The Computer Chronicles - Video Game Consoles (1990)

I'm 85'-95' kid and let me tell you this: it was a privilage time to live as a kid! Golden age of old school consoles and pc's and full outdoor life. i miss those days so much... 😢

That "video game expert" was surprisingly knowledgeable. His title did not disappoint

I watched this in the 80's every sat afternoon and it was the only reference we had for computer related anything really,, I was more excited every weekend for this than I was for the animated Dungeons and Dragons series...

This is a great peek into the era of computing before it was considered cool and mainstream. It's hard to explain this to people born after the internet where tech is just an ordinary part of their lives, but just look at all the extremely uncool middle aged people for a taste of what it was like to be interested in computers before it was cool to do so. I remember feeling how our Apple ][ was a secret magic box of surprises that I loved sharing with anyone who cared to look at it. I also remember my sister who hated computers and had no interest in them until email changed her mind about them in the late 90s. Now she's an Apple fanatic, won't be seen without her iPhone. She has few if any memories of that Apple ][ we had all those years ago, but I remember it with great affection and nostalgia.

Love how they said 'this is an arcade, typical of ones around the country', and I'm like, 'no it's not, this is an arcade in Mountain View California, which I guarantee had the latest cabinets as well as was a testing location for new games to come to the US. This series would have been awesome to have as a kid, but was locked to the coasts, which explains the huge delay back then between a kid on the coast, and a Midwesterner like myself.

The way they talk about the Magnavox Pong game as being “14 years old” as if that’s a long time ago is some crazy perspective. Crysis is now older than that.

Never in a million years would you see two competing companies agree to guest on the same show at the same time ever again.

I'm a 45 year old MD who has played video games since the early 80s. As long as it's not the ONLY thing you do in life, it's all good!

wow according to Wiki this show ran from 1983 to 2002 on PBS. I have never even heard of this show until about 2 years an came across it via youtube. man I wish I know about this abck in the day when it was relevant

"Nintendo will go on forever, just like VCR's." - a 90's perspective

The Computer Chronicles was a big piece of the US computer revolution. We ate this information up. Millions were inspired by this program.

I love this show. It's kind of depressing it's been gone for so long.

Hi everyone, I was born in 2002, so I was never able to see this show or the time periods it represented. But I think it's fascinating to see what the perspective of people of the time was.

I watched this episode with extraordinary enthusiasm when it was new. xD

01:30 Welcome 03:14 Report from Nintendo World Championship 1990 05:24 Sim Earth w/ Fred Haslam [Maxis] 08:49 Defender of the Crown CD-ROM w/ David Riordan [Cinemaware] 11:30 Why are kids fascinated by games? [Aladdin's Castle] 13:30 New consoles from SEGA and NEC 14:29 Moonwalker w/ Al Nilsen [SEGA] 16:05 Mickey Mouse in Castle of Illusions 17:26 NEC w/ Bob Faber 18:27 Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished 19:32 Bonk's Adventure 20:45 Kids & Games w/ Rusel DeMaria 23:30 News w/ Kate Megargee 25:36 Software Review "Banner Mania" w/ Paul Schindler 26:37 PC configuration handbook 28:01 Credits

SEGA Genesis, my console as a kid! ❤️

I went crazy for Sim Earth (5:26) back in the day. I'm now a Geologist rather than a climate scientist but it wasn't too far off!

17:08 haha it's so funny that they obsess over the sprite animation but almost ignore the parallax scrolling effect. The layered backgrounds was the biggest difference with previous consoles.

The 90s Chronicles were quite charming. Love the geek era that time.

No one, absolutely no one saw the incredible potential of two plumbers jumping down pipes in the 90's. Smooth Criminal sounds awesome as a 8 bit sound file