Depictions Of Videogames In The Media

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seems to have been a spate of episodes of what channel 5 would call 'America's Finest' shows featuring videogames:

NCIS this week had two sailors taking their MMORPG fights into the real world. http://www.tv.com/ncis/the-immortals/episode/274457/summary.html The scenes (especially the dialogue) of the punky lab tech playing through levels was cringemaking. (the entire show is so derivative. "NCIS is that anything like CSI?", "Only if you're dislexic", you wish...)

Tony Hawk was in CSI a couple of months ago. was ok.

And this from a couple of weeks ago: http://www.nbc.com/Law_&_Order:_Criminal_Intent/episode_guide/55.shtml
which was more interesting if you realised that it was basically the ID Software story with added murderation. (game segments supplied by Fat Frog http://www.fatfrog-studios.com/laworder/index.html)

comments? more?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 24 April 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

hi hi puffy ami yumi was hosted from tony hawks house on saturday

they play a lot of videogames on the OC

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

There's that scene on Gilmore Girls where Lane and Rory try playing video games, and aren't impressed.

― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 24 April 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Logan and DICK play a lot of fighters on Veronica Mars.

― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT PS/PS2 FIGHTING GAME IS ICHI PLAYING IN ICHI THE KILLER?

― JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

From an article on Kevin Underwood, the Oklahoma cannibal bloke, in last Wednesday's Guardian.

...as well as buying items for an online game called Kingdom of Loathing (including "hell ramen")

Clue: if you don't want people to think you're a lazy fucking moron who isn't qualified to write for a church newsletter, TRY RESEARCH.

― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

What's wrong about that. Not disputing, just asking.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

KILLER NET! Starring Jason Orange!

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

Very depressed, Scott takes to his room where he retreats into a world of on line pornography. By this time he has upgraded his equipment, installing and MPEG card and a sound card so he can talk to prostitutes live. One of them, Sadie, offers to sell Scott a limited edition cd rom. He gives her his credit card details and waits for "KILLER NET" to arrive.

Ah, I miss this! Best awful games based ITV crime mini series EVER!

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Once in the club, Scruffy (Simon Meacock) another student, warns Scott that Charlie or Rich Bitch as she is known on-line, has flamed him - humiliated him on the internet.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost

It gives me the vibe that "oh noes, the evil killer played sinister online game before his mind snapped" - why else the little aside about "hell ramen"? And it's Kingdom of Loathing...

― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the GTA/Bulletproof-type game in The Inside Man. Less ham-handed a comment than the similar sequence in Clockers. The game actually looked real, too!

― antexit (antexit), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

SOMEBODY SAW INSIDE MAN!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I hope lots of people saw it, it's really good (while it's on)!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

that's not how i meant it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

In Swingers they play NHL 93 (i think) before they go out on their date.

There are some crucial video game scenes in Yi-Yi.

Also, in the film D.A.R.Y.L.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630450733X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

in mallrats shannen doherty dumps jason lee because he like hockey games more than her (duh). in freaks n geeks they play atari, no?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

In the trailer for that new Vince Vaughn/Jennifer Aniston movie there's some pretty hilarious Madden '07 action.

― antexit (antexit), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

In Parenthood they play Bad Dudes.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

in TRON they play TRON

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

whoa

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

in THE LAST STARFIGHTER they play

WHOA

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

I want a game called WHOA now.

― Dan (Mind Blown) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://snlyou.jt.org/archives/02/02uwhoa.phtml

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

TimeSplitters 2 in Shaun of the Dead ! All that gaming helped with the zombie killing.

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

Night Watch/Nochnoi Dozor has the bad guy playing a tekken-rip-off

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

Veronica Mars they play Fable, other things too.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Veronica Mars says pwnage!

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630450733X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

slocki OTM

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

In Wargames he played Galaga, but next to a TRON arcade machine

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

Charlie Brooker's little column in the gadget section of saturday's guardian:

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/games/story/0,,1947550,00.html

"Apparently it's OK to be a sports buff , a movie buff , or a food buff ... but being a games buff still somehow offends society. People prepared to conduct tedious 15-hour analytical conversations about football or Kieslowski or the best place to find balsamic vinegar will have the audacity to call you a nerd for mentioning anything more obscure than Grand Theft Auto. Well, fuck your snobbery."

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Is he writing that from the POV of someone in 1996?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. Charlie Brooker's.

