View Full Version : Video Game Industry & Hollywood get Married...
Nothing we already didn't know...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050626/ennew_afp/afpentertainmentusfilm_050626212917
"Millions of unsold "E.T." game cartridges had to be crushed, dealing a devastating blow to Atari, despite its onetime 80 percent market share." :bawling:
Raedon
06-27-2005, 12:14 PM
games cost to much.
Muscelli
06-27-2005, 12:19 PM
that article makes it sound like a soap opera...
"Video games were once loved... until Movies slept with books"
Kid Ice
06-27-2005, 01:21 PM
Let's see, Friday I saw Land of the Dead, in a theater that was also playing Herbie the Love Bug, Bewitched, and a Star Wars movie. Once inside I saw previews for the Dukes of Hazzard and the Bad News Bears. Think Hollywood might be running out of ideas? x_x
I'm not sure why they think a successful game will translate into a popular film franchise.
How long are journalists going to write about ET being buried in the desert? Sheesh, get over it.
Haoie
06-27-2005, 08:29 PM
That ET dump thing was over 20 years ago, it's really time to get over it.
But then again, from what I've seen, it was a pretty bad game, and deserves to be mocked endlessly.
kaustik
06-27-2005, 08:53 PM
Who keeps buying these games? Very few video games based off of movies ever fair well. But somehow bad video games, I'm looking at you Matrix, sell well enough that they just have to keep making more.