William Baldwin's Genesis & front-loading SEGA CD in the 1993 movie 'Sliver' with Sharon Stone

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'Zeke' -played by William Baldwin had a Genesis with the original front-loading SEGA CD in his high tech apartment in the 1993 movie 'Sliver' with Sharon Stone and Tom Berenger.


I remember seeing this movie when it came to HBO or Showtime. I clearly remember seeing the original front-loading SEGA CD he had.

But I had forgotten what movie that was from over time. Just remembered today.

Looked on Youtube for a clip, found the full movie in some other language.

Took a screen capture, there it is!

http://i.imgur.com/BCz6YAX.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/Axf6a3x.png?1

[sloan]

Is that a VGA monitor he has it all hooked up to? How does that work?

[wayultratech]

that's awesome!! i remember Vince Vaughn playing Genesis in Swingers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owk4S0GGDbU

the dude saying "Bitch" and "Such fuckin bullshit" over and over at the beginning is hilarious

[Gameguy]

Is that a VGA monitor he has it all hooked up to? How does that work?

A better question would be about the Game Gear in the pic below. How can the kid play anything when there's not even a game in the console? It's almost like these movies aren't real.



http://i44.tinypic.com/dpeixy.gif

[BlastProcessing402]

Is that a VGA monitor he has it all hooked up to? How does that work?

Well, first they film a scene with a blank monitor in it, then later in post-production they superimpose the image that they want on the screen over that blank area.

That's one way to do it anyway. I never actually saw this movie so can't say if they used that method but it's a common one.

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Well, first they film a scene with a blank monitor in it, then later in post-production they superimpose the image that they want on the screen over that blank area.

That's one way to do it anyway. I never actually saw this movie so can't say if they used that method but it's a common one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIYpj_DasU Skip to 1:11:30 The Genesis+SEGA CD is only on the screen for like 2 seconds.

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'The Challenge' 1982, with Scott Glenn (re-edited as "Sword Of The Ninja' for television).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an2fP7taV90

@ 47:20 the Japanese American guy is playing what has to be Sega's 1979/'80 Pro / Monaco GP for several minutes as he threatens Scott Glen, telling him how shit goes down.


Though the cabinet had 'Rally' on it so it seems it wasn't an original cab.

http://i.imgur.com/MbTCiH1.jpg?1

[Compute]

Ironically I spotted a copy of Sliver for cdi today.

[sloan]

A better question would be about the Game Gear in the pic below. How can the kid play anything when there's not even a game in the console? It's almost like these movies aren't real.



http://i44.tinypic.com/dpeixy.gif

What movie is that from?

[thunderkid]

Thats from a Jackie Chan movie Rumble in the Bronx.

[FrankSerpico]

Will Smith's kid plays a Turbo Express in Enemy of the State, and I'm pretty sure they even manage to store some files they've taken from the evil villains on the thing. The funniest thing is that it was filmed in like '96 or '97 well after every NEC video game product had faded into obscurity in the US.

[Cornelius]

Will Smith's kid plays a Turbo Express in Enemy of the State, and I'm pretty sure they even manage to store some files they've taken from the evil villains on the thing. The funniest thing is that it was filmed in like '96 or '97 well after every NEC video game product had faded into obscurity in the US.

They didn't actually transfer any data to the Turbo. Somehow whatever media the data (just video, I think) was stored on just fit perfectly into the slot.

[MetalFRO]

They didn't actually transfer any data to the Turbo. Somehow whatever media the data (just video, I think) was stored on just fit perfectly into the slot.

That would be a PCMCIA Card, which has roughly the same width as a TurboChip/HuCard, and is only slightly thicker. PCMCIA cards were a long time standard for expanding a laptop, and my guess is, this one was simply an early form of flash memory, similar to a Compact Flash Card or early MMC chips. I always thought that was cool that the guy stuck the card in there and that the TE got a fair bit of screen time so long after its demise.

[Cornelius]

That would be a PCMCIA Card, which has roughly the same width as a TurboChip/HuCard, and is only slightly thicker. PCMCIA cards were a long time standard for expanding a laptop, and my guess is, this one was simply an early form of flash memory, similar to a Compact Flash Card or early MMC chips. I always thought that was cool that the guy stuck the card in there and that the TE got a fair bit of screen time so long after its demise.

Yeah, very well could have been a PCMCIA card. There are/were PCMCIA HDDs, so that's completely reasonable, assuming the dimensions are correct. That movie is so full of holes that even a fictitious media format would be the least specious issue to consider.

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Just watched Enemy Of The State again and man, they could not have picked a cooler handheld game system to use.



I owned the revised, smaller Atari Lynx II in 1991, but never had an NEC Turbo Express, or the Japanese version, the PC Engine GT (Game Tank).