A Better Choice than Wikipedia but Duller
TakeTwo does have some great info and it did update me on the fact that Pong wasn't the first video game but it was the first commercially sold video game so that's pretty cool.
However, there isn't any action that engages me to watch the whole thing so it's a pity that the effort will go to waste.
G4 history lessons
G4 has some interesting "History of" programs that talk about how certain game series', programs, hardware, comp companies, etc came about (and perhaps died out, too). They did one on the rise of video games that went in about this. They did others talking about how NES was good until third-party vendors did crap games. Etc, etc. The main morale to all of these stories was that things were really cool and innovation was great until greed and businessmen got involved ... then it all tends to go to crap. The focus becomes less on making good games and ideas, and more on "let's see how much money we can make off of how little effort and creativity we can do". It all becomes a business formula, with time+effort = X profit being the equation. Hence Hollywood keeps cranking out crap movies. Hence Nintendo keeps cranking out the same game series over and over until folks finally complain about how stale it is (EG: Megaman series). And folks rip off other peoples' ideas all the time and claim them to be their own. The folks who are really innovative usually don't get the credit they deserve, because it's usually some business/exec type that takes their work and turns it into a fortune. So, the exec-type gets the credit, while the innovator gets pushed into a closet, fed bread and water, and told to shut up and make the "next big thing". Only when the innovator decides to take their show on the road for themselves do they get to shine and reap the rewards. So, long story short, be careful who you sign contracts with, and be sure that any contract you do sign lets you retain rights to your work if at all possible.
Now that was original
Its good to see some originality put into newgrounds(I'm not saying that there isn't enough original animations just that there are too many cliche`d ones). I like the fact that you are trying to educate the masses with a little history. Of course this does need improvement like the previously mentioned mouth and how it doesn't move, but also you can shake it up. Take for example the news, at first they show the news person then they cut to some footage of the scene then cut back to the news person and so-on. You could do that by showing the announcer and the little tv screen than go to full screen with the picture and back and ta-da you have just made it more interesting by shaking it up instead of just sticking to the same image.
Hahaha "I enjoyed it! Better give it a 0!"
Though somewhat entertaining, I have to admit this doesn't really fit in here. It is like a wikipedia entry but with a funny looking announcer and images cleverly placed as you hear the audio. What is this crazy flash you speak of? I only see Vidi-Wiki. Meh.
Wiki on tape -- I mean flash!
This is stuff you can just read on Wikipedia. It might be interesting, if you had some form of interesting concept to show it off. Unfortunately, the entire movie was just a flat, static character with a bobbing head; which, I may add, doesn't even sync with the dialogue.
The slideshow in the background just distracts from the dialogue.
Well done with the research,however, and though I'm not a fan of the art style, it isn't badly done.
This flash and future flashes in this series will be boring for anyone who has knowledge about VG history, or doesn't want to listen to a block talk.