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Mike Mika - It was trying to be this thing that was creating
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Mike Mika - It was trying tobe this thing that was creating a sport out of thisnew kind of...

Mike Mika - It was trying to
be this thing that was creating a sport out of this
new kind of interfac a new kind of way to play

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Mike Mika - It was trying to be this thing that was creating
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a sport out of this new kind of interfac
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a new kind of way to play.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
01:32:06
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.
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
- I could feel that what we could do as a company - Insert Coin 00:15
- I could feel that what we could do as a company
- Console gaming really changed how I felt about games - Insert Coin 00:08
- Console gaming really changed how I felt about games
I was able to play games without somebody - Insert Coin 00:06
I was able to play games without somebody
And I was able to experiment. - Insert Coin 00:05
And I was able to experiment.
I was really happy when consoles came about, - Insert Coin 00:16
I was really happy when consoles came about,
So the social aspect of the arcade, - Insert Coin 00:12
So the social aspect of the arcade,