“Fanboys” Scribe to produce “Thundercade”

Ernie Cline, the co-writer of the controversial movie, “Fanboys,” has just sold a spec script entitled “Thundercade” to Lakeshore Entertainment. The story centers around an adult video game phenom who embarks on a journey with his best friend to reclaim a record which has recently been broken by a younger gamer. Cline says he was inspired to write the story by his nephew while playing Xbox. He says, “I fell in love with the idea of pitting…the Atari 2600 generation vs. the Xbox 360 generation.”

This sounds like a cool idea to me. After watching “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters,” I really did wonder what it would be like to see some of these older gamers try to compete at the newer games. There were so many interviews with the first generation of gamers saying that “Donkey Kong” was more challenging than any modern games that I really wanted to see them play. Having played games from every generation (on the original systems, no less), I don’t think you can honestly say one is more challenging than another. They all just require different kinds of skills. What do you guys think?