Rise Of The Video Game S01E02 DSR XviD-OMiCRON
Watching the last episode of this great new short series gave me a very good perspective on the unique history and culture of video games. And I did not even need to read a long wikipedia article on it either. The show is long and is packed with useful and interesting information. This episode is going to be about Donkey Kong, and how it’s character ‘Mario’ would bring the video game industry to the next level. No torrent on NTi so sit tight or wait for http urls.
Level Two: In the late 1970s and 1980s, instead of controlling “things” like spaceships and tennis rackets, videogame technology let players command recognizable characters with real faces and back stories. Game developers were liberated to create more complex video games with heroic journeys — and Japanese creators like Shigeru Miyamoto rose to prominence with star characters Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda. But in the 1990s, Generation X emerged and the games of their childhood couldn’t satisfy the new teen angst that now permeated pop culture. With Sega’s Genesis and Sony’s PlayStation, gamers dismissed cutesy cartoon characters in favor of grittier heroes like Sonic the Hedgehog and anti-heroes in games like Grand Theft Auto III. As players grew up, their youthful idealism was replaced with a warier view of the world and a yearning for photorealistic, angry anti-heroes. This episode features interviews with Trip Hawkins (Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder of Electronic Arts), Al Lowe (creator of Leisure Suit Larry), Tim Schafer (creator of Full Throttle) and other notable figures in the gaming industry.
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watched this tonite. it was pretty interesting
it’s on http://www.mininova.org/get/1018087
the torrent link goes to a “could not find torrent” page.
Excellent! I enjoyed the first ep.
I’m waiting for the 90’s version those were some awesome years for games. the 21st century is turning into a gaming nightmare with 80% of pc games are hyped crap.
yo mario aint in donkey kong son son
The mods on this site are fools that got no street or educational knowledge
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@9
Totally agree. The show is crap. They interview MS people for fu*cks sake and they jumped from Sonic to GTA3 without even a single mention of Doom, Diablo or Command & Conquer. Yay for console tards. Diarrhea for me.
umm… that was meant to be @6… not 9. And I’ll add the longest journey to my list and there are dozens more that were bloody EPIC and revolutionary. GTA3? Please.
@7
I hope you are kidding.
I was gonna check this out, But if theres no mention of C64 or Amiga whats the point.
No mention of kings quest or x-com
X-Com ruled
As the person who wrote the first book on videogame history (Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames), I think I am qualified to say that the first two episodes have been a joke. There are glaring errors everywhere! From the idea that videogames were spawned from the cold war, to the the suggestion that Sega’s Master System failed because of the videogame crash of 1983, to the mention that Grand Theft Auto III was a great leap for the PS1. It’s a shame that they can’t get their facts correct and then they release this dribble to a new generation of gamers who believe that everything they hear on the TV is correct.
This is exactally the same as “I Videogame” which already has 5 episodes out.
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A program on Donkey Kong? Wow, can’t wait.
Seriously, this series is b0ll0cks. We all know that game companies aren’t informed by what gamers (let alone an entire generation) want.
It’s only now that the internet has let gamers feedback to developers about what we want in our games. But, like any product, it is simply whatever sells well. Not to mention the cross-promoting game/hardware partnerships simply designed to make more money for both parties.
This series, like most games nowadays (actually most docos too) is all hot hair, hype and bling, probably made to sell more games. It’s total sh1t people! Wakey wakey.
They don’t even cover the text game era. Probably because it won’t help hype the industry as it’s not very sexy.
Sorry but these so-called docos annoy the begeezus outta me.
@16, you are perfectly right. Thankfully a few of us here are old enough to remember the facts.
And Mr X, if this series gave you a new perspective, there’s a good chance your old one was perfectly valid.
Media nowadays just feeds us like we’re cattle ready to be fattened by hype and herded thru the checkout.
Use some discretion and demand quality information and facts, not hype and misinformation.
OK…so how many games have been written and released since the 80’s ? How many games systems have come and during that period ? You have to be very vague and general with a program like this. Also it is not aimed at us 30-40 year olds who remeber these. It is aimed at the new lot who have probably never heard of a text adventure !
