The hell? Thats not a 360!

[Puppeteer Putin]

I remember watching scrubs and noticing that it was playing a loop of a single player campaign repeatedly every time someone played multiplayer. It's annoying, I mean how hard is it to game, all you have to do is spend ten minutes playing the tutorial, then you'd be able to actually play the game. It's just weird to see people button mashing or just randomly hitting buttons.

In scrubs the episode where Turk is playing a video game. they talk like it's halo but when they show it it looks like Far Cry.

Yeah they were playing Enemy Territory Quake Wars on 360, and they were saying "Get into that Warthog" and random lines that have nothing to do with the game. I have NO idea why but it annoyed the HELL out of me. Of course they wouldn't of gone into specifics because of potential copyright issues, but still.

 

[Saskwach]

You're right: that's not a 360. That's a space station.

(It was the first thing I thought when I saw the title. It had to be done - plus I finally had a relevant excuse to link to the Red Ring of Death Star.)

 

[Sennz0r]

In scrubs the episode where Turk is playing a video game. they talk like it's halo but when they show it it looks like Far Cry.

I was thinking about the exact same thing. He's also saying that he needs a partner to play it but when you look at the screen you can only see one person playing. No split screen or two characters or anything.

 

[PureChaos]

i've noticed a few
2 people were 'playing' a wii yet on the screen you could see the menu where you could select which channel (news channel, forecast ect)
someone was playing a GBA without a cartridge being in the GBA
on Lost, the kid was playing a GBA and said he needed new batteries even though the batteries in the GBA are fixed in and just need to be charged.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

gawd, I can't remember where I saw it, a TV movie, I think, (and hope), but was two kids button mashing, SNES controllers and a flash of the screen showed a FF7 cutscene.

What I can't understand, is , surely it'd be easier to just plug a current machine in and play a game? I mean, not actually play, I'm sure they have to 'step into the role' and can't have any distractions, but damn, just have a 2 player game on screen, if you're having 2 players playing, and if they're from a rich middle class family, have them using a current machine, not something from the 80s, because that's the only thing you have in your props department, hell, just ask your crew, there's probably 2 psp or ds's on set.

 

[TOO S0BER]

You're right: that's not a 360. That's a space station.

(It was the first thing I thought when I saw the title. It had to be done - plus I finally had a relevant excuse to link to the Red Ring of Death Star.)

Yes lol. It shoots its laser at a planet and fries all the ps3s lol

 

[Velios]

I just hate when directors say "take this controller, mash buttons, then yell. They will think you are playing video games just like the average youth!"

Haha, that always tends to push my buttons! God I hate when they do that! I mean really? Can't you they some proper info before they do these scenes?

Kid A: Use the super blaster!
-button mashing-
Kid B: I'm trying!!
-TV screen shows Super Mario Galaxy-

Oi...

 

[ioxles]

Anyone remember the Resident Evil episode of Spaced? That was awesome.

 

[Vortigar]

This isn't quite the same thing but it did frustrate me when i saw it. I believe it was the first series of heroes i was watching and the kid with the ability to repair/modify electronics just with the power of his mind and touch was playing on a Playstation 3. This was not a problem apart from the fact that the episode was set before the Playstations release. Okay, its not a major thing but, well, you know, people should just get these things right.

That bit is legendary. It the demo of Heavenly Sword that wouldn't come out for another month or so. It was actually quite accurate. Apart from the fact that he pushed a button in a quick time event before the prompt came up, so probably just taped footage from a developer playing, but ok, right controller, not smiling like a maniac or making wild gestures, just playing concentrated.

 

[Wargamer]

I think my all-time favourite was a guy playing "Gran Turismo" or some other driving game. What I found hilarious was that he put down the controller yet the game continued to play! Seriously, you could hear his car changing gear and everything! If I put the controller down during a game on GT (any of them), we all know what we'd hear....

MMMMMMMRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm *clunk*

That's the sound of a car free-wheeling from 180kph to 0, with the help of the wall. Even the Megadrive / SNES had racing games where you could HEAR the car slowing down, or at least crashing.

Oh, yeah, there was another one... Star Trek: Voyager.

Set in the past (year 2000 or thereabouts), it goes on about Janeway's ancestor. Some kid's playing on her laptop, and she mentions about using a flashbang on Level 8 or some other crap.

 

[rekabdarb]

I remember an article on this a few months back.

oh yeah theres that too, i forgot about adding that but i do remember a few movies who did that, said it was one game and ended up being another

can you link it?

no but umm if you look at charlies angel's (the remake first) after Drew fell down the hill, and runs up to a house, TWO kids are playing FF8... was like wtf mate (worse part is they weren't that far... no wonder why they thought 2 would work well ahaha)

 

[TheTemby]

there is a point to this tho, the fact that we can point these thing out really fast is kinda sad...now im not trying to be offencive here but seriously, does it really matter,the consoles are getting advertisement and advertisement is advertisment, doesnt need to be accurate, just needs to sell the console or game

 

[Wargamer]

there is a point to this tho, the fact that we can point these thing out really fast is kinda sad...now im not trying to be offencive here but seriously, does it really matter,the consoles are getting advertisement and advertisement is advertisment, doesnt need to be accurate, just needs to sell the console or game

No it isn't. It is no more sad than a Football fan pointing out the guy yelling "Go Liverpool!" is watching Everton vs Man City.

