It's funny how the NES had strict quality control yet the NES is the most covered console on AVGN lol.
@BenjiMordino
9 жыл бұрын
@Jarrah White not at all correct. I'm also Australian, had an NES, everyone I new had an NES. I knew only one kid with a master system. The NES was definitely dominant, I'm not sure if you remember shops at the time, BigW etc, but NES was everywhere, much easier to find games for today aswell. Not the same with Megadrive obviously, it was huge, maybe bigger than SNES, not sure on that but I knew roughly the same number of people who had Megadtive vs SNES.
@MetalHorrorPack
9 жыл бұрын
The first video game console I ever saw was the Sega Genesis. Great stuff Adam.
@AdamKoralik
9 жыл бұрын
+Justin'sMovies/Games Thanks for watching!
@batmanartreviewchannel7967
8 жыл бұрын
i fucking love that comment you made best comment during the whole vid its the one were you mention the vcr concept adapted to the nes visual design over the original famicon design.
@JakeShields09
9 жыл бұрын
Man... the day I can afford to have a stacks on stacks retro game collection... hours and hours of pure bliss, I won't have the time to play the games hahah.
@AdamKoralik
9 жыл бұрын
+Master Hand Yep, that's exactly what happens. :/
@danyelperao
9 жыл бұрын
The title does not say about being part 2!
@GDColbert
9 жыл бұрын
Read the description
@danyelperao
9 жыл бұрын
the title only (when I saw I though it was the previous video)
@HyperMiniTed
9 жыл бұрын
Hey I have been planning on getting an Nes should I get a model 2 or model 1
@AdamKoralik
9 жыл бұрын
+Josh Sandum Boils down to personal preference honestly.
@AntonP99
9 жыл бұрын
Such a lust for revenge
@batmanartreviewchannel7967
8 жыл бұрын
dude you lay down knowledge like a boss and your humor is much appreciated
@AdamKoralik
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir.
@ignitedcelicamichael-afton6784
8 жыл бұрын
true
@Agamemnon2
9 жыл бұрын
I wonder if the NES would rank even higher on the most units sold list if you could count up all the pirate versions and clones of it sold in China, Taiwan, South America, Eastern Europe, etc. Hell, they're probably still doing business selling some in low-income parts of the world, blowing peoples' minds with pirated versions of Arkanoid, SMB1 and Excite Bike. Which is kind of a cool thought in a sense. It also occurs to me that in its way, Duck Hunt especially was a sort of Wii for its time. The average dad would never try Super Mario Bros on their kids' system, but shooting pixel ducks with a toy gun was immediately accessible. The first time me and my brother played with our NES, we ended up having an impromptu Duck Hunt tournament between a dozen different family members, because everyone wanted a go.
@darthXreven
4 жыл бұрын
nope, only official consoles from the actual maker count.... we can sorta gauge conmtinued popularity by the retrons and designer consoles but I wouldn't count the knock off's as anything but a rip off, a doorstop and nothing more lol though I wonder if in a few years someone will do a Retron like console for PS3 and PS4 and what not lol I honestly think modern games are kinda frakked for that cus think about it, PS3 wouldn't even run the game if you didn't have a profile, the X360 would let you run an offline profile no prob and IDK how PS4 does it cus i never tried to play without a profile, I was unable to run anything without the update though lol gotta love that man, even the consoles this gen weren't finished before they shipped and required an update LMAO NES we can just pop a game in and if the console works it'll play, newer consoles there's issues attached LMAO
@Motorheadache95
9 жыл бұрын
I don't think saying Super Mario Bros. 3 is the greatest game of the era is very controversial--- that's a pretty widely regarded opinion, and the game typically ranks #1 of all-time on top NES games lists. I actually had one major gripe with the game (which was fixed on the All-Stars remake): The game was huge and yet there was no save feature.
@dxhell8245
9 жыл бұрын
+Motorheadache95 *Warp whistles to the end*
@WhiteJarrah
9 жыл бұрын
I'm an Australian. And, honestly, I have no childhood or even teenage memories of the NES. Back in the day, we owned a Sega Master System and a Sega Mega Drive. In fact, all my relatives and friends owned at least one of those two Sega consoles. Absolutely not one person I knew back then or even now owned an NES. Not one. Granted, I have friends from the United States who owned an NES back in the day and I've been told countless times how popular it was in the US at the time. But I can't say for sure if the same is true for Australia. I've seen a second hand NES on display at Gametraders, so I know they were at least sold here. But I don't know if it was even well known down here. I never even heard of "Nintendo" until I received a VHS copy of Toy Story as a gift and the advertisement for Sega Mega Drive and Super Nintendo tie in came on before the movie. I guess the Sega Master System was for the Australian population what the NES was for the American population.
@kbbbb7
9 жыл бұрын
+Jarrah White Yeah it was, the predominant company in Australia was Sega because their distributor Ozisoft did a far better job of marketing and selling to the local market. Mattel had the licences for here and parts of Europe (including the UK) and in all regions Mattel had, the console(s) did poorly. The high price of NES and SNES in Australia was a factor in that. I know at least one person who owned a NES, possibly more. Nintendo made far more inroads once they took over distribution/marketing.
