Pixar’s got Brave coming out soon, but after that? Wreck-It Ralph, which has a trailer that’s just a tiny bit like The Truman Show‘s—thanks, in part, to some well-deployed Talking Heads. Not a bad touchstone, there, and then PAC-MAN GHOST and Q*BERT and BOWSER and etc. It’s like a goddamn Roger Rabbit for videogames, which—considering Pixar will likely back it up with great original characters and a solid story—I am 100 percent okay with.

(UPDATE: Because I’m an idiot, because it’s Disney, and because I thought this looked good, I assumed Pixar was involved. They are not. Which, yes, somewhat dims my expectations. Because Disney is not, shall we say, reliable, or at least they certainly aren’t in the way that Pixar is. Still—it still looks good! WE SHALL SEE.)

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2 replies on “<i>Wreck-It Ralph</i> Hits Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start, Goes Directly to Nostalgia Level”

  1. You mention Pixar, but I didn’t see the little lamp anywhere. Looked at the wikipedia page and no pixar to be found there either. This is purely Disney.

  2. @EliyahuPDX: Dammit, you’re right. I’m an idiot—the Disney logo came up, but then the trailer actually looked good, so I assumed Pixar was involved. I’ll fix the post. Thanks!

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