Alex Kidd music at 1:30... ?

And music from BubbleBobble en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Bobble the first 48 seconds...!

damn i know the 3rd song... the one before mario's...

I can't remember where it's from though.

Saw my Atari 800, Atari ST, NES, and the list goes on! :D -- The 80s looked like the smart phone wars of today with new machines every month.

Great choices of songs! Wow, watching this it blows my mind that it took so long for designers/developers to come up with a general use control scheme aka joystick / gamepad... So many devices that only had a few features. Nintendo has been bold with continuing a lot of that innovation rather than sticking with one solution -- much more than others anyway. What's next?!

Super Mario Bros. tune came to early in the soundtrack. I like that "Secret of Monkey Island" theme was put in there at one point.

Love all the music. Especially the Donkey Kong Country at around 12:00 and the FFVI right after.

00:00 Bubble Bobble – Gameplay
00:50 Ice Climbers – Title & Gameplay
01:21 Balloon Fight – Balloon Trip
01:52 Super Mario Bros – Main Theme
02:34 Duck Tales – The Amazon
03:14 The Goonies – World 1
03:57 Blaster Master – Stage 1
04:58 Punch-Out!! – Boxing
05:30 Metroid – Brinstar
06:18 Kid Icarus – World 1
06:58 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link – Castle
07:27 Castlevania – Vampire Killer
07:57 Dr. Mario – Fever
09:05 Mega Man – Cut Man
09:46 Double Dragon – Stage 1
10:19 Gradius – Stage 1 (Part 2)
11:25 Ikari Warriors – Gameplay
11:58 Donkey Kong Country – Mine Cart Madness
12:38 Final Fantasy VI – The Veldt
13:46 Chrono Trigger – The Ruins of Lab 16
14:23 Monkey Island
16:16 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Gerudo Valley
17:17 Final Fantasy IX – Vamo ‘alla Flamenco
18:33 Bioshock – Welcome to Rapture
20:05 Dragon Age: Origins – Main Theme
21:28 Shadow of the Colossus – Final Battle

Here is what I've managed to put together so far, with a few instances of help from other comments.

Edit. "Olof Johansson" and "Cameron Bordelon" over att Kotaku and "Patrick Powers" comments helped me fill some gaps... ;)

I hope someone continues the list, now I must eat something before I faint.

Edit 2. Updated the list with description from "Elder-Geek" for convenience. ;)

I love the music. It's a little out of order, but every song fits surprisingly well.
And the video itself brings tears to my eyes. :)

01:21 is Gyromite, not Balloon Fight, and 11:25 is Ghosts n' Goblins

I think the last one is from Shadow of the Colossus.

10:19 added

00:00 Bubble Bobble
00:50 Ice Climbers
01:21 Balloon Fight
01:52 Super Mario
02:32 Ducktales, Amazon Level
03:14 Goonies 2
03:57 Blaster Master
04:58 Punch Out
05:30 Metroid
06:18 Kid Icarus
06:55 Zelda II
07:27 Castlevania
07:57 Dr. Mario
09:05 Mega Man I, Cutman
09:46 Double Dragon
10:19 Nemesis/Gradius
11:25 Ghosts n' Goblins
11:58 Donkey Kong Country
12:38 FFVI
13:46 Chrono Trigger, 2300 AD
14:23 Monkey Island
16:16 Legend of Zelda, Gerudo Valley
17:18 Final Fantasy IX, Vamo Flamenco
18:33
19:12 Bioshock
20:05 Dragon Age
21:28

Ordered list of songs can be found here:

elder-geek.com/?p=20467

You guys almost guessed them all!

Incredible list :) Great work, thank you!

Some machines that I didn't see, or maybe wasn't paying enough attention:
- Atari 400, 600 XL and 65XE. The 1450XLD was in it, no?
- Commodore SX64 (that huge, weird portable one)
- oh and those Retro-8-Bit-Videogames-inside-a-Joystick thingies that came out a couple years ago -- I don't remember their names.

The double Amiga 500 and Amiga A 500 is probably a mistake; I think they are the same machine.
But please correct me.

Also, I've never heard anyone call the Spectrum QL "Quantum Leap", even though that is what it stands for :)

That was a really long list. I've never seen most of the machines before 1982… and it's amazing how old and outdated some of these things look even from just 5 years ago. Not to mention those hideous glued-on-brushed-metal-plate wooden cabinet designs from the 70s. It is very good study material for product designers!

Also, I find it very interesting to see what companies innovated when, and how some companies didn't seem to notice the industry had changed and still offered their conceptually totally obsolete products.

It saddens me also to see the demise of Atari :(

I've missed the MGT Sam Coupé, from 1991 or 1992 (I think it was '92), which was partially compatible with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, but also had some interesting features, although it was outdated from the very day it came out.

I remember my old Atari, Nes and Mega Drive with nostalgia

Check out this fun clip about sound design in video games:

vimeo.com/13910110

I think Zeebo (2009) was forgotten there.

Two of my favourite consoles are missing, the Game King and the Pokemon Mini!

Ah, there should have been a Commodore SX-64, Apple //c, Apple IIgs, and maybe even an Apple /// in there. Otherwise, Nice. Totally dig the music selecton.