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Videogame Cameos In Movies
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:27 am
by whupthewickedwurm
Heh, this is probably a really useless topic to bring up but...
For some reason I started thinking about the movie Encino Man yesterday... it featured the game Rad Mobile... And that got me thinking about the movie Rumble In The Bronx.(which was on TV a few weeks ealier) Jackie Chan's character gives the kid in a wheelchair a Gamegear I think... and the kid is playing it in the movie but THERE IS NO CARTRIDGE IN IT. I remember that really bothered me when I was little... no attention to accuracy.
But I guess it's sort of like that with all movies. They show people playing games but they're just mashing buttons or something... or they change the video game sound effects to some goofy generic Atari sounding stuff.
Anyone else seen any note worthy Videogame cameos in the movies or TV?
BTW wasn't that a Turbo Express in Enemy Of The State???
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:35 am
by Saraph
THE WIZARD! It was essentially 100 minutes of Nintendo advertisments.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098663/
In Dr. Giggles, a little boy was playing Dr. Mario while the evil doctor was killing his brother and girlfriend. That was cool.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104139/
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:37 am
by racketboy
I actually enjoyed The Wizard
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:04 pm
by Niode
Terminator 2 has after burner in it iirc.
AFAIK It was a turbo express in enemy of the state. He uses it to store the video tape. Rumble in the bronx got to me as well with the no cartridge thing! Really pissed me off for some reason. I remember shouting out "But there's no cartridge!!! Argh!!" Hehe!
Timesplitters is in Shaun Of The Dead.
That's all i can remember right now.
Dave Smith is a Sega fan
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:14 pm
by Majors
It Dave Smith flicks (Clerks, Mallrats, Jay and S. Bob SB, etc) there is a usual nudge to Sega. I remember NHL for Genesis<?> in Mallrats when Jason Lees char gets dumped by Shannen Doherty's.
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:32 pm
by little witch boy
best of the best 2. a kid was playing tetris complete with generic game sound fx. anyway his sitting there hammering the game pad and then he stands up and goes to the kitchen and the game was still playing it self. that was one of the funniest things id ever seen.
on Robocop 2, robocop smashed a rotten cops face into the arcade game- Bad Dudes or Midnight Resistence.
Cloak and dagger the movie had the game cloak and dagger in it.
that was a cool movie. the star of the movie was a 12 or 14 year old kid who blasted the bad guy with a gun at the end of the movie. now thats a kid movie.
I love the power glove.... its so bad.
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:54 am
by Conn
I remeber on the pilot episode of CSI, the black guy with a 'fro mentioned the Dreamcast.
can we say
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:52 am
by Majors
Dunno about it, but...
TRON?
Does any one remember the track _Proto Culture_ from Del the Funky Homosapien off of Both Sides Of The Brain? That was a video game shoutout brarage! Check it out, if you haven't heard of it:
ftp://66.56.129.217/uploads/16%20-%20proto%20culture.mp3
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:53 am
by Conn
Majors, that song owns. *Playlist'd*
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:15 am
by grittykitty
haha, del's great! i have his first cd, and the track "sleepin' on my couch" mentioned genesis
you better find a job so you can get an apartment
and you can save your crocodile tears
don't even start
with the sob stories
I got enough from the other seven brothas
in the den playin' Genesis
damn I can't win at this
seems like I'm gonna have to flip
and tell those other brothas
that they're gonna have to skip
I've had it up to here with these lazy cats
sleepin' on my couch and I'm tired of that
