The Prehistory of Video Games

[@tenthousandtakes3314]

"You can't win at powerpoint" Well not with that attitude

[@rashionalism]

I came here to make this joke yet, in my soul I knew it was already too late

[@Psychol-Snooper]

You made me snort. I don't snort. How dare you?

[@submarineinthesky8946]

there are powerpoint games. this is a real thing you can do, i had a school project on this.

[@laharl2k]

[@Roxor128]

One guy implemented a Turing Machine in Powerpoint. Surely that's got to count as a win?

[@BCage]

"The war is over and people are not at war anymore" There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky

[@Camarohill2]

*Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes.*

[@pedrolmlkzk]

@@Camarohill2 together we can stop this

[@oscarin13]

@@pedrolmlkzk *Leopold II intensifies*

[@icostaticrebound6007]

*Indo-Pakistani War begins*

[@shaggythewriter8185]

Mike Tyson Mysteries is an S tier comedy and I'm glad that someone else recognized the genius...

[@bobs_toys]

That's a decent series? Downloaded but haven't watched

[@subpar5360]

They just put the first three seasons on Hulu too!

[@northofnashira2575]

The episode where they look for the old lady's parrot is my favorite, but they are all great. If you get an episode that starts slow, just wait. The end is the best part of every episode.

[@bobs_toys]

@@northofnashira2575 ok, turned on the first

[@bobs_toys]

Approving

[@thomasgray4188]

"there's nothing to radar" Nuclear bombers and jets: are you sure about that?

[@halfastudio]

"You can't win at power point" Don't challenge the internet like that. They are dangerous.

[@submarineinthesky8946]

there actually is such thing as a powerpoint game - you can make shapes that transition to a slide when hovering over them, and turn that into a "make the cursor avoid the moving obstacles" game

[@terner1234]

*at* power point

[@bagustesa]

i remember someone emulates computer (finite state machine) in power point.. is this inception..?

[@geemcspankinson]

There are also first person games running on Exel

[@halfastudio]

@@terner1234 thanks mate. Fixed.

[@bumblersoda9473]

Theory: Tyler and all of his viewers are in purgatory, and these videos are just pain-filled flashbacks to our past life. We are past God’s mercy.

[@tylerhackner9731]

It all makes sense now

[@justinweber4977]

Do not say that name. God is absent from this room.

[@adamsaldana5462]

I love my new eternal existence

[@t.z2359]

So 2020

[@joshuapartridge5092]

Theory: We are all Tyler.

[@masterked1140]

"it has to be interactive" Can someone please go and tell Kojima that he's already making movies?

[@Observer-f5k]

Nah, they're just making walking simulator in 8k

[@chomper391]

"The war is over and people are not at war anymore" "For every 60 seconds that passes in Africa, a minute passes"

[@aqueousdog]

"For every 60 seconds that passes in Africa, a civir war starts"

[@Roxor128]

Tyler should get a job with the Department Of Redundancy Department.

[@amishshark3549]

"The war is over. And people are not are war anymore." -KnowledgeHub, 2020

[@alissa2791]

Woah Didn't think of that

[@tylerhackner9731]

Mind blown

[@Ali107]

Every 60 minutes in Africa, a minute passes.

[@farraca731]

that sounds like a quote from the history of the whole world, I guess

[@Emi4201]

this didn't age well

[@RedlacUK]

As someone who explored this for his disertation, this is a great summary Tyler. Forany of you that want some further research- The Virst Video game by Ahoy. It's an hour long though, so get drinks and snacks.

[@DPSimpson]

Ahoy is great, I love him

[@panqueque445]

"You can't win at powerpoint" You can if you finish your presentation 15 minutes before you leave for school.

[@grabbin_]

Cody AND Tyler uploading? What is this? Christmas? Is the world gonna end?

[@CornmanC]

[generic 2020 joke about the world ending]

[@bjam8816]

@@CornmanC [Witty response to generic 2020 joke about the world ending]

[@kjj26k]

[Random amusing comment that is only amusing because it is random.]

[@tf2engineer260]

[pootis]

[@sentrysapper45]

You say that as if it hasn't already ended.

[@ChessedGamon]

Glad to see this channel is going back to history.

[@climbingdino9949]

I'm not

[@ervandrafadhlil403]

Well kinda

[@-haclong2366]

*pre-history. Everything before Pong was the stone age, Pong is ancient Mesopotamia, Atari is the bronze age, the video game crash is the bronze age collapse, Nintendo ushered in the iron age and classical periods, the fall of the Dreamcast created the medieval period, the popularisation of mobile gaming was the early modern age, and the current generation of consoles is the modern age.

[@NewMateo]

So this is like a condensed version of the ahoy documentary

[@sunsetsoverlavenderfields]

A condensed version that's lacking like... most of what made the ahoy documentary so fascinating

[@trippasnippa6152]

Was wondering why I felt like I had already seen this video, thought I was having a stroke

[@CHOOPISWOOPIS]

I want to say its a straight rip off, but that's quite the accusation to make

[@TheK0707319]

Tyler did a drunk man's synopsis of Ahoy's documentary

[@AshnSilvercorp]

"You can't win at PowerPoint" Microsoft Office 95 Hall of Tortured souls: _Are you sure about that?_

[@icostaticrebound6007]

how do you win in that game?

