Warriors, come out and playyyaayyy

June 28, 2005 @ 3:56 pm · Posted by Boxen · Filed under Games (video)

Warriors game
Rockstar Games is making a video game based on the 1979 movie, The Warriors. They must have acquired that license for a song.

15 Comments

  1. danger Said,

    June 28, 2005 @ 4:01 pm

    This might make me play video games again. I friggin’ loved that movie. I mean, who didn’t wanna be a part of the baseball gang after seeing that movie? Say it with me, “Warriors, come out and pla-ee-ay!”

  2. Electro Rock Said,

    June 29, 2005 @ 12:03 pm

    Danger, you get to be the make-up slathered baseball players on roller skates while I’ll be the big ol’ country bumpkin gang.

    Hey, the nerdy daughter from Too Close For Comfort was in that movie. As well as the Carmen Sandiego chief.

  3. Boxen Said,

    June 29, 2005 @ 1:04 pm

    So was the guy who played Ricardo from The Bloodhound Gang on 3-2-1 Contact.

  4. bluegrass girl Said,

    June 29, 2005 @ 1:54 pm

    I remember that! 3-2-1 Contact was the shit, and I was OBSESSED with the Bloodhound Gang.
    The Warriors is responsible for forming my childhood image of New York city, as it was always on cable when I was a kid.

  5. Electro Rock Said,

    June 29, 2005 @ 2:03 pm

    That image was probably not too far from reality in the mid-70s around 42nd St. Now, although the area still has panhandlers, it’s all touristy shops and theaters. No gangs, unless you consider the workers in Disney stores a gang.

  6. Boxen Said,

    June 29, 2005 @ 2:50 pm

    I had a similar experience with The Warriors and my perception of New York. Another thing that didn’t help was that I saw A Clockwork Orange at an inappropriately young age at roughly the same time. So the two movies became entanlged in my memory. I remember being scared of going to NY because I thought I would be chased by gangs of milk-drinking baseball players wearing derbys and diapers. Worse still, is that if I tried to find help, the police would lock me in a room and keep my eyelids open with dinner forks.

  7. bluegrass girl Said,

    June 29, 2005 @ 3:38 pm

    Well, NY didn’t live up to my Warriors image, but the movie also didn’t prepare me for getting labelled “white devil” outside Penn Station.
    Jonathon Lethem has an essay about the Warriors in his new book – one of the subway stops in which they filmed it was close to his apartment when he was a kid. It really evokes the image of NY before Guliani carted off all the homeless and Time Square started looking like an outdoor mall (not that I really got to see NY before that all happened).

  8. Electro Rock Said,

    June 29, 2005 @ 6:46 pm

    I share the Clockwork Orange memory. My distaste for the rape scene at that young age certainly feels like evidence for some role of nature in various moral/deviance equations. Either the scene or the creepy music.

  9. bluegrass girl Said,

    June 30, 2005 @ 9:59 am

    OK, posterboys for permissive parenting … How in the hell were you allowed to watch A Clockwork Orange as children?

  10. Electro Rock Said,

    June 30, 2005 @ 11:25 am

    Damn hippie parents and their ferrets.

  11. Boxen Said,

    June 30, 2005 @ 11:34 am

    It wasn’t so much that I was allowed to watch it, as I was allowed to go to a friend’s house who’s mother was a non-violent, but irresponsible alcoholic. Honestly, the shit we got away with there made it a kid’s paradise. I used to go to this kid’s to house watch porn, violent war flicks, and the most disturbing horror movies available, and have nightmares for weeks, but I kept it from my parents so I could continue to go there.

  12. Boxen Said,

    June 30, 2005 @ 11:36 am

    My parents were ex-hippies, too. My mom went to Woodstock, and I found a photo of my dad toking a spliff while giving the camera the finger.

  13. bluegrass girl Said,

    June 30, 2005 @ 2:46 pm

    Electro Rock, did you see the movie at your ferret-owning cousin’s house?
    I didn’t have any alcoholic neighbors, but I did have a dad with poor judgment. Every time my mom was out of town, he would feed us full of fried food and let us watch R movies. My brother saw Poltergeist when he was about 6, and couldn’t sleep for over a month. My mom is still pissed about that.

  14. danger Said,

    June 30, 2005 @ 4:44 pm

    Some of my earliest movie-watching experiences were pretty disturbing. There was a movie place in my home town that would rent anything to anyone, no matter how old you were. We’d have a sleepover and rent shit like I Spit on Your Grave, Bloodsucking Freaks, and A Clockwork Orange.

    When our parents asked what we rented, we told them The Goonies or Buckaroo Bonzai.

    It’s amazing I turned out so normal. Can you dig it?

  15. Boxen Said,

    July 1, 2005 @ 11:11 am

    Bloodsucking Freaks was one of the vids we rented, too. It amazes me that that movie was ever made. I didn’t have enough perpective at 11 to appreciate the humor.

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