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Do you remember when in TV shows in the 2000s they had to film someone playing a game and sometimes they just invented fake games, with wonky looking game footage that didn& #39;t really look like real playable games? This is a thread about real games that look like those fake games.
Let& #39;s start with Skull Cracker, this game has definitely that quality of "this is not a real game" to me, I think it& #39;s the mix of very poorly drawn animated graphics and the high resolution\color https://youtu.be/s937jGMZQTs ">https://youtu.be/s937jGMZQ...
SoulTrap is just too weird to be real, moving platforms, floating boxes, you have a gun and a full 3D body. This is clearly one of those fake game you see 5 seconds of footage of in a movie where producers barely knew what a videogame was https://youtu.be/W5zihwHwYgA ">https://youtu.be/W5zihwHwY...
Montezuma& #39;s Return gives me similar vibes to SoulTrap, the fact that you have levels called "Temple" with giant bouncing skulls and the game looks like poorly done CG makes it a perfect entry https://youtu.be/GyyYih9zHz8 ">https://youtu.be/GyyYih9zH...
Galapagos is a truly bizarre one, it really looks like something out of The Lawnmower Man, it& #39;s pure late 90s cyberspace and it& #39;s even weirder to play https://youtu.be/0Yt6rBk9vwg ">https://youtu.be/0Yt6rBk9v...
Assassin 2015 is a great entry, it has a terribly generic name like all those fake games often did and it uses a lot of prerendered graphics and FMV clips, it& #39;s basically what hollywood though games were after Doom, but it& #39;s an actual real game! https://youtu.be/OHhgjKaLHJw ">https://youtu.be/OHhgjKaLH...
bonus round: do you remember that golf game from The Simpsons? This is a bit cheating as that was clearly inspired by real PC games of that time, but I think Microsoft Golf 2.0 surpass it, managing to look even more boring: https://youtu.be/LD6HDua_CW0 ">https://youtu.be/LD6HDua_C...
wow people are enjoying my weird obsession with obscure and crappy games more than I though, you can follow me for more retrogaming oddities <3
ok another one! Who remembers the movie Grandma& #39;s Boy? That movie show a lot of clips from a videogame called Demonik, some are clearly CG, others look legit and turns out they actually used a real game that was under development https://youtu.be/0yjEXHhKHVo ">https://youtu.be/0yjEXHhKH...
For story reasons they made it look like a sort of 1 vs 1 fighting game and that doesn& #39;t seem to be the case, sadly the game never saw an actual release so it& #39;s cool that at least it got used in the movie https://youtu.be/y18h6J1RPdI ">https://youtu.be/y18h6J1RP...
also back in 1996 I remember being kind of pissed off that this game was not real, it was the best part of that movie (watch both clips!)
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wrapping up this thread with the best of them all, I present to you the Windows 95 Games Sampler Disc, it& #39;s not technically a game but it& #39;s interactive, and it showcases a lot of weird early windows games that could make this list too: https://youtu.be/TpTHVAUY48M ">https://youtu.be/TpTHVAUY4...
a great one I forgot that was mentioned in the comments, Virtual Hydlide. thanks to the heavy use of digitized footage this game looks more like if a tv troupe got the task of recreating an rpg for a tv show than a real game: https://youtu.be/r1U1A83FapQ ">https://youtu.be/r1U1A83Fa...
