Getting 50000 on Double Dragon was met with astonishment at least. Even Corey mentions that Jimmy was only playing for five minutes, while pretty much asking how the fuck Jimmy got 50000. PFM.
Well... one of the first times I played the World 1 castle, I found the warp whistle without knowing it, just by wondering what could be up there. Maybe he did the same.
@britainmalbangkok I've never watched The Wizard (fortunately). Honest, man. I just wanted to know if there was something up there since I had this flying power and wanted to try it everywhere. And of course I didn't it the VERY first time I got there.
Anyone who criticizes this video is an idiot. The Wizard was a terrible movie and while I don't care when the games are playing themselves, some of the things they said that the uploader pointed out are really careless errors. How hard is it to find out such simple things like the correct music, or where bosses are? I liked how you pointed these flaws out, great vid.
They should use the nintendo world championship point system in the first part, but i think this movie maybe came first. The SMB 3 part should be something more accurate, like who finish the first world first, or something like that... Anyway, Is very probable the people who made this movie knew NOTHING about games.
I agree with @Philomortis about the facts. They were fun to know and in know way ruin the film for me. As an avid gamer even at that time I knew they were not really playing those games. But as a film maker I can understand the reasons they left out a lot of those details. Anyway keep up the commentating, it was fun.
um... it's a movie. this particular movie came out previous to the release of smb3. it was basically a huge ad for the game at the end. of course they didn't want to show the world the game in it's entirety they could have a point sytem that was based on progress plus points. basically the further you are in the game the better. that's what they are suggesting so there IS a way of knowing how the points are allocated. movies often suggest things and save time.
Jimmy Woods blows dick. I can kick his punk ass on any game. Either Fred Savage is blind or Jimmy hacked Double Dragon in 40 seconds cuz you can't get 50000 that fast. Also how the hell he know where the flute is in a UNRELEASED game? Bitch ass cheater didn't even deserve his win. Lucas would have won if Jimmy did not get the flute.
This video was a really entertaining watch, thanks for sharing all these facts in a nice way like this. I was really wondering about accuracy when I saw parts of this film again recently. Great work!
You're wrong. Its the wrong music and it becomes painfully obvious that none of the people were actually 'playing' the games, they just had whatever games playing themselves.
The whole premise of the tourny is wrong. No one ever pays any attention to points scored. If they did, you wouldn't rush to find the warp zone. You'd hit every brick, stomp every enemy, and grab every coin.
@jimmykinkade Actually, you'd just want to blaze through every level as fast as humanly possible - the enormous time bonus you'd get after each level would offset any points you'd miss out on during the level itself.
I'm surprised you didn't try and correct Lucas and say the power glove is so "good." It's a movie (nintendo ad) and most films contain flaws. What you're doing takes the enjoyment out of the experience and might I suggest you find a job? :)
The screen read closer to 30,000 when I saw it. Also, Roger Ebert played the TMNT game and made to level 2; thus making the level 3 statement wrong (even moreso when you consider Ebert's now-famous nongaming stance).
It's a movie, that's why...simple as that. So are you telling me (cause I bet you're a fan of these movies) that Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings could be real? Come on...get lost.
Or off the top of my head...a movie like Terminator...human acting/looking robots, time travel..and now that we've mentioned time travel...I guess you're mad at the Back to the Future movies?
@harrism84 Read my description. Everyone knows it's "just a movie". The point is, all of these mistakes could've been avoided if the screenwriter, director, producer, or anyone associated with the film had done even an ounce of research. Especially since they had a "Nintendo Consultant" on the payroll.
Nobody gave a shit for the same reason nobody gave a shit about making good video-game-based movies or movie-based games. It would make a crapton of money no matter what, just by showing something that was unknown/unreleased.
Of course, SMB3 is so good that to this day, decades later, still one of the best Mario games of all time! OF ALL TIME! =D
VERY THEROW AND COOL TO KNOW- I JUST WATCHED IT AGAIN AFTER 13 YRS AND THAT SCORING SYSTEM AT THE END WAS PRETTY LAME HOW THEY SET IT UP- BUT IT WAS COOL WHEN I WAS 10 haha
I don't think it was a mistake when the annoucer said they now enter world two. Yeah its world 1-3, but its the second world they showed them entered. Its obvious that they completed other levels in order to raise the player's scores for the final total. That's why you see level 1-5 completed.
And for those who said they can score more in 10 minutes. Yeah you can now, but you wouldn't have if it was the first time you were ever playing the game.
@Loogaroo1 I agree they fudged the end. I was just pointing out that it was suppose to be like Jimmy warped right after he got the whistle. Warping isn't worth any points, so they had to get extra points from somewhere. So they completed 1-5 to drive up his score, and acted like he got those points from warping. They should have moved Mario back onto the mini-fortress, and it would have been a little harder to notice that 1-5 was completed.
There's also the question of even if the warp whistle did affect score, how the hell did Fred Savage know to get it? The game didn't come out for another several months.
@annahmnguyen Come on what? There's absolutely no indication that that's true ("Get the Star, Jimmy! It's worth 10,000 bonus points!") and a movie that gets this many things wrong about its source material can't just make up its own scoring system and not tell the audience.
@Loogaroo1 that is true, it was pretty much a close call between all three competitors at the end. whatever, i dont know what they were trying to do. Nice vid btw
I'm a gamer too & from what I've heard about this movie, it appears that the whole point of the movie is to tell a story of a kid who can do the impossible in video games (and promote SMB3). The impossibility of his feats add to the effect that this kid's just freaking amazing at these games, or a "wizard" as they call him.
