Arcade at the Movies (9)

Movies of the 21st Century







 

Super Mario Bros in a movie where a group of guys travel back in time to when they
were younger cads, after a night of drinking Red Bull and vodkas...

Hot Tub Time Machine

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2010
Director: Steve Pink
Studio: MGM, United Artists
Cast: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Lyndsy Fonseca, Chevy Chase, Crispin Glover

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






 

It's during the opening credits and i don't know the game he's playing...

Knight and Day

Genre: Action

Year: USA 2010
Director: James Mangold
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Moll�, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Falk Hentschel

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg







A couple of Golden Tee's can be seen in one of the scenes...

The Switch

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2010
Director: Josh Gordon, Will Speck
Studio: Miramax, Mandate Pictures
Cast: Jason Bateman, Victor Pagan, Jennifer Aniston, Jeff Goldblum, Juliette Lewis, Patrick Wilson

E-Mail: Picture from Smitdogg






Centipede and Golden Tee in...

Going the Distance

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2010
Director: Nanette Burstein
Studio: New Line Cinema
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate, Ron Livingston

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






 

I can't tell for sure if it's arcade games in the background of this bar scene or not but I think it is...

Repo Men

Genre: Sci-Fi Action

Year: USA 2010
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber, Carice van Houten, Chandler Canterbury

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Makai-Mura (Ghosts'n Goblins) in...

La Meute

Genre: Horror

Year: France / Belgium 2010
Director: Franck Richard
Studio: La Fabrique 2 / Be-Films
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Emilie Dequenne, Benjamin Biolay, Philippe Nahon, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ian Fonteyn, Eric Godon

E-Mail: Picture from Nomax (nomax@...)






Goof in this movie - they have a Track & Field in a store.
The movie is supposed to take place during March 1983 but the game wasn't released until October.

Let Me In

Genre: Horror

Year: USA 2010
Director: Matt Reeves
Studio: Exclusive Media Group / Overture Films
Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Cara Buono, Elias Koteas, Sasha Barrese

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






There's a Defender machine into some UltraCade crap.
You can see a trackball on the control panel.

Calvin Marshall

Genre: Romantic Sports Comedy

Year: USA 2010
Director: Gary Lundgren
Studio: Broken Sky Films
Cast: Alex Frost, Noah Scott, Abbey Merow, Diedrich Bader, Grace Thorsen, Abraham Benrubi

E-Mail: Picture from Smitdogg






Galaxian and a Revenge from Mars pin.

Vanishing on 7th Street

Genre: Horror

Year: USA 2010
Director: Brad Anderson
Studio: Magnet Releasing
Cast: Hayden Christensen, John Leguizamo, Thandie Newton, Jacob Latimore, Taylor Groothuis

E-Mail: Picture from Smitdogg










Terry and Dean head north to make sweet cash in the oil patch.
Golden Tee and Big Buck Hunter in...

Fubar II

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2010
Director: Michael Dowse
Studio: Alliance Films
Cast: David Lawrence, Paul Spence, Jamil Jabril, Rose Martin, Matthew Brennan, Andrew Sparacino

E-Mail: Picture from Smitdogg






There's a row of cocktail cabs in a bar scene of...

Happythankyoumoreplease

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2010
Director: Josh Radnor
Studio: Paper Street Films
Cast: Josh Radnor, Malin Akerman, Kate Mara, Zoe Kazan, Pablo Schreiber, Tony Hale

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






A truckload of games in Flynn's arcade...

TRON: Legacy

Genre: Sci-Fi

Year: USA 2010
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, James Frain, Beau Garrett, Michael Sheen, Anis Cheurfa

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






There is Street Fighter Alpha Warriors' Dreams cab in...

The Social Network

Genre: Biography, Drama

Year: USA 2010
Director: David Fincher
Studio: Big Kid Pictures
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter, Dustin Fitzsimons, Joseph Mazzello, Patrick Mapel, Andrew Garfield

E-Mail: Pictures from Janis Purins (stripe4@...)








Primal Rage shown in...

The People vs. George Lucas

Genre: Culture & Society

Year: UK, USA 2010
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Studio: Exhibit A Pictures, Quark Films
Cast: Joe Nussbaum, Daryl Frazetti, Doug Jones, Damian Hess, Richie Mehta, Dale Pollock, Glenn Kenny, Anthony Waye

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg










Some bartop multigame in...

