Games seen in movies, etc...
MK DUD
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kid that doesn't fit in with all the little group that exist when your a
teenager. Anyways, in the video the is a part where the kid (the main
character
of the movie) is playing Tempest. It takes me back when ever I see the
video."
Rush are serious game players and vid freaks. A friend of mine and I were
lucky enough to have a long conversation after a show - they hauled a
"Space Duel" and "Tempest" with them on the Moving Pictures tour, and they
all have vid collections in their homes.
Chris Bright
My one is in the RUSH video (Canadain Rock trio) Subdivisions. Its about this
kid that doesn't fit in with all the little group that exist when your a
teenager. Anyways, in the video the is a part where the kid (the main character
of the movie) is playing Tempest. It takes me back when ever I see the video.
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lot of the early '80's videos. You get to see a couple of shots of actual
game playing.
My all time favorite has to be the movie Tron. Has anybody, besides
myself, ever thought that it would have been cool if they actually put out
the game "Space Paranoids". That was the game that Flynn(main character)
was playing in his arcade. If you remember, it had a cotroller just like
the recognizers. Anyone who knows the movie Tron will know what I am
talking about.
Jack
Ross Bellinger
: I guess I'll start the thread...
: My one is in the RUSH video (Canadain Rock trio) Subdivisions. Its about this
: kid that doesn't fit in with all the little group that exist when your a
: teenager. Anyways, in the video the is a part where the kid (the main character
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Plus in the lyrics of Tom Sawyer, Rush lead singer Geddy Lee makes
reference to the 'spacey invaders <that> get by on you".
...sure it may not be Pac MAn Fever, but a great song with a video game
reference (classic video game at that).
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Robert Axelrod
> Plus in the lyrics of Tom Sawyer, Rush lead singer Geddy Lee makes
> reference to the 'spacey invaders <that> get by on you".
Ummm...almost...
I think that ranks up there with "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy."
"And the space he invades
He gets by on you."
according to the lyric sheet in my CD.
Unless of course you were joking.
Check this out...
In "The Color of Money" (with Tom Cruise), a Tron machine is shown
in the beginning of the movie at the pool hall/bar. There's another
machine next to it that I couldn't identify. It was a single player
driving machine, and on the left side of the marquee was a head-on
view of a red car on a ribbon of road. Tom Cruise was actually
playing this one.
-jOsH
MARCEL GONZALEZ
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>I guess I'll start the thread...
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>My one is in the RUSH video (Canadain Rock trio) Subdivisions. Its
about this
>kid that doesn't fit in with all the little group that exist when your
a
>teenager. Anyways, in the video the is a part where the kid (the main
character
video.
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I saw a DEATH WISH movie with plent of classic video games being
destroyed and blown up (how sick). Also can't all the classic games in
the movie "NIGHTMARES; The Bishop of Battle" .. I think that movie
REALLY brings me back (especially Emilio Estevez playing one of my
classic faves: PLEAIDES)
Stormoen MD
a video on MTV. It really caught me by surprise. I'm pretty sure it was
an "LL Cool-J" video from around 1985 and it had to do with this "video
game" that featured LL picking up chicks. It was really cheezy (this
so-called game). Maybe someone can remember the details?
Michael.
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Video game stuff for sale. Last update 01.13.96
Mark Jenison
movies with video arcade games in them...
Anything with a "?" beside it is unconfirmed. Any comments to make this list
more accurate is appreciated.
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"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" 1984?
Star Castle, Tempest, Pacman, Galaxian?, Space Invaders, Lunar Lander?,
Asteroids? Defender? Missile Command
"Tank Girl" 1995
Super Pac-Man.
"NightMares" 1983?
Pleiades, Asteroids, some others.
"Terminator 2" 1992
Afterburner, Missle Command, Trog,...
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" 1983?
Karate Champ. Sound effect of Pac-Man dying, but no Pac-Man around?
"Blood Sport" 1984?
Karate Champ
<some 007 movie> The one where he plays the world-domination game.
Gravitar.
"Twilight Zone The Movie" 1982
Tempest
"The Thing" 1984?
Asteroids
"War Games" 1982
Galaxians ?, Defender? Centipede?, Galaga, Ms Pac-Man ?
"JoySticks" 1981
Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Night Driver, Centipede, Turbo, Wizard of
Wor, Gorf, Pole Position, Moon Patrol, Satan's Hollow, Super Pac-Man
and quite a few others
"Next of Kin" 1988
Donkey Kong, PacMan, Front Line, BurgerTime?
