Author Topic: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines (Read 9233 times)

Jabba · « **on:** October 01, 2005, 02:31:23 pm »

OK, I'll start...

Just finished watching "The Twilight Zone: The Movie" made in 1983 and the segment where the kid can wish for anything he wants (i.e., the one with Cartoons).

In it, they Feature one of my all time favourites games: Tempest

Next?

Harry Potter · « **Reply #1 on:** October 01, 2005, 02:32:40 pm »

Wargames: Galaga mainly.

Scott84 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 01, 2005, 02:43:39 pm »

The Wizard (1989)

Jabba · « **Reply #3 on:** October 01, 2005, 02:47:02 pm »

Scott, which game was in it?

New Rule: You gotta name the game that was in the movie.

Harry Potter · « **Reply #4 on:** October 01, 2005, 02:47:33 pm »

Quote from: Scott84 on October 01, 2005, 02:43:39 pm

The Wizard (1989)

I was gonna say 'that was nintendo' but they did have the VS versions of the games.

So i guess Saint won't ban you for being irrelevant afterall.

Nipedley · « **Reply #5 on:** October 01, 2005, 02:57:28 pm »

Terminator 2!

GGKoul · « **Reply #6 on:** October 01, 2005, 07:04:48 pm »

-- Gross Point Blank (Only Doom Arcade Game)

Wenis · « **Reply #7 on:** October 01, 2005, 07:10:01 pm »

In the wizard there is a bunch of games. But one specific is double dragon.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #8 on:** October 01, 2005, 07:24:35 pm »

A videogaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.

The Last Starfighter

MaximRecoil · « **Reply #9 on:** October 01, 2005, 10:48:04 pm »

There is a site that lists pretty much every movie with arcade games http://www.mameworld.net/movies/index.html

One that I don't think they mentioned (at least I didn't see it there) is Maximum Overdrive where there is a small arcade in the truck stop and some punk is in there and the machines start spitting out quarters. He is trying to collect them all and somehow he gets his head implanted into a pinball machine. Been a while since I have seen the movie but I think that is the way it went. I can't remember the names of any of the machines.

A search turned up this:

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MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE

AC. · « **Reply #10 on:** October 02, 2005, 02:30:12 am »

Soylent Green is an old movie (Charleton Heston) that should be on everybody's must-see sci-fi movie list. The game Computer Space is in it in one of the apartments.

cdbrown · « **Reply #11 on:** October 02, 2005, 08:23:36 am »

Rambo: First Blood - a truck is driving through town and it has about 10 cabs of different flavours on the back.

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #12 on:** October 02, 2005, 09:17:23 am »

Quote from: Nipedley on October 01, 2005, 02:57:28 pm

Terminator 2!
and uhm, a lot, I vividly remember missile command though.

There was a cool After Burner cab, the one you sit in.

AmericanDemon · « **Reply #13 on:** October 02, 2005, 11:00:37 am »

Quote from: MaximRecoil on October 01, 2005, 10:48:04 pm

Anyone notice how in Bloodsport, the two guys are shown as playing two player simultaneously on a regular Karate Champ machine? You could only do that on Karate Champ VS.

You must be misinformed. I've played on several old school Karate Champ machines and you could play one another. It wasn't just he VS.

markrvp · « **Reply #14 on:** October 03, 2005, 12:58:40 am »

Tron

most every arcade game made before TRON.

Also, in Happy Gilmore, Adam Sandler leaves the bar at the clubhouse because there was "an Asteroids Machine calling him."

ChadTower · « **Reply #15 on:** October 03, 2005, 08:53:27 am »

Last night, saw an Eight Ball Deluxe in Nightmare on Elm Street 3.

Stingray · « **Reply #16 on:** October 03, 2005, 09:00:34 am »

Theres an incredible arcade in Karate Kid. Tons of the great classics. Oddly enough, with all that real arcade hardware handy, they chose to dub in the sound effects from Atari 2600 Pac-Man.

-S

ChadTower · « **Reply #17 on:** October 03, 2005, 09:04:56 am »

That would be because a huge arcade would preclude their ability to control ambient sound levels. I would bet every machine in there was turned to zero volume.

Stingray · « **Reply #18 on:** October 03, 2005, 09:11:57 am »

That still doesn't explain why they used a console sound effect. Beyond just being lazy of course.

