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Post by Shellshock on Nov 20, 2006 8:47:48 GMT -5
It was a very cool 2 hour documentary about the history of video games. Lots of old footage and faces. They got a couple of things confused (they said Sony was making a CD-Rom called Playstation for the NES), but the rest was good.
They even covered educational games like "Brain Age" and the like, violence (Mortal Kombat to GTA:San Andreas), and a little bit of the next generation.
Did anybody tape this?? Please post of you see it online. Thanks!!
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Post by MRSKELETON on Nov 20, 2006 15:26:19 GMT -5
Too busy watching blastazoid, on MTV2. Which I know you guys are going to hate me for, But I've already had that history of videogames crap shoved down my throat multiple times, I would rather watch the guys from CKY at it again.
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Post by YourAverageJoe on Nov 20, 2006 16:15:34 GMT -5
I believe I've got a better grasp on the history of gaming than some BBC NBC documentary.
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Post by kal on Nov 20, 2006 18:08:01 GMT -5
There are several far more accurate histories on the net, that are also far more enjoyable to read then watch.
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Post by wyrdwad on Nov 20, 2006 20:26:11 GMT -5
I watched a bit of it, but was rather annoyed when the kanji for "hyakumandai" (1,000,000 units) were displayed upside-down (well, the "hyaku" was right-side up, but the "man" and "dai" were upside-down!). I mean, seriously, if you're going to bother displaying Japanese at all, make sure you DON'T HAVE IT UPSIDE-DOWN before the show goes on the air!
-Tom
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Post by Scylla on Nov 20, 2006 21:52:32 GMT -5
I wonder how that mistake would happen in the first place. o_O
Anyway, yeah, I watched it last night and caught a portion of it a night or two before that. It was better than most everything G4 plays at least; that is, when G4 is actually playing video game related shows.
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Post by michiyoyoshiku on Nov 20, 2006 23:31:33 GMT -5
It skipped alot and the EA Segment was meaningless.
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Post by papersquadcontrol on Nov 20, 2006 23:46:01 GMT -5
I watched it. There were a LOT of gaps in the history presented in the programming (which wasn't surprising), and some misinformation here and there. For one, they brought up the dumping of some million copies of E.T. in the New Mexican desert, but made it out like it was millions of different Atari games in general that were dumped, and not just E.T. specifically.
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Post by Scylla on Nov 21, 2006 1:09:53 GMT -5
They weren't all E.T., but yeah, most of them were.
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Post by papersquadcontrol on Nov 21, 2006 1:50:55 GMT -5
They weren't all E.T., but yeah, most of them were. Really? Hm, what other games were thrown into the pile? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2006 6:53:42 GMT -5
Any idea if they're still in the New Maxican desert?  |
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Post by Shellshock on Nov 21, 2006 9:52:15 GMT -5
I believe I've got a better grasp on the history of gaming than some BBC NBC documentary. I know I know.... <rolls eyes> I think I do too..., I got books and all that. But my point was how cool is to see the faces and people of the 70's, Ray Kassar, Nolan Bushnell, etc. Plus the tv ads and other short clips of what was happening back then. |
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Post by Shellshock on Nov 21, 2006 9:52:52 GMT -5
I watched a bit of it, but was rather annoyed when the kanji for "hyakumandai" (1,000,000 units) were displayed upside-down (well, the "hyaku" was right-side up, but the "man" and "dai" were upside-down!). I mean, seriously, if you're going to bother displaying Japanese at all, make sure you DON'T HAVE IT UPSIDE-DOWN before the show goes on the air! -Tom Now THAT's fucked up, lol. |
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Post by michiyoyoshiku on Nov 22, 2006 12:41:17 GMT -5
More than Half the people watching it wouldn't even know it was upside down anyway
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Post by wyrdwad on Nov 24, 2006 7:54:13 GMT -5
That's still no excuse. It's shoddy editing, pure and simple.
It seemed like a decent enough special on the whole, though. (:
-Tom
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