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AICN Games: Monki interviews Matt Fox, author of THE VIDEO GAMES GUIDE!!!

First by Midol Boy	Aug 29th, 2007 01:15:37 AM
Blood
PACMAN THE MOVIE by Midol Boy	Aug 29th, 2007 01:43:28 AM
You know it will happen.
AGAIN with the Citizen Kane? by Leopold Scotch	Aug 29th, 2007 07:40:52 AM
Come on! To suggest that GTA III is the Citizen Kane of gaming is like suggesting that there were several films released years before Citizen Kane which did everything as well as this great film did (and in some cases did it better), but Citizen Kane just got better exposure. Because this is certainly the case with GTA III. Hell, even Matt FOx shot that comparison out of the air with his Elite reference, although I'd have gone for more recent games. I'll probably pick up GTA IV because the GTA series remains a good (sometimes really good) series, but that doesn't stop it from being one of the most overrated franchises in the industry. Out of all the games I was going to get this year, I'm glad that the one which slipped was GTA IV, because I'm much more excited about the others on my worryingly long list.
NICE BOOK. AS FAR AS VIDEO-VIOLENCE.. by Wilclas	Aug 29th, 2007 09:46:32 AM
...I´ve seen ROBOCOP when I was 10. I saw all the FRIDAY´S 13rd movies during my youth. I played videogames all my life (violent and not), and I am a normal nerd. We must unite against the MANHUNT haters! GO CASH!
Kong does not exist in this dojo by Cobra--Kai	Aug 29th, 2007 09:49:20 AM
Great job Monki - your best column yet. This is what we want, substance, not youtube links and press releases. I'm a big fan of The Video Games Guide it's a book every self-respecting gamer should own. Matt Fox comes across as a knowledgeable good guy in the book and also in this interview. My pick for most influential game: Donkey Kong (launched Nintendo, Miyamoto, and entire platform genre).
My pick would be... by FILMFUNK	Aug 29th, 2007 10:18:09 AM
Doom! my eyes nearly fell out my head, then almost did it again with Quake! recently GTA was another benchmark because you could finally roam around a non linear fully realised, living breathing city in 3D - awesome! In my opinion video games have always been a legitemate from of art as Sculpture, painting, Grafiti, movies or dance coz if it's been made by artists then it's art! some of the most Monumental moments from my gaming life were Space Invaders, Starwars arcade!Gauntlet, R-Type, Another world on Amiga, the Sentinel on C64, Sonic the Hedgehog, Teken, Wipeout, and more recently Halo, Far Cry, Shadow of the Collossus, and soon Crysis!
First the positive by ViolentN8	Aug 29th, 2007 11:08:26 AM
Congratulations on some real content for once Monki. I may even pick up this book at one point or another. But I do have to take Mr. Fox to task for the way he disregarded movies as art because of commercial cash ins (I believe that Cheaper by the Dozen 2 was his example). I agree that not all movies are art but neither are all video games art. For every Ico (one of his picks) there is a Yo! Noid! How is that any different than films where for every Kubrick there is an Uwe Boll. Personally I like video games more as a hobby but that comment struck me as just ludicrous.
One more thing by ViolentN8	Aug 29th, 2007 11:16:32 AM
Quoting the year of each games commercial release is just obnoxious. Also, since Mr. Fox seems to favour British words and spellings in his interview, are those European release years or U.S. Domestic or even Japanese? If those are the Eurodates does that mean that games which were never released in Europe will not be covered in the almanac? Further down this line of questioning, are any games that never received release outside of Japan going to be included here or if they are is it all/none/some/few and barring..... Shit, I've gone crosseyed.
I would say that Legend of Zelda is the by comedian_x	Aug 29th, 2007 12:38:06 PM
Birth of Nation of videogames. Where as the Citizen Kane videogames is Doom. If Citizen Kane is when "modern" filmmaking came to age then Doom is where "modern videogames" came age. GTA3 would be the Jaws of videogames -- meaning the rise of the Event Game.
Re:Pac Man The Movie by Gearfree	Aug 29th, 2007 04:07:22 PM
Already been made...or at least parodied. http://tinyurl.com/jq8u7 I'm sure there is a mega man movie trailer somewhere too.

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