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Monday, May 27, 2024 9:43 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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32 Classic Video Games That Need To Get A Movie Or TV Show

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/32-classic-video-games-movie-12340
6425.html




Boy... they're really stretching for titles here. Paperboy the movie? Space Invaders the movie? Bomberman the movie?

I think they've got maybe 5 titles in that list that could actually make a transition to the screen and have a possibility of being any good and/or making money. Probably Metroid, Half Life, Diablo, Grand Theft Auto and making a property based off of one of the popular Final Fantasy games instead of going their own way with it like they did with the first movie.

Maybe when they had all that Venture Capital they could have tried making a bunch of these games into movies if they weren't wasting all that money on DEI shit that nobody is ever going to watch, but nobody is going to make a Donkey Kong Country movie in 2024.


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Thursday, May 30, 2024 1:03 PM

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Given that Disney is doing Star Wars shows, one they could do is the storyline of X-Wing Alliance, fitting it into canon. The game actually told a story: the Azzameen family were sympathetic to the Rebellion, but not part of it - until they had a run-in with the Empire, and then Ace, Emon, Aeron, and their gung-ho droid Emkay had to join, as their home base was raided, their father Tomaas and brother Galen went MPD, and their only chance was a contact (i.e. FWB) she had in the Rebellion. There is of course treachery, in the form of their uncle Anton, who secretly informs the Empire of their doings and then betrays them at Kessel. The Bothans deservedly get a role, as does the fan favourite Dash Rendar - and the TIE Defender!

All the events fit into canon very neatly; might be nice to see an outsider's POV outside and then inside the Rebellion. One thing they absolutely must do, though: depict the traitor Anton getting his! :)

It'd make a great movie or series IMO.


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Thursday, May 30, 2024 9:16 PM

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Given that Disney is doing Star Wars shows, one they could do is the storyline of X-Wing Alliance, fitting it into canon. The game actually told a story: the Azzameen family were sympathetic to the Rebellion, but not part of it - until they had a run-in with the Empire, and then Ace, Emon, Aeron, and their gung-ho droid Emkay had to join, as their home base was raided, their father Tomaas and brother Galen went MPD, and their only chance was a contact (i.e. FWB) she had in the Rebellion. There is of course treachery, in the form of their uncle Anton, who secretly informs the Empire of their doings and then betrays them at Kessel. The Bothans deservedly get a role, as does the fan favourite Dash Rendar - and the TIE Defender!

All the events fit into canon very neatly; might be nice to see an outsider's POV outside and then inside the Rebellion. One thing they absolutely must do, though: depict the traitor Anton getting his! :)

It'd make a great movie or series IMO.



Sounds like everything you need to make an interesting story to me. Thanks for sharing it.

I was always a "gamer", but I didn't really get to experience the golden era of DOS even though I had a computer back then. It was an old 486 with a 33mhz processor that was already outdated when my mom made an impulse buy off of home shopping network. Not that I was complaining at the time, which would have been around 1993 or so, since we never had a computer until then and I wouldn't have known the difference anyway. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Even got it to play DOOM without the sound effects by learning the "secret" code of holding, I think... "alt & F5" to bypass the Windows 3.1 boot and give just enough memory to make it playable. I probably would have never even gotten into tech if it weren't for that thing and taking it apart on a hardware and software level after the novelty of it wore off with the rest of the family and they didn't care if I tinkered with it.

I didn't ever have a better PC than that until around 2000 when a buddy of mine taught me how to build one. We actually made it a day to go to a computer show that was being held locally and we bought all the parts. He built one at the same time he was showing me how to.

Our big mistake that day? Going halves on Windows Me. The worst operating system ever made. Who'd have known?

Once I got that thing up and running I was playing Deus Ex and having my mind blown to bits by that and I'd kind of just outgrew Star Wars by that time. I didn't even know this game existed until you mentioned it here. It's really cool how DOS was able to tell complex stories in its games all the way back in the mid-to-late 90's. Even though I didn't have a great computer, my cousins did and we played all sorts of cool stuff whenever we went over there. I played Star Wars games on Super Nintendo and the SEGA 32x, but as impressive as those games both were for their time, the storytelling aspect was so limited. My brother probably read every single Star Wars novel that Lucas declared canon, so I know it really erked him when Disney destroyed and discarded all of that.



Can you believe they have had interviews over the years defending themselves and talking about how hard it is to write new stories when they have all of these things that talented people wrote long before they were involved?

