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| Prepare Yourselves for Joust: The Movie |
| Published: August 27, 2007, 10:07 pm |
| Tags: Gamer Life, Games Industry, Midway, Cp Productions, Hollywood, Joust, Movie |
| classic arcade title, “Joust,” for the big screen. Cerenzie explains their reasoning: “Joust is an arcade game that’s as old as Pac-Man and has global awareness. We took one element of the game and the brand itself and built a whole new world around it for the film. The film is set 25 years in the future and includes a Las |
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| Goofy Old 'Joust' Video Game to Become Movie |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 4:02 pm |
| Tags: Graphic Novel, Graphicnovel, Joust, Midway, Script, Video Game, Videogame |
| video game adaptations. Joust centered on an ostrich-riding knight who would do battle with waves of bad guys on a series of platforms suspended over a pit of lava. It might have been simplistic, but is still considered one of the best by fans of classic arcade games. Released in 1982 by Williams Electronics for Midway Games, Joust has made |
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| Joust: The Movie? |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 5:07 am |
| Tags: Deals, Sci Fi Fantasy, Action Adventure, Video Game, Joust |
| on the 1982 arcade game Joust, from Midway Games. In the original game, the player takes the role of a knight with a lance, mounted on either an ostrich (player 1) or an emu (player 2), battling waves of computer-controlled enemy knights of different speed and agility levels, mounted on giant buzzards. The game’s screen was completely |
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| 'Joust' to Become Next Totally Awesome Video Game Adaptation |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 2:32 pm |
| Tags: Cinematical, Cp Productions, Joust, Midway Games, Movies, Video Game |
| you might want to know that Joust will be heading to the big screen. Yup, Variety says CP Prods. (headed by Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters) has decided to option Joust from Midway Games and make it their first project. "How about we do a nice, inexpensive drama for our first project?" "Nah, let's resurrect that 25 year-old video game -- |
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| Episode V: Xbox 360 Registration Rewards Strike Back |
| Published: October 4, 2007, 5:40 pm |
| Tags: Episode V, Joust, Microsoft, Robotron, Xbla, Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade |
| Live freebies in the form of Joust and Frogger? Well, a second batch of free Xbox Live Arcade game codes are going out to Xbox 360 owners who invested in the past year, signed up for Live and filled out a registration form. Our tipsters who recently registered have been getting the updated gratis games in their inboxes, netting themselves a |
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| Joust and Robotron Available for Free on Xbox Live |
| Published: October 5, 2007, 3:34 pm |
| Tags: Gamer Life, Microsoft, Arcade, Free, Joust, Robotron, Xbla, Xbox |
| Microsoft is now offering Joust and Robotron free of charge through Xbox Live Arcade. The offer is limited however to recent adopters of their system. In order to get these titles you’ll need to have bought an Xbox 360 in the past year, signed up for Xbox Live, and filled out a registration form on their website. After I read about this, |
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| Juicy: Joust 3D Cancelled, And Other "Secrets" |
| Published: October 23, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Deus Ex, Deus Ex 3, Joust, Juicy, Midway |
| early 2000's, and that this Joust screen is proof of the project's cancellation. Then you listed 17 other games, many confirmed since by Google searches, that existed, were canceled and no one knew the wiser...until you swam to shore. We'll put that list after the jump while we try not to cry again over Deus Ex 3. A.I. [arena fighting game based |
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| 'Spyro:' The Movie |
| Published: October 27, 2007, 11:32 am |
| Tags: Dr Doolittle, Dr Doolittle, Garfield, Joust, Playstation, Spyro |
| at least it's better than Joust. Variety reports that The Animation Picture Co. has optioned the rights to an animated big-screen version of the Vivendi platform game, Spyro the Dragon. The best-selling game (from a franchise that has earned over $50 million dollars over the years) centered on a winged purple dragon that suffered from the |
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| How Many 'Death Race' Points Do You Get for a Screenwriter? |
| Published: August 20, 2008, 5:46 pm |
| Tags: Cinematical, Deat Race 2000, Death Race, Deathrace, Deatrace2000, Joust, Lawsuits |
| that a copy of the script, Joust, was kept and worked into what seems to be a Death Race 2000 revamp -- one with at least 39 elements that are just like his refused screenplay.Is this why the film is darker, less campy, and with a lot less reported civilian casualties? Currently, Universal has declined to comment and there's no word on what |
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