“The future is now!” Jim Carrey shouts prophetically in a scene toward the end of the 1996 movie The Cable Guy. “Soon every American will integrate their television, phone, and computer. You’ll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend in Vietnam. There’s no end to the possibilities!”
Tsui’s doc zeroes in on the arcade era of Midway’s existence, as opposed to the home-console period. The 90s, he says, were “the last golden era of arcade games, and Midway was king of the hill.”
He’s also mining stories from the days when pro wrestlers—Bret “the Hitman” Hart, the Undertaker, Bam Bam Bigelow, Yokozuna, among others—made their way through Midway HQ before shows at the Rosemont Horizon so Tsui and company could digitally capture their likenesses.
