Video game gaffes in movies

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Originally Posted by Kiken

Wayne's World (the first movie):

Everytime they show a commercial for Noah's Arcade, they have footage from Sonic 1 playing in the background.

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I was gonna say this, but Sega did in fact have the Genesis version of Sonic available for their MegaPlay arcade system.

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Originally Posted by jonas

I've never seen a giraffe play video games

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I have seen Toys R'Us mascot playing video games before :)

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Originally Posted by kingoffighters

I have seen Toys R'Us mascot playing video games before :)

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I lol'd

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Originally Posted by galvatron

On the first season of House, they'd show House playing his GBA SP, or even letting a patient play, and they'd talk about getting to the next level, but the only footage they ever showed was Samus rolling into a ball on a Chozo statue in Metroid Fusion.

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House has a PSP now. :)

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

House has a PSP now. :)

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So he stopped playing games?

There's an episode of Square Pegs (Sarah Jessica Parker, 1982) where the high school sets up a Pac-Man machine in the cafeteria and one of the guys becomes an addict.

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Originally Posted by TobalRox

It's a matter of what's available for use at the time. Most of the time they just shoot the scene, and then add the footage of the game in post production. It's hard to make everything match up for something that is unimportant anout 90% of the public won't give a shit about.

I actually had a customer coming in at work asking for a game she saw in amovie... they were playing a PS2, but the movie had Wave Race on the screen. Yeah, not fun trying to explain to her it didn't exist on PS2. "But I saw it with my own eyes!"

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But why does this happen? I mean, how hard is it to throw together a PS2 and a TV and just have someone play?

If it was easier for me not to play anything, and just add the effects in post-production, I know I would.

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Originally Posted by Scourge

There's an episode of Square Pegs (Sarah Jessica Parker, 1982) where the high school sets up a Pac-Man machine in the cafeteria and one of the guys becomes an addict.

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Hah! I forgot that Father Guido Sarducci had to be called in to do an exorcism on the guy that couldn't stop playing Pac-Man.

http://www.gamearchive.com/General/A...983/SqPegs.gif

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Originally Posted by burgundy

But why does this happen? I mean, how hard is it to throw together a PS2 and a TV and just have someone play?

If it was easier for me not to play anything, and just add the effects in post-production, I know I would.

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Film runs at 24 frames per second, TVs don't. This means you have to get a special setup so you don't get roll bars... try video taping a PC monitor and you'll know what I'm talking about. It takes time to set something like that up, and that takes away from the actors just doing what they need to do, when you can just set it up as a different shot later on when actors aren't around. 99% of the time, the shots of the game are just the shot of the TV and do not have the actors in them at all. All those shots are done during "2nd unit" which means it's after the principle photography is over with and the actors have (hopefully) moved onto something else.

In the Drew Carey Show he always had a Saturn on top of his TV in the living room and I think in later seasons it was a Dreamcast. Mr. Show had a skit where the lazy young people (slackers) played Genesis Arnold Palmer Golf--the controller and game were clearly displayed but no sound effects. I think any modern game with a licensed soundtrack has to be redubbed when they show it on TV or whatever but the 8-bit sound effects are prolly a running gag by now.

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Originally Posted by TobalRox

Film runs at 24 frames per second, TVs don't. This means you have to get a special setup so you don't get roll bars... try video taping a PC monitor and you'll know what I'm talking about. It takes time to set something like that up, and that takes away from the actors just doing what they need to do, when you can just set it up as a different shot later on when actors aren't around. 99% of the time, the shots of the game are just the shot of the TV and do not have the actors in them at all. All those shots are done during "2nd unit" which means it's after the principle photography is over with and the actors have (hopefully) moved onto something else.

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They should still give the actors a real game to play so they don't button mash.