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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Fake 8-Bit Start Screens For B-Movie Games

As part of its recent "Photoshop Phriday" ritual, the Something Awful forum had its goons mocking up 8-bit start screens for schlock films, imagining an alternate reality in which video game companies avoided licensed titles based on blockbusters like E.T. and Jaws, putting their efforts towards adapting B-movies instead.

You can see over 20 mock-ups from the goons over at Something Awful, but I've also pasted two of my favorites from the bunch below. I've always wanted to play a Tombstone video game, just because Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in the film was so damn smooth:

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