The fact is, most of the 'gaming' on TV is wrong. If people were driving round corners with no hands on the wheel, everyone would call bullshit. If people managed to microwave a bowl of pasta in 5 seconds without ever pushing any buttons on the Microwave, we'd call bullshit. However, TV-land still thinks being completely wrong on Videogames is okay.

And the idea that 'any advertisement is good' is just wrong. George Bush's legacy is one of a retard, because the whole world saw him as one; every time he opened his mouth, stupidity came out. Is that good press? No. Bush made the whole world hate America almost single-handedly. Better to have no press than bad press, I assure you.

 

[Ultimateslayer]

In Crank its especially weird, since the movie is supposed to be somewhat of a "videogame"-like movie or whatever.
But in one scene they are playing Pacman and it sounds like spaceinvaders or something similar.

 

[TheTemby]

there is a point to this tho, the fact that we can point these thing out really fast is kinda sad...now im not trying to be offencive here but seriously, does it really matter,the consoles are getting advertisement and advertisement is advertisment, doesnt need to be accurate, just needs to sell the console or game

No it isn't. It is no more sad than a Football fan pointing out the guy yelling "Go Liverpool!" is watching Everton vs Man City.

The fact is, most of the 'gaming' on TV is wrong. If people were driving round corners with no hands on the wheel, everyone would call bullshit. If people managed to microwave a bowl of pasta in 5 seconds without ever pushing any buttons on the Microwave, we'd call bullshit. However, TV-land still thinks being completely wrong on Videogames is okay.

And the idea that 'any advertisement is good' is just wrong. George Bush's legacy is one of a retard, because the whole world saw him as one; every time he opened his mouth, stupidity came out. Is that good press? No. Bush made the whole world hate America almost single-handedly. Better to have no press than bad press, I assure you.

Movie/TV companys have to get the gaming company to sign a form saying that "yes its ok to use our product in your TV show/Film" so really, they were ether trying to make themself stupid, trying to get some good adventisement out of it or make a shitload of cash

 

[jebussaves88]

In Scrubs, Turk was using a 360 controller to play a PS3 game which I can't remember the name of. I'm not entirely sure what game, but I'm fairly sure it was a PS3 one. Why bother with the mix up?

 

[Jamash]

I think my all-time favourite was a guy playing "Gran Turismo" or some other driving game. What I found hilarious was that he put down the controller yet the game continued to play! Seriously, you could hear his car changing gear and everything! If I put the controller down during a game on GT (any of them), we all know what we'd hear....

MMMMMMMRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm *clunk*

That's the sound of a car free-wheeling from 180kph to 0, with the help of the wall. Even the Megadrive / SNES had racing games where you could HEAR the car slowing down, or at least crashing.

I remember that, I think it was on Neighbours or some equally cheap and clueless program.

I remember noticing that exact same thing, and getting really annoyed and hung up on the stupidity of the sound effects, in the way only a gamer and Gran Turismo fan would.

Also on Neighbours, does anyone remember when a couple of characters got hooked on that game, DoomSlayer?
I don't know hat type of game it was exactly, but by the expressions on their face and the sounds coming from the TV, it seemed like the best game ever!

Furthermore, I still get annoyed by this when I watch Rumble In The Bronx.

Jackie Chan gives the disabled kid a Sega GameGear, but with no games.

The super annoying disabled kid then proceeds to play the shit out of it, accompanied by the "beeps and bloops" and ecstatic facial expressions, but with no fucking game in the cartridge slot!
The back of the GameGear is facing the camera and you can see that it blatantly doesn't have a game in it, yet the noises and the kid's face suggest he's playing the best game that never was.

It annoys me so much that, later on in the film when some hulking mercenary/mafia type guy picks the kid up out of his wheelchair, slaps him around and throws him across the room, I think:

"Ha, that's what you get for pretending (badly) to enjoy a inactive Gamegear, jerk!"

 

[Break]

The Big Bang Theory is a fairly meh show, but when it uses games, they don't pull crap like this. One guy was playing Mario 64 on an emulator on his laptop - mentioning how badly it compared to the real thing - and I was pleased to hear the actual pause sound whenever he stopped playing to talk. I think they might've been guilty of over-acting with the controllers, but at least they got a few basic things right.

Tho', getting pissed off about badly referenced games in TV is somewhat puerile, isn't it?

 

[MrGFunk]

(the Red Ring of Death Star.)

"That's no moon"

I prefer this (characters playing real videogames with the wrong controller/system) one hundred times more than characters playing some knocked out crap videogame that some production staff member threw together to save money and everyone in the film/tv show is acting like it's good.

I have no examples because I have stricken them from memory.