― Brian Emo (noodle vague), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

in "spaced" resident evil 2 and one of the tekkens and a tomb raider. and other unspecified stuff

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

what were they playing in My Little Eye? It sounded like the voice of Bruce Campbell, was it Evil Dead?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

I seem to remember in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air you would frequently see them playing video games, and it would be a NES sat on top of their TV, but they'd be holding black megadrive controllers...

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

nerdy me spots ppl (eg) on soaps with often GC controllers, when the FX is arcade asteroids or summink.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

That's like Mortal Kombat: Deception in the 40-Year-Old Virgin. It's a XBOX/PS2/GC game but they're using N64 controllers for some reason.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

when the FX is arcade asteroids or summink.

yeah, but we've talked about this before, haven't we? the fact that modern video games sound like movies, so they use the 4-bit beep-bloop-blop sounds has a redundant shorthand to convey to dense and/or people that "yes we is playing the games"

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

TimeSplitters 2 in Shaun of the Dead!

Weren't the soldiers at the end in a 'biohazard' truck?

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

There's that scene on Gilmore Girls where Lane and Rory try playing video games, and aren't impressed.

Lane's husband and flatmate are also constantly playing Soul Calibur III (PS2)

― webber (webber), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

There was a repeat of House on last night - the one with the mob guy who gets hep C and won't admit to being gay - and House is trying to get a reaction on the Glasgow Coma Scale out of him by blasting Metroid Prime on a DS in his ear. Heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 November 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

King Of The Hill, "Pro Pain!"

GTA spoof

― Ste, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

Half Life in L O S T. it's like kitheaven.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

the opening sequence to home improvement

― creme1, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Half Life was on LOST? Whaaaa?

Also, Ste, that was an AMAZING King of the Hill :)

― Will M., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

The dudes Sayid was spying on in his first flashback episode were playing it, while he was taking a bug out of the smoke detector. It was totally amazing.

Timesplitters in Shaun of the Dead and Resident Evil in Spaced were pretty great.

― melton mowbray, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

Pong in King Of The Hill also, was one of the funniest things ever.

― Ste, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

strange use of the comma there by teh Ste

― Ste, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

when i interviewed the spaced/shaun/hot fuzz dudes we talked about the 8-bit sounds in modern movies thing. and how video games in movies are always called "bloodeaters 10" or something. they were very humorously outraged about the whole thing.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

There was a phase of a couple of months, during the mid-90s, when the Kennedy household in Neighbours kept their PC in the living room. And Malcom, Libby and Billy were always playing Bullfrog's Magic Carpet. You never saw the screen, but I always recognised the sound effects because it was happening around the same time that I was playing it to death myself.

― JimD, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

i thought they had an Amiga

― Ste, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.waffleimages.com/ccb2db67c07f168e194f97e0d4b30ad5bac963d7/wiiNuts.jpg

― kingfish, Saturday, 12 May 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

BONESTORM

http://www.dvd.net.au/movies/t/09350-4.jpg

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 12 May 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

First episode of Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe is up on YouTube - I enjoyed it, especially the contributed sections. Nice to Rab and Ryan from Consolevania, and surprised to see Rebecca Mayes from The Escapist turning up too.

― Nhex, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

watching now, very funny. loved the guys complaints about gtaiv haha, in the second part vid.

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago)

lol project natal
"presumably the high score table is some sort of offenders register"

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, watched this. so there is more episodes coming?

― I'm the best maaaayne, I did it (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago)

doesn't look like it's on next week, checking beeb4 schedule.

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago)

What was this? Should I grab the torrent?

― kingfish, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

it was a one off, he wants to make more though, and it got better ratings than Screenwipe and Newswipe

― zappi, Thursday, 1 October 2009 00:14 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

CSI:NY Series 8 Episode 15 was set in the world of competitive video games. one bloke patched the code to make himself a smaller target and increase the size of the others. there was something else about legal highs. anyway, the most startling thing was they showed the code that the bloke had used for the patch:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7215/7156991304_390c498b6d.jpg

it's quite obviously just html, printed in a cursive font (why?). did nobody notice? and both sheets are the same...

― koogs, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 09:13 (thirteen years ago)

Everybody knows that real hackers use Comic Sans.

― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 09:23 (thirteen years ago)

cool. that code doesn't even do anything lol

― PSOD (Ste), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:28 (thirteen years ago)

You don't handwrite code before you type it in?

