User Reviews

Good documentary, The doom and Nintendo episodes are probably the best. This series gets a lot of hate for the "woke" "propaganda" in it, but I'm glad they talked about Jerry Lawson and the channel F, he deserves to be as talked about as Nolan Bushnell and Gunpei Yokoi. Overall a good documentary if you're into video games

Good documentary that tells the story of the people behind the creation and expansion of the video games industry.

High Score: Putting the Gay in Gamer Woke politics don't belong here. It would be a much higher score without the woke agenda crap.

Obviously anyone who knows anything about videogame history was not a target audience and while it was entertaining the whole series just had a feeling of a hot mess about it. The RPG episode jumped from Sierra to Ultima to final fantasy to an obscure gender identity game, which I assume was meant to give the series a sense of emotional magnitude? To me it just felt disjointed.

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I knew the toxic alt-right would bomb review this as soon as they see a minority talking about videogames. Great job proving the gaming community is the worst.

Middle-aged talking nerd heads reliving the early days of video games, with pseudo-Super Mario graphics added in for fun. The Japanese contribution was especially interesting. Enjoyable from a nostalgia point of view. Be aware that it goes out of its way to include LBGTQ/PoC. It's Netflix after all.

Why add politics into a video game documentary? Not worth watching for the actual video game content.

Thought this would talk more about the real history and makers of video games. Instead it’s quickly turns into a trans guy, and some guy who says he made an RPG but lost it, haha! What? oh and he’s gay and the “right wing” was mean to him. What a coincidence! Who cares? What does this have to do with video games? Why does Netflix insist on inserting their politics and a “lesson” in every single thing? Video games are under attack by these people. Did they forget how to entertain? The answer is yes. Canceling my sub.

This is a film about gay, black and feminists who made second-rate games. Typical shiitflix

The series has some interesting topics discussed but it feels it needs to force in pointless political narratives that offer very little to the episodes as a whole, and generally feel like a waste of time. We want to talk about a video game tournament, well lets find the one person who is transgender and highlight them. We are talking about RPGs and just showed Amano who is famous among Final Fantasy fans. Let's randomly transition to a gay man during the AIDS pandemic, spouting vitriol against preachers and Republicans. He made this one game that nobody has heard of and it literarily no longer exists, but he says it happened so that's enough to include him. These decisions feel forced and redirect the narrative being built. They also feel completely out of place when surrounded by titans in gaming history. My other gripe is every clip of gameplay shown from games made in the past 20 years, always look like somebody recorded the game being played on a tv or computer. There are obvious lines across the screen and it looks terrible. There's really no excuse for that.