A Beginner's Guide to Endings

Genre: Comedy Drama

Year: Canada 2010
Director: Jonathan Sobol
Studio: Darius Films
Cast: Tricia Helfer, Scott Caan, Harvey Keitel, J.K. Simmons, Paulo Costanzo, Wendy Crewson

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg










  

... and some gambling games in

Cedar Rapids

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2011
Director: Miguel Arteta
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Cast: Ed Helms, Anne Heche, John C. Reilly, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Stephen Root, Kurtwood Smith

E-Mail: Picture from Smitdogg






There is a Deer Hunter game changed up to be called Deerial Killer in...

Running Mates

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2011
Director: Thomas Michael
Studio: Boutique Films, Fella Films
Cast: Graham Greene, DJ Qualls, Henry Winkler, Thomas Michael, Paolo Mancini, Mike Beaver, Jane McLean, Linda Kash

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






A little girl plays a mole whacker game that uses a video screen in ...

Just Go with It

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Year: USA 2011
Director: Dennis Dugan
Studio: Magnet Releasing
Cast: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker, Nicole Kidman, Nick Swardson, Bailee Madison, Griffin Gluck

E-Mail: Picture from Smitdogg






The games in this arcade scene seem to all either have their names changed or were made for the movie...

Hobo with a Shotgun

Genre: Action, Thriller

Year: USA 2011
Director: Jason Eisener
Studio: Rhombus Media
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Gregory Smith, Molly Dunsworth, Brian Downey, Nick Bateman, Pasha Ebrahimi

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Ms. Pac-Man, Road Race and Racing Speed 3 in ...

The Hangover Part II

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2011
Director: Todd Phillips
Studio: Warner Bros.
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, Paul Giamatti, Mike Tyson, Jeffrey Tambor

E-Mail: Pictures from smf






Dave is a married man with two kids and a loving wife, and Mitch is a single man who is at the prime of his sexual life.
One fateful night while Mitch and Dave are peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes and they switch bodies.
What does this have to do with the Xevious automat?

The Change-Up

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2011
Director: David Dobkin
Studio: Big Kid Pictures
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin, Mircea Monroe, Ming Lo

E-Mail: Picture from stripe4






  
There is a Big Buck Hunter Pro in a
bar scene of...

Goon

Genre: Comedy Sport

Year: USA 2011
Director: Michael Dowse
Studio: No Trace Camping, Caramel Film
Cast: Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill, Liev Schreiber, Eugene Levy, Marc-Andr� Grondin

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Custom DDR type games in...

The FP

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2011
Director: Brandon Trost, Jason Trost
Studio: Drafthouse Films
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale, Giovanni Ribisi, Patrick Warburton

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






There's a (altered to not have to pay royalties) Namco Class of '81 cab in the beginning bar scene of...

High Road

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2012
Director: Matt Walsh
Studio: Northern Lights Films
Cast: Kathryn Burns, Lizzy Caplan, Michael Coleman, Andrew Daly, Abby Elliott, Rich Fulcher, Kyle Gass

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






There is a lasertag arcade that has redemption, racing and guitar games...

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Genre: Comedy Drama

Year: USA 2012
Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Studio: Indian Paintbrush, Paramount Vantage
Cast: Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer, Rae Dawn Chong, Steve Zissis, Evan Ross

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






An unknown cab (can't figure out what game it is)...

Dead Sushi

Genre: Comedy

Year: Japan 2012
Director: Noboru Iguchi
Studio: Nishimura Eizo
Cast: Rina Takeda, Shigeru Matsuzaki, Kentaro Shimazu, Takamasa Suga, Kanji Tsuda

E-Mail: Pictures from Vasco (vazcomics@...)






An old cocktail game, Galaga or Pac-Man, in ...

Goats

Genre: Comedy Drama

Year: 2012
Director: Christopher Neil
Studio: Image Entertainment
Cast: David Duchovny, Vera Farmiga, Graham Phillips, Justin Kirk, Keri Russell

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






CarnEvil in...

Jesus Henry Christ

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2012
Director: Dennis Lee
Studio: EOne Films
Cast: Toni Collette, Michael Sheen, Jason Spevack, Hannah Brigden, Frank Moore

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Big Buck Hunter and others in...