@jon-erich9752
8 жыл бұрын
+Jarrah White Yeah, Nintendo pretty much owned Japan and North America. Europe and Australia was Sega's market. In fact, as a kid, the NES was so popular in America to the point where Nintendo became the name for video games. Kids used to say I'm playing Nintendo" rather than saying "I'm playing video games". Parents who didn't know the difference between consoles used to call everything a "Nintendo". Come to think of it, I don't think I even saw a Master System console until my older brother bought one at a yard sale in the late 90's.
@MrNorbert1994
7 жыл бұрын
The same could be said for Britan or for my country Hungary where the C64 was the most popular thing ever.
@pelgervampireduck
6 жыл бұрын
it's like reading history from a paralell universe hehehe, I'm in uruguay, the first sega thing that existed here was megadrive, nobody knew master system existed, in fact, over here it came out AFTER megadrive, i remember tv ads and brand new master systems for sale in stores even by 1998. hahahaha. oh, by the way, like 8 out of 10 people had famicom instead of the north american NES, it was a lot cheaper and cartridges were cheaper too, the same game on nes format costed twice what it costed on famicom format. what we all did was having famicom consoles and getting a cheap adaptor to play nes cartridges.
@Halbared
4 жыл бұрын
MrNorbert1994 nah, Sega and Nintendo were more even in the UK/Europe with Nintendo edging them out.
@Shane-Singleton
9 жыл бұрын
I really liked Super Mario 2. Probably because it was different than all the rest. I also agree with Mario Bros 3 being one of the best games for the NES and 3rd generation as a whole. Many Many hours sunk into that.
@johnleone1996
6 жыл бұрын
That was the 1st Mario game I ever played. I played it on my blue GBA.
@leoallan2225
6 жыл бұрын
Shane Singleton Yeah,Mario 3s kind of my least favorite of the three.Its more of a rehash of part one,and I find the world map pretty annoying,as are the little side games,because it slows down all the platforming.Also you can choose between four characters in part 2.Which I really liked.
@rabidduck22
9 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy the experiences you share. It gives me a new way to look at these consoles.
@AdamKoralik
9 жыл бұрын
+Rabid Thanks for watching!
@dxhell8245
9 жыл бұрын
No Contra, Double Dragon or Mega Man? Aww... Well, Super Mario Bros. 3 is definitely the best. 18 million people can't be wrong. Takashi Tezuka, the level designer for the Super Mario Bros. series, even said that it is his masterpiece. I've seen plenty of people in the game industry say that if you want to get into level design: play and take inspiration from Super Mario Bros. 3. It's because of Super Mario Maker, I'm starting to realize how subtlely brilliant Super Mario Bros. is. Why empty blocks floating in mid air? Why not stairs? Well if you had that area blocked off, it would be like being told no when you really want to go somewhere. Less options means less fun. Why a bottomless pit? Why not spikes? If you had spikes then that would mean the artist would have to spend extra time drawing a sprite, then a programmer would have to code it and color it in and then it would just eat up more memory. Why not just have nothing there? I've seen tons of ROM hacks and levels that stick spikes/munchers in without a thought or care in the world and they look so bad. Super Mario Bros. is the Star Wars of our generation. Hideo Kojima said that he wanted to be a film director because of John Carpenter. At a Sony press conference or some gaming event I forget, when asked by a fan what his favorite game was he replied Super Mario Bros. The Sony reps looked so angry at him for saying that but then they made a face like, "Well, he said it already." It was so awkward and amusing. Just like him and a lot of other people, Super Mario Bros. inspired us to get into gaming. It truly was the genesis of the modern video gaming era.
@elcocho1568
9 жыл бұрын
Adam blesses us with another video. :')
@ostrichesandgin8570
9 жыл бұрын
praise lord gaben
@nabman11
9 жыл бұрын
+Sunderland Gaming In this context, praise lord Adamk
@schooltrashers
9 жыл бұрын
+Sunderland Gaming Wrong gaming community since "Lord Gaben" is a fat ugly sloth who the Pirate Cheapskates Disaster Race Virgin community worships. Plus those who worship "Gaben" hates console gamers & console gaming in general.
@ostrichesandgin8570
9 жыл бұрын
+The Ninja-X³ twas a joke man chill
@schooltrashers
9 жыл бұрын
Sunderland Gaming Alrighty...lol
@Faladrin
9 жыл бұрын
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was fun, just super hard. The worst this about it was jumping sucked, which I would say is actually bad programming rather than just being hard. Donatello rocked though.
@IndyTheGreat
9 жыл бұрын
The Tengen version of Tetris is FAR superior to the Nintendo version.
@bloodwolf1175
9 жыл бұрын
+Indy The Great shut up
@creepercrewjakethefake9209
9 жыл бұрын
+John DiLoreto Wait, Tetris DX is Gameboy Color? I had and still have it for my Gameboy. It is a black cart, but just like all Gameboy carts, it has the chip in the corner of the plastic that they took out for GB Color.
@plaguedoctor3782
9 жыл бұрын
+Mike Oliver To the point that someone actually tried to sell one for *wait for it*... Points Pinky to face: One million dollars.
@VOAN
9 жыл бұрын
+CreeperCrew jakethefake Some Game Boy Color games could be play on the original GB. The GBC games that had the black cart still used the GB bio thus allowing them to be play on the original black and white system and the Super Game Boy.
