Game Changers Review 2024 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
Not only does this series feel like a half-hearted effort to regurgitate widely known basic, it commits the added sin of arriving in 2024 after countless other docs already exist, resulting in little more than copy-paste from those who did it better.
Despite decent film quality and editing, there’s enough evidence in the first episode (Nintendo’s Wild Ride) to show this largely exists to milk a well-known topic of interest and air it for the average person, without the attention to detail or narrative clarity to do the topic justice.
For example, the Power Glove is an ’80s peripheral that is really a footnote in Nintendo’s history (and the episode eventually calls it such) yet there’s a bizarre amount of build-up and focus to its reveal as if it had a much larger place. Why emphasize it so much? And while neglecting any mention whatsoever about R. O. B., the far more relevant peripheral that helped get the NES its initial sales (despite similar novelty). That’s just bad narrative, and bad documentation.
Ashley Parrish is a journalist I never heard of before this, yet offers no useful insight, to the point where I can only assume she was included to diversify the interview subjects apart from aging males. From her erroneous quote that Donkey Kong kidnaps a “princess” in his debut (she is not) to her pondering of how Nintendo “somehow” made the Wii a hit but not the Power Glove (um, seriously?), she evokes eyerolls with her shallow input.
Anything worth gleaning is such common trivia (retold in countless prior features like this) that you can only assume the intention is exploitation. Did you know Mario was called Jumpman? Yes, along with everyone else and their mother. Another “let’s do something talking about videogames and throw it up for views” made by opportunists.
If you had to pick, you’re better off with Netflix’s series “High Score”, which beat this to the punch, at least tells a better story and provides access to interviewees with greater credentials.