Nitro Circus: The Movie

Genre: Documentary

Year: USA 2012
Director: Gregg Godfrey, Jeremy Rawle
Studio: ARC Entertainment
Cast: Travis Pastrana, Jolene Van Vugt, Tommy Passemante, Jim DeChamp, Greg Powell, Erik Roner

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Galaga, Frogger and others in...

Noobz

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2012
Director: Blake Freeman
Studio: Big Air Studios
Cast: Moises Arias, Jason Mewes, Carly Craig, Casper Van Dien, Jon Gries, Lin Shaye

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Maybe just video gamblers...

Safe

Genre: Action Thriller

Year: USA 2012
Director: Boaz Yakin
Studio: IM Global, Lionsgate
Cast: Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Robert John Burke, James Hong, Anson Mount, Chris Sarandon

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Maybe just video gamblers and fruities...

Stand Off

Genre: Crime Comedy

Year: USA 2012
Director: Terry George
Studio: Generator Entertainment
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Colm Meaney, David O'Hara, Yaya DaCosta, Martin McCann

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Ms. Pac Reunion cab in...

Straight A's

Genre: Comedy Drama

Year: USA 2012
Director: James Cox
Studio: Millennium Entertainment
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Anna Paquin, Luke Wilson, Riley Thomas Stewart, Ursula Parker, Amparo Garcia-Crow

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Daytona USA, Virtua Cop and others in...

Ted

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2012
Director: Seth MacFarlane
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale, Giovanni Ribisi, Patrick Warburton

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Asteroids in...

This Is 40

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2012
Director: Judd Apatow
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Maude Apatow, Iris Apatow, Jason Segel, Annie Mumolo

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Mangled Robotron in...

John Dies at the End

Genre: Dark Comedy
Year: USA 2012
Director: Don Coscarelli
Studio: Magnet Releasing
Cast: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Top Skater, Hammerhead and others in...

Playing for Keeps

Genre: Romantic Comedy
Year: USA 2012
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Studio: FilmDistrict
Cast: Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Noah Lomax, Dennis Quaid, Uma Thurman

E-Mail: Picture from Smitdogg






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Spring Breakers

Genre: Black Comedy

Year: USA 2012
Director: Harmony Korine
Studio: Muse Productions
Cast: Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, James Franco, Rachel Korine, Gucci Mane

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Asteroids, Charlie's Angels pin and what's that on the left? ...

Sound City

Genre: Music History/Documentary

Year: USA 2013
Director: Dave Grohl
Studio: Therapy Content, Roswell Films, Diamond Docs
Cast: Vinny Appice, Joe Barresi, Brian Bell, Frank Black, James Brown, Lindsey Buckingham, Mike Campbell, Tim Commerford, Kevin Cronin

E-Mail: Pictures from Sune






Mega Asteroid Tornado in ...

Empire State

Genre: Crime

Year: USA 2013
Director: Dito Montiel
Studio: Mandeville Films
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Emma Roberts, Liam Hemsworth, Nikki Reed, Shenae Grimes, Michael Angarano, Jerry Ferrara

E-Mail: Pictures from B2K24






Akai Katana is shown in a picture. There are hundreds of other games in the movie...

100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience

Genre: Documentary

Year: USA 2013
Director: Brad Crawford
Studio: Strata Studios
Cast: Brian Ashcraft, Daigo Umehara, Aaron Chmielowiec, Mike Ross, Justin Wong

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






 
 
Some "fake" games in ...

A Haunted House

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2013
Director: Michael Tiddes
Studio: Open Road Films
Cast: Marlon Wayans, Essence Atkins, Marlene Forte, David Koechner, Cedric the Entertainer

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






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The Frozen Ground

Genre: Thriller

Year: USA 2013
Director: Scott Walker
Studio: Lionsgate
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack, Dean Norris, Gia Mantegna, 50 Cent, Radha Mitchell

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






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Nebraska

Genre: Road Movie

Year: USA 2013
Director: Alexander Payne
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk, Stacy Keach

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Ms. Pac-Man in ...

