3.17 Home Video

Computer Game Evolution

These games looked so good… and failed so hard.

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1. Opening scene (00:00:00)

2. The choice of Kinoautomat (00:01:05)

3. Nintendo's Wild Gunman (00:02:24)

4. We don't talk about EVR Race (00:03:13)

5. A flipping Sky Hawk (00:04:17)

6. Duck Hunt, the first (00:05:27)

7. Test Driver vs. Battle Shark (00:06:48)

8. LaserDisc spins up (00:07:37)

9. Bill Gates shows his whole Donkey (00:13:06)

10. Quarter Horse, a horse for a quarter (00:16:15)

11. Adventures in Videoland (00:16:52)

12. Astron Belt, the thrid first disc game (00:18:38)

13. Rail-shooters roll out (00:21:17)

14. See the future in Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (00:25:22)

15. Blaster, and other 1983 failures (00:28:38)

16. Before Dragon's Lair: Electronic Book (00:31:25)

17. Confused by Maze Mania (00:33:43)

18. Murder by MysteryDisc (00:36:47)

19. The misfits of Dragon's Lair (00:38:28)

20. Enter Dragon's Lair (00:43:51)

21. Exit Dragon's Lair (00:46:51)

22. Cloning the not-success: Stern, Taito, Data East (00:50:49)

23. Shooting at Mach 3 (00:52:23)

24. Cube Quest, aka Polybius (00:54:02)

25. Firefox: death and damnation (00:55:38)

26. I, Robot has many perspectives (01:01:09)

27. Do laps around GP World (01:02:21)

28. Domesticaled LaserDisc (01:03:56)

29. A ghostly Halcyon (01:05:48)

30. The digial discs, and a Domesday (01:08:03)

31. Forget disc, we've got tape (01:10:23)

32. I don't have a Clue VCR (01:11:43)

33. Chutes and Ladders and Candy Land… on tape? (01:13:45)

34. A killer Dogfight VCR (01:17:24)

35. Spinnaker meets RoboCop (01:19:11)

36. VCR consoles are a poor consolation (01:20:06)

37. The unseen Control-Vision (01:20:37)

38. The last gasp of Exidy (01:25:17)

39. Operation Wolf, the new hope (01:29:36)

40. Wild Gunman (2) and Duck Hunt (2) (01:30:57)

41. Star Wars (2) (01:32:53)

42. Yu Suzuki presents Space Harrier (01:33:14)

43. From Star Trek to Solaris (01:34:18)

44. Starflider, the grampa of Star Fox (01:35:06)

45. Silpheed, or They Remade Major Havoc Again (01:35:30)

46. Afterburner and after Afterburner (01:36:54)

47. We've got Dragon's Lair at home (01:37:18)

48. Aware of Cinemaware (01:38:48)

49. Let's welcome cutscene QTEs (01:41:57)

50. Wrap up (01:44:14)