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It's time to nominate the best video game cameo in a movie!
DaveMMR:
The word 'nominate' is such a poor choice to use in the subject as no ultimate winner will be chosen and no award will be given out.
Anyway... I was just reading about the Computer Space cabinet is Soylent Green and I was thinking of some good appearances of video games (arcade or home system) on celluloid (add to that I was really bored). Feel free to add to my list but remember that movies based on the videogame of the same name don't count.
- PACMAN for his appearance in Tron (a video-game inspired movie, but not based on Pac-Man, so it kinda, sorta counts... or maybe not).
- MS. PACMAN for her appearance in Man on the Moon (even if it was totally anachronistic - check IMDB)
- KARATE CHAMP for it's appearance in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (played by two women no less - totally blowing gender stereotypes out of the water).
- POLE POSITION for it's appearance in D.A.R.R.Y.L. (betcha never knew robots could totally manipulate a video game to increase it's frame rate 500% on an ancient computer)
And just to add a little seasoning, here's some sub-catagories (feel free to add more):
MOST BAFFLING VIDEOGAME CAMEO IN A MOVIE OR TV SHOW:
- Some guy playing Atari 2600 PacMan on an NES (listen to the sound effects) in My Blue Heaven.
- The episode of You Can't Do That on Television (ep title escapes me at this time) in which everyone in the cast actually wanted to play Atari 2600 PacMan (one of them even mentioned it was their favorite game).
BEST VIDEOGAME APPEARANCE ON TV:
Three way tie:
- A depressed PacMan trying to be cheered up by three of the ghosts (who later give up and go to Q*Bert's house) in Family Guy (ep: Stuck Together, Torn Apart).
- Trying to keep a Frogger machine powered up to maintain George's high score in Seinfeld (ep: The Frogger).
- Every episode of Silver Spoons (lucky rich brat with his wall of arcade cabs).
BEST VIDEOGAME APPEARANCE IN A MUSIC VIDEO:
- TEMPEST for it's appearance in Rush's video for Subdivisions. (probably not the best but the only I could think of)
BEST FICTIONAL VIDEOGAME IN A MOVIE OR TV SHOW THAT I'D MOST LIKE TO PLAY FOR REAL:
- SPACE SUCKERS: the cause of fierce compition between Arnold and Willis in Diff'rent Strokes.
Odonadon:
- RC Pro AM in Wizard (Fred Savage)
MOST BAFFLING VIDEOGAME CAMEO IN A MOVIE OR TV SHOW:
- Some sort of Pacman type game Chevy Chase uses to map out their vacation route for the movie audience - Vacation
BEST VIDEOGAME APPEARANCE ON TV:
- Spacfe Invaders in Futurama - Lower altitude, change direction and increase speed!
BEST VIDEOGAME APPEARANCE IN A MUSIC VIDEO:
- I swear I hear the Super Mario theme in the background of almost every dance song...
BEST FICTIONAL VIDEOGAME IN A MOVIE OR TV SHOW THAT I'D MOST LIKE TO PLAY FOR REAL:
- The Last Starfighter - The Last Starfighter. :)
Odonadon
DaveMMR:
I dunno about the Wizard... wasn't that just a 90 minute Nintendo commercial? heh heh.
And I forgot about Donkey Kong in the Simpsons! He throws a barrel on the head of the wise cracking guy (who never had a name but an unmistakable sarcastic voice) after he say he's no longer a draw!
Frostillicus:
You can't forget all the great Simpson's video game moments:
-Bible Blaster! "nah - you just winged him. Now he's a Unitarian."
-Nuke Canada (in bowling alley)
-Asteroids (in a flashback scene)
Games I don't know name of:
-That crazy game Bart plays in the Focusyn episode
-The RPG Lisa plays while sick from school
-Boxing game between Bart and Homer (1st season?)
And the BEST:
-Devil's Advocate "Marge, may I play Devil's Advocate?"
RedSquirrel:
Ms Pacman was also in that episode of Friends.
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