The Story of Nintendo

You will not learn anything new from this documentary.

At one point the narrator talks about Disney making a deal with Nintendo to create cards for kids.

In the next frame you have someone sitting in a chair telling us THE EXACT SAME information we just heard.

You also have the "Experts" using words like "I think", as in, they are not sure about the information they are giving us.

The production quality over all is not great. I had high opes for this documentary.

It looks like they took these people and set them up where ever they could, gave them a chair and pointed lights at them. It looks that cheap!

Here is a piece of information, here is the same information said by a second person, and finally here is the same information again, by a third person, reading of a card.

Here is a second piece of information, here is the same information said by a second person, and finally here is the same information again, by a third person, reading of a card.

Here is a third piece of information, here is the same information said by a second person, and finally here is the same information again, by a third person, reading of a card.

It's like the Groundhog Day of documentaries - and made my head hurt, so only managed 15 minutes.

It was funny to see how the movie gave credit to Atari for creating the interchangeable game. But Jerry Lawson did it first with the Fairchild Channel F. Are you telling me with all of the research committed to this documentary they could give the true creator of the video game cartridge 10 seconds of credit. With that omission this documentary lacks credibility. The movie did a good job discussing the roots of the company in Japan with the playing cards and later toys but when the documentary credits Atari for creating the interchangeable game cartridge it is lazy researching & inaccurate information. They had the time to do the research and chose to omit Jerry Lawson.

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.

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.