Play Halo at the Movies

modpod writes "According to Engadget, who reference an MSNBC article, a movie theater in Logan, Utah recently hooked up a few Xbox consoles to theater projectors, and is now regularly hosting Halo tournaments in the movie theater, after they 'took four video projectors and set one up in each of four theaters'." Theater co-owner Calvin Timothy said: "According to the gal at the licensing company, we're the first theater ever to license Xbox with them for a theater... It took an act of Congress and a blessing of God (to get the license)." We've previously discussed IMAX screens being used for gaming.

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4 Player (Marvel entity) vs. Street Fighter/Capcom

[numbski]

or 6 player. There was a hack floating around for MAME, and I think even Nebula and Kawaks that allowed for this over the net. Oh happy day to do that in a theater.

*drool*

(meanwhile, elsewhere geeks drool over doing other erm...'things' in a theater, but I digress)

popularity gaining

[chaosmage42]

I've heard of this done at my university with a single X-Box in the biggest lecture hall late at night {ITS staff gets keys!}. It's neat that it's played legitimately and regularly {shows interest} in theatres. Hopefully we'll see this spreading.

Multiplayer Halo is perfect

[ribond]

This could only make it more so. My only gripe: I can't setup the game to split the screen vertically for 2 players...

If you haven't tried it: the Halo campaign is fantastic, but multiplayer halo is unbelievable.

Even with the limited map selection the plethora of game type changes you can make produce a game that never gets old.

I wonder if I can convince a local movie theatre to try this out... :)

ps: halo2 comes out 11/9
pps: http://www.ilovebees.com/ Yes it's related.

Re:Multiplayer Halo is perfect

[darkjedi521]

Better hope your local theater has either an LCD projector for running video or a DLP for digital cinema. No way to hook this up to a stock projector. Won't be seeing this in my area any time soon, as none of the theaters are equipped for anything but film.

Re:Multiplayer Halo is perfect

[ribond]

That would really restrict your field of view though. I think it is better to see more left and right, than it is to see more up and down.

But playing multiplayer on a widescreen TV is just weird with only a top/bottom split. You feel like you're in a very narrow panoramic view. :) And (my experience) you constantly get owned from above because looking up takes too long.

We play radar disabled as well -- the only way to go. :)

That's pretty good, but....

[CptnSbaitso]

I would like to rent your theater for a LAN party. 32 screens = 32 players with the biggest screens and best surround sound yet. Awwww yeah.... How much would you pay for the opportunity?

Re:Thats all?

[nacturation]

"It took an act of Congress and a blessing of God (to get the license)."

And people around here are always complaining about how big business gets the government to make overly restrictive laws.

Of course, God has been making Bush enact overly restrictive laws for quite some time now.

Motion Sickness an Issue?

[FeetOfStinky]

I can't say I've done any gaming in a movie theatre. But I have on several occasions played first person shooters over at my buddy's house using his LCD projector. The screen measures 120 inches or so, and I find it only takes an hour before I start to get queasy. I never have this problem playing games on my TV or computer.

These guys better get the barf buckets ready.

Re:Motion Sickness an Issue?

[Shagz]

You could just use the empty Popcorn buckets. I don't think I'd want to go for the free refill though!

Re:It's gotta be said..

[Ahnteis]

I LIVE in Logan. How come I didn't hear about this sooner?!

How'd they get around...

[Moryath]

the fact that LCD projectors tend to have a 2-3 frame delay?

Re:How'd they get around...

[SphericalCrusher]

Maybe because it's not an LCD screen, it's a projector. ;) Unless, of course, you're replying to something someone else said that was offtopic...