True Love and High Adventure: The Princess Bride Coming to Videogames

Andy Chalk

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True Love and High Adventure: The Princess Bride Coming to Videogames

Everybody's favorite The Princess Bride [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000144/], is finally being made into a videogame.

Act III Licensing [http://www.wwbiggies.com/] to bring the 1987 classic to the videogame audience. A limited edition of the game will be included with the upcoming 20th Anniversary DVD edition of the movie, set to be released later this year, while the full game, will be available via download in spring of 2008.

Worldwide Biggies CEO Albie Hecht said the game, known in full as True Love and High Adventure - The Official Princess Bride Game, "has a strong chance to tap into the burgeoning casual gaming audience," but that his company had no plans to distribute the game via regular retail channels.

Though not a major commercial success, The Princess Bride went on to become a cult favorite, consistently rated highly by both fans and critics. The cast included Elwes, Top 250 Movies of All Time [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000705/], with over 84,000 votes.


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Andy Chalk

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Unless it does, which it probably will. But it'll always be an awesome movie. In fact, this news has left me less interested in the game than in just renting the movie again. Bill, get to it.