The History of Gaming in only 4 minutes ( Video )

Thought this was very interesting to share on SW, This 4 Minute video show the history of gaming from console 1 ( i think ) to date.. ( boy i sure missed a lot of consoles :P ) http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/20/the-admittedly-incomplete-history-of-gaming-in-4-minutes/

Thoughts??

It wasn't trying to be historically accurate but I thought it was a pretty cool video

while i admire the idea the execution was terrible.

that was more like the history of gaming for dudes that only liked nintendo and playstation.

I liked the idea but it's lacking big time... really really lacking.

Missed out on a lot of key games in history (Halo, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Ocarina of Time, Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto III just to name a few). Not really that good if you ask me.

Missed out on a lot of key games in history (Halo, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Ocarina of Time, Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto III just to name a few). Not really that good if you ask me.

Vesica_Prime

Missed out on a lot of key games in history (Halo, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Ocarina of Time, Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto III just to name a few). Not really that good if you ask me.

Missed out on a lot of key games in history (Halo, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Ocarina of Time, Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto III just to name a few). Not really that good if you ask me.

[QUOTE="Vesica_Prime"]

Missed out on a lot of key games in history (Halo, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Ocarina of Time, Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto III just to name a few). Not really that good if you ask me.

Locutus_Picard

[QUOTE="Locutus_Picard"][QUOTE="Vesica_Prime"]

Missed out on a lot of key games in history (Halo, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Ocarina of Time, Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto III just to name a few). Not really that good if you ask me.

DarthBilf

[QUOTE="Vesica_Prime"]

Missed out on a lot of key games in history (Halo, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Ocarina of Time, Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto III just to name a few). Not really that good if you ask me.

Locutus_Picard

Halo was a very influential game. i dont know what you're on about.

Halo... ... For real? There is NOTHING new or ground breaking with halo. Have you played any of the FPS games that shaped the FPS market? Clearly not... Because Halo sure is not one of them.KalDurenik

How about the rechargeable shield?

[QUOTE="KalDurenik"]Halo... ... For real? There is NOTHING new or ground breaking with halo. Have you played any of the FPS games that shaped the FPS market? Clearly not... Because Halo sure is not one of them.waltefmoney

How about the rechargeable shield?

I :o :O 8O THATS the thing you say changed the FPS?KalDurenik

A lot of online FPS have adopted it since Halo introduced it. And also:

"Microsoft's Xbox Live service popularised matchmaking for console multiplayer games, with its flagship Halo 2 title being the first to use a ranking system and a variety of playlists. Other major games have gone on to adopt this approach, and it is now the most popular method of arranging online games on consoles."

http://www.giantbomb.com/matchmaking/92-3334/

[QUOTE="Locutus_Picard"][QUOTE="Vesica_Prime"]

Missed out on a lot of key games in history (Halo, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Ocarina of Time, Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto III just to name a few). Not really that good if you ask me.

FatCatPatRat

Halo was a very influential game. i dont know what you're on about.

[QUOTE="KalDurenik"]I :o :O 8O THATS the thing you say changed the FPS?waltefmoney

A lot of online FPS have adopted it since Halo introduced it. And also:

"Microsoft's Xbox Live service popularised matchmaking for console multiplayer games, with its flagship Halo 2 title being the first to use a ranking system and a variety of playlists. Other major games have gone on to adopt this approach, and it is now the most popular method of arranging online games on consoles."

http://www.giantbomb.com/matchmaking/92-3334/

All hail matchmaking...I would still be manually searching games to my liking on the consoles...teh horror.Locutus_Picard

You're welcome.

[QUOTE="Vesica_Prime"]

Missed out on a lot of key games in history (Halo, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Ocarina of Time, Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto III just to name a few). Not really that good if you ask me.

Locutus_Picard

Sorry but only a plank of wood is so foolish that it cannot recognize the fact that Halo: Combat Evolved revolutionize console FPS with quick buttons for grenade and melee, rechargable shields, control scheme and so on.

Hell, I don't even like Halo: Combat Evolved in the first place. Yet I can see how it influnced gaming today.

[QUOTE="waltefmoney"]

[QUOTE="KalDurenik"]Halo... ... For real? There is NOTHING new or ground breaking with halo. Have you played any of the FPS games that shaped the FPS market? Clearly not... Because Halo sure is not one of them.KiZZo1

How about the rechargeable shield?

