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"High Score", a six-episode Netflix documentary about the “golden age of video games” is premiering on Wednesday, Aug. 19
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Will put thread on watch and check this out. Video game history 80s-2000s is one of my favorite subjects in film and literature. Wish Console Wars has been adapted to screen
Really cool. I've been really interested in video game history lately. I'm reading Console Wars right now and I've been watching a lot of videos about the industry in the late 90s / early 00s. Definitely gonna watch this (and the PlayStation doc that comes out in September).
Title lied. Golden Age is Pong thru to the Video Game Crash of '83. There should be nothing about Nintendo post-Donkey Kong in such a doc, let alone MK and Doom.
I looked it up and it appears CBS is adapting it into both a documentary and a scripted show (yes!) but that was confirmed in summer 2019 so idk if COVID slowed those plans
Will check this out, in fact my niece is fascinated with this sort of stuff so first time she is over after it drops maybe I can get her to watch this instead of another round of Simpson's or Bob's Burgers-again.
Not sure on a technical level the golden age even extends to SFII or Doom, but stillreally excited to see what they have to say, no need to nitpick when good docs on the subject are few and far between.
Not sure on a technical level the golden age even extends to SFII or Doom, but stillreally excited to see what they have to say, no need to nitpick when good docs on the subject are few and far between.
Interested to see if they used the Netflix brand as clout to get interviews with people who might not have given them to most documentary teams. I'll watch it anyway but if it could be something like The Last Dance for video games ( for all that TLD has obvious flaws) it would be awesome.
CBS All Access is making not only a documentary of Console Wars, but also a scripted series as well.
i might sub just to watch. really hope we get more like this from netflix. they got the toys/movies that made us on netflix so maybe they can add the games that made us in the future in the same style.
Interesting: for me, now is the golden age though: they are finally making the games I've always dreamed of, CP2077 etc, but this earlier golden age seems viable too.
The toys that made us also has a dubious production quality. They cropped and used a photo in the my little pony episode without acknowledging or crediting the original photographer.
Being a bit older than most around here, the golden age of gaming was from 1980-1984 or so. For home it was the Atari 2600, Intellivision, ColecoVision. That was the golden age of gaming at least in my opinion.
Hah, they haven't announced who this series' narrator is. Y'all will probably enjoy that.
I'll have more on this series in the future...
I'll have more on this series in the future...
To be clear, I wrote the article sourced. I didn't write this documentary haha. But yeah, still psyched to watch it.
No, I said ERA would *enjoy* it. I am definitely inferior to this narrator. That's all the hint you get.
