Playstation and More Immersive Video Games: Crash Course Games #9
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- So by the mid-90s the video game industry was once again booming and this attracted the attention of the Japanese electronics giant Sony. In 1994, Sony introduced their Playstation console which successfully coupled cutting edge technologies with some great games. But Nintendo and Sega weren’t just sitting around. In the 90’s we would see the introduction of the Sega Saturn and eventually the Sega Dreamcast as well as Nintendo’s immensely popular Nintendo 64. And with this new hardware came a new era of immersive games. Games were going 3D, and with the introduction of CD’s, the size of games increased dramatically allowing for much longer and complex storytelling. Local multi-player and split screen games also became popular during this time as consoles such like Nintendo 64 were now powerful enough to support these kinds of social games. And games on the PC were becoming more immersive as first person shooters began to flourish on the platform.
But Sega saw many failed launches in the 90s due to poor marketing and some poor games. By the end of the 90’s the industry had lost confidence in Sega and even its revolutionary Dreamcast could not keep the company competitive in the hardware space, but it wouldn’t be long before a new player would take Sega’s place. Next week we’re going to talk about Microsoft’s X-Box.
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I will never forget the feeling of awe I felt when I first played Mario 64. I'd never had an experience like it.
> Mention of Konami
> Tir McDohl from Suikoden on-screen
I'm in love with this channel even more now.
too bad konami sucks now
#Fuckonami
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A
"Tap "A" quickly to not die as fast!!!!" Jontron
*Tir appears*
me: *squeeeee!*
After watching this, I just went and tested my old PS1 memory cards. They both still work and still have old game-saves on them.
Great series so far and look forward the History of Cheat Codes episode.
People are salty about the lack of PC coverage, but my question is: WHERE IS POKÉMON?
That series hadn't come out yet, at that point in time
+Mikkel R P Wilson Yes it has. It came out during the 4th generation of gaming consoles.
Amen brother!
They skipped 90's PC games in just a few sentences. WTF
They don't seem to be covering PC gaming much at all, just "vidya games." They missed the pre-graphical, text adventure gaming phase too, because it was all PC.
They also forgot Real-Time Strategies like Command and Conquer and StarCraft.
Doom, quake, and some other games are an important part of out 90's game history
Yes there is. Check out Ahoy he has great coverage on all that.
7:41 "as it turned out, players really liked shooting each other in video games." Nothing could be more true.
As practice for shooting eachother in real life.
I was more thinking along the lines of: only in video games? I think not.
lol... not even a shred of evidence that suggests that's true. I've been playing video games since this shows when it started. I've played every shooter. I'm an Eagle Scout that's never had a run in with police so much as any criminal record. I served in the military but never fired a shot at another human being. I don't currently have the desire shoot another human being. Video games are not the problem... it's the parents and the child's up bringing and/or actual psychological problems. A gun doesn't fire unless someone pulls the trigger.
Tigerheart01 were we talking about games and violence??
My fragile PC gamer ego can't handle not being the center of attention.
And here I am, one of the PC master race, making Nep jokes.
Sega Failed because Nep wouldnt share her pudding with Peashy
Anyone who is savvy enough to upgrade their video card is savvy enough to use BitTorrent to commit a felony.
what about the computer RTS genre, during the nineties?
Wololooo
Ready to roll out!
You want a piece of me boy?
You must construct additional pylons!
I've got a present for ya!
Final Fantasy 7 was the game that got me addicted to videogames.
Liked for the Suikoden cameo!
Crash Course **Console Circle-Jerk**
No mention of home computers transitioning to CDs, no mention of Commodore collapsing 1994 to cede the market to PC/Mac, no mention of the huge advances in home computers in the period etc.
4:08 Loading screens were a staple of 80s home computing.
Wow! To see a crash course video 23 Seconds after it's published and has only 19 views makes my heart swell into red pieces!
Oh, I am honored!
OMG CAN I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH?!
R.I.P. Dreamcast! It was my favorite console. I really miss that controller. Being able to use your menu without interrupting team games was awesome.
What about the golden age of RTS and all the other genres the PC market propelled forward?
Dune, Red Alert, Starcraft, Total Annihilation, AOE2.... Sure I am forgetting a couple of the greats here...
Generals and Tiberium Sun as well, oh the memories
Can still play Tiberian Sun and Firestorm online. Free download😉😉😉
There will be nothing like PS1. Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot, Metal Gear Solid, Tekken 3, GTA 2 and Spyro... THE PERFECT experiences... It was incredibly amazing..
