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Everything Ever About Games

Finally, a DIY games doc that promises to actually teach stuff and not just beat the Billy Mitchell-is-a-total-dick trope.

I don’t play games. Never have, really. During a blip of my youth you could’ve found me posted up in my parent’s basement, getting down on brick-era Game Boy and SNES classics. True. But for me, as with too many other kids left itching to kick off the dust of the suburbs post-GoldenEye, the magic just sort of died. The consoles got packed away. The cartridges and Rumble Paks sold off in garage sales, or handed down to the dopey kid at the end of the block. And that’s a shame.

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So to say I’m a gamer – to say I ever was a gamer – would just be wrong. And yet that’s probably what has me so intrigued with the first proper teaser for What’s in a Game, a forthcoming documentary from Brooklyn-based indie-games guru Colin Snyder.

Read the rest over at Motherboard.