Great work, and congrats on what you've achieved with this. Only criticism I would give is that you're being too lengthy/ambitious/verbose. You probably could keep people's attention better with a more focused history. You are sort of delving into the history of video games in general, and at times giving unnecessarily abstract intros to different sections.

EchelonTee

United States5260 Posts

April 03 2012 03:57 GMT

#102

Dude this could be a pretty neat book.... one day there might be classes on "history of esports", sorta like "history of rock and roll" ^^

ZackAttack

United States884 Posts

April 03 2012 04:37 GMT

#103

God, I'm about cry watching that speech from John the translator.

iSometric

2221 Posts

April 03 2012 04:43 GMT

#104

Looks like you're no chobo.

EntropyFails

81 Posts

April 03 2012 04:44 GMT

#105

Chobopeon!

How could you forget aboutNetrek?

Certainly it was the first real esport with a competitive culture by a decade. The PLATO FPS's all died off but Netrek continued on... (and continues to this day...)

It probably still is the best mutiplayer (for more than 2 players) RTS out there.

Real esports history starts with Netrek...

Awesome post but sad pandas on missing Netrek.

Tabbris

Bangladesh2839 Posts

April 03 2012 04:46 GMT

#106

4/2/12 Brazzers Sponsers Esports!!!

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45534 Posts

April 03 2012 05:04 GMT

#107

This is amazing

Great thread, chobopeon ♥

CPTBadAss

United States594 Posts

April 03 2012 05:11 GMT

#108

I know that this was an hour long....but it went so quickly and at the end, I was all mad that it was over. Soooo happy episode 2 is up now. I'm loving the citations and everything. Really well done.

chobopeon

United States7342 Posts

April 03 2012 07:22 GMT

#109

thanks for the feedback guys. entropy, i feel silly for not having netrek. i'll be adding it in, i promise

Wunder

United Kingdom2950 Posts

April 03 2012 07:46 GMT

#110

This is great Patrick! Keep it up :3

r4pture

United States397 Posts

April 03 2012 08:23 GMT

#111

Amazing read, keep it up! Can't wait for the next installment.

jimbob615

Uruguay455 Posts

April 03 2012 08:43 GMT

#112

this is the first televised esports event in the world, an australian kids show where they played donkey kong against eachother

[17]Purple

United Kingdom3489 Posts

April 03 2012 10:50 GMT

#113

Very informative series you have here, really enjoyed listening to both episodes and watched all the videos as well. How many more episodes of the History of Esports will you do and what do you plan to do with the show after that?

Looms

United States4624 Posts

April 03 2012 11:06 GMT

#114

Great job so far. Next episode is going to be amazing, I just know it. I really hope that you have the time to focus more on specific players in the future episodes. There are so many people that are deserving of this kind of spotlight, but you obviously cannot talk about them all. However, I have faith that you will do a good job :D

r.Evo

Germany14080 Posts

April 03 2012 11:13 GMT

#115

Urgs. While I absolutely love the project, the details, everything, I have one huge problem with it:

It's not something you can show to people who aren't already interested. Mostly due to the fact that it has no video footage or anything. I saw the thread, skimmed through it, was like "omgomgomgomg must show gf/random parents/people", clicked the youtube link and was like "QQ fuck no way anyone besides me would sit through an hour of listening". =/

Any way to help you with some kind of video that shows what the hell you're talking about?

Geisterkarle

Germany3257 Posts

April 03 2012 12:00 GMT

#116

Man! Incredible writeup!
Read through it all now! Will watch the clips later, because I'm at work and YOU are the reason that I wasn't that productive for the last like halve an hour! ... Thanks for that

For now I can only say: ALL HAIL CHOBOPEON!!!

Tidus Mino

United Kingdom1108 Posts

April 03 2012 12:14 GMT

#117

Very informative, my main criticism is there is nothing to watch, i'd prefer to see this as a podcast if that's the plan, but I feel the show would be a lot more entertaining if there was footage and images included while you are speaking.

zatic

Zurich15365 Posts

April 03 2012 14:41 GMT

#118

Huh I didn't even realize Wolfenstein 3D was banned in Germany. I always thought Soldier of Fortune and Mortal Kombat were the only mainstream games ever banned here. Interesting.