Anybody remember the video game Joust? Yeah, me neither. But apparently they’re making a movie based on it.
Seriously, I think anything can get greenlit into a movie deal, as long as the studio already owns it in some other format.
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I remember Joust. One of my favorite games to have my brother kick my ass at when I was a kid. I also seem to remember that it’s kind of low on plot, being one of those pre-NES games with the vaguely-shaped-like-something blobs.
This is a joke, right? Like Minesweeper: The Movie? No? Ho-lee…
Holy crap! Joust was one of my favorites, right after Dig Dug!
You ride a big chicken and you try to sit on other big chickens and capture the eggs they lay! At least, that’s what it looked like on the Atari 2600. The coin-op looked much better.
I would pay money to pan this film.
Joust was pretty awsome on the Atari. Not that it made a whole lot of sense, at all. I mean, does the damn pteradectile come swooping in mid-movie and eat all the lead actors? Do the survivors get pulled down into the lava by that hand? It’s a fun game, but how do you make anything coherant out it?
I loved Joust as a kid. But this whole let’s-make-a-movie-out-of-a-video-game thing is getting ridiculous.
Halfway through the movie they take the cartridge out and blow on it.
I never was one for Joust — I was more of a Defender kid myself.
But I’d rather see the Dig Dug and Galaga movies.
Okay, so apparently people do remember Joust. That still doesn’t make a movie version a good idea.
I’m pretty sure Joust had absolutely no storyline whatsoever.
It would be marketing stupidity to not release a new Joust game alongside the movie.
However, the game will probably be based off the movie.. which is based off the game..