@VOAN
9 жыл бұрын
+Mike Oliver That version was pretty weird with all them animal wallpaper pictures on each level. Me I prefer the version that came bundle with Dr. Mario for the Super NES and the one that came launch with the original Game Boy. The Tengen NES version is still better than the Nintendo NES one though, you can't play 2-player on the Nintendo one.
@NihilistSolitude
9 жыл бұрын
Yes Super Mario 3 is the best game of that generation and perhaps of all time.
@The_Laser_Channel
9 жыл бұрын
I remember playing Super Mario Bros 3 for the first time. I had never heard of it at the time, never knew it was out. My brother told me a friend was coming over and bringing it over. I was so happy to be playing a new Mario game....I played the hell out of the first one...no matter what games we had for the NES, i'd still pop in Super Mario Bros on a regular basis.
@GaffsNotLaffs
9 жыл бұрын
I've got like 5 CRT's laying around. #Melee4Lyfe
@SageOwl
9 жыл бұрын
+RealNigga19 He must be buff because those things can be fucking heavy.
@GaffsNotLaffs
9 жыл бұрын
RealNigga19 There are plenty of kids at my school who do that. I just bring a controller and play with them.
@MarcoZ1ITA1
9 жыл бұрын
+ThePokemaniacZach I use a CRT... PC monitor. CS at 160Hz for dirt cheap ftw.
@KyleJett
9 жыл бұрын
Paperboy is great. I loved playing it back in the late 1980s and on occasion now. In my opinion it stands the test of time.
@noel8604
8 жыл бұрын
YAAAASSSS! Super Mario Bros 3 all the way.
@schooltrashers
9 жыл бұрын
So basically Nintendo is the Disney of console companies, doing shady and shitty business practices. NES was the first console I've played, but unfortunately I had too many bad memories with it. Most of the games on NES is unbeatable, which is why I embraced the Sega Genesis so much once my dad sold a NES to buy me a Sega Genesis when I was a kid. I had so many good memories with the Sega Genesis, which made me a Sega fan for life.
@MalarkeyMan
5 жыл бұрын
Nintendo is nothing compared to other companies like Sony when it comes to shady business practices
@JoTokutora
8 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, you will never feel the way we all felt when the Nes came out. Once you go back after exposed to Psone and so on. When the Nes came out, there was nothing like it, so imagination of possibility went wild. You will never witness that unfortunately But good video though
@Halbared
4 жыл бұрын
JoTokutora true
@yjzep9922
8 жыл бұрын
While the NES is the reason I am a 38 year old collector who consists his collection more of a library than a museum, the 2600 was my first (before the 86 nes launch...my parents actually feel for the "fun is back" campaign and bought me a jr, not knowing it was the same system as my woodgrain vcs lol), and sega holds my heart. And I always had both consoles so it wasn't the "what I had" effect. I actually bought a Saturn in 96 and a Dreamcast at launch. I loved Sega. Still do.
@AaronVillalobos
8 жыл бұрын
Well dam your cousin reeks of awesomeness for giving you all that nes stuff!
@DijaVlogsGames
9 жыл бұрын
You got the tengen Story wrong, but You can't ne blamed. It's complicated. Great Video about the nes. I don't own one and honestly have never met anyone who does. I live in former eaatern Germany and I think it was only released in Western Germany.
@brandonb1681
4 жыл бұрын
I missed getting this one. I went from Intellivision to SNES.
@PMSJordans
9 жыл бұрын
Woo! Thanks Adam. Your generation recaps are one of my favorites series on youtube! Keep up the awesome content.
@darthXreven
4 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I'm old enough to have grown up in the 80's and played NES....great console IMO best games I played: Battletoads Blades of Steel castlevania castlevania 3 Double Dragon 2 The Revenge Dr Mario Gradius Ikari Warriors Low G man Mendal Palace Metal Gear Metroid Mike Tyson's Punch Out [not the altered Punch Out version] Mission Impossible Ninja Gaiden Paperboy Super Mario Bros Super Mario 3 Tetris Tiger Heli Wizards & Warriors Wizards & Warriors 3 Zelda ---- I'm likely forgetting a lot but these were the majority of my fave NES games
@musclecarfan74
Жыл бұрын
We had to blow on the cartridge and then wiggle it once it was in, and then hope it would work.
@Vampire__Squid
9 жыл бұрын
Adam don't feel isolated, I didn't play A Link to the Past until 2012
@DarDarBinks1986
9 жыл бұрын
+siIvermate I didn't play Contra til 2014.
@Vampire__Squid
9 жыл бұрын
AirCooledMan2006 Oh not cool bro
@DDBurnett1
9 жыл бұрын
+siIvermate I didn't play an NES or an N64 until my younger brother bought one this year. I've had a SNES and Gamecube since I was 8, but I had never played the other two consoles.
@Vampire__Squid
9 жыл бұрын
Proto Stratos If you had a GameCube since you were 8, and the GameCube was released in 2001, then you probably aren't that old
@DDBurnett1
9 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'm only 21.