Sharknado

Genre: Horror

Year: USA 2013
Director: Anthony Ferrante
Studio: The Asylum
Cast: Tara Reid, Ian Ziering, John Heard, Cassie Scerbo, Jaason Simmons, Alex Arleo

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






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HairBrained

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2013
Director: Billy Kent
Studio: Love Lane Pictures
Cast: Alex Wolff, Brendan Fraser, Julia Garner, Michael Oberholtzer, Greta Lee

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






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Drinking Buddies

Genre: Comedy Drama

Year: USA 2013
Director: Joe Swanberg
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Cast: Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Ron Livingston, Ti West

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






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Don Jon

Genre: Comedy

Year: USA 2013
Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Studio: Relativity Media
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Glenne Headly

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






Pong in ...

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Genre: Sci-Fi Action

Year: USA 2014
Director: Bryan Singer
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry

E-Mail: Pictures from Smitdogg






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22 Jump Street

Genre: Action Comedy

Year: USA 2014
Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube, Peter Stormare, Wyatt Russell, Amber Stevens, Jillian Bell

E-Mail: Picture from Smitdogg






Some cabs in the terrible movie...

Shark Exorcist

Genre: Horror

Year: USA 2015
Director: Donald Farmer
Studio: Stratosphere Entertainment
Cast: Angela Kerecz, Bobby Kerecz, Channing Dodson, Madison Carney, Alaine Huntington

E-Mail: Pictures from Vasco (vazcomics@...)






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Bushwick

Genre: Action Thriller

Year: USA 2017
Director: Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion
Studio: Bullet Pictures
Cast: Dave Bautista, Brittany Snow, Angelic Zambrana, Jeremie Harris, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Alex Breaux

E-Mail: Picture from Vasco (vazcomics@...)






Ms. Pac-Man cab spotted in...

Hangman

Genre: Crime Thriller

Year: USA 2017
Director: Johnny Martin
Studio: Saban Film / Patriot Pictures
Cast: Al Pacino, Karl Urban, Brittany Snow, Sarah Shahi, Joe Anderson

E-Mail: Pictures from Vasco (vazcomics@...)






A Merit Riviera, Namco and Midway cab in...

Brightburn

Genre: Superhero Horror

Year: USA 2019
Director: David Yarovesky
Studio: Screen Gems
Cast: Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Matt Jones, Meredith Hagner

E-Mail: Pictures from Vasco (vazcomics@...)






Big Buck Safari and Big Buck Hunter in...

Zombieland: Double Tap

Genre: Zombie Comedy

Year: USA 2019
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Studio: Sony Pictures / Columbia Pictures
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Rosario Dawson, Zoey Deutch, Avan Jogia, Luke Wilson

E-Mail: Pictures from Vasco (vazcomics@...)






A row of Tekken 7 cabs...

No Mercy

Genre: Action

Year: South Korea 2019
Director: Im Gyeong-taek
Studio: JNC Media Group / Joy N Cinema
Cast: Lee Si-young, Park Se-wan, Lee Joon-hyuk, Choi Jin-ho, Lee Hyung-chul, Kim Won-hae

E-Mail: Pictures from Vasco (vazcomics@...)






This Movie is set in 1987, but the scene in the arcade is full of games that were published much later, such as Tekken, Area 51, Mortal Kombat II and even Radikal Bikers!...

The Call

Genre: Horror

Year: USA 2020
Director: Timothy Woodward Jr.
Studio: Voltage Pictures
Cast: Lin Shaye, Tobin Bell, Chester Rushing, Erin Sanders, Mike C. Manning, Sloane Morgan Siegel

E-Mail: Pictures from Vasco (vazcomics@...)






A row of cabs, but sadly the camera pans so quickly that I can't make out any of them....

Tyler Rake: Extraction

Genre: Action

Year: USA 2020
Director: Sam Hargrave
Studio: AGBO, Thematic Entertainment
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, David Harbour, Shivam Vichare

E-Mail: Pictures from Vasco (vazcomics@...)






Street Fighter II: Champion Edition, Street Fighter Alpha, Pac-Man (third screen only) and a multi-game cab whose name

I really can't read (it looks like iCab, but I'm sure)....

The Seventh Day

Genre: Horror

Year: USA 2021
Director: Justin P. Lange
Studio: Vertical / Redbox Entertainment
Cast: Guy Pearce, Vadhir Derbez, Stephen Lang, Keith David, Robin Bartlett

E-Mail: Pictures from Vasco (vazcomics@...)






A Tempest cab spotted in...

