Gaming Museum - Computerphile

[@bmurph24]

This guy's enthusiasm totally makes the video.

[@Bisquick]

I love how he has like 12 favorite parts haha

[@dreammfyre]

Man, that dev-kit display is way too humble. Those machines are pretty much the closest things we get to relics in the the gaming world, and they should be displayed in a museum! (oh wait they are, actually...)

[@tyranneous]

+1 for supporting SpecialEffect charity. Cracking guys, brilliant cause.

[@fredhair]

This guy seems like he's so enthusiastic about working at an amazing place! I'd love to work there but I'll probably settle for visiting for a day.

[@stagga89]

Not a real history museum without some stolen goods 😉

[@wiznendo]

Hes british, in a mesuem about history, and hes worrioed about somthing being stolen

[@ciarfah]

@@wiznendo Ah yes, the infinite guilt of past atrocities that no individual today has any direct connection to, nice;) I understand it's just a joke

[@splashstrike]

British Museum sweats.

[@LewisCowles]

Came to the comments to say this.

[@alicebingham9796]

so sad we lost the national arcade museum in Nottingham

[@CrimsonDragoon23]

Joel Bingham When did it close down??

[@Computerphile]

It moved to Sheffield...

[@alicebingham9796]

@@Computerphile yeah I know but I cant commute to Sheffield often so I cant really go as often as I'd like to. I did love the museum though, and your channel by the way 😁

[@alicebingham9796]

@@CrimsonDragoon23 it moved in 2018

[@abdalhadifitouri131]

This is actually a really cool way to make this museum

[@mwn3d_]

What's the disinfectant wipe budget at this museum?

[@frognik79]

Nintendo: Emulated huh, where's my take down papers?

[@defense200x]

oh no please nintendon't

[@DanRamosDR]

Between my brother and I, I'm pretty sure we have everything they collected (...and more, though I don't have dev consoles. I can provide pictures.. no kidding). Nice to see jamma based machines being shown. Is there anyplace in there showing the innards and explaining the evolution from Pong to the custom arcade cabinets to jamma? On the home console side, the evolution from custom game units to cartridge based software and then to discs? I saw a lot of showing stuff but not a lot of explaining if they covered actual history.

[@seto007]

Considering Free Radical no longer exists, I wonder what could've happened if that PS2 Dev Kit actually was stolen.

[@DrWho2008t101]

thanks for the tour.

[@RogueShadowTCN]

I can imagine it drives him nutty that you can play just about every version of minecraft along it's entire development.

[@koopalar]

Such a great vid. Great to see how people are so devoted to the preservation of VGs

[@HiImKyle]

Nice to see my home town in a video like this.

[@todbilegotgonbat3943]

Are there Xbox Live messages mentioning my mum engraved onto plaques?

[@Art_DeBroglie]

Finally Makes Sense if not, it should. Got a lot of feedback on my mom playing Halo with kind strangers and over saturated mics

[@winstonsmith478]

Fruit controllers = planned obsolescence.

[@Art_DeBroglie]

Winston Smith please don’t apply too much pressure. A controller with human feels.

[@recklessroges]

but with the user has the right to repair, (which is more important.)

[@EgoShredder]

Surely you mean plant obsolescence....

[@brapamaldi]

fruit controllers and hungry gamers dont mix. although, not being cheetos they are probably safe, haha

[@vanled6868]

Went here for last month it was great love the work they do

[@cearnicus]

Shameless plug: for the Dutchies among us, we have something similar in Zoetermeer. It started as an arcade cab collection so it's mostly geared towards that (or maybe that was just my impression because I mostly go there for the DDR >_>), but it's great fun. Last year it hosted the In The Groove Eurocup and during Carnaval there's an event called RhythmFest with all sorts of rhythm games and competitions :D

[@lukaszkonsek7940]

This guy looks a little bit like "Big Head" from Silicon Valley

[@damnedsleeper]

If Big Head was British

[@ender2999]

Spitting image haha

[@cgme7076]

I was looking through the comments to post this, LOL

[@Kholaslittlespot1]

Very cool, thanks for the tour. There's a lot of cool virtual pinball stuff you can do. I'm into my pinball but I've never heard of ink. Will have a look!

