Excellent documentary, much better than this one kzfaq.info/get/bejne/frh-i7ml2s7diX0.html

I totally forgot that Rik Mayall was in Nintendo ads....

Got other country on Europe 🇪🇺 type Sweden 🇸🇪, Denmark 🇩🇰, ect Sega channel or not? I is Swedish 🇸🇪.

It was 2007 not 2004.

I know Americans and Canadians definitely would've appreciated Terranigma. But I also think it would've been pretty cool if we got some the European sports games you guys exclusively played in your region. I think it would've helped us Americans understand and appreciate other sports played outside the U.S. much like you guys with Madden.

Wow man, that sounds pretty fucked up about arcades being prohibited... I take it that it was something to do with there being an East and West Germany at the time?

I live in germany but I didn't experience that time. Nice to know how it was in germany back then!

Ehm no. The explanation was given, that it fell under the same law as slot machines. Yes, it was stupid and I am thankful to know arcades from the US Armee basis. But still, sometimes we could experience it at festivals etc.

Actively I only experienced the late part of the "war", with one friend of my parents having a SNES and another one an Amiga 500. So that is basically the stuff I played. Later on I had a Gameboy and got the PS1 from my father, chipped obviously. So I was one of those who had both, a Playstation and N64 back then. Games like Speedball 2, Lemmings, SWIV, Wings of Fury, Super Mario World, Lion King, Donkey Kong Country, Tetris, etc

@@nickthelick I think it was a bit more about gambling. Not unlike what is happening today, just in a slightly different way.

+Martin Sutcliffe Nintendo did lose Europe but it was a close effort, Japan and the USA were Nintendo's and Sega did push USA market, Australia was also an area of interest, in the end, Nintendo had the numbers in Japan and USA to stop Sega from winning the 16 bit wars.

Haruhi Suzumiya it wasn't close at all in europe between nintendo and europe.

It's hard to understand because as much as I loved my Genesis, NES and SNES just had truly superior libraries.

@@joed5150 That, and something I picked up on even at a kid was that the SNES had superior graphics and sound to the Genesis. I was happy to be an SNES owner and had endless fun with my small library of games for it.

amen to that, growning up i knew ONE person that had a nes my cousin, and he was a fucking pleb anyway, always laugh at the americans disbelief that not everybody loves nintendo

+Shinku Quickman The European SNES never got EarthBound (which was released in North America) either. Europe had to wait until it was released on the Virtual Console for Wii U to play it legally.

+Shinku Quickman Based on this video they really got burned rpg-wise. :\ Rough stuff...

+Bunnellius Well, Europe did get Terranigma. Never got released in America.

There was lots of games neither those in North America or Europe have gotten.

Yeah, I was gonna say Earthbound but someone beat me to it. Seriously, with no EB and Chrono Trigger, you guys BARELY HAD A SNES

O Mega-Drive e meu console favorito! Tenho memorias fantasticas dele nos anos 90!! Good old times!

in chile the megadrive was kinda popuiar, but we had one of the worst tv commercials for sonic 1.

Juan Vedder for me in the UK the Mega Drive/Genesis was king. I didn't know anyone who had a SNES.

The Dreamcast was born dead.

@@Bellocks1 I has a Megadrive and then a Snes, and knew several who had a Snes, but i think the Mega sold more in the UK.

Razor Edge Actually Sega didn’t even win so called 8 bit war in Europe.

+H.D Beird Absolutely this. I can't echo this enough.

This is my first video of Kim's. What's the Kim Blitz? Yes I know the original comment is a year old but I'm hoping you'll see past that and answer anyway :P

To get this good. It takes Ages.... Sega

"I hope a few American enthusiasts end up stumbling upon this." Why's that? Shame we didn't get Elite on the NES at any rate. Cheers.

@Johnny B. Bad I was a UK Nes owner, rare made some of my favourite games, I had most, they were just the best.

It's funny, the most traded games in my playground were Super Mario 2 and Zelda. Toys'r'us had yuge selection of Nes games (and Master and C64)

It was like the future had arrived...I remember sitting up all night playing games like Wonder Boy, Budokan and California Games, just blown away by it.

Double Doobie Nah going from spectrum to the Super Famicom. THAT is when people felt like a boss

Lucas O'heyze Nah it wasn’t. If you play Super Metroid, Star Fox, R Type, F Zero, Contra 3, and Sonic Blast Man, those games will blow your balls off.

@@firemonger5409 I like how you are dictating other people's memories 😂

Lol I went from an amstrad to mega drive it was amazing I couldn’t believe what I was seeing

+KaotikKnight Is that the advert with the talking colour bars?

GeoNeilUK yes it was.

Also yeah it's always been pronounced seega in Australia and I found it odd when I started seeing videos of people that pronounced it different But apparently we are the ones not saying it correctly ???

+S Wils Sega pronunces it like the American "SEGA!" in ads and pre roll you hear in many Sega games. Is also pronunced and written as "SEGA" in Japan. Some marketing firms didn't stay on message. On an aside, in Canada we say both S N E S and snes but as "sness" and not "snez". I hear the former less often among non retro/gaming people though.

Best strike witches but poor taste (Sega boy here) in old consoles!

Strike Witches seems pretty interesting, at least after five minutes of research. First time I ever heard of such a thing, so thanks!

THe Nintendos' really sewed up the Nordic area.

I think a lot of it is basic economics for uk familys at the time, spend 40 quid on a game for an nes in 1988 or buy a microcomputer and get games for as little as 99p (cents) or 7 quid for a brand new release and that's it really, when sega came along they managed to keep the price pretty low while the quality was as good in not better than the nes so people got on board with sega also i think the arcade recognition helped with games like outrun shinobi eect ect

It was a lot stronger. Look up Phantasy Star.

