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My sister plays like that..always has.

Why didn't you teach her to play vidya right?

 

[Morrigan Stark]

The most perfect thing it could possibly be from.

Hahaha that is awesome! Did not expect it to be a Japanese commercial. That's an adorable ad.

 

[BraXzy]

Also when you see them button smashing to a first person shooter.

This is probably the most irritating and also most common.

It shows them frantically pressing every button on the pad and pulling triggers repeatedly and then the camera switches and they are playing Call of Duty. I get why they do it, typical gestures in a real situation are pretty subtle and not as entertaining/obvious to non-gamers.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Yeah, it's always been a pet peeve, be it people holding controllers wrong, playing it like they're having a seizure and other things along with being accompanied by Atari quality sound effects. With handhelds you'd think they could at least put a blank cartridge in it or something. I get why it's done but it's still bugs the crap out of me.

The fact that after all these years this shit is still happens annoys me even further

 

[Gentleman Jack]

I never held the N64 controller by holding the middle "handle," I always held it like a "normal" controller and stretched my thumb across to the thumbstick, because fuck that noise.

 

[MikeXXIeaf]

Why didn't you teach her to play vidya right?

If you can manage to beat me that way then by all means keep doing it.

 

[Dion Blaster]

Whats up with celebrities playing games and like, making huge exaggerated movements with their controllers and their bodies. I can't remember the last time I was so into a game I started dancing around and shit, or if that ever helped me improve my play.

The only times I've used body language in a game is pure desperation, like beating the Perfect Run or Ares. I don't think it did anything lol.

 

[Shanlei91]

People held the N64 controller in the middle?

First I find out the Playstation outsold the N64 even though no one I knew growing up owned one and now I find out me and everyone else I knew was holding it wrong.

I hate the internet.

 

[Emperor Bohe]

People held the N64 controller in the middle?

First I find out the Playstation outsold the N64 even though no one I knew growing up owned one and now I find out me and everyone else I knew was holding it wrong.

I hate the internet.

.

 

[Grizzo]

People held the N64 controller in the middle?

First I find out the Playstation outsold the N64 even though no one I knew growing up owned one and now I find out me and everyone else I knew was holding it wrong.

I hate the internet.

This thread had me reconsider things too! I didn't know so many people hold it that way. Holding the middle branch always felt natural to me, especially when playing FPS, what with the Z button acting like a gun trigger.

 

[DrKelpo]

To this day I never even questioned if it was supposed to be held otherwise.... The left hand in the middle just feels natural with the stick, z button etc

 

[Pancakes R Us]

Here in this Disney Channel original movie, two kids are playing the N64 without any cartridge in the system:

Isn't that Cory in Da House? There was a thread on here about that a little while back that cracked me up so much, hah.

 

[nowai]

Aaaaand now you've sold me on this film. Gonna track it down.

I love Reign Over Me. It's a 911 film, but it's only the catalyst to Sandler's character's current state.

It's not overly preachy and has SotC! Be warned though, the whole movie is pretty sad.

 

[Pikawil]

Isn't that Cory in Da House? There was a thread on here about that a little while back that cracked me up so much, hah.

Yup, it was about the DS game.

 

[Haunted]

In Rules of Engagement, Jeff just mashes buttons at a rapid rate. I've never played a game like that.

 

[HawthorneKitty]

Awwwww yissss Parenthood, love that show.

 

[Rex_Harrison]

It's fascinating on so many levels.

The lack of cartridge. Did they run out of time to find one? Did they not have the budget to buy one? Did they simply not care?

On top of that though, the kids aren't even trying to look realistic regardless. And they should realize how blatantly obvious this is to their audience.

I really don't understand why they go out of their way to put the console in the scene, presumably to add realism. Who puts their consoles on the fucking coffee table ? Then they don't even put a game in it ?

It'd be more realistic to give them generic wireless controllers and keep the "console" out of view.

 

[Dictator93]

No Shaun of the Dead yet?

http://youtu.be/xcWGx7PUBsM?t=1m37s

But they do it soo right in a lot of ways (heck, the movie uses part of the Time Splitters soundtrack at one point!).

