@byrc: I'm 26, but I didn't get my first real game system (NES) til I was about 9. A combination of drugs, blunt force trauma, and loose morals has left me with little to no long-term memory, so I can't say I remember the 80s vividly, but I'd say we're solidly the SNES/Genesis generation. I enjoyed the hell out of my NES, but aside from pure youthful enjoyment, I don't think those games had the same effect on us as they did for the older gamer set, i.e. people who remember the original SMB or even games before it. I remember poring over the maps in Nintendo Power, trying to memorize every bit of every level, but I would say that -- for me -- I grew most as a gamer during the SNES/Genesis console "scuffle". Up until that point, I was a gaming enthusiast, but having to pick sides made me a real gamer.

MisterSleep

@thebigxer: yeah the "cade" in the NES "thundercade" is the "cade" from "motorcade".

so yeah "thundercade" vs "motorcade" and "thundercade" vs "arcade" . . . hmmmm. there's not quite such a clean connection in the movie title :-/

so yeah this movie is, then, like a remake of "the wizard" crossed with "king of kong".

who knows what these people are thinking anymore, man.

108

@108:

damn it you beat me to it!

I have that game for the nes and its totally awesome and totally hard at the same time. this movie sounds kinda lame though not cool like the game.

thebigxer

"Cline is a gamer himself, who got the idea for the film when his nephew trash-talked him over Xbox Live."

*ahem*

Or maybe he got the idea when he saw King of Kong.

stop2

@108:

oh dear...

cyhborg

+ Watch video

do i get a million dollars for this or what?

108

Wow, and it only took him 3 years after hearing the steve wiebe story! Seriously, the king of kong people have been shopping a script around for a film version of the documentary with steve carell attached to play billy for almost a year now.

GodsBurden

Now that I'm no longer teenager (I'm 23 years old) I find myself in this odd twillight of adulthood. Not really old enough to be nostalgic about stuff from the 80s, but not completely oblivious to it. I didn't play video games till I got my NES when I was 5 years old and remember watching the movie Wizard and going ape shit crazy because Super Mario Bros 3 was in the movie (was the 1st game I got for the NES at the time, OG mario came with the system).

I notice a lot of people my age front that they remember the 80s vividly and proudly proclaim their nostalgia for it, don't freak'n understand why.

My question is this if we aren't the atari 2600 generation, and too old to be the 360 generation, WTF are we?

Any other 20-somethings gamers asking themselves this question. Are we Playstation generation or the SNES generation?

Any suggestions?

byrc

I'm proud to say that I game periodically with my nephew online, and he never trash talks. He's good enough where he'd have the opportunity, too ... but he doesn't. I'm glad that he subscribes to the view that making people feel bad kind of destroys the whole point of playing a game with them.

However, this could be good if done well ... he sure put a lot of heart into Fanboys, which is what these sorts of movies live and die by.

jayntampa

Ahh! The Wizard! Wasn't that one of those promotional Nintendo movies?

Puzzle

today s gamers generation would defenitly get owned at old school games. those were way harder than anything on the market today.

todays games are made so that even retards can finish them...( caused by the fact that the companies need to maximize their sales)

Markyboy

Hopefully he can expand upon "He Touched My Breast!"

Double J

I've got a bad feeling this is going to be another Will Ferrell movie.

kemicon

Also need to get Rilo Kiley on the soundtrack, or possibly a live-performance cameo.

Doofman

looks like fun

detraya

Plot sounds too similar to what happened in King of Kong.

cactaur

@Godsburden: Shoot, I'd much rather see a King of Kong treatment with Steve Carell than this Thundercade thing.

Tommy

@stop2: that was my thoughts exactly

coolfelix

Hmmm, i would say right now is the PS3 generation.

BTW, i am 25 but i had my first console the NES by 1989, i dont remember much of that beside duck hunt, contra games, ninja gaiden games. The next console i had was the N64 by fall of 1997. So there was when i enjoyed the games, no before, the next console i had was the xbox 3-shit-xty, but broke on me, so i sold that shit and im on my way to get a PS3

PowerButton

@MisterSleep: hehehe seems you beat me to it! Hehe I'm 23 by the by

syl1985

@byrc: SNES and Mega Drive (Genesis for you yanks)

syl1985

@byrc: I feel you. I really do. I'm 22 and I've always thought of us as the video game revolution generation. We were born into gaming when Nintendo was turning it all around for the better. Mid 80's kids FTW!

AsWater

@Doofman: What the? That was kind of random. Does the writer have anything to do with Jenny Lewis or something?

AsWater

The Wizard II: Thundercade That should be title.

A_Knothole_Resident

Boy, with what I've seen (the trailer) and read about "Fanboys", I'm sure this'll be a stellar straight-to-...YouTube release??

Sounds like another 'star vehicle' for Dan Fogler to me! (And just WHO out there actually finds that guy even marginally tolerable, let alone APPEALING?!)

jollydwarf

@AsWater: Jenny Lewis is the girl in "The Wizard". That's the connection, that's the joke.

jollydwarf

I will shank people to see this movie.

Not really, but I'd get pretty close.

Pezdispenser

I love the idea of writing fictional video game movies based on documentaries...

It's so bad.

Eukaryote

@Double J: [breast.ytmnd.com]

KaneRobot

@jollydwarf: Well shit, that makes sense. I've never had the pleasure of seeing it. Haha thanks for the education.

AsWater

King of Kong anyone?

Jangofatt

@byrc: i'm 26 and i consider myself NES generation. i had an atari2600 i can vaguely remember before i had an nes, but that experience wasn't the defining one. it was when i played and beat mario1 and zelda1 when i was 5 years old in 1987 that i first felt like a gamer.

or maybe we're the gameboy generation? i definitely spent many hours on my gameboy before snes came out...

Dude of the Millenium

I'm 25 and it's a tough call what generation I really "belong to". We got our NES a little later in its lifecycle, so while I played all the classics, (then attempted to replay them later on to completion with the help of Galoob's mighty Game Genie... cmon, Zelda II was a bitch!) I think the 16-bit era was where things really took off.

"Blast processing?" Mortal Kombat II for SNES having all the blood and guts back, in addition to superior graphics and sound? These tidbits of info were marketed directly to kids my age, and were poured over and analyzed in each month's gaming mags. My brother and I begged for the Genesis first, because of Sega's "cool" attitude, then -- in the moment that sealed my fate as a gaming nerd -- saved enough money mowing lawns and shoveling driveways in a year to convince our parents we needed a SNES too.

I shoveled those fucking driveways, in Michigan snow, for five bucks. Whenever I think fondly upon MK2, Mario World, Castlevania, Contra, and threatening to delete my kid brother's Chrono Trigger save files out of spite, it's never without an undercurrent of rage at the child labor I performed to bring the House of Mario back home.

Jonaconda

I'm the Arcade/Atari 2600/5200/7800/NES/SNES generation with a side of the PS1/N64 generation. Somehow this is possible because I identify with each one equally and remember all very fondly.

Gam3r

Don't mind me. I'm just another guy yelling "King of Kong" rip!

7ucky

As long as it's better than "The Wizard" than I'm fine with it.

foxwarrior88

... so it's basically an adaption of King of Kong.

Monkeystew