Interesting Gaming History

[Nesh]

 

[Rodéric]

Very well written and made and tells a story about Nintendo I was completely unaware of.
Thank you for sharing !

 

[Nesh]

https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/...-andy-garvin-ars-technica.61657/#post-2114727

Around a month ago Ars Technica published a 30 minute talk about Crash Bandcoot Creating with Andy Garving:

It blew up and some people for the industry shared their histories in the comment section.
Now Ars Technica published the complete 2 hours talk:

 

[Nesh]

Ok thats an interesting (dark) hidden history of video games
The initial history of Sega in the book the Rise and Fall of Sega is put into a much better perspective.

 

[Nesh]

The history of WipEout

https://mixmag.net/feature/wipeout-first-rave-inspired-video-game-dance-music-soundtrack-designers-republic-psygnosis?fbclid=IwAR10j66tfE4Es_BZnv_INdCZ09Tx_lkSUplzQlTD4P4cHKR4dcYdaf_cun8

 

[Nesh]

Sega's Precautions with Phone Numbers in Shenmue

A blog on the Shenmue series of games from Yu Suzuki with a mission to translate articles, videos and updates for English-speaking fans.

www.phantomriverstone.com

 

[Cyan]

didn't know about this story. I had one of those when I was a kid, that I used to play when going on break. You were a monkey and you had to pick up some coconuts that fell from the sky. It was very addictive, and the screen fascinated people, 'cos you see the animations changing depending on your position, and that tint like thing covering the shape of the sprites -if that's the term-.

game watch aside, the original NES was a beautiful machine. Also interesting is that Bergsten played the Gameboy first, in all Europe, or that he invented the Nintendo Club, smart guy. Didn't know he is the only non Nintendo owned distributor in the world.