Man
Vs. Snake 8/10
Whoever
would have thought that a documentary about a 80's video game that I
never heard of could be so damned good? Man Vs. Snake is about the
quest to get the world record in this game called Nibbler. I grew up
playing a lot of video game sin arcades as a child and never heard of
this one. The modern equivalent of it is called Snake. In 1984 in the
small town of Ottumwa, Iowa a 16 year old kid named Tim McVey (not
the terrorist as they point out) spent two days playing the game and
set a world record for it. He got a key to the city and everything.
It was a big deal. The way the game is set up if you have enough
lives you can take a break and just let the character die for a few
minutes.
Tim
was watching a Ms. Pac-Man champion named Tom Asaki and said that
whatever score Asaki got at Nibbler he'd beat him. In 1984 he did it,
went home, and fell asleep for thirty something hours after his mom
made him macaroni and cheese. Years later, in 2000, he finds out that
this kid named Enrico Zanetti in Italy had beat his score and was
being recognized as the real champion. Tim acts as if this isn't a
big deal and he doesn't really care but its eating his ass up and he
decides to try again Joining him is the bad boy of gaming from Canada
who is now a grown ass man named Dwayne Richard. Enrico laughs about
all of this. He does martial arts and seems happy as hell. He even
laughs at everyone making a big deal out of it all.
Tim
starts training and brings in his own machine to his house. He has a
job and wife and seems good. But he really wants to break this
record. He goes between saying he doesn't care to getting angry when
shit happens. This thing had so many ups and downs, defeats,
victories, and a really nice story. There are also some really cool
animated sequences. They go deep with this shit. I watched it on
Netflix. Check it out.
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