Play Value

SeantheMan

Started watching these again recently, dunno how you'd call it, small mini series ?
Basically about the history of video games. The original site is gone, but they all seem to be on youtube now.
Worth checking out for any gamer , might learn a thing or two

Channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/playvalue

Some of the vids - I think there's about 22 in total, all about 10mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ge1UzO2AQc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlVBfh5oDFU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y37tPc08v90

deathrider

i stumbled upon a few of these a while back on youtube, and really enjoyed them. I only watched a handful of episodes though, I really must get back round to checking more of them.

K.O.Kiki

Is it American or European?

I'm honestly sick of the American perspective of the 80s-90s console wars -- the European struggles (with micro-computers thrown in) or Asia (all those lost consoles/computers) are much more exciting to discover!

SeantheMan

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Is it American or European?

I'm honestly sick of the American perspective of the 80s-90s console wars -- the European struggles (with micro-computers thrown in) or Asia (all those lost consoles/computers) are much more exciting to discover!

Just watch the Rise of Nintendo one there. It's impartial pretty much, very interesting.

Retr0gamer

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Is it American or European?

I'm honestly sick of the American perspective of the 80s-90s console wars -- the European struggles (with micro-computers thrown in) or Asia (all those lost consoles/computers) are much more exciting to discover!

Same here, was thought last week in a lecture about the massive videogame crash that affected the world in 1983. Nothing about how it was actually localised to just America and how home computers were booming in japan and europe. I know some younger people that think only the NES and Atari existed in the 70's and 80's or how we were all playing the NES during the 80's in Ireland.

SeantheMan

I think they're just meant to be fun overview vids, not indepth analysis.
They don't follow a consistent theme, they have all different topics.
I like them anyways

H3llR4iser

Nice overview, I honestly didn't really about some of the facts. It's a bit funny to hear about "Christmas 1985" talk from some of the people in the clips, they look they weren't even born back then...I was 5 and remember absolutely zero