![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Online Games
As the web continued to grow, games started moving off the PC and onto the internet. This program looks at several examples including www.gamers.com, Magic:The Gathering, www.zone.com, SubSpace, and Underlight. Includes a visit to the Professional Gamers League conference and an interview with gaming megastar Dennis Fong (aka Thresh). Originally broadcast in 1998.
Keywords: games; online; thresh
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| Computer Games & Gamers
A look at the hottest new computer games. Featured guest is world champion gamer Dennis Fong, also known as Thresh. Other guests include Ryan McDonald of gamespot.com. Also ign.com, a look at the game "No One Lives Forever", and a review of the PlayStation 2. Originally broadcast in 2000.
Keywords: thresh; game; ps/2
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| Gambling and Gaming on the Web
The web quickly became a popular platform for game playing and gambling. This show looks at several approaches to using the internet as gaming platform. Sites covered include gamespot.com, acrophobia, NetStorm, Activision, bezerk.com, gamers.com, pgl.net, virtualvegas.com, starluck.com, and intercasino.com. Guests include Dennis Fong (Thresh), the world's most successful computer gamer, Rebecca Anderson, Anthony Schubert, Jonathan Knight, and Jon Swartz...
Keywords: ping; gamespot; activision; acrophobia; netstorm; thresh; dennis fong; 203
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| Thresh vs. Billox - Phil Rice ("Overman")
The gamer known as Thresh made a name for himself in the mid nineties when he handily dominated a national tournament in id Software's Doom2, snatching the grand prize: the Ferrari of one of the game's creators, John Carmack. His domination carried over into the immensely popular follow-up game, Quake. For several months after the release of Quake2, Thresh never participated in a public match of the game, which bore striking differences to its predecessors...
Keywords: Deathmatch; Quake; Thresh; Recam; Rice, Phil; Zarathustra studios; Overman; id Software
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| Game Capture: Archives of Multiplayer Game Worlds - Henry Lowood
"The history of multiplayer game worlds and virtual realities can be told with reference to a variety of documentary sources. Players find the most compelling "proof" of a memorable event or claimed exploit in visual documentation captured from actual gameplay: Screenshots or, even better, video recordings of the actual events. "Game Capture" glimpses moments from multiplayer games and virtual worlds through screenshots and video grabbed (and sometimes edited) by and for players." -- from the in...
Keywords: Massively Multiplayer Games; MUD1; Habitat; Ultima Online; Quake 2; Thresh; Billox; Everquest; Warcraft III; World Cyber Games; Star Wars Galaxies; LucasArts; Lucasfilm; World of Warcraft; Eve Online; Goonswarm; Red Alliance; Serenity Now; Second Life; Linden Lab; Hershman-Leeson, Lynn; Lowood, Henry; Bennetsen, Henrik; How They Got Game Project; Half-Life: Counter-Strike Mod; Team 3D
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