― smash sbros (Will M.), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 00:10 (thirteen years ago)

This, according to Eastenders, was what a videogame looked like in 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il7gPKRhSDs
http://a.imageshack.us/img690/6885/eastgame.png

I love how Phil Mitchell and his creepy son are playing it as if it's a two-player fighting game, when there's clearly only ever one player character on screen.

― Pheeel, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:24 (thirteen years ago)

You don't handwrite code before you type it in?

― smash sbros (Will M.), Wednesday, May 9, 2012 1:10 AM (2 days ago)

pshaw! Only n00bs handwrite their code. Real programmers use punch cards and punch the holes with their teeth.

― banal like anal (snoball), Friday, 11 May 2012 12:39 (thirteen years ago)

(i have pages and pages of handwritten z80 assembly... and i'm not alone:

http://sandywhite.co.uk/fun/ants/AAsource.htm

but that's real code, not just random html)

― koogs, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:49 (thirteen years ago)

that fake game has kind of awesome art

― thomp, Friday, 11 May 2012 13:17 (thirteen years ago)

xp Guess I was spoilt by the BBC Basic's built in assembler.

― banal like anal (snoball), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:28 (thirteen years ago)

SVU is a hall of famer at hilarious video game depictions, between the hooker-beating GTA rip Tenacity (which totally hooked Fringe's Lincoln Lee) and the MMO obsessed South Korean parents becoming US trailer dwellers addicted to something that looked like a single-screen Dragon's Lair. Oh and that way early episode where Kragan brags to a murderous preteen baout how he made it all the way to level 14 and bagged himself a Gorgon.

― GM, Monday, 14 May 2012 20:45 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

ok, heads up for uk people

CH4 this saturday @ 21:00
Charlie Brooker - How Video Games Changed The World
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/charlie-brooker-videogames-changed-the-world

followed @ 23:05 by
Indie Game: The Movie
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/indie-game-the-movie

― koogs, Thursday, 28 November 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago)

I wonder how much of this is going to be new stuff, as opposed to a retread of Gameswipe plus Minecraft plus GTAV.

― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Thursday, 28 November 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVGD5suu90I

― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Thursday, 28 November 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago)

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/11/youre-like-a-dog-at-the-controls-of-a-helicopter-charlie-brooker-tries-and-fails-to-teach-newsreader-jon-snow-about-videogames/

― koogs, Friday, 29 November 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago)

Seems like the bulk of the programme is going to be a chronological order countdown of twenty influential games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xAIpVxL3HU
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/29/charlie-brooker-video-game-television

― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Friday, 29 November 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago)

holy crap, rab florence got mad skinny. so was this any good?

― Nhex, Saturday, 7 December 2013 05:46 (eleven years ago)

I enjoyed it but it's one of those things where you could spend days arguing about the omissions. talking heads generally good. first time I'd heard Jeff Minter talk. thought the #1 entry was a bit fatuous though

― koogs, Saturday, 7 December 2013 06:58 (eleven years ago)

I forgot this came out.

― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Monday, 9 December 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago)

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/20/grand-theft-auto-5-adult-gamers

I like this too

― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Monday, 9 December 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

i keep forgetting this thread.

Dead Pixels, the channel 4 (UK) thing has large chunks of people grinding in a mmorpg. last episode had three of them punching a mammoth to death.

― koogs, Sunday, 28 April 2019 19:20 (six years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4419540/?ref_=ttep_ep14

there's a whole gamergate episode of SVU. lots of acronyms being explained. and tutuola is a massive gamer, despite never having mentioned it ever before.

― koogs, Thursday, 14 October 2021 11:16 (three years ago)

"Trivia: This episode holds the record for the lowest rated episode for the whole series."

― koogs, Thursday, 14 October 2021 11:19 (three years ago)

iirc that was the one that had a blatant Anita Sarkeesian stand in, hoop earrings and all. never did see it

― Nhex, Thursday, 14 October 2021 13:52 (three years ago)

two years pass...

"Burger Boss" in Bob's Burgers

looks to be pretty fleshed out with proper 8-bit sprites and multiple themed levels (city rooftops, icy caves...)

― koogs, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:32 (one year ago)

one month passes...

Law and Order, Series 17, Captive
kidnapped boy is playing on a 'GameBox III'. they use the saved-game data to establish a timeline.

― koogs, Friday, 28 June 2024 13:52 (one year ago)

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