Video Game Appearances In Film - A Community Compilation Project

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#301  Edited By Ste_Roids

-I remember Gears Of War being played in the first episode of Chuck.
-Also, Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen were playing Mortal Kombat: Deception in The 40 Year Old Virgin.  
-Simon Pegg and Nick Frost played TimeSplitters 2 in Shaun Of The Dead.
-You could see some people playing a Hitman game in an apartment, in the Hitman film.
-In Role Models, Ronnie and some dude play Fifa 09(?) at a party.
-World of Warcraft, GTA Chinatown Wars, CoD: World At War and Guitar Hero have all been in South Park.
-Rock Band is played in Paul Blart Mall Cop.
-Super Mario Bros 3 was in The Wizard (most obvious reference here).
 
That's all I can think of right now!

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#302  Edited By Yanngc33

Gears of War in the Hurt Locker
Burnout 3 in Die Welle

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#303  Edited By mike

Just caught a glimpse of a SNES in Empire Records!



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#304  Edited By Ben99

family guy where peter plays MW2 at Villa at the end of the episode Quagmire < ?  yells "you suck"

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#305  Edited By Ben99
@bwooduhs said:
" @foggel said:

" Age of Conan in the Big Bang Theory. Hilarious xD

   

 
 
 
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they play Rock Band in an episode too. "
And WOW where Sheldon's account is hacked 
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#306  Edited By dirkfunk

Anyone mention Tecmo Bowl in Cool as Ice yet? Best movie ever.

The little brother plays it, if I remember correctly.

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#307  Edited By jkuc316

I think Uncharted was in Death at a Funeral

Pretty sure Gears was in Terminator:Sarah Connor Chronicles though.

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#308  Edited By WoodenPlatypus


In ZombieLand Im sure hes playing WoW when the girl from next door knocks.

Apologies is someone has already said it. Hunting for screenshots now :)

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#309  Edited By luckyelf22

Fabulous 

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#310  Edited By Yanngc33

Ms Pac-man appears in the Hangover Part 2

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#311  Edited By misclet

guitar freaks and other games in lost in translation 

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#312  Edited By FrazzleDazzle

I don't think this really counts but hey ho - I'm an avid watcher of 'The Apprentice', a television show that we have over here in the UK (not sure whether you'll have heard of it).  Anyway two episodes in a row they randomly used sections of music from The Sims 3 and Fable ..... very out of place but weirdly it kinda worked!!! 

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#313  Edited By sexymangod

Not sure if this counts but they are a good band, in the new Manchester Orchestra music video for "Simple Math" a OG grey brick Gameboy appears twice in the beginning   

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Someone may have mentioned this, but Charlie's Angels infamously featured Final Fantasy 8, where two kids were playing it at the same time, hammering on the buttons in a battle sequence of the game.

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#315  Edited By Marino  Staff

In the opening scene of The Color of Money, Tom Cruise is shown playing Stocker in the pool hall. I don't think that's a real game, but there is a TRON machine right next to it.

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#316  Edited By OrkHammer007

Sorry if someone already mentioned it (I tried to read all 16 pages... really, I did), but the convenience store in "Grosse Pointe Blank" has a "Doom II" cabinet (and the clerk plays it while listening to "Ace Of Spades" by Motorhead in one scene).

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#317  Edited By Questionable
@TheKidNixon said:

Good old TV product placement: 

That video is set to private
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#318  Edited By Yanngc33

Terrible movies incoming:
Just Go With It: Adam Sandler's fake kids bribe him into buying a PS3 and PS3 controllers are seen in later scenes.
Hop: E.B. the talking easter bunny plays Celebrity Skin on expert drums in RockBand 2.
Couples Retreat: the entire movie more or less centers around Guitar Hero. Vince Vaugn's character is the creator of Guitar Hero and at one point, he duels a hotel staff member at Guitar Hero so he can get to the singles island.

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#319  Edited By cosi83

DS in Outrage (Japan)
Arcades in Juliet in Love (Hong Kong)

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#320  Edited By joey

In the newest episode of Breaking Bad, Jesse plays Sonic All Star Racing.

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#321  Edited By Yanngc33

The smurfs: the smurfs are seen playing Guitar Hero.
Bridesmaids: while the girls discuss where the bachelorette party will happen, Bulletstorm can be seen being played in the baclground on 360.
Iron Man: while Tony Stark watches the news about tereorists killing people with his weapons, a wii can be seen under the bottom left corner of the tv.

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#322  Edited By Branthog

Doom is in the first part of the 1999 Jessica Alba movie PUNKS. It's the scene where the son is at his dad's work lab playing it on the company's "super computers" or something absurd.

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#323  Edited By Yanngc33

They play Wii in Horrible Bosses

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#324  Edited By DevWil

two characters play fake Wii Boxing together (with real Wii Remotes, but obviously not real game audio) in Another Earth. good flick, imo.

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#325  Edited By kortex

Breaking Bad: s02e07 - Jesse plays Rage (using a light gun)

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#327  Edited By Noct

@MB said:



lord_canti said:

In Mallrats   the guy was playing on a hocky game but i wouldent be able to name the actual game. ...

[more]




That was NHL All-Star Hockey for the Saturn. I'm a huge Kevin Smith fan.

As am I, and nice Avatar btw. I just saw a live performance of Jay and Silent Bob get old a few weeks ago, it was great. I've also heard Smith say that he actually wanted to use a 2d version of NHL but had to go with SEGA's because of some contract. I always assumed he meant like NHL 93 or something for Genesis. Those games were fantastic.

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#328  Edited By mewarmo990

Over Thanksgiving weekend, Edvard's butler is cooped up playing the first Halo in their dorm room in The Prince and Me.

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#329  Edited By Scott_Chaos

Not technically a "video game appearance" but there are posters for the "xbox 720" in "Real Steal" in the final fight stadium scenes.

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#331  Edited By rentfn

In How I Met Your Mother Ted goes on a date with a girl he met playing World of Warcraft.

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#332  Edited By supermonkey122

In an episode of Friends, Chandler is playing Crash Team Racing.

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#333  Edited By sarge1445

@MB said:

I thought it would be fun to start compiling a list of games that you see in movies. It could be a console sighting, an arcade cabinet, whatever.

I'll start with a couple that I have seen recently and managed to grab screen captures of. Screenshots aren't necessary to add your game sighting, but it would make the thread much cooler if you had them.

Let's just start listing them now, and maybe we can do something with the collected data a few months down the road.

If you notice posts where people don't provide screenshots and you have access to them, please PM me and I will edit them in to others' posts for you.



Missile Command (Arcade) in T2: Judgment Day (1991) The scene in the arcade where John Connor meets the Terminators for the first time. Also visible in this scene, Rampage.
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A few minutes later, Connor is seen playing the sit-down motion version of Afterburner.
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OutRun (Arcade) in Donnie Darko. (1999) at least I'm pretty sure it's OutRun...from the scene where Donnie and his girlfriend are in the arcade

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mk deception is in 40 year old virgin