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)
First movie ever with an arcade game in it– Soylent Green has a Computer Space (also the first arcade videogame).
But that movie was about people? It is people.
@Rog – That is cool, I did not know that.