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Double Switch (video Game)
''Double Switch'' is an adventure interactive movie video game originally released for Sega CD, Sega Saturn and Microsoft Windows and later remastered for mobile, Steam, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. The game was produced by Digital Pictures and has a similar "trap-em-up" format to '' Space Panic'', '' Heiankyo Alien'', and Digital Pictures's earlier game, '' Night Trap''. Apart from the HUD, the graphics consist of live action full motion video clips starring Corey Haim. Cast * Corey Haim as Eddie * Deborah Harry as Elizabeth * Camille Cooper as Alex * R. Lee Ermey as Lyle the Handyman * Irwin Keyes as Brutus * David Packer as Jeff * Wendy Gazelle as Phoebe * Kimberly Oja as Laura * Taylor Negron as Slick Sammy Storyline The game takes place in an apartment complex called the Edward Arms, which was built by the famous industrialist Lionel Atwater Edward III at the turn of the 20th Century. Built following an archaeological expedition to the Valley of the Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Pictures
Digital Pictures was an American video game developer founded in 1991 by Lode Coen, Mark Klein, Ken Melville, Anne Flaut-Reed, Kevin Welsh and Tom Zito. The company originated from an attempt to produce a game for the cancelled VHS-based NEMO game system. One of its first titles, '' Night Trap'', was originally produced as a title for the NEMO, before being converted for use with Sega's new Sega CD. The mature-themed content of ''Night Trap'' made it the source of some controversy. Nevertheless, the title was a bestseller. Digital Pictures went on to create other full motion video-based titles primarily for Sega hardware, and are regarded as a pioneer of the interactive movie genre. The company declined in the mid-1990s due to waning interest in full motion video games. Its final title, '' Maximum Surge'', went unreleased and was later repurposed into a film called ''Game Over''. Full motion video games The founders of Digital Pictures met in the late 1980s while working at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile Game
A mobile game is a video game that is typically played on a mobile phone. The term also refers to all games that are played on any Mobile device, portable device, including from mobile phone (feature phone or smartphone), tablet computer, tablet, Personal digital assistant, PDA to handheld game console, portable media player or graphing calculator, with and without network availability. The earliest known game on a mobile phone was a Tetris variant on the Hagenuk MT-2000 device from 1994. In 1997, Nokia launched ''Snake (1998 video game), Snake''. ''Snake'', which was Pre-installed software, pre-installed in most mobile devices manufactured by Nokia for a couple of years, has since become one of the most played games, at one point found on more than 350 million devices worldwide. Mobile devices became more computationally advanced allowing for downloading of games, though these were initially limited to phone carriers' own stores. Mobile gaming grew greatly with the development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Negron
Brad Stephen "Taylor" Negron (August 1, 1957 – January 10, 2015) was an American actor, comedian, writer and artist. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Albert in '' Punchline'' (1988) and as Milo in the 1991 action comedy '' The Last Boy Scout''. Early life Negron was born in Glendale, California, the son of Puerto Rican couple Lucy (''née'' Rosario) and Conrad Negron Sr. His cousin is singer and musician Chuck Negron, of Three Dog Night fame. He grew up in La Cañada Flintridge, California, and graduated from the University of California Los Angeles. Career Breaking into comedy, Hollywood Negron's career in comedy began while he was still in high school, with a stand-up performance at the Comedy Store in West Hollywood. After this appearance, Negron ventured into being a Hollywood extra, as well as a repeat contestant on Chuck Barris' ABC daytime show ''The Dating Game''. Before his film career began, Negron worked for dramatic and comedic legends Lee Stra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Gazelle
Wendy Gazelle is an American former actress, active from 1985 to 2009. Career Gazelle first film role was a minor role in the 1985 film '' Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins''. Gazelle had a small role in the 1995 movie '' The Net''. Personal life Gazelle married John Ales on 17 March 2001. Filmography Movies * 1985 - '' Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins'' * 1987 - ''Hot Pursuit'', '' Sammy and Rosie Get Laid'' * 1988 - '' The In Crowd'', '' The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II'' * 1989 - '' Triumph of the Spirit'' * 1991 - '' Queens Logic'', '' Crooked Hearts'' * 1994 - ''Benders'' * 1995 - '' The Net'' * 1997 - ''Dead Men Can't Dance'' TV Movies * 1993 - ''Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story'' * 1997 - ''Tell Me No Secrets'' Serials * 1987 - ''The Cosby Show'', '' Crime Story'' * 1992 - ''Brooklyn Bridge'' * 1995 - '' The Single Guy'' * 1996 - ''Chameleon'' * 1997 - ''Visitor'', '' Nothing Sacred'', ''Lawyers'' * 1999 – ''Doctors from LA'' , ''Get Real ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Packer (actor)
David Packer is an American actor. Early life He was born in Passaic, New Jersey. Career His first starring role was as the human collaborator Daniel Bernstein in the 1983 NBC miniseries '' V''. He reprised the role in the 1984 sequel '' V: The Final Battle''. During the first month of filming for ''V'', the 20-year-old Packer was present in the house when co-star Dominique Dunne was killed outside by her ex-boyfriend; he faced public criticism for not having done more to prevent Dunne's death. Showrunner Kenneth Johnson described in a 2023 interview that his other co-stars were "totally accepting of the fact that he had been a part of a tragedy, and that it was weighing on him", also describing how upset Packer was at Dunne's funeral. In the same interview lead actress Faye Grant is quoted as saying "I do want to point out that he was a child. He was a very young person when that happened. And he was frightened. And that’s really all I can say about that." Packer subseque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irwin Keyes
