A brief history of video games (Part I) - Safwat Saleem

[@sabreene76]

Safwat, you should do the part two! I loved your TedTalk. Continue to speak up!

[@Charlie-dn3ni]

I agree

[@ulooneytoones4824]

me too. great job. I like your voice. normal is for wankers :) its like eating boiled ham every day. blah. all the best

[@blip808]

Yeah, don't be normal, be extraordinary! Those that think normal is best have minds of the masses. Stereotypical people who probably won't have much achievements in life because that's a NORMAL person for you!

[@mtb2257]

It's been seven years. The place feels barren. No sign of part 2 as of now.

[@Enderbrick]

yep

[@michellepark2290]

they won't make part two because people made fun of his accent.

[@ymskkuroneko]

STILL.

[@jdh9419]

It’s been 9 years now. Is there a part 2?

[@rrurangi]

10 now in october 25 2023

[@laurenkovar1626]

In his Ted talk, he cites that the reason he won't release part two is that people made fun of his accent- that he sounded like he had peanut butter in his mouth. I wish he would release part two-- I want part two of the history, and his accent is fine just as it is.

[@kaittenters3374]

I find it satisfyingly to listen to. I really wish people would just keep their mouths shut sometimes.

[@Bananappleboy]

He sounds imo almost exactly like someone who plays minecraft and factorio... Why do I... Michael Hendricks what are you doing in a ted ed video as a space invader... jokes aside he clearly does not sound bad

[@sandycolours641]

@@kaittenters3374 unintentional asmr

[@chis5050]

that is so sad... lol. really enjoyed the video

[@JohnJohn-xb4my]

Me too man,just saying he should just ignore other ppl at least his English is better than me even others who criticize him so far.

[@belugaabs]

okay i guess it's official that THERE IS NO PART TWO

[@user-nw3ol7fk1i]

same

[@amyrainey4183]

syarifah sadiyah I replied that on one comment

[@jesuscastillo782]

damn shame

[@jbernfinger5494]

still no part two

[@minhdouble9380]

No, not yet :v

[@timesoftube7910]

Is anyone in 2019 waiting for part 2

[@marvinkim7191]

Oh yeah TOTALLY

[@vampirevideos3460]

Yeet

[@specsamhain_909]

Nobody: Kids like Harish: AnYoNe 2019?!?!

[@Rujenz7]

me

[@armandoplaysandmaps]

Yes ._.

[@mohammedfouzan8890]

It’s been nearly 10 years and stll no sign of part two 😢

[@TEDEd]

Stay tuned. We're as excited as you are!

[@twitterusersarefreakingstu2200]

Then when are you making part 2? It’s 2021!

[@benbomb3205]

I can't go on without part two his voice is just too soothing.

[@cbdbabyoilmarketingfirm160]

Literally none of us are excited

[@milkcat322]

@@twitterusersarefreakingstu2200 and it's 2021!

[@kamu747]

Well then? Part 2?

[@Soulzzzzz]

Buy the DLC for part2

[@MrBasketballhoops8]

So true

[@RiceOreo]

lol

[@daysant7990]

$399.99 monthly subscription

[@adamhlj]

"Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You’d think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase ‘Paku-Paku,’ which means to flap one’s mouth open and closed. They changed it because they thought Puck-Man would be too easy to vandalize, you know, like people could just scratch off the P and turn it into an F or whatever." - Scott Pilgrim

[@gmanjapan]

+Adam McGrath Paku-Paku does not mean to flap one's mouth. It means to eat something by munching or rather popping into your mouth whole like the way some people exaggeratingly eat potato chips by popping whole ones in the their mouths and the quickly closing their mouth. Source: 15 years in Japan

[@adamhlj]

+greggman I think that you missed the point of my post, but thanks for that tidbit of info!

[@midwinterhandgrave324]

+greggman It can also be used as an onomatopoeia for flapping/opening and closing their mouth. It doesn't need to involve eating. Source: Japanese bilingual.

[@gmanjapan]

I stand corrected. Thanks!

[@peternang834]

fuck man

[@Nizati]

Where is part 2?

[@alekseybenitez7453]

Several months have passed and there isn't a part two

[@Nizati]

Then they shouldn't have called it part 1! DX

[@oldcowbb]

***** why??????????!!!

[@joshuapascall4720]

Nizati r=uh Iy N. SN N N AM I'- §- . *.' 'I'

[@mohammedmustafa6746]

Still no part 2

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

where is the second part?

[@pasifikdor]

Still waiting for part 2 in 2024

[@jpoundz624]

I need a part 2 like last week!!!! Wanted to use these for a project I'm doing in the military!

