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Post by nohomo on Jan 4, 2008 22:04:36 GMT -5
Has anyone seen this yet? It's a mulit-part, hour long documentary on the history of video games that was on the Discovery Channel. I thought they were very entertaining and very well done, but the stories don't feel complete somehow. They're covering a lot of stuff though. I just finished Level (episode) 3 and we're already on 3D gaming, FPS', and new military training technology. That's episode 3 and there are at least 3 more to go.
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Post by Mole on Jan 4, 2008 22:15:18 GMT -5
I caught a couple episodes and was quite surprised with how high quality it is. Definitely something worth watching.
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Post by amxfiles on Jan 4, 2008 22:53:49 GMT -5
The second part bothered me quite a bit. It's one thing to gloss over, but if you didn't know any better watching that show, you'd swear they were trying to convince you that GTAIII came out on the PS2, since it went right from "Sony Enters The Market From a Failed Nintendo Venture" into "GTAIII MESERMIZES THE WORLD!" They don't even mention Mario 64, which really, during that particular generation was the most important game released.
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Post by nohomo on Jan 4, 2008 23:19:20 GMT -5
The second part bothered me quite a bit. It's one thing to gloss over, but if you didn't know any better watching that show, you'd swear they were trying to convince you that GTAIII came out on the PS2, since it went right from "Sony Enters The Market From a Failed Nintendo Venture" into "GTAIII MESERMIZES THE WORLD!" They don't even mention Mario 64, which really, during that particular generation was the most important game released. Yeah that's basically what I was getting at. It's a great story, but it isn't a complete story.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Jan 5, 2008 3:27:49 GMT -5
They jumped into 3D way too fast. I loved the first episode but when they skipped over SNES, I stopped watching. Still nice to see a show like this, though.
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Post by Parchandri on Jan 5, 2008 7:57:20 GMT -5
I saw one of the episodes. It was basically a lot of stuff I already knew. To be honest it kind of bored me. I'll watch Survivorman, Fight Quest, or Man vs. Wild any day instead.
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Post by Too Sweet on Jan 5, 2008 8:38:50 GMT -5
Yeah im watching it on Youtube right now, looks like an awesome documentary, Im about halfway in the First Episode. www.youtube.com/profile?user=AresBrutusThe guy's got the episodes up, Discovery Channel must be Ok with the dude because they haven't removed them yet.
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Post by No Brokeback on Jan 5, 2008 11:01:55 GMT -5
I watched pretty much all of it.
I was surprised how it went from Atari Computer Nintendo Sega PS Grand Theft Auto
No SNES/Dreamcast/N64/Saturn or anything, but I figure it's only because nothing really crazy happened during that time period. Gaming was gaming, nothing really was in the news at that time.
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Post by Too Sweet on Jan 5, 2008 11:19:19 GMT -5
WTF? the Sega V Nintendo Era was the Golden Age of gaming, they could have made it longer and have just done it like the following:
- 1st Episode: Birth of Gaming, Rise of Atari - 2nd Episode: Video game crash, Rise of Nintendo and PC Gaming -3rd Episode: Rise of Sega, Hudson's PC Engine and the SNES, Portable gaming along with PC Gaming -4th Episode: Competition, Transition to 3D, Playstation, 64, Saturn and Other consoles that stepped into the Race and PC Gaming -5th Episode: 3D Becoming Standard, Advancements in Graphics, Dreamcast, Playstation 2, Fall of Sega, Xbox, Gamecube, PC Gaming Online -6th Episode: Online Gaming, further advancements in gaming, current consoles
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Post by BigDaddyChacon on Jan 5, 2008 15:00:48 GMT -5
I watched like 3 or 4 episodes of it. I found it to be very informative.
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