So in Star Trek... You have the holodeck, true virtual reality. Able to create the grittiest games ever, but everyone gets addicted to the mobile game.
+Brandon Pack The device altered players minds. It was not that they liked the game, rather they were addicted to the device. Those who have played talked it up so much everyone else had to try it at least once, then they were addicted too and convinced the next person to give it a try.
The TNG game released pleasure hormones in the brains of those who played it, making it essentially a drug. It would thus be more like heroin than sexual pleasure. Trek nerd out.
Pretty sure it was endorphins, the same things that gets released from certain activities in "free" mobile phone games, so in a way they predicted games would manipulate people using endorphins in order to get us addicted.
+Aaron Hall Best actual thing about that episode was the extremely hot Ashley Judd. Unfortunately she had to fake taking a romantic interest in boy blunder supernerd Wesley Crusher.
You showed a scene from "The Island" in the intro. Then never mentioned it again. Shame. Would've been fun pointing out the OG Xbox logo existing in 2019.
+SV67943 To be fair, furries have never been kind to furries. Even furries are chock full of stories about the weirdest shit other furries have done to and around them.
"What does AF mean?" "It means AS FU-" and just as it beeps, the screen goes black and my phone closes UA-cam. I laughed so hard. That couldn't have happened at a better time.
morbidchid I don't really want to sound too harsh here. Bearing animosity is a waste of energy, But I can't seem to word this in a way that doesn't sound a little crass. So to be clear I'm just trying to justify my defending Dorkly's artistic choice. What happened in this episode wasn't a case of censorship. Censorship is when content is taken out from the completed work for PC or PR reasons which alter whatever message the artists wants to convey. Or silenced completely by some third party (government/media/etc.) What we have here was a stylistic choice. They thought it was funnier bleeped and so do I. Not because some third party told them to, or because they were afraid of offending anyone. Besides, we knew he was saying fuck so bleeping it didn't change what he said,, just how we heard it. So nothing was cut out in this instance. only edited to make what they (the artists) believed to be a better video.
Joshua Schmidt But it's not an artistic thing. It's a thing created by the FCC that should not be enforced for any reason on the internet. And it's been proven that the word actually gets more meaning (and seems to us to be more intense) if they bleep it out. So you notice the word a lot more (and think about it in a negative light) when you hear a bleep instead of just hearing the word. What we have is NOT a stylistic choice, but people afraid of changing the status quo. Thinking that swearing will somehow make this video not viewable for a younger audience (that use the word more frequently than anyone else). And if you think this had nothing to do with PR then you're wrong.
Don't forget that one episode of Law and Order SVU where the killer played a video game that was like Grand Theft Auto if the goal of that game really was to rape and kill hookers and take their money "for points".
+weedongding dorly missed out on that unfortunately, they basically showed second life and it wasn't some remake, it was an actual second life game from what I recall
Tony says, "Featured an addictive video game that made you feel so good you'd come in your pants" "I'm sorry, i didn't get that" my Windows 10 Cortana suddenly chimes in. I laughed my ass off.
Startrek concepts of what futuristic videogames would look like were the worst. Remember when they had all these wires to control what was essentially a crappy virtual boy? Oh and remember the Virtual Boy? Yeah, that was a bad idea, but at least it gave us Wario!
Martok84 Yeah it's insane how they had Holodecks but at the same time they thought videogames that looked like Atari Games with lots of wires everywhere would be futuristic. The 1980's man, the 1980's.
ComputerControlled I seriously never knew Wario had been around before the Virtual Boy. All these years I've been saying "The virtual boy was bad, but at least we got Wario" HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO WRONG _sobs_
+Socialist Skeptic Not sure why a holodeck society would even need to have a distinct category of "videogames." Who the fuck wants to use a controller, wear weird glasses, or shove something into your brain, when you can simulate just about anything with a single voice command?
+Leon I'm not so sure about that. Chris Columbus directed "Pixels" and even though it was only Video Game adjacent/themed it was just awful. And he directed also Home alone and was one of the screenplay writers for "The Goonies". But perhaps someday, someone will make a decent Video-Game Movie, i still have hope.
Hey guy, ExistenZ wasn't supposed to be realistic in terms of how people would play videogames. It's extremely exaggerated and you would have known that if you knew more about David Cronenberg. His movies often portray an exaggerated sense of a subject. Videodrome is a good example of that, I mean do you really think a television network dedicated to snuff and sex would really- *Cue HBO logo* God dammit. But still, ExistenZ is awesome.
+Disgusted Batman Thanks for the clarification. It's also meant to be more of a 'Second Life' kind of thing, not a traditional game. I used to love this film and had completely forgotten about it because no one talks about it.
+Disgusted Batman Exactly, the characters have entered into multiple games within games (Gameception) and the organic controler was one of them that was already in the game. Do you homework, nerd.
