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| Year of first release: 2014 | |
| Director: Jeremy Snead | |
| Actors: Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings 1-3), Zach Braff, Larry Akins, Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation & The Big Bang Theory TV-series) | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Documentary | |
| Conditions of visioning: 17.11.2014, Blu-ray, Home cinema | |
| Synopsis: How did the Video Game industry evolve to become what we know today? | |
| Review: I was curious to learn about the History of video games, as I was just the right age when it all started (about 10 years old) and I remember playing Pong, then owning a Sega Master System, a MegaDrive (Genesis), losing track of this universe for ten years before starting again with a PSP for travels and finally an Xbox360 now in my living room. The documentary (that saw the light thanks to crowd funding) starts with some factual numbers and quickly scans this history I wanted to learn about in twenty minutes. It then focuses on some topics of interest: creativity, technology, violence, social aspects and finally the future of the industry. But even if the interventions by celebrities are sometimes interesting, it all turns too quickly into a kind of advertisement for the Video Game industry, and one spends the second half of this 1h40 movie longing for the end. I would rather watch again Wreck-It Ralph. |
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Rating: 2 /10
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Video Games: The Movie (2014)
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An semi-interesting complement to the movie is the TV documentary Atari: Game Over (2014) that I found on Netflix (on 01.04.2015), and that focuses on the downfall of the pioneer company, and on the quest for the truth about the burying of hundreds of thousands cardridges of the game E.T. that is supposedly responsible for the whole video game industry crisis in the mid-80's. The documentary brings light to this particular period, with the intervention from the E.T. game creator, the head of Warner at that time (the company that owned Atari) and some fans that travelled for 28 hours to get to the excavation site.
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