Know it properly wouldn't happen, but would love to see this series go through the '90! Nevertheless, love this series and all the work put into it! It was great when it was first posted and just as cool these days. Thanks to all involved
Before it's time I guess. The Indiegogo campaign to keep it going only raised about $13K USD from 350 backers back in 2013. If Delia gave it a crack now I imagine he'd do much, much better. Then again maybe it had it's time. That was almost a decade ago, and most of these guys seem to have moved on to other things. If they used the same formula of passionate, content creating gaming nerds, who would it be?
I watched the entire series and I must say I learned alot to appreciate older gaming culture. Im a millennial whose biggest gaming influence came from the early 90s. I hope yall do a series about 90s gaming industry. Also im surprised street fighter wasnt mentioned in a 80s
It is hard to believe that it has 9 generations of consoles from Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Microsoft, Sony and PC and many other video game companies since the beginning of the video game industry in the 1970's. The games have gone a long way since then, and I am sure it is going to be even more impressive as technology evolves.
I love that the makers of Ducktales simply chose Scrooge instead of his much, much younger triplet nephews. In an action game. And it worked. Then they made a sequel.
@Emiliano Hurtado so? People can get better and beat addiction?? Either way there’s plenty of people who would love to be on here. This series just deserves more recognition.
Though it was covered in 1987, I enjoyed Jaws. Friday the 13th wasn't bad either, but I found it confusing as hell as a kid. I just watched a video that explained many things I never knew. For example, Jason's route isn't random, and many objectives like saving counselors, lighting fires, and Pamela Voorhees are optional. I might play it again just to beat it finally.
I turned 13 in summer 1989 and had been NES crazy since getting one for my 11th birthday in the summer of 1987. I got a game boy at release and played it to death. I'm 45 today and still a dedicated console gamer. I'll never outgrow this passion.
Thanks for uploading these to youtube. So much work has gone into them - I've watched all of them a few of times and still better than the Netflix docs.
Ironic and a little sad that every one of these features the PS1 prominently in the end of the intro sequence but yet the series never touches the 90’s, a pivotal decade in gaming.
@@SlCKB0Y-sb1kg Kind of… It was more early personal computer and hacker culture than video games oriented though. Unless an ascii text version of tic tac toe qualifies :)
Nice Escape Club reference. Galaxy Force was notable for being used in SNL's Philadelphia toy commercial as "Philadelphia: the Video Game". PHILADELPHIA! You guys missed STUN Runner, which was as notable if not more so than Hard Drivin' for its hyper fast paced polygon based racing gameplay. Missed opportunity on Road House for "should have been a video game".
You'd always want the Game Boy's contrast wheel on anything other than maximum because on maximum you wouldn't see anything, same as minimum. The whole point is to adjust it to wherever the screen looks the best, which is somewhere inbetween and differs depending on how much battery life remains.
Budokan! I had that game on floppy disk. The series is great, really comprehensive. It has helped me relive and recall so many things from my childhood that are truly fond memories that may have been lost otherwise. Thank you.
I was surprised to not hear about SMB3 on the Play Choice 10. Before the Wizard came out, there was around a dozen of us that knew about it in the beginning of the school year. There was a machine at the local Price Chopper, that had it that summer... At the end of October 1989, me and a friend went in with $35 roughly, and got all the way to 5-2. We found the warp whistle in world 2 by Thanksgiving, and then were able to explore worlds 5 through 7. By the end of January 1990, we knew about the scene in the Wizard, and had been able to see world 8. Before I got the game in late February, I had seen all but the last 4 stages in world 7, and the final level. We got to the tank in the last stretch, and saw Bowsers Castle, but never made it there... True story... Just before the Wizard came out, we were talking about it at school. We made it to world 5 in late October... Does anyone else remember playing SMB3 in late summer of 89.
You have been releasing these rather rapidly compared to how they were, and you're doing a fantastic job - this is my favorite series on youtube right now! Keep up the great work!!
Haha 6:31 Pat looks so terrified there. I remember watching Video Game Years a LONG time ago but don’t remember where I saw it. Glad to see you guys finally putting up the HD remaster like you said on your podcast
Hard Drivin' legit scared me from real driving. I thought driving a real car was as hard as the game and avoided wanting to learn longer than I should have.
Ahhhh, you two look like babies in this! Don't make ME feel old. Then again, we're contemporaries even if you folks are my idols. Still, you look so good in these docs. It's charming as heck.