See, I know this isn't a movie, but it's still relevant. This is why Ready Player One was such a good book. It was well written and was very deeply rooted in Video game culture. It understood video Gams. If you haven't read the book yet, I really recommend it
Getting the rights for videogames is a lot more expensive and complicated than music. That's why they usually make up their own videogames in movies/TV unless if the story calls for an already licensed videogame(The Wizard for example). Every now and then they go meta though(Breaking Bad, when Jesse was playing Rage) but ordinarily they try to avoid the hassle because the paperwork, cost, effort and time it takes to get the rights isn't worth it in the longrun.
Sword Art Online thinks people would play MMORPG's that don't have magic, the Japanese government would allow VR headsets to be sold that can omit fatal levels of microwaves and then not do anything when people are being held hostage online, and players would just go to a different VRMMORPG after escaping traumatizing circumstances. Oh, and let's not forget that it's the fuckin premise of the show and not just a one-off episode!
The one time a movie got it right: Stay Alive. I WANTED to play that game. It honestly looked like something I would love. We don't have enough good horror multiplayer games.
anyone remember there was a tv series (i forget the name) in the 90's, where this guy accidentally brought his game to reality. the last boss is actually his father; and the 1st episodes' enemy is a football jock call "kill shot"
I remember the TNG episode every time an abusive parent kills their kids, and videogames are sighted as an aggravating factor, even though abusive parenting is not a newly emergent social behavior in our society. If anything, it's quite primal. Anyway, aside from that, I'm lucky to have missed all the other depictions of gaming that made it on this list. I guess I don't watch as much TV as I thought.
Licensing seems to be more of a costly and time consuming process than I once thought. That's apparently why shows are using different intro music. Shows as old as Wonder Years and as recent as House would rather change the music than bother getting the rights to the original music all over again. I don't blame them for using fake games, I just blame them for their lack of creativity. That 'tubes eating discs' game was one of the worst ones I've seen.
+Jester Azazel I actually thought it was one of their better ones(mostly cause it would be like a flappy or angry birds), first person shooter was the worse because of a ton of reasons 1.the name is dumb, like really dumb, no game company would call their game something that boring unless they had some witty marketing 2. its basically a shooting gallery and those went out in the mid 90s the last one i remember playing was time crisis 3, and that's an arcade game so it makes sense 3. The moment anyone died from in the game it would be pulled or stopped, yeah some people have died playing video games , but those were either due to exhaustion, clots, dehydration, or cause people were being really stupid and wasn't the games fault itself 4. a game that real looking would have to be super expensive, like it would be like possibly millions or billions to produce so it wouldn't be cost effective 5.you could only advertise to people that play FPS specifically which makes your audience smaller again playing into its cost effectiveness I could literally go on XD I don't think its a lack of creativity, but its more a lack of understanding, cause i have seen games I would play in movies that don't exist. Most of these people who are making these have never played a game in their life, I think in the near future, fake games are gonna look a little more realistic, its just the kinda of game that someone in their 40s -60s would think of right now, and not the kind of game someone who actually knows anything about games would make.
+Jester Azazel The thing with relicensing music for DVD/digital release is that it isn't as simple as picking up the phone and saying "Get Crash & the Boys to let us use 'We Hate You' on the DVD" - sure, if the band still exists, is still using the same agent, are happy to have their song associated with the show, and don't want too much more money now that the show's proven to be a hit rather than being a new and untried property, you can make a deal fairly easily. On the other hand, the band might be too greedy, might have moved on and want to distance themselves from their earlier work, might have changed representation and need to be tracked down, or might have broken up and require half a dozen different negotiations for half a dozen different shares of the rights, with any of the individuals causing any of the other problems independently. For a show like Buffy, say, where the Bronze used to have real local bands no-one had ever heard of (except that one fan who has both their (home-made) CDs), any rights that weren't picked up on the day of shooting would be almost impossible to pick up later because the band-members would have got 9-5 jobs and lost touch with one another...
***** Because no-one would ever catch them using a bootleg copy of a game - it's not like they'd be broadcasting the game to millions of viewers or anything...
The British sci-fi show Primeval actually used Oblivion and the fantasy show Once Upon a Time used Diablo 3. Those are only examples I can think of I can think of right now. But I also think a lot of entertainment in the 90's used Mario. I think the difficulty in using real games is you can't write a story in a particular universe without it breaking it's rules. Imagine if they used Doom in that X-files episode. Actually never mind. Doom sending people to a hell dimension in a video game that eventually Scully conquers with the help of her Christianity sounds like a much better episode.
We need an episode on most batshit fake playing of REAL video games in movies and TV. To which I can think of one off the top of my head, Charlies Angels, 2 kids playing Final Fantasy 8... on the same console.
Omegeddon Lack of game Balance, Main Character getting an incredibly powerful ability unique to him in AN MMO, Quests are apparently in limited quantity (someone completes it, no one else can get it.), and that's just off the top of my head.
