Posted by Kevin Reilly on 08/30/06 11:39

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 Gunther Gloop wrote:

>It does happen a lot -usually it's someone playing one game with sounds from
>a totally different one (pacman death-noise is almost always used).
>Possibly it's something to do with various copyrights, but mostly I would
>say it's to more do with how a director or stylist or whoever wants a scene
>to look/sound like.

In the final season of 'Angel' Spike has a game rig that, although we
only ever hear it, apparently plays a Nintendo Donkey Kong game
(probably the arcade original) on a Microsoft console using Sony
controllers.

While this is technically possible using MAME and some hardware hackery,
I suspect it's more likely that either the set director and foley people
didn't know what they were doing, or that they knew EXACTLY what they
were doing and decided to wind up as many game geeks as possible with
one scene. As a game geek, I would hope it's the latter!

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Kev
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