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My website:
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Blog post:
ultra-awesome.blogspot.com/2008/10/short-visual-history-of-videogames.html
My email address:
khdownes@hotmail.com

Okay, so down here in Australia most people say "see-ga" rather than "say-ga". Plus; I totally think that voice at the start of the Megadrive games sounds a whole lot more like "see-ga" or "seh-gah", than "say-ga"

This is my major project for 3rd year BA(multimedia) at RMIT (which I graduate from this year), created over about 4 months.

Software used: Maya 8.5, After Effects, Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash.

All modelling/texturing/lighting, animating and compositing done by me.

Voice over by Josh Molenkamp, who was kind enough to record for me while I was helping him with his 2nd year project.

Help thinking up some of the jokes by Emily Spehar (thanks!).

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Groove Raider 1 year ago

This was brilliant !!!!! The best time line sequence i've seen having to do with video games.
Darie Armin Alexandru 10 months ago

A history of videogames.... what could be more fun !!!! Great Stuff.. Love it... :)
Rodrigo Orellana 10 months ago

Perfect!
Michael Benjafield 10 months ago

if this was youtube i'd give you 5 stars, that was amazing
i hope you got good marks
:)
KTdesigner 10 months ago

Excellent and funny!
Pedro Custódio 10 months ago

weird... I would expect to see somewhere on that timeline the appearance of sinclair 48k and it's followers which had certainly their impact on video game history, but somehow they were left out of the video...
Kyle Downes 10 months ago

Yeah I wanted to include the ZX spectrum and commodore 64, Amiga etc. (hell, I also wanted to include the game & watches, gameboys, segas portables etc.)
I just didn't have enough time though; modelling all of the systems took most of the production time for this assignment anyway, so I decided to just stick to just the most popular consoles and leave out the computers and handhelds.

Maybe in my spare time in the future I will make one focussing on the handhelds, and one focussing on home computers.
Pedro Custódio 10 months ago

Well Kyle, seems like a good explanation to me, although that separation between consoles/computers at that particular time isn't that clear to me...

about the video i didn't write anything but it's realllly amazing.. great work ;)
The.Rabbito 10 months ago

Wow! Awesome video, are very funny the ballons with comments of the console.

I think that in the future the "war" could be with DLC exclusives or something.

Good Job! I love this video.
Simon Iddol 10 months ago

this is so great! congrats!
rg lacandola 10 months ago

Bravo.
Luiz Pereira 10 months ago

Hello Kyle! Could you give me the subtitles of this video? I'm creating subtitles for my language, Portuguese, I hope there's no problem, I'll credit you for video. Thanks!
Nacho el Nacho 10 months ago

Absolutely amazing. Fun, concise and easy.
Plus the grpahics are an example of excellence.
ruli83 10 months ago

awesome!
Kartik Lad 10 months ago

The best video ever on the history of games. Entertaining!!
Federico Weber 10 months ago

marvellous
Dirk Behlau 10 months ago

Great! :)
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MrGlory 10 months ago

Awesome! The whole thing flowed very smooth, and looked great.
mushon 10 months ago

WOW man!

this is GREAT!
Simon Ward 10 months ago

Super great job! May i request a Short History of Computer Games too ... or is that just being greedy
designakt 10 months ago

thanks for this lovely bit of video!
C2 Estudio 10 months ago

This was awesome! Congratulations man.
We loved this
MUSCLEBEAVER 10 months ago

wow!! awesome job dude!!
watch my still untitled "evolution of video games"-animation, wich we finished last year! kind of another "solution" for this topic... ;)
Nate Pilling 10 months ago

"It was followed by Nintendo's Gamecube, which was...purple." Nice work here.
Seawall and Bungalow 9 months ago

The purple comment was awesome.

Great video.
Hector Andres Zavala 8 months ago

Wow! excellent job!
Boun Ly 8 months ago

dude this is awesome!
Cosmo For King 8 months ago

Good stuff and informative.
Great animation, think the audio mix could be worked on - loosing the voice over a little...
Sherman Maxwell 7 months ago

Actually Kyle, if it suits you, you could just make this thing a complete historic retrospective that covers everything you mentioned, including the Vectrex, Intellivision, Odyssey II, TurboGrafix, Neo-Geo, 3DO, Phillips CD-I, all of the other Atari consoles including the Jaguar and so on.

I think that this has got to be one of the coolest recap pieces I've seen.

I f you do one on handhelds and stuff, just incorporate them into one gigantic overview!

Unless this was commissioned of course!

Great work!
A boy with glasses 4 months ago

The game cube... purple... hahaha. Loved it!