[@DrLVHarris]

Safwat, this is AAAWWWSOME!!! Wish I was still teaching interface design at Purdue University. This would have been required viewing for my students. So proud to know you. :-) -- Dr. La Verne

[@AgentAmmo530]

Shame on you people who commented bad comments on his voice. You're the reason we don't have a part 2 >:l

[@milk-u8d]

yea

[@0901강민재]

한번도 생각해보지 않았던 개임의 역사에 대하여 알아보았더니 느낌이 새로웠습니다. 모든것이라도 그것이 가지고있는 역사에 대하여 배우면 더 재미있어지는것 같습니다. 재미있는 시간이 되었습니다. 감사합니다.

[@Albertandearthie]

wat

[@wavieff]

...it's been three long years. Where u at, part two?

[@Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

@NoTheOtherJonathan it's still there is no part 2

[@ba.nguyen]

I am from the future hello 2020 here

[@krakenburger56]

@@ba.nguyen I am 4 months in the future.

[@dodec8449]

Why is part 2 taking so long? You're like Valve. Or is that the joke?

[@justbored289]

***** No, no they would've stopped at part 3 after hyping us up xD

[@markopolo1359]

+Dodec84 I agree where the kanto is it

[@ottatarrega4011]

Part 2 is not coming yet?

[@nara1280128]

they will make one, but part 3 wont release

[@Nuke_Skywalker]

obviously playing video games.

[@Bartholomule01]

Can't wait for part 2!

[@phuocnguyenngoc7821]

unfortunately, I guess that part two does not exist. It's been so long...

[@SohelShekhash]

When Part 2 is going to be released? Thumbs up to get them noticed.

[@tp4055]

Sohel Shekha you edited that comment and it still has horrible grammar...

[@GaryMSanchez]

You can ask him www.safwatsaleem.com/about

[@JoelAtico]

never

[@msantaka]

Would've been great if you include the console market implosion in early-mid 80's. It would've shown how significant Nintendo is in the home console market and the subsequent decline in arcade gaming.

[@SuperNumber420]

Part 2 doesn't exist?

[@vladimirjosh6575]

*_YES!_*

[@izzyxblades]

WHERE IS PART TWO?!

[@thegreatgambino]

This is amazing and very well put together! What a great time for something like this to hit the internet. With all the next gen counsels coming out and things like the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, it is great to look back and see how far things have come. P.S.I tried to post a video response to this video. Cant wait for part 2 of this!!!

[@CoolGirl007]

I'm so addicted to video games, still remember the one with sport car racing, i played at 7 years old

[@aiidum3551]

PART 2 PLEASE ITS BEEN 5 YEARS

[@thedrivereraworld6033]

A brief history of video games - Part I (Transcrição) Hi, I’m Medium Invader from the classic video game Space Invaders, and I want to tell you a little bit about where video games came from. A video game is an electronic game that has an interface designed for human interaction on a video device. Simple. Video games are used by scientists, the military, and people like you, and their evolution has spread across arcades, consoles, computers, smart phones, and all kinds of other electronics. These days video games are everywhere, but they were actually made in science labs. In fact, the earliest U.S. video game patent on record was in 1948, and at the time it was referred to as a cathode-ray tube amusement device. That’s a mouthful! Some of the earliest video games include the Nimrod computer, OXO, Tennis for Two, and my personal favorite, Spacewar! But none of these early video games were ever sold to the public because they were either too huge or too expensive to get out of the lab. This all changed when a man named Ralph Baer looked at his television screen and wondered how else it might be used. In 1972, Baer’s idea to get video games out of the science lab and into the living room led to the release of a game console called Odyssey. Odyssey allowed you to play a game on your TV. At about the same time, two other people, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, were working on something similar in a little company called Atari. You might have heard of it, and even if you haven’t, I’m sure that your Dad has. Atari’s first major game release was in 1972, an arcade game called Pong. It was an immediate hit, and it’s credited as the first commercially successful video game. Atari then released a home version of Pong in 1974. By 1978, competition between Atari and another game company called Midway was heating up. Midway had licensed an arcade game for the Japanese company, Taito, that put them on the map. The game: Space Invaders. It featured iconic actors, like me, and it went on to become the second highest selling arcade game of all time. Space Invaders also helped kick off what is known as the Golden Age of Arcade Games. In response, Atari followed with the release of the arcade game Asteroids, which ranked sixth on the list of highest selling arcade games. It was a good game, but it’s no Space Invaders. By 1980, color came to arcade games, and this was also the year that another video gaming milestone was born. Pac-Man, created by the Japanese company Namco, was brought to the U.S. by Midway. Important to the spread of video games into popular culture, Pac-Man was a character that could be licensed. It wasn’t long before it had a song on the charts, a Saturday morning television show, and all sorts of other products. In just a year, Pac-Man arcade games made over one billion dollars in quarters. Then, in 1981, a company called Nintendo started making waves in the U.S. video game market with their release of Donkey Kong. It was the earliest video game to have a storyline. The story went a bit like this: Donkey Kong is the pet of a carpenter named Jumpman. Jumpman mistreats his pet ape, so the ape steals his girlfriend, leaving the game player to assume the role of Jumpman and rescue the girl. Jumpman was eventually renamed to Mario. Other iconic arcade games from the early 80s include Frogger, Dragon’s Lair, and Mario Brothers. Perhaps the last iconic game considered to be part of the Golden Age of Arcade Games is Double Dragon. It was the first really successful example of the beat-them-up genre. It was released in 1987, and, like Donkey Kong, it featured a damsel in distress storyline, a storyline common in many video games. By the mid-90s, the Golden Age of Arcade Games was coming to an end, and the home game console was gaining in popularity. While arcade games continued to decline in sales over the years, the popularity of video games was merely beginning, and we’ll talk about that and a lot more in part two of a brief history of video games.

