A documentary on Korean games just dropped on Netflix today.
It's called 'Save the Game,' and it was produced with support from Nexon.
It's a new project by Director Park Yun-jin, who released 'My Sister, Jun Ji-hyun and I' (the Elancia doc) five years ago.
It starts from Sewoon Plaza...
To the very first commercial game developers in Korea.
The people who distributed those games.
The person who said we should protect the students who ditched classes just to play games.
The people who played like that.
Those students gathered together...
And created a game called 'The Land of Dangun.'
A CS lab admin saw that and wanted to make a game with graphics instead of just text.
A friend saw that and suggested they start a business together.
And that’s how 'The Kingdom of the Winds' (Baram) began.
However, due to business conflicts, the two fought, and Song Jae-kyung (Jake Song) left the company.
Then, the developer who took over...
Filled in the blanks of a world that was just a skeleton at the time.
They breathed life into it.
Meanwhile, Song Jae-kyung, who left Nexon, went on to create Lineage.
There's also some talk about Sonnori.
And the people who tried to bring the PC package game experience online.
Episode 1 covers the dawn of Korean gaming and the birth of package and online games.
Episode 2 focuses heavily on online games.
The most famous faces in Episode 2 are probably Kim Yong-ha (Blue Archive) and Yoon Myung-jin (Dungeon & Fighter).
"Users are feeling nostalgic about the legendary 'first generation' of Korean MMOs like Kingdom of the Winds and Lineage, while cracking jokes about the notorious bugs, hacks, and 'grind-heavy' nature of classic K-games."
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