3:11 kudos to whoever was playing punch out there. That was some amazing gameplay

I can't get over how good the quality is of this news report from 1988! Thanks so much for uploading this. I love seeing news reports from this era as they deal with Nintendo's meteoric rise in popularity!

Thanks for preserving this, man!

The little intro jingle they played at the beginning gave me so much nostalgia for a time I only just barely remember

Thank you for preserving this. I was born when the NES launched in the US so the earliest I remember is the tail end of the console’s domination before the SNES so seeing these early years is always fascinating to me.

Psychologist clearly doesn't know that Metroid's protagonist is a female

1:34 - I want to hear stories of those people who worked at the assembly line

December 1988, the date this was reported? The most magical time of my LIFE. I was 12, mom just bought me a NES, it was my dream. She took me to a KB Toys to let me pick out my first game, i was so torn! There were two games i wanted so badly, Kid Icarus, and Metroid. I chose Metroid and i never looked back. Dozens of games later over the next few years, i eventually sold most because i was so hyped about the SNES (it was the only way for me to fund my SNES!). I wish i had kept some of the NES games, but it's all good, both systems brought me memories that i will take with me to my grave.

What find particularly fascinating is at 3:48 because I think it kinda shows a little bit more of the process of how Nintendo localized their games for the west. First Nintendo of Japan would ship Famicom games to Nintendo of America in 2 ways: the first as mentioned in the news report was electronically, (I guess this worked almost like emailing the ROMS) and the people of Nintendo of America would use special EPROM programmers to put them on NES cartridges which they would test in an American NES console, and the second was shipping Famicom and Famicom disk system games to the US. In fact if you look on the desk, you can see a Sharp Twin Famicom, Presumably so they could play both Famicom and Famicom disk system games without the need of a Famicom and Famicom disk system separately. actually if you've ever seen The Gaming Historian documentary about the making of Super Mario Bros 2 (which all leave a link to at the bottom) then you'll know the story goes that when the Japanese Super Mario Bros 2 was shipped to Nintendo of America in the summer of 1986, Howard Phillips had tested the game to see if it should be sold in America. But when he played it he found that it not only looked way to similar to the first game but it was also so difficult he found it more frustrating then fun, And that's why the American Super Mario Bros 2 was instead a westernized version of Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic. It kinda makes me wonder if that Sharp Twin Famicom was the Famicom Phillips used to test the Japanese Super Mario Bros 2. link to The Gaming Historian documentary about the making of Super Mario Bros 2: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aKuFjLZ_mseqk3k.html And on a side note is that a Sega Master System on the desk?! Naughty Nintendo of America! Why did they have a master system on the desk? Maybe to get inspiration from the competition perhaps? who knows.

seeing all those nes m82 demo unit is a thing of beauty lol

Howard Phillips from the "Howard and Nester" comics in Nintendo Power!🤩

I remember those "game counselors"! LOL. Life before internet.

“Let’s make a game about beating up men and going up in the corporate ladder” said no game developer ever.

I didn’t know that the minus world glitch was already found in the 80s

I think that psychologist is projecting her own fantasy onto the ideal girl gam 😂

8:29 Dragon *TREE*

Fascinating stuff! Stuff like this makes the experience of playing these classics somehow more immersive

I collect every bit of vintage Nintendo news (1985 - roughly 1993) that I can, I was about 7 when the machine hit American stores so it's one of the fondest things from my childhood. I don't know if I've seen this footage before and even if I have, likely not in such great quality. Thanks a lot for this upload!

This was fantastic, I've already recommended a few of my friends watch this.

Thanks for updating this! 😎

Thanks for this upload

no one gonna talk about how my man gave some kid the wrong instructions on how to get in -1 at 5:50???

3:42 Dude just said the early NES games sent “electronically” to the United States from Japan. 😳 Early internet FTW! 🙌

Great upload! Thank you👍

When I was a kid there were a few rules if my siblings and I are either play games or watching TV. 1. Homework first (if any) 2. Read two chapters in a book (if there is no homework). 3. 1hr & ½ for television (unless it was Friday night or Saturday).

"None have surpassed Zelda in popularity. The game is a complex high-tech adventure fantasy, and it can take up to 90 HOURS to successfully complete..." 90 HOURS?!! Who the heck is taking 90 HOURS to beat the original Zelda??

Girls were discouraged by Adults in playing video game more then anything. I sure didn't care about saving a princess or even beating a game most of the time. I just enjoyed the experience.

1988 Psychologist: The only way to get girls interested in video games is to give them the goal of beating out men. 1989 Reality: Tetris

Oh yeah, every little girl wants to play "climb the corporate ladder", lol, that child psychologist could not be more wrong on everything she said.

These games were way ahead of their time and easily still hold up today.

Idk, I met some girls when I was in middle school that had a Nintendo and loved it, mostly for Super Mario Bros. Also, the ending music of McNeil Show made me think of my father who used to watch this. I lost him last July due to complications with Diabetes and Dementia. I miss him so much.

I love this stuff its fascinating

Imagine going back in time and showing them what we have now.

The jump in technology from 1990 (Super Mario World) to 1996 (Super Mario 64) was phenomenal. Nothing like that today, where a 6 year period of time is that significant.

The past is fascinating isn't it ok well it's interesting seeing how things have changed

Nice video!

Nintendo made people care about video games again through sheer force of will. It’s honestly one of the most remarkable marketing achievements ever.

