The History of Video Game Consoles | TIME

[@Drakelx55]

"Video Games didn't have what they had before, a mascot" Pacman would like to have a word with you

[@Sinn0100]

I started gaming back in 1986 with the Nes and Master System. I have continued unabated from the 3rd all the way to the 9th generation of gaming. I remember living through all of these amazing times.

[@dacypher22]

I love how he has to throw in that the Power Glover "in theory" let you control your games better.

[@jayNicks10]

I grew up in the 90’s playing the NES & the SNES, then I grew up in the 2000’s playing the PS2. I still have all 3 of those systems.

[@devill2312]

when i was a kid i have terminator the black console with nes games then i got sega genesis and then i got family computer famicom she works with the nes games from my black terminator and thats all for that the family computer was the best for me so fun with nes games i have it im kid from 93 year so to the final part on the 90s and just the same from early when i grow up in 2000s bc in 2001 year i become class 1 in school for first time in my life so in 2000 year in the start on the 2000s last my last time with my family computer and it was the best days rly that was amazing time and in this early time in the final part i play it on friends home ps1 and that was all

[@devill2312]

and it was just amazing it was the best time

[@hannakinn]

I had an Atari in the late 70s. I had Pong and super long prior to the Atari and I loved playing video games. I pestered my husband into buying an Atari 2600 for me. I had a lot of fun with it. That was a long time ago!

[@abeochoa1446]

man I all know I still have my 7800 with donkey Kong frogger and centipede somewhere in the storage dam-paz

[@ParanoidCoolcat]

my C64 was my first console and I LOVED it

[@MsPaintMr]

The Commodore was a Computer not a console. But at least it means you were part of the GLORIOUS PC MASTER RACE

[@VideoQuestEx]

I personally started out with those hand-held "Tiger Electronics" games, before moving onto a GameBoy, and then onto a Super Nintendo. the rest, as they say, is history! A good first part to this series, by the way!

[@fLiPnoTTiC]

this was a good watch

[@JosephRobinsonSMBX]

1st Gen: Odyssey 2nd Gen: 2600 and Odyssey 2 3rd Gen: NES and Master System 4th Gen: SNES and Mega Drive 5th Gen: N64 and PS 6th Gen: GameCube, PS2 and Xbox 7th Gen: Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 8th Gen: Wii U, PS4 and Xbox One 9th Gen: Switch

[@videogameobsession]

Thanks for putting parts 2 & 3 behind a URL paywall...

[@chrise8756]

My first console was the ps2

[@elrodriguez2578]

mine was a calculator

[@michaelmorales1475]

+Bryan Rodriguez lol

[@dragonore2009]

My first console was the NES because I'm in my mid 30s.

[@nightshade4131]

dragonore2009 My first console was a Sega genesis and I'm in my 20s.

[@ceruulean_tbh]

My console list: 1st: Genesis 2nd: PS2 3rd: Wii 4th: N64 5th: Wii U 6th: Switch

[@vghchannel]

Somehow my parents first bought me the Odyssey2 instead of the 2600 (probably because of the "educational" aspect of having a keyboard). Odyssey2 came out in 1978, not 1982 (see 2:05 in the video... with the Pitfall II music)

[@davidbanuelos4638]

Been a Part of Every Generation - Pong Gen I, Atari 2600 Gen II, NES Gen III look how far we've come!

[@tskolits]

Great video!

[@kylesugui]

"Sega Genesis doessss!... WHAT NINTENDON'T." best console commercial ever hahah

[@billyesparza9735]

How many people didn't realize that they were showing the end dates? Besides, they showed the launch date in the overview of each generation anyway.

[@DavidVBBMLeniPrayForMikeUkrain]

All of the kids shows video games from Nick Jr, Nickelodeon, Lyons Group, Children’s Television Workshop and PBS should all be released on all 70s and 80s Video game consoles.

[@kareemsupremet.v.5189]

my very first gaming console was the Atari 2600 I thought that couldn't get no better until the NES and the Sega Master System came out I remember my step father told me I had a choice between the two and I was this close to getting a Sega Master System but I chose the NES because my best friend David had already had 1 and I figured if I have one we can trade games.

[@flipdice6706]

1:24 now thats good music

[@DavidVBBMLeniPrayForMikeUkrain]

There should be all video game consoles and their games being introduced in 1952 and be released in Southeast Asia.

[@anuvratverma1255]

I kicked my gaming journey from fifth generation consoles ... And here I am on today 8th generation!!

[@apictureoffunction]

My first console was the NES, got it in 1996 when I was 4 (yeah I was behind the times, by 98 I had a PS1)

[@G4V1N]

The nes was made in 1985 guys, the famicom was in 1983

[@NoelG702]

They got so many dates wrong in this. For instance not including the NES which was 85' they had the Master System at 1989. The Genesis was 1989. The Master System was 1986 I think. The Atari 2600 was 1977 not 1983. Super Mario Bros 3 was 1990 for North America and 1989 for Japan. Super Mario Bros 2 the US version was 1988. How could they make such simple mistakes.

