birdo’s cool
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fun wasn’t allowed back then. everything had to be a job, even toys.
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The first and second form of Dauragon C. Mikado, the final boss of The Bouncer.
The first and second form of William Dafoe, the final boss of Streets of Fire
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The effect of Streets Of Fire on games could be its own thread but the sledgehammer’s a funny one.
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yeah streets of fire is absolutely one of like a dozen movies that I would say is a skeleton key for videogames, up there with like Shaolin Drunkard and early 80s Mann
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great list
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Yeah you nailed it .
Maybe Conan the Barbarian too but Arnold is already pretty heavily represented
John Woo and Johnnie To have not been nearly as influential in video games as they should be and we’re all worse off for it
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Oh also Rambo posters / promotional stills are also referenced in Contra and or Ikari Warriors right?
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game developers don’t need to get into Johnnie To unless you want every game to have the most fucked up overbearing soundtrack ever
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Hell yeah
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i couldn’t enjoy throw down because he kept telling me how to feel! let the material speak for itself johnnie good lord!!
also I think it’s more that games draw from a very narrow corpus of woo’s work because game devs have seen like only three of his movies but it’s enough to have had an outsized influence on games only in terms of like guns and how guys should shoot at each other because they don’t care about gay shit like themes or emotionalism or beauty.
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games need more missions where you and a team of ninjas evacuate babies out of an exploding hospital
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no honestly I think games are influenced enough by action movies where people shoot eachother. no more. none. more games based on věra chytilová movies
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where are the videogames influenced by ernst lubitsch i’m convinced this would still work within an action game framework but it would be like extremely old school arcade games like mappy, flicky, bubble bobble, etc.
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On that note I struggled to see how Stranger than Paradise influenced FF Stranger of Paradise. I guess the iconic FF red mage feather hat was John Lurie’s
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I agree but I think the prime era of You Are The Gun games would have been improved w a bit more heroic bloodshed style theatrics and homoerotic bonding
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Also without Streets Of Fire you wouldn’t have Albert Pyun’s masterpiece Road To Hell, one of the all time great movie sequels.
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