***** It's amazing to me that someone had to send one in at all. Only thing that has failed over the years Nintendo-related for me is those Paks for the N64 (transfer for pokemon on Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2) and the Super Mario Bros. side of the dual SMB/Duck Hunt cartridge system for the NES.
***** I have had a Dendy (russian Famicom clone) since i was 5. That makes it 19 years old. The only thing that broke was it's power supply, because we have power surges all the time. I've rewired the coil, soldered it in place, and now it is still in a working order.
Neox My PS2 controller lasted for 11 years before the bumpers started slipping out of them. My Xbox 360 controllers have been replaced twice already DX sucks ***** To be fair SNK needs any excuse to keep the lights on so I don't think they can not NOT do such a thing. I applaud them for doing so though, thanks for reminding me.
That last fact is why I love Nintendo. "Oh, your 25 year old console that's been succeeded 4 times needs repairs? No problem, we'll fix that right up for you."
Too bad they don't do that anymore. Now days is: "oh, so you won't buy our wii U? no problem, we'll just shut down the servers of the regular wii to force you into buying our new console".
Agreed that is something Nintendo will always have over other manufacturers... drop your game cube, n64, super NES on concrete from 6 feet or so and I'll bet it will still function (or at least beat out other manufactures products of the time.) But if you do somehow break your system Nintendo has your back (for a nominal fee)
***** They also have a lot of money, they can cost those servers without losing money. I love Nintendo but man, they have been making some stupid decisions here and there.
It roughly went like this: - E.T. (the movie) was very successful and Atari, being one of the leading game industries of that time, wanted to make a corresponding game so kids can enjoy E.T. even more - They bought the E.T. rights for $22 million, and employed just a few members to work on the game - Having not enough time, the quest of making the game from scratch proved to be extremely difficult, therefore the final result was rather sketchy and unfinished. - With the E.T. hype still around, Atari optimistically produced around 5 million copies - Nobody really bought that game, resulting in a loss of $563M, and Atari was then sold. The fall of a giant. - Other companies were discouraged by this, so they experienced a minor sales decline as well. - After the fiasco (and when people started trusting the cover art of games again), game sales were back up and running.
Joker1ruler When I hear about the Game Crash, I sometimes hear it wasn't entirely E.T.'s fault. That is, although it was a major factor, it wasn't the only one. Would you know any other large factors that contributed to the crash?
MegaScience I'm not entirely sure. There were A LOT of game consoles and each of the consoles had their own game library. That kind of fragmentation resulted in mass-production of mostly unfinished and sketchy games, and people no longer could rely on cover-art of the game, mostly because the result isn't even a pixelated version of the cover art, but a completely different, unfinished piece of work. -Introduction to magazines (like nintendo power, which contained game reviews) possibly SAVED the entire game industry - finally, a source of credible information about the game whether you should buy it or not. -Another factor of the 1983 game crash was that computers of that time (Commodore, Macintosh, IBM etc) were miles ahead of the game consoles, some for roughly the same price, but most were priced higher. The excuse was that it could do more than just play games - and could play better games than those presented on a video game console. This fact still stands true even today. -I believe it's worth mentioning that ever since Atari plummeted, the support for their consoles went incredibly weak. Companies like Nintendo saw this as an opportunity. The main problem, however, is that Atari was *the biggest player* so Atari-designed games were dominant in the market share. Taking away the sales of those also contributed to the steep sales chart. -Revenues before the crash were around 3.2 billion. When the crash happened, revenues fell to 100 million. That is a drop of almost *97 percent*. -Google might help for a more detailed version of the story. This is mostly a tl;dr of the entire event. Hope it helps.
It's interesting how Nintendo did a lot of different things, like name changes and toy-like add-ons, to distinguish their NES Console from the prior, older failed video game systems from the early 1980s. Of course, in the end, fans, consumers and retailers eventually fully embraced the Nintendo Entertainment system as a Video Game Console.
The R.O.B. (or Robotic Operating Buddy) was a Trojan horse to help the NES break on through in an otherwise dilapidated market. Following the L.A. launch in February 1986, it soon proved its point and players soon grew tired of its limited use, and future first-time buyers wound up opting for the more utilitarian Control Deck set with Super Mario Bros. included as the year wore on.
Jackie Chan must be some kind of supreme, supernatural being. Everywhere you turn, there he is. He's in Bruce Lee movies, Nintendo commercials, video games, his own movies, cartoons... fucking everything. I bet if I walked out my front door right now, I'd either see something Jackie Chan related, or I'd see him in person. That's how omnipresent he is.
We need Mythbusters to test the "Blowing Into A Cartridge" myth, because I call shenanigans. You could try starting a game 15 times without blowing on it and it wouldn't work, but blowing on it made it work 90% of the time.
