/vr/ - Retro Games

How sad it is that I know that image is from Are You Afraid of the Dark?

>rumble in the bronx

>kid plays game gear with no game in it

>>4908709
Or where they're "playing" a game by mashing randomly on the control pad and kind of shaking and wobbling it up and down. I literally just saw this on Big Bang Theory which was on when the DVR cut to regular TV.

>>4909364
That’s a fucking amazing movie, it gets a pass.

>>4909365
if you watch them eat food you rarely, almost never see them take a bite, they'll pick up the fork, act like they're gonna eat, then say something

then the frame cuts to the other character's quippy one liner

then it cuts to the first character, the same single bite of lasagna in limbo as it travels back and forth meaninglessly (and with good reason--- it's covered in pesticide)

they've been poking and prodding at the same thai noodles for almost 10 years

>>4909359
I would say not very. But that might be in part due to a grain of denial on my part.

>>4909823
Scenes have several takes. It could take hours or even days to film a scene so you don't want the actors to gorge themselves by actually eating.

>That leaf's mine!
>I get the next one!
>OK fine.
What did they mean by this?

It's no secret that television and filmmakers don't know shit about the vidya games.

>>4909907
they're canadian

>>4909907
they're playing uh

pocky and rocky?

>>4909925
They're playing SMB3.

Also, I guess someone on Boyz n da Hood was a weeaboo, since they infamously played Duck Hunt with the Famicom revolver.

>>4909936
Have you ever played Smb3 2 player? Do you understand that it still doesn't make sense?

>>4909365
Even better is when they pair this with Atari 2600 esque sound effects.

>>4909937
Hence the
>What did they mean by this?

>>4909937
>He hasn't unlocked two player mode in Mario 3

>>4909941
That still happens even with current systems.

Makes me want to diarrhea all over the Hollywood sign.

Any examples of when shows have made fun of these kinds of fuckups, or made them so comically outlandish that it was clear the writers and/or props department were in on the joke?

A while ago I got stuck babysitting my nephew who insisted on watching the latest Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon when it was on. The only episode I actually sat through had them get addicted to an MMO that was literally just the same detailed, static shot of a knight fighting a dragon with Atari sound effects every time they showed it. And they showed it a lot, multiple computer screens at the same time, up close for prolonged periods.

There was a Gumball episode that parodied JRPGs, Final Fantasy in particular, complete with overly long Summon animations.

>>4910017
That episode was actually ridiculously accurate though.

>>4908709
>playing a gameboy in the dead of night
>facing away from the fire

>>4910005
I want a gif thats just Urkel in a idle animation

>>4909823
>>4909823
That's even worse than someone playing a Game Boy without a cartridge, even though it's totally understandable why it happens.

>me at 11
>watching the tomorrow people
>character is playing sonic 2
>atrocious music instead of game's original soundtrack
>throw unopened can of sprite at tv
>crack screen
>grounded for three weeks

That scene in Charlie's Angels where two kids are "playing" Final Fantasy VIII (i.e. randomly pressing buttons during a spell casting animation).

>>4910242
you're doing this on purpose right anon

>>4909359
>3 main characters in a campfire setting

Don't remember the movie, it had Judge Reinhold, but they were playing an SNES, and it kept looping the same couple of notes of jungle hijinx over and over, it was so unnatural.

>that fucking issue of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book where Ken Penders puts his niece and newphew into the comic playing Sonic the Hedgehog, but they're holding a TV remote in place of a controller.

House playing Metroid Zero Mission (with Atari sounds) and dying at the first Chozo statue somehow.

>>4908709
>screen shows modern FPS shooter
>holding PS2 controller
>I just need 100 more points to finish the level!

>>4910242
well I mean that's almost passable, if it was a GF animation and they had Boost enabled...

>House MD
>playing Metroid Zero Mission on a GBA SP
>activates the first Chozo statue
>makes generic Atari character dying sound and person looks upset at "losing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcPZbC764WU

>>4910303
But it makes it look like a two player game and they were pressing every button and moving the sticks.

>>4910451
Already mentioned by >>4910272

Don't forget about how Wayne's World featured a prototype version of Sonic 1 with UFO things in Marble Hill Zone.

>>4911767

>>4908709
>Playing a gameboy in the dark

Kek.

>>4911780

>>4911789

>>4910019
South Park's World of Warcraft episode was great.

>Two and a Half Men
>fat kid keeps whining to go to the game store to get the "newest Final Fantasy"
>kid is shown buy Final Fantasy X-2
>later kid is playing the game, but the music coming from the tv is from Final Fantasy Origins

>>4909359
I knew it was from Are You Afriad of the Dark too friend.

>>4910017
There was also that SF parody they did, even included Chunny's "Yatta" cry

>>4909937
They could have been talking about the mushroom houses where you get the items that can be activated on the map.

>>4911862
Nah, they're shown playing a level from World 5. The fact the kid (Todd?) was using a fucking Power Glove really adds to it.

