‘Iron Man’ Converted To Eight-Bit Game [Video]

Iron Man has been turned into an eight-bit game in a new video!

Iron Man was a breakthrough in Marvel comics film, no doubt about it. Between the amazing story of how it almost didn’t happen and the fact that Robert Downey Jr. gave the character a personality that everyone instantly loved, the film was, if you’ll pardon the pun, a marvel.

CineFlix of YouTube has taken the story of Jon Favreau’s blockbuster Iron Man and condensed it into the span of 60 seconds, amazingly capturing most of what made the film a classic. While it doesn’t have the part where Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) had to dig her hand into the gooey innards of Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) chest and replace the most ingeniously made pacemaker ever conceived, it does cover the scenes of Iron Man actually doing his thing and blowing stuff up.

Even the sequel to the film was a big earner in spite of major critical backlash, and Iron Man 3 has proven a hefty film itself, beating out The Great Gatsby and tailing behind Star Trek Into Darkness to remain number two at the Box Office. Word has it that comic book purists hate it, but movie fans consider it a work of genius.

Eric Eisenberg of Cinema Blend has said that videos like this eight-bit game treatment of Iron Man make him wish it was a game you could literally buy.

The video begins with the title screen from Mega Man, given a graphic make-over to turn the blue bomber into Iron Man from the film. Then we see a caravan of military vehicles rolling through the desert as a bomb hits one of them. Tony Stark is seen running and dodging bullets and missiles, but one eventually hits him. Then we see him building the first suit and using it to escape a cave and kill everyone guarding it. The next scene his him testing the suit as he flies through markers.

The rest of the video is above. It really is a remarkably fun remake of Iron Man in eight-bit game format.

What do you think of the eight-bit game adaptation of Iron Man?