A documentary sequence by Moleman Movies reached its fifth episode, a 144-minute movie about “the golden age of Hungarian video gaming and the formation of the Hungarian demoscene within the 80s and 90s.” You may watch this episode on YouTube (and English subtitles will be chosen).
From Commodore 64s smuggled throughout the Iron Curtain to cracked video games on cassette tapes offered at flea markets, floppy disk swapping through postal mail, hacked cellphone cubicles linked to U.S. BBSes, and replica events packed to capability, Stamps Again tells the story of how youngsters in Hungary ignited a computing revolution within the Nineteen Eighties with illegally copied video video games from the West, and started the Hungarian demoscene.
However the filmmakers say “We obtained loads of suggestions that you simply wish to see the full-length interviews…in a bodily particular version.” In order that they’ve launched a marketing campaign on Crowdfundr:
Greater than 76 hours of interviews [with 59 people] have been carried out for the movie, which is a real doc of the Hungarian dwelling laptop life within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties. Now you can get this 76-hour materials with English subtitles along with the movie in a particular Blu-Ray version + downloadable picture file format…
If we attain the stretch objective, a 4th disc will probably be added to the version, which is able to comprise a collection of one of the best Hungarian intros and demos of the previous 40 years in video format.
The movie’s website online contains hyperlinks to (and data on) their 4 earlier documentaries:
- The Reality Lies Down Beneath, concerning the different subcultures Budapest
- Demoscene: The Artwork of the Algorithms. A 2012 take a look at “a digital subculture the place artists do not use all the time the most recent know-how” however “convey out one of the best from 30 year-old laptop technics.”
- Journey to the Floor. How the web and digital know-how reshaped the music business for outside-the-mainstream genres together with beatbox, turntablism, DJing, reside improvisation, and bed room producers.
- Longplay — the story of Hungarian online game improvement behind the Iron Curtain, and the way devoted builders “outfoxed Nintendo, tricked SEGA,” and “dodged the limelight and led the world from behind the Iron Curtain.”
Because of Slashdot reader lameron for sharing the story.
