FH Mini #37 - 8-Bit Flop House

Elliott Kalan

[0:00] Okay, guys. Ready to start?

[0:02] Yeah, yeah.

[0:03] Okay. Again, I have a thing set up for this that I do not think will work, but we'll see if it will.

[0:08] We'll see if it'll happen. Okay.

[0:14] Hello. Welcome to the Flophouse.

[0:16] Mini! That's right. It's a slightly smaller than usual size Flophouse.

[0:21] We'll see whether that's true or not.

[0:23] These are the weeks when we don't watch a bad movie, but instead we kind of do a whatevs.

[0:28] I'm Elliot Kalin, and joining me are my regular co-hosts and best buddies.

[0:34] Dan McCoy.

[0:35] Stuart Wellington.

[0:37] And just to paint a word picture for the audience, we all look exactly as you think we would.

[0:42] I am wearing a t-shirt and glasses.

[0:44] Dan is wearing a t-shirt and glasses.

[0:46] And Stuart is wearing an open bathrobe with chains.

[0:50] And not like a terrycloth bathrobe, like a satin bathrobe.

Dan McCoy

[0:53] I mean, it looks like, is it a red, it's a red velvet bathrobe?

[0:59] No, it's, it's, it's burgundy.

Stuart Wellington

[1:03] And it's.

[1:04] Oh, okay.

[1:04] Thank you for correcting that.

[1:06] Yeah.

[1:06] It's like a fluffy, I like a, like a fluffy robe.

[1:10] You know?

[1:10] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[1:10] And it's got black trim.

[1:13] Yep.

[1:13] Like black lapel trim.

[1:15] Yeah.

[1:15] Lapel and sleeves.

[1:17] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[1:18] In case, in case company comes over.

[1:20] So I had a thing planned for today, but I think instead we have, we're doing an episode of

[1:23] the bathhouse, the Flophouse's regular bathrobe review segment.

[1:28] Just kidding, guys.

[1:30] Okay.

[1:30] I'm on, I'm in the driver's seat.

[1:32] I'm in charge of the wheel.

[1:34] Buckle up.

[1:34] Cause it's going to be a somewhat bumpy ride.

[1:37] If this thing I'm trying doesn't work out that well.

Stuart Wellington

[1:40] Do I need to, do I need to pack a lunch or snacks or.

Elliott Kalan

[1:43] That would be great.

[1:43] If you could pack like a granola bar, maybe like apple slices in a separate container.

Dan McCoy

[1:49] And how far are we going?

[1:50] Cause I, I've got a thing a little bit later.

Elliott Kalan

[1:53] I mean, you should not have scheduled a thing on the night we were recording.

Stuart Wellington

[1:57] I do.

[1:58] I do think that that's actually accurate to our actual lives and that I'm constantly planning

[2:03] out the snacks I'm bringing places.

[2:05] And Dan always has something more important to be doing.

Elliott Kalan

[2:10] Boom.

[2:10] Okay, guys, let's get down to brass tacks.

[2:13] Regular listeners may or may not know that we have a live show coming up.

[2:16] That's right.

[2:17] September 25th, a live show, 9 p.m.

[2:20] Eastern, 6 p.m.

[2:21] Pacific.

[2:22] We're going to be appearing over your computer screens.

[2:25] It's a live virtual show.

[2:28] Just like we've done before.

[2:29] I don't know why I'm describing it as if it's a new thing that we haven't done before.

[2:32] We're going to be talking about the movie Super Mario Brothers.

[2:35] So come on and join us.

[2:36] September 25th, 9 p.m.

[2:38] Eastern, 6 p.m.

[2:38] Pacific.

[2:39] Just Google simple ticks flop house Super Mario Brothers.

[2:42] It's easier than me trying to read out the whole URL, which is it.

[2:45] We should have come up with a short URL we could give out.

[2:47] That would have been a good idea.

[2:48] But instead, it's through simple ticks flop house Super Mario Brothers.

[2:51] It's going to have new presentations.

[2:52] We're going to talk about this movie that we've never talked about before, the 1993 classic

[2:56] film Super Mario Brothers.

[2:58] It's the special 28th anniversary screening.

[3:00] Not screening.

[3:01] We're not showing it.

[3:01] We're just going to talk about it.

[3:03] So I thought tonight, in honor of our upcoming remote live show, we could talk about video

[3:09] game movies.

[3:10] Now, these are movies adapted from video games.

[3:13] You guys may remember we've talked about plenty of video game movies on the podcast before.

[3:17] Which ones come to mind?

[3:18] Do you remember ones that we've done?

Dan McCoy

[3:19] Prince of Persia, The Sands of Time, Assassin's Creed.

[3:24] I was doing so well.

[3:29] Sonic.

[3:29] Yeah, Sonic the Hedgehog.

[3:31] Sonic the Hedgehog.

[3:31] Yep.

[3:33] Stuart, you got any?

Stuart Wellington

[3:34] I mean, I did a mini previously where I talked about the Hitman series.

[3:39] We just did Mortal Kombat.

[3:41] We just did Mortal Kombat.

Elliott Kalan

[3:41] Years ago, you guys did Street Fighter, The Legend of Chun-Li, although I missed that episode,

[3:45] I believe.

[3:45] That's true.

[3:45] Wow, man.

[3:46] I'm sorry you missed it.

[3:47] That was pretty good, right?

[3:48] I did get to watch it later, and it was an experience.

[3:52] Neil McDonough is great.

[3:54] I mean, yeah, that goes without saying, I guess.

[3:57] So we're not here to talk about Street Fighter, The Legend of Chun-Li, though.

[4:00] We're here to talk about, more generally, video game movies.

[4:02] Now, people have noticed we've had a lot of video game talk on episodes of the show lately.

[4:06] I guess it's time to maybe go through the looking glass while we talk about video game movies

[4:11] in this episode, because anyone can talk about video games.

[4:14] You guys are going to talk about video game movies-

[4:17] To live them?

[4:18] While you play a podcast video game.

[4:22] This is a video game with no visual element.

[4:25] It is an audio video game that you will have to play like a regular video game, not a text-based game.

[4:30] Do not describe to me stuff in sentences.

[4:33] I'm not interested.

[4:34] Don't care.

[4:35] So you guys, do you have the controllers that I sent you in the mail?

[4:39] What?

[4:40] You should both have like kind of turbo controllers that were sent to you in the mail that should have arrived yesterday.

[4:48] Did you say yes?

[4:49] I'm looking at the picture of the package, Dan, on your doorstep yesterday.

[4:52] You didn't pick it up?

Stuart Wellington

[4:54] What?

[4:55] I don't think I got it, but I have this old Mad Cats controller.

[4:58] Can I set that in?

[4:59] That'll work great.

[5:00] Just plug that into whatever you want to plug it into.

Dan McCoy

[5:02] I'll plug in the, yeah, I'll just, I've got a hairdryer.

Elliott Kalan

[5:06] I'll use that.

[5:06] Perfect.

[5:07] Great.

[5:07] That'll do just as well.

[5:09] Okay, what are the settings on the hairdryer?

[5:11] That'll help me figure out how we're going to play this game.

Dan McCoy

[5:14] There's maximum.

[5:16] Okay, great.

[5:16] And then I assume the reverse is minimum.

[5:20] And there's also heat controls.

[5:23] It just is maximum.

[5:24] You know, it doesn't, you're not going to be minimum.

Stuart Wellington

[5:26] Dan, what kind of a diffuser do you use on that?

[5:28] Because your hair looks great.

[5:29] Diffuser?

[5:30] Yeah, what kind of diffuser on your hairdryer?

Dan McCoy

[5:33] You know what this is?

[5:34] This is, the secret to my hair is,

[5:38] little specks of sand in the product I use.

[5:41] It makes my hair all sandy.

Stuart Wellington

[5:43] That's pretty cool.

[5:44] That sounds terrible.

[5:45] Did you mix the sand in yourself,

[5:47] or did it come with the sand?

Dan McCoy

[5:49] It's so you look windblown,

[5:51] like you've been to the beach.

[5:52] Oh, yeah.

[5:53] It's like that idea that was on Seinfeld.

[5:56] But real.

[5:58] Yeah, but actually it works.

Elliott Kalan

[6:00] So you didn't take hair product

[6:02] and take it to the beach

[6:03] and just pour sand in.

[6:05] Or a child's sandbox, possibly.

Dan McCoy

[6:07] No, but that does seem like

[6:08] a good cost-cutting measure.

Elliott Kalan

[6:10] It does, yeah.

[6:11] I can't wait to see your new look

[6:12] where your hand is just,

[6:13] your hand, your hair is just slathered

[6:14] in sand-filled product.

[6:17] That'll be great.

Stuart Wellington

[6:17] I mean, how many businesses

[6:18] are just people taking ideas

[6:20] from old Seinfeld episodes?

[6:22] Like, there's got to be

[6:23] just like a muffin tops place.

[6:25] There's got to be a-

[6:26] Get out court.

[6:27] Like a soup Nazi thing.

Elliott Kalan

[6:29] You can pay people to push other people

[6:31] and yell, get out.

[6:32] Yeah.

[6:33] Irish hurts.

[6:34] Yeah, there's kitchens

[6:35] that only have cereal in them.

[6:37] That's the thing that people have.

[6:39] Have you guys ever freeze-framed

[6:41] on an episode of Seinfeld

[6:41] and looked at the VHS tapes

[6:42] that he has around his-

[6:43] I have not.

[6:44] Tell me.

[6:45] Oh, they so clearly just bought

[6:46] a bunch of surplus tapes

[6:47] from a store.

[6:48] He has like Child's Play 2

[6:51] and multiple copies

[6:52] of stuff like Navy Seals.

[6:53] Like, it's just random.

[6:55] Yeah, that's great.

Stuart Wellington

[6:56] Like, imagine Jerry Seinfeld

[6:57] sitting down there

[6:58] with a big old bowl of popcorn

[7:00] ready to watch Child's Play 2.

Elliott Kalan

[7:03] It says it's hard to imagine.

[7:05] The same way that he has

[7:06] a bike hanging up on his wall

[7:07] and it is very hard for me

[7:08] to imagine him riding a bicycle

[7:09] at any point.

[7:10] Anyway, but we're not here

[7:11] to talk about Seinfeld.

[7:12] This isn't the Seinfeld.

[7:13] This is the Flophouse.

[7:14] So guys, okay,

[7:15] plug in, Stuart,

[7:16] your Mad Cat's controller,

[7:17] Dan, your hair dryer,

[7:18] and get ready to play

[7:19] the video game

[7:21] that involves talking

[7:22] about video game movies.

[7:24] The title screen is coming up.

[7:25] By the way,

[7:26] this is an 8-bit game

[7:27] I should mention.

[7:27] An 8-bit game,

[7:28] the title screen comes up

[7:29] Flop Dudes 2,

[7:31] Streets of Dragons.

[7:32] Now, this is the game

[7:33] you're playing.

[7:34] It's a kind of a side-scroller

[7:36] and kind of a RPG,

[7:38] but not much of an RPG.

[7:39] It's really more

[7:39] of a side-scroller

[7:40] fighting game.

[7:41] So do you guys want

[7:41] to choose one player

[7:42] or two players?

[7:43] Are you going to take turns?

[7:45] We should probably

[7:46] do two players.

[7:47] Yeah, play together.

[7:48] It's a collab.

[7:48] Yeah, okay,

[7:49] that sounds good.

[7:50] Okay, so you select

[7:50] two players.

[7:52] And?

[7:53] Okay.

[7:54] Just waiting for you

[7:55] to press start.

Stuart Wellington

[7:57] Yeah, let's hit start.

Elliott Kalan

[7:58] Okay, there you go.

[7:59] I thought we weren't

Stuart Wellington

[7:59] supposed to describe

[8:00] what we're doing.

Elliott Kalan

[8:01] Well, you do have

[8:02] to communicate it.

[8:03] Okay.

[8:04] So I should mention,

[8:04] Alex, if you can put in

[8:05] as many, I should have

[8:06] said this earlier,

[8:07] Alex, if you can put in

[8:07] as many 8-bit sound effects

[8:09] and musics and things

[8:09] like that as you can,

[8:10] that'd be great during this.

[8:12] I briefly considered

[8:13] pulling up.

[8:14] Within budget.

[8:15] Yeah, don't break the bank.