[@lyndamarin5803]

drconnorgamer wutt really

[@duked19]

And Intellivision was not 1977 but 1979-1980.

[@hammerheadduck]

2:25 *underrated game*

[@michaelanderson9792]

Thank you father on gaming

[@JMNTN]

Snes was my first gaming machine

[@brandentheultramangofighter]

First console ever was the BROWN BOX

[@chaowingchinghongfingshong3109]

branden8045 theultramangofighter home*

[@Old-Man-Gamer]

The old is gold 😎

[@Metal-Possum]

Try telling Europe and Australia/New Zealand that the NES "mopped the floor" with the Master System. I dare you. The ratio of SMS:NES is about 50:1

[@productions4452]

My first console was the original Nintendo wii

[@crossarrow200]

My first console was the first NDS version

[@No-Art-]

omg same yes skylanders was my childhood!

[@windowsme2327]

WAYLOR PRODUCTIONS me two

[@codeoptimizationware2803]

Pretty good, even surprisingly thorough, given the source. I must note, though, that despite this, the technological-generation count goes off at what you refer to as the "2nd Generation, 1977-1983" @1:59, when more accurately, the "2nd Gen" was '76 through about '81, while the next, (brief) "3rd Gen" would begin in '82, and then end prematurely the next year, '83 due to the Home-Console Video-Home Crash of 1983.* In short, your "2nd Gen" is really two gens: the 2nd and 3rd Generations, so thus your "3rd Generation, 1983-1987" @3:34 is really the actual 4th Gen, your "4th Generation, 1988-1993" @5:59 is really the 5th Gen (which was the first 16-bit gen), etc., etc. P.S.: Your link to Part 2 is dead. Here's the actual now-live link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGesZ5yGZbeJedk ----- *The Atari 5200 and the ColecoVision (3rd Gen) were most certainly next-gen over the previous Atari 2600 VCS and Mattel's Intellivision (2nd Gen), even though you have both sets lumped in together in the same Gen the video above.

[@emilybrown7204]

We watched those videos in IT at school with Mr Keirs we watched this one on Monday with Mr Keirs and Miss Aird and we watched the other ones with Mr Keirs and Miss Love yesterday

[@hokage4598]

My first console...the very first is Dreamcast......Now I'am 15 in 20th of July....I'am playing PS3 Slim and its been 3 years of playing that.......Maybe I getting a PS4 someday...........But I stick to my PS3 Slim ☺

[@Gxhbro]

Im an 11 year old kid and i really want one of these 2nd and 3rd generations systems. Idk why my freinds dint want these cool things

[@rickyharris3776]

I loved the nintendo snes ... I liked sega as well but super nintendo changed my life

[@BlueJ718]

My first game console that i ever played on is the XBOX 360 2010 And the Wii

[@jacqsprat4645]

We started out with an apple with the green and black screen I was too young to remember what type....followed by -Atari 2600 -Sega mega drive/genesis -i had a Sega gamegear - ps2 slimline -xbox -wii -3ds -ps3

[@Alekay227]

3:35 that song in the background is FREAKING AWESOME!!!! What is that song?

[@JMNTN]

Darude-sandstorm

[@Gemmydude598]

The list of video games I've had from the. First one till now 1.GameBoy 2.DS Lite 3.original DS 4.Wii 5.DSI 6.3DS 7.Xbox 360 8.Xbox One

[@Gemmydude598]

Video Game Consoles*

[@chuckbarrientos6848]

family computer megadrive sega saturn (only borrowed from my japanese uncle but i used it for a year) ps1 fat ps1 slim ps2 fat ps3 fat ps4 (sold it) gaming pc lol if u count pc as a console

[@chaowingchinghongfingshong3109]

Gemmydude598 1. Gameboy (lost) 2. Gameboy Advance (lost) 3. Gameboy Advance SP (lost) 4. Phat DS (I destroyed it, lol) 5. Wii 6. DS Lite (Lost) 7. DSi 8. Gamecube 9. Wii (Another one) 10. Gameboy (kinda broken) 11. Gameboy Color 12. Gameboy Advance SP 13. Gameboy Advance 14. Gameboy 15. NES 16. SNES (sold it) 17. Nintendo Switch Pretty random, I know, lol

[@nightshade4131]

Chao Wingching Hongfingshong PingPangPong You lose a lot of stuff I see.

[@riDQlous441]

my first console was the original xbox. Its my second favorite console after xbox 360...

[@NavinKumar-yp2rf]

Play station?

