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BESIDES<br />
HOMELESS<br />
Q*BERT, WHO<br />
ELSE CAN YOU<br />
SPOT IN GAME<br />
CENTRAL<br />
STATION?<br />
Attack of the Arcade<br />
Appealing to fans of Frogger to first-person shooters, Disney’s made the multigenerational<br />
hit of the holidays<br />
In the beginning, there was Pong. Atari launched it in 1972, and now 40 years later, Walt Disney is honoring the<br />
legacy it left behind with Wreck-It Ralph, a cartoon about a pixeled bad guy (voiced by John C. Reilly) who’s ready<br />
to stop smashing buildings in the video game Fix-It Felix and start playing nice. His unusual hero’s journey takes him<br />
to Game Central Station, a power strip in his old-school arcade that channels him into modern fare like the candycrazy<br />
racing game Sugar Rush and Hero’s Duty, a violent first-person shooter. Says director Rich Moore, everyone<br />
from 15 to 50 claims Wreck-It Ralph was made for his or her generation—expect a cross-section stampede of video<br />
game fans from all eras to storm your theater when Disney releases it on November 2.<br />
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OCTOBER <strong>2012</strong> BOXOFFICE PRO 35
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