[8:17] I briefly considered

[8:18] getting like a soundboard

[8:19] with video game sounds

[8:19] and then I was like,

[8:20] but my headphones are

[8:21] plugged into the computer

[8:22] so the microphone's

[8:23] not going to pick up

[8:23] any of it.

[8:24] So none of us

[8:25] would hear it.

[8:26] Okay, so you press start.

[8:28] That's a good

[8:28] technical catch.

[8:29] Okay.

[8:29] Oh, it's the opening.

[8:30] It's the opening cut scene.

[8:32] Okay, here.

[8:33] Oh, I see the two

[8:34] flop dudes,

[8:35] Dan and Stu,

[8:36] Burley,

[8:37] wearing sleeveless

[8:38] t-shirts and jeans,

[8:39] very tight jeans,

[8:40] and big black boots.

[8:41] And they're walking

[8:42] into a big corporate building.

[8:44] Now the camera pans up.

[8:46] I guess we're following

[8:47] the elevator.

[8:48] And we go to the top.

[8:49] And now the flop dudes

[8:51] are walking into

[8:52] a big office

[8:52] and there's kind of

[8:53] a gruff,

[8:54] bald guy wearing

[8:55] suspenders

[8:56] and a business suit

[8:58] and everything

[8:58] sitting behind his desk.

[8:59] And now for this part,

[9:01] you have to imagine

[9:02] that I am this character

[9:04] animated

[9:05] and my mouth

[9:06] is just opening

[9:06] and closing.

[9:07] That's all the animation.

[9:08] And you're hearing

[9:09] rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah,

[9:10] but then text comes up

[9:11] on the bottom of the screen

[9:12] and that explains

[9:13] what he's saying.

[9:13] So he's saying,

[9:14] okay,

[9:15] all right,

[9:15] flop dudes,

[9:16] I've got another job for you.

[9:17] But first,

[9:18] we're going to talk about

[9:19] video game movies.

[9:21] So you may already be aware

[9:22] the history of video game movies.

[9:24] Video games,

[9:25] they haven't been around

[9:26] as long as movies.

[9:27] Were you aware of that?

[9:30] Yes.

[9:30] Just select yes.

[9:31] Yeah, you got to select yes.

Dan McCoy

[9:33] Okay, we'll select that.

Elliott Kalan

[9:34] Okay, good.

[9:35] That'll save us some time.

[9:36] Now, the first video game movies

[9:38] were about fictional video games.

[9:40] Can you think of any of those?

Dan McCoy

[9:44] Like The Last Starfighter?

[9:46] Exactly.

Stuart Wellington

[9:50] That's the only one

[9:50] I can think of.

Elliott Kalan

[9:51] Okay, I also would have

[9:52] accepted Tron

[9:52] or possibly more games.

Stuart Wellington

[9:54] Two more,

[9:56] arguably more famous movies

[9:58] than Last Starfighter.

[9:59] Sure, I mean.

Elliott Kalan

[9:59] Tharmonuclear War.

[10:01] Yeah.

[10:01] So they didn't really start

[10:03] making movies

[10:04] based on video games

[10:05] until the 1990s,

[10:07] starting with

[10:07] Super Mario Brothers,

[10:08] which you guys

[10:09] will be talking about

[10:10] on September 25th

[10:11] at 9 p.m. Eastern,

[10:12] 6 p.m. Pacific.

[10:13] Just Google

[10:14] SimpleTix Flophouse

[10:15] Mario Brothers.

[10:16] That's how you can find

[10:16] the tickets.

[10:18] Now, you guys,

[10:19] were you aware

[10:20] that the Super Mario Brothers movie

[10:22] was really the first

[10:22] big budget movie

[10:24] based on a video game?

Dan McCoy

[10:26] No, I actually

[10:27] didn't know that.

Stuart Wellington

[10:29] Yeah, I wasn't sure

[10:30] if that or Double Dragon

[10:32] was the first one.

Elliott Kalan

[10:34] Double Dragon came after.

[10:35] Do you really think

[10:35] this is me talking

[10:37] not on myself, Stu?

[10:37] I would never be

[10:38] this rough on you.

[10:39] This is me as your gruff boss.

[10:40] You really think

[10:41] they would have made

[10:41] a Double Dragon movie

[10:42] before a Super Mario Brothers movie?

[10:43] Like, what world

[10:44] are you living on

[10:45] where they would make

[10:45] a movie based on

[10:46] not as famous a game

[10:48] when at that time

[10:49] Super Mario was

[10:49] the most recognizable

[10:50] video game character

[10:52] in the world?

Stuart Wellington

[10:53] But it's such an easier

[10:54] like, thing

[10:56] because you don't have

[10:56] to make like Koopas

[10:57] and pipes and shit.

[10:59] You have to make Bobos.

Dan McCoy

[11:00] And Koopa Parachupas.

[11:01] True.

[11:02] That's even harder.

[11:03] And Bullet Bills.

[11:05] Flying Turtles.

[11:06] Yeah, that is hard stuff to do.

Elliott Kalan

[11:08] And Shy Guys.

[11:10] The hard part with the Shy Guys

[11:11] is they don't want

[11:12] to be on camera.

[11:13] And Dry Bones.

Stuart Wellington

[11:14] Which one is Dry Bones?

[11:16] He's the Dry Bones, dude.

[11:18] Oh, yeah, of course.

[11:19] He's the Skeleton Koopa.

[11:21] Oh, the Skeleton Koopa.

[11:22] I thought he was just called

Elliott Kalan

[11:23] Skeleton Turtle or something.

[11:25] Yeah.

[11:25] Okay, well, as you know,

[11:28] video game movies

[11:29] don't have a great reputation.

[11:30] That's mostly because

[11:31] they're not very good,

[11:32] most of them.

[11:33] I would posit

[11:34] that video game movies

[11:35] are kind of in the same place

[11:36] that comic book movies

[11:37] were 20 years ago,

[11:39] where the people

[11:39] making the movies

[11:40] don't really care that much

[11:42] about the underlying properties,

[11:43] and therefore,

[11:44] they're just kind of using them

[11:45] as a launching off point

[11:46] for whatever.

[11:47] And they haven't figured out

[11:48] how to transfer

[11:48] the enjoyment you get

[11:50] in one form

[11:50] to the enjoyment you get

[11:52] in another medium.

[11:53] What do you guys say about that?

Dan McCoy

[11:55] Can we, like,

[11:55] just mash the controller

[11:57] to try and skip this cutscene?

[11:58] You can try.

[11:59] You can try it.

[12:00] It's been going on a long time.

Stuart Wellington

[12:01] Yeah, normally I, like,

[12:03] porn scroll or something

[12:04] during cutscenes.

[12:05] I see.

[12:06] Which probably causes

[12:08] very strange, like,

[12:10] fusing in my synapses

[12:11] between the two activities.

Elliott Kalan

[12:12] That's why you're so

[12:14] turned on by Mass Effect now.

Stuart Wellington

[12:16] Yeah.

[12:17] That's the only reason.

Elliott Kalan

[12:20] No, but I like to imagine, though,

[12:21] that when you say porn scrolling,

[12:22] you mean you take out

[12:23] antique scrolls

[12:25] of, like, erotic art

[12:26] from ancient Egypt

[12:27] and you just pour over it.

[12:29] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[12:29] Look at that ibis.

Stuart Wellington

[12:30] Yeah, it's like

[12:31] the handmaiden, right?

[12:32] Where, when you want

[12:34] to get a boner,

[12:35] you put on a fucking tuxedo

[12:36] and go to a weird guy's house

[12:38] so his niece

[12:39] can read you

[12:40] a fucking hot story.

[12:41] You don't do that now?

Elliott Kalan

[12:42] Yeah, to listen to a lady

[12:42] read you cover to cover

[12:44] in an erotic hardcover book.

[12:45] Yeah.

[12:46] Do you think

[12:47] they read the whole book

[12:48] in the hand,

[12:49] or is it she's just reading

[12:50] selections or short stories?

Stuart Wellington

[12:52] I don't know, man.

[12:53] Maybe it's serialized.

[12:53] And these guys are just

[12:54] sitting there the whole

[12:55] fucking time?

[12:55] Like, do they have to take

[12:56] breaks to go fucking

[12:57] crank it?

Elliott Kalan

[12:59] I imagine at the beginning,

[13:00] he goes,

[13:01] at the beginning,

[13:02] the guy who runs the place,

[13:03] he's like,

[13:03] thank you for joining

[13:04] this very exclusive,

[13:05] very elite presentation.

[13:07] Yep.

[13:08] If you perchance

[13:09] need a break

[13:10] to crank it,

[13:11] please

[13:11] stand up

[13:13] from the bleachers

[13:14] and go to the

[13:15] crank it room,

[13:16] which has been provided

[13:17] for you.

[13:18] You'll notice

[13:19] each of you

[13:20] has received

[13:20] your own room.

[13:21] Please do not use

[13:22] another client's

[13:23] crank it room.

[13:24] Please stay in your room.

Stuart Wellington

[13:25] And does it pipe

[13:26] the fucking narration

[13:28] into the crank it room

[13:29] or are you going to

[13:30] miss parts of the story

[13:31] because then you'll

[13:31] come back and you'll

[13:32] be like,

[13:33] wait, what happened?

[13:34] This is a very good

[13:35] question.

Elliott Kalan

[13:36] You'll notice that the

[13:37] walls and door of the

[13:38] crank it room are quite

[13:38] thin, so you should be

[13:39] able to hear the

[13:40] reading through.

[13:41] Although, conversely,

[13:42] we can also hear you

[13:43] cranking in the

[13:44] crank it room.

[13:45] That's part of it.

[13:46] That's part of it for me.

[13:47] Okay, if it is,

[13:48] then not a problem.

[13:49] We only ask that you

[13:50] not crank it too loud

[13:51] so that everyone

[13:52] can enjoy the reading.

[13:54] But, if you are shy,

[13:55] such as the client

[13:57] sitting next to you,

[13:57] a shy guy,

[13:58] and do not want to be

[14:00] heard while you're

[14:00] cranking it,

[14:01] please do your best

[14:03] to muffle the sounds

[14:04] of your cranking

[14:05] however you feel

[14:06] is appropriate.

Dan McCoy

[14:07] Now, while you're

[14:07] cranking, please,

[14:09] you will see a crank

[14:10] on the wall.

[14:11] That is the

[14:12] mank crank.

[14:12] Please do not yank

[14:14] the mank crank.

Elliott Kalan

[14:16] You'll notice that

[14:17] directly above is a

[14:18] sign that says

[14:18] do not yank.

[14:19] We would appreciate it

[14:20] if you would please

[14:21] follow that sign

[14:22] and avoid yanking

[14:23] the mank crank.

[14:24] Each crank room

[14:25] is, of course,

[14:25] equipped with its

[14:26] own mank crank,

[14:27] but only for

[14:27] emergency purposes.

[14:29] Please refrain from

[14:30] yanking them

[14:30] during your normal

[14:31] cranking.

[14:32] And now,

[14:33] for the next,

[14:33] and now,

[14:34] our feature

[14:35] presentation,

[14:36] a lady reads a

[14:37] sex story to you.

[14:38] And now,

[14:41] the fisherman's wife's

[14:43] dream,

[14:43] the book.

[14:49] Okay, guys,

[14:50] seems like we've

[14:50] had enough of this

[14:51] cutscene.

[14:52] Time for you to

[14:52] go out there

[14:53] and save the

[14:54] governor's niece

[14:55] from the ninjas

[14:56] that have kidnapped

[14:56] her.

[14:57] Looking back,

[14:57] I probably should

[14:58] have explained

[14:58] that mission more

[14:59] than the other

[15:00] stuff, but we

[15:02] don't really have

[15:02] time.

[15:03] You already

[15:03] mashed the buttons

[15:04] and the cutscene

[15:04] is ending,

[15:05] so get out there

[15:05] and save the

[15:06] governor's niece

[15:07] from the ninjas.

[15:08] Okay, so now,

[15:09] it cuts to the two

[15:11] of you kind of

[15:11] looking at each

[15:11] other and your

[15:12] eyebrows go up

[15:12] like, this is

[15:13] going to be fun.

[15:14] And it's fading

[15:15] to the next,

[15:16] so that's the

[15:16] end of the cutscene.

[15:17] Now, we see

[15:18] the street where

[15:19] the main

[15:20] side-scrolling

[15:20] level is going

[15:21] to be taking

[15:21] place.

[15:22] You guys,

[15:23] of course.

