The Complete History Of Gaming

If you push the button & turn to knob simultaneously, is it an automatic concurrent dopamine dump?

Great video guys.

All professional sports are merely just glorified kid's games, and getting paid what the people get paid to play games is absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary. I see it as an amazing waste of time and money.

Strachey isn’t pronounced like itchy and scratchy 😅 it’s like achey (achey strachey heart)

Bit of a misleading title. Its more of a 'recap of console history' than anything else. Didn't feature many console and neglected most of PC's history.

other mightve done this video before but you did a good job highlighting the history pre pong which isnt often done
also imo the first REAL video game is space invaders

This is awesome! Well done and an incredible amount of work put in!

That was a truly masterful video, amazing work Ben, Kat and anyone else who worked on this. Also, whomever came up with the AO Lets go gag, thanks for the spit-take!

I thank video games for helping me deal with people around me. I am a woman that is diagnosed with psychopathy. Basically I don't show empathy towards other people and I can be quite nasty sometimes without realizing it. However my Doctor at the time (a big thank you to Dr Rasheed) Introduced me to video games, and it stopped me attacking other people. I would put all my negative energy into killing baddies in games instead of hurting others. So again thank you Dr Rasheed & Nintendo.

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As always, great content, fruit no doubt of extremely detailed research as well as insightful and fun commentary. TripleJump are just the best. Thank you

You guys skipped over the invention of the cartridge. The first console to use cartridges is the long forgotten Channel F and were invented by a man named Jerry Lawson.

For the "entire" history video there are a lot of important events missing. Like:

Late 70's-Early 80's: The rise of arcade gaming.
1984-1992: 7800, Lynx & the decline of Atari.
Mid 80's: The rise of home computers market.
Early-Late 90's: Fighting games boom.
1993-1996: Jaguar & the fall of Atari.
1995: Sega Saturn's botched marketing & release in USA.
Late 90's-Early 00's: The decline & fall of arcade gaming.
2000. John Romero's Daikatana is released. The game ruins the reputation & career of John Romero, 1 of the biggest gaming superstars of the 90's.
Early-late 00's: Xtreme sports games boom.
2007: Ubisoft announces Beyond Good & Evil 2. As of 2024, the game is still not released, making it the title with longest development time (17+ years), suppressing previous record holder: Duke Nukem: Forever (15 years).
2016: Gamergate.
2018: GTAV suppresses 100 mil. copies sold.
2019-Present: DEI/ESG in AAA gaming.
2020: PS2 suppresses 155 mil. units sold & becomes best selling video game console of all time.

I'm so glad you made this. Excellent editing work. Funny and informative script. A new high bar for Team Triple Jump.

I can hear Ben talk about videogames all day

I love E-Sports, but it's not real sports.
Just like Golf

YES! There's our Simon "cameo"!!
Keep up the great work

Born in 86', grew up in the 90's, was a teen in 99', I'm glad I got to live through the early years of online console gaming, Mechassault was my go to as a teen, then I got to experience first hand the 360/PS3 era, those were my favorite times to game, especially playing halo with my brother and two friends online, FFXI online was amazing, back when you could talk trash without worrying about getting suspended.

Relatively new to this channel but like what you're doing especially these longer videos & anything about the history of gaming, franchises or anything between always peek my interests so keep it up guys 😁👍

by gosh, they did it!

There were more ET cartridges than Atari consoles. I have no idea what they were thinking.

No mention of the arcade gaming boom of late 70's/early 80's? Space Invaders? Pac Man? Feels like a glaring omission, especially since time was given to a Chess computer.

HUGE STORY Xbox 360 marketplace is shut down and not working. Just got off phone with Microsoft and they have no eta for the fix and no plans to extend the deadline. So as of right now you can’t buy games via your Xbox 360 console or from online via browser on computer or anything. 😅….they have massively dropped the ball on this

I always have to comment when younger people talk about E.T. on the 2600. Although I can only speak anecdotally, many of us who were there had a blast with it. You have to remember, it was a different world back then. Couch co-op was what it was about and this was a great game to speed through and compete for time with your brothers.😅

Typical US...Folks'll blame everything else before giving guns a glance...

