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uncamark:
Ben Fritz of Variety reviews GSN's second one-shot documentary.

He says that the first part of the show, about the Odyssey/Pong days of gaming, is the best part and that the line we've heard in that promo over and over again about the first video game president is "silliness."  He also criticizes the show for not being Fair and Balanced (tm Fox News Channel) regarding detractors of video games.

No Variety-isms to translate here--I think you'll know what "docu" means.

urbanpreppie05:
I guess it's all about opinion. I saw the documentary already(reviewed it for my school's paper), and I thought it was done well. I was glad to see them not show the other side( mainly because I'm sick to death of politicians saying "the industry needs to be taking better care of what they put out there")-this is a fun ducmentary, not to be taken seriously after all.  But, reserve your judgement for when it airs.

DjohnsonCB:
Is this special going to be on any other days besides Sunday the 21st?

ChrisLambert!:
My TiVo's recording it from 6-8 pm (EST) the following Monday.

JMFabiano:
I thought it was decent myself.  Of course, I liked the parts about the "classic" eras in the '80s and early '90s the best, as my gaming interests lean towards that.  One glaring omission I noticed is how they made it sound like Nintendo stayed neck and neck with Sega at the time of the Genesis with only the NES.   There was just a later passing reference to the SNES.

Oh, and is it just me, or does the author of that Ultimate Video Games History book look like Paul Lynde?  (Combine him with the GSN voiceover that did the Lynde imitations, and you can have the star of a future biopic...)

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