[15:23] Punching,

[15:23] punching,

[15:24] kicking,

[15:25] kicking,

[15:25] punching,

[15:25] oh, stop,

[15:26] stop.

[15:26] You've got to

[15:27] wait until you

[15:27] walk out.

[15:28] Okay, you walk

[15:29] out, and then

[15:30] there's an

[15:30] animated explosion

[15:32] revealing a car

[15:33] and a governor's

[15:34] niece is carried

[15:35] into the car

[15:35] going, help me,

[15:36] help me,

[15:37] flop dudes,

[15:37] and then that

[15:38] drives away.

[15:39] Now you can

[15:40] begin to move.

[15:40] Okay, so I

[15:41] assume, so you're

[15:42] walking down the

[15:42] street, right?

Stuart Wellington

[15:43] Yeah.

[15:44] Yeah, it sounds

[15:45] like if there's

[15:45] any, if there's

[15:46] any, like,

[15:46] piles of garbage,

[15:47] I would interact

[15:49] with them by

[15:49] punching or kicking,

[15:50] hoping the turkey

[15:51] likes it.

Elliott Kalan

[15:52] You are way ahead

[15:53] of me.

[15:53] Feel free to

[15:53] punch any

[15:54] garbage, fire

[15:54] hydrants,

[15:55] mailboxes,

[15:57] lampposts to see

[15:57] if there are

[15:57] coins or meat

[15:58] inside.

[15:59] Go ahead.

Dan McCoy

[15:59] Yeah, I'm also,

[16:01] I'm also walking

[16:01] down and I'm,

[16:02] I'm, every once

[16:03] in a while I'm

[16:03] jumping just

[16:04] because it, you

[16:05] know, it moves

[16:06] a little faster

[16:07] that way.

[16:07] Yeah, let's, let's

Elliott Kalan

[16:08] get some jump

[16:09] sound effects.

[16:10] Alex, just throw

[16:11] a bunch in and

[16:12] hopefully he did.

[16:14] Dan, just in

[16:14] case Alex didn't,

[16:15] can you give us

[16:15] some homemade

[16:16] jump sound effects?

[16:17] Sure.

[16:19] Doink, doink,

[16:20] doink.

[16:21] All accepted, I

[16:22] guess.

[16:23] Wait, boi-o-oing,

[16:25] did you say?

Dan McCoy

[16:25] Yeah, I was just

[16:26] throwing in a,

[16:27] just like a wild

[16:28] one for, so you

[16:29] have options.

[16:30] Thanks, I

Elliott Kalan

[16:31] appreciate that.

[16:32] Alex, don't, just

[16:33] cover those up with

[16:34] some real 8-bit

[16:34] sounds if you can.

[16:36] Okay, you're

[16:38] street, you're

[16:38] street, punching

[16:39] at stuff, Stuart

[16:40] finds some coins,

[16:41] Dan finds a

[16:42] turkey leg, now

[16:43] Stuart finds a

[16:43] turkey leg, Dan

[16:44] finds some coins,

[16:45] and now, uh-oh,

[16:46] here come some

[16:46] ninjas.

[16:47] It's three ninjas,

[16:49] they're, they

[16:49] recognize, yes,

[16:50] they are the three

[16:51] ninjas from

[16:51] Three Ninjas

[16:52] Kickback, and

[16:53] so these are

[16:54] children you're

[16:54] fighting, so

[16:55] please.

[16:56] Now this is

[16:56] when the flop

[16:57] dudes really

[16:57] have to look

[16:58] inside themselves,

[16:58] they're like, we

[16:59] know that they're

[16:59] involved with the

[17:00] kidnapping of the

[17:01] governor's niece,

[17:02] but should we be

[17:02] fighting the

[17:03] children, and what

[17:04] do you guys do?

[17:04] Do you start

[17:05] punching and

[17:05] kicking?

Dan McCoy

[17:06] Of course.

[17:07] Yeah, I pick up

[17:09] a garbage can,

[17:10] throw it at

[17:10] them.

Elliott Kalan

[17:11] Okay, you can

[17:11] do that, you

[17:12] can interact with

[17:12] the environment

[17:13] to that.

[17:13] Okay, so you,

[17:13] one of the

[17:14] ninjas is already

[17:14] knocked out, and

[17:15] he fades away,

[17:16] revealing a VHS

[17:17] copy of the

[17:18] Three Ninjas

[17:18] Kickback.

[17:19] Do you pick

[17:19] it up?

[17:21] Sure, why

[17:22] not?

[17:22] Oh, you've

[17:22] actually, you've

[17:24] lost a little

[17:25] life, you should

[17:25] not have picked

[17:25] that up.

[17:26] Oh, no.

[17:26] Okay.

[17:27] Yeah, it

[17:27] happens.

[17:27] So, Stuart, now

[17:28] there's another

[17:29] ninja that's doing

[17:29] a lot of jump

[17:30] kicks on you,

[17:30] what are you

[17:31] going to do?

Stuart Wellington

[17:31] Okay, so I'm

[17:32] going to try

[17:32] and time the

[17:33] jump kicks for

[17:34] him to jump

[17:34] kick over me,

[17:35] and then I'm

[17:35] going to punch

[17:36] him in the

[17:36] back.

[17:37] Okay.

[17:38] That's his least

[17:38] offended part of

[17:39] his body, I'm

[17:39] assuming, unless

[17:40] he's a turtle.

Elliott Kalan

[17:41] No, these are

[17:42] not turtles yet.

[17:44] Oh, okay.

[17:44] So, okay, and

[17:45] it works.

[17:46] Great, so he

[17:47] fades away and

[17:48] turns into a

[17:49] copy of that

[17:49] other Three Ninjas

[17:50] movie with

[17:51] Hulk Hogan in

[17:51] it.

[17:51] Do you pick

[17:52] it up?

Stuart Wellington

[17:52] Of course I

[17:53] pick it up.

Elliott Kalan

[17:54] Great, you

[17:54] gain some life.

[17:55] Perfect.

[17:55] Extra life.

[17:56] Is that High Noon

Stuart Wellington

[17:56] and Magic Mountain?

[17:57] High Noon,

[17:57] something like

[17:58] that.

Elliott Kalan

[17:58] High Noon and

[17:59] Mystery Mountain

[17:59] Madness in the

[18:00] Marble Man.

[18:02] Marble Manor.

[18:04] Marble, yeah.

[18:05] Uh-oh, speaking

[18:05] of which, here

[18:06] come the marbles.

[18:07] Uh-oh, that

[18:07] third ninja ran

[18:08] away, but he

[18:09] whistled and some

[18:10] marbles are coming

[18:10] down.

[18:11] You guys, are you

[18:12] going to try to

[18:12] punch and kick

[18:12] them?

Stuart Wellington

[18:14] Or just jump

[18:15] over them?

[18:15] I try and time

[18:16] it and jump over

[18:17] them.

Elliott Kalan

[18:17] Okay, good.

[18:18] Dan, you're

[18:18] going to jump.

[18:19] Okay, good.

[18:19] Don't try to

[18:20] punch and kick

[18:20] those marbles.

[18:21] They'll just roll

[18:21] you over, and

[18:22] then you sit up

[18:23] and there's little

[18:23] birdies around

[18:24] your head and you

[18:24] lose some life.

[18:25] Okay, great.

[18:26] So you've got

[18:27] past those ninjas.

[18:28] Uh-oh, more

[18:28] ninjas, but these

[18:29] ones are turtles.

[18:30] What are you

[18:32] Oh, I throw a

[18:34] pizza at them.

[18:35] Okay, I should

[18:36] have mentioned

[18:36] these are not

[18:36] ninja turtles

[18:37] mutants.

[18:38] These are just

[18:38] regular turtles

[18:39] that have trained

[18:40] under a ninja

[18:41] master and are

[18:41] now ninjas.

[18:42] They're very

[18:42] small.

[18:43] I don't think

[18:43] they eat pizza.

[18:45] Well, I mean,

Stuart Wellington

[18:46] it's important to

[18:48] learn.

Elliott Kalan

[18:48] Okay, Dan, show

[18:49] me the pictures

[18:50] or video you have

[18:51] of regular turtles

[18:52] eating pizza.

[18:53] You're right, I

[18:53] don't have any

[18:54] on my phone.

[18:55] You're right,

[18:56] because it's

[18:56] currently.

[18:58] I imagine a lot

[18:58] of herpetologists

[18:59] were watching the

[19:00] Teenage Mutant Ninja

[19:00] Turtles and being

[19:01] like, sure, they're

[19:02] ninjas and they're

[19:02] mutants, but eating

[19:03] pizza is not so

[19:04] out of the ordinary.

[19:05] Okay, if they're

Dan McCoy

[19:07] regular-sized turtles,

[19:08] I pick them up

[19:09] carefully and return

[19:10] them to the water.

Elliott Kalan

[19:11] Okay, that's very

[19:11] sweet of you.

[19:12] That's very sweet.

[19:13] You can get diseases

[19:13] that way, but this

[19:14] time you don't.

[19:15] And you hear like

[19:16] a...

[19:17] And that means you

[19:18] got extra little

[19:19] turtle care points.

[19:20] And you can redeem

[19:21] those turtle care points

[19:22] at a petco near

[19:23] you for turtle

[19:24] food, which in

[19:25] this case is pizza.

[19:26] So I guess you

[19:27] were right.

[19:28] I'm just looking at

[19:29] it right now.

[19:30] I guess you can't

[19:31] have pizza for

[19:31] turtles.

[19:32] Okay, you're

[19:33] moving along.

[19:33] Okay, now you

[19:34] have a choice of

[19:34] one of three

[19:35] buildings to walk

[19:36] into.

[19:36] One is marked

[19:37] school, one is

[19:38] marked police

[19:39] station, and one

[19:40] is marked the

[19:40] bank.

[19:42] Which one do you

[19:42] walk in to look

[19:43] for the governor's

[19:43] niece?

Stuart Wellington

[19:44] Dan, where do you

[19:45] think they would

[19:45] hold the governor's

[19:46] niece?

Dan McCoy

[19:49] school?

[19:49] Well, probably

[19:50] not in a police

[19:51] station, because

[19:52] that's where

[19:54] criminals don't

[19:55] like to go.

[19:56] Unless you...

Elliott Kalan

[19:57] Someone hasn't

[19:59] seen...

[20:00] hasn't seen

[20:01] a low winter sun

[20:03] because...

[20:04] or the shield,

[20:04] because there's

[20:05] quite a lot of

[20:05] corrupt characters

[20:06] in the police.

Dan McCoy

[20:08] Well, no, I mean,

[20:09] not those criminals.

[20:10] Obviously, there are a

[20:11] lot of corrupt cops.

[20:12] I'm just saying that

[20:13] kidnappers don't like

[20:15] to walk straight

[20:16] into the police

[20:17] department.

[20:17] That's fair.

Elliott Kalan

[20:18] That's fair.

[20:18] You may still need

[20:18] to go in there

[20:19] as a strategy.

[20:20] Unless they're

[20:20] Terminators or

[20:21] something.

[20:22] That's true.

[20:22] So do you want

[20:23] to go into the

[20:23] school?

[20:23] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[20:24] Let's go into

[20:25] the school.

Elliott Kalan

[20:26] Okay.

[20:26] You walk into

[20:27] the school,

[20:27] and it fades

[20:29] out, and then it

[20:31] fades back in.

[20:31] We see a classroom,

[20:33] and again, animation

[20:34] of you guys walking

[20:34] on.

[20:35] You can't do

[20:35] anything yet.

[20:35] Okay.

[20:36] And the teacher

[20:38] turns to you and

[20:39] says, it's those

[20:40] flop dudes.

[20:41] Get them.

[20:41] This is like a word

[20:42] balloon that appears

[20:43] above their head,

[20:44] and they're like,

[20:44] there's flop dudes.

[20:47] Get them.

[20:47] Uh-oh.

[20:47] It's a classroom

[20:48] full of like 10

[20:48] kids, and they're

[20:50] wearing, it's real

[20:51] battle royale stuff.

[20:53] They're all wearing

[20:54] private school uniforms,

[20:55] and they are ready

[20:56] to attack you.

[20:57] Guys, are you going

[20:58] to fight back, or

[20:59] are you going to

[20:59] run out of this room

[20:59] like a couple of

[21:00] whiny babies?

Stuart Wellington

[21:01] So I pick up a desk

[21:02] and throw it at the

[21:03] kids.

Elliott Kalan

[21:04] Excellent.

[21:05] You can interact

[21:05] with the environment

[21:06] in this one.

