They're just the most butthurt when people pirate, but on the flip side they have a history of being the easiest to pirate even still today

Best part they had flash carts for super famicom and gameboy

me when i lie

@@xirenapoodlesa simple search online will show that the comment is in fact true

Super was supposed to have a cd attachment but it never did

@@marioiacolucci it did get a satellite add-on I think

@@AverageSynth oh cool my xbox just died on wed smoke started coming out of the left side so i shut off I got rid of it I'm buying another one not worth it I went through 3 original xbox systems I still have super nes n64 and Japan nes family game and my tablet to play games I'm not buying ps5 or the next xbox I'm done with consoles good luck to people who buy ps5 and the next xbox hopefully they dont have a overheating issue also used to have xbox 360 and ps3 but they broke i don't feel the hype anymore like i use too anyway enough said later

@@marioiacolucci when quarantine ends I would take it into a repair shop if I were you

@@AverageSynth too late I already got rid of and all the games dropped it off at donation bin I didn't have many games anyway so it's okay

I know this is over a year old, But I Love that concept!

Gaming historian : " THANK YOU . "

Same, pretty sure this was intentional

Haha, same. I have one, and only knew maybe half of that information.

I also learned alot..lol.

Gaming Historian episodes in a nutshell. Other than the "going to pass" part, at least for me XD.

Yeah, this guy is awesome!

sonicdoesfrontflips I

The only time I have experienced switching sides on a FDS game is at the beginning of the game. It uses 1 side to boot the game, the other to play.

One wonders if a FDS with two read heads could have saved the format.

We've come full circle. Old habits die hard

N64, too

To be fair, the switch is a portable system, disk systems don't work well on portable hardware.

Disks are cheaper to make with a higher capacity.

@@rsplayer2006 the original PSP would like to differ

Did you hear about the new Nintendo console with 30 NES games built in? What are your thoughts on it? Great video by the way, I'm a huge fan!

i was waithing that you make this video

It is being released in November

I love this channel 10/10

+Cooladee what

Dammit. I NEED ANOTHER BEER MOM!!

"What are you gonna do with batteries? Play at the fucking beach?

@@MarceloJavier83 Nintendo:super Famicom is launched

“WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?”

AAAAAAAAA$$$$$$$

I had my Famicom turned on for several days, it still saves my data although all of my games having dead CMOS battery.

KakyokuMeansSong I forgot all about that

Ya but my friend got to the end of Zelda and the console froze.

John Smith dead battery?

I can't tear down the cartridge and I don't have a vice to press the cartridge open.

Flávio Lima yes! So gorgeous.

Hilarious. I was just thinking, my hair is about as long as his after a lifetime of trying. His sits majestically on either side of his face, every hair in place-- mine attacks the sides of my face like it's got other plans... It must be that Nintendo Power.

I love rolling one up... and listening to the past here. Love it

@@mrcontroversy222 Same here m8 👊

lmao

they only stopped due to lack of parts

Japanese companies take customer support VERY seriously.

+Shinku Quickman I think that the rest of the world could take a leaf out of their book, to be honest.

Not if it's Sony. They'd rather drop support for their flagship smartphones even as soon as 6 months after the release in some cases only to release a reiterated slightly altered version of it and call it a new model (soon to be abandoned the same way), leaving the older version to the community to handle it instead (and turning the blind eye to a lot of what the community does)... on one hand it's smart business wise for the finances and allows them to focus on new things, yet this is just so nasty against those who aren't powerusers to be able to take advantage of what the community brings to the table...

Who the fuck buys a Sony phone?

and hella educational! awesome job as always

agree

You are most welcome, thank you for watching :)

+Gaming Historian This is awesome video 😎

@7:10 Except, illegal copies have nothing to do with "piracy." If it was catching on more, there would have been (more) people arround to circumvent it. @12:38 Yeah, what is not in your words is not on your mind. Governments created the concept of copyright and companies ain't question it because it benefits them. @14:05 I personally would not buy this in murika. Japan seems to have better prices.

Until today? Why, what happened today to change your mind?

Available in Philippines? Wow too bad I don't see the FDS in Malaysia back in the day. People still using Famicom until PS1 era.