[@johnsouthern6089]

Yet another video where the documentary film makers ignored that everyone moved to Commodore 64s and other home computers. The "Crash" only happened to Console makers and it happened because kids learned they could copy games on floppy disks.

[@Greyspecies9999]

"we're gonna make a game console" inb4 they *already* made one, only in Japan.

[@SocThis1]

My first console was the Hanimex. So old it appears to have faded from TIME.

[@mycroftmagno9558]

are you 42

[@SocThis1]

+Mycroft Magno 40. Bought it for $2 at a school fair.

[@sbrechegno]

To broadcast your actions was the aim that triggered the birth of homeplay

[@metalrodriguez5679]

my first console was the N64 when I was 6 I'm 15 now.

[@dexthegamer3234]

and then they had 19 year, 19 years to make the best fucking E.T game of all time

[@creative_soul-recolo]

The arcade frenzy (Ancestors) brought birth to the video game industry that Atari would define the mid to late 70s and early 80s (Great-Grand Parents), Nintendo revived and dominated the mid to late 80s all the way until the mid 90s (Grand Parents), Sega took over the reins till the 00s (Parents) and Sony Playstation conquers till this day (Children). The likes of Xbox would be the relatives/cousins of the family tree.

[@Refr4me]

Yes, Hanafuda trading cards...

[@easytiger3302]

Mom bought us kids a Colinco and an Atari for Christmas in 1981

[@MegaMichael42]

Best 2 Video Games Consoles of the 8 Video Game Generations. Best 1st Generations Consoles:Telgames Atari Pong,Magnavox Odysey 300 Best 2nd Generation Consoles:Atari 2600,Coleco Vision Best 3rd Generation Consoles:Nintendo NES,Sega Master System Best 4th Generation Consoles:Nintendo SNES,Sega Genesis Best 5th Generation Consoles:Nintendo 64,PlayStation 1 Best 6th Generation Consoles:PlayStation 2,Nintendo Gamecube Best 7th Generation Consoles:Xbox 360,PlayStation 3 Best 8th Generation Consoles:PlayStation 4,Xbox One I am from the 5th -8th Generations of Video games,so far.

[@keeweefroot2692]

my first console was the N64

[@VinceMiniscalco]

Hey it Greg Miller!!! KINDA!!!!!

[@tonylopez5413]

I like ur intro is cool

[@RetroHamer]

Why does the US always make out the crash of 83 was the end of gaming. Europe and Japan did fine through the crash.

[@Charlie12241]

It could have been in the US. If Japan and Europe were fine it implies that the US wasn't.

[@fuckyougoogleplus8667]

Because compared to the money being made in the US in the early 80s, Europe and Japan's sales didn't matter

[@Drakelx55]

RetroHamer U.S. company talking about the U.S. gaming market? I don't see the problem. Because from our point of view it really was bad. Yes I know some people are stupid and say it was the end of gaming period but no one honestly thinks it affected Japan or Europe. The chart in the video showing the crash decreasing sales says "US Video Game Sales" or something like that.

[@deliciamurugan2626]

was that paul rudd i saw?! at 6. 55? lololol

[@YoungSanta2]

Is switch part of 8th generation or start of 9th?

[@diamondmoti]

The first game at 01 I had it .

[@amymurphy8000]

I love video games,

[@Jarred-J254]

My history with videogames started when I was around 5 my older sisters had several different games like the joysticks that you could hook right to a TV and a SNES we played pac-man, mario, racing games then my sister got a gameboy with crash and some other types of games, then the DS came out and that's when my real gaming experience began, when I was 7 I went to a friend's house and he had a PS2 and we played Star Wars Battlefront, that's when I started playing first person shooters then we got a Wii for Christmas we had Wii sports Wii play and Mario kart Wii that's when I became skilled with console games, over time I started playing a lot of games on the internet now I am almost 15 and I have a Xbox 360, 3DS XL and Wii U, what is your story around videogames?

[@Jarred-J254]

+None Of Your Business (PonchoLivre) Interesting but selling the Wii U would be a mistaken, one best game systems I've ever had

[@hasankachalkhan1132]

Nice

[@devilincarnarion]

sorry to ruin your guys excitement but 7:25 isn't it supposed to be Final Fantasy 6?

[@teamoffuturegamingcompanie3756]

Don't say it's over yet make sure you make a part 4... Because there's 9th generation! Xbox 1s, ps4 pro and the Nintendo switch!

[@dx_ream9277]

The team of future Gaming company's more like the Xbox One X. Xbox One S vs PS4 slim would be better.

[@DennisTamayo]

Before it was spun off from Time Warner (now WarnerMedia) on June 9th, 2014.

[@teamoffuturegamingcompanie3756]

Now it's Nintendo switch, Xbox 1s and PlayStation 4 pro

[@chinadab4821]

6:54 Is that Paul Rudd?