Boggles the mind...


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Friday, June 14, 2024 5:47 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Japan is the place to look, it still has so much cultural 'Soft power' and that tech 'Cool Japan' vibe among the gamer community, for its small size Japan dominates they had huge influence on toons and tech, manga, anime and video games have been huge, they seem to have a lot of indoor entertainment.
Sony, Nintendo, Sega all the big brands and games have been there for many years, before Mobile Cell Phones got big they had Gameboys for decades and many types of small hand held game devices that were like the Androids and iPhones, point and click puzzle games are a thing, Visual novels (VNs) there are also Interactive film cartoon or Interactive Live graphic adventure games, a new genre of tv might be launced the same way as Choose Your Own Adventure books.


There seems to be a lot of stuff in Japan a video game property already cartoon animated and some more upcoming international stuff


Hello Neighbor horror survival, Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel Northern War, Shenmue Animation, Dota Dragon's Blood, Devil May Cry, Ark The Animated Series, Dead Cells, Skull and Bones, Onimusha series, Hyper Light Drifter, Vampyr is an action role-playing video game.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13629530/

after Fallout I think its only a matter of time Hollywood starts looking through old dustbins and trash cans for video game plots

that's assuming Hollywood still has money to buy these properties and has the brain to make a decent tv show or movie and not ruin it with their SJW politics.

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Wednesday, June 26, 2024 6:56 AM

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Difficulty in Videogames Part 2


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Saturday, July 6, 2024 3:36 PM

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Wednesday, July 17, 2024 2:58 PM

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No Man's Sky



Fallout Show Nominated For 16 Emmy Awards, Including Best Actor For Walton Goggins

https://www.gameinformer.com/2024/07/17/fallout-show-nominated-for-16-
emmy-awards-including-best-actor-for-walton-goggins

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Wednesday, July 17, 2024 3:15 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I have no interest in No Man's Sky.

I hope they didn't spend the same amount of money on that show. Their built in fan-base is much smaller than Fallout. They're going to have to have put on a hell of a show here to pull in the normies without the Fallout fans getting other people to watch it.

I got my old man, my brother, and 3 of my friends to watch Fallout. And I'm just some nobody in my mid-40s. Fallout had a pedigree going back to 1997. No Man's Sky came out in 2016 and did not impress too many people. After the original letdown and laughter finally died out, I don't even think anybody took this game seriously until updates that were made to it 4 years after launch.

I'm not saying there isn't a story here if there's a great showrunner and writer's room, but I hope they kept that budget down and some dumb suit didn't just waste hundreds of millions of dollars here just because Fallout did so well.

...

Not that I care at all about award shows, but since they are a thing that is still around, I'm glad Fallout got 13 nominations. It deserves every one of them.

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Sunday, July 21, 2024 6:17 AM

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There are lots of old War epic video games, some with fan art animation

'Roman Legionary vs Greek Warrior?Cinematic DUEL?Total War: Rome 2'





Dynasty Warriors "True Three Kingdoms Unrivaled" a series of Japanese hack and slash action video games-based strategy Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, based upon the Chinese novel of the same name, which is a romanticised retelling of the Chinese Three Kingdoms period.




Honkai Star Rail - This one seems way to detailed to make into a show, science-fantasy universe in which humanity and sentient non-human beings follow the Paths of god-like beings


China and gaming Honkai Star Rail, the concepts seemed Japan anime like and gacha game a video game that implements the gachapon machine style mechanics, very similar to online digi currency within a game the loot boxes, gacha games entice players to spend in-game currency, Myriad Celestia vids are official Honkai Star Rail Trailer videos that showcase various stories and lore within the Chinese video game universe. Honkai Star Rail a role-playing gacha video game developed and published by miHoYo and publishing outside mainland China.



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Firefly Trailer — Embers in a Shell




Zenless Zone Zero Review
https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2024/07/09/zenless-zone-zero-review/
Zenless Zone Zero is another stylish and incredible-looking blast of anime goodness from the makers of Genshin Impact.

Halo TV Show Canceled After Just Two Seasons
https://kotaku.com/halo-tv-show-paramount-canceled-season-3-xbox-18515
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Sunday, July 21, 2024 7:34 PM

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Arcane: Season 2


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Sunday, July 21, 2024 8:51 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I think you need to add something to Oregon Trail to make something out of it. Zombies?

lol...

