Video Game: The Movie focused on the history of video games: past, present, and future. The director, Jeremy Snead, created a relatively easy documentary to follow with interesting transitions and plenty of people to talk about their opinions on the history of video games. This also leads to a problem, yet also a solution. The history of video games is complicating and even people who have played and studied them their whole life have a problem on when it started. People believe it was when MIT was working on computer programs and created a Tennis game. Another group believed it was the time it got to become a part of mainstream with the Atari gaming system. Even if that wasn’t enough of possible beginnings to a history, some even supported the thought of something before MIT, but it wasn’t close to the type of gaming we know of today.

After the fight about games and their history, it moved on to the present history. Snead explains the way video games are taking off and gaining momentum for each coming generation. We have managed to make a bigger spectacle of them by housing the essence of competition to a much larger scale. The graphics have gotten a whole lot better than two sticks moving up and down to move a dot on the screen. The movie then moved onto the future and focused on alternate reality gameplay. Things like the Oculus Rift and a platform that registers your movements as you run and change directions.

With video games changing constantly and adapting to the wants of people, it is clear that video games are not going to disappear anytime soon. The question is, is we are heading towards alternate reality, are we still going to be able to distinguish between real life and virtual world? Or is that simply going to end up being such a fine line?