The Second Generation of Video Games: Console War 2

[tyler25131]

awesome inclusion of Bloody Tears remix!!

[luke666808g]

I find it hard to believe the Atari 2600 lasted until 1992, I'm pretty sure my family had one of those in the 80's, and it was already old back then, everything we had was painfully out of date.

[mysteriousgamer89]

this was definetly the worse gen in gaming hisory due to the fact that there were too many consoles and people couldn't keep up with this shit seriously i also think this was the gen that almost made gaming come to an end if im not mistaken thank god for nintendo & shigiru miyamoto saving gaming and thank god i wasn't alive during this era either cus all the consoles of this gen sucked except the atari 2600

[SPFullfan]

Sega SG-1000 really mean "Sega Game 1000"? I always thought it was "Service Games (Sega full name) 1000"!

[gez84]

The NES Sold 61 Million worldwide which is more than the Atari 2600 which sold about 40 Million

[RadicalDickhead]

This really helped my project.

[mopbrothers]

The opening song in this sounds so much like Streets of Rage it scares me.

[randommuchlol888]

Can you tell me the song that sounds like Simon Belmont's theme. What's the remix?

[Iwatchtrek]

Nintendo - Castlevania Theme (Gothic Techno Remix)

[randommuchlol888]

Ok. Thank you

[Redknight345]

The atari 2600 is the best classic console of all time.

[splot9]

the intellivision had a expansion that allowed it to play atari 2600 games true. that makes it better than atari 2600

[newblenderbeer]

No. You're thinking of the colecovision.

[splot9]

you reply 3 months later dont you think i would have worked that out. AVGN has a colecovision review so you know.

[sargentaaron2004]

Imagine sending the original X Box back to 1977? It would blow peoples minds! It has more graphics than the Star Wars film studio at that time!

[GHUJSE]

think about sending xbox 360 their!!!

[sargentaaron2004]

The song at 13:50 is the Zelda theme tune but less adavanced.

[pinkdude888]

CASTLEVANIA!!!!!

[Vendetta0000]

thease vids rock, ive seen both :D

[Iwatchtrek]

Theres six, soon to be seven...

[ado908]

what is that pacman song plz tell me

[Iwatchtrek]

Pac-man theme Hip Hop beat

[ado908]

ty so much i was looking for that pac man theme for like forever

[Anawnymous]

oh yeah its in that wierd al song. hahaha

[mumphis18]

it's a mike jones song

[hfd33]

I had 2600 at the end of 1976. I know everyone posts 19977 but I played Combat for 6 straight months (I was dying for a second game). Finally Indy 500 packaged with driving paddles came out. So the so call "tennis/pong" paddles were actually "driving" paddles. Atari 3rd and 4th games were Breakout and Superman.

[Gotenksrules]

i fell sorry for the people that lived in that time we have all the badass consoles great picture and quality.but still cool

[PirhanaandKodiak]

A typo here. In the second script in the Vectrex section, the word 'faster' should be 'raster'. just for a FYI

[Ogsonofgroo]

5star history lesson! Kudos for putting these histories together. Though I missed out on the vid game thing (hey Ibe young at heart tho :D )I find trivia/history like this quite interesting and you have done a good job of presenting it.

Kind of a dumb question probably but what of these old 1st&2nd gen systems are worth looking for to collectors? Any real rarities or do they just sort of stay dead?

Just wonderin'

(Cheers) too!

[Iwatchtrek]

Nothing's especially rare. But... If you find the video games for these systems complete with perfect packaging, good instructions, etc. those are rare. Also, unopened consoles and systems that come with the original boxs/manuals are rare as well. You see, all these things were made with paper and cardboard from the 70's and 80's, so, by now, in 2008, finding complete paper boxes/cardboard boxes/paper manuals that aren't damaged and intact is becoming rarer and rarer.

[SmarterChild14]

wow.... AWEOSME 5 STARS

[TaylordCT]

aww is your name YTMND?

[Iwatchtrek]

Hey, fuck you buddy. I don't run around like a gay person to show off my face and body because I have low self esteem and I need to feel liked to and by fucking youtubers.

[TigerSamurai]

What was the NES's lifespand?

[Iwatchtrek]

85 to 92

[TigerSamurai]

I thought the NES had the longest life spand, guess not, Atari 2600 really did have the longest lifespand

[TigerSamurai]

I'm sorry to ask, but who surviuved(sorry for spelling) this generation of this Video Games.

[Iwatchtrek]

Atari. That's about it. Intellivision did fair, as well, but made no new consoles.

So, Atari, Sega and Intellivision.