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Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
December 12 2010 20:59 GMT
#1
Think Brood War is the beginning of progaming? Fuck that. Quake? Earlier, still.



Now this is professional gaming. Professional gaming before multiplayer games existed. A day when competition meant racking up points and then comparing your score with someone else.

This is recognized as the finals of the first "Video Game World Championship", whatever that means. Twin Galaxies hosted a tournament with 19 people recognized as top players competing in 5 popular games of the time (Frogger, Millipede, Joust, Super Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong, Jr). These final 3 competed on TV for that sick bling you see at the end.

Back then being a 'top video game player' meant you had to be good at any number of games, and appropriately the competition (both the qualifier and finals) is spread across several different skillsets.

Even neater, this kicked off the Video Game Masters Tournament. Twin Galaxies assembled a 'US National Video Game Team' which was 5 players (recognized by TG as being the best) that were paid to travel around the country in a bus and play games in arcades in 8 major cities in the states. They talk about the experience in the documentary Chasing Ghosts. Walter Day claims his players were never beat during their tour.

This is the real old school.

****
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
Therick
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway324 Posts
December 12 2010 21:14 GMT
#2
http://stagevu.com/video/mcywvnvnhctn

this movie about corruption etc in pro gaming n stuff they cover abit of this stuff
Lift. Laugh. Love. <3
AyeH
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States534 Posts
December 12 2010 21:18 GMT
#3
Hahaha, nice find.
Is it in you?
Faranth
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
933 Posts
December 12 2010 21:19 GMT
#4
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Espelz
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany819 Posts
December 12 2010 21:32 GMT
#5
Wow.. thats.. fantastic... reminds me of my first games back in the days on my atari 2600 console (if anybody remembers that, in a moment of nostalgia i searched for a picture of it)

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"Its not over till Fantasy gg´s" - Sayle
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
December 12 2010 21:33 GMT
#6
lol watched all of it, seems like they didn't win any money or anything just those medals
Lim Yo Hwan forever!
RoieTRS
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States2569 Posts
December 12 2010 21:38 GMT
#7
Bang the Machine is a documentary about the old school fighting-game scene.
konadora, in Racenilatr's blog: "you need to stop thinking about starcraft or anything computer-related for that matter. It's becoming a bad addiction imo"
dolpiff
Profile Joined June 2010
France300 Posts
December 12 2010 21:40 GMT
#8
esports was big back in the days
ondik
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Czech Republic2908 Posts
December 12 2010 21:44 GMT
#9
this is so epic, how come noone ever posted it before? i like the format, also those cute nerds
Bisu. The one and only. // Save the cheerreaver, save the world (of SC2)
Piy
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Scotland3152 Posts
December 12 2010 21:53 GMT
#10
The burger trick was gosu
My. Copy. Is. Here.
niteReloaded
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Croatia5281 Posts
December 12 2010 22:03 GMT
#11
On December 13 2010 06:33 Zoler wrote:
lol watched all of it, seems like they didn't win any money or anything just those medals

and a kiss!
deathgod6
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States5064 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-12 22:17:39
December 12 2010 22:04 GMT
#12
Nice blog, although that youtube video was posted before in a thread talking about old school gaming and first "WCG" haha.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=98669
4.0 GPA = A rank 5.0 GPA = Olympic --------- Bisu, Best, Fantasy. i ♥ oov. They can get in my BoxeR anyday.
canucks12
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada812 Posts
December 12 2010 22:04 GMT
#13
And a more modern look at old school gaming:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
eLiE
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1039 Posts
December 12 2010 22:18 GMT
#14
The funniest parts of that video were when the contestants ran between stations (you can tell they were progamers, lol), and that the audience was full of old people. Awesome find!
How's the weather down there?
Badjas
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Netherlands2038 Posts
December 12 2010 22:45 GMT
#15
Thanks for sharing! this is awesome.

The audience is ridiculously aged. All relatives? X-)
I <3 the internet, I <3 you
Roe
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada6002 Posts
December 12 2010 23:02 GMT
#16
i was amazed seeing all the old people in the audience
Sewi
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Germany1697 Posts
December 12 2010 23:07 GMT
#17
Haha, people in the audience look so bored!
Nice find! I cannot stop laughing when I see the guy from Texas. His smirk he does all the time just kills me!!!!

Reminds me of my first Amiga games but I cannot remember the name of the game atm...
"Well, things were going ok until he lost all his stuff" - Tasteless, 17.02.2016
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
December 12 2010 23:09 GMT
#18
On December 13 2010 08:02 Roe wrote:
i was amazed seeing all the old people in the audience


Because they get money from participating? Old people need every dollar they can get.
Lim Yo Hwan forever!
Hypnosis
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States2061 Posts
December 12 2010 23:31 GMT
#19
badasssssss
Science without religion is lame, Religion without science is blind
Zim23
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1681 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-12 23:55:01
December 12 2010 23:53 GMT
#20
Yeah King of Kong is a great documentary. It had just the right combination of interesting and incredibly depressing that made it really compelling. I recommend it to anyone interested in seeing where competitive gaming got its start.

P.S. Billy Mitchell is a real asshole.
Do an arranged marriage if she's not completely minging, and don't worry about dancing, get a go-kart, cheers.
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