Try fording that river with a million zombies in it.



EDIT: Oops... I thought I was replying to the most recent post, but it was the last post on the 1st page. Still funny though.

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Sunday, July 28, 2024 4:47 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


‘Bioshock’ Film Adaptation Still in the Works With Scaled Down Budget; It’s a ‘More Personal’ Movie, Says Producer Roy Lee.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/bioshock-movie-scaled-down-netflix-
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Sunday, July 28, 2024 6:50 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Personal and scaled back can be a very, very good thing if done right.

I know nothing of Bioshock, but I know it has a pretty large fanbase out there somewhere.

I wish them luck.

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 9:31 AM

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 1:20 PM

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Everything we know about the Borderlands movie

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/borderlands-movie-release-date-cas
t-trailer-plot-102337074.html



Typical fluff piece.

That article has been up for 4 days now and there's not a single comment on it. That alone is pretty damning.

I don't expect Borderlands to do well.

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Monday, August 5, 2024 9:38 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


more Strikes!

Just when it looked likte Hollywood might make money on Mario, Sonic, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Resident Evil, Arcane, Castlevania, Tomb Raider, Halo


Strike!

Artificial intelligence threatens jobs, US voice and video game actors say

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/artificial-intelligence-threatens-job
s-us-voice-and-video-game-actors-say/A2557IIFUZD7BO54QVILBLGZHM
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024 6:45 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


before Video Games kids used their imagination or played Cowboys and Indians or board games

They have done Battleship, Clue aka Cluedo, The Surrounding Game about 'Go' a very old game like Checkers and Chess, there have been Chess movies, Dungeons & Dragons


Deborah Ann Woll Teaches Jon Bernthal Dungeons and Dragons




War Hammer 40 K is massive one if it can be done correctly, Games Workshop is from the 1970s and one of the largest wargaming companies in the world, entertainment art and creative board game models and game property expanding into novels, comics, role-playing games, television shows, internet streaming, it had LOTR and Dungeons and Dragons influences but then went to space because why not, futuristic wargame set in the grim darkness of the far future was about to explode onto the scene with Space Hulks and Rogue Trader and Space Crusade is an adventure board game a German highly censored version of the game was published under the name StarQuest the board game translation toned down most of the violent game elements.

already full of fan videos and radio audiodrama

"Gav and Bob"




TEMPUS PURGATUS - ADEPTUS MECHANICUM VS NECRONS


Baldermort's Guide



Games Workshop a British manufacturer of miniature wargames

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Wednesday, August 7, 2024 9:55 AM

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Jokes or taking Games too serious?


When Players Bring Joke Characters to Dungeons and Dragons




Probably won't be long before Candy Crush is done, Puzzle Quest, Farm Heroes apps that used to pop up and spam your Phone message or Facebook feeds

Hearthstone Has Received A Brand New Update, Patch Notes
https://gameranx.com/updates/id/504225/article/hearthstone-has-receive
d-a-brand-new-update-patch-notes
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Warhammer is the big one yet to be done




potentially Billions but in this political climate the imagery it probably has Hollyweird terrified now

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Saturday, August 10, 2024 2:43 PM

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One for the game Companies are Moronic thread?


Borderlands is in contest with its own studio with Lionsgate "The Crow" looks like another disaster

It's a D+ for Borderlands

https://x.com/CinemaScore/status/1822131974745538591

'Borderlands' Saved From a 0% Rotten Tomatoes Score by YouTuber Grace Randolph: 'Whatever Man, I Had a Good Time'

https://x.com/TheWrap/status/1821674783588696293




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Saturday, August 10, 2024 5:02 PM

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Those Covid years were good for board games

Free time during lockdown helped board game sales to jump in 2020 - report
https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/board-game/news/games-and-puzzl
es-market-2020-2021


37% of us play more board games since covid, data suggests
https://www.wargamer.com/board-games/post-covid-stats-survey

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Saturday, August 10, 2024 10:35 PM

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One for the game Companies are Moronic thread?


Borderlands is in contest with its own studio with Lionsgate "The Crow" looks like another disaster

It's a D+ for Borderlands

https://x.com/CinemaScore/status/1822131974745538591

'Borderlands' Saved From a 0% Rotten Tomatoes Score by YouTuber Grace Randolph: 'Whatever Man, I Had a Good Time'

https://x.com/TheWrap/status/1821674783588696293






Even my old man knows who Grace Randolph is after all the Disney shilling last year and he'd heard about her giving it the first and only positive review in the first 24 hours reviews were up. He's also aware of the $50 per review a lot of these "critics" that aren't counted in the Top Critics get for reviews that are 3 stars or higher.

