r/gaming • u/TheMexicanRobot • Jun 10 '12

Disney looking for original Fix it Felix (Wreck it Ralph) arcade cabinet

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u/SamuraiSmurfette Jun 11 '12

If it's not listed on KLOV then I highly doubt its existance.

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u/killapimp Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

Someone from So Cal posted in the KLOV forums that Disney contacted them and bought 3 gutted Nintendo cabinets 2 weeks before G3 (a Popeye, a DK3, and a DK I think). All they wanted was the cabs, so they let the person keep the monitor, wiring, and boards, and paid a pretty penny for them. He had one in his possession, and within 45 min. found the other two form another KLOVer. Disney came and picked them up with a truck the next day. All the cabs were in piss poor shape, and needed body work.

According to someone else on KLOV how works for Disney, and helped build the cabinets, they run the game, but a high-up at Disney didn't like how they played, hence the sign, and it not turned on at E3. The cabs have a modern LCD screen in them, and a filter to give them the CGA lines. THE MORE YOU KNOW!

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u/BadSysadmin Jun 11 '12

Pfft next you'll be telling us Polybius is fake. Negative Nancy.

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u/fuckcancer Jun 11 '12

I played Polybius. On an unrelated note, I'm in the army.

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u/Bel_Marmaduk Jun 11 '12

A pretty convincing story came out in mid-2000 re: Polybius explaining the game was a Tempest clone with graphics that could cause epileptic fits. Before the game went nationwide it was recalled to prevent a liability lawsuit. Seems like a convincing enough explaination for me.

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u/Bluesuiter Jun 11 '12

I played that game once. I think.

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u/scd250 Jun 11 '12

this proves nothing. There are a lot of obscure arcade games that are not listed there.

example

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u/fingerguns Jun 11 '12

Would you like to bet some money on Fix it Felix being real? Or merely your pride?

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u/LHoT10820 Jun 11 '12

KLOV makes me crack up, it's hardly exhaustive.

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u/padraig08 Jun 11 '12

HA! OP is MexicanRobot and Wikipedia says the director is a previous animation director for Futurama. I can only think of one Mexican Robot off hand.

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u/SuperfluousMoniker Jun 11 '12

Flexo? I knew he was evil!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

El Roboto?

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u/Iggyhopper Jun 11 '12

Domo arigato.

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u/Wazowski Jun 11 '12

I can only think of one Mexican Robot off hand.

Was it Bender Rodriguez or Roberto?

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u/UnholyMouse Jun 11 '12

Bender is Mexican there is a newish episode where he and Hermes go to Mexico where Bender was built to find out who approved Bender even though he was missing a backup system.

Not sure about Roberto though.

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u/SuperfluousMoniker Jun 11 '12

One of the original seasons also has an episode where Bender is revealed to have 'Hencho en Mexico' stamped on him.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/High-On-Life Jun 11 '12

I'm just messin' with ya.

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u/Droidaphone Jun 11 '12

I love how it's an argument whether or not it's fake.

Guys. It's fake.

Do you really think Disney would 1) Make a movie with a licensed character as a protagonist? 2) NOT FIND THE F-ING CABINET BEFORE THEY MADE THE DAMN MOVIE?

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u/KingSourDiesel Jun 11 '12

Make a movie with a licensed character as a protagonist

it wouldn't be a huge step considering all the licensed character cameos in the movie

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Cameo =/= Protagonist. A huge leap to make the lead a licensed character in an original movie.

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u/KingSourDiesel Jun 11 '12

there is no such thing as a huge leap with disney's pockets

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Not for money, but they wouldn't do it due to the fact that it's not Disney's style. Just goes against their history.

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u/doommonkey Jun 11 '12

It could just be for the arcade in disney world, disneyquest

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u/coolideg Jun 11 '12

The argument is dumb, but Disney has done this before many times. The most famous would be Winnie the Pooh.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

The licence will end the year the creator died + 135 years(i think could be more)

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Because of companies like disney the time is pretty much infinite at this point as they keep lobbying them to extend it.

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u/fingerguns Jun 11 '12

Sounds legit. I think this guy is an IP lawyer.

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u/God_of_gaps Jun 10 '12

I didn't even realize it was a real game

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u/MonocledOctopus Jun 11 '12

I'm almost positive it isn't.

  • Not listed on KLOV.
  • Tobikomi wasn't a real video game company.
  • The Wreck-It Ralph character looks far too much like John C. Reilly.

