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.

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.

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.

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!

I have no idé what i just watched, i dont get why there was no shots of real nintendo 8bit and just shots of nintendo mini. And when showing "Sega Genesis" a shot of atGames sega console is showed? Even if this was low budget documentary it should have hade no problem to be able to have real consoles in the documentary.

The once that are interviewed should at least know the different between lcd and led as they are suppose to be from that time when Nintendo was popularly.

And whats up with the bad quality of old videos ads that where cut in to the documentary? Looks like something that is copied from old realplayer stream as it is so blurry.

This is not a documentary it is a comedy movie.