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And when we startedtalking about what that potentialStar Wars game could be, on the...

And when we started
talking about what that potential
Star Wars game could be, on the record, they lit up

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And when we started talking about
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what that potential Star Wars game could be,
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on the record, they lit up.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
01:31:26
Uploaded
May 31, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Movie Summary

The oral history of a team of geeks and misfits in the back of a Chicago factory creating the biggest video games (Mortal Kombat, NBA JAM, and others) of all time.
They needed to shift gears out of Mortal Kombat - Insert Coin 00:06
They needed to shift gears out of Mortal Kombat
And I really believe that that's what The Grid became. - Insert Coin 00:04
And I really believe that that's what The Grid became.
The Grid was a six-player competitive death match game - Insert Coin 00:11
The Grid was a six-player competitive death match game
- And then it had all these sensibilities - Insert Coin 00:06
- And then it had all these sensibilities
- You've got two minutes to get five points. - Insert Coin 00:05
- You've got two minutes to get five points.
Mike Mika - It was trying to be this thing that was creating - Insert Coin 00:07
Mike Mika - It was trying to be this thing that was creating
It had all the makings and the trimmings - Insert Coin 00:07
It had all the makings and the trimmings
- We'll get people here that it's like, - Insert Coin 00:12
- We'll get people here that it's like,
And you can see that there's a joy in that game, - Insert Coin 00:08
And you can see that there's a joy in that game,
I always see it as sort of Ed Boon's vacation game - Insert Coin 00:08
I always see it as sort of Ed Boon's vacation game
Grid earned terribly as a single unit. - Insert Coin 00:04
Grid earned terribly as a single unit.
If you had four or the six units togethe - Insert Coin 00:09
If you had four or the six units togethe
So now in order to get the earnings, - Insert Coin 00:07
So now in order to get the earnings,
- You know, the operators expected every game - Insert Coin 00:07
- You know, the operators expected every game
There was no way that every game was going to come out - Insert Coin 00:05
There was no way that every game was going to come out
- All management wanted to do was just, - Insert Coin 00:04
- All management wanted to do was just,
Basically, if they could have stamped ou - Insert Coin 00:07
Basically, if they could have stamped ou
- We went to the well too many times with the same mechanics - Insert Coin 00:07
- We went to the well too many times with the same mechanics
- But it was in the late '90s I saw the warning signs - Insert Coin 00:09
- But it was in the late '90s I saw the warning signs
And it brings that kind of arcade-style graphics - Insert Coin 00:05
And it brings that kind of arcade-style graphics