Author Topic: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines (Read 9339 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


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