When I mentioned how bad Borderlands did and that Bruce didn't have the production budget up yet, he said it would be funny after it fails if Lionsgate came out and said it wasn't so bad because their marketing budget was only $50... Thanks Grace!

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Thursday, August 15, 2024 5:08 AM

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Behemoth




S.T.A.L.K.E.R. set in an alternate version of the present-day Chernobyl Exclusion Zone


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Thursday, August 15, 2024 5:11 AM

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Gears of War & 6 Other Video Games That Need a TV Show

https://fandomwire.com/gears-of-war-6-other-video-game-that-need-a-tv-
show
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Saturday, August 24, 2024 12:17 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Maybe some Naval video games...more than 'Battleship'




Dunkirk style or Das Boot style or pirate style, Secret of Monkey Island, Valheim, Furious Seas, Atlantic Fleet, Sea Dogs To Each His Own, Command Modern Air/Naval Operations, Sea of Thieves already lots of ship and sub films, U-571, the Swash buckler movies and Greyhound, The Admiral Roaring Currents, K-19 The Widowmaker, Hunt for Red October, Battleship Potemkin, Master and Commander The Far Side of the World.

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Saturday, August 24, 2024 1:00 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I'd watch a Secret of Money Island movie made under the right circumstances. And if it was good I'd actually look forward to LeChuck's Revenge.

Pirate movies are a pretty hard sell. They managed it with Depp's Pirate movies, but 9 times out of 10 I think that a Secret of Monkey Island movie would make Cutthroat Island look like a masterpiece by comparison.

How would they even be able to make it funny? Hollywood has no sense of humor in current year.

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Saturday, August 24, 2024 3:02 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


maybe not the 'Next Big Thing'

Gamer AAA (Triple-A) is a buzzword used to classify video games produced or distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, which typically have higher development

Concord is a 2024 first-person hero shooter game developed by Firewalk Studios

game was released for PlayStation 5 and Windows

Player Numbers Show Concord Is The Worst AAA Game In Years—And It’s Not Even Close
https://www.xfire.com/concord-is-the-worst-aaa-game-in-years/

Concord hero shooter is off to slow start on PC, rated 3.5 stars on PS Store
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/100108/concord-hero-shooter-is-off-to-s
low-start-on-pc-rated-3-5-stars-ps-store/index.html


PlayStation’s ‘Concord’ Did Not Break 700 Players On Steam On Launch Day
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/08/24/playstations-concord
-did-not-break-700-players-on-steam-on-launch-day
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Sunday, August 25, 2024 6:37 PM

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2025 is Going to Be a Massive Year for Gaming, Movies, and TV

https://gamerant.com/2025-new-games-movies-tv-gta-6-cena-retirement-st
ranger-things-dcu
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The 10 Best 'South Park' Video Game Episodes, Ranked

https://collider.com/south-park-video-game-episodes-best-ranked/


since no studio will touch this Board Game 40K subject, that will do AI ....well done Artificial Intelligence



40K isn't all about war and angry humans, at times there is Orcs or a goblin doing something silly, funny and stupid, there are space pirates, sometimes the tau says a philosophical phrase, there are book keepers arguing over old texts and other times it is Grimdark with Tyranids


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I agree it could make an excellent subject to make into tv movie material








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Friday, September 6, 2024 3:15 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


someone else predicts a gaming crash

but Wild West in a desert land, sand extremely dry area of land with sparse vegetation the West meets Mechwarrior or Giant steam punk machine?



'Sand'

Big Robo Spiders Shoot Each Other

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024 4:46 AM

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it literally looks like a Video Game

or B movie with small stage / set and lots of GreenScreen Blue Screen


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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 4:59 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Prime Video’s Most Successful Show “Fallout,” Left Empty Handed At The Emmys

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quentinsinger/2024/09/16/prime-videos-mos
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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 7:06 PM

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Prime Video’s Most Successful Show “Fallout,” Left Empty Handed At The Emmys

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t-successful-show-fallout-left-empty-handed-at-the-emmys/



Not surprised.

What a great show that was. Hope they don't screw season 2 up.

