Adventures In Unwinnable Games

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Miramax is going back to the future to promote the past. Or something like that. To promote a movie that doesn’t release for several months, the studio has launched a site containing vintage midway games.

The studio hired company Liquid Generation to create and distribute versions of the games Whack-A-Mole, Skee Ball, Horse Derby and Root Beer Pong that are tweaked to feature characters from Adventureland. The games are all housed on the comedy’s Web site, www.adventurelandthefilm.com,

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