it is, anime has fucking boomed in America. There even a program on TV built around it. Toonami

    • @LeopardTheGreat
      @LeopardTheGreat 10 лет назад +8

      skylar simes
      A late night Cartoon Network program that also existed when anime was not popular somehow means anime has boomed in America? It's starting to get more popular, I suppose, but let's not jump the gun here.

  • @Wizuu0274
    @Wizuu0274 5 лет назад +134

    "You tell me, did modern game companies ever overspend on overhyped games that dissapoint the buying public?"
    Yea, I can confidently say that aged well with things like Anthem.

    • @hannessteffenhagen61
      @hannessteffenhagen61 4 года назад +16

      The fact they never stopped doing that was the joke.

    • @werwerqweqwe
      @werwerqweqwe 4 года назад +1

      Wow. Your comment didn't age well past the first sentence. I was hoping you were kidding at first.

    • @Manglet762
      @Manglet762 4 года назад +4

      Know this: Companies releasing disappointing products happens only as much as the Consumers allow it. There have been many many many Anthems before Anthem was even thought of, yet people are still buying them, and currently a game not having MicroTransaction is worthy of praise.

    • @WilliamifyXyz
      @WilliamifyXyz 3 года назад

      AVENGERS MOMENT

  • @carrotzone6298
    @carrotzone6298 10 лет назад +53

    Yahtzee is best waifu.

  • @gabrote42
    @gabrote42 10 месяцев назад +7

    0:37 This aged like a fine wine. And Gamurs can't hold it's liquor!

  • @Buttonmasher50
    @Buttonmasher50 10 месяцев назад +17

    Good Job, Escapist. You fired one of your best, and lost most of the rest. As Yahtzee put it,
    ""Let's all laugh at an in-dus-try that never learns anything, tee hee hee""

  • @SpankSandwitch99
    @SpankSandwitch99 9 лет назад +82

    I can respect and appreciate that every game console is different and does different stuff moderately well, but Yahtzee's 'Fooled you! It's shiiit!' Gets me every time.

  • @SirLankselotYT
    @SirLankselotYT 8 лет назад +145

    Viewing this from a casual gamer standpoint, it's just your average shitty game. Nothing really warrants it as "the worst game ever" in the actual game aspect of it. From an economic and development standpoint, yes, this is the worst game ever.

    • @vengefulenigma
      @vengefulenigma 8 лет назад +29

      +SaburoCherry I got a book for christmas titled Terrible old games you've probably never heard of by Ashens (yes, the youtube ashens). He has a couple of interviews in there, with old timey developers and it seems that all the games, no matter the cost of the final result, were made the same. Also with just about the same amount of development time as E.T had, just that E.T was expected to be big and failed, while most other games were unheard of and that didn't really affect the market that much if they failed.

    • @Crusader1089
      @Crusader1089 8 лет назад +20

      +vengefulenigma The advantage of most of the terrible old games that you've probably never heard of is that they were 99p on a cassette tape rather than $60 cartridges. A British child could buy a steady supply of computer games with their pocket money and thus support the indie and insane market even if 99% of games were utter rubbish.
      In the USA on Atari meanwhile the cheap, derivative, terrible masses were over ten times the price and obliterated buyer confidence. It's the same reason the glut of mediocre indie games hasn't crippled steam, they're too cheap for us to care.

    • @Antasma1
      @Antasma1 8 лет назад

      I've seen worse games and Iv'e seen more cryptic games.

    • @kiimerle5513
      @kiimerle5513 8 лет назад +1

      CASUALLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!! :0

    • @Entropy3ko
      @Entropy3ko 7 лет назад

      Well consider it had to be done by one guy in 1 month and programming games those times was notoriously difficult, they did not have all the tools developers have now.

  • @WritInWater
    @WritInWater 7 лет назад +75

    You know another company which was formed with the noble intention of providing due credit to developers, treating them as 'rock stars' and even going so far as to release their early titles in vinyl record-style packaging? Electronic Arts.

    • @mistahsusan2650
      @mistahsusan2650 7 лет назад +7

      Irony?

    • @THB192
      @THB192 7 лет назад +2

      Writ In Water wrong video, mate. You're looking for the Daikatana review.

    • @WritInWater
      @WritInWater 7 лет назад +16

      I was referring to how Activision was started by former Atari developers so they could get credit for the games they created, similar to EA.

