By TerryWow, a record two posts in one day!
A couple of years ago I caught the end of a really fantastic TV documentary by Iain Lee, the guy who did “The 11 ‘O Clock Show” on Channel 4. It’s called Thumb Candy.
Well, this evening I thought to search for it. And it’s on google video. Hurrah!
The show follows Iain as he meets some of the people who were involved in the evolution of videogames, and includes interviews with the reclusive creator of Manic Miner Matthew Smith, with Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, and some more familar names like Shigeru Miyamoto.
If you’ve got an hour to spare, I recommend getting comfortable and sitting down to watch it. (You can even blow it up full screen if you follow the link in the embedded video.)
[The google video is now gone, but the show’s still on YouTube, in several parts. It doesn’t look like it’s going to reappear on google video anytime soon, so I’ve just linked to the first part.]
Cool, that was very entertaining. That guy’s mean though– “It doesn’t show, you’re doing terribly!” to Miyamoto, jeez. 😛
~Josiah
Argh. I hate Ian Lee.
Well, I’m not mad about him to be honest, but it’s a pretty good documentary.
[Or was, until google video took it down 😥 ]