Insert Coin: Part 2-History of Video Games

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Cool video, it's fun to look back.

I just hope there aren't too many tech trolls watching.

[Britishdude1]

whats the ending sing named?

[Britishdude1]

vivid graphics lmao

[mastermoogleman]

The Playdium aka heaven on earth

[MisterCereal]

LMAO @ the horse riding!

[DKCGamerGirl]

Atari wasn't the first home video game console, as they keep pressing around 4:00.

Magnavox Odyssey was the first home-entertainment system for video games. It was released in '72. Atari 2600 wasn't released until 5 years later, in '77.

I just had to cringe at that because they are trying to tell the history id gaming and they completely have their facts wrong in leaving out the Odyssey.

[xFIRERUSHx]

at 4:47 if you look at the tv you can see starfox 64!

[ArcadeGames]

LOL, "Now we have the N64"... This video is way old...

[WhenYouveGoneGuru]

lol. So dated.

[ArcadeGames]

Yeah, and Pong was not the first video game...

[WhenYouveGoneGuru]

It was the first commercially successful one. In invention history credit often goes not to the original inventor but the inventor who created a marketable version of the technology.

[xFIRERUSHx]

at 5: 28 look at the tv and you can see goldeneye 007. at 8:07 you can see star wars: shadow of the empire and somewhere else in the vid i saw

mario 64.

[muffinpimp47]

2:19 uhhh pong wasnt the first video game

[Benchpress33]

how long ago was this he said "and todays we have the ps1" that was lik 12 years ago we have the ps3 and the ps4 is comming out sometime in late 2011

[TheGangVideos]

ps4 isn't coming out for like another 8 years

[Benchpress33]

yeah true

[basketballjocks]

@TheGangVideos where did you hear that? its not true. my dads company works with sony and he said that he heard the ps4 was going to be released in the next 2 years

[MtWaverlyProductions]

long live monkey island!

[shakyegg]

At the time this video was produced there had already been a great deal of television produced talking about the "benefits" of gaming. This video was designed to be critical. Insert Coin has no obligation to be "objective" and does not seek to be. The main purpose is to encourage gamers to think critically about video games without dismissing the importance of video games in their lives. Keep the comments coming. Thanks.

[cantthinkofaname445]

i remember when golden eye came out, some 8 year old kid shot some people up and blamed it on the game.

i was 8 at the time too and i literally said, "what a fucken idiot, who the fuck would shoot someone because of a game" i didn't think anybody would believe him... well, guess i was wrong.

[UltimaChaos298]

Whoever made this has no knowledge of games.

[Capslockets]

im sure oxo was the first eva vidoe game. its very obscure and im pretty sure sum guy from cambridge university created it

[dajzilla]

This is some old stuff but still great. I love the history of video ames & computers. GREAT STUFF SHAKYEGG! Thanks for posting it!

[snakes3425]

I don't mean to disagree but weren't Tennis for Two (1958) and Space War (1962) the first video games?

[Capslockets]

very true snakes and even further back OXO that werid noughts and crossed game in da earlier 50s

[smassi25]

Tennis for two was the first ever video game.

[nesteph]

pong was actually the recognized beginning of the current concept of video gaming. what you mentioned were just the first attempts to see what one could do with the new technology, the issue of the 1971 pong patent and the release of the odyssey marked the first video game generation. while homage is paid by the industry we feel they had more to do with the new computerized technology. Now we are in the 9th generation of gaming in about to head into the 10th, and its all do to those experiments

[Goofy8907]

10 years is nothing, I still luv and often play games that are like 15 years old or even older The grafix is not the same as gameplay! ;) Some great classic Games: Sonic 1-3 on Genesis Super Mario 1-3 on NES Super Mario World 1&2 on SNES Zelda & Earhtbound on SNES Gunstar Heroes on Genesis Crusader of Centy/Soleil on Genesis Megaman series on NES Megaman X series on SNES Theres like a BUG BUNCH of other great games to, but I can't write em' all down :P

[Roller41ife]

man this video has to be 10 years old

[GODSFISTS]

First videogame was X-O

not the pong, sorry.

Thanks for uploading!

[Panpizza15]

seal of quality? BullS@#$, I want my 70 bucks back from color a Dinosaur.

[atarilovesyou]

Playdium shut down a few years ago. It was cool while it lasted but suffered from a lack of new games, and overpriced classic games. Very expensive to maintain the 'wow' factor and after a few visits, that 'wow' turned to 'meh'. The 'virtual restaurant' was problematic at best. I don't know if it made a lot of money, certainly not enough to break even with all the fancy new games they had. But that first time sure was awesome...

[snakes3425]

That's ashame, it looked like a blast.

[mahhootenanny]

There's a dude playing quake without a mouse... :)

[visionon]

The NES was already available in arcades for a couple of years before the home version came out. They called it the "VS Cartridge System", and it had stuff like Hogan's Alley and Excitebike which you could select after putting in your quarter. I remember seeing one and wondering why they didn't just put it in a home system. Turns out they did eventually.

[swack16]

yea I remember playing that! it was pretty cool even though the time limit was a tad short

[jkygogo]

Hi, do you have part of of Insert coins, The History of Video games? I can't seem to find it. I think I saw part one, but it's mostly a photo montage and music.

Thanks.

[MagusX1]

God, good doc, but I am so sick of people saying fucking Pong was the first game. Pong was not the first game...came out in 1954. It was on a radar like device, but Pong was not by anymeans the first videogame.

[birchgroveownsu]

The first game was, in fact, Space Wars. You circle strafed around a star.

[visionon]

The first self-contained coin-op game was Computer Space; it flopped because it was too complicated for the bar crowd, but the first pong was so well received that it overflowed its coin bucket.

[kamundo]

'today we have the N64'

lol, so outdated. but still interesting.

[shakyegg]

Yes this block was made over 8 years ago. Glad you liked it.

[metamano]

douse this place still exsist?

[omgyjyaswitchx]

great documentary, very well done.

But...no Sega Saturn!?

[Turboboyturbinado]

Cool! *****

[shakyegg]

Thanks for your momments!

[JACKAClD]

Exellent documentary, thnx for the upload, 5/5

[shakyegg]

Awesome. Thanks for the feedback. Did you see all the parts?

[johnnymo221]

1971 not 1972 no im not a nerd

[shakyegg]

Ha.  Thanks!!!

[Turboboyturbinado]

Thanks for posting these great videos!

[shakyegg]

Thanks man. I noticed you've watched them all. Gald you liked them.

Shakyegg

[Tomtelala]

It's not really correct though... Nolan's Pong was NOT the first videogame! Search for Ralph Baer for example instead.

Quite interesting though:).

[shakyegg]

Thanks for the headsup on Baer!! Cheers

[Tomtelala]

I'm writing a school work about videogame history, so I've learned some lately^^.

[shakyegg]

Great. Have you see the other Parts of Insert Coin? Wouldn't mind to know what you think about the entire doc. Just go to shakyegg channel

Cheers

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[xray0000]

If I remember correctly, Baer worked for Magnavox and came up with the first home TV game prototype, while Bushnell was the first to prototype a coin-op game for bars / arcades. Oh, and his first arcade game was Computer Space, not Pong. Pong was the first one that made any money.

[sesmann]

Thanks for posting this!

[shakyegg]

Cool man. Glad you liked it! Flash back eh?