[@danbam3411]

China dab yep!

[@greekparodychannel7617]

Were are psp,psvita,nitento ds ,nitento 3ds ,gameboy,gameboy color and gameboy advance ? I see all parts and you dont say nothing for this consoles

[@joshualewis8077]

ROB from mario kart

[@polioarm]

i still own a working NES the same one i had as a child, its says 1985 under the machine, i have 2 joysticks and the gun, the gun dont work on my tv though, i dont realy use it that mutch, i have a n64 i play more on when i pull out my old toys haha

[@sc3ku]

Young Paul Rudd at 6:55

[@sleepingkirbo2393]

FUN FACT:THIS NEED REUPLOAD CAUSE IT DIDNT HAVE NINTENDO SWITCH

[@michaelanderson9792]

ET was game made in a insane too fast time yet it was pretty good given that they gave him weeks to make it he should have remade it with a good budget and time to do it right it's not to late do just that I will buy it

[@RickSprague20]

The Timeline has too many errors. In addition to the one's I've seen mentioned the Magnavox Odyssey2 came out about the same time as the Atari 2600.

[@simsod7426]

Time! You messed upp Final Fantasy III AT 7:30 in The clip. THE year was not 1990. It was 94 or 95 But i do not blame you. Final fantasy III in USA is Final Fantasy VI in Japan. Not all FF games got a US release on NES and SNES.

[@onlyrobotnothuman9728]

My 1st video game console is atari! 2nd family computer 3rd gameboy 4th ps1 5th ps2 6th game boy color 7th game boy advance 8th psp 9th ps3 10th nintendo ds lite 11th nintendo ds xl 12th nintendo wii 13th nintendo switch! Coming soon ps4!

[@danbam3411]

So many errors in this video 1. The Nintendo Famicom came out in 1983, not the NES. That was 1985. 2. You listed the Sega Master System as having coming out in 1985 and then later in 1989. Both are wrong. It actually came out in 1986.

[@BoBcAt-rw5hi]

I am 11 and I've had ps3 which I still have and I had a N64

[@ahmadwhitmire4745]

first game I played was the original 1992 mortal kombat games 1st game system was Nintendo 64

[@nithin1340]

The first console was made in 1958 and it wasnt playing pong

[@G4V1N]

No you mean 1968

[@G4V1N]

+superakif 58 that was the first game, the first console was the black box made in 1968

[@davidsghost4993]

That's funny!

[@whimsicalwordwizard6495]

Is Doug Aamoth related to Alex Jones in some way?

[@6lenWasHere]

WHAT IS THE SONG AT 3:33??

[@gcnelite5983]

Darude-Sandstorm

[@Sugho2023]

4th generation unite!

[@BOB-wx3fq]

Sega master system is older than 89.. hell the early one is older than the nes Edit: 1986 And if I'm not mistaken they had a white one out in the early 80s in Japan

[@Janet71990]

What video game popular year 60s 70s 80s 90s 2000s or 2010s today⁉️

[@mannystech4776]

anybody annoyed that they stretched the games to 16:9

[@BeingADik_Jacob]

Original Nes playing duck hunting woooooooo!

[@3021kitty]

the glove looks interesting....

[@homelesscommunist9820]

Don't believe it. If you've seen the Angry Video Game Nerd, you'll know that the Power Glove is a complete PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT.

[@zachboi13]

it was bad

[@e_web]

my first was a wii

[@ocelotgaming2082]

1:55 Is that..E.T.? Oh no....

[@ng1n369]

My mom had the Atari 2600

[@TerriProductions]

First console was an N64

[@sliat1981]

wii-u bombed

[@InfiniteUniverse88]

The video game crash didn't occur because of a glut of bad games, it occurred because of the 1983 recession.

[@Drakelx55]

InfiniteUniverse88 and the bad games, and the glut of consoles. 3 systems came out in 1982 alone (Atari 5200, Colecovision, Vectrex) and that's adding to a few lingering Pong units, the 2600, Odyssey 2, and Intellivision. a recession isn't enough to almost completely wipe out a 2 billion dollar industry in the United States.

[@michalbobak7075]

Pong wasnt first tennis for two was get ur facts staight

[@apictureoffunction]

To be fair, Pong was in development before Ralp Baer had released his version onto store shelves.

[@ML-fc3je]

My first console was a pc =P

[@windoak2113]

My first games were mobile games ;_; (I'm 12) I got a Wii and a ds for christmas

[@bikersmoke420]

I had the glove and it sucked. I watched that move and had to have it, but i was like 6.

[@BlueJ718]

Also Spiffy Pictures (not the visuals but the sound) scares me. Please no csupoers replying. and a person that is angry all the time (youtuber).

[@michellehiggerson176]

my first is wii