Cloak & Dagger on HBO

[dalton4life]

I saw this week Tuesday and it was definated nostalgic and nice to see the movie again that made me want a 5200 so much in the 1st place.

 

next airings:

http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleS...L&FOCUS_ID=6984

[Gunstar]

I was able to find an VHS tape of it on E-bay, so I own the movie now. The only reason I watch it is to see the Atari 5200 stuff, the story itself is actually pretty lame, which is probably why it's not shown on TV/cable more often and is so hard to find a copy of it in any format.

Edited April 24, 2005 by Gunstar

[20eyes]

I have a copy of it at my parents house that was taped off of tv, I should really put it on DVD soon.

[Dr. Van Thorp]

Funny thing is that the movie may have been based on an actual incident.

 

Back around 1980, federal agents came to Bally's developent lab and arested an employee; a Chinese imigrant.

 

The man arested was part of a spy ring. Members of the ring would bring him sensative military information, and he would record the information in to the unused space in the master copies of arcade video game ROMs, which would be copied by the millions and put in to arcade machines. Then Chinese agents would by the arcade machines through normal commercial channels and export them to China where intelligence agencies would retrieve the information from the ROMs.

 

So there are probably vintage machines all over the world that still contain spy messages. But you can't read the messages by getting a high score.

[Tanukitsune]

I barely remember that movie, dis the game in it really exist?

[Albert]

I still need to buy this movie on DVD. I've only seen it at one retail store, and that was a terribly expensive store in a mall that was charging above retail for it. So I passed, but sadly I have not seen it at Fry's, Best Buy, Circuit City, or any other stores. I just need to order the damn thing from Amazon.com or some other online retailer. Unfortunately I don't have HBO, so that's not an option.

 

..Al

[Dr. Van Thorp]

I barely remember that movie, dis the game in it really exist?

843009[/snapback]

 

Yes. A game was released when the movie was released. There was also a board game with a cool die-cast metal Jack Flak game peice.

[dalton4life]

I barely remember that movie, dis the game in it really exist?

843009[/snapback]

 

Yes. A game was released when the movie was released. There was also a board game with a cool die-cast metal Jack Flak game peice.

843062[/snapback]

 

From my understanding the arcade game existed but not a 5200 version and the gameplay shown in the movie was from the arcade game and not from a 5200 version.

[Cap5750]

http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=MCA026217

 

$6 here with free shipping.

[Albert]

http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=MCA026217

 

$6 here with free shipping.

843256[/snapback]

Ordered, thanks! That's a pretty good deal with free shipping and no sales tax.

 

..Al