[@DigitalImpostor]

Hopefully one of the Donkey Kong ports is the ColecoVision one as it's supposedly one of the most faithful due to a person from Coleco programming all the ports for cartridge machines.

[@azzaKaiapoi]

Shout out for Astro Wars. I spent days playing this in the early 80's.

[@JonathanCorwin]

My brother had this wheras I had Puck Monster, a pacman clone. I was probably terrible at both

[@eccod5637]

What a wonderful video! The name of the first videogame, "rakete" is, as far as I know, german for rocket, being pronounced ra-kay-teu

[@invisibleblack2997]

The translation is correct, but I'm not sure about the pronounciation.

[@CourtOfWinter]

@@invisibleblack2997 Eh, it's close, except for the "teu" part. /ʀaˈkeːtə/ The "ə" is pronounced like the "e" in "the rock".

[@zeikjt]

@@CourtOfWinter So more like tuh

[@CourtOfWinter]

@@zeikjt Possibly? My English pronunciation is, frankly, terrible.

[@jbroad8194]

I've been there before, it really didn't seem like much. It could of been so much more but it basically just a few exhibits chucked around. It's more like a enthusiasts garage than a museum.

[@VincentGroenewold]

Coool, but I do wonder how long it’ll be there. Huge space is expensive.

[@tanner1ie]

I still have a working Barcode Battler and my first console was the Master System :D .

[@technotrousers381]

Please report the statistics from opening time till first bite taken out of the rakette controllers. Should be interesting data.

[@Big_Tex]

Hey we got a museum by the same name in Frisco, Texas!

[@SteveGouldinSpain]

First game I recall playing was a moon landing program on the Research Machines 380Z in about 1977. It wasn't very user friendly...I think you had to just type trajectory numbers in then it would return a possibility of success or failure, so you could reconfigure and hopefully make a safe landing. All in text! Pretty unexciting by today's standards but we thought it was magic back then. Shortly after there were text based dungeon type RPGs but the Moon Lander was the first I remember!

[@OrangeC7]

How cool!

[@tpog1]

Nice, but James Rolfe probably has more video game stuff under his bed than these people have in their entire museum.

[@schmitzi99]

nice museum. no VR?

[@SteelSkin667]

9:05 appropriate response

[@pappasadrian]

british museums and stolen exhibits, riiiiight...

[@myrrdyn]

1:54 Zool! The memories of playing on Amiga 500...

[@myrrdyn]

and an Amiga at 4:48, if I'm not mistaken

[@DJMatGE]

I played this in DOS...

[@DavePoo]

@@myrrdyn A 1200 no less. I booted my A600 the other day, still works, but the floppy drive doesn't

[@Th3bAc0nBiTs27]

3:47 I just got that HL2 book today. Can't wait to read it!

[@BOLL7708]

Ah, the future section didn't have VR, oh well 😅 It's definitely a place I want to visit though, regardless, will have to make a note about this 😗

[@CeleryMan666]

It will be in the abandon ware/vapor ware section.

[@BOLL7708]

@@CeleryMan666 Abandonware could fit eventually, as with everything really, just let enough time pass. Vaporware would be strange though as I've played and enjoyed VR content since the Rift DK1 in 2013 🤔 Of course military, medical and enterprise kept using VR since inception, but this wave of consumer VR is already implemented, sold and enjoyed as well 😋

[@wetryanycheesedotcom]

I've been there! I live right next door :D

[@JNCressey]

Do you have any computer games that don't use a screen?

[@ifell3]

No cod jumping stuff or paintball??

[@Petertronic]

Nice to see a Dancing Stage! I have a Euromix2 one at home :)

[@Adam-bh1lk]

This place looks amazing. I want to visit now :)

[@patu8010]

Previously I only knew Sheffield as the place where they process visa applications

[@DushanTorbjorn]

Where are all the fruit quiz machines? They must be stored in the vault.

[@EgoShredder]

They're in the Dark Ages..... ;-)

[@Veptis]

I've been to the computer game museum in Berlin

[@AcornElectron]

Where?

[@Computerphile]

Sheffield, UK

[@AcornElectron]

Thanks, see you as soon as you open fully.

