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Thunderbirds is a 2004 action game for the Game Boy Advance developed by Saffire and published by Vivendi Universal Games, licensed from the Thunderbirds franchise and based on the film of the same name. The game is not to be confused with the 2001 Game Boy Advance title Thunderbirds: International Rescue.
The film's plot concerns the Hood, who traps International Rescue (IR) leader Jeff Tracy and four of his sons on board the damaged Thunderbird 5 to steal the other Thunderbird vehicles and commit crimes that IR will be blamed for, prompting Jeff's youngest son Alan and his friends Tin-Tin and Fermat to stop him.
In the 2004 film, Gordon is played by Ben Torgersen. According to Alex Pang's Thunderbirds: X-Ray Cross Sections, he is 18 years old and a recent graduate from Wharton Academy, the school that Alan attends in the film. He is noted to still be training on the Thunderbirds craft, with a year remaining until he is permitted to fly solo. [22]
In 1985, the first Thunderbirds video game was released for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The player pilots Thunderbird 1 and Thunderbird 2 to explore an Egyptian-style labyrinth. [ 22 ] In 1989, Grandslam Entertainment released a game for the Commodore 64 and Amiga , Amstrad CPC , Atari ST , MSX , and ZX Spectrum. [ 23 ]
Thunderbirds ' popularity led APF to make two feature film sequels with financial backing by United Artists. The first, Thunderbirds Are Go, premiered on 12 December 1966; [6] the second, Thunderbird 6, and 29 July 1968. [7] Written and produced by the Andersons and directed by David Lane, [8] [9] both were critical and commercial failures.
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Lew Grade, the Andersons' financial backer, was so impressed by the production that he ordered APF to re-write and extend every Thunderbirds episode from 25 to 50 minutes so that the series would fill a one-hour TV timeslot. Well received on its first broadcast, [1] "Trapped in the Sky" is widely regarded as one of the best episodes of ...