Discovery Channel's "Rise of the Video Game"

[Candall]

The Discovery Channel is currently featuring a documentary about video games titled "Rise of the Video Game."

Level One was the first of the series and featured the true original video game... "Tennis for Two" (as played on oscilloscope!) and rounded out with a look at Tetris and Pac-Man.  It originally aired on November 21st.

Level Two will feature the 8-16 bit generations with some Playstation for good measure.

What is of note and (more importantly) what makes this fit the forum's topic is that Level Two will feature interviews with both Al Lowe (Liesure Suit Larry) and Tim Schafer, who likely needs no parenthetical explanation.

Check it out Wednesday, November 28th at 8:00 ET on Discovery Channel.

[Nacho]

In the USA?

[Candall]

Indeed, Nacho.

I muddled through the Spanish site as best I could (having no Spanish language skills) and from what I can tell, the program will air at 7:00 PM on Tuesday the 27th there.  I can't tell whether it's the first episode of the series or the second, though, sorry 

Here's the link.

[Nacho]

Oh! Quick European release! Thanks for the link and the info, Candall.

[vertigoaddict]

I think they've already showed it here...but I missed some parts of it. Interesting stuff...

(something I didn't learn from the documentary= the game 'pong' {that rectangular tennis game} took 7 years to make)