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Title: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: mitsuman on April 02, 2017, 11:37:01 AM
Anyone else watch this? I just started it on Crackle. I'll give a review if I make it all the way through.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Otaking on April 02, 2017, 11:52:59 AM
It was f*ckin awful.
I found the main guy a complete dweeb. I want a documentary about BitHead1000 tracking down every PC Engine shooter or Chris Bucci's mission to review every TG-16 game, just bascially likeable characters instead of that Nintendo Quest ass wipe.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: BigusSchmuck on April 02, 2017, 12:05:23 PM
It's a collectard's wet dream minus what he actually paid for his games. Seriously, bad. I had more fun watching paint dry.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: mitsuman on April 02, 2017, 12:11:33 PM
Yeah, I'm not really digging this. He just paid $4k for a game...
Just turned it off and decided to watch the new episode of Game Sack instead.
Does anyone have a link to Chris Buccis channel? I used to be subscribed, but apparently got rid of it at some point.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Otaking on April 02, 2017, 12:21:12 PM
Chris Bucci's channel http://www.youtube.com/user/spida1a
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: mitsuman on April 02, 2017, 12:26:38 PM
Thanks!
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Otaking on April 02, 2017, 12:31:25 PM
I may remember this wrong but I'd remembered before you pay to download Nintendo Quest. But for anyone interested I've just seen someone's uploaded it to youtube. As said I don't recommend watching it though.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: mitsuman on April 02, 2017, 01:21:01 PM
People paid to watch that?
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: sirhcman on April 02, 2017, 01:45:00 PM
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Medic_wheat on April 02, 2017, 02:33:32 PM
So basically in the end. He completed a video game library in under a year.
And he wanted the games to have a story behind them.
And he threw X amount of money at it to achieve this goal.
I don't know. Something about completing an entire system library in under a year (when the prices for the games are possibly st their highest) in resell world just seems cheap. Meaningless. The story he was after was his own.
If I am not mistaken wasn't this documentary kickstarted or something to where the people backing this documentary basically paid for his buying the games?
For me. The journey to slowly discovering games. Finding hem here and there over the course of years has been the most enjoyable. Not just throwing wads of money to complete a collection as quickly as possible.
Sure this person made it a challenge. However what's the point? Meh to it all I guess.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: sirhcman on April 02, 2017, 02:35:36 PM
If I am not mistaken wasn't this documentary kickstarted or something to where the people backing this documentary basically paid for his buying the games?
Yes you are correct
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: bartre on April 02, 2017, 03:33:09 PM
I wanted to watch it to make fun of the whole idea, but....
it's just so bad. like, there's really nothing redeeming about this thing. I stopped after 20 minutes.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Groover on April 02, 2017, 03:48:45 PM
I watched this a while back. I was disappointed that he left out how much was paid for games. I didn't understand him setting the harsh time frame he put on himself. I mean some people spend years if not decades collecting all these games. This guy was already a collector. His love for Darth Maul left me suspect of his taste level. Also I don't understand this completionist mind set in game collecting. I generally just buy games I want to play. I mean there was a lot of crap out there.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: seieienbu on April 02, 2017, 08:24:04 PM
At one point in the documentary, the main character went on a rant about how he was glad his father was dead after complaining that his father disliked his video games and music. At that point, I couldn't enjoy the film at all anymore. If that was what he meant and is to be taken at face value, then it was either a documentary about a sociopath. If that wasn't the case? Then the editor left in exactly enough of a non sequitur to misrepresent someone into something terrible.
Either way, I couldn't enjoy the film afterward.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Johnpv on April 03, 2017, 12:11:06 AM
Yeah the part about the father was really weird and felt completely out of place. I watched it last year when I was home sick from work for a few days. The level of collectard in the movie is too damn high. I'll never get people who need to own every copy of some rare game they come across.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Punch on April 03, 2017, 12:36:13 AM
I need to watch NintendoAge: the movie ASAP! From what you guys are saying this movie could run in a double feature alongside Dawn of the Dead :lol:
At one point in the documentary, the main character went on a rant about how he was glad his father was dead after complaining that his father disliked his video games and music.