Video games = unrealistic.
Movies = unrealistic.
Movie + Video games = really f*****g unrealistic.
Therefore all of your arguments are invalid from that perspective. :)
Out of curiosity, are you in the United Kingdom? Cos over in the PAL regions, the reason why your music may sound slower is because PAL machines generally run slower than NTSC machines.
For the one where Jimmy and Haley should be playing co-op on Double Dragon, it wouldn't be fair. I've seen eps of a show called Video Power where they played co-op TMNT 2 at the end where one player was a point hog since they kept killing the enemies
IT'S HOLLYWOOD! We all know all films are edited for dramatic effect! I've been playing NES since it came out in the mid eighties and I love this film! It's ninety odd minutes of pure nostalgia. Of course it's gonna be full of small inaccuracies, just enjoy the film and stop picking holes lol
If they rewarded Jimmy points for dying twice in SMB3,it would be interesting what his score would be if Jimmy got a game over on purpose....just saying!
The Wizard is one of those So Bad It's Good movies, in my opinion, and I think analyzing this movie to see how sadly incorrect its portrayal of video games is only makes it better. I never thought about how Jimmy is capable of playing so much SMB3 in TWO EFFING SECONDS. :)
@glmathgrant But see, he was playing a special version of the game! One where the scoring was different, warp whistles are easily obtained, and entire portions of various levels are merely skipped over for editing purposes! Don't you get it?
Very good observations, but I will say, movies and time passed on the movie screen does not correlate to actual time passed in the game.
Also, I remember watching this as a kid and some of the inconsistencies actually made the games more interesting to me since it added a extra mystery of 'hmm, do they know something I don't?'.
Hah, and we can laugh now at M3 but every kid watching was hyperventilating at just the fact that M3 was coming!
Thanks for this video, it was entertaining to watch and the comments where good. It's too bad the makers of this movie could give a crap about the nintendo. If somthing like this happened in todays times (like an xbox 360 movie) the makers would be crusified for every detail of misinformation. Luckly for the wizard, the internet was not avalable back then, or at least not like it is now.
Thanks for this video, it was entertaining to watch and the comments where good. It's too bad the makers of this movie could give a crap about the nintendo. If somthing like this happened in todays times (like an xbox 360 movie) the makes would crusified for every detail of misinformation. Luckly for the wizard, the internet was not avalable back then, or at least not like it is now.
Another "mistake": SMB3 was released in Japan in Oct. 1988, and this movie was released in Dec. 1989, and assuming the Video Armageddon tournament was set in 1989 (a fair assumption since Lucas's Power Glove was released in '89), then SMB3 wasn't a "brand new game nobody had seen before" like the announcer said. Any contestant could have just flown to Japan beforehand, got a copy of SMB3 and mastered it before the tournament (or had a Japanese friend mail it to them). I would have!
@cloudeleven Okay......I doubt there were to many people in the US who owned a Japanese Famicon in 1989. Might as well say that a player from Japan(who is a master at SMB 3) should have bought a ticket to the US, and tried to enter the tournament.
You are the only person I have ever said this to with sincerity, but you are the biggest fucking dork ever. Congratulations, it's just a movie ya dork.....
It always got me how the whole world saw SMB 3 for the first time and Jimmy just happens to know that secret part of the 1st castle. 1st time playing the game and he knows to go to the ceiling? WHAT XD
The reason the scoring doesnt make sense at the end is because they tried to advertise features of SMB3 as much as possible instead of details. I guess they thought nobody would ever notice.
I just think you're being way too critical of a movie where there were actors who were given script to read and who didn't play video games. Hell they probably had one person to give them info on games and he probably wasn't even the most intelligent guy. Plus the movie is over 20 years old.
@Loogaroo1 favorite movies. lol. the acting is terrible. the adults act like 3 year olds while the kids act like 40 year olds! I have no idea why but whenever I watch this movie i think of 2 other movies. Pee Wees big adventure and Star Wars: A New Hope! Maybe its the characters or the plot or something. But hey, Kids dont go to a death star or masturbate in a theater in public. If you dont know the joke, the actor who played pee wee masturbated in a theatre in the early 90s.
@Loogaroo1 well it really is my opinion. I actually watched the movie before i saw the NC Review. I saw the AVGN episode and decided to watch it. And i like your spirit. You are setting a good example for many people that a movie doesnt have to be good to like it.
that whole thing was rly funny lol, the only comment I have otherwise is tto you "Unplugging the controller won't shut off the system" for an NES....are you sure you ever had a NES? If a fly sat on it the wrong way the NES could "bug" out at any moment (see what I did there lol), but your right that it wouldn't just shut off lol
Also, when the dad is playing that game while their car is getting fixed (Where unplugging the controller apparently makes the TV fuzzy) When they left they left the AC adapter.. Not really a mistake but yeah.
And the sound it made when Jimmy warped is completely different than the actual game.
It's official - this is something we should've gotten on the official DVD release of the movie. I think they could've included this as part of a "trivia subtitle" track like they did with the "Back to the Future" DVDs. I guess they could try to include something like this if they ever decide to release the movie on Blu-ray (and as such, put out an adjacent DVD release to that).
