Trigger Happy
Mar 26, 2020
3 minutes
STEVEN POOLE
here is a long and, let us charitably say, mixed history of videogames based on films and TV series. Notoriously, hundreds of thousands of unsold cartridges of Atari’s 1983 game were buried in the New Mexico desert, but people who grew up playing games in that decade will also recall some surprising successes. The 1986 home-computer game of James Cameron’s film Aliens, for example, cleverly foregrounded the horror of watching the remote biosensors of team members flatline
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