Tasvideos Name

Regarding the name "Tasvideos"... The site was born as "Nesvideos" and is still also called by that name also. This "Tasvideos" is an experiment that may or may not become the primary name. --Bisqwit

The history of the name goes something like this:

In the very beginning there existed basically just one emulator with rerecording support: Famtasia, a NES emulator. The famous (or infamous, depending on the point of view) SMB3 video by Morimoto (which caused quite some controversy at the time because of lack of proper information about its creation) was made with Famtasia, and it was this video, along with other videos made by Morimoto (such as the Gradius video) which inspired Bisqwit to start creating more tool-assisted speedruns of NES games.

For a long time Famtasia was the only rerecording emulator and several dozens of tool-assisted videos for many games were made with it and published here. Perhaps for this reason videos of NES games are still the majority in the site. At the time it was logical (albeit perhaps slightly misleading) to name them "nesvideos". This name was short and catchy, and became a very distinctive name for the site.

With time people started adding rerecording support to other emulators too, and not just NES emulators but also others, starting with SNES and Genesis/Megadrive emulators. Later emulators for other consoles followed. Consequently tool-assisted runs of games for other consoles started appearing too, perhaps most of them for the SNES. Since most of the videos were of NES and SNES games (and other consoles were a rather minority) it was perhaps still not deemed necessary to change the name of the site.

Of course the situation is slowly changing. More and more videos for consoles other than the NES are being published, even for the more advanced consoles such as Nintendo64, and thus the name "nesvideos" is becoming rather limited to describe the contents of the site.

Another perhaps cosmetic problem is that the name "nesvideos" is slightly misleading. One could think that it's a site containing all kinds of videos of NES games, such as regular speedruns, just regular playing videos, machinima videos, remakes of NES games and so on. Of course this is not the case.

Thus the name "tasvideos", which is more accurate (at least when one gets to know what "tas" means), is an attempt to correct both problems.

-- Warp

TasvideosName last edited by FractalFusion on 2006-12-13 07:41:46
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