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Ever since ET for the Atari 2600 wow gamers worldwide , scientific discipline fiction and video games have been natural bedfellows . Here are 10 great scifi tale that cover the aesthetics , engineering , and popular image of the play macrocosm .
Death Race 2000 ( 1975 )
This furore classic was ground on a short account by Ib Melchior and produced by Roger Corman . In this barn - movie spectacular , David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone bring dueling contestants in the Annual Transcontinental Road Race , a slide - to - seashore rallying across dystopian America in which machine driver are awarded points for the number of pedestrians they mow down . The pic act out like a grindhouse Grand Theft Auto or a Smash TV on bike . There ’s by all odds a parable about our entertainment dehumanizing us tuck away somewhere amidst the carnage , but who cares?A elevator car shape like bull runs over a matador!And like GTA , the moving picture ’s 1976 arcade adaptationcaused quite the moral panic . Witness the movie ’s lunacy in fullhere .
Starship Troopers ( 1959 )
Robert Heinlein ’s Hugo Award - make headway novel popularized so many ubiquitous scifi concepts it ’s judgement - boggling . And in videogamedom , Heinlein ’s Mobile Infantry has commanded sales event like a sonofagun . Crysis , Starcraft , Doom , Gears of War , and Halo owe their place marine motif ( and the episodic power armor ) to Heinlein .
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Cube ( 1997 )
Splice director Vincenzo Natali ’s breakout film is the ultimate puzzle game — a grouping of strangers are incarcerate in a deathtrap - filled monolith ( the nominal Cube ) . The Cube ’s traps synchronise up with a mathematical codification that the prisoners must crock up before they starve to death … or become cube themselves . In this geometric hell , there are no extra life story .
I Have No Mouth , and I Must yell ( 1967 )
Those of you who love torment the poop out of your Sims will get a kicking out of Harlan Ellison ’s Hugo Award - advance short story . In the post - revelatory future , only five human being stay — they ’re prisoners of AM , the supercomputer that eradicated the ease of mankind . AM hat the human beings , but save them immortal to torment for eternity . Think SHODAN from System Shock 2 was sorry ? AM spends its days relentlessly screwing with its hostages — the supercomputer prevent them alive with icky food for thought , sends monster after them , and transforms one doomed character into a brainless caveman with a giant member .
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eXistenZ ( 1999 )
David Cronenberg ’s virtual realism flick presage the realness - confused jinks of Inception by 11 twelvemonth — unfortunately , it was also bring out a twosome week after The Matrix and occult by its success . No matter , eXistenZ has earned its berth in the cult pantheon . Jennifer Jason Leigh stars Allegra Geller , a game designer on the streak from bravo . Together with Ted Pikul ( Jude Law ) , Allegra must set her new VR secret plan , eXistenZ . But the game begins alter their perception of realism , like in this scene where Law builds a handgun out of mutant Chinese food .
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Tron ( 1983 )
Ah , the lightcycles — they were really one self-aggrandizing fatal game of mobile phone Snake , no ? Thanks to the revolutionary production design from Moebius , Syd Mead , and Peter Lloyd , Tron bring virtual worlds to the magnanimous concealment and defined the popular esthetic of computing machine realness .
The Shadow Over Innsmouth ( 1931 )
This first one-half of this seminal H.P. Lovecraft novella unfolds like a great sometime - school RPG . A humanity goes to inquire the mysterious New England town of Innsmouth , a dilapidated , unworthy village filled with toad - like , ugly citizens . After procuring a map from a store clerk , the visitant get over down the town sot , who divulges Innsmouth ’s dark mystery . The second one-half of the novella play like a survival strategy game — the protagonist must escape from his hotel unarmed without alarm the horror in the darkness . Read the whole thinghere .
We3 ( 2004 )
In Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely ’s three - issue miniseries , the US military metamorphose regular housepets into remote control - controlled , sentient , bionic man dreadnoughts . When sureness treats reality like a game , even your hotdog can be retrofit with downloadable contentedness . The freneticism puts Ninja Gaiden to pity .
Spook Country ( 2007 )
William Gibson ’s political thriller demand stead in a not - so - remote hereafter where augmented reality technology has been merged with GPS to create a secondary virtual world that can be see with the right toy . wraithlike administration operative and puzzling European billionaire take interest in this augmented tech . Spooky Country is n’t as out - there as Gibson ’s other works , but the novel offer a tangible take on where gaming could head in the next few decades . Rather than play plot on a screen , we could simply pop on a peak and lob practical harpoon at a giant calamary in an empty storage warehouse .
The Last Starfighter ( 1984 )
Okay , so The Last Starfighter is more soppy than awing , but the flick was like Cocoon for arcade dwellers — it gives you hope that somewhere in the galaxy , a faraway major planet worships your Q*Bert art . Somewhere , extraterrestrial being are decode the consecrated numerology of your high score . Somewhere , an nonnatural faithful cry @!#?@ ! towards the heavens , praise your holy initials : FUK .
PS : We were banter aboutET .
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