I remember the Elvira pinball table, if you pushed the star button without feeding the machine she would say "don't touch me there" in a subductive voice lol
Loving the series, clearly a lot of work going into these. Just one little thing, to make it feel more documentarily, have a more organic transition between segments - that would help add to that aesthetic
I know plenty segments do have a nice natural feeling transition, there’s just a number that are hard cuts, which feel out of place in a documentary. You kinda want to be led into the next thing, but without completely cutting from the previous one. It’s probably just me anyway, don’t mind what I say. Everything is 99% fine :)
The early Mario Bros cartoons show the brothers with different eye colours. Weirdly Nintendo changed Luigi’s original green eyes to blue, like Mario, which is how it remains.
I played a lot of Tiger LCD games. Before that I had this football game where you were a red slash and you had to beat the other red slashes through the rest of the fields to score. I love that game still. Can't remember the name or manufacture though.
I used to hate Super Off Road back in the day because I totally sucked at it. Then last year I saw it in an arcade and gave it a go and I did awesome at it. Like I had been playing it forever. I wonder what happened lol
The Country Squire in Mississippi ships all over the US. If you want something to put in that pipe, I suggest their original blends. Best I have had. The middle earth blends are top tier. That is, if you are not very prone to addiction. Even with the low nicotine content of pipe tobacco and the very low absorption when smoking a pipe correctly, some can manage to get addicted and get the cancer.
One of my cousins got the power glove for Xmas and it was returned like the next day and my aunt and uncle said their was a line...of other parents returning Power Gloves
One thing I always thought was kind of weird was how in the Super Mario Bros. Super show's animated Mario segments they made Mario completely obsessed with pasta. Why? Just because he is Italian? Not once in any Mario game does Mario ever have anything to do with pasta. But for some reason in the cartoons they gave Mario an insatiable appetite for pasta that rivals even Garfield. I always thought this was odd.
(Lights cigarette using a match in the darkness) (Sees several comments about reviving the series to cover the 90s, offering to donate/crowdfund) "My work here is done."
This is a cool series and all, but have people had a memory wipe or something? Maybe Dr Strange has cast a "forget the series" spell? This series is about 10yrs old, it's been on RUclips for ages and ages already, all that's happened (I think) is that Pat has bought the series and moved it to this channel.
@@SAM-ru4vx LOL... Well that would be something new and extra interesting! 😁 Don't get me wrong, I'm not being down on this series at all - I've watched all the episodes and it's super cool - it's just not new but 99% of the comments are like "When's the 90s episode coming out??" I feel like replying to them all and saying "Dude, this show is old, some of the people in it aren't even RUclipsrs anymore!"
@@reactionnerd3650 this was before pat & ian did the regular podcast. Back than pat was talking to a toy dk Jr plushie or at flea markets with Frank. It was a long long long time ago
![The Story of the Playstation (Complete Series) [feat. Drunk Metroid]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/53yK3giVO1Y/mqdefault.jpg)
I must've been living under a rock, and only found this series about two weeks ago. I'd gladly throw some cash at getting another decade put together.
@@JDMACC I watch video game nerd on occasion. I didn't know he did a series like this one.
Know it properly wouldn't happen, but would love to see this series go through the '90! Nevertheless, love this series and all the work put into it! It was great when it was first posted and just as cool these days. Thanks to all involved
Would be nice to see up to the 5th gen at least
Hea gonna go to 2000 than stop. Including 5th gen. God told me.
You realize this is like a decade old, right? I just don’t see them restarting this series after a decade of nothing.
@@poopy_fingers3324 Yeah when I saw Jewwario in one of the earlier episodes I realized it had to be preeeeeeeeeetty old
@@Mixfix87 Yeah, also Pro Jared. These things are like a double time capsule. One for the games. One for the commentators.
The Video Game Years definitely feels like something that would have been on TV in the 90's. I love it.
I know we all say this after every episode, but damn, I wish they’d do a 90s series. I’d totally donate to a Kickstarter program for another series.
Me 2.
Me 3.
Me 1990s.
I most definitely would donate for a new 90's series. Nothing on the internet comes close to this series in terms of video game history.
Before it's time I guess. The Indiegogo campaign to keep it going only raised about $13K USD from 350 backers back in 2013. If Delia gave it a crack now I imagine he'd do much, much better. Then again maybe it had it's time. That was almost a decade ago, and most of these guys seem to have moved on to other things. If they used the same formula of passionate, content creating gaming nerds, who would it be?
