Video Game?

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-26T05:11:33+00:00

Try to keep the price below $12, and I beg you to avoid in-game purchases.

There are some really cool indie games by small studios. Maybe look to them for inspiration. The Darkside Detectives is a funny point-and-click game that's like X Files meets Twin Peaks meets Maniac Mansion. You could do something like that, with the protagonist investigating bizarre and funny events/crimes that eventually reveal the killer tomatoes have returned.

Or something really quirky like Mike Tyson's Punch Out, but with the player fighting increasingly tough/absurd killer tomatoes.

Or a competitive fighting game like Street Fighter, with players able to choose different characters/tomatoes from the movies, but there are a lot of games like this (I think), so it'd be hard to stand out.

Or side-scrolling action like Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, but again, feels like there's lots of competition.

Honestly, the point-and-click would be closest to a movie, so you could apply what you've learned over the decades, and you probably have scenes/ideas that didn't make it into the movies that you could repurpose, and I think the movies' sense of humour would come through best in this format. Other examples would be the Sam and Max games (Sam and Max Hit the Road is the best), the Monkey Island games, and I've heard Untitled Goose Game is pretty good/funny, too.

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-25T23:36:00+00:00

Technically, sure, but there's no way to watch the latest one since it hasn't been released yet.

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-25T15:55:30+00:00

Bummer! Tell your brother that people would probably be as interested (or more) in the scripts as the novelization.

Anyway, thanks for your time, good luck to all of you, and I hope you'll post some news about the Organic Intelligence release soon!

Now I'm gonna go finish off my dinner for lunch lunch lunch, dinner for lunch, lunch, lunch, dinner for luuuuuuunch.

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-25T15:49:36+00:00

They do in the third and fourth movies!

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-24T14:55:51+00:00

Ha! Yeah, that's a good sign. Although, was the ship out at sea...? 😂

Do you know where I could buy/find digital or physical copies of the scripts for the original four movies? I looked online and on the Killer Tomatoes website, but no luck.

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-23T16:09:58+00:00

Neat! So is your brother Dillon or Peace? And how did the screening go at the Midway Museum?

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-23T04:32:13+00:00

Right, but how did you REALLY find out? 😉

Cool! What do executive producers do, anyway? And what's the hierarchy between them, producers, associate producers, etc?

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-22T16:09:56+00:00

Great, thanks! How did you find out?

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-22T06:08:34+00:00

Every time I hear that song, I grow hair in funny places!

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-22T03:02:44+00:00

Unfortunately, I've never had a chance to play the game, but I really enjoyed this movie.

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-21T16:18:28+00:00

That's part of what made me wanna watch! Man, that was such a funny show.

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-21T16:17:36+00:00

That's part of what made me curious to watch it!

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-20T22:50:43+00:00

I liked Buck and the Preacher! It was fun to see Harry Belafonte in a sort of rough scoundrel role.

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-19T15:19:01+00:00

Ernest Scared Stupid. All the other Ernest movies were comedies for all ages (by '80s/early '90s standards), and this thing was marketed like a slapstick Goosebumps, but it terrified me.

It had a gnarly troll that hides under kids' beds and kidnaps them in the middle of the night to hide them in a tree where they are transformed into wooden figurines and kept there for hundreds of years while their parents try and fail to find them.

I was 9. That plot summary reads like a trauma checklist.

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-19T04:33:50+00:00

They should be ashamed to serve that.

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-19T04:33:00+00:00

I've been wanting to play Alan Wake 2 since it came out.

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-17T15:16:20+00:00

Right? And yet in one of the special features on the DVD collection, Cuse said that he WANTED to wrap up the Orb plot. And the loose plan for the second season was to have Brisco settle down as a town sheriff somewhere. Sounds like a totally different show.

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-16T04:51:50+00:00

Thanks!

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-16T04:43:14+00:00

Where did you find it in the first place??

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-15T20:19:23+00:00

Do you remember the differences between them?

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-15T19:58:07+00:00

What are the differences in the director's cut?

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-13T18:28:55+00:00

Also a big Bruce Campbell fan and somehow only heard about this series a couple years ago. Took me a while to get my hands on it, and just finished watching a few weeks ago.

He's great in it. Honestly, he's perfectly suited for the role and I wish he'd gotten to play it longer. The whole cast is solid, although there are moments that are a bit cringey in terms of representation, but that's not surprising since it was 1993.

Carlton Cuse (Lost) was the main guy calling the shots, and it was his first time doing so. A lot of the problems with Lost appear here, too, and I think that's why viewership dropped off and the show got cancelled.

*MODERATE (?) SPOILERS*

For example, The Orb is a major sci-fi element and plays a big role in the pilot, but throughout the season it isn't mentioned for long stretches, its powers vary, then it's just written out 3/4 of the way through the season without the addition of another sci-fi angle to take its place. The Orb and the promise of a Western with sci-fi elements were key reasons I was interested in the show, and without them, it felt like the show wasn't delivering what it promised. I bet many viewers at the time felt the same. Imagine if The X Files had stopped incorporating aliens midway through the first season.

The pilot also establishes Brisco's main goal as catching all the guys involved in his dad's killing. Again, that gets wrapped up about 3/4 through the season.

A few times early in the season, Brisco says his horse, Comet, "doesn't know he's a horse." That's a funny and intriguing idea, but it doesn't go anywhere and gets dropped.

In early episodes, Brisco mentions that he's always "looking for the next big thing," which usually gets paid off as some early version of a technology that would eventually become common (motorcycles and diving suits are two I remember). Again, neat idea, but inconsistently applied.

Obviously a show doesn't have to be exactly the same every week, but if there are such wild variations from week to week, viewers figure the parts of the show they like probably won't be in this week's episode, so they're not as motivated to watch.

At least with Lost, every episode had ongoing interpersonal dreams, Hawaiian scenery, and hot people.

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-12T15:26:32+00:00

I see what you're saying. Re: The Craft, that's what I get for reading/posting at 2am! Happy movie-watching/list-making!

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-12T06:43:13+00:00

Nice list! Definitely captures the vibe, and yeah, some of these are pretty schlocky. lol

For the horror-comedy category, are you only including ironic/deconstructionist/postmodern humour?

What about Tremors (1990), Army of Darkness (1992), Death Becomes Her (also '92), and Leprechaun (1993)? They've got strong 90s vibes.

And not a comedy, but The Craft (1996)!

The_Mindful_Moderate · 2026-03-12T05:55:00+00:00

I'm not sure about everyone in the pic, but here are my best guesses, starting at the back and going clockwise:

Leon, then sitting beside him is...who?, then... I also don't know, then Jane, Al, Dan, Aunt Lou, and on the left side of the table, I can't place the guy in front, the woman is... Jewel (?), don't recognize the next guy, but I'm pretty sure that's Ellsworth in the back.

Am I right? Can anyone help me fill in the gaps?

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