This has to be the a "The Room" of consumerism. So much lack of self awareness :lol: In any other situation I would have said that it's an in-your-nose parody of collectardism, but, you know, NintendoAge.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: xelement5x on April 03, 2017, 10:48:10 AM
I may remember this wrong but I'd remembered before you pay to download Nintendo Quest. But for anyone interested I've just seen someone's uploaded it to youtube. As said I don't recommend watching it though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YjToYAT_4Q
Thanks for the link, I may get drunk one night and watch this trainwreck.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Flare65 on April 04, 2017, 02:20:36 AM
Yeah the part about the father was really weird and felt completely out of place.
What exactly happen with the Father? He mentioned there was a loud bang and his dad was on the floor. Did he commit suicide?
I'd be very curious as to what kind of day job this guy had. He goes on an 11 day road trip to the mid west and then he has to run back up to Canada because he cant miss work, only to run back down again?
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Medic_wheat on April 04, 2017, 03:08:19 AM
Yeah the part about the father was really weird and felt completely out of place.
What exactly happen with the Father? He mentioned there was a loud bang and his dad was on the floor. Did he commit suicide?
I'd be very curious as to what kind of day job this guy had. He goes on an 11 day road trip to the mid west and then he has to run back up to Canada because he cant miss work, only to run back down again?
CDL. Oil Filed?
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: _joshuaTurbo on April 04, 2017, 03:15:54 AM
I remember when I first heard about the concept for the movie and thought it sounded really cool.
What I expected: A couple guys with a camera driving around to flea markets/thrift and game shops across the country trying to find each and every NES cart. Kind of like a story of discovery or an adventure like those Game Chasers and NES Pursuit type stuff...
Reality: None of this. It was more of a backstory on what I'd mostly consider a pretty uninteresting spoiled and otherwise unlikable dude. The way they "found" all the NES games (mostly in LOTS) seemed pretty fake or planned out.
meh..
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: mitsuman on April 04, 2017, 04:43:45 AM
I remember when I first heard about the concept for the movie and thought it sounded really cool.
What I expected: A couple guys with a camera driving around to flea markets/thrift and game shops across the country trying to find each and every NES cart. Kind of like a story of discovery or an adventure like those Game Chasers and NES Pursuit type stuff...
Reality: None of this. It was more of a backstory on what I'd mostly consider a pretty uninteresting spoiled and otherwise unlikable dude. The way they "found" all the NES games (mostly in LOTS) seemed pretty fake or planned out.
meh..
Yeah, I definitely got a scripted vibe from it.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Flare65 on April 04, 2017, 08:12:06 AM
The way they "found" all the NES games (mostly in LOTS) seemed pretty fake or planned out. meh..
Totally agree.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: glazball on April 04, 2017, 10:28:39 AM
Yea f*ck that "documentary." I actually paid $20 for the DVD at Classic Game Fest last year (or year before, I can't remember) and met the main douchebag and the director.
Having been on a "Nintendo quest" of my own for 20+ years, it was frustrating to watch. Mainly it was his sense of entitlement, that everyone should sell their games "for the cause, bro." f*ck him.
The part about his dad, etc is completely unnecessary and stupid.
The fact that he never actually PLAYS A SINGLE GAME (that I can remember) is telling.
The final scene of the movie implies that next year (with a sly look into the camera) that another console's library will be hunted down.
f*ck him.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Punch on April 04, 2017, 10:43:17 AM
Having been on a "Nintendo quest" of my own for 20+ years, it was frustrating to watch. Mainly it was his sense of entitlement, that everyone should sell their games "for the cause, bro." f*ck him.
Oh man, I forgot about that. That "for the cause" bullshit was infuriating. Like, this very much isn't something that anyone else can do. You can't just say "Gotta catch 'em all!" and then magically get reasonable prices on super rare stuff.