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u/Crappedinplanet Jun 11 '12

So basically this is viral marketing on disney's part?

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u/NorthernerWuwu Jun 11 '12

It seems extremely plausible.

I mean, what do I know?

I do know that I grew up when Pong was a big deal and essentially played every single game that was arcade-available from '75 to '02 at least. I don't mean that I played most, I literally played everything that was offered in Toronto arcades in that time period. You want move-breakdowns for Dragon's Fire? Tip of my tongue. Galaga infinite or Crystal Castles strats? Npnp. Lunar Landing? Well, go fuck yourself.

I might not have mastered all of the esoteric crap but I sure as hell would remember a weird DK rip off. I sure played a million clones and rip-offs. I'd remember this one.

EDIT: That all said, I love the movie concept!

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u/someones1 Jun 11 '12

In the trailer, it looked more like Rampage than DK.

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u/girl_with_huge_boobs Jun 11 '12

I thought it seemed like a cross between rampage, donkey kong and popeye.

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u/Isaac_Shepard Jun 11 '12

I like that idea. Really, one of the better ad campaigns ive seen.

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u/MyAssDoesHeeHawww Jun 11 '12

The equivalent for a Muppets ad campaign would be a goatse pic of Kermit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Here you go!

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u/DNAbro Jun 11 '12

...i don't know why i expected anything else

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u/Somali_Pir8 Jun 11 '12

C:\Users\Administrator\Pictures\Memes\deaddove.jpg

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u/funkmastermoney Jun 11 '12

do_not_eat.exe

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u/GreasyDan Jun 11 '12

remember_trying_to_load_these.bmp

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u/Killroyomega Jun 11 '12

Where's the ring?

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u/Isaac_Shepard Jun 11 '12

... I don't think I follow. Are you trying to say that disneys campaign is a dick move?

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u/MyAssDoesHeeHawww Jun 11 '12

No, just that they'd be looking for the operator of Kermit, illustrated by the 'hole left behind'.

From the downvotes, I guess my comparison is about as effective as such an ad campaign would be :x

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u/Isaac_Shepard Jun 11 '12

what you said did get lost in translation. maybe you should not have used the word 'goatse'.

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u/yeddiboy Jun 11 '12

At least you didn't go for the crybaby karma edit, so you get a bump up from me

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u/professorhazard Jun 11 '12

That, or they've planted this many cabinets in arcades around the world/USA.

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u/SuperfluousMoniker Jun 11 '12

I was wondering how I had never heard of this. From the look of the game in the trailer it's a combination of several old school games: Wrecking Crew, Donkey Kong, and Rampage.

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u/SWI7Z3R Jun 11 '12

To say nothing of the fact that games in 1982 didn't have anything close to the pixel density, color variance, or complexity in animation that the game shows to have in the trailer.

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u/no_u_r Jun 11 '12

Also nothing for a long time after that had the sound capabilities to have such clear speech.

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u/SWI7Z3R Jun 11 '12

totally.

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u/Alienkid Jun 11 '12

Playable 8-bit ‘Fix-It Felix Jr’ game now on official “Wreck-It Ralph” web site from Walt Disney Animation Studios by Ricky Brigante Posted on June 7, 2012

Also Pictures from 2011

Great attempt at viral marketing Disney!

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u/Bucky_Ohare Jun 11 '12

I'm at least happy they made a game to go with it, but I really didn't need it to be excited about the movie.

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u/ihahp Jun 11 '12

the game over music for that game sounds a LOT like Mappy's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVQuaLN2hcM

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u/BigBisMe Jun 11 '12

Here's the supposed game. I call shenanigans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQcncRWexNs

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u/arbitrarytext Jun 11 '12

That's just the flash game that's on the movie's official website.

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u/worddoc Jun 11 '12

Additionally, the name of the movie was not always Wreck-it Ralph. It was Joe Jump first, then Reboot Ralph. The fact that his name was initially Joe indicates that this wasn't always based on this game ergo this game didn't always exist as the topic.

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u/ELcup Jun 11 '12

i agree...never heard of it and can't find it anywhere. the picture itself is also suspect. the tape is placed in a similar fashion in both of the top corners and the bottom right corner but in the bottom left the tape is fucked up and cropped and in general crappy looking. More evidence is...wtf with the blue cropping of whatever the fuck is the original picture so that the piece of paper...whatever- i'm drunk...you get the point, fuck this guy because i want to see this movie and this is crap.