"Terms of Endearment"
Asteroids and Defender
"Cloak & Dagger"
Cloak & Dagger machine
"Spring Break" 1983?
Galaga. "You need more thrust" :^|
"Better Off Dead" 1983?
Punch Out! The rest I can't quite tell...looks like a caberet Gorf? Sound
of Ms. Pac-Man in the background.
"Over The Top" 1985?
Mario Bros. Also what looks like a Nintendo Play-Choice 10 system.
"The Crow" 1994
Kangaroo and some other game (Taito game, I think).
"Airheads" 1995
Captain America
"The Color of Money" 1986?
Tron, and some driving game
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Colin Kraft
time had a rather lengthy arcade scene in it for a movie. I know the
kid starts off by playing Missille Command and then goes over and
plays Afterburner as I am sure all of you have seen it. There are
some other videogames shown as well, maybe a Trog and a few others but
I can't remember.
.
Noel J. Tominack, UCS, X3861
>The movie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, has some pretty good shots of a
>lot of the early '80's videos. You get to see a couple of shots of actual
>game playing.
I remember offhand:
Star Castle
Asteroids
Tempest
Pac-Man (with Jeff Spicoli explaining how life is like Pac-Man)
Defender
Missile Command (whose "The End" screen was used to end the movie)
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Hmmm, seems interesting that...
B> From: cbr...@bnr.ca (BNR400) (Chris Bright)
B> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:05:26 GMT
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B> Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
B> I guess I'll start the thread...
Does it count if you RENT games for use in movies? We get a number of rentals
yearly, out last big one was for X-Files season premier, and we rented the
Bubbler Jukebox, Donkey Kong, Gauntlet II, and a bunch of others....
Just rented a Stern "Pinball" to some production called "Sliders" stay tuned.
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Colin Kraft
>Rush are serious game players and vid freaks. A friend of mine and I were
>lucky enough to have a long conversation after a show - they hauled a
>"Space Duel" and "Tempest" with them on the Moving Pictures tour, and they
>all have vid collections in their homes.
Rush was one of my favorite groups when I was a kid. I wonder if they
still haul video games along with them on tour? I wonder what they
would play now? Somehow I can't see Alex LIfeson or Neil Peart
playing Mortal Kombat.
Steve Hathaway
"Night of the Comet" (1984 i think??). I haven't seen it for a couple
of years but I remember the girl who was the main character had every
high score on the game. "REG" was the initials. She got really upset
when someone added their initials and ruining her dominance on the
game. There were others there but I can't remember which ones they
were, although I'm pretty sure they were all Atari games.
Steve Hathaway (sha...@ix.netcom.com)
Dave Tickle
On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Ross Bellinger wrote:
> Plus in the lyrics of Tom Sawyer, Rush lead singer Geddy Lee makes
> reference to the 'spacey invaders <that> get by on you".
>
> ...sure it may not be Pac MAn Fever, but a great song with a video game
> reference (classic video game at that).
Hi.
According to the following link:
http://syrinx.umd.edu/rush/RUSH/09.mp.html#tomsawyer
the lyric is:
Today's Tom Sawyer,
He gets high on you,
And the space he invades
He gets by on you.
I like the reference, too. Whatever it's supposed to mean, it makes
me think of the game. :)
Regards,
Dave.
kurt mahan
|> In article <4d66rm$k...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, mk...@aol.com (MK DUD) says:
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|> >"My one is in the RUSH video (Canadain Rock trio) Subdivisions. Its about
|> If we're going to bring up Canadian productions, There was a sketch on SCTV
|> where television broadcasts take on a consciousness and attacks the station.
|> In the broadcast control room they have a map of the studio on a monitor
|> with a blip in the center as the TV lifeform. They talk of creating
|> magnetic force in the walls to trap the energy ball in the studio then show
|> a screen shot of PONG (a home version) as a sight gag.
|> Didn't they do a similiar sight gag in Airplane 2?
Atari 2600 Basketball on the radarscope.
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[ T2 reference deleted ]
> Yeah, and the young Conner kid was carrying around some sort of ATARI
> device, that he used to "borrow" money from an ATM.
It was one of those "Portfolio" palm tops. Ran MS-DOS 2.something in a 24x40
LCD display. I wonder how many doors are being propped open by those things
these days ;-)
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Jeff Anderson
-The movie Running scared had Battlezone in Billy Crystal's apartment.
-I think there was a good shot of Rampage in T2.