GashPlague Blowing into the cart works cause you're getting rid of any dust that might be on the contact points. He is saying that when the contact points get old and where out, blowing into the cart doesnt do anything. And yes, they should do that.
I've had one cartridge for 8 years (pokemon platinum) and I blow it evrey time i put it in to play it which I still do and it works 95% of the time the other 5% is usually just an extra bloww
I used to blow on them but at some point I just figured out that if you shifted the game a bit from left to right while it was in the NES that worked 100% of the time on all but the most mistreated of cartridges.
You have to remember, this is back when having a woman in her night clothes was considered bad for children. That gun looked way to realistic for the west and would of got Nintendo in a lot of trouble.
The support Nintendo put behind the Virtualboy now makes even less sense when you realize they had the same problems when attempting to create 3d for the famincom. It's also really odd to realize Nintendo was trying to do online as far back as the NES, yet their actual on-line is lagging far behind their competitors.
This is the third or fourth time I've heard blowing into the cartridge doesn't work. But I swear remember popping a game in, doesn't work. Pop it out, pop it in, out, in, nothing. Take it out, blow, WORKS! And if blowing into the cartridge/system was never the solution, why did it become such a wide spread myth. Just taking the cartridge out and putting it back in is simple enough, why would so many people think the extra step was needed?
I do know that I sometimes had to blow into the cartridges for Nintendo 64 games, and into the console itself. In those times, there actually was dust or animal hair or some other debris in there. But based on what I've heard today about how the front-loader for the NES caused the pins to break down, it might be possible that sometimes loading the cartridge caused the connector pins to shave metal filings, and blowing on the cartridge got rid of them. I wouldn't know, though. I had a Sega Genesis when I was little.
Anyone that says blowing into those games "did nothing at best" never had an NES, and probably had the breath strength of a 2 year old girl. Yes, there was a flaw in the extra connectors for the NES that caused them to wear out much sooner than they should have... But when you have a bad physical connection, this makes any dirt on the actual cartridge much more relevant. Hence, why strong blowing into the cart absolutely helped. I could pop that thing in and out 50 times without getting it to work and then I blow into it and it works. How did Nintendo deal with this issue back in the day? They sold cleaners with alcohol. What does that mean? It means there is a dirt problem. The actual connectors did not seriously start to screw up until years later. The main problem was dirt causing issues because of the bad connectors. So you clean it. I got a new 72 pin connector a few years ago and I still had games that had issues... Then I cleaned every single game with windex and polished the pins... They all work, every time, first time. It's a dirt issue. And it happens to all carts for all systems, it's just that the NES is more noticeable. But the older and dirtier any cart gets the more you need to clean them. Putting strong air pressure on something does clean ever so slightly. There are better ways, like windex, which is recommended everywhere online, but blowing does help. And anyone who says differently, hides behind science but has absolutely never tested it. Kind of taints my opinion of people when they throw that out there having absolutely no experience with the system. Did you know gaming? Maybe it should be "DID YOU KNOW... That I'm reading all of this from Wikipedia and have never played any of these games except through emulation?" - Cause all evidence points that way...
wrinkly kong actually references the knitting machine in DKC3, every now and then when you visit her she'll ask why nobody ever makes games about knitting
This was beautiful. it brought back so many memories. I remember the Dende bringing out immense joy for many years and to this day I wouldn't mind owning one. I feeling incredibly Nostalgic now. I'm also intrigued to know that online gaming almost became part of Nintendo gaming back then... I wasn't even aware of online gaming until much later in my life, but can imagine how awesome it would've been to play some games against players far away.
It's the good and bad part of Nintendo. They take risks and try new things, like 3D devices, motion controls, the game pad, and the million other accessories. And when they pull it off, it's the best thing ever and Nintendo are geniuses. But when you try new things, sometimes they just flop and fail, and you just look like idiots.
Moonlight150 Yeah, at least they TRY to innovate & come up with new ways to play unlike certain other companies that just make whatever is currently trending.
***** This seriously makes me so mad. It's like sony and microsoft watch nintendo and wait for them to come up with something successful, then copy it.
Ceiling Cat Though I find it pretty funny that Nintendo wasn't the pioneer for the figure to video games idea. EA actually was the one to try that and now everyone is copying EA's decision lol
"...it served no practical purpose but was added because they thought children would like it." Yep. That sounds like how Nintendo makes most of their design decisions.
You gotta love how innovative and aspiring Nintendo was. Coming out with 3D before it's time, wanting to always innovate and not just copy others. This video gives me hope for their next console regardless of how much the Wii U didn't succeed as planned.
