Opening to Arcade (1993) - 1993 Screener VHS (ORIGINAL CGI VERSION)
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Synopsis: Alex Manning is a troubled suburban teenager. Her mother committed suicide and the school counselor feels that she has not dealt with her feelings properly. Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade" is being test marketed by a computer company CEO who is more than willing to hand out free samples of the home console version and hype up the game as if his job is depending on it, and it is. However, it soon becomes clear that the teenagers who play the game and lose are being imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villain "Arcade". And it gets worse when a virtual reality game begins to take over the minds of teenagers. The computer company felt it would be a good idea to use a boy's brain cells in order to make the game's villain more realistic. Instead, it made the game deadly. And so now Nick and Alex must enlist the help of the game's programmer and head to the video arcade for a final showdown with "Arcade" and his deadly virtual world.
Here's one that truly kicked off 2019!
In order:
0. Paramount Logo
1. Johnny Suede (1991) Video Spot/Teaser
2. Delicatessen (1991) Screener Promo
3. Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes Promo (Featuring The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of Four)
4. Arcade (The Original CGI Version) (1993) Trailer + Screener Promo
5. Cool World (1992) Trailer + Screener Promo
6. Hostage (1992) Trailer + Screener Promo
7. Paramount Logo
8. Full Moon's Videozone Bumper
9. Paramount Feature Presentation Bumper
10. Warning Screen
11. Paramount Pictures Logo
12. Full Moon Entertainment Logo
I believe this is the only release of the original CGI version of Arcade to surface on U.S. Soil, not counting imported VHS tapes. The FX were later redone because producer/Full Moon head honcho Charles Band had been issued a cease and desist order from Disney; the original version of the Skycycles resembled the cars from Tron. If Band didn't feature them so prominently in the trailer and other promotional stuff for the film, he would have released it as it was and Disney wouldn't have noticed and followed through with a lawsuit until sometime later.
Synopsis: Alex Manning is a troubled suburban teenager. Her mother committed suicide and the school counselor feels that she has not dealt with her feelings properly. Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade" is being test marketed by a computer company CEO who is more than willing to hand out free samples of the home console version and hype up the game as if his job is depending on it, and it is. However, it soon becomes clear that the teenagers who play the game and lose are being imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villain "Arcade". And it gets worse when a virtual reality game begins to take over the minds of teenagers. The computer company felt it would be a good idea to use a boy's brain cells in order to make the game's villain more realistic. Instead, it made the game deadly. And so now Nick and Alex must enlist the help of the game's programmer and head to the video arcade for a final showdown with "Arcade" and his deadly virtual world.
Here's one that truly kicked off 2019!
In order:
0. Paramount Logo
1. Johnny Suede (1991) Video Spot/Teaser
2. Delicatessen (1991) Screener Promo
3. Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes Promo (Featuring The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of Four)
4. Arcade (The Original CGI Version) (1993) Trailer + Screener Promo
5. Cool World (1992) Trailer + Screener Promo
6. Hostage (1992) Trailer + Screener Promo
7. Paramount Logo
8. Full Moon's Videozone Bumper
9. Paramount Feature Presentation Bumper
10. Warning Screen
11. Paramount Pictures Logo
12. Full Moon Entertainment Logo
I believe this is the only release of the original CGI version of Arcade to surface on U.S. Soil, not counting imported VHS tapes. The FX were later redone because producer/Full Moon head honcho Charles Band had been issued a cease and desist order from Disney; the original version of the Skycycles resembled the cars from Tron. If Band didn't feature them so prominently in the trailer and other promotional stuff for the film, he would have released it as it was and Disney wouldn't have noticed and followed through with a lawsuit until sometime later.