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Lets see what you think about this, What are the best cameos of video games in the movies so far? Howbout virtual boy in runaway bride or howbout game gear in rumble in the bronx, there are alot if you think so put your favorite :-P
bluberry
07-28-2004, 01:28 AM
The N64 in Office Space had only one controller.... in the 4th port. LOL
classicb
07-28-2004, 02:14 AM
Genesis in Swingers
Turbo Express in Enemy of the State
Dahne
07-28-2004, 02:15 AM
The Atari 2600 and Asteroids in National Lampoon's Family Vacation :)
o2william
07-28-2004, 02:49 AM
How 'bout the use of Vectrex in the movie Android? It was used as a low-budget special effects device. Not only is it shown playing the Star Trek game, but Mark Indictor even did some custom programming for certain scenes.
CyberRoach.com has some nice pics (among other cool stuff)here (http://www.cyberroach.com/videomisc/videomisc.htm).
d :D ont forget the coleco desktop arcades in national lampoons and in the jim belushi mivie i think uh k 911 maybe he uses a game and watch as a detonation device
-hellvin-
07-28-2004, 03:16 AM
I kinda liked how the game gear in rumble in the bronx had no fucking batteries yet he was PLAYING IT!!!!! The sound was so gimp sounding too, LoL. Good stuff.
classicb
07-28-2004, 03:20 AM
Nes Advantage in Ghostbusters 2
when the little japanese kid was playing the game gear there was no cart in it boy did that make me laugh :D
Dave Reinquest
07-28-2004, 04:11 AM
Not exactly a movie but...
Nomad in Weird Science (TV) Being used to control Gary. I thought some propmaster had busted up a GameGear, this was like a few eeks before Nomad hit the market.
SirDrexl
07-28-2004, 05:30 AM
In American Beauty, Jane (Thora Birch) is briefly seen playing what appears to be a Game Boy Pocket.
Mallrats had a Saturn playing the first Sega hockey game for the system-I don't remember what it was called. On the DVD commentary, Kevin Smith says they wanted to use EA Sports' game but Sega was supposed to promote them on some tour. Later he did use EA Sports' game in Chasing Amy, but I don't remember which system and game it was.
In the Toy Story films, the toys play a fictional system that looks like it was based on the SNES. Toy Story 2 starts off with Buzz Lightyear in a video game and features a subplot of the dinosaur toy finding a strategy guide to beat the game, which helps the real Buzz fight the main boss (since the game was based on the toys).
You may be interested in this link, which shows arcades in various movies: www.mameworld.net/movies.
I wonder why no one mentioned Joystick Heroes...
NES-Gaming without end.
Double Dragon, SMB-series, Turtles, etc.
Drexel923
07-28-2004, 09:37 AM
Don't forget the best Game Gear cameo of all...Surf Ninjas. Not only can it play games, but it can fight evil too. LOL
Also I don't know what game, but weren't they playing some Extreme / "Action" Sports game in xXx (Triple X). Yeah, I saw the movie, but only cause it was free. ;)
EDIT...and we can't forget the Wizard. So many games in that one, and the big showing on SMB 3. :D
Crush Crawfish
07-28-2004, 01:11 PM
What about the Nightmare on Elm street movie where freddy uses an atari game to kill one of the kids? That was funny.
evilmess
07-28-2004, 01:17 PM
Anybody seen Juvenile (2000) from Takashi Yamazaki who also directed Returner (2002).
Anyway, in Juvenile the main kid learns to pilot a mech via his PS2 and later the little robot he constructed in the future builds him a real mech for him to battle the aliens which is controlled by a PS2 controller.
Cute stuff and worth the watch if you're into Japanese flicks but it's very much a kids movie. :)
Darth Sensei
07-28-2004, 01:31 PM
Princess Bride. I can't remember what the kid was playing, but it was a baseball game.
D
Neil Koch
07-28-2004, 03:33 PM
I have a section of my site dedicated to this sort of stuff in Hong Kong movies:
http://www.hkfilm.net/vidgame.htm
My favorite is in City Hunter where Jackie Chan turns into various SF2 characters.
