Anyone see it? Just saw it last night. Thought the monster was pretty good. In the closeup near the end, I thought it was kinda funny.
Couldn’t stop thinking about the Tokyo scenario of the original SimCity.
Speakingof which, anyone know where I can get that - the original SimCity? And how to make it run on Window XP (which it doesn’t)?
Home of the Underdogs or Abandonia are probably good places to start. If it isn’t available there, try a bittorrent server. If that doesn’t work, there is always ebay.
As for getting it to run, DosBOX (available at Abandonia) will probably get it running just fine. Otherwise you can try clicking the backwards compatibility thing in XP and hopefully that should work.
Backwards compatibility thingie? Who knew? Thanks. I’ll look into that.
I love that game. It’s primitive, but I never liked the newer versions much.
Thanks, Xun.
If you right click on an .exe file (the file that start a program you want to run) and go into properties and look about you should be able to find compatibility settings to effectively downgrade how your computer runs the program.
But it doesn’t work on Law and Order: Dead on the Money, which I still can’t get to run on my computer. I might give up and just buy the new Sherlock Holmes game instead.
Cloverfield was really darn good, I especially enjoyed the parasites. The scene where the beast is scratching its back on the building and the parasites fell off, was a nice touch. Fleas, that was brilliant, Fleas do carry disease. An uberflea would carry an uberdisease. 
Saitd - the problem is, I am told, that WinXP just won’t run DOS games, because there is no DOS in XP. Is that correct?
Kris - I thought the flick was okay. I just wish the monster was scarier. I thought it was kind of funny-looking. I realise that the whole thing was an homage to Godzilla. But they could have made the monster a little less retro.
I think you can open a DOS box in Windows XP though, and should be able to run the game via that. Which is what I believe Xunzian was referring to a couple of posts back.
It was a sea creature was it not?, I kind of thought it looked like the Lochness more than Godzilla. Of course they did manage to keep it in the shadows mostly. I thought they kept most of the focus on the parasites. It was the parasites that did the people in mostly. Remember the scene where the girl was taken behind the curtain and her guts exploded. The parasites bit folks but, the bites did not kill, it was the disease or some virus or germ or infant parasite that killed, they were not too clear on that part. The monster died in the end but, not all the parasites, a nice opening for a sequel. I did not realize it was an homage to godzilla, I thought it was just another homage to man screwing up the environment again. 
Do you think they will make a flick with giant spiders again? Or what was that one with the giant rabbits? All those old flicks entertained kids on a saturday afternoon when it was too hot to be outside. They just do not make them as fun anymore. Either that or we are too jaded.
The monster died?
How did I miss that?
It was a pretty quick scene, they focused more on the two people getting killed. Remember this was filmed like Blaire witch, a homemade documentary, the scenes moved fast. I do like rewind If I recall it right, they were in a park with the monster going after them, they hid under a bridge, the military dropped the bombs and all three died. The camera was recovered by the military later. The parasites had pretty much gone underground or in buildings by that time. Remember they were all through the subway system. Bombs would wipe out the monster but, not the parasites.
How do we know? Remember what they threw at the aliens in War of the Worlds?
That is true but, then how did they aquire the camera? That monster was trying to kill those two, animals don’t give up their prey so easily if they live. , I still think the parasites will be the focus in a sequal. :-"
Well, maybe the monster just swam away, only to reappear in a sequel in another locale. You know, first there was Escape from New York. Then there was Escape from L. A. Maybe the sequel will be shot entirely from surveillance cameras in D. C.
Thoroughly enjoyed it - I think I was pleased that
1.The monster was winning in the end