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Speed is coming back as a NES videogame
Alright, pop quiz. A videogame with all the fun of a movie and none of its flab, what do you do?
Alright, pop quiz. A videogame with all the fun of a movie and none of its flab, what do you do?
Speed, the 1994 film in which Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and assorted extras hurtled around Los Angeles in a public transit bus, was a fun movie about absolutely nothing. With that in mind, here is OmniBus, an arcade-style game currently being developed by Chicago’s The Buddy Cops that takes Speed’s premise and suggests that it is really a story about physics. Why is this happening? Well, because OmniBus’ creators decided that the low-poly bus in their PS1-style game has no brakes, and really the only difference between a movie villain and a game developer is some moustache twirling. For what…