@bobbykerschner Because there's a difference between a movie that clearly takes creative licenses with biology and a movie that simply didn't do the research.
@mtarantino42 It is never mentioned anywhere in the film that the competition is using a scoring system other than the one used in the actual game. Also, during gameplay scenes, the score is clearly not going up any differently from the way it normally would.
@Loogaroo1 It is obvious they were doing scoring different from the game cause they would give you scores for warping and take away for dying it was their own scoring.
@tisokan And yet, there seems to be no bonuses awarded when Jimmy enters the warp (he has the same score before as he does after) or penalties for dying (in fact, his score goes UP when he dies - TWICE). The only time the two scores are in sync is between levels when no scoring is taking place. And what would be the point of having a different scoring format from the original game, anyway?
@Loogaroo1 eh They failed at everything gaming but entertained anyways but it would make more since to give different scoring like using warps and stuff since its a new game bonuses for finding new things :D
@KaLeLMvZ It takes at least a second to reach the first coin block, though, and you'd score 100 points off of it. Their scores instantaneously start going up in increments of 50.
at 2:09 Christian Slater should have been playing Skate or Die, T&C Surf Design or any NES game where you were avenging his brothers death seeing as he was in Gleaming the Cube around the same time as this. Eh, Idea how about Jet Grind Radio for Dreamcast because he was in Pump up the Volume..Ha Ha
My brother used to work as a hint hotline helper....the games you see playing by themselves are there to assist the operators in helping those who call. Theyre literally programmed game cartridges that play flawlessly.
Question is, would the producers have enough savvy to acquire those cartridges, or did they just record game footage on tape and play it back from a VCR or something. My guess is the latter.
they probably did have some kind of working deal with nintendo considering they plugged the hell out of NES in this movie. I'm sure nintendo would have been willing to give them copies of those games (which may have cost $50 each at most then) for the advertising.
Semi-serious answer: during the first level, Jimmy discovers that there's a power-up that allows Mario to fly. So when he's in the fortress, he tries to fly in the spot where he gets the leaf, and stumbles upon the whistle.
As for the flute, they must've figured it worked like the whistle from Zelda.
I dunno. Maybe. That's the most plausible answer I can think of.
regardless the is still the greatest advertisement -- errr - i mean video game film ever - it was teh first time super mario 3 was shown and boy did we all go nuts for it
ALSO you forgot a mistake at the end battle - when there being chased around trying to get jimmy at the competition - they announce over the intercom that there is 3 minutes left (i forgot the exact min but im close) but the clock shows 9 or 10 minutes
That has nothing to do with NES gameplay. There is indeed a mistake in the countdown to the finals where 2 minutes are announced on the clock when it very clearly has only 1 minute left. But it's not a gameplay error, so it isn't on here.
youre wrong on 2:50 if you remember when u leave a game on most games will play a little demo by themselves - it was used so when stores had just recieved a game they could advertise it by the windows and get kids to drool over it
Neither Ninja Gaiden, nor Super Mario 2, nor TMNT use gameplay demos when left unattended after being powered on. In any event, I don't think Nintendo counselors would have an NES in their cubicle just to cycle through the same game's demo all day.
Who knew lucas would grow up to be a registered sex offender? ironic.
DLarson1083 5 days ago
yea and what
MrBoreed 1 week ago
I noticed something else. The game he's playing in the F1 Dream cabinet isn't F1 Dream.
ZeetherKID77 1 week ago
Getting 50000 on Double Dragon was met with astonishment at least. Even Corey mentions that Jimmy was only playing for five minutes, while pretty much asking how the fuck Jimmy got 50000. PFM.
user1point0 3 weeks ago
The Stars and Wraps you get points for that
britainmalbangkok 3 weeks ago
Who cares, its just a movie... .Get over it... LOL!!
ctu2010 1 month ago
Well... one of the first times I played the World 1 castle, I found the warp whistle without knowing it, just by wondering what could be up there. Maybe he did the same.
Individuo80 1 month ago
@Individuo80 No, You found out from watching the movie.
britainmalbangkok 3 weeks ago
@britainmalbangkok I've never watched The Wizard (fortunately). Honest, man. I just wanted to know if there was something up there since I had this flying power and wanted to try it everywhere. And of course I didn't it the VERY first time I got there.
Individuo80 3 weeks ago
@Individuo80 The Wizard was the best video game movie ever. Well. that is possible I guess.
britainmalbangkok 3 weeks ago
3:47, the nod and the beep for the comment were synced...well done, Loog
jorgovan21 1 month ago
Is that General Landry from Stargate?
ShadowIsatis 1 month ago
IT'S A FUCKING MOVIE QUIT YOUR BITCHING
luigi112344 1 month ago
If Jimmy DID score 50000 on Double Dragon, that should be the high score when Haley plays, not 25200.
rollercoaster87 1 month ago
@rollercoaster87 I'll bet a PlayChoice-10 does a hard reset whenever it starts a game, thus clearing out any high scores.
