The Story of Nintendo

As a child of the 80s, and Nintendo fan I was looking forward to watching this documentary. Unfortunately upon watching I was left very disappointed with the production of this mini documentary. A lot of repetition in the script, lazy edits, the researchers getting a lot of relatively well known facts wrong. There's a lot about this documentary that frustrated me, the thing that frustrated me most was the conflating facts of the (arguably) 3 main gaming markets (North America, Europe and Japan). This documentary is not a good resource of Nintendo history. The team behind this documentary get an F for effort, D for execution, or 5/10 for me.

This "stuff" is seemingly made by japan lovers who don't care about anything but, and only but, what they like and what they want to see. To signify the japanese industrial rebirth after the Pacific war, the one started by the japanese army illegally bombing Pearl harbor without the declaration of war, this fanvideo makers used a footage from Hashima, also known as Kangoku(prison) shima(island), where japanese government used people from Korea and other Japanese colonies during the war, and used them as slaves. The makers PICKED that spot to say "Japan rose back up from the ashes of war". Distasteful is an understatement.

Anyway, This "so-called documentary" is more or less a youtube fanvideo with the editing skills and the visual fetish from 2013(yeah. When GTA5 was released and all those 70s disco reference was a thing). The speakers cannot even pronounce the names of the people and the regions right, and the narrator sounds like he was told to sound like a voice generator.

After finish watching the video, it left me thinking, WHAT DID THEY WANT TO SAY?

Did they make this because they just wanted to shout out "Nintendo is great and Japan is so fascinating"?

If so or not, they made this without considering what to focus on. Its people? Games? Competitors?

I can't tell.

They may have just put a long piece of paper on the table, put the timeline of Nintendo on it, sliced it by a decade or so, gathered Nintendo fans or Japan fans, asked them how much they know about that period, WAM everything into the video editor and cut it under an hour length.

This is one of the poorest produced video game documentaries ever made. The use incorrect stock photos for Nintendo products and it's simply a few talking head documentary with some inconsequential "reviewers". Each of these reviewers are either too young to have experienced or researched the ideas they are talking about. I felt as though this was an hour of my life that I would never get back. The best way to describe this is a waste of bandwidth. Skip this one and look for a different video game documentary. Running with Speed and Console Wars are far superior documentaries that I would recommend watching instead.

Technically really poorly edited (e.g. Talking about the NES , inserts screenshot of Atari Misske a command).

Factually incorrect (asserts the Nintendo Seal of Quality refers to the technical reliability of the system, instead of the aspect that Nintendo was vouching it was just not crappy software). Numerous other factual errors.

Experts are weak using words and phrases they don't understand: one calls Nintendo a "conglomeration"; one exist praising Miyamoto and says "contributions cannot be understated" (you mean overstated, pinheaded).

Completely misses how Donkey Kong cane to be.

The narrator I almost sounds like a bad chatbot iat times.

Poor effort overall.

I was hoping that this would had been better than what was advertised but instead got the opposite. I feel like they rushed it and in the end released this nonsense of a video that came up short of what Nintendo deserves to be recognized for. The sound mixing at certain points and clips that were used make this seem like some high school dropouts put this together. It's unfortunate that Nintendo would allow these amateurs to create a disaster that they claim is a documentary on their company. Hopefully someone here in the states will put something better together that will pay tribute to Nintendo and not be as disastrous as this video.