Showing posts with label Yaphet Kotto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yaphet Kotto. Show all posts

Saturday, 25 July 2020

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Boats, automoboats and boatomobiles

Elite's Live and Let Die movie tie-in game began life as a generic boat chase/escape simulator that was later re-branded to capitalise on the cache of the 1973 James Bond movie when Domark acquired the conversion rights, semi-vintage as it already was by this stage in 1988. Play it for five minutes and this becomes glaringly apparent since only the bare minimum was changed to fool the audience into parting with their cash. Refer to the box and title screen.

With five solid minutes worth of experience under Q's gadget belt (or am confusing Bond with Batman?), you will have seen everything it has to offer, giving me ample opportunity to take a look at the much more interesting movie, featuring voodoo priests and rituals, sacrificial killings, a coffin writhing with intertwined snakes, a coerced, manipulative sex scene that isn't quite rape, yet is highly creepy, uncomfortably suspect and misjudged regardless, and high-velocity boat and double-decker bus chases! I think we can pull this one back from the brink if you'll just grab the wheel while I take out the henchman goons on my tail.

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Wednesday, 15 July 2020

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Who loves you, and who do you love!

In a terrifying dystopian future framed by the milieu of a totalitarian police state, Arnie Schwarzenegger is impelled into the limelight as The Running Man aka Ben Richards, a police helicopter pilot ensnared and incarcerated for the digitally faked massacre of a group of civilians in Bakersfield, California. This lands Ben in a secure labour camp prison and ultimately on the even more oppressive set of The Running Man game show where he's coerced into fighting for his life by unscrupulous, slimy host, Damon Killian, for the sake of sport and entertainment. Once thrust into the claustrophobic game zone, a dilapidated, forsaken area of Los Angeles ravaged by an earthquake, Ben must defend himself from contrived tournament encounters with various professional combatants known as stalkers. Can he survive long enough to rescue his fellow inmates and expose the hypocrisy and corruption of the ICS TV network?

Two years on in 1989, a multi-format action-platform Running Man gaming adaptation emerged courtesy of Emerald Software. As in the movie, Arnie roams a gutted landscape infested with pernicious gladiators slathering at the prospect of painting the streets red with his internals. Upon reaching the TV studio we endure further onslaughts from attack dogs and their guard handlers before finally coming face to face with the orchestrator of our live-broadcasted misery, Damon Killian.

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