-S

ChadTower · « **Reply #19 on:** October 03, 2005, 09:13:43 am »

Most movies and TV shows use 2600 sound effects for some reason, no matter what game is on the screen. It's weird. Maybe those sound effects were cheap to license.

Jabba · « **Reply #20 on:** October 03, 2005, 09:19:11 am »

Or maybe because every kid in North America had a 2600...sound was familiar even to the parents...

Bones · « **Reply #21 on:** October 10, 2005, 04:26:15 am »

Lost boys.

Dunno if you actually see the game or cabinet, but Moon Cresta is singing in the background in one of the early scenes. I think.

In the commic book store. I think.

Haven't seen it for years.... Somebody with the DVD confirm?

NiN^_^NiN · « **Reply #22 on:** October 10, 2005, 07:57:22 am »

Well they built a arcade cab in "The sisterhood of the traveling pants" its Dragonlair 3D but they have it setup as a arcade game and keep calling it dragon slayer

Stingray · « **Reply #23 on:** October 10, 2005, 09:22:27 am »

There's some kind of arcade game in Grosse Point Blank. It's in the convenience store, looks like it's running some kind of FPS. I don't know if it's a real arcade game or not, it's not anything that I recognise.

-S

ChadTower · « **Reply #24 on:** October 10, 2005, 09:43:04 am »

I believe that's the fake DOOM.

Jabba · « **Reply #25 on:** October 10, 2005, 09:49:44 am »

There was a machine in Piranah in the first few minutes. The Games looked like it was from 1975 called Jaws (Shark trying to eat people, black and white like Pong, Original Sprint, etc). I checked mame and did not find a game called Jaws. Maybe it is a different game

Anyways, kinda funny, the move was made in 1995, but had an old crappy game from 1975. Must have been a royalties thing...

ChadTower · « **Reply #26 on:** October 10, 2005, 09:54:52 am »

Maneater.

I've always wanted one of those.

Stingray · « **Reply #27 on:** October 10, 2005, 09:56:13 am »

The game may be crappy, but it has one of the coolest cabs ever made.

-S

ClubNinja · « **Reply #28 on:** October 10, 2005, 09:57:48 am »

Just last night, I was watching The Bad News Bears, and there's a scene with several nice EM pins in the background. Yum.

ClubNinja · « **Reply #29 on:** October 10, 2005, 10:01:30 am »

Quote from: Jabba on October 01, 2005, 02:31:23 pm

Just finished watching "The Twilight Zone: The Movie" made in 1983

... speaking of The Bad News Bears, Vic Morrow (who plays the rival coach) gets mangled and killed during filming the final scene of the first segment in that Twilight Zone Movie. I've never seen it myself, but I always wondered if you could tell or not in the film.

romperwomb · « **Reply #30 on:** October 10, 2005, 12:37:33 pm »

Back to the Future II has Wild Gunman in the Cafe 80's.

romperwomb · « **Reply #31 on:** October 10, 2005, 12:56:27 pm »

The Footclan had an Arcade in TMNT. I remember they had someone fighting the final boss in NARC. It made me want to run away and join the Footclan. "They get to be Ninja's with a skateboard ramp AND arcade games! Sign me up!?"

RayB · « **Reply #32 on:** October 10, 2005, 01:08:05 pm »

Quote from: Stingray on October 03, 2005, 09:11:57 am

That still doesn't explain why they used a console sound effect. Beyond just being lazy of course.

It's due to licensing issues.

ChadTower · « **Reply #33 on:** October 10, 2005, 04:32:54 pm »

Quote from: ClubNinja on October 10, 2005, 10:01:30 am

... speaking of The Bad News Bears, Vic Morrow (who plays the rival coach) gets mangled and killed during filming the final scene of the first segment in that Twilight Zone Movie. I've never seen it myself, but I always wondered if you could tell or not in the film.

Helicopter choppage. Ouch.

Havok · « **Reply #34 on:** October 10, 2005, 04:45:24 pm »

Quote from: Stingray on October 10, 2005, 09:56:13 am

The game may be crappy, but it has one of the coolest cabs ever made.

-S

That cab disturbs me: looks like some kinda condom with teeth...

Stingray · « **Reply #35 on:** October 10, 2005, 04:51:35 pm »

Quote from: Havok on October 10, 2005, 04:45:24 pm

Quote from: Stingray on October 10, 2005, 09:56:13 am
The game may be crappy, but it has one of the coolest cabs ever made.