Loogaroo1 1 month ago
Anyone who criticizes this video is an idiot. The Wizard was a terrible movie and while I don't care when the games are playing themselves, some of the things they said that the uploader pointed out are really careless errors. How hard is it to find out such simple things like the correct music, or where bosses are? I liked how you pointed these flaws out, great vid.
jrosereveiws 1 month ago
They should use the nintendo world championship point system in the first part, but i think this movie maybe came first. The SMB 3 part should be something more accurate, like who finish the first world first, or something like that... Anyway, Is very probable the people who made this movie knew NOTHING about games.
yusukeelric 2 months ago
I agree with @Philomortis about the facts. They were fun to know and in know way ruin the film for me. As an avid gamer even at that time I knew they were not really playing those games. But as a film maker I can understand the reasons they left out a lot of those details. Anyway keep up the commentating, it was fun.
jms20211 2 months ago
Are u serious? Lol, you should be a director then, you're looking too deep into the movie, just enjoy it
msseniar 2 months ago
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Choncy21 2 months ago
at 6:11 it appears that he uses the flute from the castle. the map shows the castle where he got the flute right before they show him in the castle.
joeyDHARMA83 2 months ago
um... it's a movie. this particular movie came out previous to the release of smb3. it was basically a huge ad for the game at the end. of course they didn't want to show the world the game in it's entirety they could have a point sytem that was based on progress plus points. basically the further you are in the game the better. that's what they are suggesting so there IS a way of knowing how the points are allocated. movies often suggest things and save time.
joeyDHARMA83 2 months ago
i always knew that nes counsellors had master cartridges
MrToystory2000 2 months ago
Jimmy Woods blows dick. I can kick his punk ass on any game. Either Fred Savage is blind or Jimmy hacked Double Dragon in 40 seconds cuz you can't get 50000 that fast. Also how the hell he know where the flute is in a UNRELEASED game? Bitch ass cheater didn't even deserve his win. Lucas would have won if Jimmy did not get the flute.
ContraCommando 3 months ago
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vegetaum 3 months ago
This video was a really entertaining watch, thanks for sharing all these facts in a nice way like this. I was really wondering about accuracy when I saw parts of this film again recently. Great work!
Philomortis 3 months ago
Umm...actually at the beginning of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, that IS the correct music. I own the game and have played it enough to know.
InusSonCurtis 3 months ago
@InusSonCurtis As I mentioned before, they use the side-scrolling music for the top-down screen.
Loogaroo1 3 months ago
@InusSonCurtis Im sure is other music . The music played was the Level 1 music. In that part the overworld stage should play.
yusukeelric 2 months ago
@InusSonCurtis:
You're wrong. Its the wrong music and it becomes painfully obvious that none of the people were actually 'playing' the games, they just had whatever games playing themselves.
jcdenton2k 2 months ago
The whole premise of the tourny is wrong. No one ever pays any attention to points scored. If they did, you wouldn't rush to find the warp zone. You'd hit every brick, stomp every enemy, and grab every coin.
jimmykinkade 3 months ago
@jimmykinkade Actually, you'd just want to blaze through every level as fast as humanly possible - the enormous time bonus you'd get after each level would offset any points you'd miss out on during the level itself.
Loogaroo1 3 months ago
@jimmykinkade The Warps must be points then too.
britainmalbangkok 3 weeks ago
maybe you're the master and know better, or maybe you missed it, i dunno...but at 6:22 jimmy apparently has 7 lives, even after dying twice...?
rofflemows2 3 months ago
it would cool if they made an up-to-date version of this movie with all the popular games like street fighter,mortal kombat,tekken,etc
supasmashbro901 4 months ago
@supasmashbro901 Id say only if they are more accurate with what they say (they will not talk about points in mega man 3)
yusukeelric 2 months ago
I'm surprised you didn't try and correct Lucas and say the power glove is so "good." It's a movie (nintendo ad) and most films contain flaws. What you're doing takes the enjoyment out of the experience and might I suggest you find a job? :)
bacardipardy 4 months ago in playlist More videos from Loogaroo1
@bacardipardy Sheesh... it's called a parody, people. Lighten up.
(And I'm gainfully employed, thank you.)
Loogaroo1 4 months ago
@Loogaroo1 A book could be written on all the mistakes they did :-) but glad you pointed them out.
RageOfTheTiger 4 months ago
@Loogaroo1 This is not a parody. This is a commentary. But is is a lot of fun, and I'm glad you made it.
papayacatproductions 2 months ago 2
@bacardipardy:
STFU and GTFO.
You're commenting on YouTube videos, fucking hypocrite.
jcdenton2k 2 months ago
Another mistake people haven't noticed... This isn't a movie... It's a gigantic ad for nintendo. :P
MyHeadAsplodes 4 months ago
The Power Glove bit is even funnier now that the Wii, the Playstation Move, and Xbox Kinect do everything it didn't.
CaptainAshSpearow 4 months ago
The screen read closer to 30,000 when I saw it. Also, Roger Ebert played the TMNT game and made to level 2; thus making the level 3 statement wrong (even moreso when you consider Ebert's now-famous nongaming stance).
CaptainAshSpearow 4 months ago
@CaptainAshSpearow Not so. Sam explains that he "almost beat the Mecha Turtle at the end of level 3". Meaning he lost, and he's starting a new game.
Loogaroo1 4 months ago
@Loogaroo1 That's a good defense on paper. Still, it's a rather egregious mistake.
CaptainAshSpearow 4 months ago
i dont care about the mistakes i love that movie
Karmanade99 5 months ago
It's a movie, that's why...simple as that. So are you telling me (cause I bet you're a fan of these movies) that Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings could be real? Come on...get lost.