Did you mean to reply to a different comment?

America did a complete Number on the US brainwashing it. Europe had a thriving diverse games market

I think you mean marketing. Brainwashing is something else.

Brainwashing is a turn of phrase, meaning Nintendo completely manipulated Americans through marketing and illegal practices.

Yeah, it was about 50/50

+Phil V He is!

He is welsh actor Peter Wingfield, also known for playing in Soldier, Solder; Stargate SG-1, Holby City, NCIS: LA, and he had a role in X2: X-Men United as well as the awful Catwomen from 2004.

Phil V I thought I saw a puddy cat. Kidding thought at first glance I saw a Seth Green

Did you not read the mags at the time? I remember getting Club NIntendo and them saying Archon would come out, then I'd get C&VG or Mean Machine and see it wasn't but then I@d see all the import games that wouldn't play on my mattel Nes, I was pretty annoyed! I even wanted to start importing games! I also thought Zelda was a RPG and still do to this day, don't like the turn based stuff. And I also got confused over some of the name changes. :D

Same here, I had a Nes and so did friends. The sales were 50/50

There was no crash in Europe whatsoever

The crash only really had a negative affect on the US IMO. Japan carried on with the console. Europe had it's own computers and developers.

C64 was the main machine up until the 90's, then both the 8-bit consoles took over. Commodore and Amstrad saw the writing on the wall a lil earlier and tried to make consoles which both bombed.

I think that just comes from youtube being very American dominant, Even Brit KZfaqrs pronounce things like septics these days. I had commodore, Sega and NIntendo, but it's NIntendo that made up most of my gaming in the UK :D

I was a C64 then a Nes owner. I knew Sega did well even though I myself never knew anyone with a Master. To hear some here talk you'd think Nintendo didn't exist in the UK! I then got a Megadrive. :D

@@Mr_Smith_20 Wrong. In school I knew kids who had Nes, Amiga, Atari, no master. Then it was Megadrive and Snes. I'm not daft or ignorant enough to assume kids never saw Master's though. 16 bit started in the UK with the Amiga and the 8 bit and 16 bit time co-existed till the mid 90's when both the Nes and Maser were discontinued. By 1991 Nes had sold 800,000 and the master 700,000, the lead flip-flopped a few times and by the end they'd both sold 1.5 million. Biggest selling console of 1991 was the Nes with 325 units shifted (pre-price drop), a nice Turtles tie-in. The master sold one third of it's total haul in 1992 (536 units) after the price dropped in 1991, since the Megadrive had been released and the Master was 50 quid, 500,000 units shifted. The Nes then dropped it's price in 1992 and sold 275k units, because the Snes was out. Sales speak for themselves though, as opposed to anecdotal tales, and they don't change. My own anecdotal memory of school yard is swapping Nes games. The chat at that point was Amiga and Nintendo as far as home games went.

@@Mr_Smith_20 Yes you were wrong about the Nes not being a thing, the sales are the sales, and you ignorantly label me; not unusual with some sorts. Computer games were the real cheap games, 2 quid for a tape, cheaper if you copied (this was the case for disks later on too). My first machine was a 64. By 1991 Nes has 800.000 units sold, the master 700,000. The Nes was the best selling console of 1991 and best 8-bit of 1993. Master was the best selling 8-bit console of 1992. Megadrive was the best selling of 1992 and 1993. All those so called 'rich kids buying Nes' and making it the best selling machine of 1991. All machines were 'expensive' kit, until they were reduced, which happened to all machines as they age. The price of a Vic 20 in 1980 was more in real terms than a Nes in 1991.

@@Mr_Smith_20 Four rapid replies, blimey, temper tantrum! Somebody got their knickers in a twist. I gave you the benefit of the doubt, I see now that was misplaced, ah well, c'est la vie. "copy and paste", now that is funny. "Lies" too, anyone with basic reading ability (so not you) can check on the independent figures, one thing Nintendo were never shy about is figures, unlike someone else, but there's good reason for that. ;) Anyway, it's a matter of independent record. I did try and find a Nes a while back, to use on a modern telly, there was loads. I still have my original 1987 Mattel® version but I've not had a crt for years. The one thing you are correct about (stopped clock?) is Nes games being roughly a tenner more than a master. In 1991 this was not as bad as it was ten years earlier. "Preserve of the rich kids", your ignorance and chip is really quite telling here, it's also illogical. Bu there's no helping some people. The fact you say Nintendo has been proven to lie about sales figures shows me what you're about. Ho-hey. ;) Also, you lay claim to how Brits should talk, you were born in the late 80's so it's no surprise that you are totally ignorant and clueless about this period, but there are scans of magazines from that time, which help; Argos catalogues too, to help people who weren't actually there. ;) Walk into any newsagents and half the consoles mags were about the Nes. 2000-2004, wow, such a font. I've seen lots of Nes games at car boots. Just weren't popular when they were half the 8-bit market, haha, OK genius, all those magazines, Electronic Arts and all websites are all in on the scam, because your knowledge from 2004 is the best knowledge! No that really does deserve a LMAO> Euro 8-bit nerds? Crikey lad you're thick as you are ignorant as you are rude, there's o helping sorts like you. I was a gamer, go read up on sales figures. I went out and earned my pennies, as did most gamers back then. Thinking on, seems you're a tad xenophobic as well. Always the case though, when facts don't mater cry and scream and attack the person.

Aw man, I was born too late.

Are you a 2000 BC kid? Fuck I'm not but I wish I was, I wish I was born in Babylon. But maybe I'm an old soul that got resurrected because Iraq is still my favorite country in the world, that place resonates with me. Huhm.

Rock vs Stick is so 5000 BC. In 2000 BC, it was all about Bronze vs Iron!