Retsudo
07-28-2004, 03:35 PM
Well let me see...
John Connor playing "After Burner" in T2
Some guy playing a" Doom 2" Arcade unit in a store in "Grosse Point Blank"
The scanner guy playing "Operation Wolf" in an arcade in "Scanners 2"
Girl Playing "Tempest" in "Night of the Comet"
Emilio Estevez playing a game called "Bishops of Battle" in "Nightmares"
Genicarlo Espisito getting killed by a "Starcastle" machine in "Maximum Overdrive"
VinnyT
07-28-2004, 05:56 PM
Bring it on(what? http://www.ewbattleground.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/shifty.gif) Some kid is playing Twisted Metal 3, before his sister comes in and ruins his game, which he responds by saying".....bitch!"
Waynes World has Sonic 1 beta playing in the background, to Yars Revenge sounds.
And that crappy movie with The middle child from Home Improvment and Checy Chase. The kid was playing Virtua Fighter in the arcade.
JJNova
07-28-2004, 06:18 PM
Princess Bride. I can't remember what the kid was playing, but it was a baseball game.
D
Dude. He was playing RBI Baseball for the NES, but the best part is that he was playing it with an Atari Joystick. HA HA. One of my favorite appearances of two different systems, even if it wasn't intentional.
Pantechnicon
07-28-2004, 11:56 PM
Some guy playing a" Doom 2" Arcade unit in a store in "Grosse Point Blank"
...and didn't this just confuse the hell out of people? I remember the buzz quite well. "You mean there's a Doom coin-op? I've got to find that!" LOL
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - There's an Atari 2600 easily visible in the family's living room, although it never gets played (maybe E.T. cannibalized it to build his communications device).
Richter
07-29-2004, 12:13 AM
there was a Playstation in that Spice Girls movie
classicb
07-29-2004, 12:20 AM
there was a Playstation in that Spice Girls movie
oh yeah I rememb...I mean... oh there was I never saw that movie
Wasn't there some video game stuff in that movie "The Wizard" with Fred Savage. ;)
Richter
07-29-2004, 12:37 AM
there was a Playstation in that Spice Girls movie
oh yeah I rememb...I mean... oh there was I never saw that movienever saw it either, it was mentioned in some gaming mag (PSM?)
JJNova
07-29-2004, 12:40 AM
No. That fred savage movie just had some kid wearing a robotic Micheal Jackson glove. :D
jerkov
07-29-2004, 12:42 AM
The Atari on top of the TV when all the weird shit is happening to James Woods in Videodrome. One of my favorite movies of all time.
JJNova
07-29-2004, 12:58 AM
there was a Playstation in that Spice Girls movie
oh yeah I rememb...I mean... oh there was I never saw that movie
Wasn't there some video game stuff in that movie "The Wizard" with Fred Savage. ;)
Nope. That Fred Savage movie was about some kid with a robotic micheal Jackson glove. :D
-hellvin-
07-29-2004, 01:06 AM
when the little japanese kid was playing the game gear there was no cart in it boy did that make me laugh :D
LoL, that's right, I just happened to see the movie and it has no damn cart but he's playing it. I thought the battery covers were missing or something.
MegaDrive20XX
07-29-2004, 01:21 AM
in Friday the 13th Part 4 (The Final Chapter) Released in 84' (Corey Feldman, before he was famous for The Goonies as "mouth"), was playing a game on his computer...I would love to know what Computer that was...and what game he was playing on it
musical
07-29-2004, 11:22 AM
In one of my Playby vids, there's a cute college girl playing with her Nintendo 64.
Does that count?
LOL :-P ;)
girth305
07-29-2004, 11:42 AM
In the movie Fear with Markie Mark
Reese Witherspoon is playing streetfighter 2 with her brother, the match continues after she puts the controller down, one of my favorite video game cameos.
