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Games vs Movies: 20 cutscenes compared

We match up classic games to their film counterparts

Words: Shane Patterson, GamesRadar US

 

The menacing grin from this killing cyborg is replicated somewhat faithfully. However, the game’s fire effects look more like floral wallpaper and not a harbinger of the impending apocalypse.

Even if the game was complete crap, the screenshot accurately depicts the source material of the film, based on a television skit about two dorky rockers hosting a syndicated television program. The plot of the movie involves sponsorship by an arcade. That tangential information completes the circle.

If anyone can pull off masquerading as a decrepit geezer into fooling Aladdin to search for a tea lamp, it’s Jafar. Thankfully, the Disney film isn’t presented with portraits of elderly men and beards that no frame can handle. The movie offers a more laughable Jafar doing a crazy crab-walk, instead of this picture of sinister.


That title crawl is barf-awful in the game. But what do we have here? No planet underneath the Star Destroyer? LucasArts probably ran out of their allotted bits for the first entry in the series.


 
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Necron  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Nice article, but theirs one mistake. Luke is riding a TaunTaun not a Wampa.
MacGyver1138  - 1 year 1 month ago 
I was going to say the same thing! Fun article, though. I'm actually amazed at how close some of the old-school screenshots are to their film counterparts. If only the games had been as close. (Or maybe not, in Spider-Man 3's case!)
GamesRadarShanePatterson  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Noted and fixed! Thanks.
Juriasu  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Yeah, you tell 'em Necron!
lava_lamp  - 1 year 1 month ago 
screw getting a blu-ray player ill get a snes instead, a completely new movie experience
LilBompie17  - 1 year 1 month ago 
cool
Mrinsane117  - 1 year 1 month ago 
the indianna one is the best
Gazlitt  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Yea amazing how games and films are crossing over - just did an item and nice compilation video containing quite a few of these on personalizemedia dot com. Item is entitled "Cinematic Game Renaissance - Game Now Leading Film?" - nice uTube vid embedded about the convergence of games and films...
XAkira96  - 1 year 1 month ago 
The Star Wars game text crawl picture looks like "A Meh Hope" at the top.
MultiGamer  - 1 year 1 month ago 
I cant even read that Star Wars text.
TheGreatHobbe  - 1 year 1 month ago 
the t-rex has this "wtf you lookin at" face
GoldenMe  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Ha!!!

I have that Mickey Mouse game for Genesis.
Ah, what good times.....kinda.
TheSuburbiaRuins  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Good job Shatterson,
The Aliens 3 thing reminds me so much of Advent Rising
Masy  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Check out the Godfathers scenes,
they are pretty exact, even the voices come pretty close too.

Great Article all and all.
dweller  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Heh, Sandman’s dead-eyed gaze. That phrase encompasses my feelings on Spider-Man 3 game. I'm still afraid of having nightmares from those caricatures renderings of the characters.
cricket0  - 1 year 1 month ago 
The Super Star Wars movies look like crap in the title crawl.
KHfan  - 1 year 1 month ago 
is there a home alone game? lol
FlamingPeasant  - 1 year 1 month ago 
You seriously confused a Taun-Taun with a Wampa? You have failed. Go burn your geek card and start being cool.
Seabread  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Predator image is from the scene where they set a trap in a clearing; near the "start of the end" if you will. right before Poncho gets a tree in the gut. Ouch!
ELpork  - 1 year 1 month ago 
starwars suck.....to quote a troll.
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