Forum Overview :: Zork I: The Great Underground Empire :: Re: MC Frontalot's "It is Pitch Dark" music video

[quote name="Bananadine"][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]Not only is there a documentary on text games in development, but the MC Frontalot video "It is Pitch Dark" has a music video for it! <i>Shot by the same man doing the documentary!</i> The video is a terrific amount of fun. Catch the details on where to find it right <a href="http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000452.html">here</a>.[/quote] I have the BBS documentary that guy did. It is good! Not so much as a fiiiilm, meaning that it is pretty bare-bones and stylistically plain and rambling and loooong, but certainly as a document of a lot of interesting stuff that I am too young to have known anything about really until I took in this huge mass of firsthand reports. Highlight: an interview with the guy who made the ARC compression algorithm, only to have it stolen by PKWARE's Phil Katz (who went on to steamroll said guy's company with his far superior spin and marketing abilities), wherein said guy recounts in the careful, objective voice of a hardcore technician how perplexed and helpless he felt as the user community (tricked by lying ads from PKWARE that claimed their competitor was some kind of evil giant faceless corporation) turned against him and rejected his perfectly good products and sent him (and his mom I think, because she was the rest of the company?!) piles and piles of hate mail--speaking all the time in this very neutral, rational manner, until he reveals to his own apparent surprise as much as anyone's that he <i>still</i> doesn't really understand at any deeper level what the hell happened back then by <b>suddenly starting to weep</b>.[/quote]