@RoXolid
2 жыл бұрын
Paperboy was the first game you ever saw and you still got interested in video games? Man, I got to give it to you, that's a hard bridge to cross for me. And shave the damn beard
@lorenzowilliams1422
6 жыл бұрын
adam it was probally 1990 bc you were born in dec like me
@muiscnight
8 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this console at someones house in 1999 I knew it was an important console but it being a 2D console it was like looking at a dinosaur
@lindolindolindo999
8 жыл бұрын
TMNT is actually pretty good. Entertaining.
@Oxydus1
9 жыл бұрын
My first game console was the Famicon, man i loved it, my mother stressed the hell out with me, because my life was around it. Couple years later i saved a bunch of money and since i was always moving, i bought the Sega Game Gear, man, it sucked so much, what a disappointment, few games launched, 6 AA batteries that lasted for like one hour, shit, i hated it, i ended up trading the Sega Game Gear for a Game Boy with a bunch of games, and... i loved it, a ton of cool games, batteries lasted for ever, had so much fun with it. After some years, my next console was the Sony Playstation, it was offered by a cousin of mine, because it read burned games (piracy all the way), played music Cd´s, since i was in another town because of the University, that was cool, i could listen to my music without bringing whole stereo with me, and plus i could play games (burned), i had a ton of games, played the hell out, but it was not that great, it was ok, the game magic was lost, i thought that it was because of my age... I bought the PS2, just because it was the cheapest DVD player at that time, the guy that sold me the console (he worked for sony) he was my friend, and when the console was launched, he inserted the chip on it, and i could read burned games, i used it mainly for movies and gave up on consoles... So a couple years back, i bought a Nintendo 2DS for my daughter, and bought also the game New Super Mario Bros 2, and, bam, i had the same feeling back when i played the Famicon... I bought another 2DS for me and the New 3DS XL also, and every game i buy, and every game i play, i have the same feeling back in the famicon time, boy what a company Nintendo is... Sure, there are more powered consoles on the market, more enhanced games graphics wise but, Nintendo is my favorite gaming company...
@supernovel7514
5 жыл бұрын
Are you Japanese?
@alfiegrimes7530
8 жыл бұрын
do 2nd gen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@TheLastLineLive
8 жыл бұрын
Super Mario Bros 2 is IMO one of the most underrated games of all time. Yeah, I guess it is entirely fair to say that Mario 3 is better, but Mario 2 did a lot of things other games weren't doing at the time and also introduced a lot of new things to the Mario universe, such as plenty of new characters. Yeah, it was a reskinned game, but it was the one that really solidified Mario as a household name. Plus it was the first featured game if the long running Nintendo Power gaming publication.
@ianeons9278
4 жыл бұрын
The NES is so big that if it was hollow,It could fit a cat inside and can be used as a litter box.
@BaronMARTo
3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting your feelings with the Nintendo NES, I am older than you and I had at the time exactly the same feeling with this machine, I never owned it and I never wanted to press the start button on ... I have better memories of the Master System andl my first console was ... a Super Nintendo which I thought was awesome. I also agree with you regarding Mario All Stars, I loved this game as a kid, still great after playi Super Mario World.
@omegarugal9283
9 жыл бұрын
Is it true that Tengen engineers showed up at the patent office claiming to be Nintendo´s employees and requested the files for the nes10 chip?
@dxhell8245
9 жыл бұрын
+Omega Rugal Yup. Watch The Gaming Historian episode on it here on KZitem. The request even showed up in the newspaper. You can search and read the actual article on Google.
@retropulse03
3 жыл бұрын
I loved hearing about your first experience with the NES because it resonated SO MUCH with me. My very first memory ever is when I was 3 (I was able to confirm this with my mother lol) My older brother (6 at the time) is losing his mind with excitement over this weird grey box. It's in front of our big wooden-cabinet floor-bound CRT. I'm mesmerized watching him jump on mushrooms and shooting fireballs. I remember him handing me a controller because it was my turn, and I got to be the green one. The timing is a little different, as this was 1991. I didn't even know 'other' game consoles existed until 1994 when we moved and a neighbor kid showed me his Sega Genesis and Sonic 2 and BLEW MY MIND lol. Fast forward a few years and I'm soliciting my body to science for the 300$ I needed to get a Dreamcast, Sonic Adventure, and a VMU - the rest is history. Pretty much my whole life has gone the direction it has because of the influence video games had on me.
@PinoyBowlerGS92
5 жыл бұрын
Atari was SO FREAKIN DUMB that they want to crack the NES Lockout Chip and made unlicensed games for the NES and Atari didn’t learn a lesson after the Crash. Atari look like they’re dirty during the Crash and they’re trying to bring the dirt to Nintendo since Nintendo was clean and polish.
@rogerswift1983
9 жыл бұрын
similar story I own my cousins ZED-ECKS spectrum...THE very one I used to go round and play with when I went over to see him as a children. He 'threw it out in adulthood' Nice video keep up the good work. still perfer the SNES to NES myself, snes is the one I feel the e-motional attachment too
@punkkid21
9 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, finally!! You're the greatest! Been waiting for this 3rd Gen recap forever!
@ilcool90
9 жыл бұрын
Temporarily owned the NES complete in box ( SNES also ), but just could not stand the 8 and 16 bit graphics and sound anymore, so sold it on.
