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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #40 on: December 08, 2005, 12:19:24 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.

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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.

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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.


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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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.
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #44 on: December 09, 2005, 09:48:30 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.


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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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?

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #46 on: December 10, 2005, 01:11:23 am »
what about Monkey Fracas Jr  ;D

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


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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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.
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #48 on: December 11, 2005, 10:53:54 pm »
Another shot of Galactic Border Patrol from Strange Brew...
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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."

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #50 on: December 13, 2005, 06:53:30 pm »

I believe that's the fake DOOM.

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

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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.

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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.

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #53 on: December 14, 2005, 11:38:31 am »
Go rent Midnight Madness

Was that the one with the scavenger hunt/kids running all over town?
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #54 on: December 14, 2005, 01:54:24 pm »
Go rent Midnight Madness

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

That's the one.
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #55 on: December 14, 2005, 01:57:32 pm »
Another shot of Galactic Border Patrol from Strange Brew...

I may have to build this, now.

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #56 on: December 14, 2005, 02:13:41 pm »
What games did they have in Silver Spoons ?  Screenshot ever shown ?

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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.
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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:
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #59 on: December 23, 2005, 08:59:28 am »
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:

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

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-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.

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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.



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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #60 on: December 27, 2005, 02:28:46 am »
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.
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #61 on: December 27, 2005, 04:31:55 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.?

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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.
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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.
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #64 on: February 25, 2008, 11:48:11 am »
here you'll find a lot of arcade at the movies.

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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.
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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".


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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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:


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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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)

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #70 on: February 25, 2008, 07:12:44 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.

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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« 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.
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #72 on: November 09, 2008, 12:19:26 pm »
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Saw Jaws II recently. There's a Battlezone in a coffee shop.
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Re: Movies that Featured Arcade Machines
« Reply #73 on: November 09, 2008, 05:13:03 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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