8-BIT CHRISTMAS - Another Christmas Story sequel

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For a moment I thought IGN was showing adverts for semi-obscure retroUSB homebrew products haha.
This is kind of a cute idea but all the zero effort 80's references are really tasteless and the delivery doesn't look that good.
I wonder if the "This is our vietnam" line is an intentional reference to Moviebob.
 
it's not even about the games, it's about a child's quest to buy a toy on christmas
 
I don't remember there being any Nintendo shortages during Christmas 1987 or 1988. Maybe Christmas 1986, when they were only just beginning to appear in North American stores outside the test market areas that got the NES a year earlier but I was still in elementary school and, to be honest, I don't remember all that many kids even talking about wanting an NES back then since Nintendo was still a largely unknown property to us and most popular console-moving games like Legend of Zelda had yet to be released.

My family got a Sega Master System. I wonder if the movie will have some Sega kids?
 
sasazuka said:
I don't remember there being any Nintendo shortages during Christmas 1987 or 1988. Maybe Christmas 1986, when they were only just beginning to appear in North American stores outside the test market areas that got the NES a year earlier but I was still in elementary school and, to be honest, I don't remember all that many kids even talking about wanting an NES back then since Nintendo was still a largely unknown property to us and most popular console-moving games like Legend of Zelda had yet to be released.

My family got a Sega Master System. I wonder if the movie will have some Sega kids?
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I recall that SMB3 took some effort to score week of release but it was like, call a few stores and drive an extra fifteen minutes. Nothing drastic.

nobody remembers the first sequel
 
I might check it out because I like Neil Patrick Harris as an actor, but the trailer really isn’t grabbing me all that much.
 
XYZpdq said:
for a moment I hoped it was 8 Bit Theater Christmas Special
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I'd rather watch a movie about the Warriors of Light getting railroaded into saving Christmas because they "accidentally" killed Santa and the ensuring death and destruction that comes from them being a bunch of idiots and sociopaths. It would be a lot funner than whatever love letter to consoomerism this is supposed to be.
 
By today's standards of constant nostalgia shilling, this actually doesn't look nearly as offensive as other efforts.

Still...I think I'm good.
 
The video game culture was mostly ignored or misrepresented in actual 80s films. They were written by literal Boomers that just didn't get it. So a good film could be made. Especially the early 80s arcade culture. Like imagine a 10-12 year old kid facing off against a smug 18-21 year old Billy Mitchell type.

But I don't know about this. I can empathize to an extent... My parents wouldn't buy me an NES either. But it was because it was "too expensive" and "you already have video games". I never knew anyone whose parents objected on a moral level. The uber-Christian kids I knew even had NESes playing Christian games.
 
Travoltron said:
The video game culture was mostly ignored or misrepresented in actual 80s films. They were written by literal Boomers that just didn't get it. So a good film could be made. Especially the early 80s arcade culture. Like imagine a 10-12 year old kid facing off against a smug 18-21 year old Billy Mitchell type.

But I don't know about this. I can empathize to an extent... My parents wouldn't buy me an NES either. But it was because it was "too expensive" and "you already have video games". I never knew anyone whose parents objected on a moral level. The uber-Christian kids I knew even had NESes playing Christian games.
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People just assume that most 80s films are all about sci-fi, action, fantasy or horror, or that 80s films are exactly like Tron or The Wizard, when realistically, no, they are not the case at all. Plus, both these films were dismissed when they came out back in the day. This is also the reason why arcade comedies were rare back in that decade, such as the sex comedy, Joy Sticks.

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A film that even promoted Pac-Man, as well as its unreleased sequel, which gave Namco the seal of approval. Even then, that film was left under the radar when that came out until a couple decades later (that, and also the year the film came out, which was the same year as the North American video game crash, let that sink in). So yeah, it's damn near impossible to find most movies from that decade that critics and audiences would click back in the day.
 
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This looks average at best. As the headline says it's basically a Christmas story only replace the 40s astetic with 80s and the BB gun with an NES. I don't try to be too pessimistic about new movies but I don't like getting my hopes up either.
 
Travoltron said:
The video game culture was mostly ignored or misrepresented in actual 80s films. They were written by literal Boomers that just didn't get it. So a good film could be made. Especially the early 80s arcade culture. Like imagine a 10-12 year old kid facing off against a smug 18-21 year old Billy Mitchell type.

But I don't know about this. I can empathize to an extent... My parents wouldn't buy me an NES either. But it was because it was "too expensive" and "you already have video games". I never knew anyone whose parents objected on a moral level. The uber-Christian kids I knew even had NESes playing Christian games.
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I had an Atari 800xl so an NES was a particularly hard sell for my parents. Eventually evening news had a piece on how amazingly poor and downtrodden life on some indian reservation was but the kids still had an NES so I was like "See? Even they have one!" and that worked.
 
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