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Spy Kids: Armageddon marks the fifth chapter in the popular family franchise. It also serves as a reboot. Co-produced, directed, and co-written by creator Robert Rodriguez, the action-comedy flick follows Tony and Patty, youngsters blissfully unaware that their folks serve as two of the world's top-secret agents. That all changes when a powerful game developer -- dubbed The King -- unleashes a computer virus designed to give him complete control over technology. The siblings must embark on the adventure of a lifetime in order to rescue their kidnapped parents and save the world. That mission requires them to learn the art of espionage, employ cool gadgets, and even venture into a video game to beat the baddie.

Rodriguez recently spoke to Cbr about creating content for all ages, incorporating real-life experiences, skeletons, and future sequels to his other projects.

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The 2020 Netflix documentary High Score is an enthralling glimpse into the vast and complex early history of video games. The six-part series arrived on the streaming service in August 2020, and tons of serious gamers have watched it, as well as novices who want to learn more about gaming through the decades.

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Video game experts point out that High Score is not a definitive examination of the video game industry's beginnings, but it is still well done and enjoyable to watch. There are endless factoids to glean from the whole series, and here are ten of them.

Each episode of the new gaming history series “High Score” could sustain a much larger tale all its own. Sometimes that can be a benefit in nonfiction storytelling, but there are always pitfalls in responding to a wealth of ideas by overstuffing them into a particular predetermined structure.

Such is the problem with “High Score,” a show that sets out to look at the early decades of gaming, from arcade glory days through to the advent of 3D graphics. With pivotal figures from that evolution as the viewer’s guides, tiny snippets of coding, design and manufacturing history all blend together over distinct eras. The early-’90s console wars, the rise of digital RPGs, and the general cultural intensity of Nintendo each get their own tidy overviews.

But with those testimonies and an influx of timeline markers, “High Score” is either unequipped or uninterested in providing a rigorous history of...

Whether or not you lived through the Golden Age of Gaming, Netflix's new documentary High Score is for you. The six-part series not only revisits the late 1970s and the rise to dominance of arcade machines, it also tracks their ultimate downfall amidst the battle to keep the coin-operated games viable against stiff competition from the burgeoning market of home-based PCs and consoles. From the fashion and fads of the 1980s to the extreme marketing of the 1990s, this might as well be a time machine for those of us who lived through the era, or …...