Terrifier 2

Genre: Slasher film

Year: USA 2022
Director: Damien Leone
Studio: Cinedigm
Cast: David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Elliott Fullam, Sarah Voigt, Amelie McLain, Kailey Hyman

E-Mail: Pictures from Vasco (vazcomics@...)














E-Mails:

Martin Rohde: Die Vidioten (USA 1983) --- Hunderte alter Automaten (ist super bescheuert)
Kung-Fu Master (frankreich 1984) --- problemfilm
Nightmares (1984) Horror-Episodenfilm
mit Emilio Estevez, der von einem Videospiel besessen ist.
Zwei sind nicht zu bremsen (Italien 1982)--- Bud Spencer, Terence Hill.
Missile Command in einer Bar im Hintergrund.
Cloak and Dagger (USA 1984 - Originaltitel) mit vielen Atari 5200-prototypen.
Psycho II with MS Pac-Man in a bar.

Jonemaan: In Jackie Chan's First Action Hero (dunno if thats the correct title), there's an SF2 cabinet.

Tal Funke-Bilu: In the movie "The Toy (1982)" with Richard Pryor...the kid has a Space Duel machine and some others in his room.

Jan Hammer: The Wizard (1989) - Playch10: Double Dragon, Mega Man II, Ninja Gaiden and I. Stewart's Off-Road Challenge,
Pac Man Jr. and many many more. (Almost the whole movie is shot in different arcades)
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) - In the Trucker Stop is a Gravitron Arcade Machine.
E.T. The Extraterrestial (1982) - ...the arcade game Asteroids is mentioned.
Police Academy 3 (1986) - Atari's Paperboy is shown, the scene with the Patrol Unit TV System.

Alexander Birnbaumer: Rumble Fish from Francis Ford Coppola with Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, ...
Rusty James is playing Turbo (?) at an arcade - don't know which other games are there (from the 80's)

Barney H.: "Blake's 7" (Sci-Fi UK 1978) - There's a bit in Blake's 7, where one of the characters has to win their freedom by playing a 'simulation'.
Francisco Villar: "What's eating Gilbert Grape" (USA 1993). I�ve noticed a Video Game (couldn�t tell which one) in the Bar,
left to it is an Pinball Game played by Leonardo DiCaprio (approx. at 30 min from the Start).

Richard Duran: There's a pizza parlor scene in Ron Howard's movie "Parenthood - USA 1989" with Steve Martin. Lots of vid games,
but i recall Steve's son playing the game "Bad Dudes".

David Granville: Tom Cruise can be seen playing super sprint in the movie "The Colour Of Money".

Todd Kanistras: Terms of Endearment (USA 1983) - Defender shown in pool scene with Jack Nicolson.
Better of Dead (USA 1985) - Pacman and Robotron shown in burger restrauant scene when
John Cusack is playing a saxophone and Punch Out shown in grocery check out scene.

Bixtron: Roadside Prophets (USA 1992): Dude gets "fried" playing an arcade machine..... his last words were "monkey's attack". A road movie with John Cusack, David Carradine and others.

Rich Hudson: Return Of The Living Dead Part 3 (USA 1993): In the grocery store about 1/3 way through the film, gang members are playing Street Figher II (Championship Edition?).

Eric Draves: In the original Piranha movie (USA 1978), in the opening, a girl is playing a Jaws machine.

Stiletto: "Rad Mobile" had a fairly big role in the 1992 movie "Encino Man".

Sid Crowe: Joan Jett is playing something in an arcade at the end of the movie Light of Day (USA 1987). She also gives a bit of a SPEECH about them, earlier on in the movie.

John 3ac@...: The game 'Stocker' is featured at the beginning of the Tom Cruise movie 'The Color Of Money'.

Mark Elliott: The Brother from Another Planet (USA 1984) has a ton of Cabs in it as the main character (The Brother) has the ability to fix the machines by simply touching them and becomes a Repair Man.

Matt Sephton: In Swingers (USA 1996), they play multiplayer Meagdrive/Genesis "EA Ice Hockey" (Wayne Getzky's?). They comment how in this years version some of the fighting had been taken out.

Vaz: In 'Punch-drunk Love' (USA 2002), with Adam sandler, there's a scene with some guys talking and a couple of cabinets visible in the background.

Sergio Peralta: Many arcade machines in Toys (USA 1992) with Robin Williams.

