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The Podcats- Gaming in the Mainstream Media

The Podcats turns its white-hot gaze to the burning topic of gaming searing itself into the Mainstream Media. Hot!!!

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Published in Thursday, March 25th, 2010, at 10:10 pm, and filed under PODCATS.

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  1. LisVender LisVender Says:
    March 27th, 2010 at 11:43 pm

    Great topic! I don’t watch TV much, so it’s interesting to learn that video game references are becoming more accurate than they used to be. Did you guys see the movie The Wizard? That was a movie all about advertising games, and they still got a lot wrong.

  2. George George Says:
    March 28th, 2010 at 12:50 pm

    Is that the one with Fred Savage, Beau Bridges and Christian Slater? The one where they got to play NES SMB3 before anyone else in the world? The one made in 1989, directed by Todd Holland and filmed in the 1.85:1 ratio? That one?

    Then,no. I live in Australia and Nintendo barely existed here before the SNES came out.

    What was the question?

    I never actually saw that or the universally reviled SMB movie. Sometimes I feel like I’m missing out o something. Then I look at metacritic and then pop in a Tarantino movie and watch that instead. Gaming in movies seems limited to pothead characters and uber-nerds

  3. LisVender LisVender Says:
    March 31st, 2010 at 3:43 pm

    I take it you’ve been asked that question before! I asked myself because you guys had said the NES wasn’t popular in Australia. The Wizard was strange as a mainstream movie because its audience (grade school kids) were more interested in the product placement than in anything else about the movie. Though I was only eight when the movie came out, I sat in the theater griping about all the game-related inaccuracies.

    The weird thing is, I don’t even like Super Mario Bros. 3 that much. I like the original better.

    Don’t see the Super Mario Bros. movie. You’ll regret it.

    It’s good to know that Simon Pegg, at least, is trying to depict games and gamers properly. Too bad he usually plays a loser. :(

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