Josh Tsui Chicago Video Game Vet Turned Documentarian Gets His Due With A Ceremony And Award This Saturday

You may not know Josh Tsui by name, but if you’re a gamer, there’s a good chance you’ve seen his face before—a pixelated version at least.

Tsui said he’s honored by the award, even if receiving the closest thing video games has to a lifetime achievement award makes him feel old.

“It was part of a culture that Ernest Cline (author of Ready Player One) called punk rock,” says Kinkley. “There were no rules. If there were, [Midway] tried to break them.”But toward the end of the 90s, the arcade industry itself declined as home gaming consoles like PlayStation 2 gained processing power, and its decline took the superstar studio along with it—Midway’s arcade division closed in June 2001. “It was kind of like Blockbuster fell with the emergence of Netflix,” Tsui says.

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