Like retrogaming? In this presentation you learn about the history of classic gaming. See all the important games from the past in handmade drawings and learn fun and suprising facts about them. It ends with a stunning animated music video in which all the presented games come together.

1. From Pong to Doom
An odeto classicvideogames

2. Presentedby:

3. I'm a Chiptune artist from
Hamburg, Germany
I make music on the nintendo
gameboyand organize8-Bit
partys underthename 8Pauli

6. As an ode to retrogaming I've
made an animated music video
in whichI've featured48
classic videogames

9. 1.PONG
• releasedin1972
• first arcade game to becomepopular
with the masses
• first arcadegamewas"Computer space"
but that game was too complicated
• simplicity turned out to bethe key to
success and everybody was addicted to
pong

11. 2.breakout
• releasedin1976
• influencedbypong
• built by steve wozniak and steve jobs
• game was in b&w, but thanks to colored
cellophane strips placed over screen,
it appeared to be in color
• highest possible score is 896

13. 3.space
invaders
• star wars was a landmarkfor the
popularity of sciencefiction
• science fiction-mania contributed to
thepopularity of the game
• characters of aliens based onh.G. wells'
"war of the worlds"
• With 500million dollars of profit,
space invaders made more profit than
star wars

15. 4.asteroids
• released in 1979 by atari
• game was played on a vector monitor
(sametechnology as oscilloscope)
• over 70.000 units sold

17. 5.Pac-man
• Releasedin japan in 1979 by NAMCO
• at first, it was called"Puck man" named
after the round shape of the character
• one of the first computer games that
featured a character
• Highest grossing and most influential
games of all time

19. 6.Burger time
• originaltitle:"Hamburger",then
changedto Burgertime when introduced
intheu.s.
• many sequels and spinoffs, including a
3D version called "burger time world
tour"
• received a merit of"1984 videogame of
the year" eventhough game was released
in1982.

21. 7.donkey kong
• released in 1981 by newcomer nintendo
• one of the earliest "platform games"
• featuring mario for the first time, who
was first called mr. video andthen
jumpman.
• In a lawsuit, universal city studios
claimed donkey kong violatedthe
rights ofking kong (theylost)

23. 8. frogger
• released in 1981 by konami
• first appearance of sega in the market,
who published the game
• one of theearliest games with more
thanonecpu(two z80 processors)
• by2005, frogger sold more than 20
million copies worldwide

25. 9. decathlon
• made by activision forthe atari 2600
game console
• notorious for theamountofwear or
damagethe game inflicted upon game
controllers
• up to four players could compete in 10
different events

27. 10. loderunner
• first prototype was called "Miner" and
could be played on an apple II+
• Miner was at first rejected by the
publisher broderbund
• in1983 published under the name"lode
runner" for multiple platforms
• Firstgame with a level editor

29. 11.Choplifter
• marketed as"the first interactive
computer-assisted animated movie"
• Therefore, the game said"the end"
instead of"game over"
• one of the few gamesthat was first
released on a home system and then on an
arcade system

31. 12.q-bert
• first game to use isometric graphics
to create a pseudo3d-effect
• first named cubes,then renamed q-bert
• one of the most merchandised arcade
game characters
• became an animated cartoon in 1983 and
was featured in differentfilms
including the 3d Disneyfilm"Wreck-it-
ralph"andthe movie "PIXEL"

33. 13.mario bros.
• the original, made in1983(notsuper
mario!)
• Featuring oneofthemost famous
videogame characters ofall time:mario
• supposedly named after mario segale,
the italian-american landlord of
nintendo, who regularily barged in to
ask for rent
• his brother luigi was created for the
two-player mode

35. 14.poleposition
• One of the most influential racing
games first to use f1-qualification
principle and(pseudo-)3d graphics
• First to use a 16-bit microprocessor
• arcade game came with realistic
steering wheel and gear shift
• one of the first games with product
placement

37. 15.E.T.
• often cited as the worst game ever made
• due to long negotiations the game had
to bemade in five and a halfweeks
• oneofthe biggest financialfailures
in video game history
• As a result of overproduction,millions
ofunsold cardridges were buried in a
desertin new mexico

39. 16.Kung fu master
• originally based on bruce lee movie
"Game of death",the five levels reflect
the movie's setting of a five-level
pagoda with a martial arts master at
the end
• made by takashi nishiyama, who later
made streetfighter
• one of the firstside scrolling beat'em
up games

41. 17.zaxxon
• first game to use axonometric
projection, which simulated three
dimensions from a 3rd person view
• First arcade gameto be advertised on
television
• The world record on this game is made in
1982 by vernon kalanikaus from hawaii,
scoring 4,680,740 points

