Smash TV is a 1990 arcade game created by Eugene Jarvis and Mark Turmell for Williams. Home versions were developed for various platforms and most were published by Acclaim Entertainment.
The play mechanic is very similar to that of Eugene Jarvis' earlier Robotron: 2084, with dual-joystick controls and series of single screen areas. The theme of the game, borrowed from The Running Man, involves players competing in a violent game show, set in the then future year of 1999. Moving from one room to the next within the studio/arena, players have to shoot down hordes of enemies as they advance from all sides, while at the same time collecting weapons, power-up items, and assorted bonus prizes until a final show down with the show's host where you are finally granted your prizes, your life and freedom.
The game features verbal interjections from the gameshow host such as "Total Carnage! I love it!", "dude!" and "I'd buy that for a dollar!". The former quote gives itself to the title of the 1991 follow-up, Total Carnage, which, while not a direct sequel, features similar gameplay. The quote "I'd buy that for a dollar!" is a reference to the catchphrase of Bixby Snyder, a fictional television comic in the 1987 film RoboCop.
Smash may refer to:
I want to see, show me reality
Ratings dropping, what to do
More violence and nudity.
Right wing complaining, fuck em if it's entertaining
They'd be having all the fun if they were holding on the guns
What's this coming to me? Some kind of notion brewing?
Ceaser, he had something I'll be continuing.
How could this be wrong? Death comes for us all so
I will kill another motherfucker until the ratings die (x3)
I will kill.....
I want to see televised misanthropy
Ratings dropping, what to do? More beatings or misogny.
Prisons overcrowding, fodder for the ever growing
Crowd pleasing industry, unstoppable and ever hungry
Whats this coming to me?
Some kind of notion brewing?
Ceaser he had something I'll be continuing
How could this be wrong? Death Comes for us all
I will kill another motherfucker until the ratings die (x3)
I will kill.....
How could this be wrong?
Why don't you blame god?
Indiscriminatly, he kills more than me SO..
I will kill another motherfucker until the ratings die (x3)
I will kill.....
I want to see, show me reality
Ratings dropping, what to do
More violence and nudity.
Right wing complaining, f**k em if it's entertaining
They'd be having all the fun if they were holding on the guns
What's this coming to me? Some kind of notion brewing?
Ceaser, he had something I'll be continuing.
How could this be wrong? Death comes for us all so
I will kill another motherf**ker until the ratings die (x3)
I will kill.....
I want to see televised misanthropy
Ratings dropping, what to do? More beatings or misogny.
Prisons overcrowding, fodder for the ever growing
Crowd pleasing industry, unstoppable and ever hungry
Whats this coming to me?
Some kind of notion brewing?
Ceaser he had something I'll be continuing
How could this be wrong? Death Comes for us all
I will kill another motherf**ker until the ratings die (x3)
I will kill.....
How could this be wrong?
Why don't you blame god?
Indiscriminatly, he kills more than me SO..
I will kill another motherf**ker until the ratings die (x3)
I will kill.....