A must watch documentary. Basically its a comprehensive and progressive exploration of the past, present and future of videogames and video gamers

Episode 1 : The Thumb
Date : 05/09/08
Time : 2300
Synopsis
In the 1950s, the Cold War quickly evolved between the world superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union. Mutually assured destruction enforced an uneasy stalemate, yet also drove computer technology to create missile simulations in order to predict the results of a nuclear war. This same computer technology was used to develop the first computer game in 1958 – Tennis for Two

Episode 2: The Face
Date : 09/09/08
Time : 2100
Synopsis
In the late 1970s and 1980s, instead of controlling “things” like spaceships and tennis rackets, videogame technology let players command recognizable characters with real faces and back stories

Episode 3: The Legs
Date : 16/09/08
Time : 2100
Synopsis
It was a foreign concept to the early game designers, but with games like Castle Wolfenstein 3-D and Doom, videogames grew from their primitive 2-D roots into richly detailed 3-D worlds.

Episode 4: The Mind
Date : 23/09/08
Time : 2100
Synopsis
Ever since the invention of the computer, man has feared “the machine” and its ability to think. But a computer’s unique computational power has also led to the development of games that are unpredictable, intelligent and malleable.

Episode 5: The Heart
Date : 30/09/08
Time : 2100
Synopsis
The advent of the internet has changed everything – including videogames. When ARPNET, a military precursor to the internet, went live in 1969, gamers almost immediately began using this new technology for gaming


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This post has been edited by jonilabu: Sep 5 2008, 10:49 AM

Its on Channel 554 (Discovery Science), on Astro.