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#237359
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From T-Bone...
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I honestly can't think of any other practical way Howard could have been done live action in 1986. Man in a (duck) suit was really the only way to go. There was also a puppet used for some shots.
Howard's Marvel comic origin story was too convuluted to work as a movie, (in the pages of Man-Thing no less) but the movie could have used more of the zany villians and everyday loons Howard encountered in his daily life.http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a214/HarveyJerkwater/howardduckbutton.jpg
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#236725
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Was there an ESB arcade game?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236725/action/topic#236725
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Originally posted by: starkiller
Originally posted by: TheCassidy
Lucasarts needs to do a retro compilation, much like Midway, Capcom and Namco have done ad naseum.
Agreed.

I want Ballblaster!!

http://ekranownia.atari8.info/grafika/ekrany/gry/b/ballblaster_1.png

I would spend hours playing it on our Atari 800. If I had more time, I'd probably play it even now.


Did they rename it for some reason? It was always Ballblazer when I had the C-64 and Atari 7800 versions. Pity the 90's Playstation version bore little resemblance to it's namesake. Would be fun to play Rescue on Fractalus again too.

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#236689
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Snakes on a Plane
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236689/action/topic#236689
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I laughed! I cried! I kissed eight bucks goodbye! It's a big, goofy, no-apologies homage to the "Airport" disaster flicks of the 70's. (The ones "Airplane!" nailed the coffin shut on.) It's a crying shame George Kennedy was not approached to do a cameo! Even the Irwin Allen disaster movie laws of who lives and who dies are adhered to.
I'm fairly sure most movie critics won't "get it" though.
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#235968
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The VHS>DVD Business
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235968/action/topic#235968
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An industrial deck like the Panasonic AG-1980 would be a good investment, as it's built in TBC and video noise reduction can cope with all but the worst tapes. They are getting harder to find new though. Odds are if you stay in business long enough, somebody will approach you with a stack of Beta or 8mm videotapes. (When I was in college, people often came to the tv station seeking transfers to VHS, but we had to turn them away for some silly regulation! I could have started a business under the table had I been less innocent and more evil.)
I got a decent middle of the line Sony Betamax for off Ebay a couple hundred that works well enough for transfer purposes. You don't need the ultra-expensive high end Sony models with bells and whistles the collectors all chase. Avoid non-Sony manufactured betas like the plague! And don't bid on any Ebay auctions where the seller can't or won't test the deck they're selling. Sony did make 8mm decks, but a camcorder is probably easier to get at this point.
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#235909
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A Question to the Older Members
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235909/action/topic#235909
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I honestly don't recall seeing them until SW showed up on HBO in the early 80's. And when I did, I thought they were the TIE fighters deflector screens or something.
When the DC boxset was released on LD in 1993, there was one magazine article that mentioned the transfers were done at the corrrect "gamma levels", so the garbage mattes wouldn't show up as previous video transfers were done too bright. I don't think they were ever visible in the movie theatre. Video and film are different beasts after all.
I know from experience a movie theater can project a print too dark either through being careless, or a bulb that needs replacement, but could they also project too "hot" or bright as well? Steven Spielberg once made a comment about tweaking various print runs on Raiders(?) to cope with theater chains notorious for "bad projection".