Check out the Official Trailer for Arcades & Love Songs the Ballad of Walter Day, a documentary based on the legendary 74-year-old Walter Day and his career of arcades and love songs distributed by Monkey Wrench Films.
Arcades & Love Songs the Ballad of Walter Day followd the life of 74-year-old Walter Day - the father of esports and star of The King of Kong - as he battles a lawsuit threatening his legacy while fulfilling his dream of recording and performing the rock-opera style love songs he has been hearing in his head since having his heart broken at the height of the arcade era.
Arcades & Love Songs the Ballad of Walter Day stars Walter Day and is directed by Ed Cunningham (Undefeated, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters); produced by Jonathan Perkins, Seth Gordon (The Lost City, Baywatch, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters), and Mike J. Nichols(Zappa); written by Ed Cunningham, Mike J. Nichols, and Paul Leach (“The Woodsman”), executive produced by Ed Cunningham, Byron Ashley, Scott Jackson, Harrison Kordestani Kerry, Cathy Loveland and Paul Campoamor, and edited by Mike J. Nichols.
Arcades & Love Songs the Ballad of Walter Day is releasing on June 9 for On-Demand and Digital release.
Arcades & Love Songs the Ballad of Walter Day followd the life of 74-year-old Walter Day - the father of esports and star of The King of Kong - as he battles a lawsuit threatening his legacy while fulfilling his dream of recording and performing the rock-opera style love songs he has been hearing in his head since having his heart broken at the height of the arcade era.
Arcades & Love Songs the Ballad of Walter Day stars Walter Day and is directed by Ed Cunningham (Undefeated, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters); produced by Jonathan Perkins, Seth Gordon (The Lost City, Baywatch, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters), and Mike J. Nichols(Zappa); written by Ed Cunningham, Mike J. Nichols, and Paul Leach (“The Woodsman”), executive produced by Ed Cunningham, Byron Ashley, Scott Jackson, Harrison Kordestani Kerry, Cathy Loveland and Paul Campoamor, and edited by Mike J. Nichols.
Arcades & Love Songs the Ballad of Walter Day is releasing on June 9 for On-Demand and Digital release.
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00:00I wanted the fame. I wanted the pretty girls come after me and say,
00:03Hi, I see that you're good at Centipede.
00:06This is Walter Day.
00:08He became the center of the video game universe.
00:12He was the first to realize the competitive nature of gaming.
00:17I'm leaving the video game industry to be a musician.
00:20I said, you're not going anywhere.
00:23Didn't I tell you, you, you, you, you, never not to lie?
00:29I've never had a lot of girlfriends.
00:34Shane was the first person since my high school sweetheart.
00:37He says, Walter, I've secretly been seeing a friend of yours.
00:42I started hearing songs in my body.
00:45A hundred and thirty-eight songs.
00:48David Reichelt of Color Switch said, we want to pay for your album.
00:52Us doing this is to help him make his dream come true.
00:56Since I'm called upon to actually do a show,
00:58I discovered Taylor Swift.
01:00So I've actually been trying to pick up her mannerisms.
01:03I have to sing tonight in front of a crowd of people for the first time in my life.
01:07This ought to be interesting.
01:09Hey, Walter, your show's coming up.
01:11I know it's going to be great for you.
01:13I produced Justin Bieber, Madonna.
01:15Walter Day's a legend.
01:16The last three or four years have been like a tremendous swallowing in darkness
01:22because I got accused of cheating.
01:25Attacking Walter is like attacking somebody in the Amish community.
01:28Walter's not the kind of guy who's going to fight back.
01:31You're ultimately looking at a million dollar judgment being entered against you
01:35and following you for the rest of your life.
01:37I wanted the world to hear this music.
01:41And if it doesn't happen now, it's never going to happen.
01:45It's Friday night.
01:46They go on the stage in about one or two minutes.
01:49I believe that we're going to be sold out.
01:54Nobody would allow anybody to hurt Walter.
01:57My name is Shane Harris.
01:59And Walter Day and I used to be in love.
02:02He said, I wrote over 150 songs about you.
02:05And I said, what?