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Video Games Hit The Big Screen

Posted by timothy on from the why-waste-the-real-estate dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "A movie theatre owner in Logan, Utah is hoping to start a new trend by bringing video games (Halo in this case) to the big screen. The local newspaper in Logan, The Herald Journal has a nice write-up about the success they had. Does anyone else think this could catch on to be successful, especially in college towns?"

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  1. IMAX by wackysootroom · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Put Doom3 or Halo in an IMAX and you won't have any trouble getting $50 out of my wallet.

  2. But... by bburton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is the theater really going to make more money doing this than showing a movie?

    It says that "There is a $3 charge for spectators to watch the games.", but that's a far cry from the $7+ they would charge for a movie.

    Who here would actually participate, either player or spectator?

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    1. Re:But... by ticklemeozmo · · Score: 4, Interesting

      assuming the licensing fees weren't too high

      I just tried calling the theatre listed in the article (area code 435), they gave me Calvin Timothy's home phone (I pretended to be a manager of the local AMC theatre) and he said he's not at liberty to discuss the licensing, who they go through our how they got it.

      They want to market the idea before anyone steals it. Whatever happened to letting kids have fun?

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  3. Why? when you can do it in the conference room by eltoyoboyo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Those projectors do not get used for slide sales demos ALL of the time you know. The response time is a little slow on the LCD screens, but lower the demo screen, set up the speakers and fire away.

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  4. So how can I... by ticklemeozmo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would like convince my local theatre manager (I happen to know him) to do this, but he wants to know which steps are involved?

    Who do you have to get permission from?
    What if you do not charge (peeps will still want popcorn and soda)?
    What hoops must you go through to have fun?

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  5. Big Screen Gaming in the University by foxalopex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've actually done this before. Thanks to my affinity with an Anime club, we had access to University theater projection equipment. Car racing type games were breathtaking since the cars were pretty much life sized! The only games that didn't work too well were side scrolling space shooters where there were lots of objects to track on screen. They're difficult because it takes longer for your eyes to track the whole field of view on a big screen killing your reaction time. Aside from that it was a lot of fun. I think if theaters decide to do this, it will be loads of fun! :)

  6. Re:Uhhh... by Pxtl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, one unfortunate fact about Halo that other games do better (such as the aforementioned DoA games) is the splitscreen. Its more fun watching a single game than multiple small screen games split up out of one big screen. A multiplayer single-screen brawl game such as Bomberman, Super Smash Bros, or PowerStone II would be best, imho. Fast enough to run a tournament that way too, and let the whole audience play.