Yes, this fds was available 1990 - 1993. The Philippines was catching up with the Famicom trend, and few stores copied bootleg games on the disk system at that time. I even had a small business to let gamers play their favorite games. It lasted 3 short years until a competitor set up 3 TV and rented games on cartridges. But I had a few loyal customers playing video games during their P.E. class. Such fun times.

The Filipinos were always catching up with the latest trends around the world.

They were not available anymore.

Yeah, the Satellaview is one of those few rare things we may never quite be able to experience properly without a time machine. I mean, ROM dumps exist of some things but pretty much all the Soundlink streamed soundtracks are currently considered lost to the sands of time (unless Nintendo or St. Giga have copies stashed away somewhere), so unless dumps of those surface, all we have are various dumped ROMs with no music (though most of them have been modified to play regular SPC music because it's better than nothing). Kinda sad in a way.

Redhotsmasher Yeah I've watched a lot of videos on the Satellaview on youtube. I knew of Xband back in the day, but Satellaview is still something that I had no idea ever existed.

lol gettin his blind guardian on.

I actually don't like it that much

*gorgeous*

the 90s called they want their haircut back

6-12 month you are talking Atreyu from The Never Ending Story!!!

stop making publishers rush, then.

+Giordan Diodato Lol, so you are blaming gamers for their unfinished bullshit?

That basically sums up Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing prefectly.

Perfectly*

Fuck you, you smug prick. Videogame programmers work over 100 hours a week in some cases. They famously work ungodly hours so smug little picks like you can say dumb shit. Fuck off. Kid Icarus is not the same as a 2019 3D game.

Because pirating video games in Taiwan is highly prevalent, people mostly buy modded consoles there, except for people who specifically play online. It is cheaper for video game stores to buy consoles, mod them, sell them at a really high price then sell games for the price of the bootleg discs. Long story short, I had a SNES that ran on floppy discs.

Used to see a lot of stores in Hong Kong selling games on floppy disk. There's a list over 500 games in stores , u pick the number assigned to each game. You then come back in half an hour to collect it. It only cost like $20 per game.

I see that in past like disk converted from a cartridge

It's a wonderful soundtrack!

It's one of my all-time favorite GBC soundtracks-- scratch that, one of my all-time favorite _videogame_ soundtracks, period. I like it so much I actually ripped the soundtrack and made mp3s of it for myself and my friends years and years back.

Pokemon is for babies

+DontrelleRoosevelt Pokémon is not for babies

Ethan White It's such a baby game lol

The composer, Kinuyo Yamashita, also did the music for Castlevania (NES). Esper Dream is one of her lesser known works. It's a great soundtrack.

What’s the one at 10:51?

@@OrigamiWithAmaan Earthbound Hotel music

What about the intro music that ends just before 0:52?

@@QUIZFILTER thats the good ol Wii Shop music

*OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!*

Heyyy bawwbbyyy

Hey bawby

No beard yet. Thank God

excuse me, are you being an antibeardite? nobody likes an antibeardite

"especially before you lose it" - absolutely; i grew mine out in college and everyone gave me shit for it, but guess what happened in my mid-20s..............it started falling out and now at 31 i've had a shaved head for the last six years

Work in progress!

Gregorio Lobato History -> less mass appeal. Retro gaming's audience in general is somewhat limited. Compare that to stuff like Pewdipie, top 10 clickbait lists and channels like Machinima and IGN -> the lowest common denominator.

Gregorio Lobato If I'm not mistaken, basically all retro gaming channels have less than 500K subscribers, AVGN being an exception.

Mynthon JonTron

I think it's because unlike a certain other retro gaming reviewer, he doesn't curse up a storm. Half the fun of AVGN is watching him loose and start screaming.

jjjoshiii gather your stuff. You're fired.

jjjoshiii nice one 👌

(Comedy drums)

Now my parents can't take my Nintendo because they don't know how it works. #Nevergonnagetgroundedfrommynintendo

Ha! Good one!

Phoenix Wright Objection! Nintendo was merely trying to experiment with disk systems

OBJECTION! Nintendo claimed they would only release games for the disk system after its launch! That doesn't sound like an experiment to me, it was clearly intended to become the focus of the Famicom!