[@raynorshine5126]

I'm really sorry, but in my opinion I really disliked the fact that they mentioned Anita in this video. She claimed in her kickstarter that she played the games, but she didn't she stole other people's content. She used the videos and removed the context from it to make it look bad. ):

[@Beastbraness]

Damn right man.

[@happysharma968]

PART 2 !! please guys

[@tommyjohson3193]

4:00 Holy... *T H I C C*

[@jeseviso-s2u]

Great video. I really want to get into videogame design.

[@anaderi1990]

It's about 2020 and i'm still waiting for part 2 from 2013!

[@shweshah]

Lol Me too

[@charlotteboole8313]

its 2021

[@tammyschoenfeldt7625]

From a southern girl in the U.S., I enjoyed your exotic accent and video full of just enough information to cite in my paper. Please release part 2 of your video. Forget the haters. Thank you for the effort you put into making this for all of us to see.

[@ghost-dude867]

this is really interesting- so cool that they mentioned Anita Sarkeesian's videos! also the documentary 'Video games: the movie' is another good history of video games reference.

[@DeBaws2308]

Anita Sarkeesian is cancer

[@HeirOfGlee]

You guys have 4 minutes of video and you try to point out the most negative to you? Trusting your judgement, your hate makes others try to support and love it

[@MukeshKumar-qh1bh]

Still waiting for part 2

[@Gigachad-lf7fh]

2020 and still waiting

[@renvanacker4510]

Its been 8 years now, where still waiting for a part two. Dont let it wait longer than gta 6 lmao

[@ShadowSamurai7777]

Knack is back baby!

[@Charlie-dn3ni]

@safwat Salem This was really helpful, I loved your ted talk

[@RoyerStudiosPSAs]

Yes, coming soon.

[@RoyerStudiosPSAs]

Wow, awesome! Very cool to learn about the evolution of a childhood favorite.

[@felixkakashi1449]

Excellent video! I look forward to the next one.

[@karl_m3013]

Really? I think the voice this fine. And I work in a studio where we do movie voiceovers. It is not a professional voice like James Earl Jones, who also had a stutter, or John Facenda , NFL Films. But it was perfectly fine for this video.

[@jojosupriatna1414]

August 2019. Still waiting the part 2.

[@RetrieverMapping]

Please make part 2!

[@williammedrez2634]

Also Midway made... MORTAL KOMBAT!!!

[@avogatotoast4656]

Woah! I never new about this! That is amazing, how video games were made.

[@codeXenigma]

Did some research for you because I'm so nice ;-) 'Since Donkey Kong was set on a construction site, Mario was made into a carpenter. When he appeared again in Mario Bros., it was decided he should be a plumber, since a lot of the game is played in underground settings.[10] Mario's character design, particularly his large nose, draws on western influences; once he became a plumber, Miyamoto decided to "put him in New York" and make him Italian'

[@linkf1]

Where is part TWO?? WHEREEEEEE? I need it NOWWWW!. :P Just kidding. Well done Ted.

[@phuocnguyenngoc7821]

it's been 8 years dude.

[@IbeatHalo1onLegendary]

Can't wait for part 3 🤠

[@fatpotatoe6039]

Make part two already

[@tking2112]

Here's to Part Two and listening to your beautiful voice again!

[@Lestakeo]

When he says it, no he is not "really" referring Anita, but at the same time on the screen her name is written, as well as her series of videos (4:00). I'm just saying, not contradicting or dissing.

[@TickPlaysMC]

I played all those games, my parents gave them to me when I was lke 5 (2005)! Still loving them!

[@anex3611]

I love history and video games.

