No, it was specifically made for the movie and almost bankrupt the movies budget. thats why everything else is so cheap.
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No, the Bishop of Battle was not a real game.
But what about the video game that was used in the start of the short movie in which JJ Cooney hustled a Hispanic man over? That was a Space Invaders-like game and I'm sure that was a real video game. What was that game called?
Back in 2006, someone started to work on a fan-made version of Bishop of Battle, but sadly he never finished it.
He does have a non-interactive demo that can be downloaded from his site at the bottom of the page:
http://www.roguesynapse.com/games/bishop_of_battle.php
How did the game almost bankrupt the film when these segments were made for the tv show Darkroom?
sharePretty sure that guy was joking about the cheesy 80s graphics of this segment nearly bankrupting the entire production
or maybe not lol http://www.amazon.com/Attack-The-Pepperoni-Monsters-ebook/dp/B00C4GFK0 8
I heard a kid in Jersey got to level 13, twice.
Sadly, I have to admit I based my entire 80's look on Emilio Estaves, right down to buying a pretty expensive Walkman and blowing about 800 bucks in quarters trying to beat Vanguard. I found that listing to that era's punk scene drowned out all the other games, either that or I had ADD.
Interesting.
sharePretty sure that guy was joking about the cheesy 80s graphics of this segment nearly bankrupting the entire production.
@stell1837 - the videogame that he attempted the hustle on was "Pleiads" - yes, that one was a real arcade game by Centuri, 1980.
shareThe "Bishop of Battle" game is like a mash-up of several videogames that were around in early 80s.
The "I am the Bishop of Battle ..." speech is straight out of a maze/shooter game called "Wizard of Wor" (1981) - that machine was one of the first to have speech synthesis and would "taunt" the player with lines like "Come back for more ... with the Wizard of Wor, Ha Ha Ha!" etc.
"Bishop of Battle" ... "Wizard of Wor" - not very subtle referencing.
The game itelf most closely resembles a cross between a couple of Vectrex games: "Armor Attack" and the Vectrex version of "Berzerk" (both 1982). There's probably a bit of "Tempest" (1981) in there too. Vector (line) graphics were hot at the time because they could deliver "3D" effects like rotation and zoom - which were positively jaw-dropping effects back in the early 80s!
The Bishop himself is like the wire-frame MCP seen in the TRON movie. In fact the whole "going into the game" concept is a fairly obvious riff on TRON, which was (of course) released only the year before "Nightmares"...
Cool.
shareThanks ghostgate. Interesting post.
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