@SageOwl
9 жыл бұрын
I do love this console and it is either my fourth or fifth favorite. Ironically though, my two favorite games are actually for the Famicom, those being Mother 1 and Final Fantasy 3; third is of course SMB 3. I do love it, and the Famicom, and still play both to this day. I can always just throw in SMB 1 and speed through to World 7 or so and then shut it off or throw in SMB 3 and speed through the first 3 worlds and feel just really good afterwards. It has charm all it's own.
@mcbrotherhill
9 жыл бұрын
I like twin snakes better than solid
@SegaSteve0429
9 жыл бұрын
I'd never thought about how the NES was styled to look like a VCR until a few months ago when I saw an early 80's NEC betamax player at a goodwill that looked EXACTLY like a NES.
@giles852002
9 жыл бұрын
Turtles was the first ever game I ever played so it's a really bad game I love. Lol. But I agree that Mario Bros. 3 was the best 8-Bit game of it's generation.
@icomefromcanadia2783
2 ай бұрын
I've always thought the idea of the "redesigned to look more like a toy instead of a gaming device" approach was bizarre because to me the result is actually the opposite. The Famicom, because of the colours, glossiness, and short, attached controllers is the one that looks and feels like a toy to me, whereas the NES looks like an appliance, (especially because of the oldschool VCR type cart insertion). A grey box does not look like a toy to me at all. I actually love the NES look, the cartridges, and the loading mechanism though, despite it's inherent flaws because it actually looks unique and interesting. I had never seen or heard of the NES top loader model until very recently in my life, so it mustn't have sold well in Canada, and honestly thank god cause while it might work better, I think it's absolutely hideous. lol
@RobertNES816
9 жыл бұрын
Should watch my video's Adam. I have three front loaders and they all work on either the first of second try. I haven't nodded them in any way either. Just gave then a good cleaning.
@TheMole2005
9 жыл бұрын
good, only 2 gens more to go, if you have any consoles from these periods that is (aside from the Atari 2600)
@creepercrewjakethefake9209
9 жыл бұрын
Hey Adam! I have my old "retro" (I say retro in quotations because many people have different versions of the word, mine definition is any system that received arcade points, first being the 2nd gen, last being the dreamcast, with the rest of the 6th gen not getting ports.) systems hooked up to CRT TVs, giving an exception to the DC, as the whole VGA part makes me put it on a HD TV. I was wondering if there were RGB Scart CRT TVs so that I could keep the 80/90s feel of a CRT without losing the video quality of RGB Scart. If such a thing does exist, I do imagine that shipping prices would be high because of CRTs being giant lead cubes with lights and electricity.
@RRW359
8 жыл бұрын
The thing is if the digital emulator works, asside from if Don't intentionally disables it, there is NO reason why it shouldn't work on physical games (DVD games at least, IDK if the PS4's drive is capable of reading CD's). The only real difference between digital and physical is faster load times for digital. Even if that becomes a problem, nothing is Sony from allowing you to rip your games. Also, I believe that Sony did allow you to play some PS2 games on all PS3's with an emulator, but only ones that allowed partial installation to the PS2/PS3 Hard Drive.
@TimHeinz-htimba
9 жыл бұрын
I pretty much skimmed over the video game crash in 83 and didn't even know it was happening at the time. I grew up, as a kid, during the 2nd gen. Our first console as a family was the Atari 2600, and then eventually my dad just gave it to me, so it was sort of a hand-me-down console. After that though, instead of buying a 5200 or Colecovision, I bought an Atari 800XL computer which was basically a resigned Atari 800. Much of the games I had for that were basically identical to the 5200 except I could attach a floppy drive, a modem, and a printer to it. I use to use log on to Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) back then. (pre-internet) I eventually bought a used C64 along with a couple boxes worth of floppy disks with games an other software. So that's basically what I was playing with during the 80s. I've played NES games at my friends house a few times but I wasn't that impressed with it enough to go by one. In 90 or 91 I bought any Atari ST along with a bunch of games for that. It wasn't until I played Sonic the Hedgehog on a friend's Sega Genesis that I got back into console gaming. And then evetually I also bought a SNES but similar to your experience, I when to a local Funcoland and they selling used NES systems for like $20 so I finally did get one but by this time the Saturn was already out and the Playstation was about to be released. Sorry if this comment is long but your story with the NES was almost similar to mine.
@christopherkelly577
9 жыл бұрын
When you say the NES wasn't hugely popular in Europe can you be more specific? In the UK everyone had the NES, odd person had a master system.
@AdamKoralik
9 жыл бұрын
+Christopher Kelly I mean a bunch of locals all told me that. I went there, witnessed it myself.
@christopherkelly577
9 жыл бұрын
+AdamKoralik I agree with the mega drive that was more popular here than snes, at least for early part of that generation/war, it was out earlier had lots of games and was cheaper by time snes got here...but nah I def feel the nes was by far more popular here than the master system. Everyone in my class at school for example had the nes, one guy had a master system. Cousins, uncles...all nes guess certain areas may have been different
@Halbared
4 жыл бұрын
Same here. Everyone I knew had a NES. The NES was outselling they Master in the early 90s
@bobbysavagehill
2 жыл бұрын
I was born into the late 5th gen, pretty much around the same time you first bought and owned one. But it's funny because it's the first console I actually saw and played as well. Since my Dad was cool enough to have it with the classic Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt Cartridge with the gun and all. We also found TMNT at a garage sale, I didn't really like it though lmao. That was the only game console my Dad really played at length, and the game he played the most was Legend of Zelda. He never really picked up and played a game after that.
