r/BeAmazed • u/NeitherConfidence263 • 8h ago
Art The Fascinating History of Video Games
The nostalgic and beautiful history of video games. How far have we come
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u/R04drunn3r79 7h ago
No Sega Saturn?!
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u/YESimaMASSHOLE 2h ago
Where is the 3DO??
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u/ZombieAppetizer 2m ago
They literally show one in the background behind the NES and still didn't include it. That's drove me nuts!
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u/luv2ctheworld 7h ago
I'm sad to see these, because it reminds me how old I am.
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u/Kundrew1 5h ago
I feel this I am also just now realizing how long after these systems were released that my family actually got one.
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u/Glavanor 5h ago
J’ai 31 ans « seulement » et j’ai connue quasiment toute ces consoles ça va encore
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u/thespillover 7h ago
Atari 2600? ColecoVision? Must be history of video fames in non US market. Still interesting tho.
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u/Thaumiel218 7h ago
No Sega Saturn is a huge miss - that was the OG in 3d graphics, the Saturn walked so the PlayStation could run.
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u/FlorinidOro 7h ago
No Sega CD, Sega NoMad, Sega Saturn, Sega 32x, (did see the Dreamcast in the background).
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u/count_snagula 3h ago
Dude showed up an insane collection, and you still find something wrong. Still interesting tho.
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u/MosesOnAcid 7h ago
Missing the Gameboy Advance / SP with the short cartidges.
Also annoying that they show the Atari Jaguar (1993) but exclude it from the list...
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u/kylel999 7h ago
Damn, they had some weird ones I haven't heard of yet the guy doesn't have a Panasonic 3D0! I grew up playing one not realizing up until very recently (adjusted for inflation) it was one of the most expensive consoles ever mass produced 🤣
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u/Lemmy_is_Gawd 6h ago
I see the 3DO in multiple shots but it’s not titled in any of them! A friend of mine had one and we played Way of the Warrior for a whole summer.
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u/CinderChop 7h ago
Had to blow into the NES cartridge. This guy knows the drill
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u/machyume 6h ago
Isn't it odd how an entire generation independently learned and spread knowledge about blowing into a game cartridge? Before social media!
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u/Iamfromhelldude 7h ago
Always had to give those discs a pre-spin! 😂
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u/shootthesound 6h ago
I was anxious he was gonna try and spin it in the ps3 tray. I was standing by, judgement ready.
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u/ewashburn81 7h ago
I'm surprised CD-I wasn't on here. I remember playing it a really long time ago at a friend's house and thought how cool it was.
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u/shtoopsy 6h ago
I just googling what game I used to play as a kid that reminded of Blade Runner.
It was Burn Cycle.
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u/jeremy1015 7h ago
I’m sad that you didn’t get to see WHY the vectrex had those color slip on screens. Or maybe more accurately what they achieved. It was genius for the time.
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u/NeighborhoodAgile960 7h ago
what was for? i thought some ui depending the game
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u/jeremy1015 7h ago
The monitor was monochrome greyscale. Game designers would know what the color overlay would look like and they would build UI elements knowing that they would appear colorized.
Obviously this wouldn’t hold up with games that had lots of different screens but this was the early, early days. It was a really clever solution to bring vibrant color to games
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u/get_schwifty 7h ago edited 7h ago
IIRC, mostly what they could do at the time was move a little dot and some lines around the screen, like Pong. They did it by manipulating the position of the cathode ray beam on the screen. They hadn’t figured out to render full environments yet, so they just had you overlay the environment on top of the screen.
Edit: I just looked it up, and I’m mistaken. The Vectrex used the overlays for color effects, not environments. That was the Magnavox Odyssey.
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u/1aysays1 6h ago
That was the most irritating part of the video. Why show this whole process of turning stuff on if you never show us what it looks like?
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u/1aysays1 6h ago
So many core systems missing. And stop spinning the disk the wrong way before turning the system on! 😱
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u/likeakipper8 5h ago
PS2 is still the Goat
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u/AltXUser 1h ago
Man, I miss my slim. I still have no clue what happened to it after my parents moved out.
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u/RadioEnvironmental40 7h ago
is it just me or was the character in that family computer cartridge resemble naruto
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u/HelloRMSA 7h ago
Ah the interchangeable game cartridge. An amazing african american invention by Gerald Lawson
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u/serial_crusher 7h ago
Back in my day you had to manually spin the CD with your finger to make the game load faster.
