Videogame Documentary Creators Quizzed

Thanks to Gamer's Pulse for its interview discussing the making of the new game-related documentary, Video Game Invasion: The History of a Global Obsession, which airs this Sunday on the GSN channel. The documentary creators discuss their portrayal of the death of the games industry in the early '80s ("Essentially, everyone wanted in on the video game craze. Atari's success drove everyone with enough capital to mimic them and ultimately there were too many Atari clones on the market"), as well as stories they had to leave out of the 2 hour documentary for space reasons: ("When we interviewed John Romero, he told us a great story about him and John Carmack developing Commander Keen. It seems that when they decided to make a game, they didn't have their own computers; so, they 'borrowed' their workplace systems every Friday night and returned them early Monday morning so nobody would notice.")

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Romero & Carmack

[Umgawa71]

I would've cut the Romero & Carmack section simply due to the fact that the "borrowing computers" story was very well-told in the book Masters of Doom. Besides, if the filmmakers ever wanted to talk about the videogame industry making bad decisions to this day, I think we need to look no further than Eidos' deal with Ion Storm during the development of Daikatana... and -while we're on the subject of Eidos- anything having to do with the last Tomb Raider game. In other words, I smell a sequel!