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Goodfellas Inspiration Rates Gangster Games 18

Posted by simoniker from the only-in-wacky-videogame-publishing-world dept.
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to an EGM/Gamers.com article interviewing old-time real-life gangster, Henry Hill, the inspiration for Goodfellas, and letting him playtest the current crop of 'bad guy' videogames. Although not too well-versed on games, he makes some good points with regard to The Getaway ("There's too much traffic. This is like the freeway - why would I wanna do that at home?") and then gets addicted to Animal Crossing, a surprise bonus playtest choice ("I'm not renting this! I'd be too ashamed... I gotta take this home.")
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Goodfellas Inspiration Rates Gangster Games

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  • Family (Score:2, Funny)

    by Iammadmak ( 460794 )
    "HH: This animal thing here, this is the longest I've ever been attached to a game. Julian, I could play this with your mother. Give us something in common. Besides sex."

    Nintendo yet again brings the family together...
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    • I wouldn't be worried.

      Video games are about escapism.

      Think about it, if you've spent a large chunk of your life being a mobster, why would you want to play a video game about that?

      You think war vets like to play wargames?
      • You must admit that this is an excellent annecdote to pull up next time some overly-concerned citizens' group starts spouting off about violent video games making kids violent. It doesn't prove a damned thing, but it'd hold as much water as most of their arguments.

        Maybe if we're lucky, we could get them to have lame games outlawed...
      • You think war vets like to play wargames?

        My war vet father in law likes to watch war movies. I don't think he ever tried Counter Strike, but he did get addicted to the light-gun game Time Crisis on the Playstation.

  • He's a fake!!! (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 12, 2003 @07:19PM (#6187061)
    Henry Hill was an errand boy at best. Many of events told in Goodfella's were actually "lifted" from the life events of gangsters he hung around with. He was debunked on Howard Stern a few years ago, when a real member of the mob called in.

    That said I'm posting AC
  • The big mob man likes to play little girly games..
  • LMAO! That is the most hilarious article I have read in year! I'm sitting here at work, trying to control my laughter, unsuccessfully. All my coworkers are looking at me like I'm crazy.

    Of course, most of them already assume that I am crazy.

    But man! That's good comedy.

    Calmiche,

    Calmiche,
  • They invite a ganster on and then * his swears? what the ****, why did we get the TBS version of this article and not the real thing?

  • next... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Hubert_Shrump ( 256081 ) <[cobranet] [at] [gmail.com]> on Thursday June 12, 2003 @08:53PM (#6187480) Journal
    we should have a few sex offenders rate some hentai games.


    • It's nice to see that a murderous thug can market himself so successfully. I'm sure the families of his victims are happy.
  • I don't know anything that happened to this guy that wasn't covered in the Goodfellas movie, but if I recall correctly didn't he enter the witness protection program at the end? If so, wouldn't this be a tad dangerous? I'm not particularly astute at intelligence-gathering (nor particularly intelligent, for that matter), but I would bet that it would be relatively easy to poke around the staff of the magazine to find out information, find the guy, take care of him, and then drop by your mother's house to eat
    • He entered the witness protection program, as per the movie, but came out not too long ago (a few years?). He said since pretty much everyone out for him is dead, he doesn't feel much of a threat towards him. I think he's even written a book. Cashing in on crime, God bless America. Hedonist123
      • Still though, you think if you ratted out a bunch of mob bosses, SOMEBODY would remember and, you know, clip him, or something. Just to make a point of it. For some reason, I don't think the Italian mob is much for forgive and forget, just my thoughts though.

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