Lots of people in the comments seem upset they didn’t talk about home computers like the Commodore 64 and breezed past would-be Atari 2600 competitors like the Intellivision, and I have to ask: What did you expect from a 90-minute overview of 50-plus years of history? If they were gonna cover every aspect of interactive digital media’s history, 90 minutes wouldn’t be enough to get through the 1970s.

Let's take a minute and praise these bunch of awesome nerds who were ahead of thair time and build the cornerstone of our all most favourite hobby! 🤘😎

for Atari the best way to get specific infos is atari 50

What a wonderful video! Great job! :D

Good video but at the end, I disagree that only Sony and Microsoft are fighting for game supremacy while Nintendo just sits there. Nintendo is the king. Valve even tried to compete with Steam Deck.

The ENTIRE history of gaming...

...in an 88 minute video?

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Technically Atari buried all those cartridges for a tax write-off, not out of shame. US tax laws allow companies to write off unsellable merchandise, but for it to be considered “unsellable” it has to be rendered unusable. Those laws were intended for merchandise that gets ruined before it can be sold, but they’re written so that a company can basically take any unsold merchandise and destroy it or dump it in a landfill.

was really not expecting this

Where's all the new info from lol, I've thought I knew everything.

"Entire story" my a! When the "Video Game Crisis" was happenning people were selling home computers. All this video has described, AS ALWAYS, is the home console history of games. Nothing about the HOME COMPUTER HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES! What is that about? there were no game developers like the guy who invented Tetris, that come from that background? is the history of video games the history of how to become rich with them, or we should include the GAME DEVELOPERS?

I really do love these bespoke videos. Keep them coming!

Great work team triple jump, this must have taken some huge effort from all of you 👍

My first "console" was a Sega game gear. Today I'm waiting for my retroid pocket 4 pro to arrive. Crazy times.

I was down visiting my sister last week. And the brother in law had an actual Atari 2600 sitting under the TV. And he popped Pacman on for a few minutes to demonstrate it.
I still play many many older games. I pointed out to him that during the month of July I've definitely played arcade Pacman, Mrs. Pacman and Pacman Jr on emulator. (because we were discussing the differing level layouts of the Pacman games.)
Fantastic video guys. Enjoying it immensely.

Great video you guys, also looking forward for your game!

Oh yeah, here we go... long video time! I've never made a long video but I have watched them before so I'm going to give this everything I've got.

It’s truly amazing how the Industry has evolved over the years. Not only that, but for gamers across the globe to be able to interact with others.

I remember when my mum bought me my first ever PlayStation. I was thrilled and couldn’t wait to play the games that came included into the bundle. I had always been intrigued by games, but it was through my dear mother I became a gamer. But of course, there had to be a downside!

I was constantly laughed at not just by other boys because I played video games, but even my own father said that, “Gaming is for boys, not stupid girls like you!”

The general sexism towards female gamers was off putting to most, but I refused to give in. Years later I’m proud to say that that more and more female gamers are now starting to rise, and I for one will always be gamer for all my days!

Love it!

Game Historian here. I'm not sure where you got your sources, but there isn't a single historian worth their salt that considers Strachey's Draughts or Oxo a video game. Both are examples of programs that were designed to be technical demos first and games second and there are far too many examples of programs being used for this purpose to grant any of them a special status in the history of video game design.

Hey! Well done, Ben and Team TJ! I really appreciate these long form videos! If this doesn't get at least 300K likes, I'll be bummed.

Good job on the video. I appreciate it very much.

Video games have been my life, grew from playing the NES 24/7 as a kid to playing games for 16 hours straight as an adult. Could not image a world without video worlds. and to think we exist in a time when 99.999% of humans to ever exist never got to experience this technology or imagine worlds like we do today...