Anyone remember this? "BISHOP OF BATTLE" Fictional Coin Op arcade game

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Anyone remember this? "BISHOP OF BATTLE" Fictional Coin Op arcade game

Well.........

Lets face it. Most of us here remember the 80's. Anyone remember this?
I recall watching this numerous of times in the 80's as it would often come on HBO.
This was "BEFORE" Emilio Estevez became a huge star.

Its a short 20 minute story that I believe belongs to a "tales from the crypt" type show. Aka: 4 short stories in 1 movie.

Estevez is obsessed with defeating a FICTIONAL arcade machine until eventually it sucks him IN the game! Where have we seen this before? Tron rip off? NOPE! this apparently came out before Tron! No one can make it to level 13 on this game!!!!

Youtube has it uploaded in 3 DIFFERENT parts if you choose to watch the mini movie.
A lot of memories fly back. Filmed in various arcades. A lot of tittles everyone will recognize.

Ah the glory days.....thanks god for film we can enjoy some of those days

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptKqdOXI5YQ
 
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From what I read the Fox Hills mall was real in Cal., and the arcade was a Time-Out.
Same mall was used in Superbad.
Any Cali Kovers confirm this?
 
Estevez is obsessed with defeating a FICTIONAL arcade machine until eventually it sucks him IN the game! Where have we seen this before? Tron rip off? NOPE! this apparently came out before Tron! No one can make it to level 13 on this game!!!!

According to IMDB, T.R.O.N. was released in 1982 and Nightmares in 1983.

This sequence from Nightmares pops up frequently here. I have posted about it in the past.

I like both movies. :)
 
From what I read the Fox Hills mall was real in Cal., and the arcade was a Time-Out.
Same mall was used in Superbad.
Any Cali Kovers confirm this?

Yes real mall and real arcade, not positive about it being a Time-Out, at least the exterior shots. I don't remember the arcade being split level like that- the interiors could just be a movie set.
It used to be a pretty nice mall... now not so much.
 
I could have pwned J.J. Cooney at Pleiads

Think in the show he was just trying to hustle that dude out of cash. I guess 17k in the movie is kind of low comparing to your top score?

Cool website by the way! I just checked it out
 
Well.........

This was "BEFORE" Emilio Estevez became a huge star.

Technically, hasn't everything Emelio Estevez has ever done been before he was a "huge star"? Isn't the dude some parking lot attendant in Reno now?

Also, my favorite part of this is the phonebook-sized walkman...
 
Well.........

A lot of tittles everyone will recognize.

Personally, I can say I love tittles.

And I too saw this movie 100 or more times on HBO in the 80's (along with other such classics as Zorro: The Gay Blade!, Superfuzz and Midnight Madness) and I liked the whole thing back then. I was probably 14 or so - I re-watched this a while back on YouTube and that segment holds up OK in context of the time, but the rest of the movie is more like a TV show like Tales from the Dark Side.

Most 80's B horror movies were like this - cheap latex effects, plotless rambling shamblers - but still fun to watch.

Especially if you didn't have a driver's license and having 12 cable channels to some of your friends' 3 channels was novel!

Matthew Broderick playing Galaga in WarGames, Nightmares, Tron, Can't Buy Me Love, Better Off Dead - in the 80's videogames were in every era defining movie along with sleeveless ski vests, Swatches, Ray Bans, and that damn bandanna on one leg.:004_ssleepy:

:D
 
Technically, hasn't everything Emelio Estevez has ever done been before he was a "huge star"? Isn't the dude some parking lot attendant in Reno now?

Also, my favorite part of this is the phonebook-sized walkman...

He was a big star in the '80s; The Outsiders, Repo Man, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, Maximum Overdrive, and Young Guns. He hasn't done much since then; not much that was big anyway; aside from Young Guns II and the Mighty Ducks movies in the '90s.
 
He was a big star in the '80s; The Outsiders, Repo Man, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, Maximum Overdrive, and Young Guns. He hasn't done much since then; not much that was big anyway; aside from Young Guns II and the Mighty Ducks movies in the '90s.

I stand by my statement. :) Though Breakfast Club is a great movie, and Young Guns was fun in its time.
 
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