The main character seemed unlikable and the events as transpired seemed either fictitious or at least only a small part of the overall story. Yeah, perhaps the guy Did get a complete collection; it wasn't due to his bargaining savvy, charisma, or likability. He was just a jerk who had a camera with him. Then he happened to meet a guy who I guess really wanted to trade rare NES games for some money and a chance to be in a movie showing off how great his collection was and thus he was able to trade fame and some money for games that he otherwise couldn't have purchased or wouldn't have found.
And only vaguely tangentially related, but Bonk on Nintendo seems the most pointless thing in the world to me. A friend of mine was trying to get a boxed copy a couple of years ago and I told him that he was an idiot and could buy a Turbo and the game for less than he would spend on the inferior NES port. They spoke about the game an awful lot toward the end of the documentary and I just don't see why anyone would want the blasted thing.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: gex on April 05, 2017, 12:40:59 PM
In Edmonton Alberta when i'm located, it was a big deal when it got released. Someone rented an entire movie theatre and had a screening night and everything. Tried to sell tickets for it, and vendors/local stores setup booths inside of the event. BUT MY GO DID IT SUCK
We were warned before hand so we did drugs, but it still was unbearable. We left so early we couldn't even drive and had to crash at my buddies house.
The funny/sad part was the guy who organized the screening lost a bunch of money doing it. He bought a couple hundred DVD's and desperately tried to sell after the movie. He had them for $40CAN originally, but near the end he was only asking $20 plus delivery lol. You could just feel the sweat drippin off his posts.
I watched this a while back. I was disappointed that he left out how much was paid for games.
Lots of people were, they were probably just embarrassed how much $$ spent. Their Facebook page comments for awhile were just people bashing the fact that they kept this hidden.
At one point in the documentary, the main character went on a rant about how he was glad his father was dead after complaining that his father disliked his video games and music. At that point, I couldn't enjoy the film at all anymore. If that was what he meant and is to be taken at face value, then it was either a documentary about a sociopath. If that wasn't the case? Then the editor left in exactly enough of a non sequitur to misrepresent someone into something terrible.
Either way, I couldn't enjoy the film afterward.
Wow, how out of place. I'm glad I left before I got to see that. I just left after they failed, right when that dudes dog died. So not only did they fail doing a scripted "adventure" finding every NES game, but his dog died too.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Black Tiger on April 05, 2017, 02:59:43 PM
One of the worst things about this piece of crap is that it was originally was funded by a kickstarter to pay the clown to "hunt" for a complete set with other peoples' money and then they had the balls to do another kickstarter to get people to fund the dvd.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Medic_wheat on April 05, 2017, 03:18:30 PM
Just checked. The kickstarter page and raised $16,814 112% funded. This one was completed on June 2013.
Minus what ever kickstarter kept for its share that's still a lot of money. Probably.
Oddly the kickstarter for the DVD/film raised $40,286 competed on Feb 2015.
So wait. They raised nearly $17,000 to buy the guy his collection and film.
Then nearly two years later they do a second kickstarter which raised more the double the $16,000 to produce the film. That was already filmed?
Wait what?
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: mitsuman on April 05, 2017, 04:05:13 PM
One of the worst things about this piece of crap is that it was originally was funded by a kickstarter to pay the clown to "hunt" for a complete set with other peoples' money and then they had the balls to do another kickstarter to get people to fund the dvd.
That's probably why they didn't list the prices of the games as they picked them up. They didn't want the kickstarter backers to keep track of how much was being spent.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: seieienbu on April 05, 2017, 04:43:55 PM
I guess the moral of this "film" is to not trust a sociopath to not try to swindle all of your money?
