The Shining Computer Game Footage from 1982 (recorded from Betamax tape)

The poorly pitched Shining computer game from 1982. This family party game was released for the holiday season on the Atari 2600, but failed to sell due to scenes of gratuitous violence and a nausa inducing atmosphere.

Within half an hour of playing, children were reported to start shaking and hallucinating.

Talk of the game being re-released on the 3DO system never came to fruitition.

However, Stanley Kubrick was said to be a great fan of the title and held the high score for level 6 (the infamous axe/door speed test) for 5 years.

this footage was recovered from an old Betamax tape I purchased from a car boot sale i

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• Happytoast
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• The Shining
• Old games
• retro game
• Shining computer game
• parody
• comedy
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[AlmightyDeided]

This was an amazing game. I got it but lost it 16 years ago... spent several years mourning its loss. Was I seriously the only one who bought it?

[HappyToaster]

I saw a copy on EBay a while back, there are a few still changing hands

[exactomacto]

I remember playing this once... Very underrated game. I think they destroyed most of the copies though.

[fastandfurryous]

are you REALLY that dense?

[mageodarkness]

almost had me for bit there :P

[endimion17]

@Emrald70 You're not the sharpest tool in the drawer, are you?

[docsis3]

ha ha you had me at first , but then it just got silly .. you got too greedy.

[depauleable]

does it really exist or is it fake?

[fisk0]

@mrnathangunn yeah, had the description said it was a 1994 FMV game, it probably would have fooled most people. While it was funny, it just went way too far with the anachronisms.

[MoJoSB]

Brilliant!

[MrZerostr]

I laughed when it said "Happy games" underneath "The Shining"

[imtrollinyou1111]

its super mario



[mrnathangunn]

It seems many people have forgotten what video games from the early 80's really looked like. definitely not like this. can anyone say "E.T. the extra terrestrial"?

[Emrald70]

this sucks so much i'm now skeptical if it was a real game

or just some poorly put 2gether collecton of images the guy on this channel threw together in his spare time

u'l have to do better if u want to convince me of the fomer :P