It was so cool that you found out about Dendy. It was my childhood. A lot of people still wouldn't know a proper name of the system, although we have official consoles for generations now. Greetings from Russia. :)
I loved that you used the Dr.Mario music during the middle part of the video. I think it's got a fantastic soundtrack that doesn't get enough attention when talking classic NES tunes.
***** Well, I mean, he was never eliminated from the Royal Rumble, so he'll probably win the Andre the Giant Battle Royale tonight. I guess you've got a point.
My all time favorite console, I started with Atari but the NES cemented my addiction to gaming for life. I remember my cousin and I used to play our 2600 and we thought they'd never make anything cooler or better then out comes the NES and blew our doors off. When I played Metroid and Zelda for my first time I just couldn't get over how awesome they were. There was just something magical about that console.
Jon Doe Even that wasn't really an attempt at a VR headset, they just tacked on the "virtual" monicker because of all the VR hype in the 90's. The virtual boy had no head tracking, sat on a tripod instead of being head mounted, and was basically a flat "screen" with some minor 3D effects while playing. Had very little to do with immersive virtual reality.
It's good to know our gaming roots, where games started, and how they evolved through the years going from classics like Donkey Kong, and Pong to games we have today like Mass Effect, Dragon Ball Xenoverse, and Dragon Age Inquisition.
I remember the old NES cartridge slot. The NES I still have from childhood doesn't make a strong connection when pressed down, so I have to stuff one of those black sleeves, that games used to come in, into the machine to keep the pressure down on the slot so games will play.
Sort of. His surname is Caddick and on his very first channel opening (which you won't find on his main account anymore, but on his secondary account), it shows the Kid Icarus title screen forming into his name in a similar style. He says he never knew anything about Kid Icarus and only used it because it sounded similar.
Fun fact - In Serbia, NES was very, very rear and our version of the NES was the Sega Genesis (also known as Sega Mega) that were cracked so you can play NES games on it (Super Mario Bros, Duck hunt, etc)
Gunpei Yokoi suggesting the trigger on the famicom that popped out the cartridge shows he knew what in the world he was doing. Small stuff like that is part of the magic of playing video games as a kid, it goes a long way.
I like how most of the facts were already explained by guys like the AVGN and Pat-the-NES-Punk. It feels kinda weird hearing things that you already know...
thanks for the tip on my cartridge problem. I shaked the NES so much, it may have braked more. Only Tetris, Super Mario, Double Dragon and Tenis worked
Paul Bowen That's his favorite console but even in his own videos you can see other consoles and there games behind him. He just has more to talk about with the playstation because he grew up with one
3:55 wait ,wait, wait, waaaaaaaiiiit. Hold the god damn phone. Anyone who thinks this didn't help make the games work clearly never actually did this or lived in the times of the NES. I can gauranfuckingtee you this worked.
2:00 That's incorrect. They aren't cheaper because the controllers are still plugged in. It's just that they are plugged in at the front and then loop back underneath the housing. So yanking on them won't cause them to pop out. But if you take it apart you can just pull the controllers out.
There was a surprising amount of stuff in this episode that I didn't know. Especially the part about knitting. Were you guys aware of the Oldsmobile Expression? It was a concept vehicle shown at the 1990 Chicago Auto Show and it featured a built in Nintendo Entertainment System in the back with two rear-facing seats to accommodate families with children. It never got manufactured outside of the concept model but there are photos of it online that are relatively easy to track down.
Anyone know anything about the bootleg nes that had a couple cartridges that contained EVERY nes game? The box had tmnt on it I think. It was from kuwait I believe. I had one but didnt work on my tv. My aunt worked for the UN so she got it when they sent her there.
Wow, to think they were repairing sent in systems till 2007 is amazing.
***** It's amazing to me that someone had to send one in at all. Only thing that has failed over the years Nintendo-related for me is those Paks for the N64 (transfer for pokemon on Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2) and the Super Mario Bros. side of the dual SMB/Duck Hunt cartridge system for the NES.
***** I have had a Dendy (russian Famicom clone) since i was 5. That makes it 19 years old. The only thing that broke was it's power supply, because we have power surges all the time. I've rewired the coil, soldered it in place, and now it is still in a working order.
*****
Lucky you. My controllers always break somehow.
Neox My PS2 controller lasted for 11 years before the bumpers started slipping out of them. My Xbox 360 controllers have been replaced twice already DX sucks
***** To be fair SNK needs any excuse to keep the lights on so I don't think they can not NOT do such a thing. I applaud them for doing so though, thanks for reminding me.
***** Japan loves their products unlike the west where we throw it away and move on, how sad.
That last fact is why I love Nintendo. "Oh, your 25 year old console that's been succeeded 4 times needs repairs? No problem, we'll fix that right up for you."
Too bad they don't do that anymore.
