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Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
Chasing Ghosts
2007 · Film · documentary · 90 min
Directed by Lincoln Ruchti
1982's Video Game World Champions share their philosophies on joysticks, groupies and life.
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https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0479879 <- This is the one.
"Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
1982's Video Game World Champions share their philosophies on joysticks, groupies and life."
There's a companion movie "Chasing Ghosts" that I thought was much better for humanizing this particular group of oddballs.
The documentary Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade is a nice companion piece to King of Kong. It has interviews with a lot of the same people.
I don't like King of Kong at all. It's one of those documentaries that tries to ramrod reality into a feature film arc.
Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade, from the exact same year, which also features Silly Bitchell but a lot of other interesting characters who play other games from the same era, is my favorite documentary of all time, though.
Highly recommend that one, especially if you like King of Kong, but also if you are interested in MAME / arcade history.
Love that documentary. Have you seen Chasing Ghosts? It's along the same lines and worth checking out -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJz8KIlEq7I
The article mentions King of Kong, which is great. But I think the better documentary on this whole scene is Chasing Ghosts. It's a broader look and really gives you a feel for the type of people involved in this scene. Makes it even more surprising that this lady was a world record holder, if only for a little while.
IF you want to see a documentary without the pumped up drama, check out "chasing ghosts". Not as good as King of Kong, but still interesting.
It's an entertaining movie, but I don't like to see it referred to as a "documentary". They did a lot of manipulative editing and such to make things seem a lot more dramatic than they actually are.
Twin Galaxies released a number of statements about misleading/inaccurate things in the movie: http://forums.twingalaxies.com/viewforum.php?f=86
I've heard that the documentary "Chasing Ghosts" is very good, but haven't had a chance to watch it yet.
If you liked King of Kong, you might like Chasing Ghosts: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479879/
It has a different focus, but it's about a lot of the same guys (Billy Mitchell, Walter Day, Roy Schmidt), and is also really well done.