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Pontiac ad is glorious homage to Spy Hunter
Spy Hunter, one of the great arcade games of the '80s, is given proper tribute in the amazing commercial found above. OK, ignore for 30 seconds that this is a Pontiac commercial and just bask in the awesomeness of it. The music, the look, the feel ... seriously, if we could focus on what car the company is selling for even a split second we might consider buying it. But don't be fooled folks, there is some brilliant marketing at work here. Even the car's website is designed with our demographic in mind; featuring a mosaic of the car made up of images like Transformers and Halo (clearly being promoted at the bottom of the page). Admittedly, the whole thing is very slick. Now, if only this car wasn't $30,000 ... oh yeah, and a Pontiac.[Thanks Josh ... even if you might be a Pontiac marketing guy]
'Spy Hunter' movie to be helmed by Paul W.S. Anderson
Paul W.S. Anderson, who you might recognize from hit terrible movies like Resident Evil, Soldier and Event Horizon Aliens Vs. Predator, has been tapped to sit in the driver's seat of the Spy Hunter movie, where he'll presumably get liquored up, spin out of control and careen into a bus full of orphans. Variety also reports that Anderson's getting a rewrite of the script, based (loosely, we'd imagine) on the video game of the same name. In other news, there's a script so bad that Paul W.S. Anderson won't direct it. There's no word on whether The Rock is still attached.Oh, this just came in after we read that Anderson was a producer on the Dead or Alive movie; it's an early review of Spy Hunter from Joel Siegel. "The only thing I was hunting for was the exit!" Oh Joel, you have the brain of an artist ... and the soul of a jester.[Via Ain't It Cool News]
Play DS while learning to drive
Vingt-et-Un, the developer responsible for some of the weirder Simple 2000 games like The Zombie vs. Ambulance, have created a new entry in D3 Publisher's Simple DS series. Simple DS Vol. 14: The Driving School is a DS program designed to teach the rules of the road, with text-based quizzes and drills. It also attempts to teach driving skill with "practical" driving-instruction segments. This looks great for us, since we taught ourselves to drive on Spy Hunter anyway. We just need to break our habit of trying to drive into 18-wheelers and we'll have it down. While we're talking about this game, we want to complain about the lack of Simple series games in the US. D3 started a US branch, and they currently publish the Naruto games, but the only games we've seen from their hilarious budget series were Break 'em All and Dino Rider. The Xbox 360 just got Earth Defense Force-- we hope that's the start of a trend.