Now days is: "oh, so you won't buy our wii U? no problem, we'll just shut down the servers of the regular wii to force you into buying our new console".
Agreed that is something Nintendo will always have over other manufacturers... drop your game cube, n64, super NES on concrete from 6 feet or so and I'll bet it will still function (or at least beat out other manufactures products of the time.)
But if you do somehow break your system Nintendo has your back (for a nominal fee)
Adrian Fahrenheit The power of fan servers compells you!
Sony and Microsoft still fix their original systems.
***** They also have a lot of money, they can cost those servers without losing money. I love Nintendo but man, they have been making some stupid decisions here and there.
Can't believe it took them this long to do an NES episode. THEY DID FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S BEFORE THE NES!
NES should've been the first console to be covered in this channel.
Dive Missile No, the first console to be covered in this channel should have been the first console ever made.
Who cares
Because coattails.
jacoblgames The first few consoles were lame, though. Gaming didn't reach its true potential in consoles until the NES was released.
I'll never get sick of NES ads with mullet wearing, fist pumping kids.
Whoa, nice graphics! I'd like to get my hands on that game!
It's the Legend of Zelda and it's really rad! These creatures from Ganon are really bad!
+Mini-Con Longarm
HAALY SHIT! DEM GREEPICS!!
It's been like 25 years, and I'm still not sick of them.
Shigeru Miyamoto is my god damn hero
Sakurai & Aonuma too ❤
MisakiChan Dont forget iwata.
Hai conner!
Haii :)
ConnerTheWaffle Hey look... its Mr. Waffel Guy :)
Could we get a DYKG of the Game Crash of '83?
It roughly went like this:
- E.T. (the movie) was very successful and Atari, being one of the leading game industries of that time, wanted to make a corresponding game so kids can enjoy E.T. even more
- They bought the E.T. rights for $22 million, and employed just a few members to work on the game
- Having not enough time, the quest of making the game from scratch proved to be extremely difficult, therefore the final result was rather sketchy and unfinished.
- With the E.T. hype still around, Atari optimistically produced around 5 million copies
- Nobody really bought that game, resulting in a loss of $563M, and Atari was then sold. The fall of a giant.
- Other companies were discouraged by this, so they experienced a minor sales decline as well.
- After the fiasco (and when people started trusting the cover art of games again), game sales were back up and running.
Joker1ruler When I hear about the Game Crash, I sometimes hear it wasn't entirely E.T.'s fault. That is, although it was a major factor, it wasn't the only one. Would you know any other large factors that contributed to the crash?
MegaScience I'm not entirely sure. There were A LOT of game consoles and each of the consoles had their own game library. That kind of fragmentation resulted in mass-production of mostly unfinished and sketchy games, and people no longer could rely on cover-art of the game, mostly because the result isn't even a pixelated version of the cover art, but a completely different, unfinished piece of work.
-Introduction to magazines (like nintendo power, which contained game reviews) possibly SAVED the entire game industry - finally, a source of credible information about the game whether you should buy it or not.
-Another factor of the 1983 game crash was that computers of that time (Commodore, Macintosh, IBM etc) were miles ahead of the game consoles, some for roughly the same price, but most were priced higher. The excuse was that it could do more than just play games - and could play better games than those presented on a video game console. This fact still stands true even today.
-I believe it's worth mentioning that ever since Atari plummeted, the support for their consoles went incredibly weak. Companies like Nintendo saw this as an opportunity. The main problem, however, is that Atari was *the biggest player* so Atari-designed games were dominant in the market share. Taking away the sales of those also contributed to the steep sales chart.
-Revenues before the crash were around 3.2 billion. When the crash happened, revenues fell to 100 million. That is a drop of almost *97 percent*.
-Google might help for a more detailed version of the story. This is mostly a tl;dr of the entire event. Hope it helps.
That would definitely make for a really interesting episode.
Joker1ruler "This fact still stands true even today."
That's debatable.
Yeah, just start the video by playing the music from duck hunt!
Because he's a duck. It's supposed to be a joke, lol.
Does it remind you of the war between the ducks, the guy with the gun, and that fucking dog?
Yep.
Fuck a duck, yo.
Makingnewnamesisdumb In Soviet Russia, duck fucks you!
Nintendo Knitting Machine? Not the worst idea they've ever had I suppose.
Alexa what is the virtual boy
Now they have a shitty online service!
Best idea ever.
It's interesting how Nintendo did a lot of different things, like name changes and toy-like add-ons, to distinguish their NES Console from the prior, older failed video game systems from the early 1980s. Of course, in the end, fans, consumers and retailers eventually fully embraced the Nintendo Entertainment system as a Video Game Console.
