The Video Game Years 1989 - Full Gaming History Documentary

[@henrydave6603]

Know it properly wouldn't happen, but would love to see this series go through the '90! Nevertheless, love this series and all the work put into it! It was great when it was first posted and just as cool these days. Thanks to all involved

[@itsmatt517]

Would be nice to see up to the 5th gen at least

[@kurtisthebassman7]

Hea gonna go to 2000 than stop. Including 5th gen. God told me.

[@poopy_fingers3324]

You realize this is like a decade old, right? I just don’t see them restarting this series after a decade of nothing.

[@Mixfix87]

@@poopy_fingers3324 Yeah when I saw Jewwario in one of the earlier episodes I realized it had to be preeeeeeeeeetty old

[@freshfishbowl]

@@Mixfix87 Yeah, also Pro Jared. These things are like a double time capsule. One for the games. One for the commentators.

[@BoomstickAsh]

I know we all say this after every episode, but damn, I wish they’d do a 90s series. I’d totally donate to a Kickstarter program for another series.

[@philiprobertson395]

Me 2.

[@sleefen]

Me 3.

[@r7ndom]

Me 1990s.

[@B33FY2011]

I most definitely would donate for a new 90's series. Nothing on the internet comes close to this series in terms of video game history.

[@Joric78]

Before it's time I guess. The Indiegogo campaign to keep it going only raised about $13K USD from 350 backers back in 2013. If Delia gave it a crack now I imagine he'd do much, much better. Then again maybe it had it's time. That was almost a decade ago, and most of these guys seem to have moved on to other things. If they used the same formula of passionate, content creating gaming nerds, who would it be?

[@drunkenbuttons606]

The Video Game Years definitely feels like something that would have been on TV in the 90's. I love it.

[@markrotondella4689]

Thanks for uploading these to youtube. So much work has gone into them - I've watched all of them a few of times and still better than the Netflix docs.

[@jasonwomack4064]

I must've been living under a rock, and only found this series about two weeks ago. I'd gladly throw some cash at getting another decade put together.

[@jasonwomack4064]

@@JDMACC I watch video game nerd on occasion. I didn't know he did a series like this one.

[@ReflectionOfPerfection]

You should reunite the guys and do the 1990's. Crowd fund if you have to

[@LinkBlade24]

👍

[@ReflectionOfPerfection]

@Emiliano Hurtado Is this confirmed anywhere or just speculation?

[@sloppynyuszi]

Would love to see Tommy Talarico and Pat come back together to make this happen 🤣🤣

[@TheSimTetuChannel]

Sure, but the title would have to be changed to: Tommy-has-no-game Years.

[@chrisbeach423]

@Emiliano Hurtado so? People can get better and beat addiction?? Either way there’s plenty of people who would love to be on here. This series just deserves more recognition.

[@redmist78]

This is my second time going through this series and it's so good. Please do a 1990s version. I would pledge

[@antoinesims4119]

I watched the entire series and I must say I learned alot to appreciate older gaming culture. Im a millennial whose biggest gaming influence came from the early 90s. I hope yall do a series about 90s gaming industry. Also im surprised street fighter wasnt mentioned in a 80s

[@rvfiasco]

It was a great time period to be a gamer for sure. Very fun times.

[@ScottWozniak]

38:39 I always thought the US Golden Axe cover art made Ax Battler look like Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

[@cavifax]

This series is always great to see, every episode is filled with lots of things to learn and re-learn.

[@turtlesallthewaydown8831]

I love that the makers of Ducktales simply chose Scrooge instead of his much, much younger triplet nephews. In an action game. And it worked. Then they made a sequel.

[@Nocturnous]

I guess I'm on a tiny island, but I loved Friday the 13th on NES. The music was awesome, and the game legitimately scared me as a kid.

[@HowDoUPlayGames]

Though it was covered in 1987, I enjoyed Jaws. Friday the 13th wasn't bad either, but I found it confusing as hell as a kid. I just watched a video that explained many things I never knew. For example, Jason's route isn't random, and many objectives like saving counselors, lighting fires, and Pamela Voorhees are optional. I might play it again just to beat it finally.

[@Nocturnous]

@@HowDoUPlayGames I still need to beat it too. I recently rebought it for NES just to do it on a legit Nintendo.

[@christophergill9187]

Agreed! I loved it and it still scares the crap out of me til this day.

[@rogerstephenroth8073]

It is hard to believe that it has 9 generations of consoles from Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Microsoft, Sony and PC and many other video game companies since the beginning of the video game industry in the 1970's. The games have gone a long way since then, and I am sure it is going to be even more impressive as technology evolves.