[@AshnSilvercorp]

@@icostaticrebound6007 uhh, acquiring solidarity for programmers?

[@ninjacat230]

The hall of tourtured souls is in Excel, not PowerPoint

[@wanttobeaspaceface5486]

Last time I was this early I was drinking pomegranate blueberry juice

[@jckrielesq]

rel8ble

[@Jamandabop]

Wow are you just going to keep making both videos back-to-back

[@tylerhackner9731]

Yes he is

[@dayotobiusa]

Thankfully

[@moneyman782]

I'm glad the allies beat Mario and his regime back in 1945

[@corruptedpoison1]

KnowledgeHub makes more sense now than 2020 does.

[@viking8796]

4:08 “But the ability to play with yourself” Go on...

[@tonyrobinson1088]

19901 = 1976 Stay in school, kids.

[@Mikewee777]

Y2K ruined 2D video gaming. Every game is expected to be rendered with polygons now.

[@RojoFern]

"And there was nothing to radar" And thus some nincompoop decided to point a radar at the floaty weird things up in the sky out of boredom and now we have big white golf balls at every airport.

[@a_donut]

Watching these videos without sound is surreal

[@arutka2000]

Watching without sound is indeed surreal. It feels like an edited video that aliens would send us using our own visual medium to communicate.

[@a_donut]

arutka2000 “Now imagine listening to music without the visuals...”

[@funninoriginal6054]

Looking at the thumbnail makes me have Vinesause and SiIvagunner PTSD

[@thesiber.stanmapper852]

G r a n d a d!? FLEENSTONES!?

[@funninoriginal6054]

@@thesiber.stanmapper852 AWWWWWWW, G R A N D D A D?

[@d9zirable]

Mario 7? Is this the one I played? Alright let's check it out.

[@quigonjinn4018]

You know who made this game? I D I D

[@JabesB2]

Knowledgehub, I know this has been said already, but I really think you should go to Ohayocon 2021

[@barry6541]

I feel like every video Tyler posts in quarantine is like a log of his descent into madness.

[@Paul-vq6jk]

*I can recommend the video "Ahoy" did on this topic to anyone who enjoyed this video.*

[@ZontarDow]

This is like a meth trip summery of Ahoy's video on the history of video games.

[@carlover-or4cq]

Me trying to figure out what was better. Ahoy's hour long video on The First Video Game or KnowledgeHub 6 minute long video.

[@austinreed5805]

Video Games are the new warfare.

[@sylviancreedmarsh9171]

I appreciate Tyler documenting his descent into madness in this way.

[@tarrahforcier477]

*cody and tyler upload the same day* Cody (i think):makes a video talking about if germany won Tyler:

[@bamboozlednoodle6513]

These videos make my day

[@ervandrafadhlil403]

Its hear like you recording this at 2 a.m While being very drunk After your daily ritual of insanity

[@Jessie_Helms]

For real though, if you want a stupidly good quality video that’s a deep dive on the topic Ahoy did a wonderful video a few months ago on it. Still, ya gotta love the “I couldn’t care less” style of this video in wayyyy less time.

[@randomguyontheinternet7940]

You can tell Tyler spent like a week writing this script. Got drunk one night and decided to record the audio and make the video.

[@Athair48]

Ahoy would like to say hello.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

A toy? Imagine being a man who fell into the river in Lego City

[@kjj26k]

(This post was made by Mega-Blocks Gang)

[@csm5040]

Didnt expect to see you here Avery

[@ILikedGooglePlus]

Hey!

[@Daddy_Skeletor]

YOU CANT WIN AT POWERPOINT?!! Is that a challenge?

[@colefitzpatrick8431]

Is it bad that the Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device from 1947 is more of a complete experience than most EA games

[@jessetorres8738]

Anyone remember when this channel was solely about geography? I do, but I guess Tyler doesn't.

[@TrintellixLeGaulois]

Is... is the thumbnail meant to be a 7 GRAND DAD reference?

[@FireurchinProductionsByzantium]

Now baby I'm the ripper

[@spoonsareoccasionallymadeo5728]

No it's a SiIvagunner reference

[@johnmiller7637]

I was educated and confused at the same time.

[@adamsaldana5462]

I never thought this channel would ascend to god tier channel

[@JoaoOstroski420]

0:25 this is the first game when artillery only at 300k wasn’t a thing yet.

[@Christopher_Gibbons]

You can't disqualify tic tac toe in the basis that it uses a matrix display. If you do that then any game that doesn't run in a crt is not a game, because an oled display is the same as that x and o display. The lights are just a lit smaller.

[@Mikewee777]

This video series seems to be sarcastic criticism for the sake of humor.

[@fredfredburger781]

I have recently rediscovered this channel and I love the new direction and style you have. Keep it up :)!

[@projp9057]

GRAND DAD?

