JamesJH
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So, I was watching The Car the other night and decided to check out IMDB afterwards. They had this nugget in the trivia section:
"An arcade video game machine called "Smashing Drive" features the car, painted as a New York taxi on a rampage in the city. The game's "attract mode" sequence begins with the car sitting on one of the stainless steel Deco eagles on the Chrysler Building, and then jumping off to the street below."
I took a look at the attract mode on YouTube and while there is a car on the roof that changes into a taxi, it doesn't seem to be the same body shape as The Car. But the transition to the taxi is so fast it is hard to tell.
Anyway, I thought this was an interesting link between a 1977 cult horror movie (starring James Brolin) and a fairly modern (2000) game. For the movie itself, the car is the star – totally bad ass with a fantastic Staccato horn (that it blows when running over bikers and hippies and other assorted town folk).
"An arcade video game machine called "Smashing Drive" features the car, painted as a New York taxi on a rampage in the city. The game's "attract mode" sequence begins with the car sitting on one of the stainless steel Deco eagles on the Chrysler Building, and then jumping off to the street below."
I took a look at the attract mode on YouTube and while there is a car on the roof that changes into a taxi, it doesn't seem to be the same body shape as The Car. But the transition to the taxi is so fast it is hard to tell.
Anyway, I thought this was an interesting link between a 1977 cult horror movie (starring James Brolin) and a fairly modern (2000) game. For the movie itself, the car is the star – totally bad ass with a fantastic Staccato horn (that it blows when running over bikers and hippies and other assorted town folk).


