Sunday, 13 January 2013

Wreck-it Ralph games come to life

When I originally saw the trailer for Disney's Wreck-it Ralph, I thought, "Oh wow, that's an old game to suddenly make into a film." Of course, it wasn't, because the Fix-it Felix Jr. game that features in the movie didn't exist before the movie. However, Disney went to extraordinary lengths to make it seem like a real old arcade machine, even going so far as to make a batch of arcade cabinets, complete with battered veneer. They even came up with a fake arcade manufacturer for it - TobiKomi.

Chances are you'll never see an actual Fix-it Felix cabinet, but thankfully you can play the game through your browser on Disney's website. It's a suitably simple, repetitive and addictive little game. Check out the link below:

http://www.disney.co.uk/disney-games/play/wreck-it-ralph

But that's not all, they also made commercials for all three of the fake arcade games that feature in the movie, so along with Felix-it Felix, there's Sugar Rush, a Mario Kart-style cute racing game, supposedly from 1997, and Hero's Duty, a light gun game from 2012 that seems to play like Time Crisis meets Starship Troopers. Check them all out below:




Gotta love the subtle references to inflation and the changing nature of arcades they've slipped into all three commercials.


Wreck-it Ralph is coming to UK cinemas on the 8th February.


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