That video game documentary on GSN really steamed my broccoli. I should have known better than to expect fair reporting from a network owned in part by Sony, the makers of the Playstation. It wasn't that bad at first... sure, it was sprinkled with the occasional inaccuracy (since when was Frogger released for the Sega Master System?), but it was certainly more entertaining and relevant than the Spike TV Video Game Awards.
However, the producers really dropped the ball when they started discussing the 32-bit system wars. The host of the documentary, Tony Hawk, smugly announced, "Sega unveiled the Saturn in a secret launch, but the Playstation left it in the dust. It's not hard to see why when you look at these pictures..." On the right hand side was the Playstation game Tomb Raider. On the left? War Gods, a game that was NEVER RELEASED FOR THE SATURN AT ALL!!!
It could have been an honest mistake, but if it wasn't, that makes Tony Hawk an accomplice to the biggest hoodwink Sony's perpetrated on customers since its lofty claim that the PS2 would "jack you into the Matrix". If the documentary explained in some detail and with more objectivity WHY the Saturn lost the console wars to the Playstation, it wouldn't have bothered me as much, but they way they handled it seemed like a slanderous hachet job. Shame on you, Sony Hawk, for taking part in it.
JR