[21:06] Yes, you pick up

[21:07] the desk, you take

[21:08] out two kids, they

[21:09] fade away and turn

[21:10] into a go-gurt.

[21:11] Are you going to

[21:12] pick that up?

[21:13] Yeah, of course.

[21:14] Adds to your health,

[21:15] that's fantastic.

[21:16] Dan, what are you

[21:17] doing?

Dan McCoy

[21:17] I'm going to pick up

[21:18] the erasers, and I'm

[21:20] going to clap them to

[21:21] create a cloud of dust.

[21:22] You can't do that.

[21:23] They're under the

[21:24] cover of dust?

Elliott Kalan

[21:26] No, you can't do that.

[21:27] What?

[21:27] This is an 8-bit video

[21:28] game.

[21:29] There's only so much

[21:29] you can interact with

[21:30] the environment.

[21:31] You can pick stuff up

[21:32] and throw it.

Dan McCoy

[21:32] Okay, I pick up an

[21:33] eraser and I throw it.

Elliott Kalan

[21:35] It's just part of the

[21:36] background.

[21:36] It causes a cloud of

[21:37] dust.

[21:38] Oh, man.

[21:39] I mean, there's other

[21:39] desks.

[21:40] There's the teacher's

[21:40] desk.

[21:41] If you really want to

[21:41] pick something and

[21:42] throw it, you can just

[21:42] punch some of these

[21:43] kids.

Dan McCoy

[21:44] Are there any

[21:44] battle toads around?

[21:46] It's a good question.

[21:47] You've got to be

[21:48] honest.

Elliott Kalan

[21:49] Some of the students

[21:50] are battle toads.

[21:50] You notice as you hit

[21:51] them and their masks

[21:52] come off.

[21:52] Uh-oh.

[21:53] This is going to be

[21:54] harder than you think.

[21:55] And some of them are

[21:56] waving chains in the

[21:57] air.

[21:58] In fact, there's one

[21:58] coming at you waving a

[21:59] chain in the air.

[22:00] What do you do?

Dan McCoy

[22:01] Okay, well, I visited

[22:02] the game Nark earlier

[22:04] and picked up some

[22:06] needles that I throw

Elliott Kalan

[22:08] at this person.

[22:08] This is not a thing

[22:09] you can do.

[22:10] I don't know what...

[22:11] Oh, God.

[22:11] I don't know what...

[22:12] All right, I punched

[22:12] them.

[22:13] Jeez.

[22:13] Okay, thanks.

[22:13] I don't know what Gumby

[22:14] video game you've been

[22:15] living in where you can

[22:16] go to other video games

[22:17] and bring stuff in

[22:18] with you, you know.

[22:19] Sounds like a great game.

Stuart Wellington

[22:20] Yeah, it seems like an

[22:21] ad for a game genie that

[22:23] you would see in the back

[22:24] of like a computer

[22:25] magazine.

Elliott Kalan

[22:26] Yeah, I don't know what

[22:27] kind of Smash Brothers

[22:28] world do you think this

[22:29] is, where all the video

[22:29] game characters live

[22:30] together and fight all

[22:31] the time.

[22:32] Okay, so you punch.

[22:33] That's great.

[22:33] You timed the punch

[22:34] pretty well, but

[22:35] unfortunately, another

[22:36] student with a chain

[22:36] hit you in the back

[22:37] of the head, so you

[22:38] lost some life points

[22:39] on that one.

[22:40] And while you're in

[22:41] the middle of this

[22:42] very dangerous scene,

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S5

[25:35] Hey, I'm Janet Farney,

[25:36] host of the JV Club

[25:37] podcast.

[25:39] Ah, high school.

[25:41] Was it a time of adventure,

[25:43] romance, and discovery?

S4

[25:44] Class of 95!

[25:46] We did it!

S5

[25:47] Or a time of angst,

[25:50] disappointment, and confusion.

S4

[25:52] We're all tied together by

[25:54] four years of trauma at this

[25:55] place, but enjoy adulthood,

[25:57] I guess.

S5

[25:58] The truth is, it was both.

[26:02] So join me on the JV Club

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Elliott Kalan

[26:20] And back to you, Ellie.

[26:22] Okay, and thanks for that,

[26:23] Dan.

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[26:24] We're now back to the

[26:25] continuing adventure of

[26:26] Flop Dudes 2 Streets of

[26:28] Dragons for the NES and

Stuart Wellington

[26:29] Sega Master System.

Elliott Kalan

[26:31] Now, Dan...

Stuart Wellington

[26:32] So what I now do is I grab

[26:34] Dan's hands, and then that

[26:35] allows him to do like a

[26:37] jump kick maneuver, and we

[26:39] do a team up.

Elliott Kalan

[26:41] Okay, and while you're

[26:42] doing...

[26:42] Like a fastball special.

[26:44] Yeah, but with more

[26:45] kicking, yeah.

[26:46] That creates a liking, and

[26:47] that creates almost an

[26:48] energy blast that wipes out

[26:49] all the kids.

[26:50] The teacher is still there,

[26:51] and the teacher is shaking

[26:53] their hands at you, and

[26:53] then a word balloon comes

[26:54] up, and it says, hey, you

[26:56] Flop Dudes, what video

[26:58] game movie memories do you

[26:59] have?

[27:00] So I think to get through

[27:01] this level, you're going

[27:02] to talk about some video

[27:03] game movie memories.

[27:04] Do you have any

[27:04] particular memories of

[27:05] seeing them in the

[27:05] theaters, ones that you

[27:07] particularly liked or

[27:08] didn't like?

Stuart Wellington

[27:09] I remember seeing Doom in

[27:11] the movie theater with

[27:12] Carl Urban.

[27:14] You know, big-time

[27:15] fave Carl Urban fan.

[27:16] You know, he was

[27:17] Aomer in The Lord of

[27:18] the Rings, as well as a

[27:19] bunch of other shit.

[27:20] He's Dredd and Judge

[27:21] Dredd, you know, all that

[27:22] shit.

[27:22] Sure, yeah, yeah.

[27:23] And it's got Dwayne the

[27:24] Rock Johnson in a rare

[27:26] villain role.

[27:27] He's not often the

[27:28] villain.

[27:29] And it's known for having a

[27:32] sequence that's like a

[27:34] first-person shooter-type

[27:35] sequence.

[27:37] And I remember not being

[27:39] particularly impressed with

[27:40] it.

[27:41] Did you guys ever see that

Elliott Kalan

[27:42] one?

[27:42] I never saw it, but I

[27:43] remember when, I think it

[27:45] might have been Dwayne

[27:46] Johnson, he was coming on

[27:47] The Daily Show to promote

[27:48] Doom.

[27:49] And if I remember correctly,

[27:50] the clip they showed was

[27:52] just close-ups, like panning

[27:53] close-ups of the huge gun

[27:55] that he carries in Doom.

[27:56] And then he goes like,

[27:57] that's some gun.

[27:58] And that was the whole

[27:58] clip.

[27:59] Like, really, that was the

[28:01] promotional clip?

[28:02] It was just close-ups of

[28:03] this big gun?

[28:04] Okay.

[28:06] But do you think, so do

[28:07] you think it was successful

[28:08] or not successful, them

[28:10] trying to replicate the

[28:11] video game experience with

[28:12] a first-person shooting

[28:14] scene?

Stuart Wellington

[28:15] I mean, I think, I mean,

[28:16] I think they obviously

[28:17] attempted.

[28:17] I don't think it was

[28:18] particularly successful.

[28:20] And it, I think it also

[28:22] goes to, I mean, you're

[28:24] trying to recreate

[28:25] something that has

[28:26] I mean, I think the

[28:27] later Doom games have a

[28:29] storyline, but only

[28:30] barely.

[28:30] I mean, it's basically an

[28:32] excuse to blow the shit

[28:33] out of some demons with

[28:34] cool guns.

[28:36] So, I don't know.

[28:38] It feels unnecessary,

Elliott Kalan

[28:39] right?

[28:40] Like.

[28:41] I mean, I get that

[28:42] they're trying to, like,

[28:43] to bring the game

[28:44] mechanics into the movie,

[28:45] but you're right.

[28:45] It's, it's, the feel of

[28:47] a first-person shooter

[28:47] video game is different

[28:48] from the feel of a

[28:50] first-person movie

[28:51] sequence where you feel

[28:52] as if, if anything,

[28:53] your body has been

[28:54] hijacked and is beat.

[28:55] You are, or you're

[28:56] homunculus from the

[28:57] Martin Amis book

[28:58] Times Arrow that is

[28:59] just inside the head

[29:00] of the hero watching

[29:01] everything through the

[29:02] hero's eyes, but not

[29:03] really participating.

Stuart Wellington

[29:04] That's how you describe

[29:05] most POV stuff you

[29:06] watch, right?

[29:07] Yeah, basically.

[29:08] Yeah, yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[29:09] I mean, at this point,

[29:10] there's only two kinds

[29:11] of POV stuff I see,

[29:13] and it's video games

[29:14] and another thing.

[29:15] But, Dan, what have you,

[29:16] any particular video game

[29:17] movie memories or moments

[29:19] or magic?

Dan McCoy

[29:21] I've, yeah, I was quiet

[29:23] for a while because I was

[29:24] looking up some things.

[29:25] I remember watching...

Elliott Kalan

[29:27] POV stuff?

[29:28] Not while we're

Dan McCoy

[29:28] recording, Dan, please.

[29:30] Street Fighter for the

[29:31] first time and being

[29:32] just delighted.

[29:34] You know, I mean, like,

[29:35] as, as you've mentioned

[29:37] before, there aren't a lot

[29:40] of, you know, good

[29:42] video game movies.

[29:47] I was going to say,

[29:48] unfortunately, I actually

[29:49] have no particular

[29:50] feelings on the matter.

[29:50] I mean, it doesn't

[29:51] really matter.

[29:52] I mean, other than what,

Elliott Kalan

[29:52] like, Synecdoche, New York

[29:53] is kind of an adaptation

[29:54] of Sim City, right?

[29:56] It is.

[29:56] Yeah, I guess so.

Dan McCoy

[29:58] But, like, I, as a

[30:00] aficionado of the crap

[30:03] and the detritus of pop

[30:05] culture, they are a gold

[30:07] mine, and I remember

[30:08] watching Street Fighter

[30:09] for the first time,

[30:10] and it is a delight

[30:12] in a, like, in a camp

[30:14] way.

[30:16] Raoul Julia puts in a

[30:17] great performance,

[30:18] sadly, you know,

[30:20] while dying, but he does

[30:23] a great job on a, in a

[30:25] bad movie.

[30:26] Stevie D'Souza, who

[30:27] wrote it, I think I read

[30:29] somewhere that he wrote

[30:30] it in, like, a weekend.

[30:31] But I'm, I'm, I may be

[30:33] making that up.

[30:35] But, um, and I also

[30:36] remember, like, when I...

Stuart Wellington

[30:36] That's a fucking goal

[30:37] right there, to write a

[30:38] Street Fighter movie in a

[30:39] weekend.

[30:40] Oh, man.

[30:40] And get Raoul Julia to

[30:41] fucking do it.

[30:43] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[30:44] I also remember, like,

[30:45] when I was...

[30:45] I mean, I don't think it

[30:45] was the beauty of the

[30:46] script that convinced

[30:47] Raoul Julia to take on

[30:48] the role of...

[30:49] No, but it's like, it

Stuart Wellington

[30:50] feels like you're doing a

[30:51] bit, right?

[30:52] Where you're like, let's

[30:53] see if I can get him to

[30:54] do this.

Elliott Kalan

[30:56] Let's see if we can get

[30:57] him to wear this hat.

Stuart Wellington

[30:58] Yeah, let's, let's see

[30:59] if he'll do a Psycho

[31:00] Crusher.

[31:01] The, um, the...

[31:03] I feel like maybe, like,

[31:04] the Tomb Raider movies

[31:05] are kind of fun.

[31:07] Am I...

[31:08] Am I misremembering

Elliott Kalan

[31:09] them?

[31:10] I mean, the Tomb Raider

[31:10] movies, it kind of helps

[31:12] them that they're

[31:12] essentially Indiana Jones

[31:13] the game, right?

[31:14] Yeah.

[31:15] That they're a little bit

[31:16] closer to a movie already

[31:17] than Street Fighter, which

[31:19] is just a tournament of

[31:21] monsters.

[31:21] And Angelina Jolie, I

[31:23] think is a pretty...

