| "Gaming history's most popular myths" |  |
Via Shoryuken kam mir dieser Twitter-Thread von Kate Willært unter, der ja zum bisherigen Tenor hier passt (ich hab die Doku nicht gesehen):
[https://twitter.com/katewillaert/status/1296639222514933763]
>Netflix’s HIGH SCORE is frustrating because it’s filled with well-produced and rare interviews and footage, but it’s also a greatest hits of gaming history’s most popular myths. It would’ve been nice if they got a historian on board to fact-check.
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>I mean, they open with the myth that Atari ET caused the video game crash (that's not how it happened), and they end with Bushnell telling a brand new fictional account of where he first saw Spacewar that's now set earlier than ever before.
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>The very first gaming documentary ever made was 1973's GAMES COMPUTERS PLAY. In it, Bushnell tells the most likely version -- he saw it at Standford (which would've been in 1969). But I'm not going to get into why the year keeps getting pushed forward. [...]