Die Hard

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A History of Die Hard Games (Game Rant)

Die Hard is definitely a Christmas film round these parts, and it's the perfect season to dive into the series' surprisingly long video game history.

[side-scrolling beat-em-up](https://gamerant.com/best-side-scrolling-platformers-all-time-ranked/), Die Hard Arcade hit floors in 1996, and was later ported to the Sega Saturn and PlayStation 2. [the Commodore 64](https://gamerant.com/commodore-64-mine-cryptocurrency/) in 1992, Die Hard 2: Die Harder is a static first-person shooter that takes players through the events of the second movie. Die Hard Trilogy would receive a sequel in 2000 called Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas, which carried over the three distinct gameplay styles, but told its own original story that swapped the styles between levels. The first beat-em-up to ever use texture-mapped 3D polygonal graphics, Die Hard Arcade was very technically impressive for the time, and it still holds up fairly well today. In the Commodore 64 version of the game, players control Bruce Willis' John McClane from a side-scrolling perspective, and navigate him through a series of corridors and rooms. From the beloved Die Hard trilogy on

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'Die Hard' puppet show becoming holiday fare (scottsdale.org)

A Christmas Story,” “It's a Wonderful Life” and “A Christmas Carol” are standards for the holidays.

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Utah Jazz Players Say Die Hard Isn't A Christmas Movie (KSL Sports)

Similarly, when pressed on the three movies not including “Die Hard,” Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson chose elf. However, Malik Beasley, who opened the video asking ...

None of the four Christmas Movies the Jazz offered made it to the final round of voting in the KSL Sports bracket as “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” downed Elf, while “A Christmas Story” knocked off “The Santa Clause.” “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” suffered a similar fate as it was ousted in the second round at the hands of “The Santa Clause.” Of the 11 Jazz players who were asked to pick which Christmas movie to discard, ten of them chose “Die Hard.”

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