Take Care all,
Push Upstairs
07-29-2004, 01:09 PM
No. That fred savage movie just had some kid wearing a robotic Micheal Jackson glove. :D
Any time the Power Glove is mentioned i remember this little description from Overclocked.org:
"Power Glove - No matter how exciting they tried to make this in ads or in that lame Fred Savage flick "The Wizard", the power glove was really only good for pretending you were a cybernetically enhanced Michael Jackson, grabbing your crotch in a bionic frenzy and . . . oops . . kinda got carried away there . . ."
LOL LOL LOL
JJNova
07-29-2004, 04:06 PM
No. That fred savage movie just had some kid wearing a robotic Micheal Jackson glove. :D
Any time the Power Glove is mentioned i remember this little description from Overclocked.org:
"Power Glove - No matter how exciting they tried to make this in ads or in that lame Fred Savage flick "The Wizard", the power glove was really only good for pretending you were a cybernetically enhanced Michael Jackson, grabbing your crotch in a bionic frenzy and . . . oops . . kinda got carried away there . . ."
LOL LOL LOL
Wow. I could write for Overclocked.....Although probably a few years late.... I guess I could do the "classic" section. :D
mizarkgram
07-29-2004, 04:24 PM
I was just watching the TV Show Roseanne with the girlfriend and I noticed that the youngest kid was sitting there at the table playing gameboy, with no cart in the slot, and it was making sounds like Demon Attack
In Butterfly Effect when he had no hands the guy pulled out a box and a gameboy was laying on top.But how would he play it with no hands?
JJNova
07-29-2004, 08:38 PM
You know what? I think that movie Tron had some video game thing going on with it.
How about movies that are based from video games. Lawnmower Man, Lawnmower Man 2 Jobs Revenge....that movie sucked.
Wargames. That was a great one. I think. Dont remember to be honest.
MegaDrive20XX
07-29-2004, 08:47 PM
Don't forget the best Game Gear cameo of all...Surf Ninjas. Not only can it play games, but it can fight evil too. LOL
Also I don't know what game, but weren't they playing some Extreme / "Action" Sports game in xXx (Triple X). Yeah, I saw the movie, but only cause it was free. ;)
EDIT...and we can't forget the Wizard. So many games in that one, and the big showing on SMB 3. :D
I think that was an Atari Lynx (Since Surf Ninjas was on Atari Lynx)
MegaDrive20XX
07-29-2004, 08:52 PM
the Nintendo death scene was in Nightmare on Elm Street Part 4 (The Dream Master), with "Super Freddy" again (Using a Super Mario Bros. scenario)
The game gear in "Air Heads".
Another Jet Li movie, with an odd looking Virtua Fighter cab in the background
Blood Sport with Van Damme, he's playing some arcade Kung Fu Tournament game with the guy from the "Revenge of the Nerd" films as "Ogre", whom ended up playing "Zangief" in SF the Movie
Dr. Mario on NES cameo in "Dr. Giggles"
Retsudo
07-29-2004, 09:32 PM
Blood Sport with Van Damme, he's playing some arcade Kung Fu Tournament game
That game was "Karate Champ" by data East
MegaDrive20XX
07-29-2004, 09:35 PM
Blood Sport with Van Damme, he's playing some arcade Kung Fu Tournament game
That game was "Karate Champ" by data East
Ah yeah, it's all coming back now, thank you...Data East...nuff said 8-)
Azazel
07-30-2004, 12:04 AM
What about the Nightmare on Elm street movie where freddy uses an atari game to kill one of the kids? That was funny.
I thought it was NES and not atari. I remember the Now your playing with Power quote. :D
I think that was an Atari Lynx (Since Surf Ninjas was on Atari Lynx)
I didn't see the movie, but I'm pretty sure the game was on the Game Gear.
Other TV game cameos:
- For years, Drew had a Saturn on The Drew Carey Show.
- MacGyver can be seen playing Great Ice Hockey on the SMS with a regular Control Pad.
- On at least one episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, there was an NES, possibly with Genesis controllers (don't quote me on that).
JJNova wrote:
He was playing RBI Baseball for the NES, but the best part is that he was playing it with an Atari Joystick. HA HA.