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Monday, September 23, 2024 5:58 PM

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Five Nights At Freddy's 2 another Sonic and rumors of Zelda


Video Game Movies: How Gaming is Influencing Hollywood

https://filmthreat.com/features/video-game-movies-how-gaming-is-influe
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Monday, October 7, 2024 2:15 PM

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Pirates and Ships and Games

'Neverseas'


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Thursday, October 17, 2024 4:28 AM

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Japan Ninjas are back

Shinobi is the next Sega series getting a movie adaptation
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/shinobi-is-the-next-sega-series-getting-
a-movie-adaptation




Arcane: Season 2



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Saturday, October 19, 2024 3:01 PM

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and the other way? a ground breaking fx movie for its time a film about video gamer culture and a corporate AI story

New Tron Video Game Announced Alongside Trailer
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/tron-video-game-announced-alongside-1922363
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Saturday, October 19, 2024 5:49 PM

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Were you a big Tron fan? I could never get into it.

Hopefully the video games they make for it are better than the old Arcade/Atari ones were. Those games were awful, even for their time.

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Monday, October 21, 2024 5:56 AM

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Video Game Movies: How Gaming is Influencing Hollywood

https://filmthreat.com/features/video-game-movies-how-gaming-is-influe
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Were you a big Tron fan? I could never get into it.




Maybe it depends on your life where you were born and what kids were on the block or in your urban town and older brothers were in the neighborhood city. I never gave much details but I've a feeling I'm maybe a little older than you but not sure I could also be younger...anyways VHS was a thing and then with computers and playstations everyone got to play new DVDs, you always could sneak into a cinema to watch a horror when young or some person's older brother had a adult thriller. Tron back in its day was a big thing, you had Terminator 2, Jurassic Park they were huge, the record was held by Jurassic Park until Cameron came along with 'Titanic' was the big money maker, The Matrix came out and everyone was talking about AI and virtual reality and Cyberpunk.
but Tron was first like William Gibson's book or Dark City a 1998 film, David Warner who plays the villain is now dead 2022.
I became something of a film buff maybe thanks to other people and 'Tron' was one of those things everyone respected for effort. Tron not really a kids film but some adult themes and AI topics, plus I liked Jeff Bridges and was getting into old Garage sale flea market, yard sale, bootsales of Babylon five (a very underrated show today but slow which had a massive cult following for good reason) the FX for Tron during its time was 'ground breaking' it was one of cinema's earliest films to use extensive computer-generated imagery a new tech CGI it was disqualified in 1982 because the California Academy felt that using computer animation was "cheating".
TRON BANNED FROM AWARDS the magazines told you in film history!
I didn't see Tron from the start in cinema release but like StarWars I got to see it later and I understood why the youth of that time enjoyed it, Tron is a fun movie and its influence on cinema ground breaking and unrewarded...would there be 'the Matrix' without Tron?

its good Tron faded out for a while, it is kind of back underground with a cult following because Hollyweird would destroy it today

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Were you a big Tron fan? I could never get into it.



Maybe it depends on your life where you were born and what kids were on the block or in your urban town and older brothers were in the neighborhood city. I never gave much details but I've a feeling I'm maybe a little older than you but not sure I could also be younger...


I've always pegged you as older than me, but I've done that my whole life. For years I thought Frem had a couple of decades on me and it was only somewhere around the time I sobered up and he disappeared for good that I realized he might actually be younger than me or that we're at least really close in age.

I didn't have any older brothers or even any older cousins even. And we had close to 2 dozen of those. (Conversations like these make you wonder how much different life would be for any of 3 brothers who were the first born, somewhere in the middle and one of the last born in the family, all other things being equal).

I'd peg you at around 5 or so years older than me though, if you were to ask me that question right now.


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anyways VHS was a thing and then with computers and playstations everyone got to play new DVDs, you always could sneak into a cinema to watch a horror when young or some person's older brother had a adult thriller.


Well... Playstation came pretty late in my "childhood", so maybe I'm actually a little older than you are? I bought one of those from a friend who said it fell off a truck for $200 in either Junior or Senior year. I was an Atari/Arcade baby and NES was my first big new system upgrade in life. My first CD player was something I earned by selling more crap from a fundraiser than anybody else in the school, and that was 8th grade. I didn't buy my first DVD player until I was 19 and out on my own.

