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Wow pretty much all of them are needed on my list, except for the Sopranos one I already had! The 40 Year Old Virgin One I've seen, but I think they're playing a Mortal Kombat game from after 2000. Nice additions!!

Thank you!! Lol no I'm just adding it as a reference to the original intellectual property, Super Mario Bros for NES in 1985. Movies entirely based on games I add that way, like the Super Mario Bros, Double Dragon, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat films from the 90s. Unless there's more references to other SMB games in the movie? Like I said, I haven't watched it yet. I know in the Double Dragon movie there's a scene where they're fighting around arcade games and I caught the titles of a few of the cabinets and put them as references.

@RH @Reed Rothchild @Link @Friendsfa35 @AirVillain Guys, rest assured I will be adding your submissions to the list at some point!! And I appreciate the enthusiasm! Just have been preoccupied with work, home life, etc. This is still a passion of mine that I haven't gotten around to updating in a while. Believe me, this time last year I was working on this non-stop. And there's of course a huge addition to list, a little film called "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" which ended up becoming the most financially successful video game adaptation EVER in less than a month! Lol (no spoilers, haven't watched it yet). But seriously, this list and other lists I've done on VGS mean a lot to me. Feel free to list more additions you come across and I will get them added eventually.

Thanks Casual!! Whoa, you got me there, I'm not familiar with those artists. I'll check them out. Hmm I have a few audio samples in hip hop, do you like just the vocal samples, or music/sound fx too? The Super Mario Bros. beat for Cocoa Brovaz Super Brooklyn is, in my opinion, the best flip of the sample. Sounds like they loaded every cool SMB sound effect/background music into an MPC and pushed the buttons in the most sonically pleasing way lol. Kanye West FACTS has more SFII vocal samples. Madvillain (MF Doom & Madlib) Do Not Fire! has SFII vocal samples too. Cage Grand ol' Party Crash has those eerie vocal samples from the Sinistar arcade game.

Yup the episode is called It's Only Pretendo. They were being conscious of the major role video games were having in children's lives and started the season off with the babies playfully fighting over which games to play on their TV. They also play Keith Courage in the episode

Nice!! I totally didn't come across this one. I'll add it for the next edit. There's a couple other cartoon episodes I have to get to, Futurama Raiders of the Lost Arcade and South Park Imaginationland has some video game characters. I just wanted to get this list public because I'd been holding onto it for long enough lol

Looks better to me! I'll put them on my local list, I'm not sure how soon I'll update the post but it'll be there when I do

Thank you!! Any additions of retro games are totally welcomed. Yeah that one I think I just have a video clip, I try and get as best quality screenshots as I can. I check justwatch.com to see what streaming service offers a show, and I guess NewsRadio is on FuboTV? Which I don't have lol. If your photos are better quality than the video listed I can add them to the list?

Lol my goal is to have a database to refer to whenever you watch something. There's a few sitcoms where they just get an arcade cabinet for whatever reason? They get a Pac-Man in Taxi and a Ms. Pac-Man in a later episode of Friends. Plus you got the Seinfeld Frogger episode

I watched Teen Wolf and could not find a Centipede

Yeah you're right the only other movie people mentioned between those dates was Sleeper by Woody Allen in 1973. A couple places claim Computer Space is in the movie, but I made a point of watching the whole thing through and could not find it myself.

Yeah Monster Shark I saw on this Atari Age post actually, and the OP said he saw it on MST3K lol. That's a good question, I generally tried to only include visual references because they're more fun, but MST3K does have a place in my heart and they don't usually watch movies that came up after the video game era lol. I saw a bunch of iMDB Connections with video game references on the show, I think they mention Yoshi a couple times? Are the videos of the scenes easy to find online? Because I couldn't take a screenshot. I did include one dialogue reference from Billy Madison where Adam Sandler argues with a kid whether Mortal Kombat for Genesis or Donkey Kong is the best video game ever

Oh wow this one's fun. He's playing at a Tempest cabinet, and you're right it's AD&D for Intellivision gameplay shown. But the close up of the joystick/buttons is some other arcade cabinet that I'm unfamiliar with! I'm gonna write this one up. I see Robotron: 2084, Jungle King, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Star Castle, and like you said Armor Attack in the background. I've never heard of this show before! But Bob Saget is always welcome on this list.