    • @THB192
      @THB192 7 лет назад +2

      Evi1M4chine Given early EA's work, and that a lot of the more rapey stuff happened after Trip left, I wouldn't say that's entirely true, although there is likely a grain of truth in it

    • @joshmartin2744
      @joshmartin2744 6 лет назад +6

      Don't forget Interplay: "By Gamers. For Gamers." They eventually got snatched up by EA because their philosophies were so in tune.

  • @wombleking
    @wombleking 10 месяцев назад +8

    Yahtzee has yet again been proved correct. The Games Industry still haven't learned a single thing.

  • @MrFright2010
    @MrFright2010 10 лет назад +59

    We can't have "Fooled you, it's SHII-IT!" as a T-Shirt, can we?

    • @Fortstorm
      @Fortstorm 10 лет назад +22

      I'd buy that.

    • @patrickbick2064
      @patrickbick2064 10 лет назад +7

      Shut up and take my money

    • @kingnothing3523
      @kingnothing3523 10 лет назад +1

      Let's all laugh, at an industry, that never learns anything, tee-hee-hee!

    • @OtakuNoShitpost
      @OtakuNoShitpost 10 лет назад +1

      ***** And when it gets to your house, there's a note saying "fooled you, it's shit!"

    • @AppleBiscuits
      @AppleBiscuits 9 лет назад

      I'd buy that about 7 times.

  • @TheMindIlluminated
    @TheMindIlluminated 8 лет назад +126

    I had to listen to that jingle some 3 or 4 times before moving on. That was hilarious.

    • @PickyMcCritical
      @PickyMcCritical 7 лет назад +4

      +Gaspar Caricaspah
      "Moving on" is a euphemism for "dying".

  • @GradyLorenzo
    @GradyLorenzo 10 месяцев назад +8

    the jingle has aged like fine wine

  • @SonicSuper
    @SonicSuper 9 лет назад +369

    FOOLED YOU ITS S##T XD

    • @cashman201
      @cashman201 8 лет назад +4

      +Gondile it was at that moment, I fucking died.

    • @cashman201
      @cashman201 8 лет назад +1

      +----)Hipster Walrus Gaming(---- thanks captain fucking obvious

    • @thethiefking
      @thethiefking 7 лет назад

      Well it is Xbox. :P

    • @damonwalsh100
      @damonwalsh100 6 лет назад

      Ben Ward his mum is dead 😂

  • @jubbie1122
    @jubbie1122 9 лет назад +214

    i bet valve is just waiting for a games crash and will release half life 3 when it happens

    • @larrythesoapdropper8023
      @larrythesoapdropper8023 8 лет назад +7

      Holi sheit

    • @miamiwendigo
      @miamiwendigo 6 лет назад +1

      No thell wait till the atri 5200 or the ps8 thenwait till the year of 2028 to start a 9 year development then its gonna be within 3247 the relses hapf life for ever and yatches grat great great great great great grand son call it shit and compsre to duke nukem for ever remastered

    • @miamiwendigo
      @miamiwendigo 6 лет назад

      😂shit i cant spell

    • @nathanclark2424
      @nathanclark2424 6 лет назад

      jubbie1122 or maybe they're purposefully trying to cause a crash

    • @triggerhappynumskull
      @triggerhappynumskull 6 лет назад

      casual sun the Atari 5200 and 7800 already exist.
      The new Atari console on the horizon is called the “VCS” and its panning out to be a shit show

  • @airthefallen
    @airthefallen 8 лет назад +51

    *browses through Escapist videos*
    *reads the title*
    Oh, this is going to be good. *click*

    • @E1craZ4life
      @E1craZ4life 6 лет назад +3

      FOOLED YOU! It's the story behind the game, not the game itself!

    • @AssociationAdmirer
      @AssociationAdmirer 5 лет назад

      I really thought that last line in AirTheFallen's post was going to followed by "Escapist: 'Fooled you! It's shit!'".
      ...So I guess AirTheFallen fooled me. :)

  • @UnDedDood
    @UnDedDood Год назад +7

    That Video is closing in on a decade old and Yahtzee is still right on the fucking money about the long dry periods.

  • @BeasleySays
    @BeasleySays 10 лет назад +369

    Seriously though, this has to be the worst gaming drought in recent memory

    • @Ak3am
      @Ak3am 10 лет назад +106

      its so bad im replaying skyrim

    • @Butterworthy
      @Butterworthy 10 лет назад +8

      You must have a pretty short term memory.

    • @TheBadAssNcrRanger
      @TheBadAssNcrRanger 10 лет назад +13

      allen13e It's been the same for the past 3 years.