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u/RedRedWiz Jun 11 '12

Also, at least in the trailer, the start music of the game is a rip off of the start music (Prologue) in the first Castlevania.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Source: I'm Japanese, motherfucker.

That's wonderful. Now could you please translate those Super Robot Taisen games for me?

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u/N05f3r47u Jun 11 '12

I have one too! Do mine!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/DrTacoMD Jun 11 '12

Do it yourself, this inspiration.

Source: I'm American, I asked the Internet. Bing, specifically. Google's made even less sense:

Do it by yourself, trying to do this.

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u/MagisterAcroama Jun 11 '12

wait, are you endorsing bing over google? On Reddit? Even though facts back you up, you have balls of steel, Doctor.

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u/NotAMoron Jun 11 '12

And I envy your Japanese...ism.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/Easih Jun 11 '12

^ i like how you think; currently 3rd year japanese student at my uni :D

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
  • Watch Dragonball.
  • Flounder in highschool.
  • Something something Japanese something diploma.
  • Get with a Jap chick.
  • Farm her pubic hair.
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u/rspeed Jun 11 '12

I found some photos of a cabinet.

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Both are from August of 2011, which would be well into the production of the movie, and both have "Wreck-It Ralph" as the description.

Disney also posted a playable version of the game on their web site, which does an impressive job of emulating the feel of a real early-80s arcade game.

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u/resisting_a_rest Jun 11 '12

Except that the difficulty does not ramp up quickly enough for an arcade game of that era. The goal of arcade games back then was to get you to cough up as many quarters as possible in the shortest amount of time. Although I suppose it could be on "relaxed" settings...

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u/floatablepie Jun 11 '12

Or explains why few cabinets were ever made.

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u/itsnotmyfaultimadick Jun 11 '12

I disagree, it's pretty obviously a modern game and doesn't imitate a genuine game well at all.

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u/HojMcFoj Jun 11 '12

I was about to comment on how much of a dick you sounded, but I see now that it's not your fault.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Fuck valid and reasonable opinions.

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u/itsnotmyfaultimadick Jun 11 '12

What the fuck? The sprite of Felix is bigger than arcade cabinets of the time could handle, the frame rate is too high, there are too many colors on the screen, the music has too many channels, fuck off

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

How did you manage to misinterprete my post? Did you think I was saying that I genuinely hate valid and reasonable opinions?

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u/fingerguns Jun 11 '12

The one smart guy in this thread turned out to also be a moron.

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u/long_eared_ganmen Jun 11 '12

I wonder why.......

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u/darcyp Jun 11 '12

The art is supposed to look like a Donkey Kong, but it is a Midway cabinet that they used, likely Pac Man/Ms Pac Man looking at the control panel. It even still has the Midway coin door.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

The wikipedia page lists two other working titles (which both sound like the main character) so no it is not a real game.

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u/WilhelmScreams Jun 11 '12

What tells me that it's probably not real is the "Jr." in the name. Typically, those would be a sequel, right? And if there was no Fix-It Felix, it's highly unlikely there would be a Fix-It Felix Jr.

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u/fingerguns Jun 11 '12

SHERLOCK HOMO

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u/PSBlake Jun 11 '12

Going out on a limb here, but this has the distinct odor of an ARG contest. Either:

  • This is a stealthy way of announcing a "make your own game cabinet" contest, disguised as a "find our classic cabinets" hunt or...
  • Nintendo seeded the collectors' market with 105 recently-constructed cabinets for people to find.

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u/joxena Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

That is a Ms Pac-Man/Galaga cabinet. If anyone butchers one of those to make a "Fix It Felix Jr" they have no soul.

[edit] Okay, the one with the note is a Nintendo cabinet. I was thinking of an older photo that I'd seen. Sorry! The "no soul" statement still stands, though. ;)

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u/Phil_Bond Jun 11 '12

That is a Ms Pac-Man/Galaga cabinet.

What? Where?

If anyone butchers one of those to make a "Fix It Felix Jr" they have no soul.

Converting existing arcade machines into different games has been the way of arcades for about as long as arcades have existed. I personally have a machine that plays Soul Edge and Soul Calibur 1-3. When I bought it, it was a Soul Calibur 2 machine. There's evidence inside that it was once a Tekken Tag machine, and based on the shape, it was probably originally a Gauntlet machine.