MaddMaxx: 'Poetic Justice' (w/Tupac (JUICE) & Janet Jackson). Janet Jackson's boyfriend is playing Street Fighter 2 at a concessions stand at a drive-in.

Sergio Peralta: Driving Me Crazy (USA 1991) aparece el arcade de mario bros en la escena de la pelea en el bar.

Scott Heit: Arcade scenes are in Private School (Matthew Modine).

stabo10: I remember there was an arcade featured in this fantasy time period version of Titus (USA 1999). If I remember correctly, it had some pretty obscure games.

George Quintero: In the 1984 movie "No Small Affair" with Jon Cryer and Demi Moore. In the restaurant scenes,......3 ATARI Arcade Machines can be seen. "POLE POSITION"....."STAR WARS"......."CRYSTAL CASTLES".

Stephen & Karlie Cooper: The movie CopLand with Sly Stallone, he is playing a Lethal Weapon pinball at the start!

cgarner1985: In the 1989 movie Parenthood, Gil Buckman (played by Steve Martin) answer's his son's question on why the game is so difficult and Gil, groping for an answer, looks at the awning and says: "Oh, well. They're bad dudes. That's why they call the game Bad Dudes".

gregf: On to Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), around 20 minutes to 30 minutes into the movie, the family flees the house that they are staying at and drive to a cafe for temporary safety. For about 10 seconds, a Space Invaders cab and an unknown pinball table can be seen along the wall....away from a couple customers sitting at stools by the counter. Nothing else in the movie other than that scene.

Bill Esquivel: A Night in Heaven (1983): The scene starts at 1:02:22. Guy was trying to get a job in the factory. They walked though the production line. Must have been 50+ time pilots shown... It was maybe a 1 min scene.

Bill Esquivel: In The Amateur (Canada 1981) there was an old 1971 Sega astrodata fortune teller machine that the star hid CIA secrets in. A few scenes of the game about 20min in.

Bill Esquivel: In Private school (USA 1983) they had a few scenes in an arcade. The actors also spent some time playing a fake game. Not sure but I think it was middle of the movie.

Stiletto: There's an arcade in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (USA 2010)" but I haven't got a good look at all the cabinets yet. There is, however, a made-up game called "Ninja Ninja Revolution".

gregf: Strange Invaders (1983). About halfway into the movie, there's a brief scene of an arcade in NYC. The aliens, disguised as humans, are playing a Williams Star Gate upright cab and to the right of the Star Gate upright cab is supposedly an upright cab of Nintendo's Radar Scope. The only visible part of Radar Scope is the marquee piece because folks are standing in front of the monitor, control panel etc. But I am pretty certain it is the upright cab of Radar Scope which looks like what is shown on the flyer advertisement. Hopefully someone can provide frame grabs from that scene sometime later.

MASH: Jaws 3-D (1983). Arcade games at the beginning in the pub scene.

gregf: Made in U.S.A. (1987). A Lil Hustler cab is in the men's restroom in a truckstop cafe or maybe it was a bar.

B2K24: There was some custom cab it showed called Ace War in a bar type scene of Recoil (2011).

gregf: Near the middle part of the movie The Parallax View (1974), a full size upright cab of Nutting Associates Computer Space Ball is standing on a four wheel dolly in the middle of a laboratory where a scientist and a laboratory chimpanzee are playing a game of pong. The Computer Space Ball cab is missing the decal sticker that has words Space Ball printed on the decal. But it is definitely a full size upright Computer Space Ball cab.

gregf: Outlaw Blues (1977). While inside a bar in Texas and after losing money in some betting event, Susan Saint James movie character, walks over to the bar counter to rejoin a work colleague seated at the bar counter. Along the back wall of the bar are three cabs with Atari LeMans (powered on), Midway Sea Wolf (not powered on) and a Atari Stunt Cycle (not powered on).



