PickVidsBest Game history & retro gaming Videos
The 106 Game history & retro gaming videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 23 intermediate, 78 for a general viewer, and 4 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include GDC Festival of Gaming, Ars Technica, Ahoy.
Sony PlayStation: The Price Heard Around the World - "299" - (E3 1995 Keynote)
A one-minute clip of Sony's keynote at E3 1995, where Steve Race takes the stage, announces the PlayStation's $299 price and leaves.
Cave game tech test
An early 2009 tech test by Notch of an Infiniminer-style cave game running about 700 fps on a 256x256x64 tile map.
Atari XL/XE - Rescue on Fractalus [Lucasfilm Games] 1985
Intro and gameplay footage of Rescue on Fractalus, the 1985 Lucasfilm Games title for Atari XL/XE, programmed by Loren Carpenter and David Fox.
Bill Gates Doom
A short clip from Microsoft's 1995 Judgement Day event in which Bill Gates is inserted into Doom as a promo for Windows 95 and DirectX gaming.
Exploring Sid Meier's Pirates! - BASIC Code, Quirks, Bugs on Commodore 64
8-Bit Show And Tell walks through the BASIC source code of the original Commodore 64 Sid Meier's Pirates!.
Quake on an oscilloscope
A demo of Quake's E1M1 rendered as vector graphics on a Hitachi oscilloscope.
The Secrets of Monkey Island - An Evening With Ron Gilbert
A very long livestream in which Ron Gilbert and Frank Cifaldi look at the making of The Secret of Monkey Island, including its SCUMM source code, which they edit and recompile live.
Super Mario World: Arbitrary Code Injection At AGDQ 2014, Performed Live
A live performance at AGDQ 2014 in which Super Mario World is made to execute arbitrary injected code, running other games like Pong and Snake on the cartridge.
Doom The Way it Was Meant to Be Played - v1.1 Multi-monitor
Tech Tangents sets up original Doom's three-screen multi-monitor mode, which required a separate networked computer for each monitor.
Your sound card works perfectly
A one-minute clip of the Warcraft II sound card test in setup, where the test sample plays and the voice says the sound card works perfectly.