Does anybody recognize this side art from The Terminator (1984)? People in other lists have said its Asteroids, but I haven't found any cabinets that look like that online. Maybe it's a smaller space game I haven't come across. Also, Teen Wolf purportedly has a Centipede in it but I have to watch the whole movie through to find it couldn't find it scrubbing

Oh man, I still have a bunch of arcade games in movies I couldn't identify yet. There were A LOT of arcade games released in the early 80s

Does it work?! That's really cool, I don't own any arcade cabinets yet but when I finally go down that road I want to verify the marquees/side art/bezels in movies. Does your Computer Space Ball have the marquee below the monitor? They seemed to have removed it for the movie. Also, disclaimer, I can't guarantee it's the third one ever There may be more movies from the 70s nobody mentioned or I haven't found yet

That is totally rad. There's actually a site I found of someone who identifies vintage computers in movies called Starring the Computer. I feel like it's a preservation thing in us, and just fun to recognize retro stuff we hold close to our hearts. I especially like the listings where the game just came out the year before the movie. Like, they were really displaying the cutting edge technology for the time

50 Years of Video Games in Movies, TV and Music Welcome to my list of video game references found in movies, scripted television, and music! This is not to be considered a complete list, as it has been curated to only include material found personally interesting to me. Most notably, you will only find games released prior to the year 2000. And there are no fictitious games (think The Simpsons’ Bonestorm or The Last Starfighter) even if they look very similar to a real game. But, none-the-less it has grown to over 1600 references! Contemporary media has been included, as long as the video game referenced is retro. There’s no pinball, but there are some early mechanical arcade games and light gun games. It all started with the cameo of Computer Space in 1973’s Soylent Green and progressed into jokes of Mario Bros. threesomes and Pac-Man eating more than just fruit in bed with Ms. Pac-Man (I’m looking at you, Family Guy). As for music, the most famous video game song is probably Buckner & Garcia’s Pac-Man Fever (1982). But you might be surprised to find out how many hip hop songs include samples from game soundtracks. Or just mention games and consoles. “Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn’t picture this” - Notorious B.I.G. (1994) It’s truly remarkable how much gaming has fused with American culture since the late seventies, and progressed from a novelty to a part of everyday life. Did you know TurboGrafx-16 gameplay was featured on an episode of the Muppet Babies? Or did you know there’s an Odyssey² console in an Eminem music video? Now you do! This list was born while casually watching movies and taking notes when spotting a video game scene in the wild. It eventually progressed to actively searching for lists, videos and forum posts of people sharing references online. And I’ve tried hard, believe me, to include timestamps of scenes so those with access to the source material can easily locate them. Otherwise, movies, shows and songs based entirely on intellectual property from video games are listed as a whole piece of work. Although magazines are generally not included, I have slipped in Mad Magazine because I find their parodies to be culturally significant. Also, no game shows where they just play games nor news programs on video game mania are included. This list is primarily interested in works of art from other mediums that have incorporated video games into them. I mean, based on the cultural impact of gaming, how could they not?! The list is in chronological order by the release date of the media that is referencing. When necessary, there are arrows pointing to the game in screenshots. There are many blurry arcade cabinets in movies that can only be identified by the color and shape of the marquee artwork! The following resources have been invaluable in compiling this list: Mark Jenison at Dark Star Arcade, fage2005 on iMDB, vghchannel and Slacktory on YouTube, MAME World, Handheld Games Museum, Atari Compendium, and the Connections feature on iMDB. Submissions based on the general theme of the list are welcome!! As well as corrections. Blue is for movies, Green for television, Yellow for music and Purple for magazines. Enjoy! 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

