Genesis The Lawnmower Man (USA, Europe) SEGA Genesis

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• The Lawnmower Man (USA, Europe) SEGA Genesis
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[Alarond]

For a movie that is very loosely based on a Stephen King story, it hits a lot of the hallmarks that his stories tend to have. (Like a heavy religious character, a lot of emotional and physical abuse, hell The Shop from Firestarter is the company funding the VR experiments, etc.)

This movie is honestly way ahead of its time, when it comes to the VR stuff I mean.
My favorite quote from the movie is when Pierce Brosnan's wife interrupts him while he's chilling out in his basement playing on his headset.

"Falling... Flying.... Whats next? Fucking?"

Well... some eventually do fuck using it. But the girl gets fucked up.

 

[SamExists]

For a movie that is very loosely based on a Stephen King story, it hits a lot of the hallmarks that his stories tend to have. (Like a heavy religious character, a lot of emotional and physical abuse, hell The Shop from Firestarter is the company funding the VR experiments, etc.)

This movie is honestly way ahead of its time, when it comes to the VR stuff I mean.
My favorite quote from the movie is when Pierce Brosnan's wife interrupts him while he's chilling out in his basement playing on his headset.

"Falling... Flying.... Whats next? Fucking?"

 

[Darkbluesex25]

AAAAAAAHHHHHH WORTS BOXART

 

[JohnGetsuden]

HWABAG

 

[Alarond]

I remember the movie... and I remember this game, but I've never played it. Clearly I've never cared much about it If after more than 25 years emulating games, I've never tried it for a second, or at least... I don't remember.doing it. But I remember seeing its "3D" stages in the mid 90s and thinking "they seem very cool".
Unfortunately, the magazines and media of the moment never rated the game very high.

The movie, on the other hand, was amazing. The computer scenes, as well as the ones in the film "Disclosure", were simply amazing and seemed to be the future.

Lawnmower Man had a sequel, some years later. It was a COLOSSAL box-office bomb nobody remembers because it was really a BAD film. Apparently Pierce Brosnan, protagonist of the first film, dodged that bullet because he was filming Goldeneye, which in its turn, will immortalize him as "the face" of an extremely historical videogame (the movie, btw, was very successful, but it is just stupid as hell, an nobody cares anymore about it, sorry).

 

[starseeker300]

This is what happens if you play this game too much.
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He looks like hes about to say a slur

 

[TsookBoyAdvance]

I knew exactly what to do.

 

[kaiji]

GEM GEM GEM GEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jander]

Have you seen the Sega CD version? It's very strange compared to the Sega Genesis version, in my opinion.

 

[JustLooking123]

I have played this game! (though, haven't watched the movie!)
The gameplay is quite interesting!
It's really hard, but i enjoyed playing it!

 

[Scotty Scotty]

The movie is seriously a tonne of fun. Really cringe in an epic kinda way.

If your TV has motion smoothing, you absolutely need to turn it on. Honestly, it's good advice for most bad movies!

Yeah, I could imagine enabling a frame interpolation setting on your TV screen would really enhance the VR parts of the film.

 

[Barnminister]

The movie is seriously a tonne of fun. Really cringe in an epic kinda way.

If your TV has motion smoothing, you absolutely need to turn it on. Honestly, it's good advice for most bad movies!

 

[J.B’s rabbit den]

I made something glorious lads

 

[ShinnAsukaYESTaylorSwiftNO]

to think that there was actually a game based off of the origin of the Cobson soyjak....

 

[RetroMarsh]

No way... Is that what I think it is?

 

[Neo-Z]

Gemmy

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Actually effects in the movie were cool for its time (1992). And its narrative was not predictable at all. You definitely did not predict that one of characters would be able to control reality on such levels and be able to exist in a dematerialized form.
Plus the movie was introduction to VR technology/idea for the masses.

I understand the friendly point although the film could have been better but the concept of Virtual Reality is well devised at the time.

 

[molasar]

I honestly haven't played the game but I don't miss as much as in the original movie that aged badly both for its somewhat predictable narrative and some rather poor special effects for the time.

Actually effects in the movie were cool for its time (1992). And its narrative was not predictable at all. You definitely did not predict that one of characters would be able to control reality on such levels and be able to exist in a dematerialized form.
Plus the movie was introduction to VR technology/idea for the masses.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

I honestly haven't played the game but I don't miss as much as in the original movie that aged badly both for its somewhat predictable narrative and some rather poor special effects for the time but the idea of the concept of Virtual Reality was fine in its day as a prediction.

 

[bangpowboom]

Cobson

 

[Max]

 

[Scotty Scotty]

This game seems like a real hidden gem.

Sadly, it's not very good. However, the soundtrack and 3D effects during the "VR" stages are quite impressive; especially in this version due to the surprisingly smooth scrolling.

This version is missing a few things from the SNES version as well (Driving stage, music for that stage, the ability to play as the same character in co-op, and even has music during the credits... even though it's not a new track).

 

[Tengu Plant]

This game seems like a real hidden gem.

 

[JustCallMeConstantin]

This is what happens if you play this game too much.

 

[Tbest25]

Discovering this game was a giant wtf evening for me LOL

I had the same reaction right now lol. I didn't even know this was a game, i only saw the memes