Stuart Wellington

[31:24] I think Angelina Jolie

[31:25] is a pretty fun, like,

[31:27] action hero.

[31:29] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[31:30] I remember just being

[31:32] bored by the Tomb Raider

[31:33] movies, but I remember

[31:35] enjoying the new one with

[31:37] Alicia Vikander

[31:38] surprisingly, uh, well,

[31:41] and I saw it on the, uh,

[31:44] cruise to Alaska that I

[31:46] was on with you, Stu.

[31:48] Oh, cool.

[31:48] When you were all

[31:49] downstairs watching the,

[31:50] uh, the, the stand-up

[31:52] comic.

[31:53] Whoever, who was, whoever

[31:54] was booked on that

[31:55] cruise, I was underneath

[31:58] a blanket under the rain

[32:00] upstairs on, on the deck

[32:02] watching.

Stuart Wellington

[32:03] I think you made the

[32:04] right choice.

[32:05] I feel like that, that,

[32:06] uh, that comic probably

[32:07] has some firm opinions

[32:09] about cancel culture.

[32:11] Oh.

Elliott Kalan

[32:12] I like, Dan, though, that

[32:13] you were out, you spent a

[32:13] lot of money to be on a

[32:14] cruise, and you're like,

[32:15] I think I'll watch Tomb

[32:16] Raider while I'm here.

[32:18] Amen.

[32:18] What can I not do at

Dan McCoy

[32:19] home?

[32:20] I watch a lot...

[32:21] The movie's playing, I'll,

[32:22] I'll seek it out.

Stuart Wellington

[32:22] I watch a lot of

[32:23] episodes of the love

[32:25] boat, which was playing

[32:26] constantly on that cruise.

Elliott Kalan

[32:28] At least that's

[32:29] thematically appropriate,

[32:30] you know.

[32:31] Yeah.

[32:31] And it was a, it was a

Stuart Wellington

[32:32] princess, and it was a

[32:33] princess cruise, and

[32:34] princess cruises are

[32:36] like, there's like a

[32:37] love boat tie-in

[32:38] already.

[32:39] Oh, I see.

Elliott Kalan

[32:40] Well, uh, now the

[32:40] teacher in the school

[32:41] says, okay, that's

[32:42] good, you can leave

[32:43] now.

[32:44] There's no, there's

[32:44] no niece here.

[32:45] So you guys tromp

[32:46] back out on the

[32:47] street, you got two

[32:47] places you can go

[32:48] next, the bank or the

[32:49] police station.

[32:49] Just go to, let's go

[32:50] fuck up a bank, dude.

[32:52] Okay.

[32:53] Sure.

[32:53] Okay, guys.

[32:54] Ooh, bad choice.

[32:56] This is one of those

[32:57] annoying puzzle levels

[32:58] where you gotta move a

[32:59] bunch of blocks around.

[33:00] Okay.

[33:01] Okay, no one likes

[33:02] these.

[33:02] These are the worst

[33:03] levels ever.

Stuart Wellington

[33:04] Can I, can I just

[33:05] look up, can I just

[33:06] look up a wiki to how

Elliott Kalan

[33:08] to complete the puzzle?

[33:09] Yeah, look, look up a

[33:09] walkthrough or a cheat

[33:10] cheat on this.

[33:11] Yeah.

[33:12] While you're doing

[33:13] that.

[33:13] Like half the shrines

Stuart Wellington

[33:15] in Breath of the Wild,

[33:16] I'm like, fuck this.

[33:17] Or like the only way

Elliott Kalan

[33:18] to get through Myst was

[33:19] to like, was to just

[33:20] buy the book that was

[33:22] like, flip the switch

[33:23] this way 10 times.

[33:24] You're like, okay,

[33:25] there was no way I was

[33:25] going to figure that

[33:26] out on my own.

[33:27] So while Stuart's

[33:28] looking up the walkthrough

[33:29] for this police station

[33:30] puzzle section, oh

[33:31] sorry, the bank puzzle

[33:32] section, Dan, why do

[33:34] you think video game

[33:35] movies don't usually

[33:36] work that well?

[33:37] It's a puzzle in its

[33:38] own.

[33:39] In its own way.

Dan McCoy

[33:41] Well, um, hmm.

[33:44] Well, the early ones,

[33:47] the problem was that

[33:50] there just wasn't

[33:51] enough to build out

[33:54] a plot.

[33:56] And like, I think

[33:58] that something like

[33:58] Super Mario Brothers,

[34:00] which I actually have

[34:01] never seen.

[34:01] I'm looking very, I'm

[34:02] looking very much

[34:03] forward to watching it

[34:05] for the show.

[34:05] I'm excited about it.

[34:07] But it's my

[34:07] understanding that they

[34:08] dealt with that.

[34:09] by just like, making

[34:10] up a bunch of weird

[34:11] stuff.

[34:12] Oh yeah.

[34:13] Wholesale.

[34:14] Which, you know, may

[34:16] not have worked in this

[34:17] instance, but I think

[34:18] is a better way, at

[34:21] least, of going about

[34:22] it than a lot of

[34:22] people who seem to

[34:24] have just like,

[34:24] taken these games

[34:27] with very basic

[34:28] concepts and then

[34:29] not done any of that

[34:31] thought to change it.

[34:33] You're talking about

Elliott Kalan

[34:33] that Qbert movie that

[34:35] was literally just him

[34:35] jumping around on

[34:36] blocks?

[34:37] Yep.

[34:38] And it was like,

[34:39] why is Paul Giamatti

[34:41] doing this role?

[34:43] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[34:46] I mean, what was

[34:48] that movie where he

[34:49] got covered in blue

[34:51] paint with Frankie

[34:52] Muniz?

[34:53] Oh, uh.

[34:53] Big Fat Liar.

[34:54] Big Fat Liar.

[34:55] Yeah, Big Fat Liar.

[34:55] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[34:56] Somebody, this reminds

[34:57] me, speaking of Paul

[34:58] Giamatti, sorry, that

[34:59] on our last episode

[35:00] when my son Sammy was

[35:02] on, we were talking

[35:02] about the restaurant

[35:03] Pea Soup Anderson's

[35:04] and someone tweeted

[35:05] at me, oh, you

[35:05] should go there.

[35:06] And then it's real

[35:07] close to where they

[35:08] shot some of Sideways.

[35:09] So you can see where

[35:10] Paul Giamatti was in

[35:11] Sideways and I was

[35:11] like, yeah, my kid's

[35:12] going to love that.

[35:14] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[35:15] Yeah.

[35:17] Sammy hasn't ever had

[35:18] Merlot because of

[35:20] Giamatti's character's

[35:22] thoughts on the matter.

[35:24] No, I, the other,

[35:25] but I wanted to say

[35:25] the more recent,

[35:27] um, you know, uh,

[35:30] video games obviously

[35:30] have a lot more

[35:31] sophisticated storytelling,

[35:32] but at that point

[35:34] you have the

[35:35] sophisticated storytelling

[35:36] and then you're

[35:39] taking away at a

[35:40] movie the one thing

[35:41] that makes a video

[35:42] game more unique,

[35:44] uh, which is the

[35:45] interactivity.

[35:45] Like you're removing

[35:47] one of the load

[35:48] stones of what a

[35:49] video game is at

[35:50] that point.

Elliott Kalan

[35:51] You're saying

[35:51] because a video

[35:52] game is not a,

[35:53] even though some

[35:53] do deliver stories,

[35:55] it is not essentially

[35:56] a story, a

[35:58] narrative delivering

[35:59] system.

[35:59] It is an interaction

[36:00] delivering system.

[36:01] So you're saying

[36:02] that, uh, so you're

[36:03] saying it's not based

[36:04] on a video game,

[36:05] but the, probably the

[36:05] best adaptation of the

[36:06] idea of video games

[36:07] to movies was Mr.

[36:08] Payback.

[36:10] The movie that let

[36:11] you choose what

[36:12] would happen next.

[36:12] That's classic.

[36:13] I still haven't seen

[36:14] it.

[36:15] You're making it sound

[36:15] really cool.

[36:17] I mean, it's all up

[36:18] on YouTube.

[36:18] It's terrible, but

[36:19] you should, you

[36:20] could, you go see.

[36:21] So Stu, uh,

[36:22] the, uh, it looks,

[36:24] have you figured out

[36:24] how to do the puzzle

[36:25] or do you want to

[36:25] answer the question?

Stuart Wellington

[36:26] Uh, I just, I just

[36:27] did the puzzle.

[36:29] Oh, great.

Elliott Kalan

[36:29] Okay.

[36:30] It unlocks a door

[36:31] and behind the door,

[36:33] uh, you see there's a

[36:34] box.

[36:35] What are you going to

[36:35] do with that box?

Stuart Wellington

[36:36] I'm going to open

[36:37] the box to get my

[36:38] treasure.

Elliott Kalan

[36:38] Well, there's only

[36:39] one way to open up

[36:40] a couple ways to

[36:41] open the box.

[36:41] Uh, you can punch

[36:42] it or kick it or

[36:43] throw it.

[36:43] Yeah.

[36:43] I'm going to punch

[36:44] it.

[36:45] Uh oh.

[36:47] Ooh, inside was a

[36:48] person.

[36:48] You should not have

[36:49] punched that box.

[36:50] Uh, and they say,

[36:51] no, the governor's

[36:52] I don't wait,

Stuart Wellington

[36:52] which of those

[36:52] three options would

[36:53] have not been a

[36:54] problem.

Elliott Kalan

[36:54] Yeah, exactly.

[36:55] Dave, blame the

[36:57] player, not the

[36:57] game.

[36:57] Look, you should

[36:58] have been able to,

[36:58] maybe you shouldn't

[36:59] have, maybe it

[37:00] shouldn't have been

[37:01] so important for you

[37:01] to punch this box or

[37:02] open it at all.

[37:03] It's none of your

[37:03] business.

[37:04] Yeah.

[37:04] Walk into a building

[37:05] and do a puzzle and

[37:06] there's a box behind

[37:07] you.

[37:07] You think you can just

[37:07] open it up.

[37:08] Uh, good point.

[37:09] Good point.

[37:10] So, uh, blame the

Stuart Wellington

[37:11] player, not the game.

[37:12] That was, that was

[37:13] where I went wrong in a

[37:13] lot of my breakup

[37:15] confessionals with

[37:16] girlfriends, girlfriends.

Elliott Kalan

[37:17] So, uh, the, it's

[37:18] inside the person that

[37:19] go, oh, the

[37:20] governor's niece is in

[37:21] another building.

[37:22] Oh, sorry guys.

[37:23] I guess you did that

[37:23] puzzle for nothing.

[37:24] No, wait, a little

[37:25] star floats around.

[37:26] Dan, Dan, you want

[37:27] to grab that star?

Dan McCoy

[37:29] What?

[37:29] Yeah, I do.

[37:30] But why does this

[37:30] person have any inside

[37:32] knowledge on the

[37:33] governor's niece, uh,

[37:35] considering that they've

[37:35] been inside a box?

[37:36] Good point.

Elliott Kalan

[37:37] That information is

[37:38] not, not applicable

[37:40] right now.

[37:40] Yeah, it doesn't say.

[37:41] I'll grab that star.

[37:43] Okay, uh, you hear a

[37:44] little fanfare and it

[37:45] says, oh, you just

[37:47] got 14 Nintend bucks.

[37:50] Nintend bucks can be

[37:51] redeemed for free

[37:52] Nintendo merchandise

[37:53] valid until January

[37:55] 15th, 1987.

[37:57] So, uh, I think

[37:58] enjoy that.

[37:59] Uh, I don't know

[38:00] what you can do with

[38:01] it now.

[38:01] Good stuff.

[38:02] Yeah, great stuff.

Stuart Wellington

[38:03] Are we, are we

[38:03] playing this on like a

[38:04] Raspberry Pi or

[38:05] something?

[38:05] How'd we get this

[38:06] emulator?

Elliott Kalan

[38:09] A Raspberry Pi?

Stuart Wellington

[38:11] It's like a mini,

[38:11] like a mini computer.

[38:13] Okay.

[38:14] Not a, not the food.

Elliott Kalan

[38:16] I think, yeah, I

[38:16] wasn't sure and I

[38:17] was like, I, I'm not,

[38:19] is this, is this like

[38:20] some kind of sex

[38:21] playing I've never

[38:22] heard before?