The R.O.B. (or Robotic Operating Buddy) was a Trojan horse to help the NES break on through in an otherwise dilapidated market. Following the L.A. launch in February 1986, it soon proved its point and players soon grew tired of its limited use, and future first-time buyers wound up opting for the more utilitarian Control Deck set with Super Mario Bros. included as the year wore on.
*"Oh, you work at Nintendo? That's so cool! What do you do there?"*
*I insert cartridges into game systems 5000 times straight.*
Jackie Chan must be some kind of supreme, supernatural being.
Everywhere you turn, there he is. He's in Bruce Lee movies, Nintendo commercials, video games, his own movies, cartoons... fucking everything.
I bet if I walked out my front door right now, I'd either see something Jackie Chan related, or I'd see him in person. That's how omnipresent he is.
In Poland NES clone was called Pegasus
Was jsut about to comment that. :D
***** Me too :) But I was hoping, that they will mention about Pegasus :x
In Bulgaria we had a bootleg console, named Terminator 2
polterghost in Russia they had the Dendy similar to the Pegasus
TheCarArchives
It's actually in video :P
I was waiting for something about more copies from other countries and nothing :(
Ha, and people say Nintendo was late to bringing online to game systems.
We need Mythbusters to test the "Blowing Into A Cartridge" myth, because I call shenanigans. You could try starting a game 15 times without blowing on it and it wouldn't work, but blowing on it made it work 90% of the time.
GashPlague Blowing into the cart works cause you're getting rid of any dust that
might be on the contact points. He is saying that when the contact
points get old and where out, blowing into the cart doesnt do anything.
And yes, they should do that.
I've had one cartridge for 8 years (pokemon platinum) and I blow it evrey time i put it in to play it which I still do and it works 95% of the time the other 5% is usually just an extra bloww
I used to blow on them but at some point I just figured out that if you shifted the game a bit from left to right while it was in the NES that worked 100% of the time on all but the most mistreated of cartridges.
We are Nintendo, you cannot beat us.
*Shits himself on the toilet with a shocked expression while screaming in fear*
collaterale1 You don't shite yourself on a toilet...
Saying that with a mouth filled with spit makes it sound 100% better.
I knew that "block" wasn't a glitch when you used the Zapper
QUIT TROLLING
when i was a kid i thought so
they aint no troll.. ive seen it many times you have to realy look hard at the screen very focused and you will see it incredibly quickly
So...which R.O.B. skin will end up being the R.O.B. amiibo? Red Famicom R.O.B. or grey NES R.O.B.?
Yes.
That settles the problem... i guess.
Benyamin Soto I completely agree.
In Smash bros, robs first colour is grey, so most likely grey.
Not sure if the Japanese have the first colour as grey.
***** OP
The Famicom Revelvor is sooooo much cooler than the NES Zapper. Having that would have been the coolest thing as a kid...and as an adult.
hell.. the NES Zapper was once gray...
Yeah but make sure not to take that thing outside, you know them cops aren't happy to see you with one even if it is a fake gun.
You have to remember, this is back when having a woman in her night clothes was considered bad for children. That gun looked way to realistic for the west and would of got Nintendo in a lot of trouble.
ChancePlays Damn censorship...>o
The support Nintendo put behind the Virtualboy now makes even less sense when you realize they had the same problems when attempting to create 3d for the famincom.
It's also really odd to realize Nintendo was trying to do online as far back as the NES, yet their actual on-line is lagging far behind their competitors.
This is the third or fourth time I've heard blowing into the cartridge doesn't work. But I swear remember popping a game in, doesn't work. Pop it out, pop it in, out, in, nothing. Take it out, blow, WORKS!
And if blowing into the cartridge/system was never the solution, why did it become such a wide spread myth. Just taking the cartridge out and putting it back in is simple enough, why would so many people think the extra step was needed?
It definitely worked with gameboy games
The same reason people push random buttons when trying to catch a pokémon
I do know that I sometimes had to blow into the cartridges for Nintendo 64 games, and into the console itself. In those times, there actually was dust or animal hair or some other debris in there.
But based on what I've heard today about how the front-loader for the NES caused the pins to break down, it might be possible that sometimes loading the cartridge caused the connector pins to shave metal filings, and blowing on the cartridge got rid of them.
I wouldn't know, though. I had a Sega Genesis when I was little.
