Resounding across the social networks, it appears someone found an old Shadowrun short film that FASA had made back in the day. Wonderfully cheesy and full of huge hair, it also has an appearance by Sally Tsung.

Oh $Deity, the '80s flashbacks are coming...

The big guy is Awesome. I'm going to start playing a bruiser with a shaved-chest and no armor too.

Don't forget to include a kind of hop-skip as part of your infiltration techniques.

Jason H.

So, Jason, when is CGL going to work on it's video for Shadowrun?

They made a video a few years ago that has brief clips representing a bunch of Catalyst games, including Shadowrun. Check it out!

Well, not bad.

But no '80s hair.

Wow. Only in the 90s could that have seemed like a good idea. And the cyberdeck; just... Amazing. XD

There were some actually cool Live Action role-PLaying Shadowrun videos that some people in france did. They beat the hell out of the 90's video, in quality of disguises, camera use, even acting.

Athough this wins by excessive use of nerdery.

Beautiful.

There were two (or even three?) short film contests by FanPro Germany some years ago. Some films were really nice.

One of my long-term goals is to go back to school for some writing and film making courses... Who knows?

At least none of those films became as bad as BALLISTICA!

"I think I just had a brain hemorrhage from the stupid."

"Wow, Vegeta, you must be pretty dumb!"

What the hell were people thinking in the 80s!?

The hairspray killed our braincells.

That video was pretty rad. Tubular, even.

Although it kind of looks like the opening to shadowrun: the Porno

Where do you think we got the Lesbian Elf Stripper Ninjas from?

Hell?

Damn, it does have ring to it: "Lesbian Elf Stripper Ninjas from Hell".

Of course you get an angel kind one and a demonic kind one. They are fatally in love.

That might explain how my "Accountant from Hell" acts...

Definitely sent this to my players as an example of how to play. No spell descriptions, you just look and it's done.

I found some of the old short films from FanPro's contest 2005/06 and 2006/07. (In German of course, but some have nice CGIs.) I think there was another contest in 2004/05, but I'm not sure. My personal favorite's Plan C. The team's planning several ways into the target and one keeps on saying "I'm just the driver." In the end you see him sitting in the car and hear gunfire in the background. (You see the team standing in front of a wire fence and lacking a wire cutter in the scene before.) He sighs, grabs a gun and rushes to the fight murmuring "Plan C again."

Hahaha, that's awesome. It'd be cool if they did these contests again, considering how much easier it is for the "at home" person to do video and special effects editing on their computer. We could get some really elaborate Shadowrun short films.

Digital cameras with good quality have really come down in price. A good gaming rig can be used for CGI and give some pretty decent effects (Better than '80s and '90s B-Grade movies at the very least), if you can find someone that has the skills for the artwork/animation. Getting extras for an RPG Movie is as easy as hitting up your FLGS (Some come with their own costumes and realistic firearms!).

This is one of the reasons that I want to get into Film Making, even if all I ever do is pull a few fan films and a few artistic numbers that are impossible to understand. (The second I'll do to screw with critic's heads.).

Isn't that what artistic films are for? Confuse them enough that they're afraid to insult it?

I think this video's only slightly worse than, say, Johnny Mnemonic.

Yes, but I'd be doing it in a way that the average viewer (You know, the people who are smart enough to not have to go to College/University in order to watch movies) knows that it's insulting them.

That's it, I'm showing this to my group and instructing them that since we're playing SR 1st ed, they have to play exactly in this manner or be kicked out of the group.

Nice! Tell them it is how the founders wanted it played.

If only there were subtitles for the official fan-films...

My first movie with be in Mock-Swedish!

"Shut up! You're hurting the crew's moray!"

This video is just more proof to me I was born in the wrong era. I miss the 80's and I was never even alive for it :'(

You didn't miss much. It only looks like you did through the eyes of people remembering the best.

I'm afraid that in some cases it might be hard to get in contact with the original film crew.

Fan-Made Subs, like you sometimes get with Anime, and are greatly better than the stuff that the official company makes?

Oh oh oh! I got it! Really badly dubbed translations!

I would almost have an urge to pull an MST3K type deal and add humorous subtitles instead...

Or over-dubbing MST3K style.

...

Damn, that sounds like a good idea.

Two minutes of shuffling and two minutes of the shitty low-rez VR world we were promised twenty years ago. Awesome.

I guess you're talking about this. It's from Switzerland not France.

Probably because it was in French that they thought it was in France. French is spoken in a lot of places.

Often badly.

Love the tunnels!

Very cool. For those of you who can't read it (like me):

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...G%26prmd%3Divns

I love how the 'Street Sam' is just there to rip off the covers of electrical equipment. I want my next character to by hyper-specialized in that.

To be fair, at least the lighting is nice...

We were talking about this exact film two days ago. And that wasn't the first time, either.

Welcome to Dumpshock. Where everything is new again... in about two minutes.

This is the Internet, everyone has the attention span of OH SHINY!!!

Might have something to do with that Eternal Semptember of yours.

I love it, I smile every time I see that video, then I die a little inside.

Probably. I got a private message from a not-artist I watch (he commissions other people for art of his characters) recently:



Basically: Not everyone out there has an attention span of 4 seconds, and I was actually being thanked for being outside the norm.

Exactly.