Look, this "movie" was just put together with self-filmed clips by youtubers and liberal stock footage inserts so technically it's awful, but what makes it a real slog is the need to aggrandize WATA games and that whole scam. They literally just wave off valid criticism of WATA by saying it's all jealousy which is really something else. Then you have the fact that the key faces in this movie are simply showing off their stuff and talking about how valuable it is and how they turn down offers, etc. The actual "real" people like Metal Jesus, Riggs, Hancock, etc are barely in it while the hoarder scammers of the WATA crowd get to wave their proverbial dicks in your face with their rare stuff. Get a life! And no how many times someone says that preserving a sealed game etc is preserving history, pop-culture, or art, doesn't make it true. These things were commodities. You are celebrating plastic and cardboard. The game exists outside of those things. A part of me wishes disc rot on all their rare games, but being somewhat of a collector myself (albeit with way stronger boundaries than these people) I will admit it's neat to see what they have, but the smugness of them really gets me.
Rarity: Retro Video Game Collecting in the Modern Era
2021
Documentary
Rarity: Retro Video Game Collecting in the Modern Era
2021
Documentary
Plot summary
Interviews with casual retro game collectors to collectors with the most expensive retro game collections in the world
June 22, 2023 at 02:19 PM
Tech specs
720p.WEBMovie Reviews
A glorified youtube boast video
Its a dissapointing WATA advertisement
I was really looking forward to watching this documentary, but it is unfortunately just a dissapointing WATA advertisement
Why would do this...?
It just seems the whole movie was made, with only one goal in mind, just to get Wata to foot the bill to make this movie, it seems like that was the entire premise for this movie.
I can not see how this movie does anything good for the retro video game collecting community as a whole. Furthermore it does not add anything new, as opposed to other gaming and retro collecting documentaries.
It is clear that Wata has paid for this movie, and it purely to try to better their brand
It is very dissapointing!
No new ground
It's flashy and well edited but it's essentially a rip off of all those retro VHS collecting films that are getting dumped on Tubi, each of them is basically the same film over and over. The filmmaker interviews wealthy and often annoying YouTube personalities who collect video games. An entire segment is devoted to video game grading and winds up being a big commercial for the company WataGames, another segment features a couple of the more bigoted personality's making fun of Christians and Christian video games. It's well put together and at times interesting but overall, it's sadly nothing new.