Anyone that says blowing into those games "did nothing at best" never had an NES, and probably had the breath strength of a 2 year old girl. Yes, there was a flaw in the extra connectors for the NES that caused them to wear out much sooner than they should have... But when you have a bad physical connection, this makes any dirt on the actual cartridge much more relevant. Hence, why strong blowing into the cart absolutely helped. I could pop that thing in and out 50 times without getting it to work and then I blow into it and it works. How did Nintendo deal with this issue back in the day? They sold cleaners with alcohol. What does that mean? It means there is a dirt problem. The actual connectors did not seriously start to screw up until years later. The main problem was dirt causing issues because of the bad connectors. So you clean it. I got a new 72 pin connector a few years ago and I still had games that had issues... Then I cleaned every single game with windex and polished the pins... They all work, every time, first time. It's a dirt issue. And it happens to all carts for all systems, it's just that the NES is more noticeable. But the older and dirtier any cart gets the more you need to clean them. Putting strong air pressure on something does clean ever so slightly. There are better ways, like windex, which is recommended everywhere online, but blowing does help. And anyone who says differently, hides behind science but has absolutely never tested it.
Kind of taints my opinion of people when they throw that out there having absolutely no experience with the system. Did you know gaming? Maybe it should be "DID YOU KNOW... That I'm reading all of this from Wikipedia and have never played any of these games except through emulation?" - Cause all evidence points that way...
Ahahahhahaha
wrinkly kong actually references the knitting machine in DKC3, every now and then when you visit her she'll ask why nobody ever makes games about knitting
I do remember this and knew about the knitting Famicom but had never put the two together!
Nintendo is brave enough to dive deep down and even try to make knitting possible on your game systens
Now do one for the SNES! ^_^
they did
***** O rly?! Since when? That was for the SFX chip! -.-
Jony Silva X
thats still the SNES, Super FX chip or not
so dont give me that look
***** I'm basically talking about it's history, otherwise, I wanna see one for the Genesis!
Snes was my first console :')
This was beautiful. it brought back so many memories. I remember the Dende bringing out immense joy for many years and to this day I wouldn't mind owning one. I feeling incredibly Nostalgic now. I'm also intrigued to know that online gaming almost became part of Nintendo gaming back then... I wasn't even aware of online gaming until much later in my life, but can imagine how awesome it would've been to play some games against players far away.
Caddy's like the last person I'd expect for an NES video. Should've gotten Pat the NES Punk imo
Seen every episode of DYKG, and I think this is one of the most interesting. Good work!
Lol "now you're knitting with power"
What is it with Nintendo and headache inducing 3d devices?
It's the good and bad part of Nintendo. They take risks and try new things, like 3D devices, motion controls, the game pad, and the million other accessories. And when they pull it off, it's the best thing ever and Nintendo are geniuses. But when you try new things, sometimes they just flop and fail, and you just look like idiots.
Moonlight150 Yeah, at least they TRY to innovate & come up with new ways to play unlike certain other companies that just make whatever is currently trending.
***** This seriously makes me so mad. It's like sony and microsoft watch nintendo and wait for them to come up with something successful, then copy it.
Ceiling Cat Though I find it pretty funny that Nintendo wasn't the pioneer for the figure to video games idea. EA actually was the one to try that and now everyone is copying EA's decision lol
***** It's better to try and fail then to not try at all.
"...it served no practical purpose but was added because they thought children would like it." Yep. That sounds like how Nintendo makes most of their design decisions.
You gotta love how innovative and aspiring Nintendo was. Coming out with 3D before it's time, wanting to always innovate and not just copy others. This video gives me hope for their next console regardless of how much the Wii U didn't succeed as planned.
4:40 "I'm going to be playing Team Fortress 2 as... The Pirate Spy!"
I hope this is a decent reference.
I need to know the song name, I NEED TO. tiri riririri tiriririr ri ti tiri ti ri tiri ti
Zachar Art The original marching band song? I'm in the process of looking for it right now. I'll let you know when I find it.
Zachar Art It's called "The girl I left behind me." I can't find the 8bit version of the song though. Pretty nice marching band song I think.
thank you. LET THE TRIRIRIRIRRITYITITTITIRIRI BEGIN
No problem mate.
It was so cool that you found out about Dendy. It was my childhood. A lot of people still wouldn't know a proper name of the system, although we have official consoles for generations now.
Greetings from Russia. :)
if it weren't for R.O.B., we wouldn't have any video games anymore
so ROB himself saved video games
THAT'S why he's in smash bros
I loved that you used the Dr.Mario music during the middle part of the video. I think it's got a fantastic soundtrack that doesn't get enough attention when talking classic NES tunes.
Colecovision - Did You Know Gaming?
Long time since i learned so much from a single video. Awesome facts! Thank you :D
...and I thought DYKG was dying after that GTA Part 2 video, but I guess they were revived.
1:50 I was about to say how pointless that was until I remembered that I really liked that feature. It was surprisingly amusing to a kid, I suppose.
Would you kindly do an episode on Wrestling games?
It is Wrestlemania today! Hooray!
The Alpacaa It sounds like you're talking about "Hakuna Matata" in 'The Lion King,' haha. But you're not wrong.
Would you kindly...keep making Bioshock references?