-S

That cab disturbs me: looks like some kinda condom with teeth...

Yeah! What about that isn't cool?

-S

melarky · « **Reply #36 on:** October 10, 2005, 05:04:37 pm »

I saw psycho 2 on tv the other night, and they have a battlezone and a ms pac-man in the diner where Norman gets work after being released from the looney bin. You can see them with his old fired motel manager comes in and heckles him.

MameMaster! · « **Reply #37 on:** October 10, 2005, 05:49:30 pm »

Quote from: missioncontrol on October 01, 2005, 07:24:35 pm

A videogaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.

The Last Starfighter

....did you see the Last Starfighter off broadway?...that looks like a photo from the play. I saw it....hmm....better off as a movie...but a nice effort.

nipsmg · « **Reply #38 on:** October 10, 2005, 05:55:22 pm »

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Karate Kid

AC. · « **Reply #39 on:** November 01, 2005, 08:59:03 pm »

Watched Tremors 2 the other night. It featured the *fake* coin-op game from the name they gave the monsters - GRABOID

MaximRecoil · « **Reply #40 on:** December 08, 2005, 12:19:24 pm »

Quote from: AmericanDemon on October 02, 2005, 11:00:37 am

Quote from: MaximRecoil on October 01, 2005, 10:48:04 pm
Anyone notice how in Bloodsport, the two guys are shown as playing two player simultaneously on a regular Karate Champ machine? You could only do that on Karate Champ VS.

You must be misinformed.

ChadTower · « **Reply #41 on:** December 08, 2005, 12:22:15 pm »

In the first season of Red Dwarf they walk past a cab all the time, but it's never on screen long enough for me to ID it.

More Cowbell · « **Reply #42 on:** December 08, 2005, 05:14:34 pm »

Of course Rusty references some great games in Vacation.

Rusty Griswold: Hey, ya' got Pac Man?
Cousin Dale: No.
Rusty Griswold: Ya' got Space Invaders?
Cousin Dale: Nope.
Rusty Griswold: Ya' got Asteroids?
Cousin Dale: Naw, but my dad does. Can't even sit on the toilet some days.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #43 on:** December 08, 2005, 11:29:25 pm »

Alien Ressurection has a converted Joust on the cargo bay of the ship.

The Jaws game is probably shark JAWS. Usually written as such because they made the word "shark" really small and the word JAWS big and massive. I used to have a board, harness and plexi for it.

AC. · « **Reply #44 on:** December 09, 2005, 09:48:30 pm »

Quote from: More Cowbell on December 08, 2005, 05:14:34 pm

Of course Rusty references some great games in Vacation.

Rusty Griswold: Hey, ya' got Pac Man?
Cousin Dale: No.
Rusty Griswold: Ya' got Space Invaders?
Cousin Dale: Nope.
Rusty Griswold: Ya' got Asteroids?
Cousin Dale: Naw, but my dad does. Can't even sit on the toilet some days.

So, what the hell do you do around here?
I've got a stack of nudie mags this high |-----------|

ArcadeMaze · « **Reply #45 on:** December 09, 2005, 10:11:02 pm »

Well, how about that turdtastic movie called "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees?

danny_galaga · « **Reply #46 on:** December 10, 2005, 01:11:23 am »

what about Monkey Fracas Jr

ok, its not real and Futurama isnt a movie but with so many arcade references in the series it just has to be mentioned...

Grasshopper · « **Reply #47 on:** December 10, 2005, 08:45:01 am »

In "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" there are a few arcade machines in the bar. From memory I think one of them was Ghosts and Goblins.

Frosty · « **Reply #48 on:** December 11, 2005, 10:53:54 pm »

Another shot of Galactic Border Patrol from Strange Brew...

Setabs · « **Reply #49 on:** December 13, 2005, 06:36:27 pm »

street fighter 2 and video fun in holy moly's donut shop in "Friday after Next."

SOAPboy · « **Reply #50 on:** December 13, 2005, 06:53:30 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on October 10, 2005, 09:43:04 am

I believe that's the fake DOOM.