43. 18.paperboy
• first game about a newspaper delivery
boy
• Some arcade games had a bicycle
handlebar as a controller
• Paperboy makes a cameo appearance in
the movie wreck-it-ralph wherehe
cycles through game central station

45. 19.1942
• vertically scrolling shoot'em up
• setting: pacific ocean during world
war II
• One of the first big hits for capcom,
who made streetfighter and mega man

47. 20.pitfall
• released by activision for atari 2600
• firstgame in the side-scrolling
platform game genre(even though it did
not scroll)
• accordingtothe programmer david
crane,the concept of the game took only
10 minutes

49. 21.yie ar kung fu
• the basis for modern fighting games
• translation of title: one, two kung fu
• player can perform up to 16 moves using
a combination ofbuttons and joystick
movements while crouching, standing
and jumping

51. 22.tetris
• Based on an old russian block game
• produced in the communistic sovjet
union
• the inventor didn'town the rights.
Sovjet government did and sold the
game to the u.s.
• name comes from greek prefix "tetra-",
meaning"four sides", and "tennis"

53. 23.ELITE
• OPEN-ENDED SPACE TRADING GAME
• ONE OF THE FIRST HOME COMPUTER GAMES
WITH 3D-WIREFRAME GRAPHICS
• ONLINE VERSION, ELITE: DANGEROUS,
STARTED IN2014 AFTER A CROWDFUNDING
CAMPAIGN
• CONTAINS 8 GALAXIES WITH 256 PLANETS TO
EXPLORE

55. 24.GHOSTBUSTERS
• BASED ON THE MOVIE BY THE SAME NAME
• TOGETHER WITH "THE PRINT SHOP" THE MOST
PIRATED c64-PROGRAMS IN1985
• TOOK ONLY 6 WEEKS TO MAKE, OF WHICH THE
LAST WEEK WAS SPENT ON THE THEME SONG

57. 25. SEX GAMES
• MADE IN GERMANY BY THE BROTHERS THOMAS
AND MARKUS LANDGRAF
• THEY LIVED WITH THEIR PARENTS AND WERE
15 AND 16 YEARS OLD
• GAME WAS UNTIL 2012 ON THE INDEX OFMEDIA
DANGEROUS TO YOUTH
• ONE OF THE FIRST GAMES WITH
PORNOGRAPHIC ELEMENTS

59. 26.INTERNATIONAL
KARATE
• KARATE GAME BASED ON POINT SYSTEM
INSTEAD OF WEARING DOWN OPPONENT
• TAKES PLACE IN 8 LOCATIONS AROUND THE
WORLD
• SUED BYDATA EAST FOR SIMILARITIES
WITH THE ARCADE GAME "KARATE CHAMP"

61. 27. SUPER MARIO
BROS
• SUCCESSOR Of THE1983 GAME MARIO BROS
• 2D SIDE SCROLLING GAMEPLAY
• HUGE SUCCESS LEAD TO THEREVIVAL OF THE
GAME INDUSTRY AFTER THE CRASH IN 1983
• DEVELOPMENT WAS AIMED AT SIMPLICITY
BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO HAVE A GAME
READY BEFORE THE SHOPPING SEASON
• ONE OF THE BEST SELLING GAMES OF ALL
TIMES

63. 28.GHOSTS 'N
GOBLINS
• ICONIC FEATURE: MAIN CHARACTER LOSES
ARMOUR AND WALKS FURTHER IN BOXERS
• NAME OF CHARACTER "ARTHUR" IS AN
ALLUSION TO KING ARTHUR
• CONSIDERED THE SECOND MOST DIFFICULT
GAME BY WEBSITE GAME TRAILERS (NUMBER
ONE IS BATTLETOADS)

65. 29. GREEN BERET
• AMERICAN NAME: RUSH'N ATTACK, TITLE
REFERS TO ITS COLD WAR SETTING
• RUN AND GUN SIDE SCROLLING PLATFORM
GAME
• FLAMETHROWER WAS REMOVED IN THE NES-
VERSION

67. 30. ROLLING
THUNDER
• SIDE-SCROLLING PLATFORM GAME
• ICONIC FEATURE: SMOOTH JUMPING To AND
FROM HIGHER FLOORS AND STAIRS
• RANKED BY "NEXT GENERATION" AS THE43rd
BEST ARCADE GAME OF ALL TIMES

69. 31.ARKANOID
• INSPIRED BY BREAKOUT, FROM 1976
• TITLE REFERS TO THEDOOMED MOTHER SHIP,
FROM WHICH THE PLAYER's SHIP ESCAPES
• FOLLOWED BY A LOT OF SEQUELS, INCLUDING
THE 2017 GAME "ARKANOIDVS. SPACE
INVADERS"

