A Short Visual History of Videogames

Download a high quality version (75mb) here:
http://www.vimeo.com/download/video:85809133?e=1224821300&h=459b55a13265f...
Because youtube has made it all dark and hard to watch properly.

Hey! I made this piece for my 3rd year major project for my BA(multimedia) course at RMIT.
Software I used; Maya, After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, MS Paint.

Voice over by Josh Molenkamp.
Emily Spehar helped think of some of the jokes (thanks!)

Have a look at my blog:
http://ultra-awesome.blogspot.com/
If you want to see more stuff that I've done.

Thanks for your time!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Motion
• graphics
• visual
• essay
• maya
• after
• effects
• nintendo
• sega
• playstation
• xbox
• atari
• magnavox
• odyssey
• awesome

[PlantainHurricane]

Pretty, but riddled with inaccuracies and glaring omissions. The arcade and PC gaming worlds are woefully underrepresented and completely missing respectively, and the "great crash" of the Atari age never really "destroyed" video games at all, the market just moved to arcades and PCs. Nintendo didn't "save" anything, other than possibly by making gaming more childish and simplified compared to PC and arcade cabinets of the time.

[khdownes1]

@PlantainHurricane I would have liked to include everything from the Spectrum to Vectrex, but due to tight deadlines(this being a uni project) I had to leave out things like handhelds and home computers. basically leaving only the most prominent players in the videogame industry as a whole

The crash destroyed retailers confidence in the console industry. Home computers continued to do well because retailers saw them as more than just fad toys

Thats why I called this a BRIEF History of videogames

[khdownes1]

@PlantainHurricane Judging by your comments about nintendo and consoles in general, I'm going to assume you're a dedicated PC gamers, and are offended that I left out your preferred gaming medium to make room for all those "childish" console games.

Fact is; popularity-wise, in the 80s consoles(specifically Nintendo) completely owned anything in the PC industry at the time.

example: how many people have even heard of Elite, or Miner Willy.

Now how many people have heard of mario, sonic or tetris?

[XSidRapedMyCatX]

Wow, I would think that this video would have 100,000's of views, but only 3,407!? Damn man, you really deserve more credit for this.

[khdownes1]

@XSidRapedMyCatX Thanks man, I've also got it uploaded on Vimeo. That version has 100k views.

[TehLulShow]

Why do you pronounce sega. Ceega?

its pronouced Sey Gah

[khdownes1]

In Australia, most people pronounce it "Seegah", in America, most people pronounce it "sey gah"

But theyre both wrong, it's really pronounced "Seh gah"

[ClickForOutkast]

"which was .. purple" lol

[Rocktecho]

Poor, poor dreamcast.

[Platitudinous9000]

Dreamcast FTW

[chafenhimer]

@PlantainHurricane nerd

[cyther39]

this is cool!

great visuals! especially the 3d console models but you should have included the current generation consoles like PS3 and Xbox360.

[paintedship]

of course my beloved colecovision was left out. Atari games were awful next to that.