>>4911767
To be honest though, this one is actually kind of cool. It wasn't out of the ordinary that advertisements had prototype footage/screenshots back then, and Nick Arcade even had a prototype Sonic 2. So this kind of thing was actually realistic.

Didn't the Tim Burton Charlie and the Chocolate Factory picked Metroid Prime 2 for Mike TV's shout-at-the-screen-violent video game? I had thought it was a Halo entry but it was too quick to make out.

>>4909365
that one might've been deliberate, just like how they know Sheldon is a fucking annoying stereotype but still have him

>>4908709

>They are playing what is clearly a PS4

>BEEEP BOOOP BIP BEEP BEEPIBEEP

>>4911878
Oh, it definitely is. They probably had footage supplied directly from Sega for use in the movie.

Fuck, what was that crime-team solving show that had laughable scenes with hacking and video games? It was often a meme on /v/. I remember they played Prince of Persia SoT at some point.

>>4910264
why the fuck is this a thing

>>4912614
Law & Order SVU, most likely. That episode is amazing how shitty it is.

>>4912669
has that show ever been watchable? crime dramas are the most boring drivel ever

>>4910302
>publicdomain-bleepbloop.wav

>>4909905
Also, that food has been sitting there for hours, so it's cold and tastes like ass.

>>4909993
I remember some cartoon where the entire town got addicted to a computer game that was said to have a really cool ending. Eventually someone beat the game and it turned out the ending was a screen that said "to be continued in the sequel", and the rest of the town immediately quit playing and called the game a scam, because the only reason you play video games is to watch endings. I remember feeling almost insulted at how dumb that plot point was.

>>4910005
My parents never had that show on. Was the black nerd weaned like 70% of adults but ate cheese anyway which resulted in nasty farts?

>>4912614

THE classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

Another goldie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Hn1rPQouU

Where do I get that program that showns you in a nice window that my IP is getting "tracked"?.
And I also want that closing-in-circle- localizer.

>>4912614
NBC show called "Life".

>>4912665
Because Penders.

>>4910219

>>4909941
>>4909993
>>4910272
>>4911939

Hollywood is scared shitless of the games industry which is raking in billions years with products that dollar for hour are the most cost effective entertainment to exist*.

So they colluded amongst themselves a policy to portray videogames as sounding like trash to discourage their viewership from jumping ship to them.

*Except books but we all know normies don't read them anymore except for "blockbuster" memes like Harry Potter and Eat Pray Love.

>>4910005
I remember laughing my ass off at this episode, he yells "have some cheese! Have some cheese" as he launches cheese projectiles. Also the grandma on the show had a character and she owned up on everyone. I believe this was all at the end or during the credits.

>>4912670
It was pretty addictive 15 years ago. Fun characters, ridiculous stories like "yo we found this dead baby in a cooler and it lead us to the warehouse where they manufacture a street drug out of baby food." That's not an actual episode, but it could have been.

https://youtu.be/azRUy5_NAUA
>Kid wonders why his Game Boy isn't powering on
>No fuckin' game is inserted

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>>4909943
Do you understand that isn't the post he responded to? Holy shit, this board...

>>4914371
OOF

>>4916293
Try to follow the chain of posts, my man.

>>4916367
Good damn the summer, because he called out one post for not understanding the previous post, he doesn't understand the whole chain? Apparently you can't follow the chain

>>4916382
Post one (>>4909936): a screenshot from a movie wherein the characters are arguing over who takes the leaf; the end of the post indicates that this makes no sense
Post two( >>4909925): someone suggests they are perhaps playing Pocky and Rocky
Post three (>>4909936): states that the game they were playing was Super Mario Bros. 3
Post 4 (>>4909937): indicates that the leaf battle dialogue makes no sense in the context of SMB3 2 player
Post 5 (>>4909943): refers back to post one, again reiterating that the first post indicated that the dialogue made no sense given the context
Post 6 (>>4916293): seems generally confused by the post chain, becomes aggressive. The chain of posts outline above is very clear and it is obvious who was responding to what

Hope this helps!

Malcolm in the MIddle had a few tidbits of gaming here and there, some right and some wrong. One episode had Dewey playing a Dreamcast inside a bus full of rappers , another had him trading toys for a gameboy at a church and the same episode had Stevie beg Reese to get him "Double Dragon 4: The Sacred Stone" from the church. In an early episode, Stevie and Malcolm both play Sonic R on the Saturn and Malcolm hates it because it's a baby game. Stevie wins and even says "I win the pot of gold".

Plus, the fact Sub Zero is unbeatable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6LwAIS6etk

>>4912670
this >>4914348 is pretty acurate
It started off with some good ideas and a few problems. It was fucked by the end. Entertaining but broken.
I watched them all with my Mom playing her NDS. I didn t know Metroid FM existed at that time.

>>4912752
>>4912614
The writers of these shows know that their audience is people who have never used a computer so they intentionally make these scenes stupid as hell so people who actually know computers and the internet can laugh.

>>4916786
I can believe that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-KEuSt0lZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs0Jb6P7P-Q