Al Alcorn

Yönetici yapımcı Zach Braff ve yönetmen Jeremy Snead'den "Video Oyunları: Sinema", nerd nişinden milyarlarca dolarlık sanayiye video oyunlarının meteorik olarak yükselişini anlatan epik bir özellik uzunluğu belgesel. Sean Astin tarafından anlatılmış ve her şeyin başında gelen tanrıhanelerle derinlemesine röportajlar, oyun tasarımının simgeleri ve bizi geleceğe yönlendiren "geğ guruları" ndan "Video Oyunları: Film" Atari'den bir oyun kutlaması Xbox'a ve önde olanları gözler önüne seriyor. Belgeseldir.

From Pong to Grand Theft Auto, Charlie Brooker delves into the history of videogames and pulls out a selection of its most significant titles. From Atari to Angry Birds, How Videogames Changed the World explores how interactive entertainment evolved from a penny arcade diversion into a medium that some believe is art, and shows how it is changing the way we work, communicate and, of course, play. Joined by Jonathan Ross, Dara O'Briain and gaming legends like Will Wright and John Romero, Brooker looks at how videogames have become the most progressive art form of the last 40 years. This humorous and insightful tour will surprise and entertain the uninitiated and dedicated gamers alike.

Before Google, Yahoo and even Apple, before the Silicon Valley cliché of informal dress code, skateboards running the corridors and wild creativity became commonplace, one company embodied the digital economy lifestyle and business style: the one firm coming out of the Age of Aquarius was Atari. The story of Atari is two-thirds the story of Nolan Bushnell, founder and visionary, and one-third the first and probably biggest boom and bust of the new economy some 20 years before the new economy even existed. Atari was showing that technology is cool, way before the personal computer revolution took place and they were reaching out to an ever-growing audience with something that is still cool today: video games. Atari literally introduced the digital world to the mass consciousness.

The rise and fall of Commodore computers in the 70s and 80s as described by the people who created the companies and technologies.

How Atari helped create the games industry years before it should have happened, and the lucky deals and unfortunate mistakes that almost destroyed the entire industry just as quickly as it was born. The personalities of the pioneers, the creations of the engineers, and the challenges, technology and business deals. See the games and hear the stories from the creators themselves.

CNBC examines the history of the video game industry from the first tennis game developed for an oscilloscope to the Atari and video arcade game boom of the early 1980s. It looks at the history of electronic game all the way up to the current Nintendo, Playstation, and Xbox game systems.

A documentary series on the people and culture of videogames from AREA 5.