Cannot fault them too much

 

[Mix]

Jesse playing RAGE in Breaking Bad

 

[fasTRapid]

Of course it was. It was a Sony movie!

That makes their use of an Xbox 360 Wireless Controller even weirder.

 

[Zoe]

That makes their use of an Xbox 360 Wireless Controller even weirder.

You sure it's not just a third party controller?

 

[Astral]

Jesse playing RAGE in Breaking Bad

And Sonic All Star Racing. I think he was playing it right though.

 

[Phediuk]

Absolutely everything in The Wizard.

 

[Creaking]

Dexter, playing Halo 3 on a PC using just a keyboard.

And those sound effects. MAN!

 

[Dishwalla]

There was an episode of Roseanne that bugged me as a kid where they buy DJ a Super Nintendo for his birthday, but before they give it to him there's a scene where they are testing it out in the motorcycle shop. The sounds coming from it are Mario World sounds, but the game was described as some ultra-violent game that only DJ would love(Roseanne later claims she is only a few steps away from becoming queen of the monkey people or something).

The SNES that is being played at the beginnig of Toy Story 2 is shown to have no power cord or output to the TV, it's just the console sitting there(never mind the fact that the game being played on it was way beyond the technical level of the SNES).

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Here's a movie where they're playing a game the right way, and it's a REALLY good movie.

Reign Over Me - Shadow of the Colossus
http://youtu.be/YiftlPIazGg

What makes this even more interesting, is there was an interview about this on Kotaku back in '07:

http://kotaku.com/246286/feature-the-colossus-and-the-comedian

I loved the inclusion of Shadow of the Colossus in this movie. It wasn't there for product placement but actually used as a cornerstone to show the bonding between the two leads as well as character development. I haven't really found another movie yet that has used a video game in such an extremely awesome manner.

Probably the best use of a game in a movie

 

[BGBW]

The manual told you how to hold the controller:

So basically everyone who held the left prong to use the control stick can be blamed for the death of the manual.

 

[Grizzo]

There was an episode of Roseanne that bugged me as a kid where they buy DJ a Super Nintendo for his birthday, but before they give it to him there's a scene where they are testing it out in the motorcycle shop. The sounds coming from it are Mario World sounds, but the game was described as some ultra-violent game that only DJ would love(Roseanne later claims she is only a few steps away from becoming queen of the monkey people or something).

I think I found the scene you're talking about (only it's in german). I think that boy is taking about a skeleton and some blood which is clearly not what Super Mario World is about hahaha (well, excluding Dry Bones I guess).

The manual told you how to hold the controller:

So basically everyone who held the left prong to use the control stick can be blamed for the death of the manual.

Who ever held it like in the second picture? Is there even a game where you can play like that?

 

[tensuke]

Jake Busey's career seemed to go nowhere, but mad props to the guy respecting his craft. He actually learned how to play violin for these parts in Starship Troopers:

He's a musician alright! He's actually in a band, "Sons of the Lawless", and they have a song in the credits of "Nazis At The Center of the Earth" (which starred Jake Busey)! Well, actually I think they broke up a year or two ago, but he was in a rock band, which is good enough for me.

 

[Returners]

Scrubs S7 - My hard Labor

I believe they play a xbox trailer with a 360 controller, one of them is wireless, the other is not but has a cut wire anyway.

They also switch prop around from scene to scene

Damn good catch.

Though Judy Reyes, she actually said some Halo references ("Warthog" etc.)

 

[N.Domixis]

This brings back memories of the game sphere in drake and josh

 

[thesolidshark]

Shoutouts to Young Neil for mentioning the correct names of games.


The only scene I found myself tolerating with people playing them was a scene in ER with a kid playing a SFII arcade cabinet, and "40 Year Old Virgin" Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen playing MK; at least they acted like actual casuals playing it (the "fuck you" at the fatality was perfect).

It's sad to me when the hallucination scene/parody in city hunter gets it right vs 90% of other video game references combined (yes, despite the fact that it's a parody).

Probably more evidence toward vg movies getting much less respect in cinema.

 

[Roto13]

Shoutouts to Young Neil for mentioning the correct names of games.

Anything less would be disrespectful to the source material.

 

[Dinosaur Tamer]

Damn good catch.

