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Re: 8-Bit Generation Documentary

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Post by andreipop » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 6:51 AM UTC

vanadium wrote: post #9

Just checking out the trailers, it actually pains me to think that this series might never see the light of release. Wow.

Agreed. would happily put up money on kickstarter to see this funded to the end.

Re: 8-Bit Generation Documentary

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Post by jellygraph » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 9:32 AM UTC

Does anybody know the name of the song in the first trailer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_...!

I have checked the page of Zoe Blade, but do not think the music is featured on here list. thank you.

Re: 8-Bit Generation Documentary

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Post by quattrofan » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 10:19 AM UTC

Want to see. I would pony some money up to help get it finished, whoever is behind it should put it up on Kickstarter.

Re: 8-Bit Generation Documentary

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Post by skrebbel » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 12:08 PM UTC

fallous wrote: post #7

I hope this gets released. I worked for Eugene Jarvis (indirectly) and certainly knew and appreciated a lot of the others in these snippets. These were titans that saw an entire industry as it could be as opposed to the "entrepreneurs" we see now that stand on the shoulders of giants and still manage to only reach their navels.

> These were titans that saw an entire industry as it could be as opposed to the "entrepreneurs" we see now that stand on the shoulders of giants and still manage to only reach their navels.

Do you really believe that, or are you just being melancholic? Every age has their visionary genuis enterpreneurs en the small-scale incremental-evolution enterpreneurs. The "enterpreneurs we see now" include people like Jason Fried, Elon Musk and Daniel Ek. Yeah, and founders of the get-a-notification-when-someone-unfollows-me-on-Twitter-app businesses, but people like that were around in the eighties too - you just haven't heard of them.

And, really, there's nothing wrong with either.

Re: 8-Bit Generation Documentary

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Post by wbhart » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 12:39 PM UTC

Restricted access to this site by the uk porn filters. Is there something dodgy about it (before I make a telephone call to confirm I am over 18).

Re: 8-Bit Generation Documentary

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Post by ZoeB » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 1:02 PM UTC

jellygraph wrote: post #12

Does anybody know the name of the song in the first trailer? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_... ! I have checked the page of Zoe Blade, but do not think the music is featured on here list. thank you.

It's Ame Sakusan, from my (currently unreleased) album City Lights. You can stream it from https://soundcloud.com/zoeblade/ame-sakusan if you'd like.

Re: 8-Bit Generation Documentary

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Post by ZoeB » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 1:03 PM UTC

owlmusic wrote: post #8

As mentioned in the article, the music is well worth checking out for this documentary ( http://zoeblade.bandcamp.com/album/8-bit-generation ). Lets hope a completed film gets released.

Thank you!

Re: 8-Bit Generation Documentary

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Post by duncans » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 1:14 PM UTC

wbhart wrote: post #15

Restricted access to this site by the uk porn filters. Is there something dodgy about it (before I make a telephone call to confirm I am over 18).

No.

Re: 8-Bit Generation Documentary

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Post by ck2 » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 1:33 PM UTC

They only finished making the first episode of six hours and there were a dozen hours filmed/planned?

First episode is called "Insert Coin" It's the premiere of the first episode (the only one which is complete up to now) 45 min Shown Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 8pm

So they never finished it. Maybe ran out of money to produce it? Definitely out of time by Feb 2012

World Premiere: Screening of the first episode "Insert Coin" of the brand new documentary, 8-Bit Generation. Playing the Revolution“ with interviews with veterans of the game industry (A Junk Food & BasicNet production / Written by Tomaso Walliser Lorenzo Faggi / Directed by Davide Agosta / Special consultants Massimo Temporelli, Bruno Grampa and Cecilia Botta).

   8bit Generation documentary series out in February 2012
   
   Junk Food, a "content for humans" production company, proudly announces 8bit Generation.

   This forthcoming 12 hours documentary series is divided in two main stories covering the birth of the personal computer and videogame era: each story will be 6 hours and 6 episodes long, starting from the mid 70's all the way through the 80's and the first 16bit machines.  

   With something like 50 (and more to be added) original and unreleased interviews to the fathers of the modern world, 8bit Generation is going to be, by far, the most complete, accurate and the biggest video product on retro gaming and retro computing for years to come.

   Interviews feature Apple founder Steve Wozniak, Commodore founder Jack Tramiel, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, tv game inventor Ralph Baer and many others.

   8bit Generation is going to be released worldwide February 8th 2012 in DVD/BD format and in 5 (plus 1) different packages.

   Find out more information and news and watch video trailers at www.8bitgeneration.info where you can also pre order your favorite copy.  - Tomaso Walliser Junk Food C.E.O.

After digging around a bit, I found one of his domains still working lostinfashion.it and it was renewed to 2013 recently - check the whois for email and phone number

You can also get the "who we are" page to work in the archive if you change the date http://web-beta.archive.org/web/20111128013424/http://www.8b...

All sorts of leads on the "who we are" page.

Re: 8-Bit Generation Documentary

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Post by barbs » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 2:09 PM UTC

ZoeB wrote: post #17

owlmusic wrote: post #8

As mentioned in the article, the music is well worth checking out for this documentary ( http://zoeblade.bandcamp.com/album/8-bit-generation ). Lets hope a completed film gets released.

Thank you!

Hey! I love your music! Don't suppose you have any idea what's going on with this doco?