Arcade documentary Chasing Ghosts now showing on Showtime

by Kevin Kelly { Dec 16th 2008 at 11:00PM }

We wrote about the fantabulous arcade documentary Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade when it premiered at Sundance in 2007, and we featured interviews with director Lincoln Ruchti and producer Mark Verrachia. It's been a long road for the film -- which was playing in Park City against The King of Kong at Slamdance -- but now you can finally see it.

Chasing Ghosts is on Showtime this month -- in HD, no less -- and has three more showings through the end of December. Set your DVRs for "capture" and have yourself a little screening party. It's well worth seeing and features everyone's favorite/most hated gamer, Billy Mitchell. With any luck, we'll see this on Netflix or DVD soon, because playing this on your Xbox 360 or PS3 will surely make the space-time continuum fold in on itself.

Tags: Chasing-Ghosts, Documentary, King-of-Kong, Movie, Slamdance, Sundance

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

idiot @ Dec 16th 2008 11:22PM

i despise you even more than billy mitchell

Kevin Kelly @ Dec 16th 2008 11:25PM

I'm gonna have to agree with that.

ice~ @ Dec 16th 2008 11:27PM

I will also have to agree, you my friend, are a douchebag :D

EMaster @ Dec 16th 2008 11:42PM

I'm more intereted in knowing when this is going to come out on DVD.

Dr Scientist @ Dec 16th 2008 11:43PM

Just streamed The King of Kong this week onto my XBox, was a great movie. Tho it makes me wonder how much, if at all, they skewed the facts to make Billy Mitchell look like an ass.

Can't wait for Chasing Ghosts to hit NetFlix.

Reader @ Dec 17th 2008 12:03AM

I was curious about the same thing. It's hard to tell fact from fiction in the movie, but was good nonetheless.

mietha CAG @ Dec 17th 2008 1:27AM

King of Kong was one of the first things I watched on Netflix/360. Been waiting to see it for a while. Excellent movie, and I really hope they pick up chasing ghosts as well.

Chris @ Dec 17th 2008 8:43AM

Unfortunately, they skewed things quite a bit.

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/02/gamesetlinks_the_king_of_truth.php

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1303

Kizzle @ Dec 17th 2008 12:11AM

I saw this last week. Mr. Awesome is awesome, mostly because he refers to Billy Mitchell as "Silly Bitchell." If he wasn't full-frontal in his autobiographical comic, I'd order it.

Go hock your stupid hot sauce, Silly Bitchell.

Ubiqutous Oxymoron @ Dec 17th 2008 12:42AM

going to put some ribs in the oven i reckon, if anyone wants any let me know and i'll do extra.

burgabunz @ Dec 17th 2008 2:50AM

banana!

DarkTetsuya @ Dec 17th 2008 3:37AM

I actually caught most of this when I was flipping thru the movie channels randomly today.... Hopefully they show it again, I wanna see the whole thing.

shamon @ Dec 17th 2008 3:42AM

i liked king of kong

Tyba11s @ Dec 17th 2008 5:39AM

Ottumwa: Iowa's asshole.

Dirty @ Dec 17th 2008 9:14AM

Those cheerleaders are not attractive. I miss my members only jacket.

ISHOTYA2X @ Dec 17th 2008 9:57AM

I watched this on Showtime,and concur that Billy Mitchell is the ultimate douce.

Brazell @ Dec 17th 2008 1:17PM

King of Kong was an excellent documentary, on top of being about video games. Hopefully this'll be just as good.

CJLopez @ Dec 17th 2008 1:40PM

Cheerleader + arcades + nerds = something not right on that picture

Man, 'll be on tune to that!!!

Diskoboy @ Dec 17th 2008 4:24PM

Damn, 1982 (I'm assuming that's the year that pic was taken...) kicked so much ass.

Tutankham was such an underrated game. It hard to find a working, dedicated Tutankham machine, anymore. Most were destroyed, or converted into some other craptacular game.