71. 32.RAMPAGE
• UP TO THREEPLAYERS (GORILLA, A LIZARD
AND A WEREWOLF) DEMOLISH BUILDINGS
• THE Demolishing MOB VISITS 43 STATES
AND2 CANADIAN PROVINCES. ONLY 7 STATES
ARE SPARED
• In 2018, a movie will bereleased based on
the game

73. 33.defender of
the crown
• strategy computer game set in england
during the middle ages
• first game of cinemaware
• groundbreaking realistic graphics
for that time
• game sold 1 million copies by2001

75. 34.Legend OF
ZELDA
• HIGH-fantasy action adventure
• First console game with a save
function
• Named after the wife ofwriter f. scott
fitzgerald, whose name was Zelda
• NINTENDO's MOST SUCCESSFUL FRANCHISes,
selling over 80 million copies

77. 35.thelast ninja
• published in 1987 for commodore 64
• one of the first games with isometric
perspective, allowing players to move
in eightdirections
• amstrad and zx spectrumversions
never appeared, despite being in
production
• one of the most successful games on the
c64 ever

79. 36. Barbarian
• characters based on conan the
barbarian series
• game designer steve brown practiced
and filmed 16 moves with a wooden sword
as inspiration for the game
• sounds come from movie "red sonja"
• game sparked protests in the uk. Not for
its violence(decapitation) but for
sexual aspects of the package

81. 37. california
games
• game featuring many events including
half-pipe, rollerskating, surfing,
footbag and bmx
• many sponsors in the game, including
santa cruz,casio and Kawasaki
• most successful game of publisher
epyx, even topping the charts in winter
months

83. 38. out run
• 3d racing game using groundbreaking
graphics and hardware
• Game designer yu suzuki toured through
europe for two weeks in a bmw 520 to get
inspiration for the scenery
• the cabin for thearcade game included
a steering wheel with force feedback
• best-selling arcade game for having
sold over 20,000 cabinets in a year

85. 38. Wonderboy
• Original arcade game released in1986
• Five sequels were released, and even a
remake in2017
• Actual name of wonderboy: Bocke. But
sega named him tom-tom
• in2007,A 2-cd soundtrack album with
music from the game was released

87. 39. maniac
mansion
• first graphic adventure game based on
point and click interface
• skywalker range, the office of
lucasfilmgames, was used as model for
the mansion
• in 1990 the game was adapted in a
television series by the same name
• in 1993, a sequel was released: day of the
tentacle

89. 40. Space
harrier
• "welcome to the fantasy zone!"
• one of the earliestthird person
shooters
• originally thought of as military game,
but later it turned more fantasy
• first arcade release to use 16-bit
graphics and scaled sprite technology
(super scaler)

91. 41.FINAL FIGHT
• Side scrolling beat 'em up game
• released in1989 by capcom
• Began as a sequel to "Streetfighter"
butit was changed to a beat 'em up
following the success of double dragon

93. 42.Sim city
• Designed by will wright who later made
"thesims"
• first open-ended city building game
• first developed for commodore 64 in
1985, it took 4 years to be released
• many sequels&spinoffs,including a
card game, a helicopter and racing game

95. 43.Sonic the
hedgehog
• Developed as official mascot character,
competition of Mario
• awarded 7 records by theguiness book of
records, one of them: bestselling game on
a sega system
• many sequels and spin-offs, tv-series,
comic bookseries and a film is planned
• A gene has been named after sonic, called
the shh-gene

97. 44.Golden axe
• side-scrolling, beat'em up, hack 'n slash
arcade game
• Characters have ability to cast spells
• Characters appeared as cameo in other
games. The dwarf, gilius thunderhead is
in sega superstar tennis
• comics has been made and in 2014 plans
for an animated movie were made

99. 44.Turrican
• game started in1989 as a demo-level on
C64. Full version released in1990
• title screen is based on manowar album
coverfor"kings of metal"
• many sequels. Turrican 3D was once
planned, butnever made

101. 45.
streetfighTer2
• sequel to streetfighter(from1987)
• Known for special moves and combos
• Combos were not designed by
developers, but came in by accident
• in the top 3 of videogames with highest
profit of all time, after space
invaders and pac-man

103. 46. Doom
• First-person shooter, released in 1993
via shareware and mail order
• released by id software, who also made
the controversial wolfenstein3D
• novels, comic books, a board game and a
movie was made based on the game
• start of networked multiplayergaming,
and customized additions and
modifications

104. finally, here is my music
video called"From pong to doom
- an animated ode to classic
videogames"

105. Thank you for watching and
never stop playing