Or off the top of my head...a movie like Terminator...human acting/looking robots, time travel..and now that we've mentioned time travel...I guess you're mad at the Back to the Future movies?
harrism84 5 months ago
@harrism84 Read my description. Everyone knows it's "just a movie". The point is, all of these mistakes could've been avoided if the screenwriter, director, producer, or anyone associated with the film had done even an ounce of research. Especially since they had a "Nintendo Consultant" on the payroll.
Loogaroo1 5 months ago 6
@Loogaroo1:
Nobody gave a shit for the same reason nobody gave a shit about making good video-game-based movies or movie-based games. It would make a crapton of money no matter what, just by showing something that was unknown/unreleased.
Of course, SMB3 is so good that to this day, decades later, still one of the best Mario games of all time! OF ALL TIME! =D
jcdenton2k 2 months ago
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harrism84 5 months ago
This movie was just made for marketing NES games....haha
DoubleGarfunkelDown 5 months ago
VERY THEROW AND COOL TO KNOW- I JUST WATCHED IT AGAIN AFTER 13 YRS AND THAT SCORING SYSTEM AT THE END WAS PRETTY LAME HOW THEY SET IT UP- BUT IT WAS COOL WHEN I WAS 10 haha
HWEisRISING 5 months ago
I don't think it was a mistake when the annoucer said they now enter world two. Yeah its world 1-3, but its the second world they showed them entered. Its obvious that they completed other levels in order to raise the player's scores for the final total. That's why you see level 1-5 completed.
And for those who said they can score more in 10 minutes. Yeah you can now, but you wouldn't have if it was the first time you were ever playing the game.
AyumuNarumi75 5 months ago
@AyumuNarumi75 Maybe I should put a stopwatch to the finals to see if everything was happening in real time or they were fudging it.
Loogaroo1 5 months ago
@Loogaroo1 I agree they fudged the end. I was just pointing out that it was suppose to be like Jimmy warped right after he got the whistle. Warping isn't worth any points, so they had to get extra points from somewhere. So they completed 1-5 to drive up his score, and acted like he got those points from warping. They should have moved Mario back onto the mini-fortress, and it would have been a little harder to notice that 1-5 was completed.
AyumuNarumi75 5 months ago
Are you peple serious..it's just a movie
MarioMania05 5 months ago
Ugh, they didn't pay any attention to detail while they were making this.
Fatcatnevercameback 5 months ago
Yay for random mistakes on a friggin' AD DISGUISED AS A MOVIE.
Pirlname 5 months ago
"I love the Power Glove. It's so bad."
Yes... Yes it was.
CrystalxKyuubi 5 months ago
@CrystalxKyuubi LOL thats what he should have put in the video as a mistake.
PowerGlove79 5 months ago
since we're doign this "not an nes game" is grammaticaly incorrect irony
DuskBeforeDawn2008 6 months ago
that is not the wrong music to ninja turtles
levisgamereviews1 6 months ago
@levisgamereviews1 They're using the side-scrolling music for the overhead screen.
Loogaroo1 6 months ago
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levisgamereviews1 6 months ago
@Loogaroo1 sorry i stand corrected
levisgamereviews1 6 months ago
There's also the question of even if the warp whistle did affect score, how the hell did Fred Savage know to get it? The game didn't come out for another several months.
TimStarz03 6 months ago
The tournament was not on players scores if I recollect.
Also since Super Mario Bros. 3 was just new at the time, more so just testing I think some of the levels were changed.
1-2 was 1-3
1-3 was 1-4
1-4 was 1-2
But that does beg the question:
1) gaining points for dying
2) clearing action panel 5 in no time
3) getting midway through 4-1 instantly.
VanillaLimeCoke 6 months ago
@VanillaLimeCoke If you can find a reference for this, I'll post a correction.
Loogaroo1 6 months ago
leave your fucking house lol
MrYoichiii 6 months ago
@MrYoichiii Werd
funChick84 6 months ago
or maybe, the contest they were at scores differently for different things, not for the actual points in the game, come on man, smh
annahmnguyen 7 months ago
@annahmnguyen Come on what? There's absolutely no indication that that's true ("Get the Star, Jimmy! It's worth 10,000 bonus points!") and a movie that gets this many things wrong about its source material can't just make up its own scoring system and not tell the audience.
Loogaroo1 7 months ago
:37 Milla Jovovich
OkayWhoBroughtTheDog 7 months ago
Haha, The WIzard wasn't a movie with a commercial for Nintendo in it, it was a Nintendo commercial with a movie in it.
ufotofu9 7 months ago
Who cares I watched the movie because i enjoy it. So quit your bitchin and just enjoy it....cry baby!!
R6carter 7 months ago
@R6carter You don't understand, I enjoy the movie as well. I just think it's funny how many things are obviously wrong.
Loogaroo1 7 months ago
I beat his score in 10 minutes.By over 10000 pts.
As a matter of fact,I BEAT this game!
raceman1996 7 months ago
He's not on the 6th palace...He's on the overworld map!
raceman1996 7 months ago
3:24 It sounds like Zelda II:The Adventure of Link.
raceman1996 7 months ago
Around 2:48 it sounds like Ninja Gaiden.
raceman1996 7 months ago
I think that the scoring system is by how far u get
matt165165 8 months ago
@matt165165 In which case, Jimmy would've lapped the field as soon as he found the Warp Zone.
Loogaroo1 8 months ago
@Loogaroo1 that is true, it was pretty much a close call between all three competitors at the end. whatever, i dont know what they were trying to do. Nice vid btw
matt165165 8 months ago
Maybe you have to blow in the DVD - it's possible that the movie just needs a good cleaning.