I love these!!! Please don't stop making these videos.
I was always in the PC "club" and while I was aware that consoles existed, I never liked them. The PC had great simulators and adventures. I do not recall any of them being made for consoles. I mean, take just the good old Lucasfilm and later Lucasarts games, from various StarWars simulators to adventures like Monkey Island, The Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max. Also The Dig was a nice adventure. And games like Transport Tycoon, delivering graphics that no console at that time could match. These were "my" games. No console "jump and run" stuff which I never liked at all. There were a few games for PC and consoles, but PCs had superior graphics and performance. And a PC can be used for anything, not just games. Basically that is how I learned english as a kid. Not at school, but from PC games that I mentioned. And programs I worked with. 3D Studio, Premiere, AutoCad, Photoshop and similar - all self taught. The programs were actually games for me as well.
Same thing here. I had a dictionary by my side while playing Day of the Tentacles :)
I used to rent out a console and stay up all night trying to finish whatever game i wanted to play. But the 90s were all about PC games for me.
And... we made it through the 90s without any mention of Warcraft.... or Command & Conquer.
Very console,e orientated.
I think his plan is to mention the general basics in a time line first, then he'll move on to specific games.
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time? Majoras Mask? Neither were mentioned. What the hell. 2 of the most highly rated and best games in history.
He plans on doing an episode solely on pc mmos
They stick to ten minute episodes, sheesh. Be patient for your specialty one to come out.
Sigh... 9-9-1999. Divorce final. Picked up Dreamcast the same day (excited) with the game "Soul Calibre". Funny how I base my life on games and consoles since the 70s. But I'm lovin' this CC series!
Why so little PC coverage?
because majority of the viewers are underage and don't have gaming computers.
Majority of the game audience is a console owner.
Mazetism makes sense, still I hope the do manage to work it in a bit more
Aj Koorstra
It's probably be just bare bones anyway. Just name a couple titles and they're done. BACK TO NINTENDO
That's what I see a lot here.
+Mazetism theyre covering pc later
We're going to do an entire episode on PC MMOs if that helps :)
I felt like I was reliving my childhood while watching this. Goldeneye was one of my favorite multiplayer N64 games, it was so fun!
You know that many gamers are watching this series because of all of the comments complaining about something
You know, I enjoy this series a whole lot more now that I have gone back and watched over half of the AVGN episodes in a few days
Will this series extend to VR gaming or will it only be historical gaming?
Yup. Final episode. But we've got lots of other non history stuff like the psychology of games and game design before that too! -brandon
Sweet! I really love these videos and the history is very interesting, but there is so much to say about VR right now as it is just emerging to the mainstream market. Keep up the good work!
I was hoping that the serious would continue on to the present day, then start talking about the future history somehow.
Kind of hard to predict the future, probably going to be all about VR and augmented reality. Maybe VR with moving chairs as those in 4D cinemas? At Computex this week they showed off something where you were held up in mid air with straps and you would feel like you were floating freely while wearing a VR headset, I think it was a Oculus Rift if I'm not mistaken. That could be awesome, the next generation of entertainment!
Hey! No spoilers!
Beating Emerald and Ruby weapon was the pinnacle of PS1 gaming for me
No mention of Descent? Man, that game ruled my life in the 90s.
that game was popular but kinda sucked... Blood was better
Wasn't Blood more of a Doom kind of game? Descent was the only 3D full axis combat FPS I'm aware of. The solo game was ok, but the online multiplayer was fantastic. Plus the level editors out there made it a lot of fun. I'll admit, I was more into Descent 2, but both were great games.
Metabeard Yeh blood was a bit like Doom... I had so much fun with that game on network play... I guess Descent was good for the 3D aspects.. I just never got into that game... kinda like how everyone loved Half Life but I couldn't see the point :P.
yeah, Half-Life never hooked me either. TBH, I've never been much into FPS games except for Descent. I think most of it had to do with the level editors.
Ahhh my introduction to Gaming. I was born in 93 and though I never owned a Nintendo 64, the few times I went over to friends house to watch them play Pokemon Stadium and Pokemon Coliseum were breathtaking. And the Playstation . . Ahh the Playstation, my older brother got one and we spent day after day playing the Hot Wheels Racing game, Crash Bandicoot, Crash Team Racing, and Spyro the Dragon . . .
