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1990s (?) tv show? [Solved!]

radroadkillradroadkill MDRegistered User regular
edited November 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
My husband, our friend, and myself are tying to remember the name of a show they used to watch.

All we can really recall is it was about a guy who made an advanced video game but the computer for it somehow became sentient and began bringing the characters to life to kill people... and the computer itself was actually an older guy. They also had to keep finding special ways to kill the characters.

Or something to that effect.

Google-fu is failing me.

D:

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  • Squirminator2kSquirminator2k they/them North Hollywood, CARegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Oh Glod, I think I know the one you mean. Didn't Tim Curry do the voice of the evil computer thing?

    Edit: was it "Superhuman Samurai"?

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  • No-QuarterNo-Quarter Nothing To Fear But Fear ItselfRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Superhuman Samurai Squad?

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  • radroadkillradroadkill MDRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Quid is saying it was more standard sci-fi, with less crazy robot people. Everyone pretty much looked normal.

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  • No-QuarterNo-Quarter Nothing To Fear But Fear ItselfRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Then what was the videogame supposed to be?

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  • radroadkillradroadkill MDRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Thy don't even remember that much. From what they're saying I think it was super-computer gone wrong.

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  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Are you sure it was a tv show? There are a number of movies with premises like that.

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  • Iceman.USAFIceman.USAF Major East CoastRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    No-Quarter wrote: »
    Superhuman Samurai Squad?

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    Man, I fucking LOVED those toys. I had a bunch but I can't for the life of me remember where they are now.

    Damn nostalgia.

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  • HKPacman420HKPacman420 Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Superhuman Samurai Squad was greatness. Didn't they have to jam on their instruments to go into the cyber universe-place or some crap?

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  • ViraletanViraletan Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    In Superhuman Samurai, they also had most of the show where it was set in the high school, so that could be where the memory of them all looking normal comes from?

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  • radroadkillradroadkill MDRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    They are insisting it was a tv show. I'll get him on in a bit to double check everything more intensely, though.

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  • No-QuarterNo-Quarter Nothing To Fear But Fear ItselfRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    There are movies called Arcade, Brainscan, and The Dungeonmaster that could all fit the billing.

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  • AibynAibyn Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Was it Deadly Games?
    Each week, one of the villains tries to carry out an evil plot according to the rules of the video game, and Gus, Lauren, and Gus' friend Peter Rucker try to defeat and destroy said villain. Almost indestructible and superhumanly strong, each villain is programmed with specific weapons and weaknesses based on that villain's "theme"; e.g., T

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  • radroadkillradroadkill MDRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Deadly Games is it! Thread solved. :D

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  • Iceman.USAFIceman.USAF Major East CoastRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Viraletan wrote: »
    In Superhuman Samurai, they also had most of the show where it was set in the high school, so that could be where the memory of them all looking normal comes from?

    Yes, exactly. I remember like 2 sets from that show. High school, and the main kids basement.

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