Irwin Keyes (March 16, 1952 – July 8, 2015) was an American actor and comedian, best known for his recurring role as Hugo on '' The Jeffersons''. He appeared in several films and several television series. Early life Keyes was born in New York on March 16, 1952. Keyes grew up in Amityville, New York and graduated from Amityville Memorial High School in 1970. He acted in his first play " The Lower Depths" by Maxim Gorky while attending college. Frequently cast as likable lugs, brutish goons, and imposing authority figures, Irwin acted in a diverse array of movies in such genres as horror, comedy, thriller, science fiction, and action. Keyes achieved his greatest popularity with his recurring role as oafish bodyguard Hugo Majelewski on the sitcom '' The Jeffersons.'' Among the TV shows that Irwin made guest appearances on are '' Laverne & Shirley, Police Squad!, Moonlighting, Married... with Children, thirtysomething, Growing Pains, Tales from the Crypt,'' and '' CSI: Crime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Harry
Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble, July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie. Four of her songs with the band reached on the US charts between 1979 and 1981. Born in Miami, Florida, Harry was adopted as an infant and raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. After college she worked various jobs—as a dancer, a Playboy Bunny, and a secretary (including at the BBC in New York)—before her breakthrough in the music industry. She co-formed Blondie in 1974 in New York City. The band released its eponymous debut studio album in 1976 and released three more studio albums between then and 1979, including ''Parallel Lines'', which spawned six singles, including " Heart of Glass". Their fifth studio album, '' Autoamerican'' (1980), produced hits including a cover of "The Tide Is High", and "Rapture", which is considered the first rap song to chart at number one in the United States. Harry released her debut solo studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corey Haim
Corey Ian Haim (December 23, 1971 – March 10, 2010) was a Canadian actor who rose to fame in the 1980s as a teen heartthrob. He starred in '' Silver Bullet'' (1985), '' Murphy's Romance'' (1985), '' Lucas'' (1986), '' License to Drive'' (1988) and '' Dream a Little Dream'' (1989). His role in '' The Lost Boys'' (1987) made him a household name. Known as The Two Coreys, Haim and Corey Feldman became 1980s icons and appeared together in seven films, later starring in the A&E American reality show '' The Two Coreys''. Haim's early success led to money and fame. He had difficulty breaking away from the trauma of his experience as a child actor and struggled with substance abuse. He faced numerous challenges in his adult life, including financial difficulties and ongoing battles with addiction. He died of pneumonia on March 10, 2010. Early life Haim was born on December 23, 1971, in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Judy Haim, an Israeli-born data processor, and Bernie Haim, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Full Motion Video
Full-motion video (FMV) is a video game narration technique that relies upon pre-recorded video files (rather than Sprite (computer graphics), sprites, vector graphics, vectors, or 3D models) to display action in the game. While many games feature FMVs as a way to present information during cutscenes, games that are primarily presented through FMVs are referred to as full-motion video games or interactive movies. Recent full motion video games often combine the use of CGI/green screens and in-game graphics for immersion. The early 1980s saw almost exclusive use of the LaserDisc for FMV games. Many arcade games used the technology but it was ultimately considered to be a fad and fell out of use. In the early 1990s FMV games had a resurgence of interest, the proliferation of optical discs gave rise to a slew of original FMV-based computer games such as ''Night Trap'' (1992), ''The 7th Guest'' (1993), ''Voyeur (video game), Voyeur'' (1993), ''Phantasmagoria (video game), Phan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Action
Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live action with animation to create a live-action animated feature film. Live action is used to define film, video games or similar visual media. Photorealistic animation, particularly modern computer animation, is sometimes erroneously described as "live action", as in the case of some media reports about Disney's remake of the traditionally animated '' The Lion King'' from 1994. According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, live action involves "real people or animals, not models, or images that are drawn, or produced by computer". Overview As the normal process of making visual media involves live action, the term itself is usually superfluous. However, it makes an important distinction in situations in which one might normally expect animation, such as when the work is adapted from a video game, or from an animated cartoon. The phrase "live action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HUD (video Gaming)
In video gaming, the HUD (heads-up display) or status bar is the method by which information is visually relayed to the player as part of a game's user interface. It takes its name from the head-up displays used in modern aircraft. The HUD is frequently used to simultaneously display several pieces of information including the player character's health points, items, and an indication of game progression (such as score or level). A HUD may also include elements to aid a player's navigation in the virtual space, such as a mini-map. Common elements While the information that is displayed on the HUD depends greatly on the game, there are many features that players recognize across many games. Most of them are static onscreen so that they stay visible during gameplay. Common features include: * Health/lives – this might include the player's character and possibly other important characters, such as allies or bosses. Real-time strategy games usually show the health of every uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Trap
''Night Trap'' is a 1992 interactive movie developed by Digital Pictures and published by Sega for the Sega CD. Presented primarily through full-motion video (FMV), ''Night Trap'' has the player observe teenage girls having a sleepover visiting a house which, unbeknownst to them, is infested with vampires. The player watches live surveillance footage and triggers traps to capture anyone endangering the girls. The player can switch between different cameras to keep watch over the girls and eavesdrop on conversations to follow the story and listen for clues. The ''Night Trap'' concept originated in a 1986 prototype game developed by Axlon to demonstrate their Control-Vision game console to Hasbro. The system used VHS tape technology to present film-like gaming experiences. With the system picked up by Hasbro, the production of ''Night Trap'' commenced. The video footage was recorded in 1987, followed by six months of editing and game programming. Hasbro suddenly canceled the Cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
