Vidya documentary

any vidya documentary out there that aren't made by sjw's or aren't shit and doesn't just focus on the american industry.

hard mode find one without john romero, not that i hate him or anything its just that he's in almost every vidya doc out there.

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Well he's pretty free at the moment, so good luck with that one.

Free 2 Play is a good one about pro-gamers and it doesn't feature a bunch of douchebags who want to be worshiped for playing vidya all day long. The people it follows were all very early in their careers at the time and humble in the coolest way, for the most part.

King of Kong

there's got to be at least one.


thanks user i might check out free 2 play.

the closest thing would probably be postmortems

gdc has some really good ones. there's a really good one from a programmer who worked on gauntlet & has some interesting insight on the coin op industry if you're into that sort of stuff


gdc and the people who run it are shit but yu suzuki & all the cool people who made games you like aren't shit

Was the documentary biased?
Yes.
Is Billy a saint?
Fuck no.
As much as the documentary was biased, it very clearly showed that something was up with the VHS Billy presented to the rest of the players, and highlighted the troublesome reality that he created goons around himself to make sure his "reign" is secured.

Billy is the RL equivalent of a moderator cocksucking annjoying forum "personality" building a circlejerk around himself.

Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade is an excellent companion to King of Kong and I'd recommend watching it before Kong if you can. Almost all of the record holders in Kong are profiled individually in Chasing Ghosts.

i would agree that he did kinda build a circle-jerk around him but, the hate he gets just because of the tape is fucking retarded


seems pretty cool wheres the best place to get/watch this, the copy on jewtube is paid only


thanks m8, still feel like shit knowing where this is coming from.

this is a great one by the gather your party guys. I used to write for GYP and catsman essentially read my comments about ultima underworld word for word.

I think it's on Netflix but what you really want is the pre-release version because it includes a part where the referee guy from Twin Galaxies shows off his porn collection (which was cut out before it was put up on Netflix). If you can't find it I can try to upload it to MEGA or something.

I'd like someone to do a good long impartial expose on the state of the video game industry. Maybe start from the start or just around 98 or so.

I meant see, thank heavens I didn't get dubs.

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this is what i'm looking for, i also wish someone focus a bit on the programming side of the story, but i think thats to /prog/ for some people.

That tetris doc is pretty autistic and fun to watch. frag is a good one. Second Skin is another cringe fest. Thats it really.

"Life of a Pro Gamer" by PurePwnage.

If anyone is still paying attention to this thread I'm going to stream Chasing Ghosts on infinity.moe public channel 2 in a couple of minutes. It's about those kids who set all of the high scores on arcade games in the 80's and what pathetic adults they grew up to be.

should i stay up, or sleep to try to gain control of my life.

I remember vidya documentaries were becoming more popular but they seemed to have ceased as socjus took over everything.

ever since the socjus crowd came to vidya they have tried to create documentaries that only interview their clique of friends or people that adheres to their ideas.

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Fucking anti vidya shows, but yeah i think almost all of the guys i knew at arcades and including myself ended up in some sad situation.

They're not really proper documentaries, but the videos this guy does are pretty good.

i like this guy stuff good voice good graphics and epic editing

he always makes me want to go and play the games he's actually talking about.

There's The Video Game Years, I guess. They are going through every year from 1970 or something onwards. Pretty interesting stuff. It's sort of narrated/commented on by e-celebs like James Rolfe or Pat the NES Punk, so that might be off-putting for some people.

Same here, even when they're genres I normally have no interest in.

Larry Bundy Jr.

Games that yank can't wank

Do those really count as documentaries though?

All your history belongs to us, made by machinima, it focuses on western devs, has no overacting bullshit, just info on lost game companies.

He did the drivergate video does this count?

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this is a nice little documentary for Japanese Shoot Them Downs; it's French but with English subtitles

Why even live

Tetris: From Russia With Love, a great doc involving Nintendo, Atari, & Sega all trying to get the rights to Tetris. Plus you get the Russian Government intervening left & right. Didn't expect all the shadyness &
intrigue. It's quite thrilling.

Bonus - all that sexy old footage

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he believes that