I wonder how many children back then were dragging their parents to the TV when this ran to show them which Christmas present they were wishing for that year

Incredible

I always get tried of people saying we will have another crash i always rolled my eyes at this when the industry is at a all time high hell you can't even find a new ps5 or a sx

HOWARD PHILLIPS! He's a real person!! I remember Howard & Nester comics in Nintendo Power magazine!

The console and games industry will never be what it was .it will need a miracle to be better

The punk kid at 5:42 with the Black Flag T-shirt. Awesome!

Oh man cherry tomatoes are so freaking flavorful and easy to grow. During the summer you can cook this every day with just what ripened that afternoon 😋

I was 14 when this video was made... how come I didn’t know there was game counselors to give you game tips, I feel cheated 😂 oh well I always figured the games out myself

I love these videos coming from the video game industries. I was not raised in the US😢. Nintendo is known in my country from mid 1991.

meanwhile at sega the sega genesis have been release in japan and it will be in america in 1989

When that Nintendo was here I was shopping for arcade machines instead

"Video game sales hit $1.1 billion." It's funny how quaint this seems 34 years later, when individual games regularly do that.

Holy shit. I forgot about the Nintendo Tip Line. They had them in the back of the manuals for like 1.99 a minute knowing damn well its gonna be kids calling it with their parents cc info.Even back then video game makers were scamming us lol. Now they do it with microtransactions.

4:23 90 hours to successfully beat Zelda 1?? .....eh without a guide perhaps in the 80s lol

5:40 That kid's nail is black from playing the game so much. That and his two friends have pulled out half of their hair watching! Note that the half they each pulled out is the half closest to the game screen, quite devilish! :)

Good old times

1988: NINTENDOES ARE TOO ADDICTING 2020: THE OCULUS IS TOO ADDICTING

GOOD VIDEO

5:49 Bro straight up tells that kid how to get stuck forever is Super Mario Bros.

ZELDA!!!! Awesome video!

Metroid NES, the 1st game I ever finished! (that actually had an ending, and not just an endless loop like most Atari 2600 games) ... gwad, loved Metroid & it's atmosphere!

Had these kids never heard of cigarettes, alcohol, and weed??

Minus world? That's really quite interesting

My first NES game was Final Fantasy

thats me in the 80's having the nes :p

And little did they know at this time. Samus was a female the whole time....

1:04 before anyone knew what iron Mike sounded like

As a girl who remembers when Zelda and Metroid, I loved Zelda for the secrets. Metroid I loved because she was a kick ass girl. Rare in those days.

6:37 A flock of seagulls 😂😂😂

6:33 LOL, I couldn't care less about the idea of a "maiden in distress" when I was a kid playing Zelda. It was all about the adventure and exploration for me.

Dragon tree is my favorite game

My sister was born in 1988

4:59 honestly that’s nothing compared to the grind today and sea of thieves if you’re trying to get a blessing or a curse now a days I’d rather take the 90 hours instead of weeks months, or even years to grind

Today, video game business is really big.... I mean really bigger than sports, NBA, Netflix, etc.

I do miss the 80s

8:26 dragon 3? Lol

4:32 What is going on with that hybrid grip?!

My grandmother called it "nee-yendo" but I called it a good childhood...

Dragon Threee

I don't know but I'm watching this in at 240p like it should be... lol

Good afternoon! Please tell me if it is possible to use fragments from this video for public purposes - for editing a documentary being created about the history of computer games?

If you're doing "Then" and "Now" comparisons in 1988... you're not going to see much of a difference, but I guess even then they realized Atari looked like shit even with similar 8-bit hardware out

“High Tech” hell yes! 😎

Little punk rock kid rockin the black flag while nerdin out on Zelda. Righteous.

I did recall Atari all looked the same. It's also way too complicated for me as a kid but games like astroid were good. I think NES had way more variety to their games. Most of them were simple like simply move to the right until you're done. But some games had good variety like Contra I recall you had like 3 different types of game. A move to the right, a move going upwards, and then a move going forward. So it felt like you're doing something different and fun.

I love the Psychologist! AHHAHA

3:48 wait what

The psychologist was annoying as hell.

*They forgot to mention that Zelda was the most expensive video game back then for $40 or $50 Dollars a pop back then!?!*

7:34 --- you can't make this stuff up.

These games will never catch on.

I've got some cool gameplay for that girl's corporate ladder game the psychologist suggested. It's a game where the girls have to freeze eggs and monkey branch on a carousel to avoid crashing into a wall. Something tells me those girls would have loved that game! 🤣

If I owned a company producing games, I would advertise my product this way: "Give your son a video game, because while he is addicted to video games, he will not be using drugs."

I’m most surprised they used to make Nintendo products in the US! Probably also in Japan not in China

The feminist 🤣🤣🤦‍♂️

The title but for Nintendo💀💀💀

That doctor never heard of Metroid

Only on Saga Futaba Futaba 0:37

I believe our channel names require us to be mortal enemies for the rest of time.

I'd truly seen Nintendo commercials & playing used to in 1980's as a autistic kid.

5:53 is this talking about mario bros???

I'm still in school. I did not expect a feminist from before I was born talking about how the concept of a "princess in another castle" attracting young boys to play NES games, and an attractive game for girls being to crush men in a business ladder. I disagree with both, but it's interesting to see that these discussions were a thing even back then.

Hrm I don't remember these counselors.