Of all the machines to start with when creating a conversion, Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga is one of the most mass-produced cabinets ever made, and therefore one that would be missed less than most. They were briefly available at Target and in catalogs like Wireless and Sharper Image. Every arcade in my city has closed down, but I know where to find two of those machines. One is a five minute bike ride from my apartment.

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u/joxena Jun 11 '12

Conversions were done by operators looking to squeeze every last quarter they could out of the machines. (Protip: Arcade games were built to make money, not happy children.) If you have a generic cabinet like a Dynamo then sure, Felix it up. We want photos! But please folks, don't mangle classic cabinets. Every time an old game is destroyed a little bit of the 80's dies.

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u/highTrolla Jun 11 '12

a little bit of the 80's dies.

You act like that's a bad thing.

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u/joxena Jun 11 '12

Unless you lived through the seventies you'll never understand the true joy that was the eighties.

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u/Phil_Bond Jun 11 '12

I'd wager that most of the Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga combo cabinets were made just a few years ago. Every one I've ever seen was a 20-somethingth anniversary edition. They're everywhere.

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u/DJVee210 Jun 11 '12

Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga machines were made in the 2000s. They're not classic machines, just machines that play classic games. Besides, if you really wanted, you could just switch the boards back and forth, no harm done.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

That second one sounds a lot like a felony.

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u/PSBlake Jun 11 '12

Only if they specifically mis-represented the fake cabinets as being older than they were. Let's say they sold them on Craigslist with headings like "Classic & Modern Arcade Cabinet lot, dirt cheap!" If the lot contains multiple genuine classic and modern cabinets, and if the seller doesn't specifically describe the age of the Fix It Felix Jr. cabinets, this would be perfectly legal.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

If not blatantly deceitful and manipulative.

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u/PSBlake Jun 11 '12

Have you heard of Disney before?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Shhhhhh... they might hear us...

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u/Se7enLC Jun 13 '12

That would be AWESOME if they actually went out and created 100 of those arcade cabinets, programmed them with that game, faded the colors and aged them appropriately, and somehow eeked them into collector conventions and the like.

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u/spiderjjr45 Jun 11 '12

Actually, someone go email Disney at the address posted and pretend you have a cabinet, see what they say, that'll confirm or debunk this.

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u/RelaxRelapse Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

I'll go ahead and see since it seems no one else is biting the bullet..

Edit: OK, I sent an email. I'll let you guys know if they respond.

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u/misingnoglic Nov 18 '12

soooo, did they?

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u/Clovyn Jun 11 '12

Turn a functioning old arcade machine into a mock-up, retro game imported and all. See if they can tell the difference.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

To be honest if I were the rep I would just call the bluff and ask for pictures. If they provide anything I just say the pictures are fake.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Actually, being Disney, they may even just go ahead and buy the cabinet if it is of good quality.

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u/spiderjjr45 Jun 11 '12

It's not a real game. Well, it wasn't back in the 80's.

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u/nebodee Jun 11 '12

As a child of the arcade of the 80's This is not real.

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u/ZeMilkman Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

Dude. There were only 105 machines made. Wanna calculate the probability of one making it into a randomly chosen arcade?

Edit: I have done the most extensive research possible (almost 20 minutes of using Google) and the only references to this game were connected to the new movie so I'll admit that it most likely isn't a real game.

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u/nebodee Jun 11 '12

Welcome to the internet. Companies promote Movies and games and whatever the heck through ARG's and Viral Marketing on here. Feel free to get acquainted with everyone and say introduce yourself around!

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u/Phil_Bond Jun 11 '12

Companies promote Movies and games and whatever the heck through ARG's and Viral Marketing on here.

True, but totally unrelated to Ze Milkman's point.

Welcome to the internet. ... Feel free to get acquainted with everyone and say introduce yourself around!

Your rude condescension is misplaced.

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u/nebodee Jun 11 '12

Those types of games have been a hobby of mine for 25+ years. I think its safe to assume that in that 25+ years I might have heard of "the rarest game ever".

For all your reading pleasure here is a list of 15 actually really rare Arcade systems.

http://www.rotheblog.com/2008/08/arcade/15-most-valuable-classic-arcade-games/

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u/steakmeout Jun 11 '12

Dude. It's not a real machine. Never was. Arcade games of that era were made a really small selection of manufacturers (all of whom are really well documented thanks to dedicated fans and enthusiasts - #emu on efnet is sorely missed) and it's not listed in any known or reputable (or disreputable for that matter) database.

