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The series "the Last Survivor," produced by HBO and based on a game of the same name, is coming to an end, but the show still has a high rating of 9.1 on Douban.

There are not many adapted works that are both popular and popular. We have written special articles before to analyze the success of the play, but today we would like to mention another detail-Raja's Arcade.

Raja's Arcade is a game hall scene in the game "Last Survivor" DLC, in which the protagonists Ellie and Riley stumble upon this entertainment facility that exists in an abandoned mall but is still running.

The plot and scene are also transplanted to the live-action series: in the seventh episode of the Last Survivor, the protagonist comes to this highly decorated game hall.

The picture above is the picture of the game, and the picture below is that since the live stills are the game hall, there will naturally be a shot of the two protagonists standing in front of the equipment to play the game. The two actors are playing the arcade version of "Live Quick 2".

Recently, the producers of the show, Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, revealed in foreign forums that this seemingly ordinary plot actually cost the team a lot of energy and a lot of preparatory work.

The first is about how to present the picture on the arcade screen. Early arcade equipment, the basic use of CRT (cathode ray tube) screen, this kind of screen will appear under the lens constantly moving large area black block, very affect the look and feel.

In order to solve this problem, the crew replaced the screen with an OLED monitor and added additional black edges, scan lines and fillets to restore the retro images unique to the old arcade.

The street machine is actually equipped with an OLED screen, and the work of doing black edges and rounded corners around the screen is actually a hassle, so the crew only modified the machine used by the protagonist and several surrounding equipment, and the other arcade machines either blacked out directly or did not appear in the picture-considering the eschatological background of the plot, several malfunctioning arcades just fit the setting.

In addition, in fact, the game screen itself is also recorded in advance. According to Chance Johnson, the collector who provided the equipment to the crew, Ellie and Riley's "fight scene" is actually his pre-recorded video, and when Ellie puts a coin into the machine, the screen starts playing the pre-set material, and the actor just needs to "pretend"-just tap the button and give a reaction.

In addition to the most existential "Live Quick call 2", the crew also rented games and equipment from many game collectors, and even considered including classic arcade games such as Pac-Man, Ninja Turtles and NBA Jam, but eventually had to give up because of copyright issues. on the copyright issue of the game, the producer added: "Don't even think about doing anything with Nintendo games."

In HBO's official blog, Neil also talked about why Ellie chose to play "live fight". In the original game, Ellie found a fighting game called "The Turning":

The production team designed Logo for this non-existent game, of course, there is no such game in reality, Neil originally designed to let Ellie play "Live Quick fight", but had to give up for copyright reasons, but now the show is produced by HBO, and its parent company happens to be Warner, which happens to hold the live-action rights, so the game can appear in the show.

Devoting a lot of energy to a less important plot does reflect the crew's sincerity and dedication, and Neil, a former arcade player, shares another intention:

By 2023, many viewers may have never experienced an arcade, so what is really important is to capture the most intuitive emotional feelings of arcade players when they drop coins.

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