M28tan As a man I will choose, but as a slave I will obey.
***** Well, I mean, he was never eliminated from the Royal Rumble, so he'll probably win the Andre the Giant Battle Royale tonight.
I guess you've got a point.
Here in Brazil we had NES clones called Phantom System and Dynavision.
Never tried an actual NES but played a lot of its classics.
Where's the tune playing at 3:25 from? It sounds super familiar!
"Chill" from Dr. Mario.
I was a completely different person 9 years ago but the person I am today still wanted to know the song, so thank you very much
First episode I ever saw and still watching today. Keep doing what you do best
Ah the Dendie
It had such great classics like
Mario 7 grand dad
DANMIT WHERES ARE DYKG ON GRAND DAD?
Gunpei Yokai RIP. Unsung hero
Blowing on the cartridges works...idgaf
The notch wiggle too, might be better.
Ginny James no one ever did or does that😂 wym
That was awesome DYKG! I love the older systems.
"The NES is the worst console ever! All of the games sucks!!!!" ....said no one ever.
except if ya a newborn gamer whom grow up with the latest technology for gaming, after NES, or even N64, GameCube....
*watches video about NES and gets a Sega Genesis Xbox Game ad.*
ahh dendy... in Poland we had pegasus. IN 1990...
My all time favorite console, I started with Atari but the NES cemented my addiction to gaming for life. I remember my cousin and I used to play our 2600 and we thought they'd never make anything cooler or better then out comes the NES and blew our doors off. When I played Metroid and Zelda for my first time I just couldn't get over how awesome they were. There was just something magical about that console.
Would You Kindly Make An Episode On Bioshock
+chinmay rajeev I see what you did there.
hehehe
I get the joke, and your comment used it well, but *WHY DID YOU CAPITALIZE EVERY FUCKING WORD*
Sorry Dude Its A Habbit
I miss the days of simple graphics and REAL 2D Mario adventures...
batman
MOM!!! I FOUND ONE OF THOSE HIPSTERS!!!!
VaionShow Sarcasm pls
only 90s kids rember
good old days>better new days
ProjectXANA i call bullshit
So, Nintendo did the Oculus Rift first?
A 3D personal viewer isn't the same thing as virtual reality.
the famicom 3d system basically works like modern 3d glasses. their attempt at a VR headset was the virtual boy which failed miserably.
Jon Doe Even that wasn't really an attempt at a VR headset, they just tacked on the "virtual" monicker because of all the VR hype in the 90's.
The virtual boy had no head tracking, sat on a tripod instead of being head mounted, and was basically a flat "screen" with some minor 3D effects while playing.
Had very little to do with immersive virtual reality.
***** he just said that.....
***** u shut up and get ur internet.
It's good to know our gaming roots, where games started, and how they evolved through the years going from classics like Donkey Kong, and Pong to games we have today like Mass Effect, Dragon Ball Xenoverse, and Dragon Age Inquisition.
Nintendo Knitting Machine.
OKAY WHO ACTUALLY
Sonicyay2 I'd buy it.
putting the game under ur shirt and blowing thru it...worked 99.9% of the time
Love ya Caddy but anyone else think AVGN should have hosted this episode?
He should've tho
+Spencer Linneman
It's the legend of Zelda and it's really bad
Bread Cyclone these creatures from Ganon are really bad
moms spaghetti
Yeah
notice in all the commercials, the tv used is sharp brand. This is because nintendo and sharp worked together frequently
Sharp actually made a tv that had a famicom in it
"Blowing into the cartridge did nothing at best..."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FFFUUUUUUUUUU IT ALWAYS WORKEEEDDD!!!
I actually had that keyboard-shaped console, it's called Subor.
OMG
THAT DENDY ELEPHANT
THAT'S DENDYGAR FROM CRYPT WORLDS
+Brutal Dendy is love. Dendy is life.
dendy bless
I remember the old NES cartridge slot. The NES I still have from childhood doesn't make a strong connection when pressed down, so I have to stuff one of those black sleeves, that games used to come in, into the machine to keep the pressure down on the slot so games will play.
So does Caddicarus draw his username from Kid Icarus?
no, his surename is Caddic
You get 2 guesses, haha.
Sort of. His surname is Caddick and on his very first channel opening (which you won't find on his main account anymore, but on his secondary account), it shows the Kid Icarus title screen forming into his name in a similar style. He says he never knew anything about Kid Icarus and only used it because it sounded similar.
Reeve Isaacs Wow what a fake gamer he is...
TheNintendoGeek What does that mean?
Fun fact - In Serbia, NES was very, very rear and our version of the NES was the Sega Genesis (also known as Sega Mega) that were cracked so you can play NES games on it (Super Mario Bros, Duck hunt, etc)
FAMICOM GUN = 1-2-SWITCH!
