Talk:The Game (film)

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I recall as part of the promotion of the movie, there was a screensaver download on its official site. The screensaver installed some (Windows) software that did some tricky things like pop up notepad with strange messages, put strange icons in different places on the computer, etc... to pull the user into a type of game. I'd like to add this info to the article but after a quick search online haven't found any information on it. Does anybody else remember this? -plexitox

The actual tie-in game you're thinking of was called "Majestic" and it folded without completing.

No, Majestic is unrelated to what the previous poster is talking about. I remember the game too... it was very unique when it came out. I remember it installing things on my computer, and basically acting like a virus. It would have come out right after the film, in 1997.

Am I the only one who remembers the BBC miniseries called "The One Game" of which the Michael Douglas film seems like a complete ripoff? -- Nick

At the time (1997) Empire magazine had an interview with the writer of that series. He seemed OK that they took his idea - he just wished they'd asked him. In any case, it could just be co-incidence since the film was based on the idea of real-life “Games”. Scott197827 26th November 2005

That whole trivia section is just copied from IMDB. Isn't that redundant, seeing there's a link there anyway? Oh yeah, and the whole copyright thing. -joseph blue

It seems there's an alternative ending to the lame revelation that it was really a game. It got shipped on DVD. Does anyone know what that one was about? It would probably give the storyline a deeper meaning. 136.199.212.221 22:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)GK

Is there any reason why this is in Category:Films based on games? It doesn't seem to be. --Trevor Burnham 03:04, 30 November 2006 (UTC)