Nuclear Fruit: How the Cold War Shaped Video Games
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- An exploration of the Cold War's effect on video games.
Complete edit of 5 parts: • Nuclear Fruit
NB: This video contains flashing images from 32:30-34:05.
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damn, what a tagline.
"Video games: an unintended harvest ; a nuclear fruit"
Probably the best conclusion I have ever seen
that moment when you realize you just watched 1 hour of video and have been tricked into learning
He's very skilled for that 😉👍
That's how u do learning right. Subtly educated.
You didn’t expect to learn something?
Those bastards tricked me
We are always learning something man even if its a 10 min video of minecraft lets play you can still learn how to play the game
"Think nuclear war is futile? Try fighting an abstract concept"
This one line explains the war on terror, and its flaws better than anything.
You know it.
*laughs in Antimemetics Division*
time stamp?
@@lapis3345 1:01:20
The most futile thing in the universe, is to attempt to create a fair and happy society. Look at us, 11,000 years of civilization and not once have we solved homelessness, domestic abuse, crime, murder, suicide, depression... And worse, we seem to create these problems. Even now, your happiness only exists because toddlers are dying in some other country to make you your things.
I love his job with the editing
+• S1M0N • it's all the nuclear fruit videos he has done together in one
+RIFT Gromptastic He's a pro graphics artist!
+broccollin well since the production value is out the roof, he has a pregnant wife, and he's probably a busy man, yes, he's probably short on time to make these videos
+RIFT Gromptastic My favorite thing he did was the transition with the Metro gas mask wipe
+Polonium Fist yeah I liked that one too
This is what youtube was made for.
Heeeellllll yes!
YAMI too bad he hardly uploads :((((
@@ladyathenaofowls It's been a while, a looooong while now.
Wasn't youtube made to like, share vacation home videos with your friends and family?
I beg to differ this content is amazing but youtube was really made for the every man to make something hundreds or thousands to watch
"Nuclear weapons may be a currency of peace....
But what a terrible price."
Chills.
I'd love to like this comment and ruin the 666 count...
but should I
????
they gonna be teaching these quotes in future history classes
@@zestobou5820 actual gibberish
@@Irongaze86 mutually assured destruction exists. which is why nuclear war will only happen as a countries last dying struggle
@@CaptainPriceONDATRAINFR100 it's sad that you never learned how to read
He has the perfect voice for a commentator.
no better don't place his quality with the shit of leafy or pyro
??? Commentators just commentate, which is literally what Ahoy has done with his series on individual game series.
grab a dictionary, sit down, and expand your knowledge pass the second grade.
+fukin savage what?
Shell Shock meant to reply to Step One but due to youtube's abysmal comment system it didn't go through
Really cool how you mended Computer Science, Cold War and video games together in one video.
Cool, right? Even magazines rarely did this.
In his Polybius video, he merged video games with urban legends, pop culture, and political considerations.
This guy is GOOD.
A one hour video without commercials...? Really? You're a saint man!
NOOOOO! You had to go and jinx it. 😡
I got 6 ads total , one at the start one at the end and 4 Inbetween
I'm sorry guys... I take full responsibility and will do what's necessary to make up for it...
Sorry....
~puts head into noose and kicks chair away~
This is actually supposed to be in multiple pieces, hence the playlist. the ads are like a seamline cut between episodes in this hour log cluster.
Vasily Petrov if you use Adblock you deserve to get cancer unless you whitelist people you genuinely enjoy so you see their ads
We need more of ahoy and less of watchmojo
We need more Ahoy and less of every other youtube channel
That's just too much.
More of ahoy and less of those Paul brothers
Team paul vs "I dont taze dead animals"
We need kurzegate and Ahoy
"A power so compelling, even Ghandi himself might not resist" :D awesome game
Its Gandhi btw,
I bet you are figuratively speaking
Sudarshan Pujari hey I have a question, do you like the word bamboozle?
Stupid glitch should have gotten patched in the 90s
@@buildawall5803 It's Hilarious. Plus, it was a glitch that became so popular that it became a feature in later games.
@@PS-nf3xw ghahndhi
This looked like it could have been a tv show. Even the placement of the ads seemed like it was done on purpose.
robert schollmeyer they were
robert schollmeyer
Yeah it was originally a 5 part series, so the ads mark where a "episode" would end/begin
25:59
"We might have been born too early to explore the universe... but we can still dream..."
[glance up at night sky, all the wonders I'll never know, finish my bourbon and pretend my allergies are getting to me...]
