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TerdNthePoolGGB
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This topic was started years ago but I could not find it. May have been lost due to the spam attack of 2013.
I love seeing them in the movies. Had to have been tons of them on the screen back then.

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First one that comes to mind for me is Fast Times at Ridgemont High. What was Spiccoli playing?
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Not sure right off hand Pittsburghgirl.

Maximum Overdrive has a game room at a truck stop. A couple games I could recognize were Star Castle and a couple pinball, one was Night Rider

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Always loved this scene from 1983's Wargames where Matthew Broderick is playing Galaga - https://youtu.be/Byn5PIZ0q4Q .

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quote:
Originally posted by TerdNthePoolGGB:
Not sure right off hand Pittsburghgirl.

Maximum Overdrive has a game room at a truck stop. A couple games I could recognize were Star Castle and a couple pinball, one was Night Rider

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https://youtu.be/dz-bwL2AyAg -Star Castle arcade game scene from Maximum Overdrive.


https://youtu.be/D6DkKPy3Q_I - review of Star Castle arcade machine.

Never played this one terd but it looks pretty cool!


https://youtu.be/Jm2Oc2AmGm0 - Fast Times At Ridgemont High arcade scene and i'm not sure the first game that he was playing but it looks to me like Spiccoli was playing Pac-Man at one stage!

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You're good Warrior!!
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The Bishop of Battle segment starring Emilio Estevez in the 1983 Anthology film Nightmares springs to mind since nearly the whole segment takes place in an arcade.

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The Bishop of Battle Movie Clip

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Need to pick up Nightmares on the recently released Blu Ray,that was my favourite segment The Bishop Of Battle with Estevez.


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1983 T&A comedy Joysticks comes to mind as the whole thing was set around an arcade!


https://youtu.be/r86wgZ5tTPo - Joysticks intro featuring loads of well known 80s arcade games.

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And of course let's not forget Marty McFly's expertise with Wild Gunman in the Café 80s, baby's game to today's generation or not.
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Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again! (1982) includes some arcade madness.
We can see Krista Errickson playing Pac-Man and Grand Racer.

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And as you can see, she was not very good at it [Big Grin]

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Getting It On (1983) also has an arcade scene and this time the guys are playing Robby Roto!

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Strange Brew had Asteroids and Galactic Border Patrol which was actually mentioned by one of the McKenzie boys. "Heres an old Galactic Border Patrol game". plus a couple pinball machines.
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Great thread. This is obvious, but "Tron" (1982) partially takes place in a popular video arcade. I remember when those places were popular - LOL.
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Freedom (1982) includes a cool arcade scene during the opening credits. We can see Ron (Jon Blake) playing the classic Sega Monaco GP while Michael Hutchence sings the theme tune "Speed Kills".

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This is the machine.

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Scene from Bloodsport (1988) with Van Damme and Donald Gibb :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIqLkWvLRo0

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Another one I just remembered - the very underrated John Sayles film "Brother from Another Planet" (1985) starred Joe Morton as an alien who landed in NYC (Harlem). He had a "power" that enabled him to fix broken electronic equipment, and so he temporarily got a job in a video arcade fixing broken video games.

There are several great sequences in this film of video game playing - rad! LOL

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Just saw this last night, Ghostbusters. When they are upstairs at the old firehouse, there are a couple arcade games in the background. Not sure which ones they were and didn't have time to do a search yet. Thought I'd just add it to the list for now!
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Does anyone know the name of the arcade in Gremlins. It was early in the movie in the background when they were at the Christmas tree lot.
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Just looked and it looks like "RCADE" (no A) in yellow triangles with "Games" behind them. I believe I have a 4k Blu-Ray but its in my man cave so will have a look tomorrow and get a screenshot.
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quote:
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Just looked and it looks like "RCADE" (no A) in yellow triangles with "Games" behind them. I believe I have a 4k Blu-Ray but its in my man cave so will have a look tomorrow and get a screenshot.

This is what I saw when I looked again too.
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Hey. Thanks for the responses. I don't have a copy so i cant go back and rewatch . Didn't it have a name above RCADE that was unreadable? I cant remember but that's what I was thinking. Maybe im wrong. I wonder if its even real cause the town kinda looked like a fake town
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Its "Doctor Fantasy's" you can't see it when they are in the tree lot, it is obscured by a banner, it is visible when the kids are playing with snow just before but it is only visible in 4k, it's too blurred otherwise.
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You peaked my interest so I looked it up, Frank Marshall was the exec producer of Gremlins and Indiana Jones, Doctor Fantasy was his adopted name when he was doing magic shows.

https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Fantasy%27s_Magic_Caboose

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Thanks Hoff. These little behind the scene tidbits are great and are one of my favorite things about movies. Big thanks to the FASTREWIND folksfor being a big part of that also.
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Plus of course we first meet David Lightman in War Games as he shows off his prowess in the arcade--the game in question looks quite familiar, but I can't quite fully lock it down at the moment.
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quote:
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Plus of course we first meet David Lightman in War Games as he shows off his prowess in the arcade--the game in question looks quite familiar, but I can't quite fully lock it down at the moment.

One of my all time favourite movies, he was playing Galaga i believe.
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