Jimmy is able to rack up 50,000 points on Double Dragon within two minutes - which is impossible.Jimmy (the hero) is lauded for playing through Ninja Gaiden without taking any damage, yet the screen shows that Ryu is indeed missing two life bars.Examples of mistakes born of nothing short of ignorance include: In the past, this has been a major problem with using alternate mediums to showcase games - you often turn the content over to a gatekeeper that either doesn't understand games or underestimates the intelligence of gamers. For a movie that's supposed to be equal parts a celebration and commercial for video games, The Wizard is rife with errors pertaining to the games themselves. Scene after scene features a video game or mention of Nintendo, lest you forget for even five minutes that you paid to watch an advertisement. The movie also features the Power Glove, an NES peripheral that now enjoys almost universal derision for being impractical and ungainly. The journey to Video Armageddon, the video game championship that concludes the film (where SMB3 is revealed), is littered with appearances from several NES games, such as Rad Racer and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. For a fuller look at the movie itself, check out our rundown.
Of course, to see this footage, you had to pay for a movie ticket and then sit through eighty minutes of Fred Savage flanked by small turns from Christian Slater and a very young Tobey Maguire.
Since the Internet was still several years off and Nintendo of America was very protective of photos and footage, The Wizard promised to be the North American unveiling of what would go on to be second-best selling game for the NES. And the star of this commercial was undoubtedly Super Mario Bros. The 1989 Universal release was for all intents and purposes, a 90-minute video game commercial.
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