“The Artists dives into the relatively undocumented first three decades of the video game industry and tells you the stories of the designers, companies and, of course, seminal games that have transformed video game history through these eras.” – CBC Arts
The two preview episodes are beautifully crafted pieces of art in and of themselves and are a great introduction into video game history. Being a former gaming addict myself, these two preview shorts (“Episode 1: Seeing Farther” and “Episode 4: The Doom Generation”) were a nice a trip down memory lane. I still remember playing DOOM on a local area network in the computer lab at the private school one of my uncles taught at.
Anyway, check these two preview episodes out:
Sidenote: Main stream media may not have documented the history of the video game industry – but one look on YouTube and you can easily spend years watching fans go into the history of even the most obscure video games. I’d hazard a guess that video game history may actually be one of the most accessible oral histories in the world due to the fact that gamers have the passion and tech know-how to both consume and make video content about video games. As a result, you have a feedback loop that continually amplifies the signal – that situation results in some very prominent YouTube channels that are based purely on video game history such as “The Gaming Historian” – which has 401,105 subscribers at the time I am writing this.
