Documentries

From Bedrooms to Billions

'From Bedrooms to Billions' is a 150 minute feature length documentary movie telling the remarkable, true story of the British Video Games Industry from 1979 to the present.


From Bedrooms to Billions' tells the story of how the creativity and vision of a relatively small number of individuals allowed the UK to play a key, pioneering role in the shaping of the billion dollar video games industry, which today dominates the modern world’s entertainment landscape.

Video Games - The Movie

Video Games: The Movie, a feature length documentary, aims to educate & entertain audiences about how video games are made, marketed, and consumed by looking back at gaming history and culture through the eyes of game developers, publishers, and consumers. The film is not just another film about the games industry, but attempts something much more ambitious; the question of what it means to be a 'gamer', a game maker, and where games are headed. Storytelling and the art of the video game medium are also explored in this first of it's kind film about the video game industry & the global culture it has created.


From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years!

From the same team that brought you the original 'From Bedrooms to Billions' comes The Amiga Years, outlining how the Commodore Amiga helped influence a generation of Developers to take Video Gaming to a whole new level - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/amiga

Pixel Poetry

Are videogames art? Do they influence violent behavior? What effect have they had on society? How would you describe videogames to Leonardo da Vinci? These are always great questions to start a conversation.

"Pixel Poetry" is a documentary film about progressive creative culture as it has been championed by one of its greatest advocates - videogames. Using  popular debates that have long surrounded videogames as a catalyst for this, the film will analyze the misunderstood notions and arguments in art and technological advancement to bring a new perspective to a compelling discussion about the evolution of its meaning.
 
Featuring personalities from the worlds of gaming, tv, audio, and painting, the film is being directed by Richard James Cook and published by his own company Gamestar Arts, and distributed by hit indie label Devolver Digital Films. It is currently available on GoG.com, and soon on iTunes, cable VOD, XBox, Playstation, Roku, Vudu, Netflix, and Hulu.

Thumb Candy - The History of Videogames

Thumb Candy is a 2000 Documentary by Channel 4 about the history of video and computer games. It is hosted by Iain Lee and includes interviews with some of video game history's most important personalities.

BBS - The Documentary

Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer...

....there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users who spent their time, money and sanity setting up their home computers and phone lines to welcome anyone who called. By using a modem, anyone else who knew the phone number of these computers could connect to them, leave messages, send and recieve files.... and millions did.

They called these places "Bulletin Board Systems", or BBSes. And their collections of messages, rants, thoughts and dreams became the way that an entire generation learned about being online.

When the Internet grew in popularity in the early 1990s, the world of the BBS faded, changed, and became a part of the present networked world.. but it wasn't the same.

In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian (and proprietor of the textfiles.com history site) wondered if anyone had made a film about these BBSes. They hadn't, so he decided he would.

Four years, thousands of miles of travelling, and over 200 interviews later, "BBS: The Documentary", a mini-series of 8 episodes about the history of the BBS, is now available. Spanning 3 DVDs and totalling five and a half hours, this documentary is actually eight documentaries about different aspects of this important story in the annals of computer history.

How Video Games Changed The World

How Videogames Changed the World was a one-off television special by Charlie Brooker which first aired on Channel 4 in November 2013. The show examines the 25 most significant video games according to Brooker, and through that, covers the history of the medium and its impact on wider culture.

How to build your own Arcade Cab from scratch - Blog by @RetroMash

I wanted to document the whole process, hence the 23 part blog post series, because I gained so much knowledge and motivation from watching other people make theirs online, such as Abs Delfuego, Neil Neg and Bob Clagett. I will be letting them all know just how useful their videos and blog posts were to me. I’d love to think my posts might help someone with their build in the future. So if you gained any useful knowledge at all from reading these posts then please do let me know. I’d love to hear from you. And if you have any questions at all please do not hesitate to contact me to ask a question. Seriously, this was a labour of love and I could talk it about it until the cows come home.

Anyone can do this. If you have the time and patience you can build an arcade machine. It’s a great feeling to have the finished product at the end of the process. - written by @RetroMash

http://retromash.com/2016/06/01/building-a-home-arcade-machine-part-23-the-finished-cabinet/
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