![]() The film offers the perfect amount of charm for the children, wit for the teens, and sentimentality for the adults.Ĩ-Bit Christmas has quite a bit of dry humor and 1980s sarcasm, rather than laugh out loud kind of humor, but turn it on while you decorate the Christmas tree and I promise, it’ll be great. While in many ways it reflects A Christmas Story, 8-Bit Christmas sets itself apart with its very clear positioning in the 1980s. Knowing his parents (June Diane Raphael and Steve Zahn) will not buy him one for Christmas, Doyle and his pals try every which way possible to get a Nintendo, including selling Christmas wreaths and a very in depth plot featuring walkie talkies, extended periods of projectile vomit, and a rare copy of a Billy Ripken baseball card mistakenly printed with a very inappropriate four-letter word. In those days, everyone was at the mercy of neighborhood rich kid,Timmy Keane (Chandler Dean), who had the ultimate basement and the latest video games, but only allowed 10 lucky chosen kids inside every day.Įvery kid dreamed of having their own Nintendo and as fifth graders, Doyle (Winslow Fegley) and his ragtag neighborhood buddies were no different. In 8-Bit Christmas, viewers throwback to the world of the 1980s, where kids had to face off against giant bullies during recess, teachers taught the dewey decimal system in class, and no one ever got off school for snow days. ![]() “Nintendo,” Doyle narrates to his daughter, “ a maze of rubber wiring and electronic intelligence so advanced it was deemed not a video game but an 8-bit entertainment system.” And when I say Nintendo, I’m not talking about your everyday DS Lite. “The year was 1987, or was it ’88?” Grownup Jake Doyle (Neil Patrick Harris) begins, when all he wanted for Christmas was a Nintendo.
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