Will there be board game , sports and dnd or has those been dumped?
Yes. Yes. And Yes. (they haven't been dumped)
Woah you replied! Tell Andre he's doing a great job with the series!
+CrashCourse well you confused since the livestream where you guys acted games was shorter because you said lit was after it . Did I miss hear that and it means economics is almost over or we will get 5 videos
+CrashCourse Wait,D&D, I GOT TO LEVEL MY WIZARD TO LEVEL 10 SO IT CAN ASSASSINATE THE KING OF THE CITY-STATE OF HOLOFERNES SO THAT HE CAN GET THE STOLEN WOODCREST TO THE ELVEN CITY OF GRA SO I CAN GET THE UNITER WAND AND GET THE THREE SPIRES OF LEGEND TO COMBINE SO I CAN STOP MALICE FROM RAISING THE DEATH WYVERN THAT WOULD DRINK ALL THE LIGHT AND ENCOMPASS THE WORLD IN PITCH DARKNESS AND IF I DONT STOP MALICE THEN I WILL SLAY THE WYVERN HIMSELF,GET THE PURE MAGIC CRYSTAL,MELT IT INTO THE WEAPON OF WEAPONS AND KILL MALICE AND STEAL BACK THE BOOK OF INFINITE ENERGY,USE IT TO SEAL THE CREVICE BETWEEN THE WORLD OF LIFE AND THE WORLD OF DARKNESS!!!!!!!!!!
Someone is being jerked around by Vecna. Everyone knows that you can't melt the Pure Magic Crystal. You have to forge it in the stomach acid of a hundred still living Slaad within Limbo by a Woojin. Also, the Book of Infinite Energy is just a mythical pseudonym for the Book of Vile Darkness. Also, that Death Wyvern that you want to kill... yea... it's guarding the hand of Vecna.
I wish you talked more about 90's PC games. Games like Oregon Trail and SimCity were massively iconic... and as a kid at the time, there were some really actually very fun *educational* games on the PC too, like the Magic School Bus series.
Doom, Duke Nukem, Warcraft, Starcraft, Red Alert, Tiberium Sun, Generals, Half-Life, Diablo, Wolfenstein, Age of Empires, Fallout, Sim City, Civilization series and the Star Wars games were big in the 90s and defined a lot of those genres since.
Fun fact about Quake: Quake was originally meant to be an RPG game set in medieval times, completely unlike the predecessor Doom. However, one of the lead designers was insistent on making the game a shooter just like Doom. While Id was initially strongly against this change of pose, they eventually gave in and Quake became a time-skipping shooter instead of the intended RPG.
XboxAhoy covered that in pretty good detail in his Quake video, and to top it off, the initial RPG idea didn't really go away - Hexen II (which used the Quake1 engine) turned out a really good game in its own right.
This was the era of Graphic Adventures and strategic games!!
I highly encourage everyone to check out the "Making of Crash Bandicoot" articles by Andy Gavin.
It is hard to overstate the technical achievement Crash 1 represents- the amount of power they squeezed out of the PS1 was absolutely bonkers and unprecedented. The people at Sony didn't even believe what they were doing with the PS1 was possible- they tried and *failed* to make a similar game.
The number of crazy tricks they used to compress everything into the play station is INSANE. Andy Gavin's experience at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory probably contributed to that. :)
So, I know that a lot of the people on here might not be as into the technical coding side of gaming, but seriously- check those articles out. Great commentary on crazy smart people basically forging the path for how 3D games work.
thank you for this!
I've read those! They are insanely interesting! Definitely recommended!
Here's the link: all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/
Imagine a team of John Carmack, Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto and Andy Gavin.
I don't know what the game would be, but i would buy it instantly. Probably 10 copies of it.
Need a full episode on strategy games on PC. That stuff probably sapped hundred of thousands of hours from all our lives.
Poor Neptune, maybe you should have eaten less pudding and done more quests?
or maybe Histoire should have threatened Neptune with eggplants?
Final fantasy 7, metal gear solid, crash bandicoot. Yeah that pretty much is my childhood right there.
I hope the PC gets its own chapter or two.
I remember the ads for the PS1. "You are not ready" where the "ready" was the letter "e" in red. Clever, Sony.
I don't get the joke, could you explain?
They didn't write "ready", they showed a red 'e'. Red 'e' as in ready when read out loud.