The production quality of this if fucking insane. Stu, you're making everyone else on youtube look bad. Keep up the outstanding work.
"Few such conflicts had flattering end for Americans."
"Try fighting an abstract concept."
"New theatre: Modern Warfare" (while showing CoD: Modern Warfare footage)
Stuart should be the editor and voice actor behind the "educational" videos you get to see at school.
I'm sure many would agree on that you'd learn more from it.
oh I wish we had.
+Swedish Modding no, he should also direct them.
ikr
that would be sick
“This guy could make a banana sound dangerous”
-random guy from UA-cam comments
"yellow with a pronounced arc, the banana has secrets within a slippery carapace, only the weapons known as the opposable thumbs are capable of precise dismemberment of its intuitive shell. Inside lies a fleshy fruit, with barely any taste and a lack of juice, truly unique among fruits. With only five to twelve tiny pips for seeds, the banana has an ominous nature. Artificially mutated by humans, the grotesque manufacturing of the banana has many twists that shifted it to it's current form. They used to have barely any flesh at all, with seeds the size of marbles. Now large and nutritious, the banana has been articulated to become mostly food for humans. Hundreds of years of research, pushing genetics to their evolutionary bounds, a marvel, the banana." - not ahoy, probably
That was from the P90 Vid, right?
@@mysteriouscharacter2766 God damn dude that's next level 😂
Ever heard of banana politics? because boy you are in for a surprise on how scary these things can be
Banana republics the US installed were willing to kill for them, so there's that.
I've watched this video probably hundreds of times since it was uploaded 7 years ago and I still get chills at the end.
"An unintended harvest-a nuclear fruit."
That transition you did with face mask wipe at 46:15 was quality
Glad that I'm not the only one who notice that transition
It was truly beautiful
Absolutely brilliant
What an awesome collection of words; "we might have been born too early to explore the universe, but we can still dream"
Stuart Brown 2015 - Earth
RIP Alan Turing. Your contributions changed the war and saved arguably the whole world itself with your contributions. Your people did you so terribly, may your soul rest in glory and in paradise, Mr. Turing.
This is one of the best UA-cam documentaries I've ever seen.
I think the marketing of Tetris was a good example of how westerners didn't really hate Russians, more curious than anything. I think deep down people are very much the same regardless of what their governments tell them. Power struggles always confuse our morals, wars are usually started by kings not peasants.
I suppose what I'm saying is that we should not hate the people of a nation, maybe their politics are misguided, even evil, but people should always be given a chance to prove themselves worthy through actions. Lord knows my country of USA isn't totally innocent, But before you hate us all, know that at least I do not want violence or war with any nation's people.
So, I don't want to kill North Koreans, Iranians, Russians, Iraqis, Afghanis or Somalis. And no I don't want to dictate to them how to run their countries or what they should or should not believe. I just want to see if I can still kick their asses in counterstrike, is that so much to ask?
Amen.
Amen!
I remember hearing about the bread lines and all that in school, and suddenly I had this revelation: _I felt SORRY for the ordinary Russian people_ ! The U.S.S.R. was The Bad Guys, but...not _all_ of it. Just the LEADERS, mainly. The random citizens were...random citizens, just like us! Seems obvious in hindsight, but the thought blew me away as an elementary school kid...
Just give every country a Nuke and tada! Suddenly no one wants to fight.
@@robinchesterfield42 the leaders of countries are where the evil of a country comes from. They decide what is taught and how to use the resources. Everything else can be considered a byproduct.
Fun fact: Vault Boy's thumbs up is not an approval but a literal rule-of-thumb for judging the safe distance from residual fallout if you can cover the mushroom cloud on the horizon with your thumb.
This is amazing! Thank you so much for not depicting the Soviet Union or Russia as a country full of backwards savages in this documentary and shredding lights on their achievements and contributions. Much appreciated.
Did you know that the Soviet Union had it's own collection of arcade machines and video games? Elektronika BK and Agat (both 1984) were the first affordable Soviet home computers that had tons of games (a lot of western clones tho). You should look it up if you're interested.
I agree on Stalin, on the rest I trust what I saw and my parents and grandparents told me about their live in the Soviet Union, which was 10x better than they have now. (Still not as awfull as in the 90s)
I want to point out that their view of communism does not depict yours, or the view of other eastern europeans, which I believe also and I respect their opinion. I believe that live sucked in eastern europe under soviet rule, and I want to apologize for that, nothing more I can do as a Ukrainian livin in Russia.
