Biship of battle. 1983 arcade short story with emilio estevez. lots of classic arcade

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Bishop of battle. 1983 arcade short story with emilio estevez. lots of classic arcade

Not sure if this one was posted yet. If you have not seen this or remember it was one of the short stories from Nighmares collection. entire thing on youtube great watch!

Props goto a good local friend Dave Nast (duffer69)
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and relatively new klover who turned me onto this!. cant believe I missed this one :)




 
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Emilio has sadly dropped off the face of the earth

Found this :

"The Bishop of Battle"


Emilio Estevez in "Bishop of Battle."
Young J.J. Cooney (Estevez) is a video game wizard and arcade game hustler with help from his bespectacled friend Zock (Billy Jayne).
After an argument about J.J.'s obsession with video games, they split up for the day, and J.J. goes into his local arcade to try again to beat The Bishop of Battle, a maddeningly difficult video game that features thirteen levels with everyone he knows having died on the twelfth. He repeatedly tries and fails to make it to the thirteenth level until the owner kicks him out at closing time.
J.J.'s parents, concerned about his grades in school, ground him until his courses improve. That night, he sneaks out and breaks into the arcade to finally finish the game. However, the game at the 13th Level comes alive with the enemies flying out. (Estevez went through a two-week gun training session with the NYPD to realistically perform his gun maneuvers for these scenes.)[citation needed] J.J. flees to the parking lot, but the Bishop of Battle appears drawing closer and closer to the terrified J.J. The scene cuts to the next morning, where his friends and family, see J.J.'s image on screen of the arcade machines for a few seconds before it turns into the player avatar and the short ends.
The computer game sequences in this segment were generated on an ACS1200 and cost so much that it nearly bankrupted production.
 
Man that's some serious addiction. Were we ever that bad?
 
Someone let ArcRevival know that "no classics were harmed in the making of this film".....:p
 
Someone let ArcRevival know that "no classics were harmed in the making of this film".....:p

The poor Uni War S was blown up, you can see the cool small orange cabinet behind Emilo pretty much every scene he is playing. I have a Uni War S and it's a pretty cool game, semi rare i think?
 
The arcade at the beginning of the film is still there. It's on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. A lot of those games were still there up until about 9 years ago, but are gone now. The place absolutely reeked of urine from homeless people peeing right in the arcade.

Today it's about 1/2 of the size it was. Most of the games there now are from the 1990s.
 
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For more cheesy Emilio action with an arcade scene, don't forget Maximum Overdrive. There's a scene in the truck stop with games going crazy.
 
Dude crowbars into the arcade but then puts a quarter in the game he wants to play!

LOL! I've never seen this before and thoroughly enjoyed it! I was thinking the same thing! He totally breaks into the arcade, but then pops in a quarter (respecting the game). I think a lot of us here would have done the same thing LOL!
 
That Bishop of Battle control panel looks like the inspiration for many a MAME cabinet.
 
yeaaa I have seen that. I like Him and Arcades. So even tho its clearly terrible I loved it. :)
 
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