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Traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life.Traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life.Traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life.
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Enjoyable, but I think there's a ton of missing info they could have used to give a more profound view of things. The show is basically guided by the personal experiences of some people in the industry, and it ends with 16-bits consoles.
An entertaining series that creates feel good feelings connected to nostalgia and childhood memories.
What let this series down in a big way, was the need to create a narrative that didn't really exist. Focusing on current hot topics such as LGBT, womans rights and race. Whilst important issues in many ways they had no relevance on this platform (pun intended). Celebrating these areas as reasons to why we have the games we have today. When in actuality it always boiled down to what sells. Sadly that is still the case. The creaters of this show are using political agendas to sell their product.
If you can ignore the political statements and accept them for what they are, over indulgent memories. Then what your left with is actually quite entertaining and worth a watch.
What let this series down in a big way, was the need to create a narrative that didn't really exist. Focusing on current hot topics such as LGBT, womans rights and race. Whilst important issues in many ways they had no relevance on this platform (pun intended). Celebrating these areas as reasons to why we have the games we have today. When in actuality it always boiled down to what sells. Sadly that is still the case. The creaters of this show are using political agendas to sell their product.
If you can ignore the political statements and accept them for what they are, over indulgent memories. Then what your left with is actually quite entertaining and worth a watch.
The documentary has its strengths with showing the people that actually made the game and give some background to the games we loved to play as kids.
The bit annoying part is that the documentary is trying too hard to be inclusive on diversity, including people on project just for the purpose of diversity, not for technological or creative break-throughs.
Annoying too is that they half-jokingly make E.T. responsible for bringing down the video console industry in 1983. My personal bet is that Commodore 64 and sharing games on floppy had a huge influence on that.
There are some fantastic interviews and enactments with actually legendary people like Richard Garriott and Roberta Hall among others, whose influence have shaped a whole industry to this day which impacted billions of lives. Then it moves onto some nobody who did something nobody cared about who talks about how he was oppressed by some long gone bigots. Seriously, it's mind boggling how they cannot just keep talking about games and creators without inserting totally irrelevant stuff. It's a massive disservice to many people who literally ceated history and I get why many didn't take the time to talk as it dilutes the experience. Just cut some 10-15 minutes each episode and there is a decent enough, even if lacking documentary.
I love the subject matter and wanted it to be amazing. The pacing and directing isn't amazing but it has potential. But the doc seems to actually be about gay gamers and lgbt games. Obviously nothing wrong with that but it seemed to be marketed as more just about the history of game evolution. Just wasn't what expected
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- TriviaThe series is narrated by Charles Martinet, who is the voice actor for Mario.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 764: Bacurau (2020)
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By what name was High Score: L'âge d'or du gaming (2020) officially released in India in Hindi?
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