[38:22] Every once in a while

Stuart Wellington

[38:23] I'll make jokes that I

[38:24] know neither of you

[38:25] will get, but I'm

[38:25] assuming somebody who's

[38:27] listening will.

Dan McCoy

[38:28] Yeah, yeah, that's,

[38:29] yeah.

[38:30] That's my Twitter feed.

[38:31] It's just jokes for

[38:32] my own benefit.

[38:32] Yup.

Elliott Kalan

[38:33] Very clear.

[38:34] Very clear.

[38:36] Uh, I think that

[38:37] should be your Twitter

[38:37] bio is just jokes for

[38:38] my own benefit.

[38:41] Okay, guys, you walk

[38:42] back out onto the

[38:43] street, so you've

[38:43] been to, that was

[38:44] what, the bank?

[38:45] Yeah.

[38:45] Or the, okay, you've

[38:46] been to the bank.

[38:47] We have to go to the

[38:48] police station now.

[38:48] Okay, so you're gonna

[38:50] walk in?

[38:52] Yeah, yeah, yeah,

[38:52] let's fuck it up.

[38:53] Okay, you walk in the

[38:54] police station, uh-oh,

[38:55] guys, boss level,

[38:56] boss level, boss level.

[38:58] You walk in, you walk in,

[38:59] you walk in, and there's a

[39:00] guy, there's a police

[39:01] officer at a desk, and

[39:02] then he hurls the desk

[39:03] away, and he goes,

[39:04] ah, and there's flashing

[39:06] lights, and his uniform

[39:06] rips as he gets bigger

[39:08] and bigger, and he turns

[39:09] into kind of a bull

[39:10] man, like a half bull,

[39:11] half man, kind of like

[39:12] the Chicago Bulls mascot

[39:13] logo, but, and with the,

[39:15] with this, complete with

[39:15] the steam puffing out of

[39:16] his nostrils in there.

[39:17] Sure, yeah.

[39:18] And now he starts running

[39:19] back and forth across

[39:20] the screen, uh, and uh-oh,

[39:22] Dan, you don't get out of

[39:23] the way in time, and it

[39:24] knocks you down, uh, and

[39:26] you, a little animated

[39:27] ghost starts coming out of

[39:28] your body, and it says,

[39:30] continue, question mark?

[39:31] Now, Stu, are you gonna

[39:32] use your extra life that

[39:34] you picked up before to

[39:35] bring Dan back to help

[39:37] you with his boss?

Stuart Wellington

[39:38] Yeah, yeah, yeah,

[39:38] because I need somebody to

[39:39] distract the boss.

[39:41] So I'm gonna kick him in

[39:42] the back.

Elliott Kalan

[39:43] Uh, so Dan's, there's a

[39:44] little 8-bit animation of

[39:45] Dan's ghost hovering up

[39:46] into heaven, and then a

[39:47] big hand comes out and

[39:48] goes, whoa, and shoves

[39:50] Dan's ghost back into his

[39:52] body, and a single tear

[39:53] goes down the ghost's

[39:54] face, because it's going

[39:55] back to this veil of

[39:57] tears, this, this land of,

[39:58] uh, of pain that we call

[39:59] life.

Dan McCoy

[40:00] I thought it was time to

Elliott Kalan

[40:01] rest, finally.

[40:02] No, because you got this

[40:03] bull guy to fight.

[40:04] So the bull guy, he's

[40:05] running across the screen.

[40:06] Oh, he's running towards

[40:07] you guys.

[40:07] Are you guys gonna time it

[40:08] to jump to get over him?

Dan McCoy

[40:09] Yeah, we're gonna, I'm

[40:10] gonna watch the pattern of

[40:11] the running and jump at

[40:13] appropriate times.

Elliott Kalan

[40:14] You do it, you jump, and

[40:15] he bangs his head on,

[40:17] like a bell that's been

[40:18] set up, uh, like kind of

[40:20] at Coyote Ugly, like if

[40:21] you order whatever, I

[40:22] don't know, whatever

[40:22] drink it is.

[40:23] Is it the bell the cops

Stuart Wellington

[40:24] set up when they, when

[40:25] they arrest somebody, so

[40:26] they ring it?

Elliott Kalan

[40:27] No, it's the bell they

[40:28] ring when, uh, when

[40:29] someone calls with a ghost

[40:30] sighting, and Janine

[40:31] goes, we got one!

[40:32] Oh, that makes sense.

[40:34] Yeah.

[40:34] Yeah, and that, because

[40:34] it turns out this isn't

[40:35] actually a real police

[40:36] station, it's a, it's an

[40:37] abandoned police station

[40:38] that's now a Ghostbusters

[40:39] facility.

[40:41] Oh, perfect.

[40:41] But they hadn't, they

[40:42] hadn't finished putting up

[40:43] the new sign yet, so this

[40:44] is actually probably a ghost

[40:45] bull man that you're, that

[40:47] you're fighting.

Dan McCoy

[40:47] Yeah, right now it just

[40:48] says Hostbusters, which is

[40:50] very confusing.

[40:51] Yeah, they're buying the

Elliott Kalan

[40:52] letters on the installment

[40:53] plan backwards.

[40:57] Yeah.

[40:58] So people think that going

[40:59] and they're like, I think

[41:00] that, I, I think that the

[41:02] host at my restaurant has

[41:03] been giving away free meals

[41:04] to his friends.

[41:05] I need you to stake them

[41:06] out and find out.

[41:07] And they're like, sorry,

[41:08] sir, we get that a lot.

[41:09] This is not actually

[41:10] Hostbusters.

[41:11] We haven't got the full

[41:11] sign up just yet.

[41:12] Well, that's very confusing.

[41:15] Yeah.

[41:16] Well, you should, before we

[41:17] put the HO up, people

[41:18] thought it was ST Busters,

[41:20] like Street Busters, and

[41:21] they keep coming to us to

[41:22] like, say, to borrow

[41:23] jackhammers and things like

[41:24] that.

[41:25] We don't have that kind

[41:25] of equipment.

Stuart Wellington

[41:26] And while they still

[41:27] have the jackhammers for

[41:28] dealing with renegade

[41:29] hosts, you know.

[41:33] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[41:34] Exactly.

[41:35] So.

[41:35] Et cetera.

[41:36] Et cetera.

[41:37] And so.

[41:38] Bits.

[41:39] You know exactly where

[41:40] that would go.

[41:40] Let's continue doing

[41:40] this bit.

[41:41] Okay.

[41:41] So this, this ghost

[41:43] bull, you got to keep

[41:44] jumping.

[41:45] So now at this point,

[41:47] also you have lasers.

[41:48] Did I not mention that

[41:49] before?

Stuart Wellington

[41:50] Okay.

[41:50] We have lasers or

[41:51] there's lasers that we

[41:53] have to deal with?

Elliott Kalan

[41:54] Both.

[41:54] You have lasers that

[41:55] you can use to shoot

[41:56] the ghost bull guy,

[41:58] but also there's lasers

[41:59] shooting out of his

[41:59] horns and out of little

[42:01] eyes that have opened up

[42:02] at the top of the screen.

[42:03] Very contra.

[42:04] And so you have to jump

[42:06] out of those lasers and

[42:07] you got to shoot the bull

[42:08] guy and you can't let

[42:09] him run into you.

[42:09] So it's a very elaborate

[42:10] timing.

[42:11] Some would say too

[42:12] difficult for a first

[42:13] level boss.

[42:14] Yeah.

[42:14] It's turning into like a

[42:15] bullet hell type game.

[42:16] Yeah.

[42:16] But that's the thing about

[42:17] flop dudes too, is it's

[42:18] got a very steep learning

[42:19] curve.

[42:20] First you're just

[42:21] punching flat lampposts

[42:22] and mailboxes and

[42:23] finding, finding meat

[42:24] inside.

[42:25] Suddenly you're dodging

[42:26] lasers.

[42:26] It's like Dark Souls.

[42:27] So what are you guys

[42:28] Are you going to dodge

[42:29] lasers and defeat the

[42:29] boss?

[42:31] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[42:31] Is there like.

[42:32] Yeah.

[42:32] I think we probably

[42:33] should, right?

Dan McCoy

[42:33] Is there, is there any

[42:35] sort of like a part,

[42:37] body part that seems to

[42:38] be more prominent than

[42:40] the others or a

[42:41] different color or flashes

[42:42] more when you shoot it?

[42:44] Yeah.

[42:44] Are there, are there

Stuart Wellington

[42:45] chunks of armor that

[42:46] shake when we shoot

[42:47] them and then eventually

[42:48] fall off?

[42:49] Well, you'll notice,

[42:50] you'll notice that

[42:50] happens to his horns.

Elliott Kalan

[42:51] His horns fall off.

[42:52] And each time he does,

[42:53] he goes, wah, wah,

[42:54] wah, wah, wah,

[42:55] wah.

[42:55] Like he gives you a,

[42:56] like a mean look and

[42:57] then he goes back to

[42:58] running.

[42:58] And then you'll also

[42:59] notice that his

[43:01] suspenders are getting

[43:02] looser.

[43:03] So I think, so you're

[43:04] going to have to shoot

[43:05] those suspenders to

[43:06] make his pants

[43:06] fly.

[43:06] Killer graphics.

[43:08] These are 8-bit

[43:09] graphics.

[43:10] This is, they did a

[43:11] great job with it.

[43:12] They really made these

[43:12] sprites detailed back

[43:13] then.

[43:14] Yeah.

[43:14] So, okay, so you're

[43:15] going to aim at the

[43:16] suspenders while the

[43:16] lasers are shooting

[43:17] around?

[43:17] Okay, you'll notice

[43:18] the wall opens up

[43:20] and a bunch of robot

[43:21] dogs run in, but

[43:22] that's just animation

[43:22] in the background.

[43:23] That doesn't actually

[43:24] affect the gameplay.

[43:25] Oh, so they're like

[43:26] spectators in a

[43:27] Street Fighter level.

[43:27] Exactly.

[43:28] Yeah, they're like

[43:28] spectators in Space

[43:29] Jam, A New Legacy.

[43:30] They're constantly

[43:31] pumping their dog

[43:32] fists in the air and

[43:33] just yelling.

[43:33] No matter what's

[43:34] going on.

[43:35] Exactly.

[43:36] Even during the

[43:36] timeouts.

[43:37] So, okay, you're

[43:38] still shooting lasers

[43:39] at his suspenders?

[43:41] Yeah, of course.

[43:42] His pants fall down,

[43:43] revealing boxer shorts

[43:44] with hearts on them.

[43:45] He's very embarrassed

[43:45] and he trips and falls

[43:47] from the pants on his

[43:49] ankles.

[43:50] Onto a letter opener.

[43:52] Onto a letter opener.

[43:53] Blood everywhere.

[43:54] It's all over the

[43:54] screen.

[43:56] And actually, Dan's

[43:58] sprite vomits on camera.

[44:01] And Stewart is just

[44:03] shaking his head and

[44:03] he's covering his eyes.

[44:04] This is not anything

[44:05] everyone can see.

[44:06] He knew when he became

[44:07] a flop dude that life

[44:08] would be tough, that

[44:09] he'd have to be tough

[44:10] to survive, but he

[44:11] didn't realize that this

[44:12] was what he was signing

[44:12] up for.

[44:13] Yeah.

[44:13] Little animated tears

Stuart Wellington

[44:14] are shooting out the

[44:15] side of my head.

Elliott Kalan

[44:17] Yeah.

[44:17] And it's at this moment

[44:18] that the whole ground

[44:21] starts to shake and the

[44:23] big boss shows up.

[44:25] The floor opens up and

[44:27] you guys fall into a pit.

[44:28] Wait, big boss from the

[44:29] fucking Metal Gear Solid

[44:31] series?

[44:32] No, don't take it

[44:33] literally.

[44:34] No, this is the game

[44:35] boss.

[44:35] It's a one level game

[44:36] with a little boss level

[44:38] at the end.

[44:39] You're actually in hell

[44:40] itself.

[44:41] You're in hell and

[44:42] there's Satan and he's

[44:43] huge.

[44:44] It's just like Dante

[44:45] described him.

[44:45] He has three heads and

[44:46] each head is chewing on

[44:47] a different historical

[44:48] traitor, Judas, Brutus,

[44:50] and I think Cassius is

[44:51] the other one.

[44:52] And his waist is

[44:53] encased in ice.

[44:54] You never updated that

[44:55] shit?

[44:56] I mean, name a traitor

[44:57] that was as, I guess

[44:58] Benedict Arnold is in

[44:59] there.

