View Full Version : How videogames portray Punks
Cirrus
06-13-2005, 08:52 PM
And some more:
http://www.lemon64.com/giana/
It's really interesting. I remember actually thinking this WAS super mario brothers for the C64 when I was young. Look at the enemies... especially the "owl" goomba.
Graham Mitchell
06-13-2005, 09:03 PM
And some more:
http://www.lemon64.com/giana/
It's really interesting. I remember actually thinking this WAS super mario brothers for the C64 when I was young. Look at the enemies... especially the "owl" goomba.
I thought the same thing when I played it. I was shocked to learn later that it was a legit release, and not some kind of hack. Everybody talks about how great it is, but I didn't think anything was too special about it.
Daria
06-13-2005, 09:20 PM
And some more:
http://www.lemon64.com/giana/
It's really interesting. I remember actually thinking this WAS super mario brothers for the C64 when I was young. Look at the enemies... especially the "owl" goomba.
Wow that just screams clone. It's also funny the "jelly fish" looks like a SMB3 monster.
As for punks... Polterguy from the Haunting is an undead punk.
sharp
06-14-2005, 06:26 AM
I don't give a damn about how the portrait punks (and skins) in videogames, even though I was a punk years back and that i'm a skin for 7 years now.
Punk always wanted to have the image of rejects of society, and that image came across. I remember MTV showing a german punk about the Chaostage in Hannover 1995 (a big punkmeeting which ended in the biggest riots in Germany since WW II with thousands of punk, skins, hooligans and other kids fighting the police) were there was a drunk german punk telling I'm a punk and I throw trashcans through windows. To add hat you don't have to be hooligan to do that. And somewhere he got the originl spirit.
No Future
Anyway, I liked the idea mentioned in the begin for a beat 'm up with punk and skins fighting against yuppie property. If they only made State of Emergency like that (I loved the gam on Xbox with a Oi! soundtrack from the hd). I even played better with certain parts of songs.
evildead2099
06-16-2005, 03:47 AM
I noticed a neutral portrayal of a punk in Capcom's Street Fighter Alpha / Zero 2 in the background to Birdie's stage. A Punk can be seen taking a leak, and if you look beyond his appearance, he's not behaving any more negatively than the dude next to him.
... Unless we're supposed to assume that he's fondling himself when he can be seen shaking every so often. :/