A BBC archive about the gaming industry getting ready for the launch of the Nintendo 64.
This is 26 (!) years ago.
by Focusboy50
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Focusboy50
Some interesting predictions. Apparently there’s not room for 3 in the gaming market and gaming consoles are going to peak in 1999.
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ColonelJohn_Matrix
Not sure the guys being interviews could have been any cheerier.
Also the guy referring to the consoles as machines instantly marked him out as someone who probably isn’t in to gaming. It’s technically a correct term but absolutely no one who played them called them machines (at least in my experience).
edwardolardo
i was too young at the time, but this is great to see as an adult!
Also so many other archive videos, like the one with Nintendo & Miyamoto. Thanks!
PunyParker826
DAMN, new PS1 games were selling for 20 pounds at one point? How long did that last?
Dotsworthy
I still remember getting an N64 with Super Mario in 1997 at age 9. I pretty much played Goldeneye solidly for two years with whoever I invited over from school.
Materia99
Nintendo picking cartridge over CD was one of the dumbest decisions they could’ve made with N64. They definitely lost market share to Sony back then.
Sega messed up big time with Sega Saturn by launching without people knowing about it. That and they burned people by killing genesis too early. In a sense you could make an argument about Saturn killing Sega.
TungstenSlayer
These guys have a hard time holding the controller. I think everybody when through that phase.
YunChieh20150123
1997!!
Paulrofnz
The BBC archives have quite a bit of old tech and gaming content, it is quite interesting. There was one with the original GTA Developers back in the 90s, Space invaders, early 1990s Nintendo stuff.
Bingsterishere
Just before Nintendo launched this console I got to play it at a friends house in London. His flat mate worked for Nintendo magazine (or might have been a magazine called Movies,Games,Videos) and he had a couple of levels of Mario 64 to try. It was basically off a circuit board.
We were on the level where you had to slide down some kind of helter skelter slide which was difficult. We all said they we’d take it in turns and as soon as someone did it, we’d go to the pub. It took us hours.
The celebration when it was achieved was hilarious. Good times.
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Some interesting predictions. Apparently there’s not room for 3 in the gaming market and gaming consoles are going to peak in 1999.
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Not sure the guys being interviews could have been any cheerier.
Also the guy referring to the consoles as machines instantly marked him out as someone who probably isn’t in to gaming. It’s technically a correct term but absolutely no one who played them called them machines (at least in my experience).
i was too young at the time, but this is great to see as an adult!
Also so many other archive videos, like the one with Nintendo & Miyamoto. Thanks!
DAMN, new PS1 games were selling for 20 pounds at one point? How long did that last?
I still remember getting an N64 with Super Mario in 1997 at age 9. I pretty much played Goldeneye solidly for two years with whoever I invited over from school.
Nintendo picking cartridge over CD was one of the dumbest decisions they could’ve made with N64. They definitely lost market share to Sony back then.
Sega messed up big time with Sega Saturn by launching without people knowing about it. That and they burned people by killing genesis too early. In a sense you could make an argument about Saturn killing Sega.
These guys have a hard time holding the controller. I think everybody when through that phase.
1997!!
The BBC archives have quite a bit of old tech and gaming content, it is quite interesting. There was one with the original GTA Developers back in the 90s, Space invaders, early 1990s Nintendo stuff.
Just before Nintendo launched this console I got to play it at a friends house in London. His flat mate worked for Nintendo magazine (or might have been a magazine called Movies,Games,Videos) and he had a couple of levels of Mario 64 to try. It was basically off a circuit board.
We were on the level where you had to slide down some kind of helter skelter slide which was difficult. We all said they we’d take it in turns and as soon as someone did it, we’d go to the pub. It took us hours.
The celebration when it was achieved was hilarious. Good times.