[44:59] Sure, yeah.

Dan McCoy

[45:00] Why did the devil

[45:02] kidnap this girl?

Elliott Kalan

[45:05] Dan, Dan, we don't

[45:07] have, this is the

[45:07] governor's niece.

[45:08] We don't have time to,

[45:09] we gotta save her.

[45:10] And so the devil, he

[45:11] starts pounding on the

[45:12] ice you're on and then

[45:13] he looks at you and a

[45:13] word balloon comes out

[45:14] and it says, if you

[45:16] could make a movie out

[45:17] of any video game,

[45:18] what video game would

[45:19] you make into a movie?

Dan McCoy

[45:21] That's a good question.

[45:22] Oh, man.

[45:24] You know, this is, I,

Elliott Kalan

[45:28] there is a time limit.

Dan McCoy

[45:30] Okay, I, I, we

[45:31] mentioned it before,

[45:32] you know, I really

[45:34] loved Marble Madness

[45:35] when I was a kid.

[45:36] It's a, it's a movie,

[45:38] it's a movie, it's a

[45:40] game that like, you

[45:41] know, in the, in the

[45:44] arcade with the big

[45:48] games, like, I forget

[45:49] what they're called.

[45:51] Cabinets?

[45:51] They have the track.

[45:53] What?

Elliott Kalan

[45:53] Like arcade game

[45:54] cabinets, you mean?

Dan McCoy

[45:55] Yeah, the cabinets.

[45:56] Like, it would have the

[45:57] track pad, of course,

[45:58] and that was kind of

[45:59] the fun of it, was

[46:00] that you were literally

[46:01] controlling a ball with a

[46:02] ball, and it was a

[46:04] one-to-one controller.

[46:06] And at home, you know,

[46:07] you had to sort of use

[46:09] the Nintendo controller

[46:10] and figure out how to

[46:11] make that do subtle,

[46:13] like, diagonal movements

[46:15] and stuff.

[46:15] But I got really good at

[46:16] Marble Madness, and I

[46:19] think that just the, the

[46:21] challenge of trying to

[46:22] turn that into a

[46:23] narrative.

Dan McCoy

[46:23] Pick up that challenge

[46:24] for extra bonus points.

[46:26] How would you do it?

[46:26] The cosmic, oh.

[46:27] Pitch me the Marble

[46:28] Madness movie.

[46:31] Um, the, ooh, boy.

[46:34] So, maybe I will take

[46:37] Madness literally, um,

[46:40] and, uh, this is like a,

[46:42] uh, a look inside the

[46:45] brain of someone, uh, who,

[46:48] who has become trapped in

[46:49] their own head.

[46:50] And, uh, and we're, uh,

[46:53] we've put our, um, our,

[46:55] uh, our thought bubble.

[46:57] We're, like, incepting this,

[46:59] uh, head with our thought

[47:01] idea that we've sent in

[47:03] in this marble into this

[47:05] brainscape.

[47:06] And it has to pilot itself

[47:08] around, uh, different, um,

[47:10] you know, uh, pitfalls to,

[47:13] uh, you know, wake up this

[47:15] human who has been

[47:16] entrapped inside their own

[47:18] head.

Dan McCoy

[47:18] Who's the hero?

Elliott Kalan

[47:19] What do they get?

[47:20] Tell me who the hero is.

[47:22] Does he have a team?

[47:23] Every time you inject

Dan McCoy

[47:24] someone into, uh, someone

[47:25] else, it's gotta be

[47:27] Dennis Quaid.

[47:29] Okay.

Elliott Kalan

[47:29] So it's, so the hero is

[47:31] played by Dennis Quaid or

[47:32] the hero is Dennis Quaid?

[47:33] Is actor Dennis Quaid.

[47:34] And if that's the case,

[47:35] then who's playing Dennis

[47:36] Quaid?

Dan McCoy

[47:37] Dennis Quaid is being

[47:38] played by Alden Ehrenreich.

[47:40] Oh, okay.

[47:41] Uh, makes sense.

[47:42] Obvious choice for a young

[47:44] But they're, they're

[47:45] bringing him in, uh,

[47:47] yeah, they, the people

[47:49] thought they're like,

[47:50] oh, they saw

[47:50] interspace.

[47:51] They thought that Dennis

[47:52] Quaid could help.

[47:53] They don't understand.

[47:55] Um, they only understand

[47:57] science.

[47:57] They don't understand how

[47:58] stories work.

[47:59] Okay.

[47:59] And so this is young

Elliott Kalan

[48:01] So it's like him right

[48:01] after interspace came out.

[48:04] This isn't like movie 43

Dan McCoy

[48:07] No.

[48:07] Or movie 45 Dennis

[48:09] Quaid.

[48:10] Do you think,

[48:10] which is just his 45th

[48:12] movie and not movie 43.

Stuart Wellington

[48:13] Do you think Dennis Quaid

[48:14] and Robert Picardo

[48:15] hung out a lot when

[48:16] they were making, uh,

[48:18] interspace?

[48:19] I mean, I hope so.

Elliott Kalan

[48:20] I mean, the fact that

[48:21] they were known as

[48:21] Pacuado around the set,

[48:23] I think, I think

[48:24] makes it pretty clear.

[48:25] Yeah.

[48:27] I mean, the only person

[48:28] who was closer to

[48:28] Dennis Quaid was

[48:29] probably Quado.

[48:30] And that's why,

[48:31] that's why he's calling

[48:32] for Quaid in the movie

[48:33] Total Recall.

[48:33] You know?

Stuart Wellington

[48:35] They had to change the

[48:36] script because it

Dan McCoy

[48:37] didn't make sense.

[48:38] When you said Pacuado

[48:38] and it sounded like

[48:39] Quado, I was trying

[48:42] to get there, Elliot,

[48:43] because I knew

[48:43] that there was a

[48:44] Quaid in that movie

[48:46] and, uh, yeah,

[48:48] the fact that we both

[48:49] got there because of

[48:51] a slight similarity

[48:53] in sounds.

[48:54] Do you think, uh,

Stuart Wellington

[48:55] do you think, uh,

[48:58] do you think Quado's

[48:58] mad that Watto

[48:59] is so popular?

[49:00] Do you think

[49:00] Griffin Newman should

[49:01] have, uh,

[49:02] that his older brother

[49:02] Watto?

Elliott Kalan

[49:04] Yeah.

[49:04] Because they're brothers.

[49:05] I guess his younger

[49:05] brother Watto.

[49:06] Yeah.

[49:07] Well, you have to

[49:07] imagine, he's like,

[49:09] you have to imagine

[49:09] Quado is like,

[49:10] I know they wanted me

[49:11] for that role

[49:12] and there was

[49:12] probably a typo

[49:13] on the call sheet

[49:13] and they ended up

[49:14] with Watto, that hack.

[49:16] Instead, they could

[49:16] have had Quado.

[49:17] That would have

[49:18] been the renaissance.

[49:19] Dan, there's a bit

[49:20] that, um, uh,

[49:21] that, uh, our

[49:21] mutual friend,

[49:22] Eric Marsazak

[49:23] and I used to do,

[49:23] uh, who, uh,

[49:25] he's the one

[49:25] whose comedy theater

[49:26] is where we met,

[49:27] uh, you and I,

[49:28] where we used to do

[49:28] where, uh,

[49:29] where, where Quado

[49:30] was a Hollywood

[49:31] casting agent

[49:32] and it was always,

[49:34] it was always pitching

[49:35] Dennis Quaid

[49:36] for every role

[49:37] and they'd be like,

[49:38] they'd say, uh,

[49:39] so who, who do we

[49:40] think of, uh,

[49:41] Quado, uh,

[49:41] you have an idea?

[49:42] Please stand up

[49:43] so we can see Quado

[49:43] because he,

[49:44] Quado would be sitting,

[49:45] his host body

[49:46] would be sitting down

[49:47] at a conference table.

[49:49] So, uh,

[49:49] could you please

[49:49] stand up

[49:50] so we can see Quado?

[49:51] Uh, Quado,

[49:51] who do you think

[49:52] would be right

[49:52] for this role?

[49:54] Quade.

[49:56] It's unorthodox

[49:57] for the Clara Barton

[49:57] story, but yeah,

[49:58] okay, let's give

[49:59] Randy Quaid a call.

[50:00] No, no,

[50:02] Okay, you gotta be

[50:03] more specific.

[50:03] You can't just say

[50:04] Quaid.

[50:05] Yeah.

[50:06] So, Stuart,

[50:06] any video games

[50:07] you would like to see

[50:08] made into movies?

Stuart Wellington

[50:09] Yeah, I mean,

[50:10] again, we're gonna go

[50:11] a little old school

[50:12] with this.

[50:12] I'm gonna say

[50:13] Ghosts and Goblins.

[50:15] Uh, you got a great

[50:16] hero, Arthur,

[50:17] the little knight guy.

[50:18] He's got a ton

[50:19] of cool weapons,

[50:20] so man,

[50:20] that's gonna look great.

[50:22] Uh, there's all kinds

[50:23] of spooky monsters.

[50:25] You guys know me.

[50:26] I like spooky monsters.

[50:27] And also,

[50:28] you can have that

[50:29] running gag

[50:30] where he keeps getting

[50:30] hit and his armor

[50:31] falls off and he's

[50:32] just wearing little

[50:33] boxer shorts.

Dan McCoy

[50:34] Yeah.

[50:34] I mean, that does

[50:35] sound really fun.

[50:36] Yeah.

[50:36] I would love that

[50:37] because if you make

[50:38] it into a movie,

[50:39] maybe I will see

[50:40] more than, like,

[50:41] the first level

[50:42] of Ghosts and Goblins.

[50:44] It's fucking hard.

Elliott Kalan

[50:45] I mean, it's kind of,

[50:46] it's why they need

[50:47] to release a Dragon's Lair

[50:48] movie because there's

[50:49] no way to see the rest

[50:50] of the animation in that.

[50:51] Yeah, you can.

[50:52] You can just go on

[50:53] YouTube.

[50:53] It's available.

[50:53] Oh, it's all there.

[50:54] Oh, okay.

[50:54] Yeah, it's great.

[50:55] And in case you're

[50:57] wondering from me,

[50:58] I know they've tried

[50:59] to develop it

[50:59] in the past couple

[51:00] years, but I've always

[51:01] been wondering why

[51:01] they didn't try to

[51:01] make a Mega Man movie

[51:02] before now.

[51:04] Mega Man is like,

[51:05] he's such a cool

[51:06] little character guy

[51:07] and his world is so

[51:09] full of different

[51:10] types of robots

[51:11] and things.

[51:12] Yeah.

[51:12] And I love the old,

Stuart Wellington

[51:13] I love the old box art

[51:14] where they tried to

[51:15] make him look more

[51:16] like a human

[51:17] and it always looks

[51:18] fucking crazy.

[51:20] Yeah, it looks bizarre

Elliott Kalan

[51:21] because that character

[51:22] looks, makes sense

[51:23] as a little cartoon

[51:24] guy with no nose,

[51:25] but he does not

[51:26] make sense as a,

[51:27] as a real dude

[51:28] wearing like that

[51:30] weird blue outfit.

[51:31] Yeah, like it's like

Stuart Wellington

[51:32] if they like made a

[51:33] human kid dress up

[51:34] and look exactly like

[51:35] Astro Boy,

[51:36] you'd be like,

[51:37] no, no, no thank you.

[51:39] You'd like put some

Elliott Kalan

[51:40] pants on that child.

[51:41] Yeah.

[51:42] Why is his hair,

[51:43] is it like Bob's big boy?

[51:45] If that was an actual

[51:45] kid, you'd be like,

[51:46] no, I don't think so.

[51:49] But the,

[51:49] and also because Mega Man 2,

[51:51] I still,

[51:51] I still say has,

[51:52] at least for that era,

[51:53] has the best soundtrack

[51:54] of, uh,

[51:55] Yeah, it's a great game.

[51:56] He's got great music.

[51:57] It's a great game.

[51:57] Mega Man 2.

[51:58] Mega Man.

[51:59] Yes, he was called

[52:00] Rock Man in Japan.

[52:01] I know, Dan.

Dan McCoy

[52:03] No, no, no.

[52:04] He fights a bunch of,

[52:05] uh, he fights a bunch

[52:06] of robots,

[52:07] but he's not a robot

[52:08] himself because at the

[52:09] end he like,

[52:11] right?