TheHermanoBluth 8 months ago 8
Despite the gaming goofs, it's still the best video game movie and video game commercial ever.
TuckerswordsINC 8 months ago
I'm a gamer too & from what I've heard about this movie, it appears that the whole point of the movie is to tell a story of a kid who can do the impossible in video games (and promote SMB3). The impossibility of his feats add to the effect that this kid's just freaking amazing at these games, or a "wizard" as they call him.
Video games = unrealistic.
Movies = unrealistic.
Movie + Video games = really f*****g unrealistic.
Therefore all of your arguments are invalid from that perspective. :)
awesomnator 8 months ago
Jimmy = new.Jimmy(over9000);
sleepy3d 8 months ago
It is to note that "F-1 Dream" is the only non-NES game being played in this movie.
sonicmario64 8 months ago
wow double dragon ninja turtles ninja gaiden
Sailorchunli17 8 months ago
LoL Jimmy's face is like: i don't give a crap now leave me allone
pongboy1100 9 months ago
oh yeah, the TMNT music is sped up, trust me i know i got the original cart
JDster4ever 9 months ago
@JDster4ever
Out of curiosity, are you in the United Kingdom? Cos over in the PAL regions, the reason why your music may sound slower is because PAL machines generally run slower than NTSC machines.
VikutaaChyaaruzu 8 months ago
@VikutaaChyaaruzu
and the game was first released in the U.S. of A., if I rightly recall.
VikutaaChyaaruzu 8 months ago
@VikutaaChyaaruzu yeh im in the UK lol
JDster4ever 7 months ago
@JDster4ever
I figured.
VikutaaChyaaruzu 7 months ago
9 people lost the game
LegendarySilverWolf 9 months ago
For the one where Jimmy and Haley should be playing co-op on Double Dragon, it wouldn't be fair. I've seen eps of a show called Video Power where they played co-op TMNT 2 at the end where one player was a point hog since they kept killing the enemies
TKnHappyNess 9 months ago
@TKnHappyNess The first Double Dragon didn't have a co-op mode, though. The two players just took turns.
Loogaroo1 9 months ago
The late 80's what a beautiful time
sr3881234 9 months ago
1:55 That's why he said, "it's so bad"!
7ruthie 9 months ago
The Power Glove sucked
gopconservative78 10 months ago
Congratulations for pointing out the flaws of a 22 yr old film that stars Fred Savage. Big man.
spacecayote 10 months ago
50000 on Double dragon? ... IT'S OVER 9000 !!!
exotszm 11 months ago 8
@exotszm AH SHUDDAP YOU BITCH NET NERD. FUCK THAT GAY ASS NERDY QUOTE THAT IS OVERUSED.
ContraCommando 3 months ago
Who gives a shit, it's fuckin movie. IT'S FICTION!
Sublime4TizzLe 11 months ago
IT'S HOLLYWOOD! We all know all films are edited for dramatic effect! I've been playing NES since it came out in the mid eighties and I love this film! It's ninety odd minutes of pure nostalgia. Of course it's gonna be full of small inaccuracies, just enjoy the film and stop picking holes lol
BigBadDangerousDave 11 months ago
@ultimenthero Two words: Power Magazines. Those things were freaking omniscient back in the day.
Loogaroo1 1 year ago
@Loogaroo1 your forgot the most important one. Getting 82000 points in 10 minutes blind is as easy as finding the wooden sword in LOZ
Jopo1226 7 months ago
damn dident realised how many things is wrong in this movie
ARAGON1009 1 year ago
If they rewarded Jimmy points for dying twice in SMB3,it would be interesting what his score would be if Jimmy got a game over on purpose....just saying!
iristhevampiress 1 year ago
The Wizard is one of those So Bad It's Good movies, in my opinion, and I think analyzing this movie to see how sadly incorrect its portrayal of video games is only makes it better. I never thought about how Jimmy is capable of playing so much SMB3 in TWO EFFING SECONDS. :)
glmathgrant 1 year ago
@glmathgrant But see, he was playing a special version of the game! One where the scoring was different, warp whistles are easily obtained, and entire portions of various levels are merely skipped over for editing purposes! Don't you get it?
Loogaroo1 1 year ago
At 3:07 the guy in the yellow shirt, his NES has something plugged into it maybe thats what your talking about i guess?
EODChaosWo1f 1 year ago
Very good observations, but I will say, movies and time passed on the movie screen does not correlate to actual time passed in the game.
Also, I remember watching this as a kid and some of the inconsistencies actually made the games more interesting to me since it added a extra mystery of 'hmm, do they know something I don't?'.
Hah, and we can laugh now at M3 but every kid watching was hyperventilating at just the fact that M3 was coming!
at1212b 1 year ago
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Thanks for this video, it was entertaining to watch and the comments where good. It's too bad the makers of this movie could give a crap about the nintendo. If somthing like this happened in todays times (like an xbox 360 movie) the makers would be crusified for every detail of misinformation. Luckly for the wizard, the internet was not avalable back then, or at least not like it is now.
Undurrrdog1 1 year ago
Thanks for this video, it was entertaining to watch and the comments where good. It's too bad the makers of this movie could give a crap about the nintendo. If somthing like this happened in todays times (like an xbox 360 movie) the makes would crusified for every detail of misinformation. Luckly for the wizard, the internet was not avalable back then, or at least not like it is now.
