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Title: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Midnite on January 05, 2006, 08:46:23 PM: So much for his death watch-- Abe Vigoda will appear in the new Godfather game by Electronic Arts. "The Godfather The Game" is due for an early 2006 release and will be available for XBox, PS2, PC and PSP. Cost is $49.95.

You can access a screenshot of his game character here:
http://www.ea.com/official/godfather/godfather/us/screenshots.jsp?setID=Underworld
Just navigate to "image 3 of 4" and enlarge the thumbnail.

So when your [age appropriate ;)] kid (or friend or spouse) is playing it, you can announce, "He played really old guys on the original Dark Shadows!" :D

He also showed up on Conan over the holidays as a Christmas tree. [ChristmaS15]
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 05, 2006, 09:01:33 PM: Quote from: Midnite on January 05, 2006, 08:46:23 PM
He also showed up on Conan over the holidays as a Christmas tree.

Wasn't that absolutely hysterical?! [santa_grin] The way they did a complete take-off of the stories of the Rockefeller Center trees being selected and transported to NYC, only with Vigoda as the tree, was so inventive and somehow just slightly sick at the same time. But then, that's the sort of humor that Conan does best.

As for the game, how nice that you videogame geeks will have a new one to rachet up your geekness quotient. [santa_wink]
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Midnite on January 05, 2006, 09:15:29 PM: Next year, let's all save a tree and string lights around Abe Vigoda instead, lol.

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As for the game, how nice that you videogame geeks will have a new one to rachet up your geekness quotient. [santa_wink]

Snort! You wouldn't happen to be jealous that Abe got a gaming gig before the silver filigree pen? *

* Look up that hysterical post by PennyDreadful if you haven't seen it. [lghy]
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 05, 2006, 09:31:53 PM: Quote from: Midnite on January 05, 2006, 09:15:29 PM
Next year, let's all save a tree and string lights around Abe Vigoda instead, lol.

Unfortunately, I doubt all my decorations would fit on him - and I'd hate to have to pick and choose which ones to leave off. [santa_cry]

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You wouldn't happen to be jealous that Abe got a gaming gig before the silver filigree pen?

Now, now - are you sure that you might not still be jealous that according to the test in this topic:

Quote from: Mysterious Benefactor on May 31, 2004, 09:07:36 PM
... The Geek Test (http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html) ...

you're much more geekier than I am - presumably due in large part to the fact that you play videogames and I don't? [wink2]
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: PennyDreadful on January 05, 2006, 09:32:57 PM: Ha! A CGI videogame version of Abe Vigoda?! He has entered the electronic age!

I wonder if there's an Abe Vigoda painting hidden in his attic. He will surely outlive us all. Well, all except the Pen of course. The Pen is immortal.
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Midnite on January 05, 2006, 09:36:34 PM: I was shocked, MB. Shocked, I tell ya! And as I recall, victoriawinters was even more in touch with her inner geekiness. :P

LOL, PennyDreadful!
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: PennyDreadful on January 05, 2006, 09:58:53 PM: I couldn't resist. I took the test. 23.2% - Just two points shy of "Total Geek!" Guess I need to try harder next time. I was at least hoping for extreme geek! [santa_thumb]

BTW, DS isn't on there, so therefore it isn't geeky to be into DS. Right?...right?.... ;)
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 06, 2006, 12:33:59 AM: OMG - I just took the new and improved 3.1 version of the test, I swear I answered completely truthfully, and my score fell from 16.17357%, which it was back in May of 2004, to only 14.20118%, which is only Geekish Tendencies. I'm not even a Geek anymore! :o :'( What am I doing wrong?! [idontknow]

Quote from: PennyDreadful on January 05, 2006, 09:58:53 PM
BTW, DS isn't on there, so therefore it isn't geeky to be into DS. Right?...right?....

Apparently not. But even being into Buffy/Angel, which I don't remember being on the previous version of the test, didn't keep my score from going down. But then again, maybe they think being into Buffy/Angel is cool rather than geeky. 8)
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Midnite on January 06, 2006, 01:40:39 AM: Yikes. My score shot up to 41.02564%, major geek territory. I am getting geekier by the minute. ::)
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: victoriawinters on January 07, 2006, 09:50:12 AM: (http://victoriawinters.net/boards/congrats3.gif)

Wow Midnite this is really good news! To what do you attribute the increase in your geekdom?

P.S. I have remained the same.
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Misa on January 08, 2006, 12:55:17 AM: Where is this test? I want to know if I'm a geek or not.

Misa
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Midnite on January 08, 2006, 01:04:06 AM: Quote from: Misa
Where is this test?

The link is in Reply #3
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Midnite on January 11, 2006, 06:45:19 PM: Quote from: victoriawinters on January 07, 2006, 09:50:12 AM
Wow Midnite this is really good news!
LOL, thanks. It's both elating and depressing.

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To what do you attribute the increase in your geekdom?
Two teens in the house?

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P.S. I have remained the same.
I must teach you how to count to 31 on one hand. ;)
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 11, 2006, 08:16:37 PM: Quote from: Midnite on January 11, 2006, 06:45:19 PM
I must teach you how to count to 31 on one hand.

You might want to teach me how to do that, too, because I don't have the first clue. Although, I have absolutely no idea why I would ever want to count to 31 on one hand. :D
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Midnite on March 22, 2006, 06:12:13 AM: Quote from: Midnite on January 05, 2006, 08:46:23 PM
So much for his death watch-- Abe Vigoda will appear in the new Godfather game by Electronic Arts. "The Godfather The Game" is due for an early 2006 release and will be available for XBox, PS2, PC and PSP. Cost is $49.95.

The Godfather Computer and Video Games were released today, but EA knocked the price down to $39.99.
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: MagnusTrask on March 23, 2006, 12:27:45 AM: I didn't know you could become immortal through a video game. Characters on DS had so many other methods that they never got around to this one, I guess...
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: MsCriseyde on March 27, 2006, 09:11:29 PM: VH1's Best Week Ever had some fun with the video game, especially Abe Vigoda's appearance in it. They showed several clips. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they're going to be airing it again, and it isn't in the outtakes on their web site. However, you can watch clips of our guy on the official site for the game, here (http://www.ea.com/official/godfather/godfather/us/videos.jsp?setID=Apartment%20Hit&resID=hi). (You'll be asked for your birthdate due to the violent content. Yeah, that'll keep the kids away. :P )
Title: Re: First DS Alum to be immortalized in a videogame?
Post by: Midnite on March 29, 2006, 05:03:33 AM: The segment on Best Week Ever was amusing. :D To prove that this isn't really his first videogame appearance, they showed game covers with Vigoda's head superimposed. It reminded me of CastleBee's hysterical Photoshop creation of Abe as one of the Little Rascals.