Nope- that was Hardball by Accolade. He couldve been using an Atari-type joystick on his Commodore 64 computer- they dont show the system itself.
In that french stweart movie there a playstation
In repli-cate there a dreamcast
In men in black there that dual shock controller
Uhh I dont think this counts but in Aqua Teen Hunger Force meatwad usually plays a atari 2600,maybe a sixer but i forget
In umm uhh im all out :o
PentiumMMX
07-30-2004, 10:02 AM
This is not a movie, but...
On some show on ABC (I forgot the name), They had a N64, but the strange thing is, They can somehow play WITHOUT a cart in the system!
ROFL! :D
I just love it hon in hows and some movies the person his holding the ocntroller(no cart in) and puching every button like a idiot.like on the mountain dew commercial were the two guys was playing mulitplayer in a snowbaord game for xbox and one guy was on the scree flipping around and both the guys were jammin the controller like stupid people.I mean they could at least play the the game its not gonna huts if they whent thru all the trouble to get it there x_x
Azazel
07-30-2004, 01:52 PM
There was a X Files episode where they were playing Virtual Fighter at an arcade.
JJNova
07-30-2004, 05:02 PM
The Sopranos have an N64 in their living room.
Mr. Smashy
07-30-2004, 05:41 PM
Does anybody know the game that Josh Baskin is playing at the beginning of "Big"? I haven't had any positive I.D. on it yet.
Mr. Smashy
07-30-2004, 05:41 PM
If only we could delete double-posts at the end of a thread... :roll:
Saabmeister
07-30-2004, 07:04 PM
In the Fast and the Furious someone is playing Gran Turismo (GT2??) in his car, they also play it when there at their house.
In Charlies Angels, 2 kids are playing Final Fantasy VIII AT THE SAME TIME!!!
Maybe this dosen't count, but there was an 80's movie in which a guy travels backwards/forwards in his Cessna with a Commodore 64!!! If any one knows what movie it is, please let me know.
In Biker Boys, they're playing PS2.
Another that may not count, but funny nonetheless, On an episode of Cops, there is a call about a snake in someones attic, and you get a nice closeup of a Commodore 64 box.
Richter
07-30-2004, 11:57 PM
The Butterfly Effect, near the end, you seen an original GameBoy in a box
SoulBlazer
07-31-2004, 12:58 AM
All the movies I can think off have been mentioned (I was going to point out Charlie's Angels and FF8, but someone allready got me on that! :) ).
But TV shows -- in several episodes of Boston Public they showed kids playing both original Game Boys and Game Boy Advances.
Come to think of it, I think Buffy has had them in them as well.
And what the heck was that silly move about babysitting from the 80's called? I'm almost positivie one of the kids was playing a arcade game early in the movie.
Oh, and Parenthood from the late 80's also had a great line. :D You don't actually SEE it, but in one of the scenes the mother is calling up to her kids upstairs "And make sure you grab your grandmother -- she's busy playing Nintendo!" LOL
Gameboy in Butterfly effect was already mentioned :duh:
Damon Plus
07-31-2004, 04:24 AM
That Atari arcade on Dawn of the Dead (1978). They played Gunfight and some other games LOL
Richter
07-31-2004, 12:08 PM
Gameboy in Butterfly effect was already mentioned :duh: :oops:
JJNova
07-31-2004, 12:34 PM
That one arcade game in that one movie where the guy is visited by aliens and they leave a lookalike of him on the planet so that he could become The Last Starfighter...... what was the name of that movie again?
Push Upstairs
07-31-2004, 12:46 PM
That one arcade game in that one movie where the guy is visited by aliens and they leave a lookalike of him on the planet so that he could become The Last Starfighter...... what was the name of that movie again?
Oh...ummm...er...ah...urrmm its on the tip of my tounge.
Wait i got it! No i dont. :o
Sorry, can't help you out.
Quickclaw
07-31-2004, 03:45 PM
Pac-Man in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High"
Computer Space in "Jaws"
I've noticed that the sound effects from the 2600 version of Donkey Kong are used quite frequently on TV shows.
