This is a pretty good documentary by the british Discovery Channel about the beginnings of computer games. It covers the early 70s with the rise of Atari right up to the big crash of the videogame market in the 80s. From that point on, it becomes pretty one-sided by only covering Miyamoto (the inventor of Mario and Zelda) and Nintendo. Anyway, it’s still an excellent documentary thanks to its accurate way of dealing with historical facts.
A shorter version (without the screenshots) of a tribute to Sierra games and the people behind them. Does anyone know where the music is from? King’s Quest Space Quest Leisure Suit Larry Conquests of Camelot Conquests of the Longbow Gabriel Knight Laura Bow Police Quest Freddy Pharkas Jane Jensen Al Lowe Roberta Williams Ken Williams Mark Crowe Scott Murphy Christy Marx Lori and Corey Cole Mark Seibert Josh Mandel
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Unforgettable games! This movie is a tribute to all the classic Sierra On-Line games and also to EVERY person from Sierra who helped bring us these games. A few people have asked me who all the faces were at the end of the video (I wish I had included their names in the video along with their pictures). In order of appearance after Ken and Roberta: Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe (”Space Quest” designers, as the Two Guys from Andromeda), Al Lowe (creator of “Leisure Suit Larry”), Christy Marx (”Conquests of Camelot” and “Conquests of the Longbow” designer, beautifully rendered holding Excalibur on the cover of “Sierra Magazine”), Lori and Corey Cole (creators of the “Quest for Glory” series), Josh Mandel (”Freddy Pharkas” co-designer, who also contributed to a wide variety of Sierra On Line products), Mark Seibert (musician and composer of some of Sierra’s most famous themes) and Jane Jensen (best known as the designer of the Gabriel Knight series). Of course, so many other wonderfully talented and hardworking people from Sierra no doubt also deserve recognition for their work in providing us with such great entertainment over the years. I also wish I had been able to include all of them in this video. Finally, someone mentioned that the end of the video seems a bit random with magazine and game box covers, but that run-through is just to show the incredibly prolific nature of Sierra and its evolving and consistently top quality products over nearly 20 years. King’s Quest . . .
