Entex Galaxian 2 in the Doom Movie

[Godzilla]

Anyone else notice this? I have to say I was pleasantly surprised to see one of my favorite VFD's on the big screen, actually getting some screen time :-) It looked brand new. What impressed me the most was that they used the real, actual, sound effects from the game in the movie and not just a little bit. The sounds even seemed to fit the players reactions (since I actually know the game :-) ) Im just so used to hearing yars revenge or pac man whenever a game is played, no matter what it is :-)

[Gregory DG]

That's cool. I thought it was just a prop they made up and not a actual working game...

 

I thought it was strange for the guy to be playing it instead of some Ultra Gameboy.

[Zwackery]

In my own unpublished script for a DOOM movie, I have the titular hero playing AvP on an Atari Jaguar, and one of the other marines gives him crap for "preferring that old 2D crap to the better VR games." I got a double chuckle upon seeing the Entex.

Edited November 3, 2005 by Zwackery

[NE146]

Some others (including the Doom one): http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Movies/index.html

 

Ok, here's some trivia for you guys.. Yeah it's generally known that in the movie Tron, Flynn was playing a Coleco Electronic Quarterback. HOWEVER, the sound effects used were from another popular handheld. What was it?

 

[Shannon]

Anyone know what game that kid in "Charlie and the chocolate factory" was playing?

[Cassidy Nolen]

Whatever Will Smith "Cloak-and-Dagger"-type move in the mid 90's was, there was a Turbo Express in that one. I remember it being the case for whatever everybody was after. Can't think of a movie they actually play one in (other than maybe Joy Sticks----best movie EVER ).

 

Cassidy

[carpecarne]

Anyone know what game that kid in "Charlie and the chocolate factory" was playing?

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I don't know the game, but if you look closely at the console he's playing on, it looks like a 2600 with some weird cartridge attachment to it.

 

I thought it was funny that a 2600 could play an FPS!

[Fellow Atari Man]

Ok, here's some trivia for you guys.. Yeah it's generally known that in the movie Tron, Flynn was playing a Coleco Electronic Quarterback. HOWEVER, the sound effects used were from another popular handheld. What was it?  

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I was thinking it was the MATTEL Football game, but I could be wrong on that one.

[NE146]

These guys say it was Coleco too. http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Movies/Tron.htm I'll admit though I don't really know 100%

 

But anyway, either way.. I guess I'll answer the trivia question now. The sound effects used for the game were from...... That's right: Entex Space Invader

[Fellow Atari Man]

Ha ha, I HAD that game. Wasn't that great

[christianscott27]

uber geek level movie handheld trivia

 

Another beautifully evocative piece from the Blade Runner soundtrack, "Memories Of Green", is distinctive for it's melancholy, "drunk" piano sound. This was achieved by putting a Steinway Grand piano through an Electroharmonix "Electric Mistress" guitar flanger pedal - the sort of irreverent recording technique which would be shunned by most professional engineers/producers at the time, but which was readily used by Vangelis in his search for new sounds and textures. The electronic noises also featured on this track came from one of the first handheld electronic games, a Japanese product called the "Bambino UFO Master Blaster Station"(!). Raphael Preston remembers "…having to play it for the length of the piece without losing the game, because when you lost, it made the most horrible noise…"

 

which is one the sleekest looking handhelds ever

 

[keilbaca]

uber geek level movie handheld trivia

 

Another beautifully evocative piece from the Blade Runner soundtrack, "Memories Of Green", is distinctive for it's melancholy, "drunk" piano sound. This was achieved by putting a Steinway Grand piano through an Electroharmonix "Electric Mistress" guitar flanger pedal - the sort of irreverent recording technique which would be shunned by most professional engineers/producers at the time, but which was readily used by Vangelis in his search for new sounds and textures. The electronic noises also featured on this track came from one of the first handheld electronic games, a Japanese product called the "Bambino UFO Master Blaster Station"(!). Raphael Preston remembers "…having to play it for the length of the piece without losing the game, because when you lost, it made the most horrible noise…"

 

which is one the sleekest looking handhelds ever

 

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I had one of those... and am currently looking for one.