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Arcade Machines in the Movies

October 18, 2008 by Tony 3 Comments

Forget terrible movies based on video games. Let’s look at the real stars: Upright arcade machines in the movies.

It gets even better when it’s meta: movies about an arcade game, with the arcade game in the actual movie:

(Also, note to self: go find City Hunter on DVD)

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Filed Under: Entertainment Tagged With: Arcade Machines

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  1. Rog says

    October 19, 2008 at 4:31 pm

    First movie ever with an arcade game in it– Soylent Green has a Computer Space (also the first arcade videogame).

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  2. Nat says

    October 21, 2008 at 10:57 am

    But that movie was about people? It is people.

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  3. Tony says

    October 24, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    @Rog – That is cool, I did not know that.

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