Eric Power's cut-out animation music video celebrates vintage video games

Director Eric Power created a music video for musician Jeremy Messersmith's song "Video Games," using cut-out animation (collage and stop motion) to evoke nostalgia for vintage video games from the mid-1980s to early 2000s. The video opens with a paper reproduction of a Macintosh 128K (Apple, 1984) that morphs into an arcade cabinet, CRT TVs, a Nintendo Game Boy screen, and other gaming icons. It features milestones like Pong, Asteroids, Pac-Man, Tetris, The Legend of Zelda, as well as recent titles Cuphead and Gris. The song is the first single from Messersmith's album "Mixtape for the Milky Way," with lyrics reflecting on life's hardships compared to video games. Power and Messersmith selected games that personally impacted them, aiming to capture the intimate, private gaming experience of that era.