the most AMAZING thing
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Holy crap! Someone who actually remember this game!My favorate C64 game. In fact, almost all my sci-fi stories I make are based on the universe in that game. The one little game sparked my science-fiction imaginatiob.
Sadly, I never completed the game mostly because the Commodore loaded so slowly. However, I did read the short story that came with it, which was marvelous. The furthest I ever got was visiting villages. Every year or so, I look around for a Commodore 64 emulator which includes that game but I've never found anything. I would love to play that game again.
I'm trying to make a 1/6th scale figure of old man Smoke, and a few other of my own characters I made.
There are some emulaators around, yes. I think this game could do awesome if redone for the modern gaming consoles/PC's.
I might just make a thread of my own 'Expanded Insearch of the Most Amazing Thing' universe.
Other games of C64 I remember were Agent USA to the Rescue, Spy's Adventure in North America, Word Diver, the Windham Classics, Geos, and BAD Sega ports.
Inside the vast Krell machine and the monsters from the Id in "Forbidden Planet" (1956).
The TARDIS being larger on the inside than it appears on the outside in the first "Doctor Who" serial "An Unearthly Child" (1963).
The disintegrator-integrator (teleporter) in "The Fly" (1958).
Most everything in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968).
The TARDIS being larger on the inside than it appears on the outside in the first "Doctor Who" serial "An Unearthly Child" (1963).
The disintegrator-integrator (teleporter) in "The Fly" (1958).
Most everything in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968).
The dogfighting over the Death Star in Return of the Jedi. It still holds up today, even without any spangly CGI work. Someone once described it as the closest to a truely 3D fight in space yet.
Other than that, the ceti eel larvae from Wrath of Khan, ewwwww....
Other than that, the ceti eel larvae from Wrath of Khan, ewwwww....
My early epic shot memories are SW tainted
Star Wars... The opening Star Destroyer shot - what else?
The Empire Strikes back... The 3 Star Destroyers almost colliding with each other as the chase the Millenium Falcon.
For me it was seeing the lightsabers for the first time. Of course, I WAS only seven.
RobertScorpio
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My early epic shot memories are SW tainted
Star Wars... The opening Star Destroyer shot - what else?
The Empire Strikes back... The 3 Star Destroyers almost colliding with each other as the chase the Millenium Falcon.
For me it was seeing the lightsabers for the first time. Of course, I WAS only seven.
Yeah, star wars had a lot of those great AMAZING moments. For me it was the dog fight in the falcon with Luke and Han..
Rob
From recent cinema, the shot in Transformers when Optimus Prime first appears, modulating in truck mode, on the hill, as the other truck drives off screen right.
The movie ALIENS. Saw it at six-years-old, and it still holds up as the best movie of all time for me.
Another vote for the Drydock & V'Ger Fly-over sequences in TMP.
But I just re-watched Forbidden Planet for the first time since I was little, this time on DVD (what a difference widescreen and no commercials makes!), and my jaw was scraping the floor over how good it looked for its time!
The special effects by the "Man from Disney", especially.
One particular sequence had me going over it frame-by-frame: The scene where Robby deactivates the blasters of the Captain & Doc...
These are the most beautiful damn energy beams I've ever seen committed to film!
Not only the ringlets sliding smoothly along the beams and expanding/contracting, but also the tracking of the actors' hand movements!
I remember watching TOS, and noticing how a phaser beam was always locked in one position onscreen, so when an actor couldn't keep his hand perfectly steady it looked kinda silly.
But I just re-watched Forbidden Planet for the first time since I was little, this time on DVD (what a difference widescreen and no commercials makes!), and my jaw was scraping the floor over how good it looked for its time!
The special effects by the "Man from Disney", especially.
One particular sequence had me going over it frame-by-frame: The scene where Robby deactivates the blasters of the Captain & Doc...
These are the most beautiful damn energy beams I've ever seen committed to film!
Not only the ringlets sliding smoothly along the beams and expanding/contracting, but also the tracking of the actors' hand movements!
I remember watching TOS, and noticing how a phaser beam was always locked in one position onscreen, so when an actor couldn't keep his hand perfectly steady it looked kinda silly.
The scene in Transformers where Sam and Mikaela meet the Autobots, who transform to robot mode right in front of them.
From age 10 & under? 3 things...
Flying Delorean
Hoverboards
Lightning bolt at the clock tower
Plus, the build up to the finale of Part II is one of the most exciting things in the history of cinema for me.
"He's alive! The Doc's alive! He's in the old west but he's alive!"
"Wait, kid, where are you going? Do you need any help?"
"There's only one man who can help me."
[...]
"Relax Doc. It's me. It's me. It's Marty."
"No. It can't be. I just sent you back to the future."
"Oh, I know, you did send me back to the future but I'm back. I'm back from the future."
"Great scott!"
Flying Delorean
Hoverboards
Lightning bolt at the clock tower
Plus, the build up to the finale of Part II is one of the most exciting things in the history of cinema for me.
"He's alive! The Doc's alive! He's in the old west but he's alive!"
"Wait, kid, where are you going? Do you need any help?"
"There's only one man who can help me."
[...]
"Relax Doc. It's me. It's me. It's Marty."
"No. It can't be. I just sent you back to the future."
"Oh, I know, you did send me back to the future but I'm back. I'm back from the future."
"Great scott!"
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