Nuno Simões
oh okay thanks mate! :)
Hoped for more commentary on the Dreamcast. Even though it eventually failed, it hung in there much longer than any of the previous Sega consoles and was critically praised more as well. It was a lot of players first introduction to an MMO with Phantasy Star Online.
maybe have that in the Sega episode? this was supposed to be the PS1 episode
Yeah it was more towards the later half of the 90s, next episode perhaps.
Mauro De Simone The episodes are labeled by the major player of that era, but so far have been commenting more on the generations than focus on a single system.
No love for PC strategy games and flight sims. Ah well, at least you mentioned PC.
PCs created Civilization, the consoles only revolutionized it! (and then mobile games re-revolutionized it)
console peasants
well it's just coming to it
The PC didn't have any games before Doom came out, so it's understandable.
I used to play Super Smash brothers with a friend of mine on our trips to go camping with a small tv we took with us. I used to hit his characters so hard I could see them fly through the SUV's back windows.
The best selling PC game of the 90s was "Myst." It is significant for a number of reasons. It was published first for Macintosh and then ported to PC. In the early 90s Apple Computers were for games and Windows was the businessman's PC. The success of Myst forced Microsoft to take games seriously.
Also how can you make a video about 90s Nintendo and not mention Pokemon? PlayStation may have dominated the home console market but Pokemon on the gameboy not only saved Nintendo it allowed them to capture 95% of the portable game market. Not to mention Nintendo made a fortune selling Pokemon cards and from the Cartoon show. Nintendo of the late 90s really had a multi-media approach to gaming.
i'm a simple person. i hear jet set radio mentioned once very briefly in a video game history video, and i am satisfied.
I'm looking forward to the episode about Handhelds!
(I assume there'll be one) =P
I hope there's a whole episode on PC gamings particular history, early PC gaming is fascinating in the leaps and bounds it made, and it even had some of the only good FMV games ever released, like Wing Commander.
PC gaming needs its own chapter I feel.
I'm sure we'll get an episode devoted to Steam eventually.
I remember how amazing seeing 3D games was! I used to be all about Sonic the Hedgehog but then PlayStation came out and I then I was all about Crash and Spyro!
I was about the first Digimon World game for PS, didn't get the love it deserved sadly.
Crash Course Console History.
Crash Course mostly Nintendo Console History
Consoles were more relevant than PC's for gaming then. Kids had consoles to play games, but not all kids had PC's to game (let alone a PC to use). More games were made for consoles and more people had them. PC is great and all now, but had barely any relevance compared to consoles.
(Not saying PC was bad or had a lack of history. It's just that console was GAMING back then.)
+The Wishard I still hope there is a PC episode because the little things that were obscure to most console players then have paved the way for huge impacts on gaming overall.
Omg. I love crash course there's really a crash course GAMES!! and the theme song that they changed accordingly
It bothers me how littel this series has devoted to PCs. I can't recall hearing point and click adventure games being mentioned.
Yet they criticize Lara's body proportions... No comment.
they will get there. can't you tell they are mainly focusing on hardware and companies right now? games are secondary right now, and PC custom rigging didn't take off until late in the 90s...we just got there. relax.
I know that PCs were far more of a niche in the 80's and early 90's but they were there.
Lance O'Enchiantie LATE 90s? What a joke, learn about SoundBlaster 16.
And to role playing games like D&D for that matter. Sorta feels like they're going for a younger and more broad demographic instead of really getting into the parts that no one talks about but still are very important.
As much as you covered consoles nicely, you left PC scene out. And in 90s that scene gave us best RTS (warcraft, starcraft, red alert, stronghold...) best FPS (quake, unreal tournament...), racers (need for speed). So much content left out. I hope you'll do couple of episodes just for PC gaming
Seriously no discussion of PC games between Sega and PSX?
Like 30 seconds at the end of this video. That's crazytown.
I'm guessing they're gonna have a whole other episode on it after the Microsoft one. There's far too much about PC gaming to squeeze into an episode about Playstation's era.
why are everyone so butthurt about this? the golden age of PC gaming is yet to come in an episode, the birth of platforms such as Steam is surly going to have an episode of it's own.
+EirikXL The Golden Age of PC gaming was really the late 90s. 1995 To 2000 specifically. But PC games were already immensly popular starting around 1990 and even before that.
I really like this series. It tells me things that I know I know but in a more digestible way.
The Playstation was my first console and I was only five.
Mine was the Nintendo Gamecube.