@BobbyHo2022
2 жыл бұрын
My funny experience of Super Mario Bros 3 was I was in Kauai. We went to an arcade and there it was on the Nintendo Game choice machine. It wasn't even released in North America yet on cartridge (of course I found out later it was released 2 years earlier in Japan.) I remember pointing out SMB 3 to my mom totally baffled like, how the hell do I get that game??? lol
@Siknik64
9 жыл бұрын
Really interesting. Nintendo basically treated game developers like sports athletes. Only one team and signed into a contract.
@justinmesser418
9 жыл бұрын
+Luigi84289 The US government never actually ruled that Nintendo's third party practices were illegal. In fact Nintendo won it's lawsuit against Atari (which Sega had joined as an interested third party) by pointing out that it was Atari's own idiocy in marketing (pushing three separate consoles at the same time with little to no money being thrown at all three of them equally) as well as Jack Tramiel's reluctance to find third parties until the XEGS and 7800 were well into the late 1980's that doomed Atari and (by extenion) Sega's plan to use the US government to break Nintendo hold on the market. Oh and the kicker? The only company that got slapped with violating anti-trust laws for it's third party practices was Sega of all people. Sega implemented the same sort of Third Party practices that Nintendo had adopted for the NES and demanded that publishers tow the line and not port games to rival systems. EA was able to threaten Sega to give it an exception to it's third party agreements by claiming it had reversed engineered the Genesis. And so Sega settled with EA. Many third parties ended up getting jealous that EA was getting preferential treatment. Accolade ended up reverse engineering the Genesis and started pumping out unlicensed games, claiming that Sega was treating EA differently than the rest of the third parties. Sega then sued for copyright infringement and they eventually lost in court with the US government slapping Sega for unfair third party licensing agreements that went above and beyond Nintendo's practices during the NES era.
@justinmesser418
9 жыл бұрын
After the release of the Sega Genesis in 1989, video game publisher Accolade began exploring options to release some of their PC game titles onto the console. *At the time, however, Sega had a licensing deal in place for third-party developers that increased the costs to the developer. According to Accolade co-founder Alan Miller, "One pays them between $10 and $15 per cartridge on top of the real hardware manufacturing costs, so it about doubles the cost of goods to the independent publisher."[3]:381 In addition to this, Sega required that it would be the exclusive publisher of Accolade's games if Accolade were to be licensed, preventing Accolade from releasing its games to other systems* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade#Background from court's ruling in Sega V Accolade openjurist.org/977/f2d/1510 Sega licenses its copyrighted computer code and its "SEGA" trademark to a number of independent developers of computer game software. Those licensees develop and sell Genesis-compatible video games in competition with Sega. Accolade is not and never has been a licensee of Sega. Prior to rendering its own games compatible with the Genesis console,*Accolade explored the possibility of entering into a licensing agreement with Sega, but abandoned the effort because the agreement would have required that Sega be the exclusive manufacturer of all games produced by Accolade.* There is no way anybody can seriously fucking argue that Sega didn't have as much a heavy handed third party policy as Nintendo did. At least Nintendo scaled back it's policies as the market didn't seem as a unstable as prior to the Crash of '83. What was Sega's excuse?
@wschippr1
7 жыл бұрын
I think Phantasy Star, Super Mario Bros 3, Mega Man 1&2, Duck Tales, and Star Tropics are what I'd put forward as top contender best third generation games. I think it's very difficult to compare a platformer with a RPG as you want very different things from them.
@quincy8557
9 жыл бұрын
My first experience of gaming was on the Atari 2600 followed by the C64 then the Master System 2, MegaDrive then a long gap to the PS1, PS2 and PS3. I have abandoned consoles now and will never buy a PS4. I have never played an NES or SNES lol
@wruzicka78
9 жыл бұрын
YOUR OPINIONS ARE WRONG! Kidding of course. I love Mario 2. Even Miyamoto said it was a better Mario 2 than what Japan got (originally, because it was released in Japan as Mario USA).
@energyzer_bunny1913
9 жыл бұрын
I have a lot of respect for the NES. When I was 9 I went to a mall one day and saw someone playing Contra and I thought it looked badass. My Mom bought me an NES clone console that had 30 games on it. My favorites were Duck Hunt, Contra, SMB, Mappy, Balloon Pop, Ice Climbers, and Muscle. Compared to the Gamecube it was just something fun to pass an afternoon. Over time I played NES games on emulators, but like you I never owned an actual NES until as of 3 months ago. My local retro shop was selling it for $45 and and I bought it right away.
@Filsantos86
9 жыл бұрын
About the NES Top Loader: although it is capable of RF only, if you use a good cable and a good CRT TV, it may look 99% as good as composite, with the plus of being a lot more reliable than the front loader model. Yes, I know the image quality still sucks, but it is okay on a CRT. And of course, it only matters if you don't want to mod your system.
