So hey, take a seat. Let's talk about ''Nostalgia''. First of all, how you doin'? Good? Well that's great. I'm fine too I guess you could say I feel nostalgic right now. Now that begs the question what defines nostalgia.. Well when we take a look at the actual word and the meaning of the word: "Nostalgia'' is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations". I guess I had a similar reminiscent of this. During my time in Midnight Club 2. Yes let's talk about Midnight Club again since the blog is and was based on MC2 of course! Now where i'm trying to go with this is that everyone has a moment of nostalgia when playing an older game you used to play, come back to, or something else. Allow me to explain! Of course if you've read my auto-biography. You are well aware of it that I just kept coming back to the game in a form of nostalgia. Some weeks ago I was talking to Lars also known as Togica about the past. Well of course this isnt a major thing but what he kept going on about is about the racing in the past that I did. Like he knows that the JTX guys were basically telling him to start all over again by learning how to RACE rather than CTF only. So we made him do multiple races and he has made videos about them in the past. I can't really show them since he deleted most of his oldest videos. (I gotta say I dont really know why people would want to delete their oldest video's because those are basically the definition of Nostalgia.) However as you know JTX was into racing aaand CTF. It's not a thing we hidden or expose. It's just we tried out all the things there were in the game. Either way, I actually made videos about racing in the past aswell. Something that not many people actually knew. Now going back to the conversation of making videos + racing and Togica. He was mentioning to me as I told him later before I basically stopped making videos about them that people didn't believe that I was TEK Exordium. Well if you want to know, yes that's me. But I made the videos to proof something. Looking back at all the videos that were uploaded before the 2010 period. Everything and every single thing out there was about CTF. That just bored the hell out of me trying to search some cool videos about MC2. Looking back at some of the videos like the very first CTF video ever uploaded to YouTube;
Now everyone who ever played Midnight Club, all have seen this particular video of Tookumi. That was what kind of started the trend of uploading what you could show and see in Midnight Club. Now of course everyone wanted to proof grounds by doing this. The first one who actually started doing this quickly after were of course the videos of Dreemax. Now multiple people made videos about this game in the past but never uploaded them to YouTube. So this was a first. But the trend started by everyone suddenly wanting to upload to YouTube. Which was a good thing cause I remember 2007 very well.. Youtube was booming and there were even dedicated ''Gaming'' director filters for people who wanted to show their gameplay. Now I got bored of this for 3 years when every player would only upload CTF games rather than show what I've been seeing all those times when I played the game... Which was of course the racing part.
Now of course Tookumi even took care of this since everyone knew that he was a racer by heart. So he uploaded multiple videos like this in the past aswell which was cool to see. They even made more replica videos of this style in the past, like:
And something I didn't realize until I actually looked at this way, my own video when I basically got my old computer brand new:
Well the reason why I like these videos alot is because alot of people don't seem to realize that THIS is what the game is about. Having fun racing with your buddies seeing other perspectives and showcasing how someone drive. Not how to rush the fastest way into a dot. Now to not piss off people it is essentially racing with tactics, but it doesn't showcase how consistent of a driver you are. Looking back at some of the CTF ''Racers'' you could say.. I can still say that probably Flash is the most consistent driver in the game, ever. I have no regrets of saying that. Take a look.
Flash was a racer and a hell of a good CTF player aswell. Many of this style of training became amazing drivers. Including Redline who also was pushed into learning how to race first, ctf later by well..me. However I got to idea of making my own videos after looking at a particular video from an actual CTF guy. Called.. Vrede!
This used to be uploaded on the old MC2Oldtimes channel which was taken down.. I'm guessing 600 videos of copyright songs won't get you anywhere.. xD
Anyway he showed me a different side of CTF. The fun side!
When we look at the video we can see the dude isn't fast. Hes using a gamepad, the dude is just driving and chilling around yet he owns them all. Hes faking them, and added in funny annotations, people even cheering him on. He kind of inspired me with my own videos as Exordium to show them the fun side of racing rather than CTF. Have a look:
I started adding in funny annotations on what I thought at the moment of recording. Because racing in the game wasn't about being number 1, just mainly being about having fun. Fair enough this video wasn't popular. But I didn't give up. I wanted to show people the fun and cool side of this side of MC2. When we look at the very first two videos I've uploaded on that channel was to showcase how racing actually used to be back in 2007. Because I actually started to make videos in this format to show how it used to be. You can search those videos up if you want to. I'm not going to put up every video because I don't wanna bore you guys, heh. Anyway as I said I wasn't going to give up on this idea of showing the funny and cool side of racing so I've made a second ''Random Shit'' video:
Now not many people ''like'd it'' or commented it. But I did know they were being watched because to my surprise people actually started uploading their own ''random shit'' video's. Which to me was amazing because nobody seemed to want to see some guy with 30 fps at 640x480 showing some races. A good example was actually from Nace:
This video was removed and made public again in 2012 but it was uploaded in 2010, as I remember. It was a random game showcasing the funny parts and random stuff that could happen. Great! Those were the kind of videos I kind of wanted to see! Notice how he also added in annotations and comments. Either way when I finished making Random Shit 3, which was the final version I tried to not only show the funny side of racing but also the serious side of racing as you could say.
Until this day this is still my absolute favorite video i've made in the past.
Anyway to round up the post. Let's give you some Q&A's.
Why the Red veloci instead of White?
- Simple.. Red before high school was actually my favorite color and I actually always drove red on the PS2 all the time. I soon adapted to that when I went to PC. So this is a piece of nostalgia. Of course then I later found out that the White veloci is 500x better so thats why when I was under the ''Exordium'' name I just drove that because I felt nostalgic.
What was your intention on Exordium?
- To show people what the racing past of 2004-2007 used to be like.
So you're trying to say you were an ''Undercover''?
- Actually, nah. I never actually hidden it. My channel shows I was Dutch. People knew my actual age but never asked for my actual name. Which is why it's nowhere mentioned.
I think I made my goal in 2010 and briefly in 2011 to show people the fun side of racing. And I knew I had reached my ultimate goal when on the last video Dreemax actually commented this;
''Bring back old memory from old good races in 2005 :) Good vid!?''
Also if you want to know in the time who the ones were who actually knew it was me (Unique).
2 people - Vryheid and Tatyana.
Later I told some other people but not many cared about Exordium so I didn't feel like telling everybody.
Thanks for reading and I hope people will now believe that I was actually the author of the TEKExordium channel.