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Tron back in its day was a big thing, you had Terminator 2, Jurassic Park they were huge, the record was held by Jurassic Park until Cameron came along with 'Titanic' was the big money maker, The Matrix came out and everyone was talking about AI and virtual reality and Cyberpunk.


Yeah. I "grew up" while everything you're talking about was happening. I'm just curious now who is older than who. I'm 45.

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but Tron was first like William Gibson's book or Dark City a 1998 film, David Warner who plays the villain is now dead 2022.
I became something of a film buff maybe thanks to other people and 'Tron' was one of those things everyone respected for effort. Tron not really a kids film but some adult themes and AI topics, plus I liked Jeff Bridges and was getting into old Garage sale flea market, yard sale, bootsales of Babylon five (a very underrated show today but slow which had a massive cult following for good reason) the FX for Tron during its time was 'ground breaking' it was one of cinema's earliest films to use extensive computer-generated imagery a new tech CGI it was disqualified in 1982 because the California Academy felt that using computer animation was "cheating".
TRON BANNED FROM AWARDS the magazines told you in film history!
I didn't see Tron from the start in cinema release but like StarWars I got to see it later and I understood why the youth of that time enjoyed it, Tron is a fun movie and its influence on cinema ground breaking and unrewarded...would there be 'the Matrix' without Tron?



The funny thing is that Tron just never really played on TV at all when I was growing up. I saw a lot of sci-fi and horror stuff over the years on cable since I was one of the lucky ones who grew up with an old man who was plugged into HBO on day one. I remember recording cool oddball cult classic movies like Dreamscape and Enemy Mine after I figured out how to program the VCR to get movies that played after our bedtime. But somehow Tron was never a part of my life.

My old man is a huge Sci-Fi guy, but that doesn't mean he liked Tron. I know for sure he disliked Star Wars decades before it was cool to hate on it. I always thought of Star Wars / Star Trek as one of those things people argue about like Ford / Chevy or Elvis and the Beatles. I didn't understand why my old man loved boring Star Trek and didn't like Star Wars, and it was only when I got older and watched stuff like Deep Space 9 that I got it. It was possibly my enjoyment of Star Trek in my mid 20's that made me outgrow Star Wars years before Disney announced they were buying it. But yeah... I don't recall either of us ever discussing Tron.

I probably should watch it one day.

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its good Tron faded out for a while, it is kind of back underground with a cult following because Hollyweird would destroy it today


You know they would.

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Thursday, October 24, 2024 5:34 AM

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Hollywood still digging for games...maybe its something we don't understand, that whatsap tiktok Taylor Swift type GenZ gap


I don't give out info on the net but youre closer to my age than I thought


Glad I grew up in a time when people looked around, took in the sun, nobody seen a Syrian Libya Afghan invader arrive collect money and go jihad, mass shootings were a rare happening...people had 'Tree Houses' in the Urban area or Street ball or hop and jump and hide some game weird mixes of Cowboys and Indians and Tennis ball and Street-ball game was invented, every kid didn't have their heads buried in their phones


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Every upcoming video game movie you need to know about
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Thursday, October 24, 2024 1:17 PM

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Yeah. I think we grew up in a pretty cool period of time.

Half the stuff my parents did or didn't do would probably have gotten us taken away by DCFS in 2024. I was a latchkey kid who was babysitting both of my brothers after school at home alone until around 6:30PM. They were 7 and 9 and the 7 year old was disabled. When I wasn't babysitting them, I could meet up with friends and get into trouble all day as long as we were home before the sun went down.

Until I was around 8 years old, my grandparents still had a rotary phone which they finally got rid of because you couldn't navigate any menus with a rotary phone. I was 9 or 10 years old before my mom got an answering machine that used micro cassette tapes for her message and the messages people left. Caller ID didn't come until later, and for the first few years you had to type something like "*67" and pay a fee to the phone company and they'd tell you the number that called you. I had the first pager among my friends at 18 and the first cell phone at 19. Primeco baby... $50/mo. in 1999 for 200 minutes. No text. No free nights or weekends. 50 cents per minute overage charges. I briefly had a free dial up internet with NetZero at my grandma's house, but I could only use that at night when everybody else was asleep and I wasn't tying up the phone lines. It wasn't until I was 25 and had my own place again that I finally got "High Speed" cable internet, which was very, very slow compared to the speeds we get today.

We're the generation that saw all of that.