I would like to expose people to Killer Net, a 1998 British miniseries where people play a ridiculously detailed game where your goal is to stalk and murder women while leaving as little evidence behind as possible. And of course it makes people do that in real life.
There was an episode of Numb3rs that was hilariously dumb,and it kept having to explain "video game terms" VERY POORLY too the audience,it was..magical
to be fair, the Existenze one, those blob thing consoles were also INSIDE the game they were playing. In their real world the players wore a small helmet like thing, which, now thinking of Oculus Rift, is something that actually could exist in the near future. the bond game reminds of the Painstation, where your hand physically gets whipped, shocked and burned when you lose.
First off, the whole concept of Existenz is misrepresented because there is a "twist" that this video pretends does not exist. Secondly, the movie imagines a fully immersive virtual reality game so real that the players can;t even tell if they are in the game or not. So any comparison between that and contemporary video games is like somebody in the 1950s trying to imagine how the internet would change our lives.
You should have at least mentioned Tron. Even if that game wasn't as bad as these, it's still worth honorable mention because of how the movie was designed around the game being awesome, and how the game itself played such a big role in the movie.
All the videogames were still going "bleep-beep-boop" without any music in the movies 20 years after the Atari era, even though it was clear they were playing Super Nintendo or later.
+bigtaz504 What was wrong with Gamer? Almost the entire plot revolved around a VR FPS, which isn't even fake. Hell, it wasn't even fake before the movie was _made_...
+Brandon Bouchard really? Because I can totally see a multiplayer FPS similar to that in the future, specially with all the VR gogles that are coming (except for the real people being controled by mind chips)
That last game looks ridiculous. Who would try to make a game about moving shapes around to make them disappear. Except Tetris. Bejeweled. Candy Crush. Basically every line-em-up mobile game ever made. Of course the game on Star Trek had addictive properties. It's not like video games would do something like that. They wouldn't take advantage of psychology to purposefully create a game with addictive properties just to keep milking you for more money.
I kinda wish they still made up video games. Now they just take two shooters, show a clip from one, and use the sound from another. They even used a scene from Call of Duty in NCIS as some sort of military simulation. I just find it hard to believe no one ever made a 'made-for-tv' game, that just looks good in these situations. It'd be like stock photography, only way more difficult.
This is why any show wanting to feature a niche culture should be required to consult a panel of that demographic first- and don't tell me Star Trek, featuring the boy who would become super-geek icon Wil Wheaton didn't have any gamers on staff to snicker at that, because yes, it definitely did.
I forgot if it was Criminal Minds or NCIS, but it a "Video Game" that was basicly a shity 3D wizzard waving is arms in the air while standing next to a viking or orc that was loopes over and over again. It was used at least two or three times. One of the episodes started with this angry fat guy yelling at the looping wizzard.
Best ever interpretation of a fake spam site have to be from Criminal Minds. More specificaly the one that pilots "Criminal Minds: CYBER" The leader for the CYBER unit shows her skills by hacking a video of a sexy girl, removing the veil and showing it's fakeness. Yes, the girl is in fact a robot created in cyberspace, and then they put real like skin on her. I wish i could find it on youtube. It's both sad and hillarious at the same time.
World Domination in Never Say Never Again is actually a really cool game concept. It's a mix if Missile Defender and Othello. :P I cannot believe you trashed it. It'd be fucking awesome to play (without the electro shock crap).
I always thought the Star Trek: TNG ep was dumb because: why use a headset to play a virtual game where you have a holodeck which is basically a giant virtual reality RPG simulator complete with the sights, sounds, and stimulations of real life. Want to gun down hordes of alien creatures, jump into the holodeck. Need a virtual chick to get you off, jump into the holodeck. Tour Paris in the mid 20th century, holodeck. Solve a story based mystery... okay, you get the idea.
+The Laughing Rabbit Well, in the episode Riker was on another planet and was persuaded to play the game by a women who seduced him. The game was specifically designed to be addictive and brainwash (The methods the game uses for this aren't integral to the plot). I think it'd be kinda arrogant to assume other societies recreational devices are inferior to your own.
I think "old school media" like music, movies & tv don't like to deal with newer media like games and tech. That's why they reference each other fine but make something "fake" when it comes to the tech world. How many times have you seen Apple devices referred to by name? Or Google, UA-cam, or Facebook? It does happen but not often. They usually get called something like Pear or Facepage or WeTube.
+Dorkly if you want to see cringe, look into the New Zealand TV series Step Dave. The hyped up game has horrid graphics and only includes running over trash cans and avoiding traffic. Gotta say you are completely right about how movies and TV shows not licensing actual games.
Based on what was revealed at this past E3, what was shown at the PlayStation Experience and that Second Life was a thing, I don't think Hollywood was far off with depicting future games. Also: did you insinuate that after the third Indiana Jones movie, his career went down heel? Wasn't he in his 60s at that time? I think he had a good run before then...
