E3 2003 in 3 mins, Remastered: Nintendo's Promise & PSP Announcement
11E3 2002: https://youtu.be/vxMWIb34Yjo (OK)
E3 2003: https://youtu.be/aDBJqJrYYMs (OK)
E3 2004: https://youtu.be/iywvFyrOdqk (Good)
E3 2005: https://youtu.be/ZjFgPvXEkJs (Best!)
E3 2006: https://youtu.be/Use-2NPh32c (New!)
I'm pleased to share brand new remasters of my classic E3 "Video Mixes", celebrating some of the best ever years of gaming and E3: 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. Watching these back and revisiting the E3 of the era, you really get a sense of rapid improvement in the announcements and messaging from the big names going against each other each year, and with these videos we tried to tell that story -- and show our small part in covering it -- something we got a bit better at each year, too.
Since my first E3 in 1999, through the last I attended in 2019, I have incredibly fond memories of the annual L.A. trip, which triggered excitement and anxiety in equal measure as my team and I bust a serious gut and spent months of planning to get the biggest scoops and best interviews. We wrapped up every year with a video mix like this, a distinctly unprofitable endeavour in online publishing back then, and 20 years later on YouTube, still just for the love -- now with added nostalgia, extra/unpublished footage and generally better quality than we could offer back then.
Regarding E3 "booth babes": as controversial an issue as scantily clad booth babes became in later years (quite rightly banned in 2006), the fact is they were very much a part of the E3 experience back in these years. Some exhibitors did it with more creative tastefulness than others. I've tried to honor this aspect of E3 fairly and at least somewhat tastefully in these videos (in my raw source footage there are some examples well below that threshold, which certainly belong in the past).
All footage was filmed by me or my buddy CJ Johnson plus my own, on-site, direct-feed recordings from the press conferences (incidentally, no other online games media was doing this at the time except IGN and GameSpot; it was practically unheard outside of general broadcast media... I remember even one 'official' magazone didn't know how to do this and asked how I got direct feed... by putting 10X the research/effort in, that's how... I'm not bitter!!). And yeah I know how redundant that sounds in today's age of everything livestreamed in 4K by literally anyone.
I have fond memories of this "struggle of the era" as you can tell. E3 will always be a deep part of my memories/experiences growing up in the industry. I hope it returns in its full glory one day.
E3 2003 Mix Music Credit: Jet Set Radio Future (Sega)