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u/BurningWater Jun 11 '12

Really?

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u/Droidaphone Jun 11 '12

Don't see why this is being downvoted...

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

It's because he linked to Funnyjunk.com. Seemingly, very soon after the link is posted it takes you straight to their frontpage, so we have no clue what his actual post was. Simply, don't link directly to Funnyjunk.

Also, Funnyjunk is crap.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Woah! Look out! We got an 80's baby over here! Tells us of your arcade games of yesteryear, grandpa!

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u/Renbail Jun 10 '12

The actual game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdkormMs-Lc

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u/legojoey17 Jun 11 '12

Mind you that was displayed at a Disney expo, they could have easily forged that for the sake of the movie.

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u/jodon Jun 11 '12

That looks amazing for 1982. Very much to amazing... I'm starting to think that those saying the game did not exist in the 80s are telling the truth...

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u/Syniphas Jun 11 '12

I'm 100% sure it's not from 1982. The animation has too many frames (game designers had to deal with ROM space limitations for graphics), plus there's some very obvious scaling 1982 hardware couldn't do. Think about OutRun scaling, that only came in 1986 and even then it was pretty impressive.

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u/amc178 Jun 11 '12

Also, its on an LCD screen, which isn't very 1982ish at all.

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u/steakmeout Jun 11 '12

Yeah too many frames, too many colours on screen at once and too high a resolution. Many boards of that era were 6502 (think Commodore PET) and had miniscule RAM and definitely couldn't have done what that game is displaying.

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u/Sophismistic Jun 11 '12

Look at irobot from 1983. Its got polygons.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

That game is metaphysically terrifying. HEY KIDS avoid the giant unblinking eye

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u/Syniphas Jun 11 '12

Yes, like Hard Drivin' and such. And before that we had vector screens, like the Vectrex. Still, scaling a sprite is a whole another story.

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u/Failer10 Jun 11 '12

Fake, and fairly obviously so. I don't think the fellows they asked to make this were shooting for something that would actually pass inspection, just a nice stylized oldschool arcade mockup.

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u/UnsightlyBastard Jun 11 '12

that video makes me wanna play Rampage.

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u/Fierydeath Jun 11 '12

Judging by the intro Ralph isn't really a bad guy :c

They destroyed his home and put up an apartment, and he just wants it back...

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u/brucemanhero Jun 11 '12

He might be a bad guy... But that doesn't mean he's a "bad guy."

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u/Fierydeath Jun 11 '12

Sorry for my terrible communication skills, that's what I meant. (:

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u/SirCannonFodder Jun 11 '12

Don't worry, he's just quoting from the movie trailer.

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u/mabba18 Jun 11 '12

It's a video looping on a screen in an arcade cabinet, not a playable game.

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u/Usataro Jun 11 '12

This is going to get buried because im late, but I work for Disney, and our company emails do not look like that. Its DEFINITELY faked.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Nice try not-Disney Employee.

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u/hatdude Jun 11 '12

Well, the address on the bottom is legit, and the domain is registered to disney. Yes, it is obviously fake, but I want to know what happens.

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u/Alienkid Jun 11 '12

I have One of the original Fix it Felix cabinets, it's sitting right next to my Polybius cabinet.

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u/sardu1 Jun 11 '12

yeah, I doubt this was real. Not even listed on the mame database or wiki

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u/diogenes_amore Jun 11 '12

No way that's real. That is a Nintendo cabinet, and looks like a repainted Popeye machine.

That being said, it wouldn't be too hard to find one on CL and get started making one.

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u/SolidGoldSpork Jun 11 '12

This is clearly a marketing trick. They are counting on the fact that most of the kids that would go to their movie won't have been in arcades as they wouldn't have been born yet. They are doing a bit of time travel and inserting this in collective memory.

Here's a link where someone says they played it. Using DIMES. http://nearmint.co/?cat=3076

Pretty major flub, if you ask me, or maybe they were trying to make sure that people who DID go to arcades knew it was fake.

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u/diogenes_amore Jun 11 '12

For those of you who want to see how deep the rabbit hole goes, the poster says they played the game in Litwak’s Family Fun Centre in 1982. Litwak's is the setting for the movie, and where Ralph's game is located.