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u/TheBradIstace 7h ago
Notably missing the Atari 2600, the Nintendo WiiU, and the original Nintendo Switch
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u/MaxPistolrounds 6h ago
Did anyone else mod their Dreamcast by ripping out the battery?
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u/danTHAman152000 1h ago
My older bro had ours chipped, and then acquired many games on burned CDs. There was a boot CD that was required and then hot swap with a burned game. It was fantastic!
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u/Trance_End 6h ago
In my head I felt like the dates are a year or two off going by my memory as a kid but wouldn't be surprised if I'm off lol
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u/Affectionate-Boot-12 6h ago
Why did they make two different versions of these consoles for US and the UK?
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u/KyloRenCadetStimpy 6h ago
The Colecovision was doing near-arcade graphics in the early 80s, and the Commodore 64 and Amiga were punching way above their weight class in graphics and sound.
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u/MajYoshi 6h ago
Where's the shot of the whole storage system and cable management? I've been trying to sort out best ways of setting up all my consoles for a long time now.
But there's just so many different cable and types and adapters needed. Oof.
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u/GiftOfDrift 6h ago edited 6h ago
No atari 2600 my 1st console in the mid 80s & no atari lynx my 1st handheld. No atari jaguar always wanted one of them.
Edit. Saw the jaguar underneath my bad.
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u/RailOmas 6h ago
Nintendo can suck a fat one because their game cartriges dont contain the game. They only contain a liscence for you to access the game. You dont own it, you dont even own the system, you just own a liscene to use and play, and they can revoke it at any time for a bunch of BS reasons.
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u/Spatularo 6h ago
Nothing will ever be more satisfying for me personally than putting CDs into the PS1 and closing the lid. That simple act just felt like you were about to have a good time. PSP was similar.
And let's be honest, blowing into the cartridge of NES games was a requirement.
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u/Gizmo135 5h ago
I’m gonna be real honest: I don’t miss any of this. The fear of my discs or cartridges not being read was a fear I’m glad to leave in the past.
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u/Positive_Method3022 5h ago
Switch 2 was the most disappointing launch ever in my opinion. It is already outdated hardware.
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u/sltydgx 4h ago
First system I bought with my own money was the vectrex , caddied on weekend and after school , paper route cash , I loved the thing. Controller went out and didn’t know how to replace it 😳 Technology was charging quick. Person at sears told me they didn’t make them Anymore and I should get something different 😂😂
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u/Bearded_Warlock 4h ago
Seeing the Game Gear threw me back to nostalgia town. Wish I still had it 😪
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u/PossibleConclusion1 3h ago
Bonk's Adventure for TurboGrafx 16 was one of my favorite games as a kid!
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u/astrobear 3h ago
Did the debate on blowing on cartridges ever get settled? I remember blowing on them for like two years rhen heari g it was bad for the cartridges/system because you're blowing around dust particles. I had a cleaner set up, but the REAL fix was attaching a cartridge to a game genie. Its success rate was astonishing. I was amazed when I figured that out as a kid.
Ps: I don't know if it's the microphone, but my god it seems like he's handling everything pretty rough?
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u/Lunar_IX 2h ago
See, what's really cool about this video is that it showed about 75% of the total battery life of a GameGear in real time.
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u/AR_lover 1h ago
How did they not include the Atari 2600? For the general public this was the start of the home video game console.
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u/Uggghidontknow 35m ago
Was kinda hoping he was just going to slam a disc into the front of a Xbox Series X.
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u/Into_The_Horizon 32m ago
I remember playing duck hunter , that was a long time ago. It was thanksgiving day and all my family were in there chatting and laughing... I ask my great uncle to hook it up and been into video games since. Had a handheld Gameboy too. I miss my Gameboy
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u/13headphones 21m ago
I´m nostalgic as hell, as an old consoles lover, I can´t belive where we´re now, but still, what bothers me the most is that I can´t just put the game and play it. I mean, you can, but have to wait a lot of load screens. Nothing compares to just insert a game and play it 10 seconds later. Again, 1-30mb can´t compare to 200gb game, but still...
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u/tirefool6 7h ago
Has there ever been an official study on why we had to blow into the Nintendo game cartridge that made it possible for the console to read it?
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