Because the innovation came from the skilled engineers and the licensing came from greedy and stupid businessmen.

64KB per side was absolutely pathetic. Even the Commodore VIC-20 in 1980 could store almost 180KB per side on a diskette! That's right, 5.25 inch diskettes are physically larger than these, aren't they? Well, the earliest widespread uses of 3.5 inch diskettes used 400KB per side in the case of the Macintosh, or 800KB for the double density models. The earliest PCs with 3.5 inch diskettes could hold 720KB and later up to 2.88MB on one diskette! Nintendo just engineered it like shit.

@@AiOinc1 Quality over quantity, Nintendo's games were much better.

This is a great reference, +1

Game chasers!!!!! :D

HAHA

This should become a movie.

I don’t know why but with his long hair he reminds me of Lord Farquiad

William Baker it seems a large portion of the cost was for the parts in the cartridge, rather than the game.

That’s Nintendo being greedy as they always been even PS4 has sales occasionally, on physical copies if you are wiling to wait, I bought uncharted 4 for 50 instead of 80 (Canadian dollar sucks) good luck with Mario odyssey ever dropping that much.....

inflation

@@trifecta9810 why

William Baker all around me are familiar faces worn out faces..

amazing

He wanted to try something outside the 'NORM'! HAHAHAhaha ha...eh...I'll see myself out...

+Ben Young looks like you have "Ben" working on your puns

Since I was 'Young.' I try, but they're nothing to 'crow' about ;)

I guess 'raving' a lot about puns

Dead channel

@@Sociopastor nope

hey verifed guy

After that, the console *was* the disc drive.

@@renakunisaki then it failed

@@BillehBobJoe They still made money on the Gamecube despite relatively low sales. Not exactly a failure. And the Wii certainly wasnt a failure

There biggest disk fail was rejecting Sony and going with Phillips at last min. Creating a Titian in the market. PlayStation

@@jordantruax2389 Sony was going to take them to the cleaners harder than a vindictive ex-wife. Sony was already eyeing the console market themselves and were going to try and effectively hijack the SNES from Nintendo (Sony drafted the contract, and snuck in contract clauses that gave all SNES-CD software royalties to Sony and gave Sony the rights to make a standalone SNES-CD console after a year or so, with Nintendo getting almost no royalties from the sales of it). Nintendo's only mistake was not catching on to Sony's game sooner

I second that!

I could see this show on something like a PBS Channel

U are cool

Everyone does

"I can feel Ms. Pauling coursing thru my veins!"

I'm here enjoying the Pokemon TCG Main Duel Theme from 6:02 to 10:02

I kept thinking to myself, I know this song.... But I couldn't quite get it lol. Thanks

@@fcm101284 same!

Don't forget about Sega & Atari ;-)

+Kayfabe Broken They're all cool man. I liked hearing about all of them!

I know right

If you listen to the full ost you will love it

The extra audio channel makes a big difference

It's prolly because you're used to the "original".

No the cart version is MUCH cleaner. I asked 5 of my friends which was which and all had cart over disc going by this videos music

Yea that's not because the hardware is better, they just made it glow amazingly on the cart two years later, basically found a better sound. But the metroid Intro is definitely better taking advantage of the extra channel.

Super Wukongo It might sound better however the disk systems sound is richer. Look up the castlevania soundtrack for both two consoles.

I thought the same thing, these two games were perhaps not the best to demonstrate the "enhanced" sound of the FDS. The disk versions sounded like shit.

You mean the Famicom release??????

And sounded more RETRO feeling

My first time hearing the disk system music for Metroid and Legend of Zelda. It sounds cool and all, but to me the cartridge Zelda music will always be the better of the two.

Eddie Actually, the NES is the American version of the Famicom.

It's a little more complex than that. I actually did a video all about it! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gJmoqNxmvqewnGQ.html

+Wflash00 man i remember when blockbuster introduced nes rentals. Used to rent nes games all the time.

+Wflash00 I remember they did this during the Saturn years.

answer is in the video at 13:00... piracy

yep

me too

That's the same with the gameboy and it was not seen as a problem there either.

@@MrMarinus18 with the Game Boy it made sense.