[52:11] Because at the end,

[52:12] like when he's walking

[52:13] home, he takes off

[52:14] his helmet and like

[52:16] leaves it at the,

Elliott Kalan

[52:16] He's like a cyborg.

[52:18] He, you know,

[52:18] he does have a,

[52:19] he does have a laser

[52:20] cannon for a hand,

[52:21] you know, so.

[52:21] Okay.

[52:21] I believe,

[52:22] because it's Dr.

[52:23] what, Light?

[52:24] Dr. Bright?

[52:25] Dr. Light, yeah.

[52:26] Dr. Light Bright.

[52:27] Dr. Light Bright.

Dan McCoy

[52:28] He uses Light Bright to

[52:29] take over the world.

Elliott Kalan

[52:31] He's like,

[52:31] I've got a lot to tell you,

[52:32] but hold on a second,

[52:32] I gotta plant all these

[52:33] little bulbs.

[52:35] Mm-hmm.

Dan McCoy

[52:36] Here, let me put this

[52:37] black construction paper

[52:39] over first, so.

Elliott Kalan

[52:40] It's real loud,

[52:41] but I don't know why

[52:41] you don't just tell me,

[52:42] because this is how I

[52:43] communicate.

[52:43] This is my love language,

[52:44] is Light Bright.

[52:46] So, anyway,

[52:47] you, uh,

[52:48] those questions are deemed,

[52:49] uh, suitable,

[52:51] and Satan goes,

[52:52] no!

[52:52] No!

[52:54] And, uh,

[52:55] falls to the ground,

[52:56] revealing

[52:57] the governor's niece,

[52:59] uh,

[52:59] and she says,

[53:01] thank you,

[53:02] Flop Dudes!

[53:03] And you,

[53:03] and you both high-five,

[53:05] and this is an animated

[53:06] cutscene where you high-five,

[53:07] uh,

[53:08] and then there's a,

[53:09] one of those things

[53:09] where, like,

[53:10] you guys are standing

[53:11] on a mountaintop,

[53:12] and the camera's

[53:13] panning past,

[53:14] and then,

[53:14] and each background,

[53:15] there's like a couple

[53:15] different layers of

[53:16] backgrounds,

[53:17] they're all moving

[53:17] at slightly different speeds,

[53:19] so it looks real cool

[53:20] and three-dimensional,

[53:20] uh,

[53:21] and it says,

[53:23] Flop Dudes will be back

[53:24] in Flop Dudes 3,

[53:25] Mountain Town.

Stuart Wellington

[53:27] Oh, okay,

[53:28] cool,

[53:28] you know,

[53:29] something to look forward to.

Elliott Kalan

[53:30] Yeah,

[53:30] it's,

[53:31] it's the one where

[53:31] you're fighting bad guys

[53:32] at Mohonk.

[53:33] Oh, wow,

[53:34] man,

[53:35] that's an expensive game.

[53:38] Yeah,

[53:38] well,

[53:38] because the meals

[53:39] are included.

[53:39] Yeah.

[53:40] Uh,

[53:41] so guys,

[53:42] do you have any final thoughts

[53:43] about video games

[53:44] or video game movies,

[53:45] uh,

[53:46] that you would like

[53:47] to mention before we,

[53:48] while the credits are rolling?

[53:49] You know those long credits

[53:50] at the end of video games

[53:51] where it's a lot of names

[53:51] that you don't know

[53:53] because there's all

[53:53] the different coders

[53:54] and stuff,

[53:55] you know?

Stuart Wellington

[53:55] I have a video game,

[53:56] I have a question,

[53:57] not a video,

[53:58] yeah,

[53:58] I got a video game question.

[53:59] How did I get past

[54:00] this boss?

[54:01] Uh,

[54:01] now,

[54:02] guys,

[54:03] we've,

[54:03] uh,

[54:04] we just answered the question

[54:05] what video game

[54:07] should be turned into a movie.

[54:08] What movie should be turned

[54:10] into a video game?

Elliott Kalan

[54:12] Oh,

[54:12] that's a great idea.

[54:15] Um,

[54:16] what video game would,

[54:18] well,

[54:18] what movie would make

[54:20] a great video game?

[54:23] Um,

[54:24] I think I'm gonna say

[54:25] the Sparks Brothers.

[54:27] So,

[54:28] uh,

[54:28] wow,

[54:29] okay.

[54:29] Uh,

[54:29] Annette,

[54:30] is that the,

[54:31] is that the movie

[54:31] you're talking about?

[54:32] No,

[54:32] not Annette,

[54:32] the movie written by Sparks.

[54:34] I'm talking about the documentary,

[54:35] the Sparks Brothers,

[54:36] that Edgar Wright made,

[54:37] and you are,

[54:38] you get to choose to be either Ron

[54:39] or Russell Mayle,

[54:40] and it's,

[54:41] each level is you creating

[54:43] a different album,

[54:44] and then trying to capture

[54:46] the sound that people

[54:47] will be listening to

[54:48] 10 to 15 years in the future,

[54:51] uh,

[54:51] because they're always

[54:53] a little ahead of their time.

[54:55] So I think,

[54:55] yeah,

[54:55] that's the movie I would,

[54:56] that's the new movie

[54:56] I would turn into it.

[54:57] Um,

[54:58] if I'm looking for an older movie

[54:59] to turn into a video game,

[55:01] um,

[55:02] I think probably like

[55:03] a Citizen Kane game

[55:04] where you're like,

[55:04] you gotta throw newspapers

[55:05] at things,

[55:06] and you're like jumping over sleds,

[55:07] you know,

[55:08] real,

[55:08] real SNES side scroller stuff.

[55:10] Yeah,

[55:10] yeah.

[55:11] Uh-huh.

Dan McCoy

[55:12] And,

[55:12] uh,

[55:13] I think they should turn,

[55:14] um,

[55:16] Eraserhead into,

[55:17] like a,

[55:18] like a fatherhood simulator.

[55:20] Hey,

[55:21] it's parallax action.

[55:23] Parallax action.

[55:24] I,

[55:24] I knew I knew what it was

[55:26] that you're describing.

[55:26] Oh,

[55:26] for the moving background stuff.

[55:27] Yeah,

[55:28] yeah.

[55:28] Oh,

[55:28] okay.

[55:28] Yeah,

[55:29] like if you have,

[55:29] like,

[55:29] a multi-plane camera

[55:31] in,

[55:31] like,

[55:32] animated films.

[55:32] Like they used to do

[55:32] in old Popeye cartoons.

[55:33] Yeah.

[55:34] You have parallax.

[55:35] And obviously,

[55:35] guys,

Stuart Wellington

[55:36] I'm gonna say,

[55:37] I think the movie

[55:38] that should be turned

[55:39] into a video game,

[55:40] of course,

[55:40] is Royal Tenenbaum

[55:41] should be a fighting game,

[55:43] uh,

[55:44] where you get to pick

[55:45] your fighter

[55:46] and they have all kinds

[55:46] of moves and finishers

[55:48] and maybe x-ray attacks

[55:49] and all kinds of

Elliott Kalan

[55:50] Oh,

[55:50] yeah,

[55:50] you could do that

[55:51] with Knives Out,

[55:51] too.

[55:52] Knives Out would be

[55:52] a good fighting game.

Stuart Wellington

[55:53] Knives Out,

[55:53] that would probably

[55:54] even be better.

[55:56] There's,

[55:56] there's this great level

[55:57] in fucking Hitman 3

[55:58] where you're basically

[55:59] playing through a Knives Out.

[56:00] It's fucking awesome.

[56:01] You're playing through

[56:02] a Knives Out?

[56:03] Yeah,

[56:03] you're doing a Knives Out.

[56:06] But you're Agent 47,

[56:07] you can knock out

[56:08] the fucking,

[56:09] uh,

[56:09] like,

[56:10] world,

[56:10] like,

[56:11] uh,

[56:11] world famous

[56:12] fucking inspector.

[56:13] Now I so wish that

[56:14] You can knock his ass out

[56:15] and put on his clothes

[56:15] and then pretend to be him

[56:16] and do your own

[56:17] little Knives Out

[56:18] and it fucking rules.

Elliott Kalan

[56:19] I so wish that

[56:20] Knives Out now

[56:21] had come out in 1989

[56:22] and there was a tie-in

[56:23] single that played

[56:24] during the credits

[56:25] called

[56:25] Doing a Knives Out.

[56:27] That would have been great.

[56:27] Yeah.

[56:30] We're doing a Knives Out

[56:31] tonight.

[56:32] That kind of thing.

[56:33] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[56:33] Where, like,

[56:34] years later

[56:34] you hear the song

[56:35] and you're like,

[56:36] are they singing

[56:37] about Knives Out?

[56:39] The movie?

[56:39] Like,

[56:40] anytime you,

[56:41] it's like,

[56:41] anytime you hear

[56:42] that fucking

[56:42] Tina Turner song

[56:44] and you're like,

[56:44] did she just say

[56:45] Thunderdome?

Elliott Kalan

[56:47] And it's hard

[56:48] to hear the lyrics

[56:49] through all the drum machines.

[56:50] There's probably

[56:50] 10 or 11 drum machines.

[56:51] But yeah,

[56:51] when you hear it

[56:52] and it's like,

[56:53] it's like,

[56:53] Daniel Craig

[56:54] solving the case.

[56:54] You're like,

[56:55] wait,

[56:55] so they're talking

[56:56] about the actors?

[56:57] Hold on.

[56:58] That's weird, yeah.

[56:59] Because I forgot

[56:59] the name of the character,

[57:00] Beauregard Louisville

[57:01] or something like that.

Stuart Wellington

[57:02] Yeah,

[57:03] Poghorn Leghorn II.

Elliott Kalan

[57:07] Well, guys,

[57:08] thanks so much.

[57:09] Beauregard Louisville.

[57:11] Thanks so much

[57:12] for playing

[57:12] Flop Dudes 2

[57:13] Streets of Dragons

[57:14] for the NES

[57:15] and Sega Master System.

[57:18] I will remind you

[57:19] that the Flophouse

[57:20] virtual live show,

[57:21] not virtually live,

[57:22] it will be live,

[57:23] remote,

[57:23] is September 25th.

[57:25] That's at 9 p.m.

[57:26] Eastern Time,

[57:26] 6 p.m. Pacific.

[57:28] Google SimpleTix

[57:29] Flophouse

[57:29] Super Mario Bros.

[57:30] and I'll remind you

[57:31] that even if you

[57:32] can't make it

[57:33] on September 25th

[57:34] where you live

[57:34] in a place

[57:35] where that time

[57:36] is not doable

[57:37] because it's

[57:38] the middle of the night,

[57:39] buying a ticket

[57:39] gets you one week

[57:40] of access

[57:41] to the recording

[57:42] of the show

[57:43] so you will get

[57:44] to enjoy it

[57:44] and after that

[57:46] the show will

[57:46] disappear

[57:47] just a beautiful dream,

[57:49] more beautiful

[57:50] for its limited time

[57:51] on this earth

[57:51] and for its existing

[57:53] only as a memory.

[57:55] But if you watch it

[57:56] when it's actually airing

[57:57] then you'll be able

[57:57] to ask questions

[57:58] on Twitter

[57:58] that we can answer

[57:59] and stuff like that

[57:59] and it'll be real fun.

[58:00] We'll be talking

[58:01] about Super Mario Bros.

[58:02] and I have a

[58:03] fairly stupid

[58:04] presentation lined up.

[58:06] Not as stupid

[58:07] necessarily as this one

[58:08] but as this episode

[58:10] but I can't wait

[58:11] to see what these dudes

[58:12] have lined up for it.

[58:13] So guys, thanks again.

[58:17] For the Flophouse,

[58:18] I've been Elliot Kalen.

[58:20] I've been Dan McCoy.

Stuart Wellington

[58:22] And bringing up the rear,

Elliott Kalan

[58:23] it's me, Stuart Wellington.

[58:25] Saying,

[58:27] play nicely

[58:28] but play often.

[58:29] I'm trying out new

[58:30] video game slogans.

[58:31] Is that one good?

Stuart Wellington

[58:33] Uh,

[58:34] I just got a text message

[58:35] from PlayStation.

[58:36] They said,

[58:37] cease and desist.

Elliott Kalan

[58:38] Oh boy.

[58:39] Well,

[58:39] I'll think of something else.

[58:40] Alex put in some

[58:41] 8-bit video game ending music.

[58:42] Bye!

FH Mini #37 - 8-Bit Flop House

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