This is my second time going through this series and it's so good. Please do a 1990s version. I would pledge
I watched the entire series and I must say I learned alot to appreciate older gaming culture. Im a millennial whose biggest gaming influence came from the early 90s. I hope yall do a series about 90s gaming industry. Also im surprised street fighter wasnt mentioned in a 80s
It was a great time period to be a gamer for sure. Very fun times.
It is hard to believe that it has 9 generations of consoles from Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Microsoft, Sony and PC and many other video game companies since the beginning of the video game industry in the 1970's. The games have gone a long way since then, and I am sure it is going to be even more impressive as technology evolves.
I love that the makers of Ducktales simply chose Scrooge instead of his much, much younger triplet nephews.
In an action game.
And it worked.
Then they made a sequel.
38:39 I always thought the US Golden Axe cover art made Ax Battler look like Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
You should reunite the guys and do the 1990's. Crowd fund if you have to
👍
@Emiliano Hurtado Is this confirmed anywhere or just speculation?
Would love to see Tommy Talarico and Pat come back together to make this happen 🤣🤣
Sure, but the title would have to be changed to:
Tommy-has-no-game Years.
@Emiliano Hurtado so? People can get better and beat addiction?? Either way there’s plenty of people who would love to be on here. This series just deserves more recognition.
This series is always great to see, every episode is filled with lots of things to learn and re-learn.
I guess I'm on a tiny island, but I loved Friday the 13th on NES. The music was awesome, and the game legitimately scared me as a kid.
Though it was covered in 1987, I enjoyed Jaws. Friday the 13th wasn't bad either, but I found it confusing as hell as a kid. I just watched a video that explained many things I never knew. For example, Jason's route isn't random, and many objectives like saving counselors, lighting fires, and Pamela Voorhees are optional. I might play it again just to beat it finally.
@@HowDoUPlayGames I still need to beat it too. I recently rebought it for NES just to do it on a legit Nintendo.
Agreed! I loved it and it still scares the crap out of me til this day.
I turned 13 in summer 1989 and had been NES crazy since getting one for my 11th birthday in the summer of 1987. I got a game boy at release and played it to death.
I'm 45 today and still a dedicated console gamer. I'll never outgrow this passion.
Yea buddy. That was a great summer for me as well. I'm 46. Gaming for life.
Thanks for uploading these to youtube. So much work has gone into them - I've watched all of them a few of times and still better than the Netflix docs.
Is that Tobey Maguire in the Lynx Commercial at 31:59 ?
I think so, I'm glad somebody else noticed! I had to stop and watch it a couple times lol
Hes also in The Wizard
We want the 90s! Much love for this series ❤
1989, Jams, and Jolt Cola, lets do this shit
Greetings from Florida. My favorite part of Nightmare on Elm Street was being able to play as AC Slater dressed in his ballerina outfit.
Ironic and a little sad that every one of these features the PS1 prominently in the end of the intro sequence but yet the series never touches the 90’s, a pivotal decade in gaming.
Man sucks to see this series is done now… get a 1990’s going!! So many great games came after 1990 😞 especially 1991/1992 when the SNES was released.
The Last Starfighter was easily the best 80s movie featuring video games as a central plot device.
The Wizard didn’t have anything on it.
War Games
@@SlCKB0Y-sb1kg Kind of… It was more early personal computer and hacker culture than video games oriented though. Unless an ascii text version of tic tac toe qualifies :)
Hey Pat, DO THE 90'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d gladly donate to a go fund me page to get the 1990s done Pat and Ian. Let’s get it done. Everyone feels the same as me
These are amazing, thank you! Any chance of the 90s at some point?
i will pledge for the highest available reward tier if you put the '90s of this series on any crowdfunding platform
I'll match you 😆 for real
5 million
Nice Escape Club reference.
Galaxy Force was notable for being used in SNL's Philadelphia toy commercial as "Philadelphia: the Video Game". PHILADELPHIA!
You guys missed STUN Runner, which was as notable if not more so than Hard Drivin' for its hyper fast paced polygon based racing gameplay.
Missed opportunity on Road House for "should have been a video game".
You'd always want the Game Boy's contrast wheel on anything other than maximum because on maximum you wouldn't see anything, same as minimum. The whole point is to adjust it to wherever the screen looks the best, which is somewhere inbetween and differs depending on how much battery life remains.
