Exploited, abused and sometimes abandoned most gamers fail to reach the top, but like all sports heroes exist. FRAG is the true story of professional video gaming outlining the evolution of the 1980’s arcade game competitions to the elite tournaments of today for millions of dollars around the globe.
Direction
Raw access to gaming's most obsessive eccentrics
Production
Arcade-to-arena evolution feels genuinely historic
Director
Mike Pasley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Billy Mitchell appears here pre-controversy, still fully embracing his 'perfect' Pac-Man persona before his 2018 disqualification for using emulators.
This doc captured esports right before streaming exploded—Twitch launched two years later, making these hotel-ballroom grinders look like ancient history.
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