Same man :) We're not truly old school but it's nice to have been part of 90s gaming
And that is why you are a loser.
The moment I saw Jet Set Radio I felt in love with Dreamcast.
i wish i had a dreamcast
I'm completely shocked at how I didn't realize that the N64 was a younger console than the PS1.
The PS1 seems more advanced with its CD-ROM and memory card technology, but I completely neglected the fact that the N64 is obviously a 64 bit console.
I probably would have noticed this earlier if I weren't 4 and 6 years old at the time of their releases, respectively.
I don't know why so many people pronounce "Lara" as "Laura." Drives me crazy. Just read it. It's not that hard. >.>
say "la". chances are you pronunced it Lah not Lay.
Turns out pouncing it "lah-rah" is gramacially correct. who knew.
Magnamus0 (artist) Uh...yes? "Lah-rah" is correct. "Law-rah" is not, which he said several times.
Spelling wimen as women is also grammatically correct. WTF English?
actually, that's just an artifact of the word being inneficient and the large O sound being contracted to a shoter I sound over the course of many generations
+Peardude89 that's spelling not grammar! Also if you pronounce the word properly it's not 'wimen'
At least they remembered to give fair due to the Dreamcast, the little games console that might have been. Skies of Arcadia forever!
You really should talk about PC more. DOOM and STARCRAFT itself almost deserves an entire episode.
So does Sony's history and Nintendo's. But more people considered consoles as the main power of gaming back then. Not everyone had PC back then and fewer even got them for gaming specifically. Heck, arcade gaming was the thing back then but when consoles came out it seemed more revolutionary than PC as game developers headed their attention mostly to consoles. Not saying PC didn't have it's games, but back then, console was were gaming was at.
Yep, PC rules! Better graphics and ~~~MODS~~~. I heard that people actually played Skyrim on console, but I can't even imagine enjoying that, hehe. And when I look at the Souls games, I keep thinking how much more amazing they would look if they made real PC versions.
Let's wait and see how this CC will cover that later on. :)
+cosmophonic12 early 90s...maybe you have a point, but the pc game market was mainstream long before ps1 launched.
I was in comprehensive school in the mid 90s and most boys had or had access to PCs that could play games. i don't think anyone in my year didn't play command and conquer, sim city 2000 etc. So pc gaming was big by at least 95 if not a year or two earlier.
in contrast, I couldn't name 2 people back then that owned a PlayStation when they came out.
all that being said, I'm from the UK. So maybe consoles weren't add big over here and we adapted pc gaming sooner because of that. different markets, different perspective.
Are there gender exclusive PC's in the UK?? :-P
I remember playing Civilization on my 486 in the mid 90s in Germany but I don't have a console to this day. Hubby has a PlayStation and I might have played Demon's Souls and Dark Souls on it, but that's about it for my console career.
No, and while my wife had a pc back then too, I didn't personally know any girls that played pc games back then.
I do think culture in the UK means fewer women from my generation got into pc gaming. I kept in touch with plenty from my year from school and none that I know of are into pc gaming. Although a few from they year below, friends wives etc. Just seems a smaller fraction compared to younger gamers.
I took a game design degree, and out of about 300 computing students that year there were maybe 10 women. Compared to when I went back a few years later for a post head, it was a lot closer to even.
Maybe just UK, maybe just my county, maybe just that year :p
So much nostalgia. So much.
"...blocky characters made of thousands of triangles..." THOUSANDS?! lol Right try tens of triangles....
One triangle is made up of 3 smaller triangles
+Adrian Duran mind blown
Gray Buckley yeah, I meant 4
I was probably thinking of a trapezoid
lol
yes, you could tessellate a triangle into an infinite number of triangles. The overall shape, however, is just a single triangle....
And it wasn't until PS3 that characters were made of thousands of triangles.
While the N64 had a 64-bit processor, it had only a 32-bit system bus and mostly relied on 32-bit code (note that even today, most applications are 32-bit). The technological advantages of the N64 were obvious and came from a much more powerful processor and RCP coprocessor, but they had little to do with the "64."
When we jump to PC Gaming ? and finally yes, something made in USA!
to be fair, the PC market has been around for a very long time, arguably the first true gaming system. It has been around for so long that if they don't do it in multiple parts, they'll be doing it a disservice
so, basically they will split PC Gaming in ton of episode, not in one episode about PC Gaming ? well it will somehow make console seems small in Gaming Industry then
This video reminds me of something developers need to remember. It is software not hardware that makes people buy a console. If the console has no good software, or at least the promise that it will arrive very soon. People won't buy the console.
