The Wizard (1989)
7/10
Nintendo!
18 December 2004
If you were a child of the video game explosion that mostly became widely purported by the Nintendo gaming system, then this movie is the flashback that you've been needing. It will cover all the lame stuff that you would look back on and laugh at these days. This movie doesn't really cross over into today's culture, so younger generation beware of this movie. The only reason to find this movie is purely for a time warp. If you can imagine that this movie came out before Super Mario 3, then you can go back in your backlog of memories past and dig up where you were around this period. To me this movie is more of a time capsule. It's got Rad Racer... It's got the Power Glove... What more do you need?

The plot and the acting is lame enough for even the most die hard person to want to lay on the 'fast forward' button on their VCR (since I doubt this will even come on DVD).

Okay, now for a quick outline of the plot.... An autistic kid with amazing gaming skills (for the time) piques the interest of his older brother and a hard luck case girl. Together they plan a cross-country trip that will take them to Universal Studios for the all around best gamers competition.

80's at it's best if you ask me, and a 7 for pure nostalgia!
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