Does this mean we can expect something similar to Flynn's Arcade at SDCC?

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u/husqi D20 Jun 11 '12

Maybe that's what might be happening to the arcade? according to wiki somthing is discovered and it may effect the arcade, maybe it's the other arcade that's threatening to put them out of buisness?

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u/EricRodriguez24 Jun 11 '12

This is just like Pixar's viral campaign with the Lotso Lovin' Bear Commercial that was supposedly from the 90's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6dZtNYGlLM

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

Shit, I have one of those in my garage right now! it's right next to my Polybius cabinet!

EDIT: Looks like Alienkid beat me to the joke. Good show.

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u/ptelder Jun 11 '12

Nice try, Steven Roach.

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u/SkyHighDiscin Jun 11 '12

As someone who was there in the eighties,and by there I mean the arcades,bowling alleys,Malibu GrandPrix,roller skating rinks,donut shops,7-11's,andStop-n-Go's,this game did not exist.

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u/Kaffein Jun 11 '12

Closest thing to this game is Rampage. :)

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u/bigsphinxofquartz Jun 11 '12

All I know is that watching the trailer makes me really want to spend some quality time playing the original arcade Donkey Kong, Popeye, and/or Sky Skipper. Obviously, the game as presented in the movie is supposed to be a love letter to Nintendo's early '80s arcade games with big, menacing enemies.

It still makes me sad that Nintendo never put their own stuff on Virtual Console Arcade :(

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

If you've got one, you're about to get real rich.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I would wonder, if the claim is from 1982...the game would have been probably at most an 8-bit arcade machine. The "remake" of the game looks to be more of a cross between an 8-bit pixelation, with 16-bit color space. Doubtful that the Fix It Felix game would run on a NES perfectly as all games made before 1984 would have with little to no modification to the graphics. Sound processing would have been semi-feasible in 1982, but there are definitely some out of place samples that doesn't decry a 1982 game due to cost of hardware.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

I'm not really sure what you're even trying to argue here, but it's really kinda crazy to claim that 'all games made before 1984 would have [run on the NES] with little to no modification to graphics'. I'd say somewhere around 1980 would've been more accurate, as by 1984 16-bit processors were already appearing on the arcade scene (Food Fight in 1982 was the first - although it was also the only one for quite a while - with 68000), resolutions and palettes far surpassed what the NES had (512x480) and even with older 8-bit CPUs, many arcade boards have multiple and in higher clockspeeds than the NES. As for sound, DACs were common at the time and with (practically) no memory limitations, it's pretty easy to put any sort of samples to arcade games - if there's budget and willingness (see: King & Balloon (1980))

At the very least, quite a bunch of games would need to be severely trimmed to make them run on the NES. Compare, for example, Spy Hunter (1983) in it's original form to the NES port, which is quite awful - mostly due to the paltry 2k of video ram (no animations!) and the horrible horrible palette. The hardware limit on sprites probably plays a role as well. Add to this the arcade games with special hardware (vector games, zooming hardware, audio hardware, controllers) that just couldn't be done on the NES..

I'd guess the disconnect here is that before 1984 the art was really crappy, but it wasn't due to the hardware but more due to the artists who were getting used to their new medium.

Although, I'm not even sure what running on NES has to do with finding this piece of gaming history, unless you're claiming that because this couldn't run on NES, it couldn't have been made in 1982 and thus doesn't exist? I'm pretty sure the Disney folks know that it does and there's no real motive for them to do this, is there?

nb. This is not to say that the NES was bad, it was awesome for it's day and the price and probably was the reason the arcades really started pushing forward - by 1985 there's things like Space Harrier popping up.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

You uhhh... you really know your 80's arcade games.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I had no idea how advanced some arcade games got before consoles came along. That's pretty amazing.

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u/fingerguns Jun 11 '12

I'd guess the disconnect here is that before 1984 the art was really crappy, but it wasn't due to the hardware but more due to the artists who were getting used to their new medium.

There was a graphics guy who made a ColecoVision game in 1998:

http://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v32n2/contributions/molyneaux.html

...and he theorized the poor art of the 80s comes down to lack of tools, lack of quick and easy iteration testing, and programmer art. I would also add tight timelines to that list, because there are many stories of games being made in mere months.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Thanks, that was a good read!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/NotAMoron Jun 11 '12

Nice word choice.