I love these. Keep this series going
You guys need to do the 90s. I like the 2000s VH1 feel. I miss those shows.
Keep this going to include 90s through 2000s
Budokan! I had that game on floppy disk. The series is great, really comprehensive. It has helped me relive and recall so many things from my childhood that are truly fond memories that may have been lost otherwise. Thank you.
tommorow is my vacation start ( 3 weeks) and im gonna dig deep intoyour series here. thx pat
I was surprised to not hear about SMB3 on the Play Choice 10. Before the Wizard came out, there was around a dozen of us that knew about it in the beginning of the school year. There was a machine at the local Price Chopper, that had it that summer... At the end of October 1989, me and a friend went in with $35 roughly, and got all the way to 5-2. We found the warp whistle in world 2 by Thanksgiving, and then were able to explore worlds 5 through 7. By the end of January 1990, we knew about the scene in the Wizard, and had been able to see world 8. Before I got the game in late February, I had seen all but the last 4 stages in world 7, and the final level. We got to the tank in the last stretch, and saw Bowsers Castle, but never made it there... True story... Just before the Wizard came out, we were talking about it at school. We made it to world 5 in late October... Does anyone else remember playing SMB3 in late summer of 89.
You have been releasing these rather rapidly compared to how they were, and you're doing a fantastic job - this is my favorite series on youtube right now! Keep up the great work!!
Haha 6:31 Pat looks so terrified there.
I remember watching Video Game Years a LONG time ago but don’t remember where I saw it. Glad to see you guys finally putting up the HD remaster like you said on your podcast
This show has re-ignited my love for retro gaming. Buying NES games now then the FamiCom is next .. LOVE THIS SHOW
Hard Drivin' legit scared me from real driving. I thought driving a real car was as hard as the game and avoided wanting to learn longer than I should have.
My birth year, i appreciate the history thanks!
Same!
Dude is that Toby Maguire in the Lynx commercial at 32:05?
yes, I'm surprised they don't mention it. Also, how does he suddenly have it connected to a mains power supply once he starts playing it?
He was also in the movie mentioned in this episode “The Wizard”
The Golden age of Gaming is great👍🎮👍
Ahhhh, you two look like babies in this! Don't make ME feel old. Then again, we're contemporaries even if you folks are my idols. Still, you look so good in these docs. It's charming as heck.
That was awesome! I'm gonna miss this series.
I remember the Elvira pinball table, if you pushed the star button without feeding the machine she would say "don't touch me there" in a subductive voice lol
This series need more decades!! :)
I know I shouldn't hold my breath, but if this wasn't a lead up to/testing the waters for picking this series backed up... I'll be bummed.
I watched this a few years ago, so sad this did not have a bigger splash...so well made
Was that Toby Macguire on that Lynx commercial?!
Yes that was
If you partner with James Rolfe... you'll probably get an instant million views on the 1990s
89 was the single greatest gaming and box office movie year in history.
fun fact: Lance Cortez also played "Stevie," Kenny Powers' idiot assistant in the timeless classic HBO show 'Eastbound and Down'
I Know we all said this before but we loved to see one on the 1920’s games.
Patiently awaiting 1990
Same
I would pledge to a kickstarter for a new season of this.
I still wait for a 90s video game years
Loving the series, clearly a lot of work going into these.
Just one little thing, to make it feel more documentarily, have a more organic transition between segments - that would help add to that aesthetic
I know plenty segments do have a nice natural feeling transition, there’s just a number that are hard cuts, which feel out of place in a documentary. You kinda want to be led into the next thing, but without completely cutting from the previous one.
It’s probably just me anyway, don’t mind what I say. Everything is 99% fine :)
I hope you keep going I was so looking forward to the 90s videos and then 😱😰😭😭.. NOTHING.. why.. why is the world so cruel
This series….it’s so RAD.
Series definitely needs to keep going watched fully thru 5 times since it's been completed.
The early Mario Bros cartoons show the brothers with different eye colours. Weirdly Nintendo changed Luigi’s original green eyes to blue, like Mario, which is how it remains.
This was a great year to be a gamer. For damn sure!!
The kid on the TurboGrafx16 box looks just like Zack Morris from Saved By The Bell.........am I right?
You need to bring this series back, do a 90s and 2000s series
Did anyone ever do a video series or blog or something like this but going through the toys of each year?
