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Old 04-07-2008, 06:31 PM   #1
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Default 80's movie help, trying to find whats it called

hey guys

im trying to find i think its a 80's or 90's movie bout a kid that plays video games .and goes across the country to play in the final ,i remember he has a arm pad thing he puts over his arm which has a game pad thing on it thats all i can remember if anyway can help me find it that would be great


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Old 04-07-2008, 06:43 PM   #2
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The Wizard with Fred Savage?
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The Wizard with Fred Savage?
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098663/
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jackpot

cheers mate !!

owe you a beer
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***hangs head in shame for knowing that :(***
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Old 04-07-2008, 06:53 PM   #6
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btw that arm pad thing was the Ninendo PowerGlove

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Gee Racecraft, can the embaressment get any worse? Keep up the crappy movie facts...hahaha
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man, I always wanted one of them, but I only had a Commodore 64..
*also hangs head in shame*
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man, I always wanted one of them, but I only had a Commodore 64..
*also hangs head in shame*
THe C64 was upmarket, I started with the mighty Vic20
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oh the 80's !!

lucky i was only born in them hahah
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I used to go to my mates house for sleepovers, just so I could play the Atari! Space Invaders, what a game! LOL!

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Whoa!
I thought learning stuff on my old man's 1983 MicroBee was oldskool!
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I thought learning stuff on my old man's 1983 MicroBee was oldskool!

Oh yeah! The Microbee with Kong! what an awsome machine that was.
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The Wizard was the biggest Nintendo advertisment ever haha.
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Thumbs up old computers

Nothing wrong with the Com 64 and also the Vic 20 Blitz was my game of choice and also the morse code generator which let me type out words but send it out over the air as CW morse code
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Was recently down in melbourne and at the australian centre for moving image centre they had a exhibition called "GAME ON" had all video games from space invaders and pac man thru to online stuff and Wii's.
Oh so many memories, C64, atari, hand held donkey kong. Those were cool gaming consoles.
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Wow, am i the only one who grew up with a Nintendo 64? (Nintendo's last good console).
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Was recently down in melbourne and at the australian centre for moving image centre they had a exhibition called "GAME ON" had all video games from space invaders and pac man thru to online stuff and Wii's.
Oh so many memories, C64, atari, hand held donkey kong. Those were cool gaming consoles.
I remember the first guy who came to school with hand held donkey kong, there was a crowd of 500 looking over his shoulder.

I was satisfied with my turtle bridge. :(
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THe C64 was upmarket, I started with the mighty Vic20
:O omg ! , People from my era ! . Imo it should of been called the F64 ( falcon 64 , not the commodore 64 ! ) ..lol .. anyway ....

I started with the homemade dick-smith paddle control 2 colour batton tennis ( was 2 crappy controlls with like volume knobs for left and right and a red reset button for the fire button) as far back as i can remember.
I then got the Vic-20 and the amstrad (lol , if i remember rightly the vic-20 had 8 colours ..lol), then progressed to the commodore-64 and got into programming and had my part in the production of a easily programable game language called AMOS / for the C-64 ( I earned a quiet few bux from that too ! ).
I then got into the Commodore Amiga computers , right from the Amiga500, then the Amiga2000, then the Amiga1200 (which was the best of them imo , I had that on the internet when PC's were still 386's ! ). Ah the good old days , the gfx on those pc's for their days was amazing imo , tiny programs with huge results. It's a shame the the Commodore/Amiga was realy a European ( Big in Germany and England ) based pc , it made it hard to get software for these pc's towards the end of their days / sorta when Microsoft took over with with windows 98 and so on becoming the norm....
And that's still something that bugs me to this day ! - Microsoft always claiming that they produced windows , yet realy they just ripped off the windows/workbench theme from the Amiga !.
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ok strangely this is making me feel old. i'm only 22 but my computing days went in this order (passed on from my parents of course):

Atari and Commodore 64 - gotta love Paperboy
Gameboy & Sega MasterSystem
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PS3

Did any body here own a Nintendo Game&Watch?
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this is the baby i started my gaming on
tape drive FTW

fave game was called gauntlet had had to do one whole side tape to begin the at various points more of the second
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fave game was called gauntlet had had to do one whole side tape to begin the at various points more of the second

Tape drive on the commodore 64 used to drive me insane, 10 minutes loading for 2 minutes of game.
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I only had a Commodore 64..
*also hangs head in shame*
Could've been worse.....like a VN or a VL


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StAndArdAU....gotta love Paperboy
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I still like it!


Also, what was that Radio Shack (Realistic) mini-computer thing you plugged into the TV? (talk about primitive)
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Don't forget the commodore 16!!

Commodore 64 was great tho

The Amiga was fantastic too.. I remember playing ET's (Andrew Ettingshausen) Rugby League. Goddamn that game was good
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It reminds me of that Simpsons Episode where Bart shoplifts that fighting game and his mum buys him the golf one

"You have selected the 9 iron, may i suggest the putter....You have selected the 9 iron" !! classic
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Anyone else go looking for the old glass coke bottles at building sites etc to cash in for 20c to play Space Invaders at the local shop?
No litter around back in those days

Then a few years later you could get it on your own TV via Vic 20 and C64

I still have Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr on handheld Nintendo in the cupboard somewhere I think, I haven't had batteries for them for years but, probably don't work anymore

A few years back I was in a Museum in the UK and it had an original fridge sized Space Invader machine and this guy was trying to explain to his young kid that this was the same sort of thing the kid played on his mobile phone, the kid was not believing him at all.
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Oh yeah! The Microbee with Kong! what an awsome machine that was.
Ahahaha. I used to hax into the Microbee server at school and play joust.
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Anyone else go looking for the old glass coke bottles at building sites etc to cash in for 20c to play Space Invaders at the local shop?
No litter around back in those days
AHahahahahahahahahahaha. OMG! This was good 70's stuff.
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Think the shop keeper got suss a bit on me tho ;)
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It reminds me of that Simpsons Episode where Bart shoplifts that fighting game and his mum buys him the golf one

"You have selected the 9 iron, may i suggest the putter....You have selected the 9 iron" !! classic
Hehehe , so true too !. Except I think selected a wood, smack the ball as far as it can go into the carpark , boring , then had enough never to play the game ever again .
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this is the baby i started my gaming on
tape drive FTW

fave game was called gauntlet had had to do one whole side tape to begin the at various points more of the second
omg!
i had the grey one black and orange buttons, which if i remember correctly was earlier than that one!
yes gauntlet was cool!...:togo:
then c64, nes, ps1, ps2..

yet to get a ps3
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