The Nintendo Entertainment System: History proves that NES is more | NES Works

[@Dilios_of_Sparta]

I like how that one classic NES commercial had to state: *Monitor not included. Damn, you mean it's not a Vectrex?!?!

[@jamiecampbell8855]

You deserve a great deal of credit for this series.

[@susanfit47]

The NES made cameos in various TV shows & movies: On the Fresh Prince on Bel-Air TV show, Will Smith is seen playing the Nintendo Entertainment System in a few episodes. On an episode of The Cosby Show, season 8, episode 9, called "For Men Only", the Nintendo Entertainment System is shown, while Russell is babysitting Olivia and her friend they are playing Nintendo. The box is on top of the television which would make the controller cords cover the front of the TV, yet the cords look like they are coming from a shelf below the TV or on the floor. When Olivia is explaining to Russell how to play the video game, she mentions the buttons A, B, C, and D. Since it is a Nintendo Entertainment System they are playing, of those letters, only A and B were actually on the controller. On the pilot episode of Boy Meets World, Cory hold the NES Zapper. HE says “Die, die.” In the 1987 Warner Bros. film Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Jon Cryer's character is seen playing a game on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Wild Gunman was also played on the ABC short-lived show I Married Dora in 1988. The 1989 movie The Wizard is heavily based on Nintendo. The main plot includes a young boy who is incredibly good at games, who later competes in a Nintendo Championship. Super Mario Bros. 3 also made its first appearance in this movie, including already released games including Double Dragon (Starting the infamous catchphrase "You scored Forty-Thousand on Double Dragon"), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Contra, Castlevania II and Super Mario 2 (USA Version). In the 1989 movie Ghostbusters II, one of characters asks another if they want to play Super Mario Bros. Later in the movie, the Ghostbusters use an NES Advantage to control the Statue of Liberty in New York City. In the 1989 Universal Pictures movie Back to the Future Part II, the Nintendo Entertainment System can be seen along with two, non-published Nintendo games Jaws by LJN and BurgerTime by Data East USA. The arcade game Wild Gunman is also seen in the movie. According to the commentary by one of the film's creators, the arcade unit was made specifically for the film. Duck Hunt for the Nintendo Entertainment System can be seen in the 1991 Columbia Pictures movie Boyz n the Hood, where Ice Cube’s character Doughboy & his friends are playing the game on their NES, and they are using a realistic light gun instead of the NES Zapper. In the 1991 movie Hudson Hawk, one of the characters asks another if they want to play Nintendo, while a family in the movie are known as the Mario Bros. In the 1992 movie Beethoven, the kids can be seen playing Super Mario Bros. 3 in several scenes, one of them using a Mattel Power Glove. The NES is also shown in these scenes. On the 1992 movie 3 Ninjas in which Turn-Turn is playing Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES. On the 1992 movie Dr. Giggles, a boy is playing Dr. Mario on the NES. On the 1993 movie Homeward Bound, a rather lengthy scene of kids playing StarTropics on the NES. On Major Dad, the Nintendo Entertainment System, The Nintendo Zapper, and the NES Advantage is seen at the front while Major John D. "Mac" MacGillis is seen at the front in several episodes. On the Major Dad episode from season 2 "All Quiet on the Home Front, Part 2" (aired 1990), Casey holds her Nintendo Zapper. in the 2008 movie, The Wrestler, a fictional Nintendo Entertainment System video game called Wrestle Jam '88. It starred the characters of Robinson and The Ayatollah. Aronofsky requested a fully functioning game for the actors to play. Programmer Randall Furino and the film's title designer Kristyn Hume created a playable demo with a working interface and AI routines that also featured 1980s era-appropriate graphics and music.

[@dustysocarras6425]

"These days, the idea of a Nintendo home console as a haven for third party innovation seems downright fanciful." - words hilariously spoken right before the Switch came out and oversaturated its online store with mobile apps.

[@Fattydeposit]

I adore how Kenseiden was used to illustrate Sega Master System prowess. Wonderful video, thank you.

[@quiet451]

Haha. I'm really honored to be in your video Jeremy! And you even cited my channel.

[@JeremyParish]

Yes! I always cite sources. Thank YOU for providing the video material I needed to supplement mine.

[@zerocal76]

Best video on the NES by far--my first console ever. Thank you sir 👍

[@Dosunceste]

"These days, the idea of a Nintendo home console as a haven for third party innovation seems downright fanciful." Yet it happened with the Switch which was released a few months after this video (yes, it's a hybrid console but we reached a point in which the distinction between stationary, handheld, tabletop consoles are meaningless due to the advancement in tech and software tools).

[@jamesmoss3424]

It's still a classic console. 😀👍🎮

[@HotBox009]

Man, the good old days of blowing into the game cartridges, cleaning it with rubbing acohol, putting it into the freezer, and various techniques of inserting the cartridges just to get them to work. LOFL

[@AndSaveAsManyAsYouCan]

Put it in the freezer? That was a thing?

[@jasonlashmen7689]

Another brilliant Episode.you rock bro

[@stormwatcheagle5448]

Amazing to think the tight fisted Nintendo of the NES area became the less restrictive indie darling of the Switch era.

[@Dreamshadow1977]

4:24 We're back to the same problem on all platforms. Sony, Nintendo, and MS all started letting anyone publish on their systems and much like Steam, it has become overwhelmed with asset flips and terrible mini games in their digital stores.

[@rj-nj3uk]

Your intro was cool. Just like nes games.

[@BlueSatoshi]

8:41 [laughs in switch]

[@samuelg7673]

very nice.

[@tnofilms]

very nice ,hello visitors from 2087

[@gabrieleriva651]

In 2087 only Nes and Nokia 3310 will still work.

[@AndSaveAsManyAsYouCan]

2087? I thought that we got rid of all of you in the year 3333. 2087, what a terrible mess that was.

[@massivepileup]

I wouldn't say that Steam has similar lock-outs as the NES, these days it's being swamped by the shovelware junk that Nintendo was trying to stop.

[@midnightshade32]

So does the switch, Xbox and ps4, there are like, 20-40 crap digital mobile port shit games coming out on all consoles each month in 2019. Not that I care as they aren't advertised. I'd rather the ability to buy a game than have an authoritarian regulatory board say what can and can't be sold. For instance I would love some of those strip games shown in this video. Porn Tertris, sign me up!

[@georgehenson2412]

7:40 Where did you get this hypothesis from? Sounds very familiar to one I've heard before from a friend.

[@GetBant]

Jeremy, Theres an audio crackle at 2:48, there was one on another video recently. Not sure if you've noticed?

[@8bitDNA]

it was right before he said the word "VCR". i think it was on purpose as that was the sound VHS machines made when tracking :)

[@GetBant]

To me it sounds like static you get when cross dissolving audio on a sequence with nested audio but I might be wrong

[@Sakurina]

I've noticed it a bunch on recent episodes, and I've had similar issues when the USB cable on my mic was crapping out.

[@JeremyParish]

It's an issue with my recording setup, and it's something I would normally correct but my entire workspace has been dismantled for the past month, making that impossible.

[@konekotron]

How is 8:14 Tetris, even pirated? It doesn’t look like a Tetris game. Is it a rom hack?

[@LorenHelgeson]

Check out the Gaming Historian's video on Tetris. It's a bit of a convoluted mess, and the "pirated" nature of it revolves around it being developed by Tengen. Nintendo and Tengen have their own crappy chapter in history together.

[@sneakyquick]

The NES was inverted.......

[@midnightshade32]

What are the names of those strip and porn nes roms? For research sake, of course :p

[@JeremyParish]

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