[@joshpilla7909]

We want the 90s! Much love for this series ❤

[@maccmoses]

Keep this going to include 90s through 2000s

[@vsully360]

I turned 13 in summer 1989 and had been NES crazy since getting one for my 11th birthday in the summer of 1987. I got a game boy at release and played it to death. I'm 45 today and still a dedicated console gamer. I'll never outgrow this passion.

[@rvfiasco]

Yea buddy. That was a great summer for me as well. I'm 46. Gaming for life.

[@RemoWilliams1227]

I was 10 in 89 and can confirm. It was rad.

[@rtkiiiprod]

I watched this a few years ago, so sad this did not have a bigger splash...so well made

[@icetraydemartini3963]

You guys need to do the 90s. I like the 2000s VH1 feel. I miss those shows.

[@johnathanashleyOCSO]

This show has re-ignited my love for retro gaming. Buying NES games now then the FamiCom is next .. LOVE THIS SHOW

[@CraigSnyder]

i will pledge for the highest available reward tier if you put the '90s of this series on any crowdfunding platform

[@dacatindahat8275]

I'll match you 😆 for real

[@megami215]

5 million

[@thekeef2187]

1989, Jams, and Jolt Cola, lets do this shit

[@666pmt]

I love these. Keep this series going

[@philiprobertson395]

I’d gladly donate to a go fund me page to get the 1990s done Pat and Ian. Let’s get it done. Everyone feels the same as me

[@casedistorted]

Haha 6:31 Pat looks so terrified there. I remember watching Video Game Years a LONG time ago but don’t remember where I saw it. Glad to see you guys finally putting up the HD remaster like you said on your podcast

[@tw7384]

Budokan! I had that game on floppy disk. The series is great, really comprehensive. It has helped me relive and recall so many things from my childhood that are truly fond memories that may have been lost otherwise. Thank you.

[@DC.....]

I hope you keep going I was so looking forward to the 90s videos and then 😱😰😭😭.. NOTHING.. why.. why is the world so cruel

[@axeltank06]

Ironic and a little sad that every one of these features the PS1 prominently in the end of the intro sequence but yet the series never touches the 90’s, a pivotal decade in gaming.

[@Aqua.man045]

1989 was a transition year for gaming.

[@MrShoes-y2j]

That was awesome! I'm gonna miss this series.

[@chrisbeach423]

Man sucks to see this series is done now… get a 1990’s going!! So many great games came after 1990 😞 especially 1991/1992 when the SNES was released.

[@EnygmaRecords]

You have been releasing these rather rapidly compared to how they were, and you're doing a fantastic job - this is my favorite series on youtube right now! Keep up the great work!!

[@benjaminzarzycki7650]

Anyone else notice it was a young Toby McGuire in the Atari Lynxx commercial?

[@frankiesalatino547]

One of my cousins got the power glove for Xmas and it was returned like the next day and my aunt and uncle said their was a line...of other parents returning Power Gloves

[@jwt4810]

Is that Tobey Maguire in the Lynx Commercial at 31:59 ?

[@axeltank06]

I think so, I'm glad somebody else noticed! I had to stop and watch it a couple times lol

[@RetroCheater81]

Hes also in The Wizard

[@cartman414]

Nice Escape Club reference. Galaxy Force was notable for being used in SNL's Philadelphia toy commercial as "Philadelphia: the Video Game". PHILADELPHIA! You guys missed STUN Runner, which was as notable if not more so than Hard Drivin' for its hyper fast paced polygon based racing gameplay. Missed opportunity on Road House for "should have been a video game".

[@floridapunkarchivist]

Greetings from Florida. My favorite part of Nightmare on Elm Street was being able to play as AC Slater dressed in his ballerina outfit.

[@RWL2012]

You'd always want the Game Boy's contrast wheel on anything other than maximum because on maximum you wouldn't see anything, same as minimum. The whole point is to adjust it to wherever the screen looks the best, which is somewhere inbetween and differs depending on how much battery life remains.

[@Arukan]

Ahhhh, you two look like babies in this! Don't make ME feel old. Then again, we're contemporaries even if you folks are my idols. Still, you look so good in these docs. It's charming as heck.

