The History of E3: A trip down memory lane

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PostRe: The History of E3: A trip down memory lane UPDATED 26/05
by NickSCFC » Thu May 26, 2011 9:06 pm

All I remember Dreamcast having online were ChuChu and Quake 3, both were a laggy mess.

It's like saying SNES got to 3D first cause of Star Wing ;)

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PostRe: The History of E3: A trip down memory lane UPDATED 26/05
by gamerforever » Thu May 26, 2011 9:13 pm

NickSCFC wrote:All I remember Dreamcast having online were ChuChu and Quake 3, both were a laggy mess.

It's like saying SNES got to 3D first cause of Star Wing ;)


Now come on Nick, Segas tagline was 'up to six billion players'.

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PostRe: The History of E3: A trip down memory lane UPDATED 26/05
by ITSMILNER » Thu May 26, 2011 9:19 pm

Just updated again guys up until 2004 plus I added a link for some further reading if your interested :)

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PostRe: The History of E3: A trip down memory lane UPDATED 26/05
by gamerforever » Thu May 26, 2011 9:25 pm

magicmilner wrote:Just updated again guys up until 2004 plus I added a link for some further reading if your interested :)


I love you man. :wub:

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PostRe: The History of E3: A trip down memory lane UPDATED 26/05
by ITSMILNER » Thu May 26, 2011 9:30 pm

gamerforever wrote:
magicmilner wrote:Just updated again guys up until 2004 plus I added a link for some further reading if your interested :)


I love you man. :wub:


Awwwwwwwwwww :D

I'll get the rest finished up over the weekend and include more links and pics of some of the various E3 Posters and freebies

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PostRe: The History of E3: A trip down memory lane UPDATED 26/05
by gamerforever » Thu May 26, 2011 9:33 pm

magicmilner wrote:
gamerforever wrote:
magicmilner wrote:Just updated again guys up until 2004 plus I added a link for some further reading if your interested :)


I love you man. :wub:


Awwwwwwwwwww :D

I'll get the rest finished up over the weekend and include more links and pics of some of the various E3 Posters and freebies

:D twilight princess was first shown in 2004! :shock:

Time has flown by so quick! :cry:

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by SEP » Thu May 26, 2011 10:48 pm

Bit odd seeing Kameo in the Gamecube pre-release trailer.

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PostRe: The History of E3: A trip down memory lane UPDATED 26/05
by Uppa » Thu May 26, 2011 11:16 pm

gamerforever wrote: twilight princess was first shown in 2004! :shock: Time has flown by so quick! :cry:


I cannot believe that was seven years ago. I can still remember when the news hit me back in June 2004. I had discovered Game Spy about a year prior, and was still--one year later--trying to suss out how File Planet worked. While seeking out where to download music from the site--I'd been redirected there from Golden Sun Realm, having tried to download the bit of music for Tundaria Tower in The Lost Age--I can recall the absolute negation of pretty much every one of my bodily senses except for vision, all upon one glimpsing one genuinely heart-stopping image: Link--donning a gritty, muddy tunic--pitted against three reptilian enemies.

I gazed at that one, solitary image with unwavering stillness as if suspended in time: I was positively and utterly dumbstruck, robbed of lung function and power of speech. I can recollect, so clearly and resolutely, doubting that the game was even authentic. This didn't even look like the Zelda I knew. Link was dressed in chain-mail, and no longer was he the cleanly-coloured entity of before--here, his clothes were textured, and stained with grime; enemies were dark and dirty, and not identikit; everything shown looked vast and simply too true to life; and the lack of a HUD made it seem like a PC game dressed in Zelda-like clothes. I can remember summarising these sentiments by remarking that the aesthetics looked like they had been pilfered straight from Lord of the Rings--it seemed too good to be true chiefly because it looked exactly like what people wanted.

