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    this topic is about movies that feature extensive, more or less, original video games in them.

    here is what i can recall as of the moment:

    demonlover
    (has a one-on-one fighter)

    samurais
    (has a one-on-one fighter)

    nightmares? (i'm just recalling the title from another website. it has three short stories and includes actors lance henriksen and emilio estavaz)
    (has a kind of pac-man ish game)

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    Well, if we extend this to television shows as well, then Clarissa Explains it All is a freaking gold mine. Heh.

    Oh, and does Tron count? ;-)

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    Grosse Point Blank- Not exactly an original game, but DOOM II arcade cabinets aren't real.

    I love it when they show kids with N64 or PlayStation controllers and the game noises are just Beeps and blasts... you can tell none of those are real, and thats just about every Show / Movie out there.

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    The game in the Emilio Esteves movie was called "The Bishop of Battle"
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    The Last Starfighter

    Tron counts because Flynn plays a made-up game in his arcade. Can't remember what it's called...Space Paranoids?

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    Just remembered another one...in Superman III there's some kind of game where the bad guy is firing missiles at Superman

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    I seem to remember a National Lampoon vacation movie where one of those rascally kids made Pac-Man eat Chevy Chase's roadtrip plans.

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    Yeah, it was the first Vacation, and I think it was "played" on either a Channel F or an Astrocade.

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    I recall an episode of Diffren't strokes where Arnold played some fictional arcade game. I think it had a scuba diver in outer space.

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    If you count TV, then the Simpsons had a lot of memorable video games, like BoneStorm. Also, there was an episode of Law and Order Criminal Intent that used a video game that was made for the show by ex-Looking Glass programers.

    Wasn't there some kind of 3-D fighting game in Star Wars?

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    Star Wars had that Battle Chess like thing.

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    What was that game with the surfing ninja princes? I can't for the life of me remember. You had these two Hawaiian-type prince guys, one was the warrior and the other was the thinker / prophet guy. The "prophet" guy would play a game on the Atari Lynx that had him and his brother in it - what he played would correspond to what was happening around him and he would influence things that way.

    That was a custom game.
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    2001: A Space Odyssey had video chess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by calthaer
    What was that game with the surfing ninja princes? I can't for the life of me remember. You had these two Hawaiian-type prince guys, one was the warrior and the other was the thinker / prophet guy. The "prophet" guy would play a game on the Atari Lynx that had him and his brother in it - what he played would correspond to what was happening around him and he would influence things that way.

    That was a custom game.
    Surf Ninjas. Would that count as custom seeing there was a Lynx (or was it Game Gear) game of the movie?
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    To my knowledge, Wargames' "Global Thermonuclear War" was fictional.

    Then there's the whole Cloak and Dagger story. I've never seen that movie, however.

    I think there might have been something in D.A.R.Y.L., too, but I can't remember. I think it was maybe just Pole Position played at high speed.
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    Already mentioned, but the Last Starfighter. A good friend of mine owns the only surviving cab from this and I have to say, they put quite a bit of work into it! It's almost on par with "real" arcade cabs! I thought I had some pics of it, but I can't seem to find them right now.

    Does anybody here own any props like this?

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    what about "Cloak & Dagger" from the movie by the same name - did that game ever really exist? I remember really wanting it after I saw that movie when I was a kid - awesome kid spy movie - no cheese.

    Another movie "Brain Scan" starring Ed Furlong - he played a game that was similar to VR in some respect where he would go to real locations and kill people, but then it wouldn't actually have happened after the fact. but then it does and the sh*t hits the fan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jive3D
    what about "Cloak & Dagger" from the movie by the same name - did that game ever really exist? I remember really wanting it after I saw that movie when I was a kid - awesome kid spy movie - no cheese.
    Yes. Yes it did.

    Says IMDB:

    The video game which is central to the movie had already been in development as production of the film began (the game then named "Agent X"); when Atari was consulted to provide a game as an element of the movie, they tweaked "Agent X" and renamed it Cloak & Dagger. Dabney Coleman's character was then named "Agent X" in the movie. The game saw limited arcade release.

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    Toy Story 2 opened with a sequence showing Buzz Lightyear in some alternate world where he "dies." Then, it's revealed that it's actually a video game being played by the toys (on a fictional system that looks a lot like a SNES). Later in the movie, they are at a toy store trying to rescue Woody, and Rex (the dinosaur toy) finds a strategy guide for the game. He reads the strategy guide to find out how to defeat the villain Zurg in the game, and this strategy is used in real life to defeat the real Zurg.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wavelflack
    Yeah, it was the first Vacation, and I think it was "played" on either a Channel F or an Astrocade.
    It was in fact the Bally Astrocade. Clark Griswold actually did the family trip plan on an Apple II computer. Rusty then picks up the Astrocade controller to eat the dots and chase the car. Audrey uses the other controller to pilot some starship to fire at the pac-man knockoff.

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