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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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Yup.
Watch High Score | Netflix Official Site
This docuseries traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life.
www.netflix.com
Yup.
Watch High Score | Netflix Official Site
This docuseries traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life.
Weird that when I click this link it's written GDLK but I can read "High Score" in the link.
What territory are you in? Searching GDLK on google does bring up a link for it but then directs to what I posted. Looks like its maybe in Portuguese?
I'm in Brazil so yeah, it's in portuguese. I guess they chose a completely different title for my country then.
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Now that I'm finally sitting down to watch it, I see what you mean. People are going to be VERY pleased.
I get the sense it is focused on video game consoles with a dash of landmark PC games from a certain era (Doom).
There is definitely a special foundational period in consoles from 1985 to 1995, before the Playstation brand altered the course of the console market. Fierce competition between companies and developers, but in a market that was still focused primarily on kids, geeks, and pure enthusiasts.
There is definitely a special foundational period in consoles from 1985 to 1995, before the Playstation brand altered the course of the console market. Fierce competition between companies and developers, but in a market that was still focused primarily on kids, geeks, and pure enthusiasts.
I'm working up a review of the new Netflix documentary series "High Score" about video game history for @arstechnica, that'll go live next week before its Aug 19 premiere. In the meantime, they let us announce one really cool thing. It's-a @CharlesMartinet!
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I really hope they don't do the still common false version of history of "the crash killed off video games" while ignoring that computer gaming was awesome in this supposed dead era.
Trailer is up
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Danny doesn't seem impressed lol
Watch High Score | Netflix Official Site
This docuseries traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life.
www.netflix.com
Danny doesn't seem impressed lol
Not really a fan of the motion graphics stuff but I get that they're going for mass appeal from the mainstream and / or people who fell off games in the 80s and 90s.
I have hopes, but my concern is that this series might just focus in on only the top brands of the 1980s and some 1990s stuff. Not that I'm wanting only super obscure stuff, but when you see a video game series and the intro begins with Pong, Breakout, Donkey Kong, and Pac-Man, you know you're going to get the same content covered as so many other mainstream gaming documentaries and history books cover. Not that those topics shouldn't be covered, but it also continually erodes the history of everything else over time.
Will we see anything about the mid-1990s onward or into the 2000s at all? Will we hear about franchises (or even game companies) that lived and died in the 90s or 00s and not just the arcade oldies? Will there be any discussion about more than the surface-level commentary - such as preservation and the rise of digital distribution, rom hacking, and indie game development? Anything about the consoles that tried to get in and failed? Interviews with the game creators?
I'm curious if all else.
Will we see anything about the mid-1990s onward or into the 2000s at all? Will we hear about franchises (or even game companies) that lived and died in the 90s or 00s and not just the arcade oldies? Will there be any discussion about more than the surface-level commentary - such as preservation and the rise of digital distribution, rom hacking, and indie game development? Anything about the consoles that tried to get in and failed? Interviews with the game creators?
I'm curious if all else.
I'm not really expecting to hear about preservation or rom hacking. The average person who plays games doesn't care about that.
We'll see stuff about Pac Mania, the response to the gore in MK, SEGA vs Nintendo, and the average run-of-the-mill "oh man I loved [arcade game] and spent all my of quarters in that pizza shop!" stories. It'll be fun but I'm not expecting to see anything new, really, and that's OK with me.
We'll see stuff about Pac Mania, the response to the gore in MK, SEGA vs Nintendo, and the average run-of-the-mill "oh man I loved [arcade game] and spent all my of quarters in that pizza shop!" stories. It'll be fun but I'm not expecting to see anything new, really, and that's OK with me.
The closest we got to that was the BBC's fantastic drama Micro Men. Which chartered the very British competition between the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro home computers. Really interesting from a gaming perspective as the ZX Spectrum's huge success in the UK was thanks to its gaming library, much to its creator Clive Sinclair's frustration as he hated games and it was never intended to be a gaming machine. Very interesting watch.
I never experienced that era but I will check out the show if I can find it streaming, thanks!
Here's my review:
arstechnica.com
High Score review: Netflix’s story of gaming’s “golden age” is honestly solid
The good outweighs the bad, though weird interview choices add unfortunate bloat.
arstechnica.com
Am I right in assuming that the show is also very much focused on what was happening in the US? And ignoring the fact that in the UK and a good chunk of Europe in the 80s, we were playing on C64/Spectrum etc and games like Paradroid and Dizzy? And certainly not consoles. Even in the early 90s the Megadrive and SNES had tough competition from Amiga here. I ask because so many of these types of documentaries fail to realise how the gaming industry wasn't globalised back then and the famous "crash" never happened in Europe where we didn't give a shit about Atari in the first place.Here's my review:
High Score review: Netflix’s story of gaming’s “golden age” is honestly solid
The good outweighs the bad, though weird interview choices add unfortunate bloat.
Oh, I have awful news for you. Nothing you mentioned exists in this series' chronology.
Sounds good. Hoping it isn't sweary. Netflix have a really bad record of making stuff that I would watch with my kids, and then dropping in randomly sweary stuff in the middle of it. Bit annoyed at Star Trek Discovery for that one.
Fuck i was going to watch it in spanish first because i usually watch documentaries while im working but this being Charles Martinet...
If the narrator its not Jose Padilla in spanish (and im sure thats not going to happen) im waiting to have some free time to watch it in english.