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• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Stupidity

  The Legend of Zelda cartoon was one of the more competent game-based television series to foul up the '80s. That's not saying much, I suppose, especially when you recall some of the show's more ridiculous traits. Here's ten minutes of The Legend of Zelda, as collected and sewn together by The Switcher. Guaranteed to make you cringe and say, "Oh Christ above why did I love this? No wonder nobody ever came to my birthday parties." I don't think I was ever aware that the Zelda cartoon had a considerable amount of innuendo. Dude, Link tried to ambush Zelda on her bed. If I were the king, I'd turn that impish rogue out on his bum and just set down some fly paper around the Triforce of Wisdom. Read More... Posted Nov 19 2008, 06:47 PM by Nadia Oxford with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: the legend of zelda, zelda, movies, nostalgia, link, video, fandom, nadia oxford, the '80s, game cartoons

• Movie to Game to Movie: Goldeneye

  Like everyone else who was alive in the late 90s, I played a hell of a lot of Goldeneye for the N64; as primitive as it may seem today, Rare's take on the Bond franchise was the first console shooter to make waves in a pre-Halo world. But despite the hours and hours I'd virtually murder my friends with the world's sexiest Englishman (not my definition), the source material never really interested me. At the time, I had never seen a James Bond movie, so I wasn't exactly worried if Goldeneye was a faithful movie-to-game translation. The N64 adaptation could have included a Kart racing level, and I wouldn't have known any better. All these years later, it's safe to say that I have Rare's version of Jimmy Bond's adventure inscribed in my brain where so much useful knowledge could be, so I thought it would be a surreal experiment to finally sit down and watch the movie I had already had a great amount of exposure to, albeit in a different form. It was weird. Read More... Posted Sep 26 2008, 12:00 PM by Bob Mackey with | with no comments Filed under: rare, goldeneye, fps, movies, n64, bob mackey

• Counterpoint: Games Shouldn't Try to Be Movies

  Tim Travers, Rolling Stone's movie critic has proclaimed GTA the "best summer popcorn movie" but I couldn't help but opt out of the merry round of high-fives going on over at Kotaku. For a couple reasons: First, GTA IV doesn't really break any new ground. It's a better looking, more detailed iteration of GTA III. Travers claims it's a "wow of a start" (whatever that means) on the road to cinematic artistry. I loved what I saw of GTA IV. It's a visceral experience with excellent pacing. The game did not drag for a moment, and it's detailed universe is a huge improvement to Liberty City's literal and figurative jagged edges in GTA III. But mechanically, it's nothing new.  Secondly, and most importantly, I don't want to see games moving in this direction. I think Will Wright (boy am I in love with this fella lately) was dead on when he claimed in a recent interview that "...game designers suffer from envy...and many of them want to be film directors."   Read More... Posted Jun 18 2008, 05:00 PM by Cole Stryker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: kotaku, cole stryker, movies, rolling stone, metal gear solid 4, gta iv

• Games to Film: Leo DiCaprio to Play Nolan Bushnell in Upcoming "Atari" Flick

  According to Slash Film, screenwriters Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman hope to incorporate elements from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Tucker. Bushnell was responsible for Pong, often credited as the first video game ever (untrue, but it was the first game to acheive widespread popularity among the general public). Bushnell went on to found Atari and Chuck E. Cheese. Now he's working on a restaurant franchise called uWink, a sort of Chuck E. Cheese for grown ups, where you place your order and play games on your table's touchscreen. Read More... Posted Jun 09 2008, 10:00 AM by Cole Stryker with | with no comments Filed under: games to film, atari, uwink, leonardo di caprio, nolan bushnell, king of kong, movies