Remember those Atari games from the 80's?

Ron-P
Ron-P Posts: 8,520
edited January 2011 in Music & Movies
Well, get ready to see them on the big screen.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/19043/fox-develops-missile-command-movie
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,318
    edited January 2011
    Hmmmm
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  • Libertyc
    Libertyc Posts: 915
    edited January 2011
    I use to love Missile Command on my old Atari.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2011
    Missile Command... Asteroids... RCT - The Movie?

    Let's see... game based movies with characters all bombed, so-o-o-o the HW braintrust figures games with no characters will do better???

    That's why they get the big bucks...
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited January 2011
    How the hell do you make a movie out of Missile Command? It basically had no plot line whatsoever...:confused: It's a fun game(in fact I still have an Atari with around 50 different games, including Missile Command)...but it was essentially a mindless "blow-em-up" kinda game.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited January 2011
    One of my first jobs was fixing the Atari 2600 game consoles. Gee you bring back some memories of that :smile:

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  • Bobsama
    Bobsama Posts: 526
    edited January 2011
    As long as they don't choose another sappy buffoon of a hero/main character and have plots you can shoot ICBM's through, they should be fine. If they want to get creative, they could turn a basically no-plot game into a heavily plotted movie. I'd actually like if they had the main character be seen as an antihero and is revealed to be the villain.
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited January 2011
    And when will Sly turn Contra into a movie? :biggrin:
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,225
    edited January 2011
    Now only if they made Burgertime the movie (I know its not really of this genre). Being crushed by giant burger ingredients with a cameo by Marlon Brandon uttering "the horror". I think this would be something so bad it might be funny. :eek:
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited January 2011
    pong
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited January 2011
    Pong I been told started it all.

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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited January 2011
    Paperboy could be a "funny violent" type movie.

    Qbert would probably be pretty good for a 3D film (though I haven't a clue what the movie would actually be about.)
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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited January 2011
    I guess we know what generation is in charge of hollywood these days...:wink:
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,960
    edited January 2011
    Frogger: The Motion Picture.
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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited January 2011
    I guess film makers are running out of intelligent ideas for new movies. Has everything really been covered yet so that they no longer know what to do?
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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited January 2011
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    Pong I been told started it all.

    Pong, asteroids, meh...I believe the game you are looking for was called Computer Space.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7-z94oHro
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited January 2011
    ...and Hollywood hits a new low. What's next, "The adventures of Cap'n Crunch"?

    Stupid.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2011
    How 'bout Joust... at least it has a "guy" riding a flying ostrich (or whatever)...
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    One of my first jobs was fixing the Atari 2600 game consoles...
    Hollywood... we have a plotline...


    There is a debate over which was the first video arcade game. Pong was the first CRT game I saw/ played, so it must have been first. :biggrin:

    Pong's biggest design flaw??? The box that caught the quarters was too small.
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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited January 2011
    Nolan Bushnell, who founded Atari, had a hand in creating both Computer Space and Pong with technology shared between the two. Computer Space was the first commercially available coin-op game in 1971. Pong followed soon after in 1972.

    Although Pong seems to have been much more popular with so many remembering this game as their first...
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited January 2011
    If anyone has an atari 2600 copy of ET I will be happy to give you a couple of dollars
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,225
    edited January 2011
    FYI - I was at Target last night and they are selling a retro Atari controller that is plug and play with 20 (I think) original games. It was on closeout for 5 bucks. Now that I think of this I should have bought one. :cool:
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,225
    edited January 2011
    Went back and bought the Atari plug and play. 10 games for 5 bucks. Haven't tried it yet..... :cool:
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,318
    edited January 2011
    Pac-man..movie..OK?

    How 'bout the orginal animated game...made before its time...Dirk the Daring

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