I thought the First Person Shooter episode would be good. But it was like a cheap action movie. I couldn't figure out how they planned to make so much money off of a VR game that required such a huge amount of space to play. It's not like you could take it home.
Well yeah, Star Trek's "AF" was weak, but remember this was on a TV budget! When it comes to "Existenz" and "Domination", you are just plain wrong. "Existenz" is a brilliant ride of losing yourself in VR so much that you cannot tell reality any more, and the visual style does a fantastic job of conveying the overworldyness that this story needs - it has to feel weird, and that is exactly what it does. There are far more stupid examples to rant about, like "Wargames" and "Tron". Why don't you bash those?
Most of us stopped watching X-files when production moved to L.A. Every episode after that is some haunted house or other shit that could be easily done on the studio lot.
So in Star Trek... You have the holodeck, true virtual reality. Able to create the grittiest games ever, but everyone gets addicted to the mobile game.
+Brandon Pack Exactly. No wait, NO!
+Brandon Pack i would use holo deck for dirty things..........
Don't they each have limited Holodeck times?
+Brandon Pack The device altered players minds. It was not that they liked the game, rather they were addicted to the device. Those who have played talked it up so much everyone else had to try it at least once, then they were addicted too and convinced the next person to give it a try.
Almost like real life
"I ripped your arm off and now I'm beating you with it."
"This is the coolest game ever."
- every fictional character playing a video game
"Tex walked right up to him and beat him to death with his own skull"
"That doesn't seem physically possible"
"That's what he kept saying!"
Spawn in a nutshell
The TNG game released pleasure hormones in the brains of those who played it, making it essentially a drug. It would thus be more like heroin than sexual pleasure.
Trek nerd out.
Pretty sure it was endorphins, the same things that gets released from certain activities in "free" mobile phone games, so in a way they predicted games would manipulate people using endorphins in order to get us addicted.
+Superiodity You're right. Thanks for the correction.
+Superiodity *mind blown*
Chalk another one up to Star Trek for predicting the future!
+Aaron Hall Best actual thing about that episode was the extremely hot Ashley Judd. Unfortunately she had to fake taking a romantic interest in boy blunder supernerd Wesley Crusher.
+Aaron Hall THANK YOU. I was looking for someone who was gonna make the same argument. This doesn't belong on the list.
You showed a scene from "The Island" in the intro. Then never mentioned it again. Shame. Would've been fun pointing out the OG Xbox logo existing in 2019.
+Dark Rush I ran outta time, there was far too much to talk about. Maybe a sequel video sometime!
Dorkly Cool
+Dorkly should also mention Gamer, that movie was horrible!
awsomeeeee tony badas* guns yeaa
+Dorkly If you do you have to include Brainscan.
CSI New York , had a second life clone were everyone was furry, and they had to literally chase a person within in the game to find the real person.
+Joeybsmooth The CSI universe has never been kind to furries. There's almost like a weird fixation on sexual deviance in those shows.
+SV67943 To be fair, furries have never been kind to furries. Even furries are chock full of stories about the weirdest shit other furries have done to and around them.
I remember when far cry 3 was used in the mentalist and the guy playing it said he was on a killing spree killing noobs.
you forget the multiplayer in that game?
Sure it had a multiplayer - but the scenes in the mentalist was definitely from a single player mission.
+The steamy Spy lol so fail
"What does AF mean?" "It means AS FU-" and just as it beeps, the screen goes black and my phone closes UA-cam. I laughed so hard. That couldn't have happened at a better time.
It's the internet. You can say "fuck". Censoring it sounds ridiculous.
I'm sure it was a stylistic choice. Personally I find it kind of charming, but to each their own.
Or you can not say it you don't have to curse
+Joshua Schmidt
There's nothing charming about censorship.
morbidchid I don't really want to sound too harsh here. Bearing animosity is a waste of energy, But I can't seem to word this in a way that doesn't sound a little crass. So to be clear I'm just trying to justify my defending Dorkly's artistic choice. What happened in this episode wasn't a case of censorship. Censorship is when content is taken out from the completed work for PC or PR reasons which alter whatever message the artists wants to convey. Or silenced completely by some third party (government/media/etc.) What we have here was a stylistic choice. They thought it was funnier bleeped and so do I. Not because some third party told them to, or because they were afraid of offending anyone. Besides, we knew he was saying fuck so bleeping it didn't change what he said,, just how we heard it. So nothing was cut out in this instance. only edited to make what they (the artists) believed to be a better video.
Joshua Schmidt
But it's not an artistic thing. It's a thing created by the FCC that should not be enforced for any reason on the internet. And it's been proven that the word actually gets more meaning (and seems to us to be more intense) if they bleep it out. So you notice the word a lot more (and think about it in a negative light) when you hear a bleep instead of just hearing the word.