Does anyone remember "Hexen" on PC?
Thanks for taking the user feedback and reducing to zero the bad jokes, puns and childish sounds. Great episode.
3:04 "[Sony] had tentatively partnered with Nintendo in 1998 to help develop a CD-ROM peripheral for the Super Nintendo."
1998? That doesn't seem right. The Playstation had already come out in North America by 1995, and the Philips CD-i definitely came out way before then.
It isn't right at all, this crash course is mediocre and very inaccurate. The partnership between Sony and Nintendo occurred around 1988, not 1998.
He barely even discusses the drama that occurred between Sony, Phillips, and Nintendo that led to the creation of the Sony PlayStation.
Dovahkiff I'm getting the impression that they're just really trying to get through the history of the consoles before moving on to some other topic, so it makes sense that they wouldn't go into too much detail. But you're right wherein that doesn't excuse the inaccuracies they're giving.
I hope there are mentions of PC breakthroughs as others have talked about. The Heroes of Might and Magic series for instance was the first game series to use a real full orchestra plus chorus, and the Command and Conquer/Red Alert series was a breakthrough for internet strategy combat games.
WHAT? Y U no mention: Sid Meier's Civilization? One of the greatest indie PC games of the early 90ies!
Black And White was a GAMECHANGER and you know it! lol
Indie? O_O
i'll absolutely love it if at the end of this series, they announce the Nentendo NX console
Crash Course has completely ignored the home computer as a popular gaming platform. In Europe, computer games were (and still are) more popular than console games.
Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, Wolfenstein, Doom, Hitman, Deus Ex, Elder Scrolls, Fallout and The Witcher are just some of the franchises that started their life as PC games.
Cuz it's an American series. And it's crash course video games, not PC games
vitamindubya Technically, PC games are a sub-category of video games.
It's a terminology thing. In North America all electronic games with a video output are called "video games", while in the UK and the non-English speaking world the same general application for all electronic games were called "computer games" up until the 2000s (in the UK) and the 2010s (in many non-English speaking countries).
+Eli Malinsky true. And again there is a lot of content to cover and a limited time to do it in. And it's an American series. Is there a U.K. Series similar to crash course? I'd be super curious to see something like that :)
PC *was* mentioned. 9:43. Chill out. There's still plenty of time to talk more about it.
y no amiga?
I'm simultaneously impressed and disappointed that Crash Course avoided Crash Bandicoot puns thriving this whole episode.
No mention of Ocarina of TIme, considered (one of) the best games ever. Weird. Great episode though!
Impossible to be exhaustive in what games are mentioned. But I feel like if there was less time spent on the examples they do pick, to speak in more general terms then they could have given us a broader and more representative history. I too feel like some culturally significant titles of that generation were missed and the concentration on but a few titles, skewed the presentation of the period. They e chosen this method by which one game stands for a whole genre, which is fine but then they go into such detail that without prior knowledge you'd have no way to know what was a genre trope or something particular to that title. If the terms had been more general the points could have been illustrated by a number of games rather than just one
+MIND MILK awesome point. :)
It is considered one of the best games ever, but it didn't really mean much for the industry. Mario 64 did more for Nintendo for example
RIP Dreamcast :'( Gone but not forgotten.
PC gaming gets 10 seconds of discussion time. Wtf.
PC gaming was just kind of chugging along in the background this whole time. Consoles were the landmark points of realistic power capabilities in mass consumption. It's much easier to discuss what consoles brought to the table than PCs, historically speaking.
I'm sure we will hear more in the next video
Scoota: You're right. It's much simpler, and forms a nice neat Crash-Course-friendly narrative, so I suppose it's not surprising that the history is being remembered this way.
As someone who actually lived through these times, it just seems frustratingly myopic.
Why am I watching this? It's nothing I can't get from Pat the NES Punk, with considerably more polish.
Oh, so you're just gonna completely skip over the revolutionary storytelling, world, and gameplay mechanics of Ocarina of Time? Y'know, Z targeting? Hyrule field? The incredible story? Its not like Ocarina of Time marked the beginning of adventure games or anything.
I was also frustrated by this exclusion
The Zelda fanboy is strong in this one
Thank you Michael Hunt!
