Video Game Documentaries

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#1  Edited By Solarus

Over the last couple of days (in between studying finals anyway), I've had the opportunity to finally watch the King of Kong and Chasing Ghosts. I found both to be really interesting and led me to search for any other video game related documentaries which may exist. Are they any interesting ones which you guys would recommend?

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#2  Edited By iam3green

you could look around G4 use to have a show called Icons. look around for it, i don't know if their website have the episodes but some of the shows were about video games.

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#3  Edited By Andorski

G4's Icons was a great show.  I hope there is still a way to watch them. 
 
Also, King of Kong is a slanderous fable of our god, Billy Mitchell.  The American tie-wearing superhero is a kind soul.

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Yeah, Icons was actually a pretty decent look at important people in the games industry.

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#5  Edited By Solarus

Awesome, I'll take a look around for it. Thanks guys :)
 
Any other suggestions?

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#6  Edited By penguindust

You probably won't learn anything new from this, but it's still an interesting primer.  It's under an hour and all parts can be watched on YouTube.   

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#8  Edited By EpicSteve

Icons was great, they had a show for a lot of major companies and franchises. Also, read "The Ultimate History of Videogames".

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#9  Edited By ColinWright

Robert Ashley's radio documentary series "A Life Well Wasted" is always an interesting look at the world of video games. Their release schedule is sporadic but always worth the wait.  
Link:   http://alifewellwasted.com/

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#12  Edited By HitmanAgent47

watch second skin, it's great. It's about mmo gamers who are addicted to wow and everquest.

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#13  Edited By Stete

Highly recommend Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe.

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#14  Edited By weegieanawrench

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is pretty good.