    • @BeasleySays
      @BeasleySays 10 лет назад +1

      Butterworthy well in terms of summer yes because my summers are usually boring and uneventful. I remember last summer was ok because of The Last of Us and some other flop titles

    • @BeasleySays
      @BeasleySays 10 лет назад +14

      Butterworthy it's so bad that I play Gta online everyday

  • @kitthekat6844
    @kitthekat6844 6 лет назад +14

    This, out of all the ZP i've seen, is my favorite! Not only did it have interesting history facts in it, it also was super funny ^-^

  • @concon09090
    @concon09090 2 года назад +3

    Back here after Atari announced their new NFT lootbox scheme. Really hoping they'll manage to repeat their previous success and crash the entire games industry once again.

  • @Fresca64_
    @Fresca64_ 10 лет назад +523

    "Fooled you it has violently polarizing opinions!"

    • @iHuzza
      @iHuzza 10 лет назад +3

      so true :P

    • @Valiordruid
      @Valiordruid 10 лет назад +49

      No backwards compatibility, an extra $100 on the price tag for an optional peripheral that isn't necessary for the machine to function, always-online DRM and forcing you to check in once every 24 hours for absolutely no reason or benefit to you... is not an opinion. That's simply bad. Objectively bad. And the Xbone is shit.

    • @iHuzza
      @iHuzza 10 лет назад +5

      ***** They've created new models that don't come with the Kinect motion sensors, that are on sale at the moment, and they removed the 24 hour thing pretty much instantly after the E3 backlash bar a few aspects. I agree the Xbone "was" shit, but now Microsoft have rectified their own mistakes it's a semi-decent piece of technology.

    • @Valiordruid
      @Valiordruid 10 лет назад +41

      iHuzza Completely irrelevant. Microsoft was taking pre-orders when they announced this, they *were* selling the version with mandatory Kinect for months, they vocally defended their DRM and Kinect for months as well, and they were more than ready to sell it to us with that level of fucking bullshit attached. Once again, not an opinion. Microsoft was ready, willing and able to sell us a shitty machine that benefitted them a lot more than it did their customers. Intent is what matters here, not execution, and their intent was to be greedy, manipulative bastards.

    • @dragonbreath34
      @dragonbreath34 10 лет назад +4

      ***** who exactly was fooled by Microsoft again? from what i recall, the xbone was immediately panned after being announced.

  • @doopie4368
    @doopie4368 7 лет назад +35

    I love that jingle

  • @daveahkiin7987
    @daveahkiin7987 10 лет назад +9

    Nintendo: Fooled you! It's a game console!
    Microsoft: Fooled you! It's shit!

  • @Tlhague998
    @Tlhague998 8 лет назад +15

    I'd like to see this become a series on its own, separate from Zero Punctuation

  • @diebyeguy
    @diebyeguy 10 лет назад +5

    I wasn't laughing to much at this one…until that xbox one joke at the end. Then I laughed for about 10 minutes straight. "Fooled you, it's shit!"

  • @timebomb4562
    @timebomb4562 8 лет назад +9

    an incomplete rotary telephone farting around a meadow
    best description for the worst game :)

  • @Butterworthy
    @Butterworthy 10 лет назад +19

    In my opinion, one of Yhatzee's best.

  • @homicidal_duck
    @homicidal_duck 10 лет назад +6

    "Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything Teeheehee"
    I fucking love that ^_^

  • @arbrawlchamp
    @arbrawlchamp 10 лет назад +2

    0:19 Funny thing is that Evil Within actually looks really bad graphically, even on the Xbox One and PS4.

  • @geoffa87
    @geoffa87 4 года назад +5

    "Fooled you, it's shiiiittt" is literally the most succinct thing anyone could say about the xbox

  • @Shephchan
    @Shephchan 10 лет назад +64

    Let's see if Destiny can pull an E.T

    • @Amanwithbones
      @Amanwithbones 10 лет назад +26

      That would be funny; at the same, it be a damn shame

    • @justicejohnston3620
      @justicejohnston3620 10 лет назад +31

      Amanwithbones Activision:" Fooled you! it's really DLC to our other game Advance Warfare and you must pay 99 percent of your money to look at!!"

    • @XenoWalkerEVE
      @XenoWalkerEVE 10 лет назад

      E.T: the useless animated musical

    • @Kamillien
      @Kamillien 10 лет назад +1

      I don't think it could pull an E.T but I do believe that it can pull a GTAV. I have a feeling that the servers are going to crash and all that bullshit, who knows what might happen but we will eventually find out.

    • @justicejohnston3620
      @justicejohnston3620 10 лет назад

      the may never know.

