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Thumb Candy: Iain Lee's Brief History Of Video Games

submitted by benjee

1 decade 7 years ago

A Channel 4 documentary about the history of computer and video games. It features an interview with Sir Clive Sinclair, showing off a white ZX Spectrum computer. There's also an interview with Matthew Smith, the author of the classic ZX Spectrum games Manic Miner and Jet set Willy - plus an interview with legendary games designer, Shigeru Miyamoto.

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http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22thumb+candy%22+part as seven parts as well.

is it just me or did a company called SEGA once exist?

upvote for the interview with the author of Manic Miner

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What a truly fascinating documentary. Really, he shows so many things in regards to the early days I'd never seen. I'd never seen the game Atari made before Pong, I'd never seen the original design drawings for the Space Invader Aliens... just brilliant stuff. And to play an original Pong machine against the creator, and a Space Invaders machine against its creator... WOW.

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