ITS ON KLOV IT HAS TO BE REAL OMGOMGOMG!11!!1oneoneleven

http://klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=13080

Trenchbroom · « **Reply #51 on:** December 13, 2005, 10:08:29 pm »

Go rent Midnight Madness (Michael J. Fox first movie) from Netflix. Three reasons:

1. The arcade in the movie is an AWESOME snapshot of the late 70's. Death Race, Space Invaders, etc.

2. The movie itself is decent--again, it's a time capsule.

3. The chick who played Candy in the movie was STUNNING.

AC. · « **Reply #52 on:** December 14, 2005, 12:52:59 am »

The "game" Turkey Punch is playable and found only in Doom3 (for the PC as far as I know). Walk up to the machine, and click to punch the turkey.

Ed_McCarron · « **Reply #53 on:** December 14, 2005, 11:38:31 am »

Quote from: Trenchbroom on December 13, 2005, 10:08:29 pm

Go rent Midnight Madness

Was that the one with the scavenger hunt/kids running all over town?

Zero_Hour · « **Reply #54 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:54:24 pm »

Quote from: Ed_McCarron on December 14, 2005, 11:38:31 am

Quote from: Trenchbroom on December 13, 2005, 10:08:29 pm
Go rent Midnight Madness

Was that the one with the scavenger hunt/kids running all over town?

That's the one.

ChadTower · « **Reply #55 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:57:32 pm »

Quote from: Frosty on December 11, 2005, 10:53:54 pm

Another shot of Galactic Border Patrol from Strange Brew...

I may have to build this, now.

vader · « **Reply #56 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:13:41 pm »

What games did they have in Silver Spoons ? Screenshot ever shown ?

Tim

Harry Potter · « **Reply #57 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:54:51 pm »

Robocop 2 had a prominent Midnight Resistance. Slightly damaged after Robo used it as an interrogation tool.

dennis808 · « **Reply #58 on:** December 22, 2005, 06:45:56 pm »

City Hunter featuring Jackie Chan has a ridiculous fighting-scene in an Arcade full of Street Fighter II machines.
I uploaded a clip here 'cos it's too funny:

romperwomb · « **Reply #59 on:** December 23, 2005, 08:59:28 am »

Quote from: vader88 on December 14, 2005, 02:13:41 pm

What games did they have in Silver Spoons ? Screenshot ever shown ?

Tim

You made me curious about this so I google searched and found a r.g.v.a.c post:

Quote

I was watching a Silver Spoons marathon on Nick-at-Night, last night. Rick Stratton (Ricky Stroeder) and his dad have

-Tempest
-Gorf
-Asteroids (fake "Swamp Wars" marquee, and other cosmetic mods)
-Pac Man mini (some fake marquee)
-an electro-mechanical pinball game (not sure which one)

The Tempest and Gorf probably had fake marquees, also..

It was funny because I have these same games in my apt, minus the EM
pinball.

Joey
Florence, AL

Someone else pointed out he also had a Dragons Lair, and apparently there was also an episode where Ricky was super excited to get a new game... "Manhole" from grandpa....creepy.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #60 on:** December 27, 2005, 02:28:46 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on December 14, 2005, 01:57:32 pm

Quote from: Frosty on December 11, 2005, 10:53:54 pm
Another shot of Galactic Border Patrol from Strange Brew...

I may have to build this, now. I just may. Can anyone ID what that cab really is?

I watched Strangebrew last night, it is the Centipede, Kangaroo, Dig Dug, Arabian style cabinet. Yes I am aware there are minute differences between those four, but the control panels, bezels and marquees swap. If you need exact confirmation then I can double check. I am pretty sure it was the Centipede version of the cabinet and not the Kangaroo (Dig Dug/Arabian) version.

spriggy · « **Reply #61 on:** December 27, 2005, 04:31:55 am »

Quote from: BrokenBones on October 10, 2005, 04:26:15 am

Lost boys.

Dunno if you actually see the game or cabinet, but Moon Cresta is singing in the background in one of the early scenes. I think.

In the commic book store. I think.

Haven't seen it for years.... Somebody with the DVD confirm?

I checked the SE Lost Boys DVD for ya Bones....... Good Call!

Your right about the Comic Book store.. in fact, it's the second time Corey Haim enters. He walks by two fellas standing in front of 2 pinny's. More specifically a 1978 Williams 'Phoenix' and a 1978 Bally 'Paragon'. One dude is playing Paragon, with Moon Cresta "singing in the background". It appears they are using the Moon Cresta sound for the Paragon??

What have ya started Bones?..
When Corey first enters the shop at the beginning of the movie, he passes another pinny I can't ID.?