@widdowson91
8 жыл бұрын
Zelda II gets way too much hate. It's nowhere near as bad as a lot of Zelda fans make out. Same thing with Super Mario Bros. 2. Fair enough if you don't like it, I can understand why, but I've always loved it. I gotta agree as well, Super Mario Bros. 3 is definitely the best 8-bit game ever made. Mega Man 2 and The Legend of Zelda are close runners up though.
@Konacha37
9 жыл бұрын
I think to a lot of people, the NES was the first system they ever own that was marketed for them. I remember playing the Atari 5200 before getting a NES but the 5200 was my parents system that I was allowed to play on. The NES was my system and while my dad did buy it for himself, I was the one asking to get games on it while the 5200 I never asked games for it. I was born in 82 so I have a lot of great memories with it and even remember buying it with my dad. It also had to be during the time that the school yard culture also helped. Every kid I knew had a NES and we'd all take time in the afternoon after school to play it at each others house. It was also everywhere, cartoons, shirts, cereal, books, even movies for just Nintendo and only Nintendo. It was OUR video game console and was the only console for kids that was directly marketed towards kids so we just grew up with it.
@JayKay9112000
9 жыл бұрын
I started playing video games at age 5 (1988). I didn't know many people who owned more than a few games for their system. We mostly rented games from the same place you rented movies. There wasn't much information on when new games were going to come out, no previews or much hype with the exception of Super Mario 3. Most games couldn't save either, so my friends and I would have a notebook with passwords from all the games we rented. Some of the passwords were really long and complex, and if anything was off or wrong it wouldn't work.
@alexanderroberts3855
7 жыл бұрын
With the N8 in my av modded famicom it's a little TOO playable. Did you know there are a whomp'n 250 simultaneous 2 player games? You and a friend play till you die, then on to the next one! I highly recommend Sky Kid and Hoops
@andrewkohatsu8391
9 жыл бұрын
The Atari 7800 and Jaguar were made by Jack Tramiel's Atari Corporation. Atari was separated a year after the video game crash. Atari Corporation did not revamp itself into a third-party publisher and Atari Games used the Tengen name due to the Atari name used on the consumer division. As a result of making unlicensed games, Tengen made a few Sega titles that were originally ported to the Master System, such as After Burner.
@mrmovieprop
9 жыл бұрын
Bear in mind with Atari that Atari existed as Atari Inc from founding till 1984. Then the home console, computer division and right to all old titles were obtained by Jack Tramiel who reformed that entity as Atari Corporation. Atari games corp was the arcade division and was separate. The tengen games on the NES were by atari games corp not atari corporation. when the 7800 did not work out so well Atari corporation was focused primarily on the market in Europe and on the computer market in particular.
@benkizer9509
5 жыл бұрын
I loved the NES, but the Super Nintendo was much better. The problem with the NES was the amount of bad games (even with all the licensing restrictions). So many games were unplayable due to either poor design or extreme levels of difficulty.
@officialmistel
9 жыл бұрын
@AdamKoralik Please make a video about the next generation consoles and what do you think about the speculations. I'd love to hear about PS5 capabilities and cloud and game streaming. It's a very interesting topic. Thx.
7 жыл бұрын
meanwhile in Brazil we had bunches and bunches of famiclones some that read both famicom and NES games I personally grew up with the PlayStation but I know for a fact that there were many many different famiclones around here. the NES only came (officially) in its final years but the good thing it brought was a deal with a Brazilian company called Gradiente and they made the consoles here (same hardware and brand) it only had a different sticker with their logo here and there and Sega's consoles were made by TecToy. same thing as before and as for Sega... there were some Brazilian exclusive games, not sure if you knew that. TecToy was a good company but after the dreamcast they just died and nowadays they sell tablets and that AT games Genesis plug and play for about four times the actual price... pathetic! they should stick with the tablets really
@MegaManNeo
9 жыл бұрын
It was a nice system, indeed but picking it another time would be a money killer, I suppose. Playing SMB1, Kid Icarus and Gauntlet however was fun back then. Great video again, Adam.
@ianeons9278
4 жыл бұрын
The NES got its nostalgia boom around 2004-2006 (when AVGN started),Well nowadays the GameCube is the big nostalgia boom yet they also feel nostalgic for people feeling nostalgic for the NES back then.Weird to think about.
@fawkkyutuu8851
3 жыл бұрын
NES had arguably the strongest library ever for It's time.
@retroalliancegaming9210
8 жыл бұрын
weird tho. I never had a master system as a child. never heard of it but I had an nes. later I bought the master system and honestly the colors and graphics are wayyy better and it had amazing games. mind you I'm a lover of all systems. I personally as a kid was very impressed with the turbografx 16. I remember I lived in Los Angeles and there was a shop where you can pay by the hour to play game systems. they have Sega Genesis nes Super Nintendo you name it. that the first time I saw a turbografx and in Master System and they both blew my mind. I remember being the only kid in there playing the turbografx with the hue cards thinking this was the most futuristic thing ever. two very underrated consoles in America. also Adam I love your videos please continue to make as many as possible. you have made my shopping to upgrade video quality on my retro systems the best.
@studiokadaver
4 жыл бұрын
I have 2 OG NES one is Modded with the Blinking Light Win. I also have the Famicon + Disk System & honestly I think I prefer it to NES.
