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The Intersection of Gaming and Futurama
Nerds made Futurama. You probably already knew that. As you can imagine, these nerds played a lot of games during the making of the show. Games ended up in the show a lot, too. Game|Life's Chris Kohler delves deeply into this connection over a series of articles; for example, did you know that Zoidberg was named for a variant of Qix ? Or that the creators of the show were big pinball players? Probably the most obvious combination of games and the show was the amazing episode Raiders of the Lost Arcade. "The evil alien is joined by his evil arcade comrades: Donkey Kong, a fried egg from Burger Time, a robot from Berserk, a brain from Robotron. Q*bert is also there, and he spouts some characteristically garbled dialogue which, when played backwards, is revealed to be "Where can a guy get some pants around here?""
There is a Futurama PS2 game : http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps2/futurama?q=futurama I believe there's a Xbox version of that too.
Really?
There was a game.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
All of this fine information and more is readily available on the Futurama seasons 1-4 DVDs in the commentaries section. That button marked "audio" on your dvd player remote isn't just their for looks, people!
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