To All Netflix Subscribers:
Mar. 8th, 2008 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The King Of Kong is now available as a Netflix instant watching movie. I highly, highly recommend this film! It's an incredible piece of modern cultural history framed by the eternal struggle of the underdog outsider versus the establishment. And hey, DONKEY KONG!!
I witnessed Steve Wiebe achieve the fourth ever known kill screen here in New York and heard him speak at MoMI. He's a great guy, and it's a great story.
I witnessed Steve Wiebe achieve the fourth ever known kill screen here in New York and heard him speak at MoMI. He's a great guy, and it's a great story.
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on 2008-03-08 09:33 pm (UTC)http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000574.html
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on 2008-03-08 10:27 pm (UTC)Second thing is, it's not like anyone was forced to speak lines from a script; even though content was edited to increase the drama, plenty of the stuff that came out of Billy's or Steve's or anyone's mouths could be judged simply on its own contexts.
His latest blog entry makes him seem pretty biased overall. But the thing about documentaries is that the film maker has a right to edit in the manner he or she sees fit; they're usually more like opinion pieces with messages than straight reporting anyhow.
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on 2008-03-09 05:46 am (UTC)That having been said, the KoK viewer is missing some key facts. From what I've seen, the best place for "fact-checking" has been Walter's posts at Twin Galaxies: http://www.twingalaxies.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=86 . But hey, the subject matter of KoK is so narrow, I don't think the entire history of video gaming is tainted by it.
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on 2008-03-09 06:04 am (UTC)