I believe that it's comparable to the US and Latin American countries, which were the backyard of the US, like Eastern Europe was the backyard of the USSR. In capitalist Latin America , live wasn't (and isn't for the most part) as good as in the US; the same thing was between USSR and Eastern Europe. We had it pretty good in the USSR, unlike most Eastern Europeans, which SUCKS, because Communism was about equallity, and they totally failed at that part!
I don't want to offend anyone, I respect and love all of eastern europeans, hope the best for them, and just hope that we all can get along. Lately this 2nd cold war bullcrap is total bullcrap, Russia as well as the US are making big mistakes. I hope this stops soon.
Artjom Pavlov See friend. It's good idea on paper communism is. Yet once you put it in place, people definitely aren't happy about it. Limited freedoms, more work as a doctor equals the exact same pay as someone picking apples. Can very easily make people unhappy. No free market and always controlled by government. Communism was trying to be about equality but Marx wasn't thinking right when he though it up.
Garry Cole Maybe thats what you were told, but that's not what my friends and family experienced.
Lets agree to disagree.
Artjom Pavlov the best Soviet game is Tetris...
+Artjom Pavlov The situation in Latin America is not comparable to what Soviet Russia did to eastern Europe at all.
America is not at all responsible for what's happening south of its border. The reason most of Latin America suck is the fault of *it's own leaders* as well the rampant corruption and crime.
Blaming the US for Latin America is like blaming China for the holocaust.
I don't think I'll watch the whole thing.
(Proceeds to watch whole thing in one sitting)
who the hell put glue on my chair
Watching this again in 2023, in the part that talks about AI makes me think about chatGPT and midjourney marking a new era, I’d love Ahoy to make a video about this topic… such quality videos from this channel
"How can we make videogames great and more innovative again?"
'Simple, we just need another world war!'
@Comstar: Space AT&T 👏
@Marginally Sapient Cactus Sturgeons law is an adage referring to the fact that 90% of everything is crap. Same with movies, same with youtube, same with books, same with videogames. Original ideas are hard to actually derive. Valve has the right idea with their business model with games. EA doesn't. Im sure companies are now realizing the importance of open source though.
Almost every single google project is pretty much open sourced. Microsoft aims to make hardware open sourced. Tesla realized making their cars open sourced would be healthy for the ev industry. And now Ubisoft realized that being more community oriented in their game development and experimenting with games is the better business model, which you can actually see with their R6 development.
@They Live! Again. you dumb fuck, he wrote some good shit
Almost there...
R/AgedLikeMilk
1:07:14
"A Nuclear Fruit."
*Clap*
"BOI"
at that exact moment I wen't "oh thats what nuclear fruit means"
@@ummmhelp title drop of the f****** decade.
@@centurionzen1005 and the grestest ending line ever
one of the best 1:08:03 I've had in a long time
the delivery of every syllable in all of your videos is so impactful and deliberate, the information in each sentence meaningful for the sake of the next. and let's not forget about the subject matter!. thank you for the unprecedented genius you put into your work
Me: I need to stop watching this and sleep.
Ahoy: I can't let you do that.
Watch out for the bolsheviks bro
This is informative art... I don't know how else I could define it.
One of the most underrated channels on youtube of all time. So interesting to watch all the way through and masterfully created.
This ranks with the best documentaries out there.
Rest In Peace Alan Turning, you deserved so much better.
He deserved better.
That’s one hell of an understatement
Alan Turning
I get why you upload these in parts but I much prefer it all as one video. Thanks for this, Stu. Great work as always.
34:52
"For all the potential of the atom, it proves impotent through stalemate." -Stuart Brown
If this was broadcasted, that would be freaking awesome. I mean, I know it won't be, but seriously.
I don't know how many time's I've re-watched this Stuart. At least 30 views are from me listening again in the background.
very well made documentary, keep up the good work!
*Holy shit, that ending was smooth.*
"the final control rod in the sarcophagus" lol, bravo good sir, bravo 👏
Alan Turing is a man who saved millions of lives and fought against tyranny, his work and his contributions saved Europe and the world. He changed the face of computing and is considered the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, much of what we enjoy today in computers would not have been possible without the breakthroughs he made, So what was his reward?
He was arrested and chemically castrated for "homosexual acts" he reported a burglarly at his home and during the investigation admitted to a sexual relationship with his partner, detained for making love to a man in the privacy of his own home, he committed suicide not long after. It took over 50 years for a government apology and over 60 years for an official pardon. In fact only in 2017 was the 'Alan Turing Law' implemented which grants official posthumous and living pardons to victims of this law.
