Re: Bizarre Vector Sighting (sorta)

It wasn't us that sold those games. I swear! Actuallly I don't know if that
version of DW was even filmed in Vancouver...

John :-#)#

At 06:13 AM 7/28/00, Noel Johnson wrote:
>Hello Gang,
>
>I was watching the movie "Fortress 2" (pickings at Blockbuster were pretty
>slim) last night, and I noticed the wierdest thing. During one scene in
>the movie, the lead star (Christopher Lambert) was playing chess with some
>Russian prisoners aboard the orbiting prison colony they were trapped in
>[fun stuff :-)]. The chess pieces were made of various spaceship
>"junk"... The queen chess piece had as it's crown the plastic tip off of
>a 19VLUP22 picture tube! I am positive as they showed a closeup of the
>piece, and I rewound the tape several times. As you know, that style of
>tip is very rare, and I have not seen any other picture tubes that used it
>(there are probably some). I hope the film crew didn't part out a Tempest
>for that prop!
>
>A more obvious sighting occured in the movie "Deathwish 4: The Crackdown"
>(1987) (I swear I didn't rent this one - I was scrolling through the
>channels one Saturday afternoon). There is a gun battle in an arcade and
>both a Tempest and Gravitar get "Uzi'd" (sadly). I kept hoping someone
>would administer CPR, but to no avail... :-( There were also several
>other games including Tron and Centipede.. I guess these games could be
>purchased pretty cheaply in '87 and would make cost-effective movie props.
>
>Noel
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