Gunpei Yokoi suggesting the trigger on the famicom that popped out the cartridge shows he knew what in the world he was doing. Small stuff like that is part of the magic of playing video games as a kid, it goes a long way.
I like how most of the facts were already explained by guys like the AVGN and Pat-the-NES-Punk. It feels kinda weird hearing things that you already know...
Adrian Fahrenheit If that's weird to you, get ready for a lifetime of weirdness.
I do wish THE FUCKING NERD actually narrated this video, I mean he was just a dude playing NES games back in 2004-2007 it would make sense
Funny how Nintendo initially wanted online access with their consoles but then seemed hesitant later on during the Gamecube era etc. =) Good video.
Yas! I just watched caddys vid. And moar caddy!!!!
Did you know? This is one of the best youtube channels i watched in a long time?
Wait.. DENDYGAR?!
That moment of bliss when you look at dyk gaming's channel and two new videos have been uploaded ;)
1:14 That audio editing. :c
Oatmeal That always bother me
thanks for the tip on my cartridge problem. I shaked the NES so much, it may have braked more. Only Tetris, Super Mario, Double Dragon and Tenis worked
I thought Caddicarus's shtick was all things Playstation only? Good video nonetheless.
Pat the NES Punk is fuming in a basement somewhere.
Paul Bowen That's his favorite console but even in his own videos you can see other consoles and there games behind him. He just has more to talk about with the playstation because he grew up with one
Spud Gun Ah, I see.
Yet his name is a Kid Icirus pun? IDK I don't watch the main stream YT gamers
seymourglass26
Lol, he'll get his chance another day.
Blowing up the cartridge did fix most problems idc what anyone says
3:55 wait ,wait, wait, waaaaaaaiiiit. Hold the god damn phone. Anyone who thinks this didn't help make the games work clearly never actually did this or lived in the times of the NES. I can gauranfuckingtee you this worked.
It also works on the SNES. Every goddamn time
4:40
Is that music in the background that plays for a few seconds the girl I left behind me? Otherwise known as the pirate shpee song?
What do you mean blowing on the cartridge doesn't help! D:
Next youl be saying mashing the A button doesn't help catch pokemon :I
I mean, sometimes it works...
DYKG: Don't blow on the cartridge - the single most astonishing trivia fact I've ever heard.
Nintendo always the quality company👍
What is the soundtrack from at 4:40? It's a folk tune from the Civil War era call "the girl I left behind me".
Was that in an NES game?
Why do these narrators always sound so nervous and unsure of themselves when they try and promote their own channels at the end?
Cuz a lot of people don't like self promotion.
cuz where nerveas that someone would say: i unsubbed cuz of the self promorion... u know what i mean! getting haters!
That's because the self promotion parts are improvised, where the other parts are scripted, and probably directed.
I was watching a video about the video, I don't think I'll see it even more
I could have watched an 8 minute video. He should talk a tad slower.
Graham Merph why would you need an 8 minute video?
Need more NES/SNES related DYKG trivia!
This guy talks too fast
they don't have forever to make these videos though
2:00
That's incorrect. They aren't cheaper because the controllers are still plugged in. It's just that they are plugged in at the front and then loop back underneath the housing. So yanking on them won't cause them to pop out. But if you take it apart you can just pull the controllers out.
YES! FINALLY! I've been waiting for a NES video for a while now.
That is freaking awesome that they still serviced famicom systems until 2007. That is just crazy.
Love how you chose one of the few youtubers in the hiddenblock and normalboots who did not play Nintendo as a kid, at this video. Hehe
And thus Gunpeiyokoi also invented the first eject button for home consoles.
There was a surprising amount of stuff in this episode that I didn't know. Especially the part about knitting. Were you guys aware of the Oldsmobile Expression? It was a concept vehicle shown at the 1990 Chicago Auto Show and it featured a built in Nintendo Entertainment System in the back with two rear-facing seats to accommodate families with children. It never got manufactured outside of the concept model but there are photos of it online that are relatively easy to track down.
how did it take this so long to make? the nes is like the most important console in video game history
Look at you, DYKG! Uploading two videos in a week. Moving on up, I see.
"Now you're knitting with power"? That's just hilarious.
Dunno about "Dandy", but we had "Terminator" in Bulgaria, and I believe it can even still be found, along with game cartridges in some stores.
Anyone know anything about the bootleg nes that had a couple cartridges that contained EVERY nes game? The box had tmnt on it I think. It was from kuwait I believe. I had one but didnt work on my tv. My aunt worked for the UN so she got it when they sent her there.
The history of this system was seriously not what I was expecting.
CADDY DOING AN NES EPISODE??? That's the last person that I would expect to make this.