Videogame Cameos In Movies

[Dylan]

Not necessarily a movie, but literally every electronic appliance in Eva brandished a Sega logo. Also, I distinctly remember Toji and Kensuke playing a Sega Saturn in one of the Scenes.

[Chaos Jr]

I remember there was a brief Ocarina of Time cameo in this kids movie. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the film, but it involved a group of kids accidentally time travelling back through a hole and having a western setting.

[J T]

Fred Savage is playing some sort of game with a flight sim joystick when his grandpa comes to visit him and read him the story of The Princess Bride.

[General Chaos]

In the UK version of Coupling the male characters are "obsessed" with the Playstation. In one scene I believe Jeff is explaining how to put Laura Croft into compromising positions in the game.

[Ack]

Five pages, and nobody's mentioned the zombie episode in Spaced, where Simon Pegg's playing Resident Evil 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vUfBOdSmBU

Later, he would go on to think everyone at an avant garde art party was a zombie, and would run around punching people. It's seriously my favorite episode.

[Luke]

Fred Savage is playing some sort of game with a flight sim joystick when his grandpa comes to visit him and read him the story of The Princess Bride.

I believe he's actually playing Bases Loaded.

I always like the sitcom episodes where someone buys a console, and the whole family goes ape shit over it. It starts to consume their lives. Full House and Roseanne had some ludicrous episodes like that, I'm sure their are plenty others too.

[Incognito D]

or they change the video game sound effects to some goofy
generic Atari sounding stuff.

This is my ultimate hate! They do it all the time in soaps like Eastenders and Coronation Street. Someone can be playing a 360 or DS but it won't matter, it'll still be generic Atari 2600 style bleeps and bloops

Also, they feel the need to absolutely mash the control buttons at random giving no impression that they're actually playing a game.

nerd. rage.

[noiseredux]

what's the game Fred Savage plays in Big? I always forget.

[Limewater]

No, I'm pretty sure it isn't Bases Loaded in "The Princess Bride." It had an over-the-pitcher view, though. Terminator 2, in addition to the previously-mentioned "AfterBurner 2" also has "Missile Command," I believe.

I've never known the name of the game in "Big," and it's always bugged me.

"Crank" is practically one big video game joke, but the only game I guess that is actually in the film is "Berzerk."

There are a bunch of games in "The King of Kong," but I don't know if those count, since the film is about gamers.

"Troop Beverly Hills" includes an NES, and I believe they are playing "Bases Loaded." The guy from "Coach" is playing it with his movie-daughter.

The "Doom" arcade machine from "Grosse Pointe Blank" does not actually exist. I mean, they built one for the film, but there was not an arcade version released.

I know that one of the 3D Dragon's Lair versions makes a cameo in an arcade machine in some film, but I can't remember which film it is. I think it's some chick comedy.

In "XXX," Vin Diesel references the Playstation.

This last season of SNL they featured a Nintendo Wii and references to a Wario game in order to make suggestive motions with the wiimote. It's the episode hosted by Alec Baldwin.

"The Net" features a brief clip of "Wolfenstein 3D."

A story arc on the TV show "Ghost Rider" featured a gang of kids who played something called "Double Defenders." The arcade cabinet for the game featured four Genesis controllers mounted on panels, and the scene in question featured the line, "Rocket Ripper, watch your other head!"

[MrPopo]

The "Doom" arcade machine from "Grosse Pointe Blank" does not actually exist. I mean, they built one for the film, but there was not an arcade version released.

That reminds me. I don't remember whichi FPS it is, but they stuck an FPS in an arcade cabinet in one episode of Dark Angel season 2.