Great series, I like how you used all the RUclips retro heads.
Will you continue the serie, the best years are the 90s :)
Damn i had no idea this channel exists. Instant sub. The perfect content to counter all this short form nonsense lol
One of the best eps yet. Up next 1990 Casstlevania 3
nope, this is the last episode.
Man...I was hoping this kept going into the 90s.
I played a lot of Tiger LCD games. Before that I had this football game where you were a red slash and you had to beat the other red slashes through the rest of the fields to score. I love that game still. Can't remember the name or manufacture though.
That intro reminds me of GTA Vice City radio ads I love it lol
Ian, what was your favorite pinball machine to talk about from this series? I still really want to play Pinbot but I've never seen one in person.
I...had a crush on April Oneil as a kid 😄😄😄
This got a great VH1 I Love The... series....more episodes would be great
I hope you guys will cover the 90s
I remember that Game Boy commercial like it was yesterday.
I used to hate Super Off Road back in the day because I totally sucked at it. Then last year I saw it in an arcade and gave it a go and I did awesome at it. Like I had been playing it forever. I wonder what happened lol
The Country Squire in Mississippi ships all over the US. If you want something to put in that pipe, I suggest their original blends. Best I have had. The middle earth blends are top tier. That is, if you are not very prone to addiction. Even with the low nicotine content of pipe tobacco and the very low absorption when smoking a pipe correctly, some can manage to get addicted and get the cancer.
the Mario and Zelda cartoons were godly!
Informative and fun like the rest of the series. I always enjoy these.
wow this was really really cool!
One of my cousins got the power glove for Xmas and it was returned like the next day and my aunt and uncle said their was a line...of other parents returning Power Gloves
That’s Tobey Maguire in the Atari lynx commercial.
Playing in the bathroom stall…lol
Always liked John D's Escape Club reference in there.
One thing I always thought was kind of weird was how in the Super Mario Bros. Super show's animated Mario segments they made Mario completely obsessed with pasta. Why? Just because he is Italian? Not once in any Mario game does Mario ever have anything to do with pasta. But for some reason in the cartoons they gave Mario an insatiable appetite for pasta that rivals even Garfield. I always thought this was odd.
(Lights cigarette using a match in the darkness)
(Sees several comments about reviving the series to cover the 90s, offering to donate/crowdfund)
"My work here is done."
For me TG16 was synonymous with Bonks Adventure and Splatterhouse. Totally thought Bonk was their Mario
This is a cool series and all, but have people had a memory wipe or something? Maybe Dr Strange has cast a "forget the series" spell? This series is about 10yrs old, it's been on RUclips for ages and ages already, all that's happened (I think) is that Pat has bought the series and moved it to this channel.
Wanda did something now her boys are the hosts
@@SAM-ru4vx LOL... Well that would be something new and extra interesting! 😁 Don't get me wrong, I'm not being down on this series at all - I've watched all the episodes and it's super cool - it's just not new but 99% of the comments are like "When's the 90s episode coming out??" I feel like replying to them all and saying "Dude, this show is old, some of the people in it aren't even RUclipsrs anymore!"
@@reactionnerd3650 I'm like dude it was on another channel and blah blah blah drama happened.
🎮>⌨️
@@SAM-ru4vx Yeah that's all good... I'm just surprised so many people haven't seen them before.
@@reactionnerd3650 this was before pat & ian did the regular podcast.
Back than pat was talking to a toy dk Jr plushie or at flea markets with Frank.
It was a long long long time ago
Haha the Millie Vanili joke
An actual good series from Pat the NES punk worth watching, who knew?
Thanks once again!
Pat listen here. Need a compilation of the video game years of just you and Ian what ya think
Is there any way to get a copy of the chip tune in the ending credits? Please 8-bit gods...
Anyone else notice it was a young Toby McGuire in the Atari Lynxx commercial?
1989 was a transition year for gaming.
I know this has been said many times already in this comment section, but I also would love to see (and help pay for) some 90's episodes!
If we ever get a 90's edition, we better see the WonderSwan in there.
GREAT Series! Loved it! I watched from 89' back to 77'. Glad I was alive for it! Golden Years for Gaming! #CertainNESGuideBook #FleaMarketMadness
wonder how long games took to get made back then.. what stuff for the snes is being brewed in 89?
this is like the glory days of VH1
Come on, you know you want to do a 90's one. Would happily donate.