Undurrrdog1 1 year ago
Another "mistake": SMB3 was released in Japan in Oct. 1988, and this movie was released in Dec. 1989, and assuming the Video Armageddon tournament was set in 1989 (a fair assumption since Lucas's Power Glove was released in '89), then SMB3 wasn't a "brand new game nobody had seen before" like the announcer said. Any contestant could have just flown to Japan beforehand, got a copy of SMB3 and mastered it before the tournament (or had a Japanese friend mail it to them). I would have!
cloudeleven 1 year ago
@cloudeleven Okay......I doubt there were to many people in the US who owned a Japanese Famicon in 1989. Might as well say that a player from Japan(who is a master at SMB 3) should have bought a ticket to the US, and tried to enter the tournament.
AyumuNarumi75 5 months ago
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cloudeleven 1 year ago
You are the only person I have ever said this to with sincerity, but you are the biggest fucking dork ever. Congratulations, it's just a movie ya dork.....
odetofall1 1 year ago
Holy crap, they suck horrible at this game. Dying twice on world 1-3? Wow... Rofl.
Lishy1 1 year ago
Good vid -- seriously, if a frakking VIDEO GAME MOVIE can't get their video games right, there's something seriously wrong.
cypher515 1 year ago
"Go ahead *slams hand on controller* PLAY" Man fred savage is a dick.
superdonkeykonglogan 1 year ago
@superdonkeykonglogan lol i was thinkin the same thing
redbook233 1 year ago
THE SCROLL WEAPON FUCK YEAH
segmentationfault 1 year ago
About The Rad Racer Scene, I Think That's Why He Said The Power's Glove Is So Bad!
7ruthie 1 year ago
lol i laughed at all the mistakes nintendo made XD
mattias005 1 year ago
2:27 not allright, look at the way he is using the controller, he is not playing the game
dragonnutds 1 year ago
It always got me how the whole world saw SMB 3 for the first time and Jimmy just happens to know that secret part of the 1st castle. 1st time playing the game and he knows to go to the ceiling? WHAT XD
Darklurkr 1 year ago
I think he meant links adventures not a specific game
gamemasterAJ 1 year ago
the knowing of the warp IMO is based on it being similar to SMB1 and the hidden warps in it
erenelliekush 1 year ago
The reason the scoring doesnt make sense at the end is because they tried to advertise features of SMB3 as much as possible instead of details. I guess they thought nobody would ever notice.
xFIRERUSHx 1 year ago
I just think you're being way too critical of a movie where there were actors who were given script to read and who didn't play video games. Hell they probably had one person to give them info on games and he probably wasn't even the most intelligent guy. Plus the movie is over 20 years old.
JordanBreenDavis 1 year ago
@JordanBreenDavis Critical? That's awful harsh. I'm just pointing out the very obvious mistakes is all. This is actually one of my favorite movies.
Loogaroo1 1 year ago
@Loogaroo1 favorite movies. lol. the acting is terrible. the adults act like 3 year olds while the kids act like 40 year olds! I have no idea why but whenever I watch this movie i think of 2 other movies. Pee Wees big adventure and Star Wars: A New Hope! Maybe its the characters or the plot or something. But hey, Kids dont go to a death star or masturbate in a theater in public. If you dont know the joke, the actor who played pee wee masturbated in a theatre in the early 90s.
xFIRERUSHx 1 year ago
@xFIRERUSHx 1) I know the joke.
2) I've seen the Nostalgia Critic review; no need to regurgitate it for me.
3) I know it's a bad movie. Doesn't mean I can't like it for being so corny.
Loogaroo1 1 year ago
@Loogaroo1 well it really is my opinion. I actually watched the movie before i saw the NC Review. I saw the AVGN episode and decided to watch it. And i like your spirit. You are setting a good example for many people that a movie doesnt have to be good to like it.
xFIRERUSHx 1 year ago
nice vid, but who cares, still love this film :)
drunkwrestler 1 year ago
it makes no sense how the jimmy kid knows where the flute is if its the first time he plays
phattony1111 1 year ago
that whole thing was rly funny lol, the only comment I have otherwise is tto you "Unplugging the controller won't shut off the system" for an NES....are you sure you ever had a NES? If a fly sat on it the wrong way the NES could "bug" out at any moment (see what I did there lol), but your right that it wouldn't just shut off lol
mrshinypant 1 year ago
@mrshinypant From my experience, something like that may cause the game to lock up, but it certainly wouldn't cause the console to power down.
Loogaroo1 1 year ago
@Loogaroo1 hee, thats true lol
mrshinypant 1 year ago
the funny thing is that i dont care! It's still a good movie!
Ozo194 1 year ago
Also, when the dad is playing that game while their car is getting fixed (Where unplugging the controller apparently makes the TV fuzzy) When they left they left the AC adapter.. Not really a mistake but yeah.
And the sound it made when Jimmy warped is completely different than the actual game.
haloman800 1 year ago
It takes the entire game to get 50k on Double Dragon....if you're lucky.
Also, SMB3 had been in Japan for a year, debunking the MC's claim that *no one* had ever played it before.
reivenlocke 1 year ago
It's official - this is something we should've gotten on the official DVD release of the movie. I think they could've included this as part of a "trivia subtitle" track like they did with the "Back to the Future" DVDs. I guess they could try to include something like this if they ever decide to release the movie on Blu-ray (and as such, put out an adjacent DVD release to that).
