Synopsis
High Score (2020) is Netflix's six-part documentary series you can watch online on iFILM — a decade-by-decade account of how video games went from niche novelty to global obsession.
Each episode reconstructs a specific breakthrough: the arcade boom of the 1970s, the console wars between Sega and Nintendo, the moment fighting games and first-person shooters rewrote what the medium could be. The people who actually built it show up in person — Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani, Shigeru Miyamoto, Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, and the small teams behind Mortal Kombat, Doom, Street Fighter II, and Sonic the Hedgehog.
What makes the series worth your time is how specific it gets about failure: wrong turns, stolen ideas, games that almost didn't ship. Stream High Score online on iFILM.
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