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Title: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: fragasaurus on February 27, 2007, 12:24:03 am

I'm in Bangalore, India for work this week and on the Discovery Channel here they are advertising a show about the history and evolution of Arcade games premiering March 10th.  It looks pretty cool but I can't find it in their online tv listings.   I hadn't seen this before coming here so I'm wondering if they are only running it in a different market for staters.

Has anyone in the States or elsewhere seen this advertised?

Title: Re: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: HaRuMaN on February 27, 2007, 05:32:22 am

Nope but I'll definately try to find it.

Title: Re: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: Loki on February 27, 2007, 05:39:50 am

Ah.. I think I've seen this one. It was about atari and stuff.

Title: Re: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: fragasaurus on February 27, 2007, 06:14:27 am

Quote from: Loki on February 27, 2007, 05:39:50 am

Ah.. I think I've seen this one. It was about atari and stuff.

According to the commercial, it starts with Pong, Space Invaders and moves through to Fighters and 1st person shooters and on to real advanced graphic stuff.

Ok, I just found a reference to it on the Indian Discovery Channel Website.
http://www.discoverychannel.co.in/_listings/listing.shtml?action=schedule&channel_code=DCIN&language_code=ENG&cur_dt=1173467988834

It's called "I, Videogame".  I cannot find a reference to it on www.discovery.com but I did find a reference to it here:

http://www.feelgoodanyway.com/motion/DISC_IVideogame.html

Another reference here:

http://www.throng.co.nz/i-videogame

Title: Re: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: rockin_rick on February 27, 2007, 05:22:57 pm

In that second link, it says that I, Videogame is for worldwide release.  I wonder if the discovery channel just has the release date for it later...

Rick

Title: Re: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: Zeppo on February 28, 2007, 09:26:33 am

So, anyone think it will be different than this one?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3637639460474263178

Title: Re: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: patrickl on June 06, 2007, 04:00:46 pm

Just saw the first episode of I, Videogam on the dutch version of Discovery. Notihing new of course, but fun to watch anyway. If anyone is interested I have recorded it.

Title: Re: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: ChicagoDave on June 06, 2007, 08:03:40 pm

I've been to Bangalore for work also.  The traffic there is insane.  On the drive from the airport to the hotel, I think I actually screamed!

Title: Re: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: shorthair on June 07, 2007, 02:49:56 pm

Quote from: ChicagoDave on June 06, 2007, 08:03:40 pm

I've been to Bangalore for work also.  The traffic there is insane.  On the drive from the airport to the hotel, I think I actually screamed!

Places like that, and particularly in the middle east, they have no traffic regulation. When I was in Saudi, where they did have stop signs but nobody but us obeyed them, almost daily were there reports of crashes - often involving buses - and the traffic in the areas we were was low!

Title: Re: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: ChadTower on June 07, 2007, 02:51:36 pm

You try getting dairy cows to obey traffic signs.

Title: Re: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: ChicagoDave on June 07, 2007, 05:05:31 pm

I actually went to a bowling alley when I was in Bangalore.  It had a little arcade within the bowling alley and most of the games were redemption type games.  I did play some racing game but all of the text was in Japanese.  Also, in the bowling alley, all of the electronic scoring machines were in Japanese.  The funny part is, no one in India speaks or reads Japanese.

I was an interesting experience...

Title: Re: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: patrickl on June 07, 2007, 05:32:12 pm

The thread was more about the TV show "I, Videogame" on Discovery than Bangalore

Title: Re: History of arcade games on discovey channel
Post by: Loki on June 07, 2007, 07:42:59 pm

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=I+videogame :)