Still on dial-up, I left the computer on overnight to download the trailer for this enigma of a Zelda game in order to validate its existence. Waking up for school the next day, I watched the trailer and forthwith took as many screencaps as I could to distribute to my friends. There was a seismic sense of excitement, that lunch-time. The worlds shown looked vast, serene and curiously quiet; the mellow music seemed much too subdued and film-like to be at all redolent of Zelda--which was composite to making the game feel that bit more exotic and remarkable than normal. Despite its exoticism, though...Link was there, astride Epona, tumbling through vacant lands whose parameters could not be gleaned from the trailer. Nothing shown gave the suggestion of borders or restrictions: the forest was wide and open, with no structure to lead Link down a given route; the waste-lands, pouring with rain, offered no purpose than to drum up suspense and incite query of their secrets; and most of all, there was the meek and shy little river that trickled gently beneath the stone bridge all to the gentle sigh of the music, all as if to invite you to follow it and eke out its mysteries. That first image--the one of the river, trees, mountains, distant castle, and the grave-like stones--tailored my expectations for this game that I hoped would be the most personal of journeys. Link and Epona--as well as their adversaries--were the only creatures of note in the trailer, and it was my hope that this game would embrace this lonely sense and send you off to carve your own journey in a Zelda world more realistic and open than any previously. To me, it was like the first Zelda game and all its associated freedoms had been transmuted into 3D: you could find a forest on your own and explore it; you could happen upon a grave and open it; you could crawl beneath a bridge and find something--nothing appeared to direct this freedom, or govern what patterns or manoeuvres you would exercise. I was enchanted beyond comparison, more excited for a game than any time before.

It is weird looking back on these preliminary expectations and comparing them with the eventual Twilight Princess, a Zelda game more filmic than any other--and one whose movie-like leanings necessitate greater direction and control over the player than usual. It's no wonder I received Twilight Princess with such bitterness when I played through it, given just how specific my hopes were after watching that first trailer, and just how diametrically opposed they were to the ethoses of the finished game. I'd spent two years feverishly building up my hopes for something else entirely.

No matter how much ire I still possess vis-a-vis Twilight Princess, though, it will probably always represent the height of my anticipation for any game.

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PostRe: The History of E3: A trip down memory lane UPDATED 26/05
by The Alchemist Penguin » Thu May 26, 2011 11:22 pm

For all the talk at that E3 that the trailer was just "HUD-less recordings of someone playing the game that was then cut together into a great trailer", Nintendo must have known that it was basically a massive tease and that they didn't really have anything. Probably why they've gone in the completely opposite direction with Skyward Sword, focusing only on the raw details, mainly the controls and art style, and even designing an area exclusively for E3 so the actual style of level design remains secret.

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PostRe: The History of E3: A trip down memory lane UPDATED 26/05
by gamerforever » Fri May 27, 2011 6:40 am

Every post Uppa makes must be put in the archive :wub:

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PostRe: The History of E3: A trip down memory lane UPDATED 26/05
by Carlos » Fri May 27, 2011 8:59 pm

gamerforever wrote:gooseberry fool I quoted instead of edited.

At Nick - yes xbox live was an innovation, but sega got in first. Online gaming for me has been negative as it has stolen resources from the single player to the multiplayer. Some games online like fifa are good, but i really do not understand the love for cod online, for example. 3D was much bigger than online gaming btw, it brought a level of excitement not seen.


3D was a technological shift but it didn't change gameplay. The crosshair in my FPS still moves on the same x and y axis as it did in Operation: Wolf and the Gears cover system can if you tried hard enough be traced back to Space Invaders.

Online gaming was a shift in gameplay and whilst Im normally the first to admit I prefer having my mates on the same sofa instead of seperate ones the fact remains the network has been the top money spinner for publishers this gen.

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by NickSCFC » Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:21 pm


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by NickSCFC » Fri Jun 06, 2014 2:45 pm

More E3 1995




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by kazanova_Frankenstein » Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:14 pm

Great great work OP. Makes me feel old though, and also that things will never be as good as they were back then ref excitement levels, rumours etc. What is it with all video gamers being so nostalgic? I used to think it was just me but you lot are all equally bad :slol:

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PostRe: The History of E3: A trip down memory lane UPDATED 26/05
by Skippy » Mon Jun 09, 2014 10:40 am

I bring to you THE SIX STAGES OF WATCHING E3

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/e3-2014-gamers ... e3-1451631

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PostRe: The History of E3: A trip down memory lane UPDATED 26/05
by gamerforever » Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:09 pm

Wow twilight princess was announced 11 years ago? I remember watching that one live!

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by NickSCFC » Sun Jun 14, 2015 9:12 am

Found a tour of the E3 1996 show floor, Virtua Fighter 3 looked incredible, would have loved to have been there.



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