Comments on: Rise Of The Videogame – Discovery

By: DigitaleWelten

DigitaleWelten — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:03:50 +0000

Is there any chance to watch this online?

By: Brainfish

Brainfish — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:26:49 +0000

I watched this a few months ago on Discovery in the UK after finding it by accident. Very enjoyable.

By: Discovery Channel’s Games Documentary Impresses « It’s about ….

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:05:00 +0000

[...] began last week, with an eye towards its research rigor and friendliness to the subject matter. He comes away fairly impressed, both by the topics covered and the casting. Along with games industry luminaries like Nolan [...]

By: Niekon

Niekon — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:21:46 +0000

I missed the original airing of the first part of this documentary but managed to track it down playing a day or two later and finally got around to watching it last night with my wife. I was impressed and she was impressed. Something rather difficult since we tend to disagree on documentaries.
Cannot wait for the next part of this series… and will definitely be on the lookout for the DVD set of this series in a month or so.

By: Anti-Bunny

Anti-Bunny — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:07:13 +0000

John Romero AND Paul Steed. Good lord.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:14:02 +0000

The first episode was good, although yeah, I think there was a half hour of content stretched out to be an hour long show. Lots of stock footage and filler (oh, and including Centipede gameplay in the short montage of games while telling us how “until then, arcade games were played almost exclusively by men” got a chuckle), and nothing new if you are familiar with industry history, but a decent start.

Now that they’ve laid out the groundwork, I’m looking forward to the rest of the series.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:01:12 +0000

Homunculus: Jim and I were talking about this earlier this year, actually, when Richard Joseph died – the media’s still young enough to have the vast majority of the major players still around, meaning deaths hit you at a really odd angle.

So, yes, definitely the time to try and do a definitive history.

By: Homunculus

Homunculus — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:52:25 +0000

What’s nice is that all of the major protagonists from the genesis of the medium are still around to expound on the topic. The high point was definitely an octogenarian Ralph Baer trash-talking an equally venerable William Harrison whilst playing Pong on their thirty five year old Magnavox game console.

By: Meredith Basingwary

Meredith Basingwary — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:49:45 +0000

This was excellent. There’s still time for Discovery to ruin it with their usual tabloid pseudoscience balls though…

By: blitzio

blitzio — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:16:33 +0000

This was pretty good.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:48:08 +0000

I’m sure that I saw this on Discovery here in Australia months ago…

By: Dan Bruno

Dan Bruno — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:00:30 +0000

I just watched the first episode last night. It was indeed very good.

Their website lays out what’s coming up.