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Saturday, October 26, 2024 3:56 PM

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The "survival horror" has been made into a movie, the term first used for the original Japanese Playstation release of Resident Evil aka Bio-hazard in 1996 but the genre might date back older 1980s Atari 2600, the Computer PC games, Interactive movie puzzle adventures, Nintendo platforms and Castlevania




The 20 Best Horror Games Of The Last 20 Years
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Beneath the Frost: First Trailer Teases a Haunting Arctic Horror
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The best horror video games you need to play
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Sunday, October 27, 2024 1:04 AM

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It would be a stretch to call anything on the Nintendo "horror", but some argue that the Japan only release of "Sweet Home" was the origin of survival horror.



I don't know the intricacies of it all, but it is actually tied into the Resident Evil story. The game has gotten two different fan translations and I've played both of them. The first one was pretty cryptic with the puzzles and the second translation did a much better job letting you know what you were meant to do. The cool thing about the first translation was that they stuck the words "Resident Evil" into a sentence one of the NPCs said later in the game. The 2nd translation, being a lot more faithful to the original script, didn't have that line.

The game plays about as much like a survival horror game as an 8-bit game from the 90's could. You brought around two or three different teams of the 5 or 6 characters that are trapped in this haunted mansion, and each person has different skills that are needed to get to deeper parts of the game. Pretty easy at first, but as you learn more about the game the puzzles require you to do some planning to make sure you're getting the right group of people to the right place to complete the puzzles.

The action is straight up Dragon Warrior RPG. You move around in the mansion without seeing any of the enemies, but you drop into random turn-based combat from time to time. But unlike Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy or Wizardry there wasn't any "safe space". No town to go back to and rest up and restock supplies. You had a limited number of ways to keep yourself battle-ready and until the very end of the game they were usually in very short supply. Whenever you opened a door in the game it also had a door opening scene pop up like the first Resident Evil on Playstation had when moving from room to room.

It's one of a fairly long list of games that should have made it outside of Japan but never did. At least there's a strong community of people out there who have taken it upon themselves to spend their own free time doing this without any compensation. I remember being impressed when I saw my first translated Nintendo game. Now they're out there translating games from the Playstation 2 generation.



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Sunday, October 27, 2024 2:05 PM

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I forgot about other Japan games, the retro gaming community is pretty cool and its nice they re-release stuff on emulators or phones etc

and gaming, one of those 'StarCraft' things



made for movie / tv ?

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Saturday, November 2, 2024 9:29 AM

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Lionsgate Scares Up Red Barrels’ ‘Outlast’ Video Games For Live Action Film

https://geekculture.co/lionsgate-scares-up-red-barrels-outlast-video-g
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Lionsgate Scares Up Red Barrels’ ‘Outlast’ Video Games For Live Action Film

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... because they did so well with Borderlands.

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Classic ‘Oregon Trail’ Game Embarks On Cinematic Development Journey At Apple

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Tell us you're completely out of ideas without telling us you're completely out of ideas.

Can't wait for the Odell Lake origin story.

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‘Space Nation’ TV Series in the Works From Filmmaker Roland Emmerich Based on New Online Roleplaying Video Game (EXCLUSIVE)
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Mass Effect TV show is happening but the writer is a big red flag
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I'm not sure that over-saturating the market with video game content is the correct course of action now that the comic book movie is dying. Offerings like Fallout are the extreme exception to the rule when it comes to Hollywood trying to make video game adaptations.

8 years ago I would have been thrilled to see a Borderlands movie being made. Then it came out at least 5 years too late and was ruined by idiots. I assume that nobody involved in making that movie ever played more than 30 minutes of the game and only because they were forced to.

This should be an exciting time for gamers. We're having TV shows and movies being made that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. But after nearly a decade of woke ruining every story they could get their hands on, I don't think anybody gets excited when announcements for any video game adaptations are made.

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I haven't seen a Fast and the Furious movie since the first one came out... was it back in the 90's? That being said, just having a guy who wrote for the 9th one doesn't send up any huge red flags for me. I could see where some people might worry that they're going to turn an intelligent story like Mass Effect's into a Michael Bay production, but let's be perfectly frank here... If it was just a mindless Michael Bay movie, that would be 10 times better than whatever woke shit this would have turned out to be if it were released in 2021.

I have no dog in this race. Mass Effect means nothing to me. I only know so much about it because my brother was a huge fan of the games. I hope they do it right for him.

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