What we have is NOT a stylistic choice, but people afraid of changing the status quo. Thinking that swearing will somehow make this video not viewable for a younger audience (that use the word more frequently than anyone else). And if you think this had nothing to do with PR then you're wrong.
Don't forget that one episode of Law and Order SVU where the killer played a video game that was like Grand Theft Auto if the goal of that game really was to rape and kill hookers and take their money "for points".
+JuniorAdventurer Its Law and Order what do you except? Do you remember the shitshow that was the gamergate episode?
+JuniorAdventurer Wasn't there also a CSI episode in where the main characters had an in-game chase with a suspect?
+JuniorAdventurer For real though, points are great. I love points, and getting them.
+weedongding dorly missed out on that unfortunately, they basically showed second life and it wasn't some remake, it was an actual second life game from what I recall
Oh look I'm on time let me say a clever joke
A clever joke
+Michael Aiyedun FUNNY... JOKE!
funni joek
+Michael Aiyedun That was very clever indeed.
+Hoi Tem haha nice !
+Dat Maxo yoda grumps
hahah... "set phasers to fuuuuuck"
The Ghost Whisperer actually starred the rock band "Three Days Grace" at some point in its lifespan.
Tony says, "Featured an addictive video game that made you feel so good you'd come in your pants"
"I'm sorry, i didn't get that" my Windows 10 Cortana suddenly chimes in. I laughed my ass off.
Startrek concepts of what futuristic videogames would look like were the worst.
Remember when they had all these wires to control what was essentially a crappy virtual boy?
Oh and remember the Virtual Boy? Yeah, that was a bad idea, but at least it gave us Wario!
ComputerControlled
I...
I didn't know that.
My whole life has been wrong!
_rides away on a motor cycle_
+Socialist Skeptic What about holodecks? ;)
Martok84
Yeah it's insane how they had Holodecks but at the same time they thought videogames that looked like Atari Games with lots of wires everywhere would be futuristic.
The 1980's man, the 1980's.
ComputerControlled
I seriously never knew Wario had been around before the Virtual Boy. All these years I've been saying "The virtual boy was bad, but at least we got Wario"
HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO WRONG
_sobs_
+Socialist Skeptic Not sure why a holodeck society would even need to have a distinct category of "videogames."
Who the fuck wants to use a controller, wear weird glasses, or shove something into your brain, when you can simulate just about anything with a single voice command?
And to think Hollywood still makes Video Games into Movies... At least they didn't try to make a Movie out of Battleship... Oh wait.. They did...
+Guderian2 If they had someone competent (IE: anyone but uwe boll or Michael Bay) to make one, maybe they'd stand a chance.
+Leon I'm not so sure about that. Chris Columbus directed "Pixels" and even though it was only Video Game adjacent/themed it was just awful. And he directed also Home alone and was one of the screenplay writers for "The Goonies". But perhaps someday, someone will make a decent Video-Game Movie, i still have hope.
+Guderian2 To be fair, video games based on movies oftentimes don't fair much better quality-wise. It's just an unholy union I guess.
+Guderian2 Silent Hill
+Guderian2 good thing they didn't do one on Quake, I couldn't imagine what a horrible piece of crap that would be if they did make it
That comment about the "butt and vagina" alien had me rolling! Great episode!
+Cross88 You got it! More butt and vagina aliens in future episodes.
Hey guy, ExistenZ wasn't supposed to be realistic in terms of how people would play videogames. It's extremely exaggerated and you would have known that if you knew more about David Cronenberg. His movies often portray an exaggerated sense of a subject. Videodrome is a good example of that, I mean do you really think a television network dedicated to snuff and sex would really-
*Cue HBO logo*
God dammit. But still, ExistenZ is awesome.
+Disgusted Batman I thought that was more cinemax's territory than HBO's :P
+Disgusted Batman Thanks for the clarification. It's also meant to be more of a 'Second Life' kind of thing, not a traditional game. I used to love this film and had completely forgotten about it because no one talks about it.
+Disgusted Batman Exactly, the characters have entered into multiple games within games (Gameception) and the organic controler was one of them that was already in the game.
Do you homework, nerd.
See, I know this isn't a movie, but it's still relevant. This is why Ready Player One was such a good book. It was well written and was very deeply rooted in Video game culture. It understood video Gams. If you haven't read the book yet, I really recommend it
Getting the rights for videogames is a lot more expensive and complicated than music. That's why they usually make up their own videogames in movies/TV unless if the story calls for an already licensed videogame(The Wizard for example). Every now and then they go meta though(Breaking Bad, when Jesse was playing Rage) but ordinarily they try to avoid the hassle because the paperwork, cost, effort and time it takes to get the rights isn't worth it in the longrun.
Sword Art Online thinks people would play MMORPG's that don't have magic, the Japanese government would allow VR headsets to be sold that can omit fatal levels of microwaves and then not do anything when people are being held hostage online, and players would just go to a different VRMMORPG after escaping traumatizing circumstances. Oh, and let's not forget that it's the fuckin premise of the show and not just a one-off episode!