MarioAllStar2600
07-31-2004, 03:59 PM
In runaway Jury he owns a video game store and has an atari 2600 in his bedroom.
In aqua teen hunger force meatwad is playing a Darth Vader 2600.
I will stay on the watch. 8-)
MarioAllStar2600
07-31-2004, 04:02 PM
In runaway Jury he owns a video game store and has an atari 2600 in his bedroom.
In aqua teen hunger force meatwad is playing a Darth Vader 2600.
I will stay on the watch. 8-)
Cmosfm
07-31-2004, 04:35 PM
There was a X Files episode where they were playing Virtual Fighter at an arcade.
Hey, I was gonna say that! Nah...they were in an arcade and the focus was on the VF cab....full sound effects and all!
ALso, Rosanne (TV) has a SNES in there livingroom. It's in tons of episodes though I've never seen em play it.
Richter
07-31-2004, 04:43 PM
That one arcade game in that one movie where the guy is visited by aliens and they leave a lookalike of him on the planet so that he could become The Last Starfighter...... what was the name of that movie again?yes, that was also the name of the movie :)
so we are doing TV shows now? then there was a show on NBC (?) called 'Tucker', one episode was devoted entirely to DDR
alrready mentioned aqua teen 2600 :duh:
Quickclaw
08-01-2004, 12:04 AM
I was jealous of Ricky Stratton's coin-ops on "Silver Spoons."
Police Academy 3
The (unplugged) Commodore 64 used to keep track of the police cars, etc starts running the arcade version of Paperboy.
http://www.dienstagstreff.de/famous/images/policeacadamy1.jpghttp://www.dienstagstreff.de/famous/images/policeacadamy2.jpghttp://www.dienstagstreff.de/famous/images/policeacadamy3.jpg
mizarkgram
08-01-2004, 12:29 PM
I dont knwo about everyone else, but after watching this thread for the past little while, i got an urge to watch The Wizard, and then after I watched that, I had an urge to use my power glove, and then I spent a few hours playing super Glove Ball... and now my wrist feels like it is about to fall off (I also played Rad Racer, just like the kid in the Wizard with it..... man do I ever suck ass)
GrayFox
08-01-2004, 01:58 PM
"I love the power glove, it's so bad."
I think, I could watch "The Wizard" every single day of my life just for that quote. It's just, so, bad.
MarioAllStar2600
08-01-2004, 04:22 PM
Malibus Most Wanted
M= Malibu
G= Gang member
G- Where you learn to shoot like that?
M- Grand Theft Auto 3
G- Can I borrow it?
M- You got ps2?
G- Nah I got gamecast
M- Well there's dreamcast and gamecube, which one you got?
G- I told you i got gamecast, i aint rich
Ruudos
08-01-2004, 05:31 PM
I remember watching Flodder (the TV-series, not the movie) and they were playing NES with 2 Zappers :o
Ruudos
08-01-2004, 05:32 PM
I remember watching Flodder (the TV-series, not the movie) and they were playing NES with 2 Zappers :o
dreamcaster
08-02-2004, 11:12 AM
In the Fast and the Furious someone is playing Gran Turismo (GT2??) in his car, they also play it when there at their house.
It's the original Gran Turismo. In the car he's playing the game driving a Mitsubishi 3000GT/GTO.
I know my GT games. ;)
vincewy
09-11-2004, 01:46 PM
I've just watched SF: The Movie, I know and heard it was bad, but I finally had the pleasure (or displeasure) of watching the crap, OMG, it's incredibly bad and stupid, I'd be so humiliated to be any of the cast (even supporting cast) in this movie. I can't believe they can get so many famous actors into the cast, such as Byron Mann, JC Van Damme, Damian Chappa, and Raul Julia.
I don't think any of the movies based on a video game will be much better, the fact is, games are based on fantasy, not reality, and those 2 should never mix. The same can be said about most games based on movies (Judge Dredd, Cliff Hanger, etc)