Movie Games: The Introduction

Ever since I was old enough to know what the POWER button does, I was a video game fanatic. I grew up in the golden era of the Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision ... damn, I’m old. But I was born at just the right time to chart the evolution of the modern video game. Hell, my dad even worked in a Radio Shack and, yes, once brought home an amazingly clunky Pong system. I wasn’t TRULY infected by the movie bug until I was about 14, but I was a wizened old video game junkie by that point. (And yet I still had time to eat, sleep, and read books. I was like a prodigy or something.) So yeah: My two passions have always been movies and video games. Unfortunately, things don’t always work out so well when people turn video games into movies -- but I thought it might be fun to flip that equation the other way. As in, a semi-regular feature in which I (or someone else) focuses on a video game that has something to do with mov...