Doom II

[Escape•From•Jenny•Island]

I saw a movie a few weeks ago called Grosse Point Blank with John Cusack and Mini Driver on Bravo. In it there was a Doom II arcade Cabinet in a store scene. Since then Ive been looking everywhere for one and I cant seem to find anything on it. Do they even exist?

[Ed Oscuro]

Haha, everybody wants one of those :)

My guess is they took the game's box art for the sides and just threw a monitor on there. You will notice that the dude was playing around with a plasma rifle and the dual joystick combination made no sense...I don't think that system actually worked; they probably had a demo running or some guy in the corner with a keyboard :P

They don't exist as an official product. Damn funny/cool though.

[-hellvin-]

wow...I totally forgot about that scene. hehe, funny movie. Yeah, now that you've mentioned it the fact he was playing doom II on an arcade cabinet is damn weird.

[Overbite]

i was in Chuck E. Cheese one time and the lyrics to one of the robots songs went "Up in his room playing Doom"

i was like WOW chuck e cheese mentioned doom.

[Mr. Smashy]

http://www3.telus.net/smashy/confuzzled%20Cusack.JPG

Here's John Cusack wondering how the heck somebody could play Doom II on an arcade stick.

Also, the song that the guy playing Doom II is listening to on his headphones is "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead (which can be heard in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3).

[Ed Oscuro]

Hm, I remembered that guy looking a lot doofier than that :P

[Daniel Thomas]

People, people. It's a movie prop. It's not real. Who seriously watches this movie and thinks about Doom? Isn't this like that famous William Shatner skit on Saturday Night Live?

[Flack]

People, people. It's a movie prop. It's not real. Who seriously watches this movie and thinks about Doom? Isn't this like that famous William Shatner skit on Saturday Night Live?

I dunno, I think I would. I mean, immediately I would be like, wtf, they made a Doom video game and I didn't know about it?

It seems odd that for a movie they would make a totally new game instead of either A, using an existing game, or B, making a ficticious one so they didn't have to pay royalties.

[Mr. Smashy]

I dunno, I think I would. I mean, immediately I would be like, wtf, they made a Doom video game and I didn't know about it?

It seems odd that for a movie they would make a totally new game instead of either A, using an existing game, or B, making a ficticious one so they didn't have to pay royalties.

I was under the impression that it was a product placement thing.

[Lady Jaye]

Well, this is like in Back to the Future 2, when Marty goes to the 80s Café and there's a Wild Gunman cabinet (there was actually an arcade version of Wild Gunman, but it was within Nintendo's Playchoice-10 system and not as a standalone cabinet).

If there were to be a real 80s Café of some sort, the cabinet would most likely be Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man or Galaga (or perhaps Defender or Donkey Kong), but certainly not Wild Gunman in a Playchoice-10 cabinet.

At least, in WarGames, Matthew Broderick's character plays Galaga...

[Pantechnicon]

I remember watching this movie and thinking the same thing. "No way Doom II was made into a coin-op." :hmm:

This situation reminds me of the old Atari 5200 "Cloak & Dagger" (http://www.atarihq.com/5200/5200faq/02_06.html) controversy.

[Flack]

I remember watching this movie and thinking the same thing. "No way Doom II was made into a coin-op." :hmm:

This situation reminds me of the old Atari 5200 "Cloak & Dagger" (http://www.atarihq.com/5200/5200faq/02_06.html) controversy.

"This is Jack Flack, requesting an assignment, over ..."

One of my favorite movies of all time, and the one I took my nick from 20 years ago.

[Ed Oscuro]

... there was actually an arcade version of Wild Gunman, but it was within Nintendo's Playchoice-10 system and not as a standalone cabinet).


the cabinet would most likely be ... certainly not Wild Gunman in a Playchoice-10 cabinet.
Huh?