Arcade Fiction

[thefreakhouse]

After being a longtime visitor to the BYOAC site and then a registered lurker here on the forums for two years I finally placed a parts order (twice actually because I liked the idea so much) with Groovy Game Gear  for my first home arcade cab build.

It is going to be a fairly no frills 4 player cab. I am not going to elaborate too much on it here until I get the bulk of it started. Right now its my collection of software, files and an transaction number for my parts.

In the meantime I am trying to come up with a cab name/theme. I have been thinking about building one since 2001. In that time I have managed to over-think the project to death. I have come up with numerous ideas and now feel kind of burned out on all of them. The rest of the names I like...well..all of you took them long ago.

Can anyone name a fictitious arcade game from a movie or TV show?

The only ones I can think off hand are:

The Last Starfighter: Starfighter (someone did that already. Luckee)
Monster House: Thou Art Dead

Any more?

[ArtMAME]

Space Paranoids from Tron

Galactic Border Patrol from Strange Brew... Take off ehh...

[wbassett]

This is because I just watched this on cable the other night... StarFighter... from The Last Star Fighter!

I was seriously thinking about building this style for my next cab!

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8394

The game doesn't exist and even though Atari was planning on coming out with an actual arcade machine, they scrapped the idea... so you could have the only known StarFighter design!  I'm sure someone out there has probably made one, but not that I've seen.

[TOK]

My favorite one is The Bishop Of Battle from the movie Nightmares. Emilio Estevez is addicted to the game and can't wait to get to the end. He sneaks into the mall to play and gets a nasty surprise when he gets to the end. 

The game itself is a vector and looks like a mix between Tempest and Berzerk.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKTN93kdVK0[/youtube]

[javeryh]

Bonestorm!!!

[robstraws]

QUB3D from gta IV.  There were others from san andreas and vice city but I cant remember their names.

[DeLuSioNal29]

How about the boxing game that Bart and Homer were playing in the episode "Moaning Lisa"?

The video boxing game was called "Super Slugfest" as noted here:  http://www.snpp.com/episodes/7G06.html

Here's a snippet of them playing:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_9hH9qdEs[/youtube]

[MJ]

Resurrecting this 2-year old thread in consideration of Ricks "Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3" build from DOOM.

Any others to add to the list?

[LeedsFan]

"Better Than Life" from Red Dwarf. Imagine playing that for real!!! 

[Vigo]

TROGDOR!!!!!

http://www.homestarrunner.com/arcadegame.html

[wweumina]

'Punky Pong' from Bones

[Vigo]

Here are the arcade machines shown in the classic game, Maniac Mansion:

Kill Thrill
Meteor Madness
Die Enemy, Die
Alien Slime
Disco Crazy
Video Fever
Tuna Diver (on the NES version)

[Smeghead]

That thing from 'Lawnmower man' that'd actually be pretty cool and these days no big deal really

Best thing would be that game from Star Trek where you simply put the ball in the cone but everytime you do you get recreational drugs injected into you

[Witchboard]

This is because I just watched this on cable the other night... StarFighter... from The Last Star Fighter!

I was seriously thinking about building this style for my next cab!

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8394

The game doesn't exist and even though Atari was planning on coming out with an actual arcade machine, they scrapped the idea... so you could have the only known StarFighter design!  I'm sure someone out there has probably made one, but not that I've seen.

Here is a site with the game and plans for the cabinet.  They also have Space Paranoids and Bishop of Battle games they are working on.

[eds1275]

Here are the arcade machines shown in the classic game, Maniac Mansion:

Kill Thrill
Meteor Madness
Die Enemy, Die
Alien Slime
Disco Crazy
Video Fever
Tuna Diver (on the NES version)

Tuna Diver! Wow someone was clever to sneak that into an NES game!

[DrFrag]

Tempestra from TMNT.

The early 90s Australian comedy The Late Show had a couple of fake arcade games featured.  I think one was Monica Seles Tennis, where you had to play tennis while dodging a guy running onto the court with a knife.

What was that video game Bart played in an early Simpsons episode?  Bonecrusher IV or something?

Edit: Space Quest 3 had Astro Chicken.  Space Quest 1 and Leisure Suit Larry 1 had slot machines, but I don't remember if they had names.

Edit2: I keep thinking of things.  The old Counter-Strike map de_vegas had slot machines called Golden Shower (lol).

[Smeghead]

Duke Nukem had something in it ...................hmmm

[BadMouth]

Edit: Space Quest 3 had Astro Chicken.  Space Quest 1 and Leisure Suit Larry 1 had slot machines, but I don't remember if they had names.

I was trying to remember the ones from the Sierra games all day!
The only one I could remember was from Manhunter....  Halls, Walls, Balls, & Dolls

[bkenobi]

Shenmue had an arcade you could go in and play.  I can't remember what games they had, but I think they were real games (perhaps with altered names).

EDIT: Wiki to the rescue.

Gameplay modes

Gameplay in Shenmue is diverse; while most of the game is spent walking around the Japanese locations in a third-person 'chase cam' mode (talking to people, searching for things, and so forth), it is interspersed with many 'mini-games', including forklift and motorcycle races, bar fights, chases down crowded alleys, full versions of Sega arcade games Space Harrier and Hang-On (both originally programmed by Shenmue creator and director, Yu Suzuki), dart games, and fighting sequences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenmue#Gameplay_modes

[Vigo]

Shenmue had an arcade you could go in and play.  I can't remember what games they had, but I think they were real games (perhaps with altered names).

EDIT: Wiki to the rescue.

Gameplay modes

Gameplay in Shenmue is diverse; while most of the game is spent walking around the Japanese locations in a third-person 'chase cam' mode (talking to people, searching for things, and so forth), it is interspersed with many 'mini-games', including forklift and motorcycle races, bar fights, chases down crowded alleys, full versions of Sega arcade games Space Harrier and Hang-On (both originally programmed by Shenmue creator and director, Yu Suzuki), dart games, and fighting sequences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenmue#Gameplay_modes

"What can you tell me about the four Wude?"

"Want to try a game of Lucky Hit?"

[chopps]

Larry the Looter from the Simpsons 

[Witchboard]

I'm kind of surprised that nobody has mentioned Polybius yet.

[BadMouth]

This popped up on Digg today:
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/11/the_10_greatest_fictional_videogames.php

[DJ_Izumi]

In the premiere of Futurama, Fry was playing Monkey Fracas Jr. http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Monkey_Fracas_Jr.