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
Video Games in the movies
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
The N64 in Office Space had only one controller.... in the 4th port.
never caught that one.eh
Genesis in Swingers
Turbo Express in Enemy of the State
The Atari 2600 and Asteroids in National Lampoon's Family Vacation
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.
dont 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
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.
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
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.
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.
Hurry up!
Don't forget the best Game Gear cameo of all...Surf Ninjas. Not only can it play games, but it can fight evil too.
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.
What about the Nightmare on Elm street movie where freddy uses an atari game to kill one of the kids? That was funny.
"First, we have aspirin. A common cure for things that aspirin cures. Leads to.....rabies."
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.
Princess Bride. I can't remember what the kid was playing, but it was a baseball game.
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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.
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"
Bring it on(what?) 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.
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