Console Wars

POSITIVES…

  • Anybody who ever played video games, should find this documentary’s premise fascinating.

  • Just the retelling of this part of video game history is fantastic. Especially as somebody who “participated” in that Sega vs Nintendo console war.

  • There’s an energetic drive to this documentary’s narrative that just grabs your attention throughout.

  • The Sega of America team plus Tom Kalinske gave us some fascinating stories about how they joined forces to take on Nintendo.

  • Scenes of Tom Kalinske making his pitch proposal to Sega of Japan, the birth of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega’s marketing, etc... All of that. Epic.

  • Hayao Nakayama of Sega of Japan was also quite the character, as presented in this movie.

  • It does show us how the Nintendo Entertainment System became a success story, and that was great to see.

  • I loved the animated dramatizations that represented the stories told by the interviewees.

  • Seeing all those classic video games commercials, and historical video gaming related footage, was just absolutely awesome.

  • Conclusion of this documentary makes me really want to see a sequel to it. I love seeing all this video game industry backstory historical details put on screen like this.

NEGATIVES…

  • Some Nintendo fans might accuse this movie as being biased and favoring Sega a little more than they think it should have.

  • Actually I wished there were more content from the Nintendo side of the story, than what was shown.

  • There are several things that I wished was talked about in this documentary, but they did not even mention the marketing tagline “Genesis Does what NintenDon’t!” C’mon, how could they not mention one of the best marketing catch phrases from the Sega-Nintendo console wars?!

  • Oh, and sorry TurboGrafx-16, you had a one second appearance in the whole thing.

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