Halo: Combat Evolved is often credited for the first appearance of regenerating health. However, not only wasn't it the first, but it did not even have regenerating health. Halo featured a traditional health system, as it was the player's shields that regenerated. Subsequent games in the series, starting with Halo 2, added true regenerating health, although the original system made a return appearance in Halo 3: ODST and continued on in Halo: Reach.

In truth, this popular method of health control appeared long before Halo. The 1992 first-person shooter Faceball 2000 for SNES and Sega Genesis had it. It also was used in the relatively unpopular comic book game, Wolverine: Adamantium Rage, which was released on the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis in 1994.

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Try again.

What's wrong with this picture?

[QUOTE="waltefmoney"]

[QUOTE="KiZZo1"]

Halo: Combat Evolved is often credited for the first appearance of regenerating health. However, not only wasn't it the first, but it did not even have regenerating health. Halo featured a traditional health system, as it was the player's shields that regenerated. Subsequent games in the series, starting with Halo 2, added true regenerating health, although the original system made a return appearance in Halo 3: ODST and continued on in Halo: Reach.

In truth, this popular method of health control appeared long before Halo. The 1992 first-person shooter Faceball 2000 for SNES and Sega Genesis had it. It also was used in the relatively unpopular comic book game, Wolverine: Adamantium Rage, which was released on the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis in 1994.

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Try again.

KiZZo1

What's wrong with this picture?

Have you heard of StarCraft? The Protoss? 1998? ... as in before 2001?

Starcraft isn't a FPS.

The idea is good but it´s historically pretty bad. N64 before PS1? :|

[QUOTE="Locutus_Picard"][QUOTE="Vesica_Prime"]

Missed out on a lot of key games in history (Halo, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Ocarina of Time, Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto III just to name a few). Not really that good if you ask me.

WilliamRLBaker

Metal Gear (cinematic), Shadow of the Collossus (artistic), Gran Turismo (first successful sim racer on consoles, why do you think MS has Forza?), Final Fantasy VII... Just to name a few and none of them generic but all considered c l a s s i c s. Halo is nothing when compared to real FPS like Half-Life and such and even less when compared to real c l a s s i c s like Mario and Zelda. All the boom of Halo was thanks to the novelty of online gaming. Now you can play basically play any game online and Halo is not the most popular game any more, Call Duty is right now and you know why? Cus it's all about trends.

while i admire the idea the execution was terrible.

that was more like the history of gaming for dudes that only liked nintendo and playstation.

Riverwolf007

Agreed, lol at no Atari console in a history of gaming video. Also, lol when they switched to the HD TV for Wii.

Metal Gear (cinematic), Shadow of the Collossus (artistic), Gran Turismo (first successful sim racer on consoles, why do you think MS has Forza?), Final Fantasy VII... Just to name a few and none of them generic but all considered ****cs. Halo is nothing when compared to real FPS like Half-Life and such and even less when compared to real cl assics like Mario and Zelda. All the boom of Halo was thanks to the novelty of online gaming. Now you can play basically any game online but Halo is a recognized brand now so people (americans mostly) keep buying it but now COD is much more popular. Why? Cus it's all about trends.

Gue1

Metal Gear is not a Sony franchise and GT is nothing when compared to real racing sims like iRacing. See how easy it is?

Am I the only person boggled that a person in this thead yapping about the History of Gaming THOUGHT THAT STARCRAFT WAS A FPS?!?!?

Halo was only a landmark for those who didn't play FPS's on PC. All Halo did was bring that experience to the consoles. I thought the games in the video were pretty good choices. I enjoyed every one of those games a great deal. The "Hands" of the video were off on all of the games except Rock Band. I bet I know which game he likes to play.......GoldenElementXL

Yeah...the fact that it catapulted console FPSs from obscurity to the dominant genre of video games is what makes it so influential, for better or worse.

im late but pretty cool vid :P i think my mom remembers donkey kong + mario and sum weird space game for oldddd atari :lol: i love how they featured mario 64 for n64 cuz that game pretty much made my gaming life :lol: , then the dreamcast and gamecube :D brings back awesome memories!!! and now if the future of gaming becomes how they show it, i think its gonna take some kind of cataclysmic event to pull me off my video game system :lol: :D :D :D especially if we can live a video game like that!

Video wasn't cool enough.

How is that the history of gaming? They left out the PC altogether.