Documentaries on Arcades, Computing & Pinball – Any Other Suggestions?

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I thought I would share the list of retro arcade, computing, and pinball documentaries I have enjoyed over the years.

Hopefully, it helps others discover something new to watch.

At the same time, I would love to hear your recommendations for similar content I might have missed!

In no particular order:

High Score - 2020
TerrorBytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming - 2025
Atari: Game Over - 2014
Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade - 2007
Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari - 2017
Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters - 2012
From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years - 2016
From Bedrooms to Billions: The PlayStation Revolution - 2020
A Gamer's Journey - The Definitive History of Shenmue - 2022
Shoot Again: The Resurgence of Pinball - 2024
Things That Go Bump in the Night: The Spooky Pinball Story - 2017
Get Lamp - 2010
Indie Game: Life After - 2014
Token Taverns - 2023
The King of Arcades - 2014
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters - 2007
The Lost Arcade - 2015
Mav vs. Snake - 2015
The Space Invaders: In Search of Lost Time - 2012
 
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Special when lit is a pinball documentary worth adding.

And there is another one about Pinball 2000 - TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball

Also -

100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience
The King of Con!
The Perfect Fraudman
 
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eccentric-nut said:
I thought I would share the list of retro arcade, computing, and pinball documentaries I have enjoyed over the years.

Hopefully, it helps others discover something new to watch.

At the same time, I would love to hear your recommendations for similar content I might have missed!

In no particular order:

High Score - 2020
TerrorBytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming - 2025
Atari: Game Over - 2014
Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade - 2007
Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari - 2017
Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters - 2012
From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years - 2016
From Bedrooms to Billions: The PlayStation Revolution - 2020
A Gamer's Journey - The Definitive History of Shenmue - 2022
Shoot Again: The Resurgence of Pinball - 2024
Things That Go Bump in the Night: The Spooky Pinball Story - 2017
Get Lamp - 2010
Indie Game: Life After - 2014
Token Taverns - 2023
The King of Arcades - 2014
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters - 2007
The Lost Arcade - 2015
Mav vs. Snake - 2015
The Space Invaders: In Search of Lost Time - 2012
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Kim Justice on YouTube does some really good documentary type videos. The Story and Arcade Games of Toaplan was a really good recent one.
(Made me set up my Hellfire into my cab😁)
Classic Arcade Treasures is also a recent pucker one on the channel 1980, 81 82 so far.

Massive library of interesting and informative videos on the channel.
 
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Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest!

A lovely feelgood documentary about Kim "Kanonarm" Klbke trying to play Gyruss on one credit for 100hours....

Cant find it streaming anywhere, It was aired on TV in Sweden and Denmark. I had the DVD (with English subtitles) but I sent that to a guy in UK....
 
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Great thread idea, I have fond memories of Triumph of the Nerds from the 90s, recently managed to get hold of a dvd of that. They'll be rips on YouTube already I suspect.

I'd be interested in hbo doing a proper modern follow-up to it, focuses on the start of home computing, but with the conclusion that Windows 95 was the future.... sometimes I wish it still was 🤣


The people who did the Amiga years and billions doc have done a good Sinclair one too that's worth a look, rubber keyed wonder.
 
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I enjoyed The Rubber Keyed Wonder too. It's currently on Prime, as is Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game. It's not a documentary, but it's well worth a watch.
 
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giantkeeling said:
I enjoyed The Rubber Keyed Wonder too. It's currently on Prime, as is Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game. It's not a documentary, but it's well worth a watch.
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You can also watch Pinball the Man Who saved the Game for FREE on prime video.

Amazon have moved all the Freevee channel stuff over Prime Video now so there is loads of free stuff you can watch without a subscription, and this was added on Freevee not long before it was shut off.
 
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I ended it at “even better than the arcade version, no lie!”

lol 😆😆😆

Love it!
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I remember when school mate bought a Sega Master system and he said out was exactly the same as the Arcade :ROFLMAO:

Bloody el I need to concentrate more, edit I remember when school mate bought a Sega Master system and he said OutRun was exactly the same as the Arcade :ROFLMAO:
 
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