-Tron had a whole arcade full 'o games, so did War Games,(with a lot of
Galaga shots).
Jeff
Dave Hallock
>I remember an MTV video I saw as a kid. I do not recall the song nor
>the artist...the game Speed Freaks was very prominent in the video -- the
>video kept returning to screen shots of the game...Particularly the shot
>of the cow by the side of the road...Perhaps someone remembers this video
>(??)..
An MTV video I can recall is "Space Age Whiz Kids", but I only
remember Donkey Kong being in it. I don't know the artist, but I
remember how some of the song goes.
Anyway, They just let Mario stand there at game's start while the blue
barrel fell straight on his head, and I thought this was terrible! The
image is burned in my mind, and I am scarred for life.
Maybe Roger Earl will soon remind us of his game spottings web page!
He'll have a lot more pictures there as soon as I receive his blank
videotape and send it back.
Dave
James Hoebel
>
><some 007 movie> The one where he plays the world-domination game.
>
Hello...
I believe this was Never Say Never Again. The World Domination Game was
not a real game, which I am sure you knew...I do not recall the name they
had for this game...Along with Gravitar, I seem to recall Millepede (or
was it just Centipede?) being in the movie...
Other sightings:
I remember an MTV video I saw as a kid. I do not recall the song nor
the artist...the game Speed Freaks was very prominent in the video -- the
video kept returning to screen shots of the game...Particularly the shot
of the cow by the side of the road...Perhaps someone remembers this video
(??)..
I also recall some movie or show where a Star Castle gets destroyed. I
seem to recall some sort of monster appearing behind the wall the Star
Castle was against and it came through the machine...Does this sound
familiar to anyone?? It's possible the game gets destroyed by gun fire,
but the monster thing seems to be what I remember....
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AlenSmithe
Funny how "Terminator 2" was supposed to take place around the year 2000,
yet there's tons of old games like Missile Command that were old even when
the movie was made!
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Dave Hallock
> An MTV video I can recall is "Space Age Whiz Kids", but I only
>remember Donkey Kong being in it. I don't know the artist, but I
>remember how some of the song goes.
Well bust my buttons. Look what someone just posted on rgvc. Now
that's weird.
Dave
thep...@one.net (The Piper) wrote:
>remember the closing lines of joe walsh's song 'Space Age Whiz Kids'
>where the talking machine voice goes "I want.....I want.... I
>want.....Quarters. Give me Quarters, I wantr Quarters.'
MARCEL GONZALEZ
Hey.. speaking of ATARI 2600 games.. well remember that crazy Chevy
Chase movie "Modern Problems".. The last part there was a television
with the game Space invaders on it.
KeWL
AlenSmithe
where some people get trapped inside after hours with the zombies outside
trying to break in, and there's a part where they take a break and take
advantage of the situation that they're in a closed mall and break into
some stores and stuff. They spend some time in an arcade and there's
shots of lots of old games including some driving game that wasn't really
a video game; it used lights and a plastic car that moved around and some
kind of explosion lit up when it crashed.
The B-movie "Getting it On" from 1983 has a scene in an arcade too,
they're talking around a Pac-Man. This movie is about a kid who buys lots
of video cameras to spy on girls; it's an interesting movie for fans of
video in general; it's amazing how things have changed!
Jaliya Jayawardena
Not exactly a game but...anyone remember (or admit to :)
seeing "Sliver?" In it, at the beginning, they show a Civilization
poster (ie from Microprose) Maybe product placement...
Jaliya
AlenSmithe
little after Sega CD did, which I bought when it came out and though it
was so cool but now it's obsolete again!
TBueno7111
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Brian
government secrets that are hidden in an Atari 5200 cartridge.
TBueno7111 wrote:
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> I heard a rumor that Tempest for Atari 5200 can be spotted in Cloak and
> Dagger
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>From: Brian <bl...@ix.netcom.com>
>Subject: Re: Games seen in movies, etc...
>Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 00:04:34 -0800
>TBueno7111 wrote:
>>
>> I heard a rumor that Tempest for Atari 5200 can be spotted in Cloak and
>> Dagger
This is another rumor that just won't die. Right up there with the Army
Battlezone stuff.
Just the cardboard box for Tempest. According to a thread from about 18 mos
ago, there were titles "seen" in the movie that *never* existed. The 5200
C&D was actually the arcade game on a TV.
Although in a recent Ultimate Gaming magazine, there is an article that
supposedly shows a 2600 Tempest. ROTFL...
Virtu-Al