Video Games to movie and tv series and other Cartoon / video game adaptions by JAYNEZTOWN

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Video Games to movie and tv series and other Cartoon / video game adaptions

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Monday, May 27, 2024 9:43 AM

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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
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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