It is a shame as whilst enjoying the programs so far, feel it is bit of a missed oppurtunity.
Favorite game during the 80’s: Ultima 3 & 4
its an american based show so i dont think they will be covering the c64 or Amiga that were big in europe
i hate how they repeat everything before and after an ad break aswell. oh well its slightly more entertaining than a slap in the face with a wet fish
@22 ENT,
The C64 was pretty popular in the US as well. As far as games were concerned, it was the clear winner of the 8-bit era. Atari 8-Bit systems kind of fizzled out and never had the level of support that the C64 did. IBM clones were still limping along with either monochrome or horrible CGA graphics and while the Apple was popular in schools, its sound and graphics were inferior to the C64. (it had higher resolutions, but the colors were worse) The Amiga didn’t do as well, but it did have a dedicated following (I still have mine). Unfortunately, Commodore never promoted it much, and didn’t keep up with the times.
@21 sybull,
True, but there are a lot of other systems that should be covered. The Gameboy was the first successful, portable system to use cartridges, but the Atari Lynx had the first portable color display. The Turbo Express was the first handheld system that played console-quality games since it used the same game cards as the full-sized TG-16. The Turbo Duo and Sega CD were the first systems to introduce CD-based games (at least in the US). The Neo-Geo was the first system to play the exact same games at home as in the arcade.
Even if it is aimed at younger people today, it’s a disservice to let them think that Atari, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are the only companies who had any real effect on the gaming industry.
it is NOT NEW SERIES ffs!!!
it’s from the spring, repacaged for idiots in USA
The original series is called ‘I, Videogame’ and the whole series can be downloaded../
Thanks you Pero!
Another thing they missed is the Sinclair Spectrum! That little gem was a gamers wet dream at the time.
Remember the Hobbit on the Spectrum? Pretty advanced command parser for its time, never seen another one quite like it since. But yeah I think it was mostly big in EU and Oz.
The Atari ST was probably the first “home computer” used for professional stuff… it had MIDI built in, and many muso’s used it for MIDI and composing.. even Mike Oldfield IIRC.
Being so slanted towards Sony, I wonder if they will mention the MSX ?
What would be nice is if they concentrated on the era when one or two people could write a game and make a success of it. It would be nice to see indepth conversations with the ‘heroes’ of video gaming and what they remember of those times. But then again that covers soooo many people.
They should just do a 6 episode series covering the 70’s. Then do a 2nd series covering the 80’s and a 3rd one covering the 90’s. By then is was all corporate image and no indaviduality.
Trouble is they are concentrating on the video game characters more (Pacman, Mario, Lara croft)…jeez….they arn’t real people !! Nowdays no one knows the names behind the games (exception John romero).
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gameheadz
http://www.guba.com/general/search?query=gamer+revolution
I think they’ll cover more eras of gaming because there’s still 4 more episodes to go IIRC. S01E02 was mostly wanted to explain the inclusion of storyline into games and them becoming more movie-like. I’m sure other episodes will focus more on stuff like genres etc.
S01E02 mostly*
they almost completely missed the 16bit era after the NES they go from the megadrive/genesis to psone to x360… terrible
For an interesting computer timeline (with pics) go here:
http://oldcomputers.net/
rise of the videogames without comodore, gameboy, snes, n64… wtf with gta3…did they now that there is a gta1 and gta2??…documentary is repetive and misleading…very bad job
and there is no mention about pc games in the 90s like doom,duke nukem,half-life and oder revolutionary games…
where was Peter Molyneux?
where where RTS games?
No amiga? how could you skip the C64?
Ok, the show made for some nice memories, but as a whole i felt it was extremely incoherent, and messy.
@7
OKay, if that’s not Mario in Donkey Kong, who do you sugest it is!?
I thought this episode went to fast, from pre-NES to mentioning the 360, without even bringing up the SNES or N64… they’re getting ahead of themselves.