  Here another arcade list (unknown):

  Airheads - 1995: Captain America
  Arthur - 1981: Lunar Lander?
  Arthur 2: On the Rocks - 1988: Millipede
  Bean - 1997: Ms. Pac-Man in the background in the bar scene. Possibly a Galaga next to it. Shot is too blurry to tell.
  Behind Enemy Lines - 2001: There is a mounted gun game behind a Terminator 2 pinball.
  Benchwarmers, The - 2006: Ms. Pac-Man, Gorf, Asteroids. Ms Pac-Man has additional marquee artwork on the sides so the audience can understand that it is Ms. Pac-Man
  Beneath the Valley of Ultravixens - 1979: Pong
  Better Off Dead - 1985: Punch Out! and what looks like a caberet Gorf. Sound of Ms. Pac-Man in the background . In the restaurant you can see the side of a Robotron and the back of a Pac-Man.
  Blue Velvet - 1986: Either a golf or driving game. Shot is too far away to tell.
  Bully - 2001: Mortal Kombat (not sure what version)
  Can't Buy Me Love - 1987: Afterburner II, Hang On, Rygar, Donkey Kong, Mario Bros, Asteroids Deluxe, Konami Basketball, 1942, some others.
  China O'Brien - 1990: Asteroids, maybe more
  Click - 2006: Donkey Kong, Outrun (in bar scene)
  Clockers - 1995: Virtua Fighter
  Comic Book Villains - 2002: Killer Instinct
  Don't Tell Her It's Me - 1990: Narc
  Donnie Darko - 2001: Outrun, Mach 3 (check deleted scenes in the DVD)
  Doom Generation, The - 1995: Mortal Kombat
  Eddie Macon's Run - 1983: Defender, some others
  End of the Line - 1987: Pac-Man
  Footloose - 1984: Zaxxon, Tac-Scan, Congo Bongo, Astro Fighter. When the preacher shuts off the radio, you can hear the sound of Pac-Man dying, but no Pac-Man around . In another scene, and Asteroids is being moved on a truck.
  Great Outdoors, The - 1988: Joust, Qix in pool room scene.
  Heavenly Kid, The - 1985: Pac-Man, Donkey Kong
  High School High - 1996: Rolling Thunder cabinet ("Homeroom Homicide"), Star Castle cabinet ("Classroom Carnage")
  Hollywood Zap - 1995: Arcade scene. Zaxxon, Joust
  House Arrest - 1996: Centipede
  Jekyll & Hyde... Together Again- - 1982: Pac-Man, Vanguard, Kick, "Grand Racer" (sitdown Grand Champion), Space Invaders, Tank Battalion
  Magnolia - 1999: Frogger
  Man of The House - 1995: Virtua Fighter, arcade scene (maybe more)
  Man on the Moon - 1999: Ms. Pac-Man. Player start music is played twice in a row when he is not even near the machine
  Mystic Pizza - 1988: Galaxian
  Net, The - 1995: Darkstalkers
  Next of Kin - 1989: Donkey Kong, PacMan, Front Line, Merit Trivia, BurgerTime?
  Poetic Justics - 1993: Street Fighter II Champion Edition
  Puberty Blues - 1981: Space Invaders cocktail, Speed Race (GP-5?)
  Pushing Tin - 1999: Centipede
  Red Dwarf - Afterburner
  Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins... - 1985: Asteroids - Remo and Chuin Walk by it after departing the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island.
  Russkies - 1987: Rush'n Attack
  Scanners II: The New Order - 1991: Arcade scene. Operation: Wolf, others.
  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 1978: Bandito, Shark Jaws, Sprint?
  Slacker - 1991: Vigilante?
  Something Wild - 1986: Galaga, Defender, Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Ms Pac-Man
  Soulman - 1986: Food Fight, Track & Field, more?
  Species - 1995: Centipede, Missile Command
  Spring Break - 1983: Galaga. "You need more thrust."
  Table for Five - 1983: Centipede, Asteroids?, Tempest?, Super Bug?
  Teen Wolf - 1985: Centipede
  Terminator, The - 1984: Asteroids
  Things to do in Denver when You're Dead - 1995: Virtua Fighter
  Tightrope - 1984: Ms Pac-Man in background of bar scene
  Used Cars - 1980: Space Invaders
  War Games - 1983: (from right to left, following first pan across arcade): Donkey Kong, Centipede, Frenzy, Centipede, Asteroids, Robotron 2084, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Jr., Jungle Hunt (foreground), Blue Print, Ms. Pac-Man, Tron, Satan's Hollow, Space Duel, Tutankham, Tron, Gravitar, Sub-Roc 3-D, Zaxxon, Galaga, Dig Dug
  Welcome to the Dollhouse - 1995: Buster Bros.









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