Season 2 • Episode 8
LatestIn each episode, Marco Fresco is a guest on a journey into the universe of video games since the time of their creation. Some of the most iconographic titles in the history of video games are brought back from faraway memories and remembered with stories and facts that involved them in the height of the game's popularity and the social context of the time.
Production
Archive footage that'll send you scrambling for eBay listings
Writing
Fresco's storytelling makes manual-reading feel like folklore
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series deliberately centers Portuguese gaming culture, a market often erased from Western retrospectives despite being Europe's per-capita gaming powerhouse in the 90s.
Tiger da Silva and Fresco originally pitched this as a YouTube series in 2017; RTP picked it up after a viral clip about the Portuguese 'gray market' NES boom hit 2 million views.
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