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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: E94: Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
Description: Peter Jackson made history with the release of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but as far as he was concerned he was just getting warmed up. A mere two years later saw him remaking King Kong, with the marketing department splashing his name all over the place so there could be no doubt that this was indeed a Peter Jackson film.Like with the LOTR hack and slash games, a video game was developed at the same time as the film with the actors reprising their roles, and it even released a few weeks before the m...