[@gabrielwalters7084]

For me TG16 was synonymous with Bonks Adventure and Splatterhouse. Totally thought Bonk was their Mario

[@joe73ffdq5]

I was surprised to not hear about SMB3 on the Play Choice 10. Before the Wizard came out, there was around a dozen of us that knew about it in the beginning of the school year. There was a machine at the local Price Chopper, that had it that summer... At the end of October 1989, me and a friend went in with $35 roughly, and got all the way to 5-2. We found the warp whistle in world 2 by Thanksgiving, and then were able to explore worlds 5 through 7. By the end of January 1990, we knew about the scene in the Wizard, and had been able to see world 8. Before I got the game in late February, I had seen all but the last 4 stages in world 7, and the final level. We got to the tank in the last stretch, and saw Bowsers Castle, but never made it there... True story... Just before the Wizard came out, we were talking about it at school. We made it to world 5 in late October... Does anyone else remember playing SMB3 in late summer of 89.

[@misterf7299]

These are amazing, thank you! Any chance of the 90s at some point?

[@truthbydesign5146]

The Last Starfighter was easily the best 80s movie featuring video games as a central plot device. The Wizard didn’t have anything on it.

[@SlCKB0Y-sb1kg]

War Games

[@truthbydesign5146]

@@SlCKB0Y-sb1kg Kind of… It was more early personal computer and hacker culture than video games oriented though. Unless an ascii text version of tic tac toe qualifies :)

[@cep2378]

I actually won my SNES from a Pepsi bottle cap. It was awesome.

[@holgerklein9879]

tommorow is my vacation start ( 3 weeks) and im gonna dig deep intoyour series here. thx pat

[@kingfish4200]

Hey Pat, DO THE 90'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@OllieMartinGamer]

I always thought if they had started in the 90s it would of been more popular. Even if they had done one series 90-99 then series 2 80-89 it would have gain more traction

[@dravenlee4473]

Hard Drivin' legit scared me from real driving. I thought driving a real car was as hard as the game and avoided wanting to learn longer than I should have.

[@SonnyD444]

My birth year, i appreciate the history thanks!

[@caboose4631]

Same!

[@Lakotashunkaha]

Patiently awaiting 1990

[@nairbdelrey1561]

Same

[@MrDflego]

Great series, I like how you used all the KZbin retro heads.

[@criznittle968]

Loving the series, clearly a lot of work going into these. Just one little thing, to make it feel more documentarily, have a more organic transition between segments - that would help add to that aesthetic

[@criznittle968]

I know plenty segments do have a nice natural feeling transition, there’s just a number that are hard cuts, which feel out of place in a documentary. You kinda want to be led into the next thing, but without completely cutting from the previous one. It’s probably just me anyway, don’t mind what I say. Everything is 99% fine :)

[@RDJ134]

This series need more decades!! :)

[@miguelleandri2435]

The Golden age of Gaming is great👍🎮👍

[@Evercade_Effect]

Informative and fun like the rest of the series. I always enjoy these.

[@Blueflag04]

You need to bring this series back, do a 90s and 2000s series

[@rvfiasco]

This was a great year to be a gamer. For damn sure!!

[@CrAzYpotpie]

What is the music that starts at 28:00? Would love to know.

[@ConwayKitty]

Series definitely needs to keep going watched fully thru 5 times since it's been completed.

[@MorbidThrasher666]

One of the best eps yet. Up next 1990 Casstlevania 3

[@RWL2012]

nope, this is the last episode.

[@TerminallyNerdy]

I would pledge to a kickstarter for a new season of this.

[@matthewlane518]

I remember the Elvira pinball table, if you pushed the star button without feeding the machine she would say "don't touch me there" in a subductive voice lol

[@RhoamHanson]

I know I shouldn't hold my breath, but if this wasn't a lead up to/testing the waters for picking this series backed up... I'll be bummed.

[@salvagemonster3612]

I Know we all said this before but we loved to see one on the 1920’s games.

[@chambredecommerceetdindust3808]

Will you continue the serie, the best years are the 90s :)

[@skiptoacceptancemdarlin]

fun fact: Lance Cortez also played "Stevie," Kenny Powers' idiot assistant in the timeless classic HBO show 'Eastbound and Down'

[@pooglechen3251]

32:05 Toby McGuire??

[@wiggles2439]

Dude is that Toby Maguire in the Lynx commercial at 32:05?

[@itsmatt517]

yes, I'm surprised they don't mention it. Also, how does he suddenly have it connected to a mains power supply once he starts playing it?

[@RetroCheater81]

He was also in the movie mentioned in this episode “The Wizard”

[@joshwhaley1778]

Thanks once again!

[@nairbdelrey1561]

I still wait for a 90s video game years

[@thejackal007]

Ian, what was your favorite pinball machine to talk about from this series? I still really want to play Pinbot but I've never seen one in person.

[@gamingquarterly6353]

This series….it’s so RAD.