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: BigusSchmuck on April 06, 2017, 01:22:21 AM
If I were one of those backers, I would have demanded my money back. That's an absurd amount of money to watch someone collect these games and hear him bitch about how his daddy raped him like a good boy. Well maybe not raped, but you get the idea.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Punch on April 06, 2017, 01:33:11 AM
Seriously, where's the timestamp for the dad stuff? I didn't make past the first 15 minutes and I'm not in a hurry to try again
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: glazball on April 06, 2017, 02:45:44 AM
Sorry Punch, you'll have to watch it all the way through yourself to see! lol
The director (the big guy who pops in to narrate) is making another movie I believe about retro game box art - which does sound kind of interesting I admit. If it already has a finalized name, it escapes me. The movie may even be out already. He seems like a decent enough guy, so maybe that documentary won't suck as much.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: sirhcman on April 06, 2017, 03:11:30 AM
The director (the big guy who pops in to narrate) is making another movie I believe about retro game box art - which does sound kind of interesting I admit. If it already has a finalized name, it escapes me. The movie may even be out already. He seems like a decent enough guy, so maybe that documentary won't suck as much.
The director is also doing a mini-documentary for the Henshin Engine game
Title: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: crazydean on April 06, 2017, 04:38:32 AM
From what I've heard about this film, it's difficult to see who the audience is supposed to be. It's obviously not gamers. Even collectors want to hear an interesting history or acquisition story with an item. A collector would also be very interested in final sale prices. Everyone wants to hear about a great deal!
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: seieienbu on April 06, 2017, 05:48:52 AM
If I were one of those backers, I would have demanded my money back. That's an absurd amount of money to watch someone collect these games and hear him bitch about how his daddy raped him like a good boy. Well maybe not raped, but you get the idea.
Though irrelevant and completely outside the scope of the film, I wouldn't mind the guy saying that he was glad that his father was dead had that been the case. It may have been but that's not what the film says. The film would have me believe that his father liked sports but didn't like nintendo or the music the main character liked so said main character was glad his father was dead.
No legitimate grievance was mentioned but he was glad his father was dead. It was a bad movie.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: ChuChu Flamingo on April 06, 2017, 07:47:46 AM
Whenever I think of the typical Nintendoage drone, I think of this guy from the movie.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: esadajr on April 06, 2017, 08:13:32 AM
The director (the big guy who pops in to narrate) is making another movie I believe about retro game box art - which does sound kind of interesting I admit. If it already has a finalized name, it escapes me. The movie may even be out already. He seems like a decent enough guy, so maybe that documentary won't suck as much.
The director is also doing a mini-documentary for the Henshin Engine game
Saru, is that true?
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Necromancer on April 06, 2017, 08:45:39 AM
From the kickstarter stretch goal: "$28,000 - We will make a 30-minute mini-documentary, "The Making of Henshin Engine" which will be made in cooperation with Rob McCallum of Pyre Productions, The creator of Nintendo Quest, Power of Grayskull, Box Art and more!"
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: esadajr on April 06, 2017, 09:24:05 AM
From the kickstarter stretch goal: "$28,000 - We will make a 30-minute mini-documentary, "The Making of Henshin Engine" which will be made in cooperation with Rob McCallum of Pyre Productions, The creator of Nintendo Quest, Power of Grayskull, Box Art and more!"
Me not reading the "fine print". Whatever, HE is a total different thing, I'm sure everything will turn out great.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Gredler on April 06, 2017, 10:02:23 AM
for the cause... for the cause... wtf
I was so curious about the dad thing I had it on until I heard them mention something about dads, and I got the time stamp.
45:00 in.
They should not have included that in the film, so weird.
How does this guy have such an blessed life, and speak of it so negatively. Crazy to me.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Necromancer on April 06, 2017, 10:27:52 AM
Soooooo.....did his dad die of embarrassment? :-"
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Gredler on April 06, 2017, 10:43:20 AM
Lol, comment of 2017. Maybe you will bring nullity out of the woodwork with that one.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Medic_wheat on April 06, 2017, 02:03:58 PM
So I watched the part about the father with spliced parts of his mother being interviewed "and having a very different perspective of the relationship between father and son and her role".
Before I forget. They end the segment about his childhood and fathers death with a fade out to a NES game quote "what a horrible night to have a curse" from Castlevania II. Could that have been more poorly executed? Completely tasteless.
