THE KING OF KONG Review | The eSports of the 80s & 90s | Reel Talk
This time on Reel Talk we review The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, the documentary about previous Donkey Kong record holders Billy Mitchell & Steve Wiebe. We discuss how this Donkey Kong documentary relates to modern gaming and similarities of the arcade scene to the eSports of today.
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00:00 Intro
02:05 A Documentary With Characters
09:44 There's A Donkey Kong Kill Screen Coming Up
14:48 Editing & Visual Storytelling
17:35 The Esports of the 80s & 90s