I mean there were a couple waves of rising retro prices the last few years. There was the deep pocketed speculators from the comic book scene coming in and buying up "first editions" and such, and then there was the results of the pandemic where people were at home with lots of time and more money to spend on eBay. Your caution to the wind is the only part I take exception to lol. If you dig deep into the GME rabbit hole it is absolutely amazing the hole the short sellers have dug themselves into, as there is theorized to be millions of phantom shares, synthetic shares, IOUs or whatever you want to call it. That they had to create out of thin air to suppress the price. They have to close their short positions at some point. But you're right the graded stuff would probably be the first to interest the nouveau riche collectors, but I still have a feeling that retro collecting as a whole is gonna be hit. There's only a finite number of PHYSICAL retro collectibles, Nintendo isn't going to manufacture any more NES games. And when you have an army of collectors buying it up and hoarding it, having no need to sell or "flip", then honestly I'm glad I've established my collection thus far. Lol. Time will tell, but I just had to get this thought out before it happens.

I have a question that's been on my mind for a while, and I'm not sure if this is the right audience for it, but here goes. I've been following the GameStop "meme stock" saga since January 2021 and it's evolved into an intense anticipation for the GameStop NFT marketplace to launch. I'm not here to debate whether the squeeze will happen, or whether NFTs are dumb, but I have this theory that game prices would probably dramatically rise if (hypothetically) the GameStop ticker price skyrockets and there is an army of new millionaires who are video game enthusiasts. Even if those with new money aren't particularly retro gaming fans, if you have the money to spend why not go through the whole catalog of gaming history and buy it all up? Another part to this theory of mine is the eventuality of the new GameStop NFT marketplace launching. GameStop has announced it will be live before the close of Q2, which for GameStop is July 31st. As you're probably aware, the GameStop motto is Power to the Players. The new marketplace motto is Power to the Players, Power to the Creators, Power to the Collectors. There is already a pretty noteworthy collector culture in the NFT world today, mostly silly JPEGs and GIFs that are considered high art by some. But what if NFT collectors with deep pockets aim their sights at physical gaming collectibles? The NFT marketplace is currently live as beta and there is speculation that some HEAVY hitters are involved. Microsoft already announced around Oct 2020 that they are entering into a "multi year" partnership with GameStop. There are a couple Easter Eggs pointing to the possibility of Nintendo and Sony too, although they are very subtle. A huge problem with modern digital games thus far has been the issue of selling them! I've seen people trying to sell their used PS3, Xbox 360, etc. and say "there's 30 games downloaded to the hard drive", but you can't sell those games! They are tied to your account. If digital gaming ownership is transferred to the blockchain and all your Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo games could be sold on some sort of... NFT marketplace?? Then the world of gaming just drastically changed. So that takes me back to my question, would retro gaming prices of PHYSICAL collectibles rise if, hypothetically, the GameStop squeeze is squoze and there are a bunch of rich gamers, NFT enthusiasts, and digital game owners running around? (MOASS = Mother of All Short Squeezes)

Aww thanks fellas!! @Jeevan @drxandy

I'll take it! PMing

Just found some good prices on Sega paper

I was watching the movie The Wrestler again the other day and remembered the fictional game Wrestle Jam they play in one scene. I looked it up some on google and found this Kotaku article that's referenced a bunch and posts on other video game forums asking about its availability. I thought if any obsessed NES fan had found it, it would probably be on VGS! It sounds from the article like there's no NES ROM for it, it seems to have been programmed on a PC and mapped to an original NES controller for them to play during the scene. It's said to be a fully playable demo with an intro screen, soundtrack, and 8 different wrestling moves. There's also the 8-bit soundtrack to the game uploaded to YouTube by the composer. Anyone have any more info, or contacted the programmers?

Yes that's fine