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High Score Review 2020 Tv Show Series Season Cast Crew Online

Stars: Charles Martinet, Rebecca Ann Heineman, Nolan Bushnell

Netflix nostalgia is in full bloom with High Score, a six-part documentary series about the early days of video games. Narrated by Mario himself — Charles Martinet — the limited series begins with 100-yen coins (or quarters for us silly gringos) clinking into arcade machines, then hops to consoles and RPGs and 3D games, highlighting the stories of entrepreneurs, developers and players of the 1980s and ’90s, some of them big names, and others, underappreciated innovators. Although Netflix’s MORE LIKE THIS recommendations include Babies and Pandemic, High Score has the cheery, uptempo tones of wistful and popular mullets-and-plastic doc series The Toys That Made Us. So will this new show offer fresh insights on gaming culture and business or just press our nostalgia buttons?

The Gist: It ain’t about ones and zeroes, it’s about “what’s going on in the head of the player.” So says Howard Scott Warshaw, one of the developers of Atari’s golden age. Then we get shots of a pixel-drawn E.T. falling into holes over and over again. We hear the words “worst game of all time.” Consider ourselves teased.

Now we meet Tomohiro Nishikado, the guy who single-handedly created a coin shortage in Japan after he created Space Invaders. He gets out an old tattered notebook with pencil sketches of alien designs — an octopus, a squid, a crab, all converted into pixels. The game was so popular and profitable, he says he once watched a truck’s back end sink slowly as bags of money were loaded into it. Next we meet Becky Heineman, who obliterated the competition in a Space Invaders contest at the local mall, winning a trip to New York City for the national tournament. The episode leaves us hanging for a bit, eventually returning to Becky’s story. Back then, she was known as Bill Heineman, and she again blew away the other gamers, becoming the first-ever competitive video-game champion.

If you’re a fan of Stranger Things or documentaries like The King of Kong and Atari: Game Over, then you’re going to love Netflix’s High Score.

It looks back at a time before the internet and cellphones. When California’s Silicon Valley was still 80 per cent prune orchids and The Muppets had their own TV show for the first time. Blockbuster movies like Jaws and Star Wars had revitalised cinemagoing, but both kids and adults were desperately seeking entertainment that was less passive.

Pong had proved the addictiveness of gaming, but only now was there a concerted effort to try and come up with the next evolution for both at home and in a public space.

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