FroggoFan651 1 year ago
why don't you just post scenes of jurassic park and say that dinosaurs can't be cloned
bobbykerschner 1 year ago
@bobbykerschner Because there's a difference between a movie that clearly takes creative licenses with biology and a movie that simply didn't do the research.
Loogaroo1 1 year ago
I agree
Cooldudeguy6 1 year ago
You have got to be some type of geek!
thepoolrgoingup 1 year ago
Good but the knights thing Is a special scoring system not the in game point count
mtarantino42 1 year ago
@mtarantino42 It is never mentioned anywhere in the film that the competition is using a scoring system other than the one used in the actual game. Also, during gameplay scenes, the score is clearly not going up any differently from the way it normally would.
Loogaroo1 1 year ago
@Loogaroo1 It is obvious they were doing scoring different from the game cause they would give you scores for warping and take away for dying it was their own scoring.
tisokan 1 year ago
@tisokan And yet, there seems to be no bonuses awarded when Jimmy enters the warp (he has the same score before as he does after) or penalties for dying (in fact, his score goes UP when he dies - TWICE). The only time the two scores are in sync is between levels when no scoring is taking place. And what would be the point of having a different scoring format from the original game, anyway?
Loogaroo1 1 year ago
@Loogaroo1 eh They failed at everything gaming but entertained anyways but it would make more since to give different scoring like using warps and stuff since its a new game bonuses for finding new things :D
tisokan 1 year ago
@loogaroo1 and they skip a bit, so you dont know if he is starting where she left of, we just see that he has 27000 points not 25000 ;)
tranceaction82 1 year ago
the fault at 0:40 isnt a fault. she plays single first, then him..
tranceaction82 1 year ago
@tranceaction82 And Jimmy then starts his game at Mission 3 with 25,000 points?
Loogaroo1 1 year ago
you sure have ALOT of backup points
Cooldudeguy6 1 year ago
@KaLeLMvZ It takes at least a second to reach the first coin block, though, and you'd score 100 points off of it. Their scores instantaneously start going up in increments of 50.
Loogaroo1 1 year ago
1:55 LUCAS!!! *CHIKA CHIKAAAAHHHH!*
Skoringo 1 year ago
Lucas: I love the power glove, its so bad.
Oh how right Lucas was.
Ashkihyena 1 year ago
at 2:09 Christian Slater should have been playing Skate or Die, T&C Surf Design or any NES game where you were avenging his brothers death seeing as he was in Gleaming the Cube around the same time as this. Eh, Idea how about Jet Grind Radio for Dreamcast because he was in Pump up the Volume..Ha Ha
TwinCityKillaz 1 year ago
at the final conest they must of been scoring by a different way. not by game score by a scoring the conest writer made up
DYLZAL 1 year ago
Lol, this movie is broken.
lisamariefan 2 years ago 15
My brother used to work as a hint hotline helper....the games you see playing by themselves are there to assist the operators in helping those who call. Theyre literally programmed game cartridges that play flawlessly.
samdonelly7 2 years ago
Question is, would the producers have enough savvy to acquire those cartridges, or did they just record game footage on tape and play it back from a VCR or something. My guess is the latter.
Loogaroo1 2 years ago
lol...more than likely, they filmed this at an actual Nintendo station.
samdonelly7 2 years ago
NOA was never listed as one of their filming locations.
Loogaroo1 2 years ago
@Loogaroo1
they probably did have some kind of working deal with nintendo considering they plugged the hell out of NES in this movie. I'm sure nintendo would have been willing to give them copies of those games (which may have cost $50 each at most then) for the advertising.
gameshowfreak2007 1 year ago
another thing, if SMB3 was a game no one played during that time, how the hell did they know things like secret areas and the flute
asmithii2287 2 years ago
Semi-serious answer: during the first level, Jimmy discovers that there's a power-up that allows Mario to fly. So when he's in the fortress, he tries to fly in the spot where he gets the leaf, and stumbles upon the whistle.
As for the flute, they must've figured it worked like the whistle from Zelda.
I dunno. Maybe. That's the most plausible answer I can think of.
Loogaroo1 2 years ago
regardless the is still the greatest advertisement -- errr - i mean video game film ever - it was teh first time super mario 3 was shown and boy did we all go nuts for it
Chitownrunthis 2 years ago
ALSO you forgot a mistake at the end battle - when there being chased around trying to get jimmy at the competition - they announce over the intercom that there is 3 minutes left (i forgot the exact min but im close) but the clock shows 9 or 10 minutes
Chitownrunthis 2 years ago
That has nothing to do with NES gameplay. There is indeed a mistake in the countdown to the finals where 2 minutes are announced on the clock when it very clearly has only 1 minute left. But it's not a gameplay error, so it isn't on here.
Loogaroo1 2 years ago
youre wrong on 2:50 if you remember when u leave a game on most games will play a little demo by themselves - it was used so when stores had just recieved a game they could advertise it by the windows and get kids to drool over it
Chitownrunthis 2 years ago
Neither Ninja Gaiden, nor Super Mario 2, nor TMNT use gameplay demos when left unattended after being powered on. In any event, I don't think Nintendo counselors would have an NES in their cubicle just to cycle through the same game's demo all day.
Loogaroo1 2 years ago