Patreon Bonus #44 - Video Games, Movies, and the '80s

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Here in 2018, movies and video games enjoy a very... well, maybe healthy isn't the correct word, but accepted and expected relationship. But in the 1980s, video games were still more or less brand new, and movies didn't quite know what to make of this burgeoning industry that would soon be in direct competition for the youth market's eyes and ears. Scott and Drew discuss the decade's first attempts at incorporating (or hijacking, really) the appeal of video games, what video games appealed to them, and why that relationship between the two artforms has never been all that stable.

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0:00.0	The force will be with you.
0:03.2	All this.
0:05.5	Red five, Fanny vibe.
0:10.9	Hello, patrons.
0:18.1	Welcome to a very fun and interactive episode for patrons of 80s all over. Today,
0:24.4	my co-host and I are going to be talking about video games. So let's hit Player 2. Plink.
0:30.6	Thank you. It's such a broad topic, but at the same time, the 80s is really where we had the birth of
0:36.9	Hollywood trying to figure out how to
0:38.9	handle video games, what to do with it. And so it's a perfect topic to talk about because this is
0:44.1	where all those seeds are laid for stuff that they're still trying to do, still trying to figure out.
0:48.2	And dude, I know, Scott, you've been playing some Red Dead Redemption too recently.
0:53.2	Yeah, I'm playing it right now. Hold on.
0:56.0	Okay. All right. Go ahead. It's, um, and they, the numbers for that opening weekend, 700 and
1:01.7	something, what is it? Like 17 billion. It's insane like fantasy land number. I assume it's one
1:08.2	of the, it's going, well, see, here's the thing. I think it was like 700 million in a weekend, and it's sold 17 million copies so far.
1:15.7	I'm barely interested in movie box office numbers, so therefore I am exponentially less
1:20.3	interested. I know it's going to be one of the most highly sold, high, highest selling
1:25.0	video games ever. Well, it's that number, it's like, yeah, but it's like when Star Wars made $100 million
1:30.3	at the box office and Hollywood heard that number and went, what?
1:33.2	And then went nuts.
1:34.3	They hear a number like $750 million for a weekend and they like have heart palpitations.
1:40.3	It's crazy to them.
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