Video Games: The Movie
Video Games: The Movie, a documentary aiming at entertainment and educating the audiences about how video games are made, marketed, and consumed by looking back at the history and culture of playing game through the view of game developers, publishers, and consumers. The film is not only just about the gaming industry, but also something that contains more ambition; the question of gamers, the game-manufacturer.
29 July 1972, Burbank, California, USA
15 September 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 March 1961, The Bronx, New York, USA
4 February 1971, Ft. Benning, Georgia, USA
23 August 1979, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
5 February 1943, Clearfield, Utah, USA
6 February 1981, New Jersey, USA
August 24, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan
3 August 1985, Los Angeles County, California, USA
February 18, 1968 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
25 February 1971, Santa Monica, California, USA
July 17, 2014
Despite some organizational issues, Video Games: The Movie is an informative and entertaining look at the birth of the medium we know and love.
July 17, 2014
Unfocused and repetitive, this feature-length commercial by Jeremy Snead uses a muddled timeline and bargain basement graphics to produce a horn-tooting, "Aren't games awesome?" tone.
July 17, 2014
Beyond associating breakthroughs with particular years and companies, Video Games: The Movie has trouble moving beyond generalities.
July 17, 2014
Unwilling to jeopardize his access, Snead turns into a salesman. I'd rather hear more about the creation of Pitfall.
August 01, 2014
Homage to gaming pioneers is tween friendly but overlong.
July 18, 2014
"Video Games: The Movie" doesn't just preach to the choir, it puts that choir on a pedestal and costumes it in golden robes.
July 17, 2014
It's a lovefest in which critics' voices and debate are simply absent, and the only talking space is wonder, nostalgia and excitement for the future.
July 18, 2014
It takes a certain mix of hubris and willful ignorance to begin a documentary about video games with a quote from Gandhi.
July 15, 2014
You'd have to be a real nob to glean anything substantial from this superficial, haphazardly structured primer on videogame history.
July 17, 2014
The modern stuff is undeniably fawning. But given the eye-popping visuals, you understand the enthusiasm. Especially if you left your heart, and thousands of dollars in quarters, in an arcade.
July 16, 2014
Video Games: The Movie is breezy and entertaining, but it's also obvious and simplistic. This is Video Games 101, when the people most likely to be interested in seeing it will want to learn something much more.
July 17, 2014
A by-the-books documentary that gives the history of video games bracketed with the voices of spirited members of the vast community of gamers, Video Games: The Movie is aimed squarely at its target audience.