  • @SkullSyker
    @SkullSyker 10 лет назад +11

    "Lets all laugh at an industry, that never learns anything! Tee hee hee."

  • @KrisJoshJones
    @KrisJoshJones 10 лет назад +5

    You're right the E.T games were burried because the game was bad
    It had nothing to do with the fact they made more copies of the game then consoles that were sold at the time when the gaming industry was considered a hobby and not a form of entertainment.
    Oh wait maybe it did.
    By standard of its time E.T isnt a bad game trust me I myself own an Atari 2600 and I own cartridges that are much bigger piles of sludgy shit than this.

  • @50Calabyte
    @50Calabyte 10 лет назад +31

    I for one approve of this new series.

  • @catiseith
    @catiseith 9 лет назад +2

    4:20 That part kinda confuses me. Which stigma was Microsoft trying to overcome by announcing the XB1 as anything but a dedicated game console?

    • @Penningtontj
      @Penningtontj 9 лет назад

      CaitSeith I think it's more of a stigma that exists in people who aren't into consoles or gaming in general and regard gaming consoles as overpriced toys for children and fat neckbeards (which isn't entirely untrue, but still). Microsoft knows it's got it's market share of the gaming market, but wants to expand it by convincing people that "No really, it's an entertainment system!".

    • @catiseith
      @catiseith 9 лет назад

      Penningtontj
      So it was mere greed, wasn't it? Maybe it would had worked, if they hadn't neglected the console part so badly.

  • @Cheerybelle
    @Cheerybelle 6 лет назад +5

    "Whereas Microsoft threw the cover off and went *'Fooled you!* *_It's shit!'"_*
    That fucking line. Fucking amazing. It's so quotable, as well.
    For example:
    "Hey, look, a new game in a series I like was announced! I can't wait! I bet this will be an astoundingly excellent entry to the series!"
    "Fooled you! It's shit!"

  • @sninctbur3726
    @sninctbur3726 Год назад +3

    Also worth mentioning that AAA companies still give their teams short deadlines to create games that will supposedly raise a generation.

  • @TheLinkedlink
    @TheLinkedlink 10 лет назад +21

    is yahtzee just picking random games now

    • @Ross97512
      @Ross97512 10 лет назад +38

      yeah there is nothing out man.

    • @idnyftw
      @idnyftw 10 лет назад +5

      yeah, nothing left to pick on, man

    • @ShadowWolfRising
      @ShadowWolfRising 10 лет назад +1

      yeah, he's actually run out of games to review since almost nothing is coming out.
      August has been a pretty dry month, hell i pre ordered Tales of Xillia 2 to give me something to do until Hyrule Warriors and Shadow of Mordor come out.

    • @idnyftw
      @idnyftw 10 лет назад

      ***** well there's that and I get a feeling he's been wanting to try a different "format" to mix things up a little

  • @philpyung4831
    @philpyung4831 9 лет назад +8

    Man I get at least one out-loud laugh out of every video Yahtzee does.

  • @SigmaSyndicate
    @SigmaSyndicate 10 лет назад +4

    I like how the entire Xbox One launch year has literally been Microsoft just shitting their pants trying to one-up Sony.
    "Oh, well your console doesn't have always-online DRM? Well, then ours doesn't either! Now your console is $100 cheaper because it doesn't include an overpriced and unnecessary peripheral? Well, throw it out the window! We'll sell the console for the same price! Oh, Playstation Plus lets you download 2 games a month for free? Well, our membership now lets you do the same thing OH FOR GOD'S SAKE PLEASE LOVE ME I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT."

  • @vejymonsta3006
    @vejymonsta3006 10 лет назад +4

    "FOOLED YOU IT'S SHIT!!" awesome

  • @ghostwolf2.058
    @ghostwolf2.058 8 лет назад +8

    0:33
    lol itunes please XD

  • @wynnefox
    @wynnefox 9 лет назад +16

    Lets ask the real question: Atari's ET or Ride to Hell?

    • @janecowie3626
      @janecowie3626 9 лет назад

      worse or beter???

    • @jbain4750
      @jbain4750 9 лет назад +19

      I'd argue that Ride to Hell was more fun to laugh at.

    • @Krebons1200
      @Krebons1200 8 лет назад +4

      Naturally E.T., but that isn't saying much compared to today's market. What passed as full fledged cartridge games back then now wouldn't even be passable as $.99 iPhone games today.

