Revealing mistake: When Daryl plays F1 Pole Position, the camera shows the full television screen for four seconds. The time remaining for each lap is decreasing faster than time progresses. Within three seconds of film, roughly six seconds pass in-game. When the car moves faster later on, the screen is tightly cropped to hide effects on the statistics. From the graphics this is the Atari 5200 version, which cannot compute quickly enough to represent that speed visually, and the score of 79950 is normally attainable, so the game itself is unchanged. The only conclusion is that the video is simply sped up.
D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
1 revealing mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Simon Wincer
Starring: Michael McKean, Colleen Camp, Kathryn Walker, Mary Beth Hurt
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie during the helicopter chase scene, there are two different makes of car used - a four door Nova and a two door Buick.
General Graycliffe: A child with a stick of chewing gum has just rendered your hundred million dollars of hardware useless.
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