Guys theyll make a PC episode eventually chill out
Really, everyone calm down. If you think you could do better why don't you spend hundreds of dollars on cameras and video editing software, get years of experience writing, filming, and editing videos. It is not easy to make these videos, just because it takes you ten minutes to watch the video that doesn't mean it only takes ten minutes to make them.
The Leaf Thinker Thanks for writing out my thoughts for me
Nexi Corn Back at you with the original comment.
Awful argument. Criticism isn't a claim that one can do better. I don't have to learn how to build chairs just to justify my argument when I complain about a chair breaking.
Kyle Harmieson That is true, but you can only control your own actions. The only way to guaranty that something will be done the way you want it to be is to do it yourself.
Sega Genesis was such an underrated console. I had a Genesis and a SNES, and while SNES was better in some respects, Genesis had its own charm. It was always like they were trying to take the leap to the next generation before the technology was available. Dreamcast--another great example. Great damn games and technology for its time. But it was just too early and everybody was still playing their old system, their N64s and PS1s, and weren't going to buy a new one yet.
Not enough attention on the PC but I suspect a seperate episode for it like episode 11 or 12. Hell, maybe even after the XBOX episode.
I was a PlayStation kid. Crash Bandicoot WARPED all the way!
My big bro had an N64 though. He got in trouble for letting me play Goldeneye.
I can't believe you only mentioned PC gaming for a few seconds, Blizzard and Westwood brought a lot of innovation during the 90s you didn't even mention the RTS gender whatsoever T-T, will those topics be discussed in another episode?
I love this series! I've been gaming since Pong ;)
I wish you would have spent more time on, and maybe used the thought bubble to tell the full story of what happened between Nintendo and Sony. Focusing on that year's CES where Sony got on stage to tell everyone they had a partnership with Nintendo. Then Nintendo getting on stage after them only to say they'd be working with Phillips Stabbing Sony in the back, and publicly embarrassing them. That is what lead to the rage and fire that the Playstation was born out of.
I like the way you structured your video. Very entertaining.
I love this series but they have talked little to none about PC gaming or handheld console gaming.
Yeah I want to hear more about the evolution of the Gameboy and eventually the DS
Also, the N64 was NOT the first controller to include a stick. It was the first DEFAULT controller, but the Deluxe Sega Genesis controller had a joystick.
disappointed with how little coverage pc gaming gets. doom, dune, Sim city. Even from the early 90s pc gaming was pretty mainstream. I know this is just a crash course and you can't cover everything, but pc gaming deserves more than the many failings of saga. 3dfx certainly made a mark with it's voodoo gfx cards.
Just stumbled on this crash course gaming. LOVE IT
I'm enjoying this series, but I feel that PC games should be given a little more focus. Giving rushed 1 to 2 minutes blurb at the end of episodes really doesn't do them justice. I think on the whole it seems this series is rushing through it's content too quickly. I think maybe having breaking things down a bit more might be a better approach,. I mean your only on episode 9 and you're already done with the 1990's.
Also no mention of,revolutionary games like civilization.
A very good point. Not to mention the genres that PC allowed for that Consoles really could not do (or atleast do well at the time)
So much peasantry in this series...
no pokemon? it's only one of the biggest and most successful game franchises of all time....
I'll bet that portable game systems will get their own video, and that Pokemon will probably be mentioned.
+Ow! My Eye! I hope so because it and the game boy itself was a big part of many 90s kids childhoods
Too bad the Dreamcast only got a passing notice. It was a damn fine console with some great games. I've sunk countless hours into Marvel vs Capcom 2, Capcom vs SNK, and Crazy Taxi, Sega Rally 2, and Ikaruga just to name a few. Great memories.
Cool video...
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This series is really good, I'm surprised I haven't seen it anywhere on the Internet
I'm surprised there wasn't a word for RTS game being far superior on PC at that time considering the keyboard/mouse combo, which was a definite advantage for PC gaming. The 90's saw the rise of many great RTS
nice job Andre Meadows! I like this series man.
This episode could have been split into two parts. Your best video so far.
A discussion of the impact of PlayStation should never pass over "Gran Tourismo". Real physics in a racing simulator was the ticket for me. PlayStation deserved it's own episode.
Before that, it was "Sundog" in 1985, on Atari 520 computer with a RISC CPU, a GUI (Digital Research GEM), a color monitor and a 1/2 megabyte of total memory, into which the OS must be loaded before use. With my Olivetti Spark-Jet printer, this thing was a powerhouse in it's time and a remarkable achievement by Atari.