People here defend the person who made the documentary sighting that the next one might be better.
Firstly the tone presentation and editing of this documentary is under direct contril of the director. So that right there tells me his work is piss poor and future works would be a wast of my time.
Secondly the subject of this documentary is a personal friend fk the director/documentary filmed for 30 plus years as self reported during some of his narritive segments.
Now to the account of the death and relationship he had with his father.
-his father was described as: a tyrant, not understanding or being interedted in the things he was personally interested in (despite admiral that the father tried to understand and be a part of it). That he felt relief after his death "as though a weight was lifted from my shoulders (ohh shit I better spin this quick) our shoulders my mother and I."
Comments like this leads one to believe that it wasn't purely lack of father son bonding between the sons interest. This sounds more indicative of abuse phsyical, emotional, sexual. So there seems to be more to the story. If not then the guy has some serious personality disorder as his reaction and interpretation is skewed.
This leads the viewer to draw the conclusion that the guy questing for video games as
Entitled Unsympathetic (despite attempt to humanize and draw sympathy from the viewers with this story) Horrid social relationships
Among other negative views.
Which brings me back to this being a reflection of the director/documentary and editor.
The narritive flow was off, little to no framing of the movie, and lack of focaul point. The media graphics used throughout were amateurish. I have seen YouTube channels with better editing and graphic design then this. Such as game sack, classic game room, and such.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: seieienbu on April 06, 2017, 07:33:07 PM
If they told half the story, then the director was totally at fault with throwing a misleading lie into an otherwise mediocre-to-lousy movie. If that was the whole story? Then the main character is an sociopath a$$hole and probably shouldn't have a movie about how he likes to collect toys from his childhood. That's super creepy.
So, either bad director or bad main character. One or the other has to be true.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Mighty on April 07, 2017, 04:38:29 AM
I really enjoyed watching this movie. I like collecting and rare games so this was my type of film.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: mitsuman on April 07, 2017, 07:28:44 AM
Just checked. The kickstarter page and raised $16,814 112% funded. This one was completed on June 2013.
Minus what ever kickstarter kept for its share that's still a lot of money. Probably.
Oddly the kickstarter for the DVD/film raised $40,286 competed on Feb 2015.
So wait. They raised nearly $17,000 to buy the guy his collection and film.
So they got a bunch of people to pay for an almost entire Nintendo NES library
WTF, did I get that right?
That's my interpretation.
Granted in the documentary it was stated that he was to use his own money. I find it hard to believe that the mk why funded from the two kickstarter didn't go directly into the purchase of the games and guest speakers.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: esteban on April 07, 2017, 09:19:15 AM
I have an urge to watch this stupidity for a few minutes.
But I know I won't.
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: gex on April 07, 2017, 09:26:30 AM
Granted in the documentary it was stated that he was to use his own money. I find it hard to believe that the mk why funded from the two kickstarter didn't go directly into the purchase of the games and guest speakers.
That's f*cked, but w/e I guess. If that's what people wanted to pay for..
I have an urge to watch this stupidity for a few minutes.
But I know I won't.
It's just a bunch of manchilds wearing XXL Zelda shirts stuck in their past, the phycology here is kind of sad to be honest. I'de watch the first 5 mins, sets the tone quite well for the rest of the movie without having to watch another minute of it
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Flare65 on April 08, 2017, 11:09:55 AM
I assume there is a thread about this on Nintendoage? What to thos guys over there think about the film?
Also, what % does Kickstarter keep of the 16K?
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Black Tiger on April 08, 2017, 11:18:59 AM
Looks like they were most concerned by how it wasn't collectardy enough:
I generally stay away from the whole 'collector' side of the forum because, you know, I'm not one, and I'd never been to Nintendo age before, until now of course, and well, let's just say that now I completely understand why you guys rag on them so much >w>
Title: Re: Nintendo Quest documentary
Post by: Medic_wheat on April 08, 2017, 02:55:15 PM
Three or four post in and they are botching about if a game should or should not be included to make the "quest" more official.