[@Computerphile]

Ah it's fully open, we just got there early one day :)

[@Jerome...]

Half Life 2 Raising the bar, Zelda Prima books ... those aren't museum pieces, those things were on Amazon in the last 5 years.

[@Mr.Leeroy]

not enough of Half-Life, Quake, WarCraft, StarCraft. can't take this place seriously.

[@AB-Prince]

been today, can confirm it's cool

[@LOLukeJamieson]

Do they have Taiko no Tatsujin??!!?!?

[@noa670]

It's a bit EPIC

[@mynewaccount2361]

1:46 BUBUBU BUBBERDUCKY BUBBERDUCKY BUBBERDUCK

[@EpicWolverine]

The only reason I knew what that game is.

[@aw34565]

Sheffield - Gremlin Graphics and the home of Monty Mole.

[@squeakle]

HELLO PEOPLE WELCOME

[@MyDadIsBillGates]

Surprised you didn't catch any of the bums that I see sleeping outside the building.

[@alexlandherr]

Combine the first game’s controller with Kerbal Space Program...

[@jall3ri]

could be a reason to visit the U. K.

[@testimonialicochique]

More of a Luna Park museum

[@WildIdiot]

This place looks neat but it doesn't have anything on James Rolfe's basement.

[@zeikjt]

Well, it is available to the public. So it has that going for it.

[@ינוןאלבז-כ1ז]

You are very lacy sir

[@AshleyFoxo]

Less there now than there is in the video 🙄

[@000Krim]

Groovy

[@MultiMeowingtons]

nice

[@noferblatz]

Disagree with the concept of the museum. Somebody got cute with the idea. It should be, as mentioned, a progression of games down through the decades.

[@RustyTheDalek]

Don't worry friend there's plenty of other people who work in other museums that definitely have stolen stuff within their walls...

[@dafl00]

So basically, you can write off your gaming collecting obsession from your taxes?

[@Masztufa]

Talking about emulation without doom? really? (yes, this was my biggest issue with it)

[@jaffaman99]

I get what they’re trying to do, but it would be way more awesome if they actually did have a proper collection of rare and historically important games. I want to see video gaming held in the same esteem as any other art form. Not presented as a flash game connected to a tomato.

[@jameskywd]

yay

[@Pablo.Rodriguez]

This guy talks like he's living the dream

[@alexramos2568]

Who pays for the museum?

[@Computerphile]

Ticket sales and the odd donation I understand >Sean

[@NickEnchev]

Almost as much stuff as some of the youtubers I watch.

[@milocow44]

gaming

[@k.o.o.p.a.]

The second game is a Sonic rip-off?

[@zeikjt]

No :)

[@marty34534]

6:30 that makes no sense. Didn't want to run on original hardware because they "have different resolutions". But he just finished showing us the *_emulated_* TRS-80 version at 5:55 with its low-rez graphics anyway!

[@1TW1-m5i]

Different screen resolutions. They'd need different screens to hook each up to

[@Edde1018]

The most oppressed minority on Earth just got a museum. Okay, this is epic.

[@camilo3626]

there was nothing about esports and competitive gaming, how sad. They should get a bundle showing early online gaming with starcraft, cs 1.6, dota, and then show current events like lol, csgo, rainbow 6, some fighting games...

[@1st_ProCactus]

That guy likes the wrong stuff. How long has the museum been around for ?

[@TheAntiGravityMaster]

"dancing stage fusion" and "where's wally" makes my american blood boil

[@jefftheworld]

Where's Wally is British, though. The DDR thing is super weird, though.

[@barrelroller8650]

Bighead?

[@nux3960]

Oh cool a banana as a gaming controller, why haven't anyone think of that before? LoL

[@d-rex7043]

Hmmm.... not feeling it.

[@johnb.1020]

181st.

[@squaray]

OMG Conor Clarke looks like a discount James Harding!

[@infared54321]

He's on coke

[@henry2ish]

i think we should oppress gamers.

[@larsmees4952]

first

[@Diggnuts]

Well, that was annoying.

[@neddyladdy]

video games, seriously?

[@jumpierwolf]

Ok so it's a museam about games made by British developers and with 5 other games got it.