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yotsuya:
TOK-

In retrospect, I will agree to you that in certain cases, it did make a number of people in hobby look bad, but I think those of us that are enthusiasts would be entertained by it.

If I learned one thing from it, it's that I wonder why Billy Mitchell gets so much grief with there are guys like Roy Shildt out there!

Fordman:
So basically the whole movie was a work?

Ok, hook, line, sinker - mounted on the wall!

Without the adversarial riff between champ and challenger, the movie would be boring and have lesser appeal than it did?

Did anyone actually pay to see this in a theater? (and if you did, my guess is that you brought your gamer buddy and not a date/wife)

Did I see every chance to get Billy's wing sauce in every shot that could possibly be fit in to? How many times did we have to see him re-shuffling the items on the store shelf to make room for the Bodine size wing sauce jar?

ok......I'll stop with the stupid rhetorical questions!

Fordman

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: TOK on January 07, 2011, 01:49:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: yotsuya on January 07, 2011, 12:40:29 am ---Chasing Ghosts was good.

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Totally disagree. Made people in the hobby look bad to the point of real embarrassment. Thank God it went nowhere.
 
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I agree with both yotsuya and TOK -- it was a well-made movie (and those 3-D game animations that Peter did would be sweet in a front-end) that showed a segment of people in this hobby who are truly embarrassing for the rest of us and, from my experience, are very different from the collector and restoration folks.

It had the added benefit of making me feel better about sucking at the classic games that I love, since I definitely don't want to be lumped in with the likes of Rob Mruczek. He may play Star Wars better than I can, but I'm pretty sure I can fix Star Wars better than he can ... and, even though we are the same age, I don't live in my parents' house with a humongous cat ... and I've gotten laid.

opt2not:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 07, 2011, 02:27:58 pm ---Is Chasing Ghosts the one where they didn't spring $100 for a working Berzerk boardset?

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Yeah, Chasing Ghosts had the two Berzerk guys trying to swap boards to fix one for them to play.


--- Quote ---Or was it the one where the guy started hallucinating during Missile Command and didn't manage to break the record?

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That's High Score. Not really a great movie, but interesting enough. The ending part got a laugh out of me though. :)

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: opt2not on January 07, 2011, 02:30:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 07, 2011, 02:27:58 pm ---Is Chasing Ghosts the one where they didn't spring $100 for a working Berzerk boardset?

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Yeah, Chasing Ghosts had the two Berzerk guys trying to swap boards to fix one for them to play.

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And then repeatedly cycling the power just expecting things to work ...  ::)

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