[@thegrayangel95]

Damsel in distress? Time to find a new damsel!

[@StarBoundFables]

Cool, this was really enjoyable to watch! I look forward to watching the other parts of this series 😃

[@anonymouspuppy]

It’s been nine years I don’t think they’re going to release a sequel.

[@khaaaled2007]

Safwat Saleem ,He is from Pakistan , living in the US, google him he's done a lot of great things

[@alexkidd3d]

You don't have to agree with everything someone says in order to reference a point they make. She nicely lays out that the damsel in distress is a defining characteristic of early video game culture. You can argue or debate the reasons for that and what it says about society, patriarchy etc. but all that's said here is that it's a common theme... which it is. People need to get over their instinctual dislike for any mention of Sarkeesian.

[@wowschannel8109]

WOW! 8 YEARS! FOR THIS VIDEO!

[@danimaljenkins]

beautiful vid! love the style

[@twitterusersarefreakingstu2200]

Discovering something that doesn't exist, A brief history of video games part 2. If this meme is dead, I am very sorry.

[@yansproductions]

where is the part 2

[@lolahawk]

Love it! Very instructive! (And, Mr. Safwat Saleem, I love your voice!)

[@codeXenigma]

In the film they are plumbers and this is what wilki says "Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation. Depicted as a short, pudgy, Italian PLUMBER who resides in the Mushroom Kingdom, he repeatedly rescues Princess Peach from the turtle-like villain Bowser and stops his numerous plans to destroy him and take over the kingdom." Research before making statements sometimes. Just saying :-)

[@abhishekmhn9]

TED-Ed guys!!! no part 2 saaaaadd!!!

[@demosteam]

Rip Ralph Baer ;-;

[@prodengmohamd8238]

😢😢

[@deadlifternoob]

we want part two! we want part two!

[@honzazednik6101]

I’m waiting for part two pls pls pls

[@TicTacPilgrim]

Don't forget the great video game depression, and how the PC was riding high in the late 90s and are still relevant today. Also consider strong contenders that helped video games finally be considered art. You could mention the story of how Sony broke away from Nintendo to try and make a console of their own. Then mechanics of gaming evolving over time to create a much more fun and deeper experience.

[@3000kristian]

Yeah because she is definetly making a big change. People are mad at her for taking 150k and making videos containing really bad arguments 0 sources and no comments from them. If she is making a change she shouldn't be.

[@2012wouter]

WE NEED MORE

[@Awesomishish]

Great job

[@Stilluetto]

I love the pac man music and also NO PT 2?!

[@zone07]

is there a part 2?

[@turkial-turki7401]

2021 and still waiting for Part II

[@DanielTheRobot]

0:27 Determination

[@danny1111105]

if you like this, check out playvalue, i personally like it more.

[@gsent56]

2020 still waiting for part 2

[@DazmoTube]

You have a much better understanding of how it all played out, then, than the person who made this video does, trust me.

[@eonorez3]

I think it will be uploaded later.

[@IcefisherTenacity]

Part II will be released in 3102

[@heatherjohnson6836]

Why no one can alive in 3102????

[@stufaryde8819]

This is a very good look at the history of video games. A shame there isn't a part 2.

[@zosimus_99]

Thanks to all.

[@gurjitbariana2135]

PART TWO PLZZ

[@muratresulozdemir8890]

PART 2 I NEED PART 2

[@alexisg1147]

It's 2023 and i am still waiting...

[@BencyJoseph94]

Where is Part II ?

[@phyllisrocher]

Please give us 2

[@brandonnguyen6718]

He said that he wouldn't release the next one because people were toxic about his accent.

[@phyllisrocher]

@@brandonnguyen6718 I know how to read.

[@phyllisrocher]

@@brandonnguyen6718 which is EXACTLY why I encouraged him.

[@JavKarnaza]

Nice, neat and truly amazing. Great job!

[@blip808]

Great voice! Keep speaking up because NO ONE can 'define' a normal accent!!!

[@KarishmaChanglani]

Jeffery Li you are the best person in this comment section!

[@kazimierz198]

Talking about the history of video games you omitted the video game crash of 1983 that almost wiped out the whole industry. Seems like a pretty significant event to over look.

[@markmayfield2228]

Odyssey was my first console. Damn, I'm old.

[@kartikchandrapathak118]

Please make a video on self defence theory

[@f1shes_]

Guys, release the second part.

[@1055boy]

I don't recall my very first game, but I do recall playing Jazz the Jackrabbit, Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog when I was between 4 and 6 years old. Good times :)

[@dancingecho3864]

PART 2! PART2! PART2!

[@ThuyPhuong-ls7xg]

2020 Part 2!

[@anshisalad]

im waitin!