@JuanDiaz-jo1rw
7 жыл бұрын
Hey Adam,, I've been a fan of your videos for a couple of years now. I just started my retro collection. I saw your video on how to improve video quality but I'm a bit confused about a couple of things.. do you have an email I can contact you about extra information?? I need more information about the rgb outputs and scart cables.
@retrosamurai9062
8 жыл бұрын
NES was first video game console I ever played. Only place I could play it was at my cousins house in New Jersey. My parents didn't believe that video games were good for you. They believed they rotted your brains and destroyed your communication skills. They like most people these days have evolved on that issue and realize now that smart phones are the real danger.
@davetorres3906
7 жыл бұрын
I've actually never played on the american NES hardware, only on the japanese Famicom with an adaptor for the cartridges, but most of the games where Famicom cartridges
@KatsuyaTheFuuk
9 жыл бұрын
My jaw dropped when you said you first played it last year, but that's okay!
@ValensBellator
9 жыл бұрын
I replaced the 72 pin connector on my NES when the lockout problem started, and while it works wonderfully when the cart is inserted it, for whatever reason, doesn't work at all if I push the game down. I've not been able to find any reason that this should be the case, it's just rather weird. Still, it works fine otherwise so not a big deal. :p
@jeffsep
9 жыл бұрын
I can hear him but he's obviously using the mic on the camera. This isn't anything new. Just wanted to suggest he get a mic closer to his mouth to cut out the ambient noise. All of the youtubers that do this for a living use pro sound equipment as well. Just sayin'...
@AdamKoralik
9 жыл бұрын
+Jeff Sepulveda If had the equipment, it's not like I wouldn't use it. The camera doesn't support microphone inputs, believe me I checked. Even if it did, I don't own said microphone.
@jeffsep
9 жыл бұрын
+AdamKoralik Hey I understand! Maybe an upgrade in the future?
@Jkoziol72577
9 жыл бұрын
This may be the wrong spot to post this. considering DC is your specialty. Maybe do a video about those people who wants to get into homebrew dev. maybe collaborate with some of the people that do home brews maybe the stromwind or dux guys will help you with that... Cut bleed a lot of people out there one of homebrew develop for that thing. Would be nice to find out if there's any Ez programs preferably cut-and-paste style or maybe a glimpse into how these guys make these kind of games
@warpspeeding
8 жыл бұрын
The thing that Nintendo specifically designed the Toploader to not make the Game Genie fit is actually complete bullshit. The simple reason why it does not fit is because the Game Genie's PCB is thicker than any other normal NES game. The reason for that is, as it was originally designed for the Frontloader they needed it to be a bit thicker to make good contact with the 72-pin connector even when not pressing down the cartrdige as it isn't possible to push down the game genie with a game plugged on top of it. That's the simple reason. The design was made to work with the frontloading device not with a normal toploading one.
@therelaxalex1250
6 жыл бұрын
21:40 they have two different squeal one crappy one in the NES it have crap story and bland gameplay good one in MSX that have a complex story and good Actually gameplay.
@ThatFanBoyGuy
6 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, I didn't play either of the NES Legend of Zelda games unitl 2015, despite owning a Nintendo console since 1991
@Faladrin
9 жыл бұрын
Metalgear was an excellent game. Tons of weapons, great boss fights. The only bad thing was it was a bit confusing (where to go next mainly), but I played it when I was like 10 so if I did it now it wouldn't likely be so bad.
@energyzer_bunny1913
9 жыл бұрын
The best NES game to me is Kirby's Adventure. It pushed the NES to its limits and I personally enjoyed it more than SMB 3. SMB 3 is a close 2nd.
@wesleywyndam-pryce4081
8 жыл бұрын
Definitely have good memories of playing this console Mario was great with duck hunt, didn't own it personally always played when I went to my grandma's house, wish I had played more games on it then, looking to get one again definitely. could anyone recommend some games for the system
@MrGencyExit64
9 жыл бұрын
ROTFLMAO. "Funcoland"? It's impossible to take a store with that name seriously, it's a miracle they ever did any business.
@blu_falcon6321
6 жыл бұрын
My first video game memory was the NES. My mother bought one and was playing Dragon Warrior- I still have the original console and cart.
@Jkoziol72577
9 жыл бұрын
We were poor when we were younger yes from a divorced family. would go over to my dads house with my step brothers had a Nintendo. we are the poor One that got it 7800 for Christmas I think it was a clearance item at some store going out of business. The only reason we would look forward to Sunday is sit in the basement the plate they better gaming system being the Nintendo at the old man's house
@Ty13rlikespie
9 жыл бұрын
i agree! Super Mario Bros 3 is the best and it's also my favorite mario game and I perfer the 16 bit version on snes XD You forgot to mention that The Legend Of Zelda was the first console to have a save feature.
@wombozombo
7 жыл бұрын
Wish I still had my original Nintendo counsel which I regretfully abandoned. Can't believe you went that long without playing those two Zelda games btw.
@bigoranget
2 жыл бұрын
I actually kinda disagree about TMNT game. I think it gets a bad rep online but it is a decent game. It definitely has flaws though. Collecting the scrolls is key to being successful at this game and makes it significantly easier.
@brianschwartz1372
9 жыл бұрын
Don't feel bad about playing Zelda and Zelda II late, I didn't play them until the virtual console in 2007 mainly because I couldn't figure out what to do.
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