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  • FPS: First Person Shooter -- A >4.5 hrs. documentary.

    From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sun Feb 1 04:43:09 2026
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    https://tubitv.com/movies/100047171/fps-first-person-shooter for free in USA. It's over 4.5 hrs. :D
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sun Feb 1 10:32:04 2026
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    On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 04:43:09 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    https://tubitv.com/movies/100047171/fps-first-person-shooter for free in USA. It's over 4.5 hrs. :D

    Well, aside from availability issues... four and a half hours? Look,
    I'll happily sit through a three hour documentary on Ultima, but even
    I have my limits. ;-)

    [Wasn't Tubi that advertising-heavy streaming service?
    That documentary is probably really only 4.25 hours long
    and the rest is just adverts ;-)]

    Reviews indicate that the film is more of a nostalgia trip than a
    definitive documentary of any sort, more interested in showcasing
    famous names (Carmack, Spector) than teaching anything new. It's a
    fairly surface-level overview that might give Mom a better idea of
    what the genre is about, but if you've lived and played the games over
    the year, you probably know all it has to say already.

    TL;DR: you can get the same content from most YouTube 'documentaries'
    on the subject but at 1/4 the length ;-)
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Mon Feb 2 02:50:43 2026
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    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 04:43:09 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    https://tubitv.com/movies/100047171/fps-first-person-shooter for free in USA. It's over 4.5 hrs. :D

    Well, aside from availability issues... four and a half hours? Look,
    I'll happily sit through a three hour documentary on Ultima, but even
    I have my limits. ;-)

    Ultima part was short.


    [Wasn't Tubi that advertising-heavy streaming service?
    That documentary is probably really only 4.25 hours long
    and the rest is just adverts ;-)]

    It's actually 4 hrs., 35 mins., and 28 sec. without any ads. yt-dlp FTW!


    Reviews indicate that the film is more of a nostalgia trip than a
    definitive documentary of any sort, more interested in showcasing
    famous names (Carmack, Spector) than teaching anything new. It's a
    fairly surface-level overview that might give Mom a better idea of
    what the genre is about, but if you've lived and played the games over
    the year, you probably know all it has to say already.

    TL;DR: you can get the same content from most YouTube 'documentaries'
    on the subject but at 1/4 the length ;-)

    Well, this one has interviews too. I saw the old people from id
    Software, Rebecca Heineman, Scott Miller, etc. Also, fans like James
    from AVGN. Also, I am not watching the whole thing. I skipped like
    Ultima. :P
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