Don't idolize him. He violated the age of consent. He by no means deserved to die but he wasn't a martyr for gays.
Pearl Vesper he had sexual relations with another man who was 19. Where are you getting your facts?
@@peral9728 alan was 39 and the other man was 19, both were over the age of consent, yes he was older but it was legal, in terms of age
"This time, it's personal." Indeed, we seem to lurch from war to war. I'd like to fast-forward to the part when we're not trying to stick it to each other. In the meantime, I'll be playing Fallout 4!
Ok, maybe I'm going ahead of myself or because I discovered the channel a few days ago I'm a little too much enthusiastic, but... this is comparable to "Architecture of Destruction" (1991, Peter Cohen). Not joking.
Simply marvellous.
Great video. Really interesting. I've just watched season 1 and 2 of 'The Americans' so it's nice to see some more of the historical context of events.
One thing I want to mention regarding Red Vs Blue is that those colours are easiest for our human eyes to pick out. I think The Game Theorists did a video about it (if not them, then it was probably Extra Credits). Turns out red is top of the list so being on the blue team has a very slight advantage. This is not to dispute that political reasons were undoubtedly the original reason for these colour choices.
Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more.
Every one of your videos is so well crafted, narrated, and interesting. We need more people like you in this world of endless s**t content
This video is so underrated, it has the same production value and other Ahoy video, Quake, buy not enough views to do it justice.
The narration, the content, the tie in from past, current and future world events, as well as video games really make it a worthwhile documentary.
"Total destruction delivered in 30 min or less" with a Domino theme box to boot, how do you come up with this type of creative analogy is beyond me.....
Ive been watching this channels video since the black ops 1 gun videos .touch back just for the soothing voice that remains positive, familiar and soothing to this day❤
The funny thing about Borderlands and its sequels is that even though its aesthetic is completely post-apocalyptic and Mad Max-derived, the backstory is not actually post-apocalyptic--it's more like a planetary Western. Which lays bare the fact that these stories are usually really Westerns in the first place.
When I first played Borderlands 1, for a majority of the game I was thinking to myself “wow, it seems like this is post-apocalyptic in certain ways. I wonder what caused this setting’s current state” and then a lot later on I went “Oh…this place is just…like this isn’t it.”
I must congratulate you sir for your hard work of research and countless hours of video production to create a ridicolously good, enjoyable episode which is longer than an hour. I can't help the urge inside me wishing to thank you for not dividing this video into 10 other videos to make more views and thus more ad revanue, like many other youtubers.
It took 12 years to go from satellite to man walking on the moon. This video is almost 8 years old already
Love your videos Ahoy Channel. Very minimalistic style, and very informative. Thanks!
13:30 (I hear her voice in my head)
"Oh... It's you."
"It's been a long time, how have you been?"
"I've been really busy beeing dead. You know, after you murdered me!"
7:20
What did he mean "by smell"?
Those red spots in the maze?
The low end reverberations and voice combo is the most hypnotic thing I've ever heard. I feel like there's hidden messages and at the end of the video I'm going to become a sleeper agent. ^@.@^
Finding this channel was far and away my best 2020 youtube moment.
Ah, shit.
The scene inside the plane cockpit in metro last light always makes me sad.... The screams from the pilots are quite sad to me
yes its the point mate
I wish there was some way to nominate this doc for an award
I'm so glad the EFAP crew mentioned Ahoy during one of their obnoxiously long streams, otherwise I might never have found this channel. The quality is almost to good to be true.
God, he even included one of the best games of my childhood, Alpha Centauri. This man is the best.
52:23 In hindsight, I find it ironic/poetic, that the Soviot Uninon's attempt at making a weapon for supremicy, (the atom bomb) ultamently gave rise to technology that weakened their authoritarian grip on their own people. (The internet.)
Even if you take disasters into account, coal power has caused far more death than nuclear power, while solar and wind power have a tiny output and an often disruptive environmental imprint. The use and storage of nuclear material has been a solved problem for decades, and it is our best hope to combat climate change without sacrificing technological society. All of the toxic, radioactive ash and sludge that coal plants have produced would require ten-thousand Mt. Yuccas to contain.
24:52
the cold of the cosmos is a unforgiving space
*shows a happy stranded kerbal*
It is so weird at 30:37 That IS the Dominoes Pizza Logo, and then you said served in 30 minutes or less....Was this just a weird ass coincidence or a clever joke? I am thinking you don't have Dominoes Pizza where you are from, could be wrong.
