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Gaming documentaries

SorcySorcy Registered User regular
edited June 2009 in Games and Technology
So, I've watched "The King of Kong", "Chasing Ghosts - Beyond the Arcade" and just now "Frag". Of course I'm waiting for "I got next" to be released.

Any other gaming documentaries out there that are good?

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Gametrailers had a brief three part documentary on SuckerPunch and the release of InFamous.

    It was really good, and made me wish we could get a doc tracking a game's creation.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    The BBC's Tetris - From Russia With Love is an excellent documentary. Lots of legal issues and rushing for software rights between different companies, with a poor, brilliant Russian man caught up in the middle. The whole thing is on youtube, here is the first part:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn9dO_iL7lo&feature=PlayList&p=1AB70D91633DD71F&index=0&playnext=1

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  • CherrnCherrn Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Rise of the Video Game is pretty much the only good historical documentary I've seen, but quality varies between episodes. They have some good people on there, but just sort of leapfrog over some topics and completely generalize significant events like the advent of the Playstation.

    But it's worth watching, I thought.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I miss the old Icons show G4 used to air.

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  • langfor6langfor6 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Poking around on Netflix revealed "Video Games: Behind the Fun" from the History Channel. It can be watched instantly too. Might be worth checking out.

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Rise of the Video Game was reasonably interesting, I learnt some stuff I hadn't known from watching it. The guy who did a lot of the work on it works for Game Trailers. Geoff Keighley?

    I actually watched it on Free to Air.

    The one documentary I wish I could find was a piece about a console developer in Australia. They were developing an MMO for the Xbox, but it fell through. It looked pretty neat, with speeder-like vehicles and shit like that.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    It's not a video documentary but Masters of Doom is a fun book. Buncha guys sitting around drinking sodas and cutting up but, by the next chapter, they're depositing $5 million dollar checks at the drive-up teller's window.

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I must have seen that Tetris documentary a dozen times, and yet I only just noticed that at the end, he's designing Hexic.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    It's sort of documentary-lite, but GameTrailers' Star Wars retrospective series was fantastically well done.

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  • SirUltimosSirUltimos Don't talk, Rusty. Just paint. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    TychoCelchuuu wrote: »
    It's sort of documentary-lite, but GameTrailers' Star Wars retrospective series was fantastically well done.
    As is their Final Fantasy Retrospective. Absolutely amazing.

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    It's not on video gaming, but if you're into LARPing than Monster Camp is supposed to be good.

    http://www.monstercampthemovie.com/

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