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Post by playgeneration on Aug 23, 2006 12:51:41 GMT
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Post by kungfukid on Aug 23, 2006 15:09:59 GMT
Lol, I just watched the whole thing at work! ;D Had to pause it a good few times mind you. I like how in a 45 min documentary about video games from inception to the 90's, they managed to completely avoid even a single mention of Sega!!!! Shows that it's the American slant on video games as opposed to an actual genuine history then!!!
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Post by playgeneration on Aug 23, 2006 15:14:18 GMT
Well they missed out tons of stuff, but then that did allow them to go into a lot of detail with the few things they did cover. I loved all the interviews and stuff with Miyamoto, and how his childhood memories are a big influence on his games. And they did at least aknowledge that the UK had a huge impact on gaming too.
And if you were really paying attention you would have seen the master system being played for a very brief moment!
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Post by kungfukid on Aug 23, 2006 15:43:22 GMT
lol, yeah, the whole family with the 3d glasses was funny! Yeah, it was certainly interesting, and the stuff about activision and code masters was really pretty good! Interesting stuff!
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Post by playgeneration on Aug 23, 2006 15:49:20 GMT
There was a really well made documentary on channel4 a couple of years ago called Thumb Candy, i had it on tape but cant find it now. Ive been looking for a torrent of it or something but havent had any luck. It was a great programme, had interviews with all the legendary developers behind pacman, space invaders, mario, manic miner, pong, space war etc, and got them to play their own games, and some wernt very good at them at all  |
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Post by kungfukid on Aug 23, 2006 15:51:22 GMT
Lol, imagine that, programming the game and then not being to complete the damn thing! I can imagine them shouting at the screen - "I made you dammitt, let me win!!!". How frustrating that would be! ;D
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Post by Kenneth on Aug 23, 2006 17:03:11 GMT
Hey !
Learned tons and tons of things on non japanese video game history !
Great video ^^
Btw, pg, have you ever tryed contacting channel4 directly about this video game documentary you are talking about ?
I've done this once in france. Result ? They sent me a tape of the stuff I wanted to see again so badly ! (well, actually, they sold me a tape of the stuff lol)
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