Neil Cicierega had the idea of a film about the 1980's gaming console format wars between Sega, Sony, Nintendo and Atari, which make the VHS / Beta war seem like a spitball fight. I suggested a puppet show version, and went to youtube and came upon this.
I'm too old to have ever had a dog in the gaming console fight, but I did buy (to my regret) an Atari ST as my first computer.
This is a hilarious, naive example of "Object Theater" - an academic term that encompasses everything from the work of Italian Futurists to the muppets, bunraku, and Nascar. There will be a summit on the subject of Object Theater in April 2011.
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