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Post by SmashTV on Oct 15, 2020 13:19:39 GMT -5
Porkys on the Atari 2600. As a kid we just thought one of the kids at school was lying about having a porkys video game. Then in 91 or 92 I found a copy at the flea market. The NES Platoon game wasn't bad. It was a rites of passage that every male teen in the 80s should see this film, with bonus points if they saw it in secret with their Dad. I’m very intrigued as to what the game involved, though. In the early 90s the Bruce Willis flop Hudson Hawk got an 8 bit release, as did cult hit Darkman if memory serves.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 15, 2020 13:24:32 GMT -5
Porkys on the Atari 2600. As a kid we just thought one of the kids at school was lying about having a porkys video game. Then in 91 or 92 I found a copy at the flea market. The NES Platoon game wasn't bad. It was a rites of passage that every male teen in the 80s should see this film, with bonus points if they saw it in secret with their Dad. I’m very intrigued as to what the game involved, though. In the early 90s the Bruce Willis flop Hudson Hawk got an 8 bit release, as did cult hit Darkman if memory serves. You can find gameplay videos for Porkys on Youtube. EDIT-https://youtu.be/XiI2yrT5I-o NSFW I think there might be some pixelated nudity in the video not sure. In 84 or 85 my parents rented Porkys. Every Thursday they would go bowl in a bowling league. They would be gone from 6pm until 10 PM. So they rented Porkys on Wednesday,was a 4 day rental. As soon as they left that Thursday every kid in the neighborhood was over at my place. Charged them either 50 cents or a buck,can't remember. And we watched the film. I forgot to rewind the tape. The next day Dad let me know he knew I had watched the film. "Look I dont care if you watch it but your mom doesn't need to know." Years later when Porky's Revenge,the third film,came out we all went to see it in a theater.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 15, 2020 13:46:54 GMT -5
It was a rites of passage that every male teen in the 80s should see this film, with bonus points if they saw it in secret with their Dad. I’m very intrigued as to what the game involved, though. In the early 90s the Bruce Willis flop Hudson Hawk got an 8 bit release, as did cult hit Darkman if memory serves. You can find gameplay videos for Porkys on Youtube. EDIT-https://youtu.be/XiI2yrT5I-o NSFW I think there might be some pixelated nudity in the video not sure. In 84 or 85 my parents rented Porkys. Every Thursday they would go bowl in a bowling league. They would be gone from 6pm until 10 PM. So they rented Porkys on Wednesday,was a 4 day rental. As soon as they left that Thursday every kid in the neighborhood was over at my place. Charged them either 50 cents or a buck,can't remember. And we watched the film. I forgot to rewind the tape. The next day Dad let me know he knew I had watched the film. "Look I dont care if you watch it but your mom doesn't need to know." Years later when Porky's Revenge,the third film,came out we all went to see it in a theater. I imagine you in a striped barker's shirt saying "2bits a gander"
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 15, 2020 13:52:24 GMT -5
You can find gameplay videos for Porkys on Youtube. EDIT-https://youtu.be/XiI2yrT5I-o NSFW I think there might be some pixelated nudity in the video not sure. In 84 or 85 my parents rented Porkys. Every Thursday they would go bowl in a bowling league. They would be gone from 6pm until 10 PM. So they rented Porkys on Wednesday,was a 4 day rental. As soon as they left that Thursday every kid in the neighborhood was over at my place. Charged them either 50 cents or a buck,can't remember. And we watched the film. I forgot to rewind the tape. The next day Dad let me know he knew I had watched the film. "Look I dont care if you watch it but your mom doesn't need to know." Years later when Porky's Revenge,the third film,came out we all went to see it in a theater. I imagine you in a striped barker's shirt saying "2bits a gander" I was 10 or 11 so odds are good I was in a Ramones or Sex Pistols shirt by then.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 15, 2020 14:06:40 GMT -5
I imagine you in a striped barker's shirt saying "2bits a gander" I was 10 or 11 so odds are good I was in a Ramones or Sex Pistols shirt by then. But you did use the word gander and other old thyme words to get attention
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 15, 2020 14:09:09 GMT -5
I was 10 or 11 so odds are good I was in a Ramones or Sex Pistols shirt by then. But you did use the word gander and other old thyme words to get attention I doubt I knew those words back then. I just that day on the school bus let everybody within walking distance. "Hey come over after 6pm. We are gonna watch Porkys" By then all the kids at school that lived in the part of town that had cable had seen it and told us about it.
