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Mortal Kombat is one of those gaming franchises that should have been an easy fit for a movie. Somehow this has not happened even after two, three, attempts now. I blame the first one’s failure to connect with fans on that MPAA rating – PG-13. Seriously? It was like they made the movie based on […]
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Mortal Kombat: Movie reboot to start filming in South Australia, September, 2019.
May 15th, 2019 
CPC4EVA (In screaming voice) “MORTAL KOMBAT !!!” With the release of the first Mortal Kombat movie, in 1995, “MORTAL KOMBAT” was a chant i was addicted to saying with my gamer friends for a decent chunk of that year. Three years earlier in 1992, i, like many other gamers, were glued to playing the legendary arcade […]
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Star Wars – from Movie to Arcade to Atari ST
May 4th, 2017 Stuart Williams Today being May the 4th (aka Star Wars Day), I thought I’d mark the occasion by looking back at one of the first Star Wars video games which brought simulated science fiction movie action down off the silver screen and into arcades and homes.
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Pixel Noir Brings Classic Movie Style to Games in New Demo, Kickstarter Success
February 25th, 2017 Carl Williams Do you remember the aura that Shadowrun on Super Nintendo had? That grungy, dark, something is going to kill me at any moment feeling? Pixel Noir has that in spade along with a healthy dose of the classic film genre styling to smooth things over. This Kickstarter success from 2015 continues development as proven in the […]
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New Street Fighter Animated Movie Work in Progress by Fan
January 15th, 2017 Carl Williams Don’t tell Capcom but a fan is making an anime style short film based on Street Fighter II.
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Movie Hits Super Nintendo – June 30th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
June 29th, 2016 Carl Williams Ah, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers– a television show that was aimed at younger viewers but still caught the eye of slightly older fans, myself included. The show was quite different versus what else was available on that channel but just about all of television. Brightly colored characters in spandex outfits wearing face obscuring helmets […]
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Centipede, Missile Command Movies Coming
May 12th, 2016 Carl Williams When you think of classic games that could make interesting movies, do you think of a horror themed Pac-Man? What about a whip wielding adventure ala Pitfall? I bet Centipede and Missile Command are not high on your list of potential movie candidates. Well, they are on the list for Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films and they have […]
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Body Blows the Fan Movie, Team 17 Classic Fighter Fan Base Grows
March 17th, 2016 Carl Williams What do you do if you are a fan of a game that is over 20 years old, most popular on the Commodore Amiga and you have friends and a video camera? Well, if your name is Daniele Spadoni you take an extremely low budget and turn that love for an old game into a […]
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Die Hard Arcade Updates Brawlers with Movie License, Hits Sega Saturn Hard – Today in History – February 28th, 1997
February 28th, 2016 Carl Williams Sega were known for doing the quirky thing with their games, this was true in the early days. Titles such as Alex Kidd had you fighting bosses with “rock, paper, scissors”. Later titles did cool things that we see today though no fighting game has revived the Daytona car like Fighter’s Megamix featured. In Die […]
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Movie: Independent Splatterhouse Movie To See Production if Funded
October 12th, 2014 Carl Williams The Splatterhouse series was an iconic set of games that sort of lost itself as time went on (most do). The first game, released on the Turbo Grafx-16 in North America showed that NEC weren’t all that keen on keeping lock step with what gamers were used to from the likes of Nintendo. Even Sega’s […]
