Outtakes #1: Crash Course Games Video Lecture | Basics and Evolution of Games - Gaming

... where it was played as early as the second century B.C.
Agh, okay.
Ye- okay.
I did- I feel like I did something weird with my face.
Uh... if I could do it one more time... I wanna do it one more time...
I just feel like it was all like...
"It was played in India."
Like, I-- I did like a squishy face thing and I
didn't like it.
The Journal of Epidemiology compared corrupted blood to real-life stars and Evian--
Evian... like the water.
In 2011, players helped scientists solve a decade-old problem...
dec- decade old problem decade?
Ten years being a decade!
Dice symbolize the chance and randomness of involved--
mnh... mmnhh!
AHH!
Honi bogo ho-ni-bo-go and the Honi
Boko--
Games all over the world from the
traditional ballaykashaAAAA
We could go on-- hold on.
I got a little drooling on the side. There we go.
And Eniac, which was considered the first re-programmager--
Re-programmababerger...
And Eniac, which was considered the first re-programmableguble...
I cannot say that word!
And Eniac, which was considered the first re-programmable computer, was part ma--
I can't do it! I... golly. What the heck?
Listen up, kids. Read those instruction manuals.
... from the tech model rail-- rail, railroad.
Can you say railroad?
(singing) Christmas, Christmas time is here-
Time for joy and time for cheer-
[off set] "I remember that part from..."
Yeah, and then Alvin goes, "Me I want a hulahoop!"
[off set] "Ohhh!"
Space War?!
That's the name of your dog?!
You're up, dog.
D'you wanna make a show here.
Beebidibop-budeeboop...
Crash Course Games
*chuckles*
Players were no longer limited to the games that were built into the console when it was built.
What?
C'mon. Come on, Kees.
Get outta here.
Bio-shot can't go to the bathroom with you. Just bein' honest.
[off set] "Maybe a spore with the... the..."
That's too complicated.
They'll be dropping controllers there.
No.... nooo!
Disconnected.
Nohehehh... it's just moving...
on its own.
No! Nnnope! Slow it down.
... and more of a universally accepted form of entertainment for all-- and I was almost there,
and I messed it up right at the end... and I-- I-- ahhhhhhh.
... time of innovashive-- innovashive? What am... the heck?
What is wrong with me? I can't read!
It is Pac-Man we're talkin' about.
You were taken back!
Ohh, you weren't in the shot, were you? You weren't in the shot!
Pac-Man!
Get me ready, man!
Always be camera-ready.
Players trusted that Nintendo games would be fun, look great, and would actually work.... with some exceptions.
LJN.
I'm gettin' that in there! They have to go down!
Whusthat?
I didn't like it!
What just-- cuz it's funny cuz of the-- I'm thinkin' of just like... moments in gaming history of like,
8-bit era, 16-bit era, new consoles, new cartridges, and you're like, "Lion King Game!"
That was-- that was a pivotal moment... in gaming history.
Street Fighter 2 invented the combo-mechanic, and created the deeply human pleasure of a well mm-mmm.
They're supposed to make the characters look more real than the street fighter fighters.
Street fighter fighters...
The extremely popular all-arena matches were called, "Death Matches." Now--
That was the most... that was the cutest way to...
"Death matches!"
"Yay!"
When will we talk about the first half of the decade?
What is that?
The electronics company that had... like about three-thirty-feet-'bout-three hundred and fifty billion million...
... couple of [incoherent]
Gosh, it's not normal.
Most of the industry was looking forward to the--
Looking toward--
Forward, toward, forward toward.
Simmer electronics' giant-- gianbabohmbop.
Sony!
It had varying degrees of movement and nearly three hundred and sixty-- sorry...
My finger slipped!
This is a serious program about games.
... which included a controls d-- that-- nope, that's the start button.
... geared to lark-lack-lark-liar... see now I'm gonna mess it up. A lara-- laura, lara, Lara Croft. Okay.
Makin' it also one of the longest lived consoles of all time. No, that's a weird place of emphasizing.
[incoherent] are you Xbox?
[mumbles]
Pssh.
They have party party.
Vroo-vrooom~
Vrooooooom~
Though this message-- I cannot say that.
Though this message spa-- though this message spamming.
Though this message spamming--
Cannot do that.
It learned the people-- that the people...
that the people...
THE PEOPLE NEED A GAME THAT'S FAST.
*sings gibberish*
And then the little birds go, "RARARA."
And the pigs are, "OINOINOINK."
Uhhh...
That's what sold it.
No the whole physics-mechanic. Just those sounds.
... and the ability for players to compete with other players in tournaments among ranks...
further mur-- further murdering... murdering the gaming genre.
The short games allowed for sustinct-- sustinct.... succinct, succinct, sucCINCT.
It had fighting, leveling up, and the ability to create guilt, or like-- why am I saying that weirdly? Guilt.
It had fighting, leveling up, and the ability to create guilt.
I still feel like I'm saying that weird. Am I saying that right? Guilt? I feel like I'm saying it weird.
I'm... I gotta go get my dress for the Quintilian.
We get the best of both worlds-- both in the fantasy worlds and in the real world.
I said best of both worlds without makin' a Hannah Montana reference. I'm proud of myself.
The Sega CD and the 32X forshadowed Sega's hardware struggles in the industry...
but it's gonna get better for Sega, right?
Right, Pa?
... and prevalent in our daily lives.
[off set] "That's good!... got it. Excellent."