Making a gun from fish and amphibian parts that you eat to shot your opponents would be awesome, someone needs to make that game.
Scorn kinda did that. No fish tho
The one time a movie got it right: Stay Alive. I WANTED to play that game. It honestly looked like something I would love. We don't have enough good horror multiplayer games.
anyone remember there was a tv series (i forget the name) in the 90's, where this guy accidentally brought his game to reality. the last boss is actually his father; and the 1st episodes' enemy is a football jock call "kill shot"
Glad you called eXistenZ hypnotically watchable - it's an all-time fave of mine...but accurately in no way like any video game ever.
*PEW PEW*
SET LASERS TO FUUUUUUCK!
+Mew [Jacob/PwnAzn] My favorite bit, too. xD
phasers.
Well to be fair to the Startrek episode, the game literally hacked into your brain and released pleasure hormones when you played it.
I remember the TNG episode every time an abusive parent kills their kids, and videogames are sighted as an aggravating factor, even though abusive parenting is not a newly emergent social behavior in our society. If anything, it's quite primal.
Anyway, aside from that, I'm lucky to have missed all the other depictions of gaming that made it on this list. I guess I don't watch as much TV as I thought.
Licensing seems to be more of a costly and time consuming process than I once thought. That's apparently why shows are using different intro music. Shows as old as Wonder Years and as recent as House would rather change the music than bother getting the rights to the original music all over again.
I don't blame them for using fake games, I just blame them for their lack of creativity. That 'tubes eating discs' game was one of the worst ones I've seen.
+Jester Azazel I actually thought it was one of their better ones(mostly cause it would be like a flappy or angry birds), first person shooter was the worse because of a ton of reasons
1.the name is dumb, like really dumb, no game company would call their game something that boring unless they had some witty marketing
2. its basically a shooting gallery and those went out in the mid 90s the last one i remember playing was time crisis 3, and that's an arcade game so it makes sense
3. The moment anyone died from in the game it would be pulled or stopped, yeah some people have died playing video games , but those were either due to exhaustion, clots, dehydration, or cause people were being really stupid and wasn't the games fault itself
4. a game that real looking would have to be super expensive, like it would be like possibly millions or billions to produce so it wouldn't be cost effective
5.you could only advertise to people that play FPS specifically which makes your audience smaller again playing into its cost effectiveness
I could literally go on XD
I don't think its a lack of creativity, but its more a lack of understanding, cause i have seen games I would play in movies that don't exist. Most of these people who are making these have never played a game in their life, I think in the near future, fake games are gonna look a little more realistic, its just the kinda of game that someone in their 40s -60s would think of right now, and not the kind of game someone who actually knows anything about games would make.
+Jester Azazel The thing with relicensing music for DVD/digital release is that it isn't as simple as picking up the phone and saying "Get Crash & the Boys to let us use 'We Hate You' on the DVD" - sure, if the band still exists, is still using the same agent, are happy to have their song associated with the show, and don't want too much more money now that the show's proven to be a hit rather than being a new and untried property, you can make a deal fairly easily. On the other hand, the band might be too greedy, might have moved on and want to distance themselves from their earlier work, might have changed representation and need to be tracked down, or might have broken up and require half a dozen different negotiations for half a dozen different shares of the rights, with any of the individuals causing any of the other problems independently.
For a show like Buffy, say, where the Bronze used to have real local bands no-one had ever heard of (except that one fan who has both their (home-made) CDs), any rights that weren't picked up on the day of shooting would be almost impossible to pick up later because the band-members would have got 9-5 jobs and lost touch with one another...
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Because no-one would ever catch them using a bootleg copy of a game - it's not like they'd be broadcasting the game to millions of viewers or anything...
The British sci-fi show Primeval actually used Oblivion and the fantasy show Once Upon a Time used Diablo 3. Those are only examples I can think of I can think of right now. But I also think a lot of entertainment in the 90's used Mario. I think the difficulty in using real games is you can't write a story in a particular universe without it breaking it's rules. Imagine if they used Doom in that X-files episode. Actually never mind. Doom sending people to a hell dimension in a video game that eventually Scully conquers with the help of her Christianity sounds like a much better episode.
Those tiny sunglasses they had David Duchovny wear...ugh, never forget. And this episode still was way better than most of Season 9... ^^°
Tony's positively looking better than he was before. Bulked up for good!
We need an episode on most batshit fake playing of REAL video games in movies and TV. To which I can think of one off the top of my head, Charlies Angels, 2 kids playing Final Fantasy 8... on the same console.
That nickelodeon movie with the actors for Sam and spencer from icarly playing unrealistic games
rather Disappointed Sword Art Online's...........Sword Art Online isn't on the list.
Sword art is an Anime. You can't really have a game that looks fake when the characters are animated.
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Would be a good point if the game in question didn't make any sense technically speaking.