[@opsoc777]

"you can't win in powerpoint" Meanwhile Doom runs on powerpoint crap I forgot it's excel not powerpoint.

[@neaa44]

grand dad?! flintstones?!?

[@mostgar]

I really recommend Ahoy's Video: the first video game. Very interesting and well made documentary, with immens productions quality. When your done watch the Polybius Video.

[@SlipspaceEntertainment]

Some consider Christopher Strachey’s Draughts to be the first video game in 1952

[@jordyandrews]

FLEENSTONES????

[@Salnax]

GRANDAD! FLEENTSTONES?

[@dissonanceparadiddle]

"you can't win at PowerPoint" oh boy but can you sure lose

[@Jessie_Helms]

“It’s all etymology” *cringes in Ahoy*

[@mosesbakst]

Who would be more surprised/impressed? Someone from 1950 seeing a 1985 computer, or someone from 1985 seeing a 2020 computer?

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Video games exist thanks to my brilliance

[@depressivetangela2033]

Reminds me of an Ahoy vid

[@tupikas1708]

Love the editing

[@Sean_rooney]

The devolution from history into random shite this channel undertook never ceases to amaze me I love it

[@TheMAM]

FLEENSTONES?!

[@davidschaftenaar6530]

Protip: Watching the works of Tyler right before bed is an ideal way to induce fever dreams. This is art. This is *ART* god fucking damn it!

[@justanotherimperialfist]

Okay but can we all unanimously agree that the first words that came to mind upon seeing the thumbnail were GRAND DAD

[@JGioia12]

If you want a small series about this, a channel called ahoy has a really good one. Also tennis for two was to simulate MAD. The cold war was pretty neat.

[@LilMarine718]

Your writing style is very interesting. I find myself typing/speaking like these videos in my class essays

[@cnrsfilms]

I know I'm late, but I just loved the Dragon Quest XI reference. Oh, and the one to the anime Sharktale.

[@TheRyu981]

GRANDDAD! FLIINSTOONES!

[@atompunk456]

We've come a long way gamers

[@buranflakes]

For some reason the way he says "you could buy a game cartridge and you could shove it in there" is hilarious to me

[@Karan-zg9bm]

Knowledge hub . The perfect substitute for LSD

[@tax4244]

YEAHHH NEW KNOWLEDGE HUB INTO THE BRAIN YEAHHH

[@nicks4802]

Top tier thumbnail. Game recognizes game. That thumbnail has maaaaad game boi

[@ZetaEntity101]

Yup I like learning the history of video games

[@thebamb00zler6]

The fucking cought at the end fucking woke me up

[@Vaerenn]

Tyler is actually Einstein.

[@randomguyontheinternet7940]

Like..you.. Mine..... and yuh craft.. Thanks for not making an easy joke.

[@howtogame9813]

Ahoy made a great video about the very first video game

[@WitchVulgar]

Today I Learned: John C. Reilly is Mr. Videogame

[@RacerC45]

Anyone else get the feeling that he's stoned or drunk doing these videos?

[@monsieurlaguillotine3481]

No. Tyler's not an idiot. It's poetry, and there's a point to these

[@Cacthios]

Knowledgehub, will you please come to Ohayocon 2021?

[@pentagramprime1585]

I picture Tyler arriving in his bathrobe.

[@omg123596]

4:30 Did he just say "for all intensive purposes "

[@fawkesmccloud8059]

Ahoy made a fantastic hour long documentary about what the first video game was

[@GoldenGrenadier]

I would argue that the tic tac toe game counts as video since the display is basically a 3x3 pixel screen with 3 bit color depth.

[@jdlenl]

thanks for showing us all polybius several times, now we're all going to go insane

[@creepthecreepers665]

Early gang, where you at?

[@tinglelovesyou4296]

GANG

[@realAlexChoi]

GANG

[@gemineyeduality764]

I feel like I'm watching an acid trip, while listening to a drunk man read a very well written script except he keeps reading ahead and trying to summarize it himself.

[@TheK0707319]

The drunk synopsis of Ahoys amazing documentary "The First Video Game".

[@mymorningjacket3436]

I've enjoyed every topic from this channel keep up the great work.

[@ThreeeDboyin3D]

Huh, I was just watching Ahoy’s video on this when I got the notification

[@julietkilo9716]

Knowledge Hub and Sseth on my birthday. Blessed fucking day Never forget, Star Control 2

[@Mazapan404]

GRAND DAD

[@tylerhackner9731]

These videos blow my mind

[@sassycat]

What in the name of Nolan Bushnell?

[@imadeyoureadthis1]

If i was born 60 years ago, i would have a childhood without video games....oh the horror.

[@Duo2]

"You can't win at powerpoint" Don't tell me what to do!

[@ToofKilla]

The Coach Mcgurk graphic got me bad. Twice.

[@fakename2956]

Give us a Mike Tyson Mysteries video, more people need to watch that show

[@hecatialapislazulli5426]

Tyler is like the coolest brother

[@DeconvertedMan]

Neat! Remember when you could play snake on youtube videos but then they took that away and never explained why uwu?