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Traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life.Traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life.Traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life.
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- TriviaThe series is narrated by Charles Martinet, who is the voice actor for Mario.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 764: Bacurau (2020)
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Marketed All Wrong, But Still A Decent Miniseries
I'll get the obvious out of the way right up top here: calling "High Score" a "history of video games" is a massive blunder. In no way, shape, or form does this doc attempt any sort of comprehensive look at the game industry. That being said, the simple access to key figures of that very industry makes this an interesting watch for gaming fans/historians.
Somewhat ironically, the biggest hallmark of "High Score" is also, in part, its biggest weakness. It gets access to some of the key figures to ever shape the gaming industry, whether that be Nolan Bushnell (early history), Tom Kalinske (Sega), John Romero (Doom), or Ken & Roberta Williams (adventure gaming). Those names were all enormous movers-and-shakers in the business, and provide first-hand accounts of the behind-the-scenes action.
The problem, however, is that "High Score" takes that access and tries to shape the video game narrative around it. In short, the doc makes the case that this is all the history one needs to know, which is a bit ludicrous. It would have been much better to structure/promote this doc as a series of interviews with industry luminaries and leave it at that.
Each episode here also features an aspect of competitive gaming, which often comes off as a bit odd. Not bad or boring, per se, but just a little strange as to why that angle was pursued so hard in the face of other much more interesting conversations to be had.
Overall, I enjoyed "High Score" just enough to keep watching--no more, no less. Had it been structured differently, it could have been a lot better. But even as-is, the one-on-one interviews with such high-profile figures give it a certain amount of cache.
Somewhat ironically, the biggest hallmark of "High Score" is also, in part, its biggest weakness. It gets access to some of the key figures to ever shape the gaming industry, whether that be Nolan Bushnell (early history), Tom Kalinske (Sega), John Romero (Doom), or Ken & Roberta Williams (adventure gaming). Those names were all enormous movers-and-shakers in the business, and provide first-hand accounts of the behind-the-scenes action.
The problem, however, is that "High Score" takes that access and tries to shape the video game narrative around it. In short, the doc makes the case that this is all the history one needs to know, which is a bit ludicrous. It would have been much better to structure/promote this doc as a series of interviews with industry luminaries and leave it at that.
Each episode here also features an aspect of competitive gaming, which often comes off as a bit odd. Not bad or boring, per se, but just a little strange as to why that angle was pursued so hard in the face of other much more interesting conversations to be had.
Overall, I enjoyed "High Score" just enough to keep watching--no more, no less. Had it been structured differently, it could have been a lot better. But even as-is, the one-on-one interviews with such high-profile figures give it a certain amount of cache.
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- Aug 29, 2020
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