I watched a video game documentary on GSN (formerly the Game Show Network) last night. It's called "Video Game Invasion" and is hosted by Tony Hawk. I thought it was pretty good, considering.
There was also some coverage of computer games, mainly EA, Sierra Online, and ID. The formation of the former two were covered while the latter centered on Wolfenstein and Doom. (Why is it anytime a documentary or history of gaming gets to Wolfenstein, they talk about shareware like ID invented the concept?) Featured interviewees included Trip Hawkins and our own Mr. Romero. Russell's Spacewar was included in the beginning, of course. Infocom was not mentioned, IIRC, although Zork was (including a shot of the box front). If you've got a couple hours to kill, it comes on again tonight at 5:00 p.m. CST. If you like video game history as well as computer game history, it can be worth it. I saw some vintage video footage, including commercials, I hadn't seen before. I, unfortunately, messed up my recording and won't be able to try again this evening. If anyone else records it, any chance I can get a copy? -- Lee K. Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