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Post by SmashTV on Oct 15, 2020 14:15:16 GMT -5
It was a rites of passage that every male teen in the 80s should see this film, with bonus points if they saw it in secret with their Dad. I’m very intrigued as to what the game involved, though. In the early 90s the Bruce Willis flop Hudson Hawk got an 8 bit release, as did cult hit Darkman if memory serves. You can find gameplay videos for Porkys on Youtube. EDIT-https://youtu.be/XiI2yrT5I-o NSFW I think there might be some pixelated nudity in the video not sure. In 84 or 85 my parents rented Porkys. Every Thursday they would go bowl in a bowling league. They would be gone from 6pm until 10 PM. So they rented Porkys on Wednesday,was a 4 day rental. As soon as they left that Thursday every kid in the neighborhood was over at my place. Charged them either 50 cents or a buck,can't remember. And we watched the film. I forgot to rewind the tape. The next day Dad let me know he knew I had watched the film. "Look I dont care if you watch it but your mom doesn't need to know." Years later when Porky's Revenge,the third film,came out we all went to see it in a theater. This is EXACTLY what I’m talking about! I didn’t get ‘Mike Hunt’ until the third time she said it, and wondered why my Dad was laughing so hard. Once it was over he muttered ‘Don’t tell your mother’, and I never did.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2020 14:31:33 GMT -5
I mean that isn't too farfetched especially when GTA had the formula downpacked and you just had to make it diff enough The game was fun what is funny is that it basically misses the entire point of the movie >_> I mean, I understand this argument and agree with it to an extent but the dude had a ton of money, looked cool killing his enemies, survived a chainsaw attack, and had a last stand of sorts. The beginning shows that the prospects for him after immigrating were slim. I get that he went through a downward spiral and everything but the only reason he had heights to fall from in the first place was because he was a brutal killer. Like, he doesn't become an icon in hip hop culture because of the sound and sober morality tale he represents, necessarily.
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Post by agent817 on Oct 15, 2020 14:36:06 GMT -5
While the Scarface game was mentioned, I am surprised that The Godfather got a game, too. Not a bad game by any means. I just found it kind of odd.
While on the subject, does anybody know that a game based on The Untouchables exists? Well, it does and from what I've read, it's loosely based on the movie.
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Post by EP 54 is banned from Collision on Oct 15, 2020 15:14:51 GMT -5
Yeah, I've played the Untouchables! it was one of Ocean's game where each level was based on a scene in the film and each was a different genre.
If I remember rightly, the Untouchables functioned as lives, so you had 4 lives, Ness, Mallone (Sean Connery's Irish cop with the Scottish accent), Stone and Wallace (who was the weaselly accountant) and you could swap between them so if Ness's lifebar was getting low, you could switch to one of the others. If one died, it was permanent.
But there was a twist... If you watch the film, only two of them survive to the end, and if you let either of those two die you couldn't complete the game.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 15, 2020 16:03:14 GMT -5
Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the Atari. Don't forget Halloween for the 2600. Few years back a guy was making a Sharknado game for the 2600. He had previously made a few movie based Atari games,and got permission to do very limited runs. Whoever owns sharknado told him no. So he had to change a few things to his game. Bonus points if he turned around got a license from one of those Sharknado rip offs.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 15, 2020 16:05:53 GMT -5
The Warriors.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 15, 2020 16:57:20 GMT -5
Don't forget Halloween for the 2600. Few years back a guy was making a Sharknado game for the 2600. He had previously made a few movie based Atari games,and got permission to do very limited runs. Whoever owns sharknado told him no. So he had to change a few things to his game. Bonus points if he turned around got a license from one of those Sharknado rip offs. There is Sharknado rip offs? I know of Lavarantula,but that is also made by the Asylum.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 15, 2020 17:17:03 GMT -5
Bonus points if he turned around got a license from one of those Sharknado rip offs. There is Sharknado rip offs? I know of Lavarantula,but that is also made by the Asylum. Planet of the Sharks? Avalanche Sharks? Ice Sharks? f***! They’re probably all made by Asylum.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 15, 2020 18:21:25 GMT -5
Yea most of those are made by the Asylum. I was thinking more combining a animal with something like a volcano,tornado,hurricane,etc.
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