The teaser is borderline offensive for the following reasons:
1) They devote a measly three seconds (three!) to (what appears to be) a female repainting a Galaxian cabinent.
2) Of all the games they could give time to, they give ten seconds and conduct an interview in a Discs of Tron sit down cab. Really?
3) Not enough screen time for the guy with the Joust T-shirt.
4) Galaga is used as their default icon / intro screen of choice regardless of the fact that everyone knows Galaxian is an overall better game.
5) Working the word sublime into the intro. "sigh"
6) Twenty one seconds with a "Tron: Legacy" pinball machine in the background. Kids, just say no!
If they resolve these issues, I will buy a copy of the documentary. Actually, I may just buy it to see the full sequence where they repaint the words "Galaxian" on a cab. Sitting through an entire interview while staring at Discs of Tron, though? No.
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:51 pm
by Flack
I didn't think it was horrible. Then again, it appears to be covering what I've been doing the past fifteen years. I've been to auctions, bought and sold machines, repaired machines ... so everything there looked pretty familiar to me.
I've never owned a Tron machine, but if I did, especially an environmental one, in any interview I ever did, I would be standing inside it.
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:07 pm
by AArdvark
It's the smell. The smell of electro-mechanical entertainment devices that get me. That part age, part Lionel train smell that ye olde pinball machines and jukeboxes have. Never noticed it on video games though, I guess that would indicate a fire or something.
THE
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
AARDVARK
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:46 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
I would enjoy a movie where everyone is interviewed inside a Discs of Tron machine. Except for some hawt chicks that are interviewed doing whatever it is they like to do, not play EDOT.
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:40 pm
by Flack
-5 points for missing the obvious punch line.
(Dicks of Tron)
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:12 am
by The Wheel of Time
Marx wrote:Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
Flack in 2011 wrote:-5 points for missing the obvious punch line.
(Dicks of Tron)
Ice Cream Jonsey in 2003 wrote:
Jethro Q. Walrustitty wrote:(Dicks of Tron sucks BALLS. Mr. Do only slightly better. Arkanoid almost, almost respectable.)
You're anti Discs of Freaking Tron? What next? You're going to tell me that you saw an I, Robot in some Sugarcreek store and you kicked the monitor in?
I plan on getting married in a Discs of Tron environmental cabinet.
The Wheel weaves, as the wheel wills...
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:30 am
by Flack
"The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back! Turn back! Turn back! Turn back!"