Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade (2007)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 90 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Lincoln Ruchti
Stars: Walter Day and Billy Mitchell
IMDb score:
7,0 (1.467)
Releasedate: 19 January 2007
Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade plot
"An arcade adventure."
In 1982, gamers who had the highest score in a video game gathered at the Twin Galaxies Arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa for an article for Life Magazine. This resulted in a fanatical scene that continued to improve (each other's) highest scores in arcade games.
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Wuotanaan
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- 19 messages
- 17 votes
Chasing Ghosts: Beyond The Arcade is a look back at the rise and fall of arcade games from the early to mid-1980s from the perspective of the protagonists themselves. And those protagonists are eccentric, to say the least.
Some are downright megalomaniacal (Billy Mitchell, Roy Schildt). The filmmaker therefore did well not to approach these 'adult' video game nerds too seriously. Furthermore, there is actually not much to say about this 'rise and fall' documentary; the games themselves are barely touched upon, and unfortunately, it goes no further than a series of interviews and old footage.
If you want to see a compelling or impressive film about video gaming, you would be better off choosing The King of Kong or Ectasy of Order: The Tetris Masters, respectively. If you really can't get enough of video game history and computer nerd antics, you might want to give Chasing Ghosts a chance.
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Woland
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- 4828 messages
- 3859 votes
After The King of Kong, I put this one on too, featuring a number of the same characters (Billy Mitchell, Walter Day, and Steve Sanders), but now the focus is more on history. Video games and arcades in the '80s, the first tournaments and championships, and a whole bunch of characters who apparently knew how to nerd out pretty well back then. I'm only moderately interested in gaming otherwise, but it's still reasonably entertaining. But Jesus, it obviously varies a bit from person to person, but there are definitely a few characters in here. They are all pretty dorky and OCD, of course, but characters like Billy Mitchell and Mr. Awesome really have egos the size of a post. And I was also watching with furrowed brows as Leo-something goes through life twenty years later as some sort of pimp, or those two guys who used to be best friends but hadn't spoken for twenty years because one told the other at the wrong moment that he had taken over a great score. This documentary is pretty okay, but I've had my fair share of gloominess by now (and as a physicist, I'm quite used to gloominess, including from myself), and ultimately, there isn't a scene or subject that really captivates me.
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