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ultra-awesome.com
Blog post:
ultra-awesome.blogspot.com/2008/10/short-visual-history-of-videogames.html


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!).
  • Groove Raider 3 years ago
    This was brilliant !!!!! The best time line sequence i've seen having to do with video games.
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  • A history of videogames.... what could be more fun !!!! Great Stuff.. Love it... :)
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  • Rodrigo Orellana plus 3 years ago
    Perfect!
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  • Michael Benjafield 3 years ago
    if this was youtube i'd give you 5 stars, that was amazing
    i hope you got good marks
    :)
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  • KTdesigner 3 years ago
    Excellent and funny!
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  • Pedro Custódio 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 ;)
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  • The.Rabbito 3 years 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.
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  • Simon Iddol 3 years ago
    this is so great! congrats!
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  • rg lacandola 3 years ago
    Bravo.
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  • Luiz Pereira 3 years 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!
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  • Nacho el Nacho 3 years ago
    Absolutely amazing. Fun, concise and easy.
    Plus the grpahics are an example of excellence.
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  • Rul! 3 years ago
    awesome!
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  • Kartik Lad 3 years ago
    The best video ever on the history of games. Entertaining!!
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  • Federico Weber 3 years ago
    marvellous
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  • MrGlory 3 years ago
    Awesome! The whole thing flowed very smooth, and looked great.
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  • mushon 3 years ago
    WOW man!

    this is GREAT!
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  • Simon Ward plus 3 years ago
    Super great job! May i request a Short History of Computer Games too ... or is that just being greedy
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  • Markus Jaritz 3 years ago
    thanks for this lovely bit of video!
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  • C2 Estudio 3 years ago
    This was awesome! Congratulations man.
    We loved this
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  • MUSCLEBEAVER plus 3 years 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... ;)
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  • Nate Pilling 3 years ago
    "It was followed by Nintendo's Gamecube, which was...purple." Nice work here.
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  • Boun Ly 2 years ago
    dude this is awesome!
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  • Cosmo For King plus 2 years ago
    Good stuff and informative.
    Great animation, think the audio mix could be worked on - loosing the voice over a little...
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  • Sherman Maxwell 2 years 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!
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  • A boy with glasses 2 years ago
    The game cube... purple... hahaha. Loved it!
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  • cheb 2 years ago
    haha Great!
    btw RIP Dreamcast :'(
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  • Rob Diaz 2 years ago
    Hahah very good video!
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  • Eyas Taifour 1 year ago
    Amazing!
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  • Lucas de Camillo 1 year ago
    Great work man!
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  • smail_web 1 year ago
    .

    stuns...

    my demo "I love Video Games": vimeo.com/7620678
    .
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  • Tim Warneka 1 year ago
    Terrific!

    Best line: "It was ... purple."!

    I remember the first time I saw a PONG arcade game ... hope that doesn't make me too old!

    Great job!
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  • ferrinspace 1 year ago
    cool
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  • MoolahNasreddin 3 months ago
    Nice video! ) And the voice is funny! )) But why not a word about hand (pocket) consoles?
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  • Daniel Bribo 1 month ago
    Ultra-Awesome!!!!
    congratulations!!
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  • Hasraf HaZ Dulull plus 1 month ago
    Fantastic!!!
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  • Josh Bokin 3 weeks ago
    what about the ps3 or the xbox 360 or the nintendo ds ds light dsi or 3ds or what about the game boy
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