+ShadowWolfRising Why doesn't it make sense?
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Lack of game Balance, Main Character getting an incredibly powerful ability unique to him in AN MMO, Quests are apparently in limited quantity (someone completes it, no one else can get it.), and that's just off the top of my head.
ShadowWolfRising Fair enough
You gotta admit Bond being good at video games is kinda badass in hindsight as Goldeneye was made years after.
I love the drone going Hari Kari in the background.
"Batshit" is an adverb for adjectives like "crazy" and "insane." It doesn't work with "fake."
You forgot about the 2009 film "The Gamer" with Gerard Butler. That whole movie was one giant batshit fake videogame.
Melee came out today. That's Today in Nerd History
I would like to expose people to Killer Net, a 1998 British miniseries where people play a ridiculously detailed game where your goal is to stalk and murder women while leaving as little evidence behind as possible. And of course it makes people do that in real life.
The characters of *burrrrp* existenz don't look like they're part of the cronenberg universe.
There was an episode of Numb3rs that was hilariously dumb,and it kept having to explain "video game terms" VERY POORLY too the audience,it was..magical
5:20 Lost my shit when you mentioned her forehead LOL XD
I love these videos, but I think the TINH name really doesn't fit anymore, it's more like Top 5 lists these days.
to be fair, the Existenze one, those blob thing consoles were also INSIDE the game they were playing. In their real world the players wore a small helmet like thing, which, now thinking of Oculus Rift, is something that actually could exist in the near future.
the bond game reminds of the Painstation, where your hand physically gets whipped, shocked and burned when you lose.
between the flopping drone and your ridiculous costume i couldn't pay attention to anything in this video lol
That gun scene at the start was epic
What's up with your drone at 4:43 ?
I lost my shit at "what do the initials af mean?"
"It means as fuck!"
Honorable mention: Better than Life from Red Dwarf.
What? Nothing on that Law and Order: SVU episode?
4:31 looks like she's fighting john oliver
First off, the whole concept of Existenz is misrepresented because there is a "twist" that this video pretends does not exist. Secondly, the movie imagines a fully immersive virtual reality game so real that the players can;t even tell if they are in the game or not. So any comparison between that and contemporary video games is like somebody in the 1950s trying to imagine how the internet would change our lives.
Someone remind me again, why they don't just license actual games?
You should have at least mentioned Tron. Even if that game wasn't as bad as these, it's still worth honorable mention because of how the movie was designed around the game being awesome, and how the game itself played such a big role in the movie.
All the videogames were still going "bleep-beep-boop" without any music in the movies 20 years after the Atari era, even though it was clear they were playing Super Nintendo or later.
I always thought the one in Never Say Never Again looked _vaguely_ like Tempest. With a dash of Missile Command.
No mention of gamer?
Yeah, that at the very least deserves an honorable mention.
+bigtaz504 What was wrong with Gamer? Almost the entire plot revolved around a VR FPS, which isn't even fake. Hell, it wasn't even fake before the movie was _made_...
+Brandon Bouchard really? Because I can totally see a multiplayer FPS similar to that in the future, specially with all the VR gogles that are coming (except for the real people being controled by mind chips)
+Hatifrey And the SecondLife clone in the movie was like 80% Raves and fat guys pretending to be woman to get cyber-laid.
Seems pretty accurate to me.
+Ricado Santos I wasn't disputing the VR FPS aspect, more the 'console' aspect if you will.
That last game looks ridiculous. Who would try to make a game about moving shapes around to make them disappear. Except Tetris. Bejeweled. Candy Crush. Basically every line-em-up mobile game ever made. Of course the game on Star Trek had addictive properties. It's not like video games would do something like that. They wouldn't take advantage of psychology to purposefully create a game with addictive properties just to keep milking you for more money.
I kinda wish they still made up video games. Now they just take two shooters, show a clip from one, and use the sound from another. They even used a scene from Call of Duty in NCIS as some sort of military simulation. I just find it hard to believe no one ever made a 'made-for-tv' game, that just looks good in these situations. It'd be like stock photography, only way more difficult.
Also when movies and tv shows show someone playing a game and the player is just constantly mashing the buttons.
"Roy" is the best game.
Chazbc yes, yes it is.
This is why any show wanting to feature a niche culture should be required to consult a panel of that demographic first- and don't tell me Star Trek, featuring the boy who would become super-geek icon Wil Wheaton didn't have any gamers on staff to snicker at that, because yes, it definitely did.
personally, i'd be okay with the fish skeleton gun
that sounds like it could go in a fun game
in fact, the fake second life is similar to the original
Ah, I see that's the moment Wheaton begun to hate gamers and think they're all deranged maniacs.
YTV had a terrible original series called "Zixx" where the whole show was set in a terrible fake video game.