Gaming Culture Well he sounds like he's from the UK and we have Dominoe's here as well.
It is absolutely a joke, a visual pun at that
I think there's another visual pun in it that refers to the "domino effect," which dates right back to the Cold War. During the war, the West feared that as the Iron Curtain, especially red Soviet and Chinese states, began to influence surrounding nations - East Germany, the Balkans, Vietnam, Korea - then other countries would fall to Communism just the same, like dominoes. It was also a large deal of the rationale behind sending forces to fight proxy wars in the Far East - stop the rise of state socialism in Vietnam, or Korea, and stop the dominoes from falling.
The image he used is a "bunker art" on the door to a Minuteman-II missile facility. img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1402/33/1402337442191.jpg
Dominos used to advertise 30 mins or less dude
It's a crime that Tokyo Jungle is trapped forever on the PS3. Eventually the PSN store won't be available for any PS3 titles and there will be no legal way to play the game. It really deserves a remaster/rerelease on PC and modern systems.
It’s a shame Alan isn’t mentioned much,and a even bigger one when people forget his fate after the war.
5 years late but he Neil Armstrong actually said "small step for a man, and one giant leap for mankind" because for man would not make sense
55:43 The song is actually called Korobeiniki, and when translated, is actually a really lovely song.
"A few deaths is a tragedy, a million is just a statistic"
The narration an editing is so professional. Well done.
holy....this video is SEVEN YEARS old??? it's so well crafted, very stylish and informative and entertainig as well...one of the best videos i saw in a long time...well done!!!
Powerful conclusion 1:05:17
(This will spoil the great ending line, so dont click show more if you havent finnished watching)
"War might yield a terrible crop; death, destruction, terror. But even from these bitter roots, something wonderful can emerge. A product of war, but for the purpose of peace. An unintended harvest, a nuclear fruit."
Best line ive ever heard
AHOY really has one of the best presentation voices ever. He's up there with David attenborough
“Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Galaxian, Defender.”
And that’s how Ahoy became a poet.
A notable example of good AI in a shooter is Descent 3. The bots know how to flank you, how to hide and ambush, and can even go recruit other bots and send them to fight you. Not bad for a game made in the mid 90s and some of those bots were blasted annoying.
Somebody get the UN on the line before we get Terminators manufactured.....
The UN is a negotiating table, not an iron fist. They can't impose their will on whoever they want whenever they want, and that's likely for the best.
when I first saw your videos, I was convinced they were produced by a corporation.
more pls.
Edit: his cadence and tone remind me of the guy who vo'd "How It's Made in" the UK
its the 3rd time i come to this essay over the years and its absolutely brilliant. Kudos.
Ahoy would be an effective gun commercial narrator in my opinion.
"A nuclear fruit" shows a picture of Alan Turing.... Subtle
I love that hal was there at 13:35
laika still wants to go home ;_;
I got goosebumps at the end ... IT'S SO GOOD
CHEEKI BREEKI
i v damki
Imagine if this video was made now. Games have advanced by leaps and bounds since 2015.
Who else is playing fallout while listing to this
Which one? New vegas FTW
Playing Civilization, and it feels quite fitting.
yep, doesnt surprise me that big brother is watching. I get recommended this video today. 36:20
Simply masterpiece of human mind.
I place it at the level of Gwynne Dyer's "War" series, simple and informative, gives us a healthy dose of knowlegde in a very toasty sauce of animation.
Outstanding job.
Dam dude, this was some good stuff.
You have ignited an accidental nuclear war.
And no, there is no animated display of a mushroom cloud
with parts of bodies flying through the air.
"We do not reward failure."
Honestly the ending of this video is so incredibly satisfying
the treatment of Turing enrages me to no end
Holy shit, this guy makes these videos for free... and I've never heard of him until today....
EVERY TIME I watch this video, I get goose bumps.
I like the way he finally says the title in the last minute
wtf, how many badass quotes can you fit in one video? Epic
36:45 I'm sure you DO know about Gandhi Nuke's being a BUG in Civ, an artifact of the 256 variable (0-255) assigned as his "hostility" value... He starts very low (maybe 0?) and if he becomes any less aggressive it "jumps" to 255... It was a bug, but a fan-favorite, so they went on with the gag in the next games to come. This by no means indicates that they though Gandhi would ever nuke someone... (Quite the opposite)