[@Qaddosh]

7:00 That's because you're not thinking fourth dimensionally! ♾️

[@tjaetherchannel]

Is there any way to get a copy of the chip tune in the ending credits? Please 8-bit gods...

[@Kylefassbinderful]

Damn i had no idea this channel exists. Instant sub. The perfect content to counter all this short form nonsense lol

[@jaytecx5942]

The early Mario Bros cartoons show the brothers with different eye colours. Weirdly Nintendo changed Luigi’s original green eyes to blue, like Mario, which is how it remains.

[@nickcolbert9615]

Was that Toby Macguire on that Lynx commercial?!

[@david2727]

Yes that was

[@Onering80]

One thing I always thought was kind of weird was how in the Super Mario Bros. Super show's animated Mario segments they made Mario completely obsessed with pasta. Why? Just because he is Italian? Not once in any Mario game does Mario ever have anything to do with pasta. But for some reason in the cartoons they gave Mario an insatiable appetite for pasta that rivals even Garfield. I always thought this was odd.

[@kurtomac2386]

I remember that Game Boy commercial like it was yesterday.

[@rayholdridge6783]

Man...I was hoping this kept going into the 90s.

[@mysticx0]

wow this was really really cool!

[@TRKTKO]

That intro reminds me of GTA Vice City radio ads I love it lol

[@humbertomoreno7460]

Estos capítulos son adictivos, gracias por el contenido

[@reactionnerd3650]

This is a cool series and all, but have people had a memory wipe or something? Maybe Dr Strange has cast a "forget the series" spell? This series is about 10yrs old, it's been on KZbin for ages and ages already, all that's happened (I think) is that Pat has bought the series and moved it to this channel.

[@SAM-ru4vx]

Wanda did something now her boys are the hosts

[@reactionnerd3650]

@@SAM-ru4vx LOL... Well that would be something new and extra interesting! 😁 Don't get me wrong, I'm not being down on this series at all - I've watched all the episodes and it's super cool - it's just not new but 99% of the comments are like "When's the 90s episode coming out??" I feel like replying to them all and saying "Dude, this show is old, some of the people in it aren't even KZbinrs anymore!"

[@SAM-ru4vx]

@@reactionnerd3650 I'm like dude it was on another channel and blah blah blah drama happened. 🎮>⌨️

[@reactionnerd3650]

@@SAM-ru4vx Yeah that's all good... I'm just surprised so many people haven't seen them before.

[@SAM-ru4vx]

@@reactionnerd3650 this was before pat & ian did the regular podcast. Back than pat was talking to a toy dk Jr plushie or at flea markets with Frank. It was a long long long time ago

[@Needed4Reddit]

I played a lot of Tiger LCD games. Before that I had this football game where you were a red slash and you had to beat the other red slashes through the rest of the fields to score. I love that game still. Can't remember the name or manufacture though.

[@The--Dude]

GREAT Series! Loved it! I watched from 89' back to 77'. Glad I was alive for it! Golden Years for Gaming! #CertainNESGuideBook #FleaMarketMadness

[@dukesir1865]

Did anyone ever do a video series or blog or something like this but going through the toys of each year?

[@ninjamaster3453]

89 was the single greatest gaming and box office movie year in history.

[@SkeletorTclaws]

Whats that power cable connected to in the The attari lynx ad?

[@ARDIZsq]

If we ever get a 90's edition, we better see the WonderSwan in there.

[@crissy4346]

I hope you guys will cover the 90s

[@scottlarsh3119]

The kid on the TurboGrafx16 box looks just like Zack Morris from Saved By The Bell.........am I right?

[@mattdawolf]

What game is in the center of the vid thumbnail?

[@SebKnowlton]

I'm proud to say that in 2020, I wrote in Mayor Mike Haggar for U.S. President. A great American!

[@BCFHardHitterz]

This got a great VH1 I Love The... series....more episodes would be great

[@GRChrzak]

Always liked John D's Escape Club reference in there.

[@mickael486]

If you partner with James Rolfe... you'll probably get an instant million views on the 1990s

[@SleeplessTidalWaves]

Pat listen here. Need a compilation of the video game years of just you and Ian what ya think

[@Zafersan]

the Mario and Zelda cartoons were godly!

[@ZappahVideo]

(Lights cigarette using a match in the darkness) (Sees several comments about reviving the series to cover the 90s, offering to donate/crowdfund) "My work here is done."

[@lonesn1per]

Did someone tell Joey Desena that he needed to move his hands everytime he talked? I cant unsee it... great video and even better year!!