NERF Zombie Revenge confirmed. The larger gun at the beginning is the Contaminator
I forgot if it was Criminal Minds or NCIS, but it a "Video Game" that was basicly a shity 3D wizzard waving is arms in the air while standing next to a viking or orc that was loopes over and over again. It was used at least two or three times. One of the episodes started with this angry fat guy yelling at the looping wizzard.
Best ever interpretation of a fake spam site have to be from Criminal Minds. More specificaly the one that pilots "Criminal Minds: CYBER"
The leader for the CYBER unit shows her skills by hacking a video of a sexy girl, removing the veil and showing it's fakeness. Yes, the girl is in fact a robot created in cyberspace, and then they put real like skin on her.
I wish i could find it on youtube. It's both sad and hillarious at the same time.
Existenz isn't supposed to be a video game, it's more like a matrix-style simulation.
Oh boy,I love"Side-Scroller"!
in "Hackers" the game that prover you belong in a hacking group is as ridiculous as this statement
I couldn't help but to think "You are quite skinny" while watching the video.
Dis dude holding a Nerf Water Gun that's been painted black. This some good shit man.
World Domination in Never Say Never Again is actually a really cool game concept. It's a mix if Missile Defender and Othello. :P I cannot believe you trashed it. It'd be fucking awesome to play (without the electro shock crap).
Uh-oh, no beard to resurrect Tony this time.
I'd love to see Behind the Scenes of these episodes
I always thought the Star Trek: TNG ep was dumb because: why use a headset to play a virtual game where you have a holodeck which is basically a giant virtual reality RPG simulator complete with the sights, sounds, and stimulations of real life. Want to gun down hordes of alien creatures, jump into the holodeck. Need a virtual chick to get you off, jump into the holodeck. Tour Paris in the mid 20th century, holodeck. Solve a story based mystery... okay, you get the idea.
+The Laughing Rabbit Well, in the episode Riker was on another planet and was persuaded to play the game by a women who seduced him. The game was specifically designed to be addictive and brainwash (The methods the game uses for this aren't integral to the plot). I think it'd be kinda arrogant to assume other societies recreational devices are inferior to your own.
Funny. Existenz is a crazy movie and I would totally play that game!
This was one of the best things I have ever seen
i'm surprised that The Gamer movie with Gerard Butler wasn't mentioned. While a somewhat absurd premise, it was actually pretty good.
I don't want to wait until they cancel this show, so I'm saying it now - this show is good; really good.
I think "old school media" like music, movies & tv don't like to deal with newer media like games and tech. That's why they reference each other fine but make something "fake" when it comes to the tech world. How many times have you seen Apple devices referred to by name? Or Google, UA-cam, or Facebook? It does happen but not often. They usually get called something like Pear or Facepage or WeTube.
i can't focus with that tiny spot protuding through the suits
That drone was trying to hard to fly
+Dorkly if you want to see cringe, look into the New Zealand TV series Step Dave. The hyped up game has horrid graphics and only includes running over trash cans and avoiding traffic. Gotta say you are completely right about how movies and TV shows not licensing actual games.
And not a single mention of the fucking stupid mash buttons to play video games cliche in movies
It's kind of true for mortal kombat if you don't have the moves memorized, but you don't want to constantly pause to look at the moves list.
I miss the facial hair
What about Comic Books? There were plenty of 90's comics with VR games.
What is the title of the jazzy music used in the video ? Many thanks !
Based on what was revealed at this past E3, what was shown at the PlayStation Experience and that Second Life was a thing, I don't think Hollywood was far off with depicting future games.
Also: did you insinuate that after the third Indiana Jones movie, his career went down heel? Wasn't he in his 60s at that time? I think he had a good run before then...
#1 should be Chase The Dragon from South Park (Episode titled Guitar Queero).
3:20 - 3:25 sounds like a real game and one I might play.
I liked the look of the vr game at the end where you shoot a green laser gun at a giant quadricopter that can slice you in two if it gets you. ;P
I thought the First Person Shooter episode would be good. But it was like a cheap action movie. I couldn't figure out how they planned to make so much money off of a VR game that required such a huge amount of space to play. It's not like you could take it home.
Can't believe the crappy MMORPG in NCIS wasn't mentioned
Well yeah, Star Trek's "AF" was weak, but remember this was on a TV budget!
When it comes to "Existenz" and "Domination", you are just plain wrong. "Existenz" is a brilliant ride of losing yourself in VR so much that you cannot tell reality any more, and the visual style does a fantastic job of conveying the overworldyness that this story needs - it has to feel weird, and that is exactly what it does. There are far more stupid examples to rant about, like "Wargames" and "Tron". Why don't you bash those?
-plays taps- tony... Was a nerd... And we all loved him for that...
Most of us stopped watching X-files when production moved to L.A. Every episode after that is some haunted house or other shit that could be easily done on the studio lot.
+nimrodery If most people had stopped watching we probably would have been spared 6 or 7 seasons that just got worse and worse and worse :(