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Game - Movies ? ? ?

  • 27-11-2011 10:55PM
    #1
    djsim101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭


    Trying to build up my games themed movies \ documentary collection, so far I have :

    Chasing Ghosts
    Highscore (2006)
    The King of Kong

    All of which were excellent, have I missed any ofter classics.

    And I am not talking about the Super Mario Bros Moive :D


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  • #2
    CiDeRmAn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Tron?

    Cloak and Dagger?

    Wargames?

    Those are some 80's ones I remember.

    Not sure if D.A.R.Y.L. counts!

    Aside from that, there was that one that was a glorified Nes advert.

    And everyone knows that Aliens was just an excuse to build hype for the side scrolling shooter! ;)


  • #3
    djsim101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭djsim101


    Ha Ha CiDeRmAn,

    You let out Electric Dreams :)


  • #4
    CiDeRmAn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Ah yes. very good....

    90's seemed less fertile than the 80's for game themed movies, in the 80's, especially the early 80's computers were cool, New wave music had a digital core and it pervaded popular culture.
    Of course it didn't last too long and by the mid to late 80's computers were back in nerd-dom once again.


  • #5
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,767 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    The Wizzard!


  • #6
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Wizard


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  • #7
    80s Synth Pop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 808 ✭✭✭80s Synth Pop


    Grandmas Boy

    as recommended by pdbhp... :D


  • #8
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    80s Synth Pop wrote: »
    Grandmas Boy

    as recommended by pdbhp... :D
    That is a great movie :)

    "I am a robot"

    :D


  • #9
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Games of movies are almost universally crap.
    Movies of games are almost universally crap.

    The only exception being Home Alone on the SNES. I jest I jest.


  • #10
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,761 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    It's not a movie and nobody listens to me when I say it but game centre cx is the greatest tv series made about videogames ever with some documentary and interview sections. Loads of episodes have been translated as well and it's actively being translated, there's usually at least one a week completed.


  • #11
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Not sure if D.A.R.Y.L. counts!

    I bloody HATE that film. It's almost as dreadful as 'I Know My First Name Is Steven'. Both a bunch of old plop you'll usually find kicking around the matinee hours on 'popular' networks like ABC Family or the Hallmark channel.

    Personally I'd rather defecate in to a soup bowl and spoon feed myself lashings of my own DUMP while listening to a Mickey Bubbles Christmas CD than watch either of those films again. :pac:

    Oh and here's one for the list, The Last Starfighter. :)


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  • #12
    CiDeRmAn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    At least I know what the rendition team need to make you watch in order to spill about the locations of your PCB stash!

    And the Last Starfighter rocks, I grew up on that stuff!
    Explorers, Flight of the Navigator and The Wraith, good times!

    Star Wars was turned into a pretty awesome game, the add on pack to turn it into Empire Strikes Back was cool too.


  • #13
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Flight of the Navigator

    Legendary film. One of the very best. :)


  • #14
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,185 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    Frag (2007)


  • #15
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,682 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Is the last starcighter the one where is super excellent at a game and turns out it was a recruiting device by an intergalactic army?


  • #16
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,761 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    Is the last starcighter the one where is super excellent at a game and turns out it was a recruiting device by an intergalactic army?

    Yup.


  • #17
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    80s Synth Pop wrote: »
    Grandmas Boy

    as recommended by pdbhp... :D
    Tallon wrote: »
    That is a great movie :)

    "I am a robot"

    :D


    It's about time Grandmas boy got some appreciation around here:)
    Gas movie.

    "I'm thinking of getting robot legs! It's a dangerous operation but worth it in the long run"


  • #18
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,920 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    At least I know what the rendition team need to make you watch in order to spill about the locations of your PCB stash!

    And the Last Starfighter rocks, I grew up on that stuff!
    Explorers, Flight of the Navigator and The Wraith, good times!

    Star Wars was turned into a pretty awesome game, the add on pack to turn it into Empire Strikes Back was cool too.

    Is Explorers the movie they used an Amiga in to make some sort of space bubble or something like that? I think they used a 9v battery and then a car battery hooked up to the Amiga.

    Or have I just gone mental?

    .


  • #19
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,185 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Is Explorers the movie they used an Amiga in to make some sort of space bubble or something like that? I think they used a 9v battery and then a car battery hooked up to the Amiga.

    Or have I just gone mental?

    .

    That's called explorers
    I think it was an Atari maybe?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaN_b_4vHvM


  • #20
    CiDeRmAn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I'm sure that Dark Souls is actually a game to soften us up for what comes after death, none of this heaven and cloud surfing malarkey! Oh no, we'll be slicing and dicing, and in my case dying, for all eternity, or in Retr0's case, about 58 hours, not sure what he's going to do with the rest of eternity, Johnny Ultimate neither!


  • #21
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,761 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Excuse me, 53 hours and because I can beat it in 53 hours, by Official Irish Playstation Magazine logic it means that any opinion of mine automatically supersedes yours.


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  • #22
    defenderdude
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭defenderdude


    anyone ever seen this - nice game shots but a really terrible movie:rolleyes:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhJh4mKLod0


  • #23
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,185 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    defenderdude wrote: »
    anyone ever seen this - nice game shots but
    Now that's joystick control!


  • #24
    djsim101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭djsim101


    Thats why I love posting here, ye are all as much as a nerd as me.

    God Bless 80s movies:D


  • #25
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    defenderdude wrote: »
    nice game shots of the hot bird

    FYP.

    Is it just me being crude, or does every shot that cuts back to yer womans boat give you the impression she's playing with a different kind of joystick? ;)


  • #26
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    FYP.

    Is it just me being crude, or does every shot that cuts back to yer womans boat give you the impression she's playing with a different kind of joystick? ;)

    Especially when the song says "jerk it right"


  • #27
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    It would seem we're on the same page young Jacqueline Bertoli. It does indeed appear to be suggesting that the hot bird is tossing someone off. :D


  • #28
    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    Supermario Bros film was quite good

    And that film where Kevin Arnold plays in a video gaming championship


  • #29
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,761 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    nyarlothothep wrote: »
    Supermario Bros film was quite good

    NO!


  • #30
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    pdbhp wrote: »
    It's about time Grandmas boy got some appreciation around here:)
    Gas movie.

    "I'm thinking of getting robot legs! It's a dangerous operation but worth it in the long run"
    It's so messed up... In a good way

    I wish my job was like that


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  • #31
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,185 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    nyarlothothep wrote: »
    Supermario Bros film was quite good

    And that film where Kevin Arnold plays in a video gaming championship
    Eh his brother does :p
    The Wizzard


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