From 'Sonic the Hedgehog' to 'Pac-Man,' Netflix's six-part docuseries looks at the games, consoles and creators that shaped a medium.
might be a template there. Instead, it's more of a soup-to-nuts history from the golden age of arcade gaming to the console wars to the evolution of role-playing games to first-person shooters to wherever the medium is today. And if you say,"Surely that's too big a story for under six hours," you'd be correct.Each episode takes on a nebulous, largely chronological chapter in gaming history.
features the actual franchise creators and that's extremely cool. But there are nearly as many times that the series goes hazy — centering, for example, the Japanese artist who didn't create, but did some of the art for its earlier iterations, or John Tobias, whose role in co-creatingBut then there are lesser-known figures from the consumer end, like Becky Heineman, a game designer and programmer here recalling her experiences at the 1980 Atari Video Game Championship.
There are plenty of games and game-adjacent elements that either aren't mentioned at all or are mentioned in passing. The puzzle genre, for example, once dominated by Myst isn't even mentioned, nor are the evolution of different accessories like the PowerGlove or several generations of consoles leading up to the Wii.
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