    • @swaggermcjagger4266
      @swaggermcjagger4266 8 лет назад

      +For The Wayne obviously ride to hell, a better question is E.T. For the Atari or Superman n64

    • @jdjohnson1591
      @jdjohnson1591 8 лет назад

      +For The Wynne Air Control

  • @timesnewlogan2032
    @timesnewlogan2032 4 года назад +5

    You left out the part where they produced more ET games than they had sold consoles.

    • @timesnewlogan2032
      @timesnewlogan2032 4 года назад +1

      @Axiom Steel26 I think we all were, when they dug it up a few years ago.

  • @Nevets767
    @Nevets767 10 лет назад +2

    Is no one going to mention the jingle that he made? He probably spent all of 5 seconds making that wonderful little bit and no appreciation

  • @mangamaster03
    @mangamaster03 29 дней назад +3

    0:34 Sony should be paying attention right now. Concord is going to be a textbook flop, studied in classes for years.

  • @TheLoneTerran
    @TheLoneTerran 2 года назад +3

    God I really, really hate the goddamn "waifu" and non-stop lusting after "women" made from pen and ink and/or pixels. To steal a quote from Yahtzee, just like skateboarding, anime and hentai culture is only something that could come from a truly decadent society.

  • @merrickdamato2260
    @merrickdamato2260 10 лет назад +4

    This may hurt your brain, Yahtze, but there IS a film named "E.T. The Extra Testicle". Yes, it is an E.T. porn parody, and yes, this is a genre.

  • @ProxyDoug
    @ProxyDoug 8 лет назад +3

    2:30 The plot of Pixels 2.

  • @vocalist92
    @vocalist92 11 месяцев назад +2

    3:36 wait was Yahtzee's actions here a reference to the smart black guy meme tapping his head?

  • @tankiesgotohell1399
    @tankiesgotohell1399 10 лет назад +6

    "Fooled you is shit" rofl

  • @zstorytime
    @zstorytime 10 лет назад +3

    LETS ALL LAUGH AT AN INDUSTRY THAT NEVER LEARNED ANYTHING TEE HEE HEE! I can't stop laughing about that XD!

  • @bomber5671
    @bomber5671 10 лет назад +22

    I was almost first, and then I took an arrow to the knee.
    I'll just escort myself out

    • @Soraptor
      @Soraptor 10 лет назад +1

      I'm sorry, but you'll need security to escort you, so you don't steal anything on the way out.

    • @CornThatLefty
      @CornThatLefty 10 лет назад +4

      "This comment was posted with Internet Explorer 7 on November 11 2011."

    • @gamesasd
      @gamesasd 10 лет назад

      You best me this time.....

  • @MegaRifty
    @MegaRifty 7 лет назад +10

    "Fooled you it's shiiiiit~"
    No Man's Sky, what're you doing here?

  • @DoctorFalchion
    @DoctorFalchion 7 лет назад +4

    Was expecting that last punchline to be "FOOLED YOU! It's a terrible PC!!"

  • @richard1701able
    @richard1701able 10 лет назад +3

    A video comparing the video game industry crash of 1983 to the state of it today. Wow. People have been calling me a "Conspiracy Theorist" and "Alarmist" for doing that.

  • @PhantomShadow224
    @PhantomShadow224 9 лет назад +4

    That ending... I'm drowning in laughter. Xboxo

  • @thegamingenthusiast1801
    @thegamingenthusiast1801 9 лет назад +2

    Anime is Shit. Thats about it and to say you like "Anime" dosent really make sense, would I say I like "Cartoons"? No i would say I like this cartoon or these cartoons, anyway yeah.

  • @noahandrulis9077
    @noahandrulis9077 2 года назад +2

    The neckbeards debating over whether Asuka or Rei makes a better waifu is still funny, because *they’re still doing it*. Those that haven’t switched to OT3s, anyway

  • @EviljelloX
    @EviljelloX 10 лет назад +10

    SHINJI IS BEST WAIFU

    • @Hbomb117
      @Hbomb117 10 лет назад +4

      BAKA.

    • @wikieditspam
      @wikieditspam 10 лет назад

      What the fuck is Waifu?

    • @Usernamesdontmatter1
      @Usernamesdontmatter1 10 лет назад

      wikieditspam It's weeabo for wife.....

    • @wikieditspam
      @wikieditspam 10 лет назад

      darkfur3 I though it had something to do with homeless people, or women who emaciate themselves to look homeless. Waifs, poor people that look like POWs that just made it out of a nazi labor camp.

    • @Usernamesdontmatter1
      @Usernamesdontmatter1 10 лет назад

      wikieditspam You taking the piss?