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For those of you who haven't seen it yet, I can only recommend to watch the five part youtube series: "Pixel Pioneers: A Brief History of Graphics". It nicely outlines how far we have come since the beginning of video games and how those games evolved over time given the new technical possibilities...and can make you feel quite old depending on which games you played and remember.

Part 1:
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Part 2:
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Part 3:
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Part 4:
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Part 5:
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Since this is the off-topic forum, I don't feel guilty about going off-topic:
When will the forum support HTML5 video embedding? I haven't installed Flash on my machines in ages. All I can see here is a grey blob, so I have to click "quote" on posts and copy&paste the video ID into a new tab.
In my naive mind, all that needs to be done is changing the embed template, which shouldn't be difficult

Yeah I guess phpbb uses the object tags to embed. The iframe embed is the one that obeys the user's youtube prefs and can support html5.

Oh well ... at least flash will always live on in scaleform

EDIT: for anyone who doesn't have flash, you can click on these. They look great, I'm going to watch when I get a moment today. Thanks spacegaier!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

scrawl wrote:When will the forum support HTML5 video embedding?

Good point. Put on todo list .

Awesome series! I love how he uses the adjective "spartan". I really like Part 1 the most, because it was all before my time, being born in 1980. Even though I knew each of the games, I didn't realize that games like asteroids were not rendered using rasterization. I knew about tennis for two, but I guess I never made the connection between it and vector based games. Very very cool!

Well, I started the first one...and then sat and watched them all. Thank for the links. And to scrawl's point, I did appreciate the links as my Ubuntu machine just shows grey blob's as I don't have the right flash version on this machine either.

There is a lot to say and not much time in these videos but they are nice, thanks for pointing them.

It is a nice series, thanks for posting!