Anyone .. Anyone.. Bueller.. Bueller

DemonBrew · « **Reply #62 on:** December 27, 2005, 11:29:50 am »

Spike TV is running their James Bond marathon again. Never Say Never Again has an arcade in it. It's full of Centipede, Gravitar, and Dig Dug cabs.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #63 on:** February 25, 2008, 11:44:38 am »

My wife was watching "Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants" last night, and I noticed the "Dragon's Lair 3D" machine. It had a very BYOAC style CP. Two players with like 7-8 buttons each, a 4-way stick at the top, possibly a trackball and spinner, admin buttons.
Like NOTHING I've seen in any movie, but definitely like something you'd see around here. I'd like to have another glance.

nexus6 · « **Reply #64 on:** February 25, 2008, 11:48:11 am »

here you'll find a lot of arcade at the movies.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #65 on:** February 25, 2008, 12:17:36 pm »

I was sitting in the living room with her while I worked on building a spinner hack, so I was flipping back and forth between it and the Oscars.

And aside from the soccer girl's storyline, the rest of the movie isn't so bad. There's tons worse out there.

JMB · « **Reply #66 on:** February 25, 2008, 02:44:35 pm »

I saw several pins in The Blues Brothers recently and found this site with pins in movies.

http://www.arkadia.nl/pinball/diverse/index034_pin%20movie.htm

knave · « **Reply #67 on:** February 25, 2008, 04:53:38 pm »

I saw a cab in "Live free or Die Hard" I didn't ID it the other night but I'll see if I cant go back and check it out again.

FYI it was in the basement "command center".

NickG · « **Reply #68 on:** February 25, 2008, 05:25:36 pm »

There is a fake arcade called "Thou Art Dead" at the pizza place in the movie "Monster House." I think it may be playable in the console games, as well as here:

Thou Art Dead

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #69 on:** February 25, 2008, 05:48:51 pm »

Also showed that the mexican chick from Gilmour Girls can't act her way out of a paper sack.

The Mexican girl is America Ferrara, the one on Ugly Betty. The one from Gilmore Girls is Alexis Bledel, the girl who went to Greece in the movie. (She was also in Sin City)

My wife and I are both fans of Gilmore Girls, so that's why we watched it in the first place. (Own all seven seasons on DVD)

knave · « **Reply #70 on:** February 25, 2008, 07:12:44 pm »

Quote from: GinsuVictim on February 25, 2008, 05:48:51 pm

Also showed that the mexican chick from Gilmour Girls can't act her way out of a paper sack.

The Mexican girl is America Ferrara, the one on Ugly Betty. The one from Gilmore Girls is Alexis Bledel, the girl who went to Greece in the movie. (She was also in Sin City)

My wife and I are both fans of Gilmore Girls, so that's why we watched it in the first place. (Own all seven seasons on DVD)

Wife got me to watch Gilmore Girls...after a mild protest I gave it a chance. Not a bad show, writing is pretty fresh and it's funny. Pretty entertaining for a bunch of nothing going on.

To keep this on topic there is an Arcade in the little town and they have some classics, a some newer games and I think two pins...that I saw. I ID'd some but have since forgotten. I think it is in season 4 disk 3. We got it from Netflix or I would look it up.

SithMaster · « **Reply #71 on:** February 25, 2008, 07:25:05 pm »

In Gremlins there was a star wars vector cab in the bar that the gremlins got wasted in.

Also for the person who didnt know the game from gross pointe blank shame on you.

RayB · « **Reply #72 on:** November 09, 2008, 12:19:26 pm »

*REVIVED!*

Saw Jaws II recently. There's a Battlezone in a coffee shop.

CheffoJeffo · « **Reply #73 on:** November 09, 2008, 05:13:03 pm »

Quote from: Trenchbroom on December 13, 2005, 10:08:29 pm

Go rent Midnight Madness (Michael J. Fox first movie) from Netflix. Three reasons:

1. The arcade in the movie is an AWESOME snapshot of the late 70's. Death Race, Space Invaders, etc.

2. The movie itself is decent--again, it's a time capsule.

3. The chick who played Candy in the movie was STUNNING.

So RayB rivives this thread an I click to find the new posts and, for some reason, I ended up on this one.

My kids have recently discovered (with some prompting from Mrs. Cheffo) Midnight Madness.

You can't imagine my pride when my elder (8YO) son rhymed off the classic cabs (including the Death Race) and some of the pins during the arcade scene -- I very nearly wept!


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