Though Judy Reyes, she actually said some Halo references ("Warthog" etc.)

It's not Halo, though. I am fairly sure that's from the episode where Turk keeps sneaking off to play on his own and they are actually "playing" Enemy Territory: Quake Wars in this scene.

I actually came to post this. Throughout the whole scene, they keep referring to stuff that is definitely not part of the game they are supposed to be playing. They also keep showing gameplay (that is clearly out of sync with their controller movement), so it's pretty hard to miss, if you know the game.

 

[Strike]

The 40 Year Old Virgin

 

[BolognaSoup]

I'm and idiot. Was just posted above. Forgive me I'm on my phone.

 

[Dishwalla]

Shoutouts to Young Neil for mentioning the correct names of games.

I could be wrong(it's kind of hard to tell for sure), but in that scene when he's flipping the DS open and closed it seems he's playing a Game Boy Advance game, as there is a GBA cart inserted and only one screen(the top one) appears to be illuminated. I've tried to determine if there is a DS cart in the system in the preceding scene where they are sitting at the kitchen table(prior to Knives' arrival) as you can see the back of the DS clearly, but it's hard to tell if there's a game inserted or not.

 

[MasterForm]

I held my N64 controller using both wings. Stretching just felt right. I would intentionally use the middle occasionally to experience how it felt, but I defaulted to the wings. I don't remember using the Z button much. I only played the Pokemon stadium games, goldeneye, smash bros, Wrestlemania, and a few other games.

 

[tensuke]

I could be wrong(it's kind of hard to tell for sure), but in that scene when he's flipping the DS open and closed it seems he's playing a Game Boy Advance game, as there is a GBA cart inserted and only one screen(the top one) appears to be illuminated. I've tried to determine if there is a DS cart in the system in the preceding scene where they are sitting at the kitchen table(prior to Knives' arrival) as you can see the back of the DS clearly, but it's hard to tell if there's a game inserted or not.

After further review the ruling on the field is that there's definitely a GBA game running, and I deem it nigh impossible to tell if there's a DS cart inserted or not.

 

[Shaunboy97]

Charley's Angels: two kids playing FF8 as a MULTIPLAYER GAME!!!! #NeverForget

Do you like the E.T. poster in the back which of course Drew Berrymore was in

 

[jackrubyn]

Namond Brice plays...something, on The Wire. Wish I could figure out what it was...

 

[SuperAngelo64]

That scene in Beethoven where two kids are playing Super Mario 3 single player, simultaneously, one of them using the power glove which is unplugged.

 

[Yu Narukami]

Is that Forest Whitaker's son?

 

[Sanctuary]

*generic 2d space shooter noises playing on ps2*

Same thing happened in Return of the Living Dead 3. Some randoms were playing Street Fighter 2 and it had random old school shooter sound effects coming out of the cabinet. I *think* they actually showed some of the SF2 characters, so it wasn't just one game in the cabinet of another.

 

[Sasukekun]

The TV show Spaced did games oh so right.

 

[lifeexpectancy]

Also when you see them button smashing to a first person shooter.

I've seen plenty of people button mash in an FPS in real life. They're usually people that don't normally play games.

What always kills me is when they show the TV screen and you can see the game they're playing, but the soundtrack doesn't match the game. I forget which show it was I watched recently.... they didn't actually show the TV screen but the actor references "when we're done with this match of Halo", controller-in-hand. However, the soundtrack to the show is CLEARLY playing sounds from some other game or some synthesizer overlay, because the zips and zoinks you hear in the back ground aren't from any Halo game ever.

 

[driver116]

Of course it was. It was a Sony movie!

Shame this doesn't stretch to their TV production studios - breaking bad could have probably boosted PS3 sales -but indstead they used 360s.

 

[Will M]

Surf Ninjas is one where games were done right. When the kid brother plays his ninja game, the stuff happens in real life! Its so meta and so dumb! I did have the actual game on game gear... it was bad.

And viewing pleasure...

 

[Yoshichan]

Oh Jesus, I saw this movie in the theatre.

H... how?

 

[Hyun Sai]

Fighting game players will be horrified at this scene of "Revenge" showing the 2 best SFII players of the world.

NSFW (in case you laugh easily) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2a94z3Coow