Console Wars
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Warm, kinetic, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →In 1990, SEGA, a fledgling arcade company assembled a team of misfits to take on the greatest video game company in the world, Nintendo. It was a once-in-a-lifetime, no-holds-barred conflict that pit brother against brother, kids against grownups, Sonic against Mario, and uniquely American capitalism against centuries-old Japanese tradition. For the first time ever, the men and women who fought on the front lines for Sega and Nintendo discuss this battle that defined a generation.
Our read · Console Wars (2020) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Console Wars
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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