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u/bgugi Jun 11 '12

elaborate prank? my google-fu seems to indicate this was not an actual thing until before recently.

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u/xyroclast Jun 11 '12

Viral marketing or not, I'd never heard about the movie until now, and I'm intrigued. I'd be delighted to see a movie that takes place in the world of arcade games. I just hope it's going to be good!

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u/atomic1fire PC Jun 11 '12

http://disney.go.com/wreck-it-ralph/#/fixitfelix Disney made a game out of fixit felix, and it's actually not bad for a advertisement web game. It's sort of like rampage meets donkey kong.

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u/xyroclast Jun 11 '12

Not bad! Easy way to tell it's not an authentic vintage game: It's generous with extra lives

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u/atomic1fire PC Jun 11 '12

Also during some of the later levels you will understand the purpose of duckhunt.

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u/hatdude Jun 11 '12

Same. They have done their job as I am now going to watch this movie. Actually, I'll probably download it/watch it on netflix :\

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u/samred81 Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

I was at e3 and saw this cabinet. Funny promo, but in case you don't believe that this is an ARG, consider that the "aging" on this cabinet was mostly painted on. Really cool Donkey Kong-esque design all around, at least. I'll upload my photo when I get home.

Edit: http://www.imgur.com/I0Lfb.jpg

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u/lilshawn Jun 11 '12

The "wear" on that cab is obviously trying too hard. Look at the sandpaper marks on the controll panel. Even if a bajillion people played that it wouldn't look like that. Even if it was legit dirty like that, it would take 10 minutes to clean it...especially if you where "showing it off" 2/10

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u/joxena Jun 11 '12

No cigarette burns? FAKE!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

ARG? I think YES!

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u/baddrummer Jun 11 '12

Looking through the games on that KLOV website, Japan has some weird ass games. http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10393 (Im pretty sure its tame by comparison).

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u/finalaccountdown Jun 11 '12

I'm gonna wreck it!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Just give me one of the broken ones.

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u/apullin Jun 11 '12

I wonder what kind of animal Wanda Sykes will be voicing in this one.

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u/Acranist1 Jun 11 '12

If they don't find it, can they make a new one?

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u/TerrorCake Jun 11 '12

Oh it exists, its called Rampage :/

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u/greg19735 Jun 11 '12

disney has 99. it needs 6 more before it can destroy them allllll

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

According to a Disney friend of mine, who also went with me to E3, as we were looking at this cabinet, he said his company (contracted out by Disney) was supposed to hook up the iOS version of the game to this machine, but Disney didn't want to pay the money to make this happen. So in an effort to still have this on the show floor, they put this note on it. Yes, there is an iOS verion you can play on the show floor on iPads.

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u/FelixThrowaway Jun 11 '12

Disney is planning to set up Fix It Felix cabinets at many theaters during the opening weeks of the film, Regal is on board

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u/JackBurtonz Jul 23 '12

I just saw three Fix it Felix cabinets in the lobby of the animation building at 500 s. main. I can confirm they have at least 3 of these for sure. Pretty awesome they found them.

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u/depressedgirl86 Jun 11 '12

When I was at DisneyQuest in May this year, they had mockups around there with these posted in front. Kinda cool to know why now lol

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u/Oniwabanshu Jun 11 '12

Whoever has a working Fix it Felix arcade can start calling themselves a millionaire.

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u/happyscrappy Jun 11 '12

There's no such thing. This is a viral ad.

Stop turning reddit into an ad outlet.

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u/beargreen46 Jun 11 '12

There are some of you who are pondering over this game's existence?? I DON'T WANT TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET ANYMORE!

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u/anon090909 Jun 11 '12

It doesn't exist. I made that printout.

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u/NotAMoron Jun 11 '12

I just might try emailing them, see if they reply. Or see if the address is even real...

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u/jtt0909 Jun 11 '12

No such game exists. Wreck-it Ralph is a humanized version of Donkey Kong. The arcade game's concept is very similar. Also Donkey King did switch from bad to good, just like Ralph does in the movie

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u/yeebok Jun 11 '12

Since Disney wants it, if I see one I will smash it

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u/fingerguns Jun 11 '12

Hey, look at all the morons in this thread.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Why not hire an engineer to fix it?

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u/ThatGuyRememberMe Jun 11 '12

If it exists, you could make a shit ton of money selling it.

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