The Videogame Revolution
 

Tonight on PBS they aired a special called "The Videogame Revolution". It was two hours and had a very complete history of videogames and how they've gotten as far as they have to do. I was really interested the whole time. Just wondering if anyone else caught this. If not, you should check out www.pbs.org to see if they're replaying it on your local PBS station some time soon. Highly recommended. If G4's programming was like this, we might actually be interested.

Edit: In fact, upon looking, The Videogame Revolution has a little thing right on the front page of the PBS site! That should help.

Awesome find. Thanks for the link.

Bahhh I've seen a bunch of these in the past, they always start out with pong and go into great detail about the pre NES/SNES era and whiz through modern stuff.

I'll still watch it though it doesn't air here till the 19th

If I remember right, it was about 2 hours long, with around an hour for the pre-NES/SNES stuff and about an hour for after that. I thought it rocked. And seeing videogames being taken seriously on PBS is fucking awesome.

Damn it! I missed it by two hours!!!

I am extremely saddened by this. I would love to watch it. But its on Sunday at 3 AM! Second, all my PBS stations are really blurry for no logical reason.

I would watch it, but seeming as the chances of Ivan missing Florida are down to...68%, I'm going back to Florida tomorrow due to power *finally* being restored. I doubt I'll be able to see it when my house: A) Loses Power, B) Floods, C) Has a tree fall on it.

Seems interesting though. But how many of us knew the information they tell us beforehand?

Too many of these "history of the video game docs" as it is....Game Show Network had VG history not too long ago and then History Channel (brief but a history of the video games nonetheless), and pretty soon Nickelodeon's gonna cheat it off. It's fun history but I'm getting a little tired of it...Pong, Atari, Nintendo, Game Console Wars, Bill Gates, that's pretty much the highlights of the history...

Mirror King: You need to be less cynical about it and look at the good of this. Once again, this is a very intellectual television station that tends to take itself VERY seriously and it's doing an honest look at videogames as a serious, important art/entertainment medium. This is good. This is progress. I didn't hear about History Channel's, but it doesn't sound like it was much. Oh, and stuff existed before Pong.

Zero: A lot of the people here probably know most of the info. I just liked the fact that the show presented it in a very clear concise way. It was just very accessible, even, I'd think, for someone who has never been into videogames. Good luck with the hurricane and hopefully you'll get a chance to see it. ;)

I wasn't trying to be cynical. I'm just saying that it's fun to learn about video games but there should be at least one program that runs itself over and over again on different channels. If there's too many of them people won't know what to watch.