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waxpoet
08-11-2006, 10:53 PM
After Watching The Björk "Hyperballad" Video Recently, I Realized How Much I Appreciated 8-Bit / 16-Bit 2D Renditions Of Bigger Than Real Life Peoples.
Examples:
-Mike Tyson In "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out"
-Jackie Chan In "Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu"
Additions, Oppositions, & Opinions Requested.
Shaggy_Arcade
08-11-2006, 11:19 PM
To be honest when I first saw this topic I thought of Tron. But I know you weren't talking about that.
I haven't seen that video but Bruce Lee comes to mind (even if some of the games featuring his likeness weren't all that great - excluding the 8-bit version on my Atari computer)
j_factor
08-11-2006, 11:25 PM
Street Fighter: The Movie the game uses all the real actors, including Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kylie Minogue, Raul Julia, etc. :P
cyberfluxor
08-11-2006, 11:35 PM
Street Fighter: The Movie the game uses all the real actors, including Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kylie Minogue, Raul Julia, etc. :P
Did you just overlook and list Street Fighter the Movie video game over Mortal Kombat? :hmm: Also SFtM is 32-bit.
vulcanjedi
08-12-2006, 08:48 AM
Greetings Programs.
The first game to use digitized people was Pit Fighter in 1990. But that depends on the definition because Journey Escape used digitized pictures of the band members heads and that was back in 1983.
eol
waxpoet
08-12-2006, 09:19 AM
Thanks for the replies but you guys are missing the point!
I don't mean motion captures or photographs...I mean good video game renditions of real people...preferably in good games like the two I mentioned...
I had another one on the top of my head, but it is really slipping my mind.
If you could go back in time, who would you make a game about?
Can you imagine if Björk really did have her own Megadrive Action RPG?[/u]
waxpoet
08-12-2006, 09:48 AM
This link to the original video that sparked this thread might help your imagination.
http://www.bjork.com/videogallery/watch.php?video=9;size=medium
crazyjackcsa
08-12-2006, 11:24 AM
Bruce Willis was in ... ummm... What was that game? Apocolypse?
j_factor
08-12-2006, 02:43 PM
Street Fighter: The Movie the game uses all the real actors, including Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kylie Minogue, Raul Julia, etc. :P
Did you just overlook and list Street Fighter the Movie video game over Mortal Kombat? :hmm: Also SFtM is 32-bit.
Mortal Kombat only has some no-name people hired for the game. He was looking for famous people, as evidenced by his two examples. But yeah, it is 32-bit, isn't it. Oops.
playgeneration
08-12-2006, 04:17 PM
Ive thought of one:
Marilyn Monroe face on posters in the background of Shinobi
There was that cancled SNES Steven Segal game.
jajaja
08-12-2006, 05:00 PM
You have Bruce Lee for SNES :)
waxpoet
08-12-2006, 05:28 PM
Ok I figured out the other game that was on the top of my head....
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for Genesis
Definitely a perfect example of what I am talking about! The Bruce Lee for SNES isn't bad either, although the game does not look too enthralling
Damaramu
08-12-2006, 06:18 PM
Shaq-Fu, mo fo's!
Don't forget Michael Jordan- Chaos In The Windy City
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/Damaramu/Michael20Jordan20-20Chaos20In20The2.gif
Honestly, the art in the game didn't really look like Shaq or Mike.
waxpoet
08-12-2006, 06:37 PM
Of course there is Jordan vs. Bird for Genesis as well. The sprites aren't very well done though...I might include
jajaja
08-12-2006, 06:48 PM
What about NBA Jam? There was some famous basketball players in right? But was the caracher in-game the same no matter who you chose or did the sprite on the faces change? I forgot.
waxpoet
08-12-2006, 06:53 PM
I wouldn't really count sports games in general... they don't really encapture the feeling of what I originally was talking about
dangevin
08-13-2006, 02:51 AM
There's Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu...the sprite's not a dead ringer but it's funny if you've seen younger Jackie. Plus, you do pilot a real person through a whole game. That's early '91...anyone know earlier?
Going older...may not qualify but we all know the splash screen shot of E.T. - it was a ... real puppet! Prolly the most realistic graphic I remember seeing on the VCS.
an old C64 game from 1987, plays in B&W, Detective thriller, if I remember rightly, forgot the title....
Ok I figured out the other game that was on the top of my head....
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for Genesis
Definitely a perfect example of what I am talking about! The Bruce Lee for SNES isn't bad either, although the game does not look too enthralling
Definetely my favourite of this kind. I finished it countless times. And the music is nice as well.
sickdrummer420
09-26-2006, 12:02 PM
an old C64 game from 1987, plays in B&W, Detective thriller, if I remember rightly, forgot the title....
THAT WOULD BE INTRIGUE
Cauterize
09-26-2006, 12:27 PM
Revolution X (GEN/MD, SNES, PS1) - Aerosmith
NBA Jam (GEN/MD, SNES) - Bill Cilnton, Fresh Prince (will smith) and other secret characters
Jackie Chans Action Kung Fu (NES) - Jackie Chan
qbertandernie
09-26-2006, 07:29 PM
indiana jones on the nes?
any star wars game with luke skywalker had mark hamills 'look' in mind when designed id expect....
or do you mean the nekkid ladies in bubble bath babes and the like? id guess they were based off of real people...not particularly famous real people, but people.
Neil Koch
09-26-2006, 08:44 PM
There's Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu...the sprite's not a dead ringer but it's funny if you've seen younger Jackie. Plus, you do pilot a real person through a whole game. That's early '91...anyone know earlier?
There are at least a couple of other Jackie Chan games, Stuntmaster on the PS and Jackie Chan Adventures on the GBA. Those are just the official ones, there are a ton of bootleg Jackie games from Hong Kong for just about every system from the NES on.
There was also the Jet Li PS2 game Rise to Honor, and the character does look and move like Jet (they motion-captured him) as wel as using his real voice.
The upcoming 360 game Stranglehold is a sequel to the movie Hard Boiled and features a pretty realistic-looking Chow Yun Fat.
This was a picture I did as a goof of me as one of the Das Lof Gang from NARC:
http://myspace-383.vo.llnwd.net/01174/38/31/1174021383_l.jpg
idrougge
09-28-2006, 05:51 PM
Don't forget "JJ and Jeff" for whatever you call the PC Engine.
Patton vs Rommel (EA) on C-64?
Sweater Fish Deluxe
09-29-2006, 01:28 PM
Bruce Willis was in ... ummm... What was that game? Apocolypse?
Hudson Hawk 4-evar!
http://emu-russia.km.ru/gdb/nes/Hudson_Hawk_1.png
There was a lot of movie and othe rlicenses on the NES that had goofy big-headed digital renditions of people. Like The Three Stooges. There are no bigger stars than Moe, Larry and Curly.
http://emu-russia.km.ru/gdb/nes/Three_Stooges_1.png
...word is bondage...