/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2500165
First thing that came to mind was the kids playing SMB3 in Beethoven. The older girl used the standard controller while the boy played with a Power Glove-despite evidently not playing in simultaneous 2-player mode--flailing around in true '90s "2 the X-treem" style.

Apparently there was a lot more authentic NES stuff in that quick shot, too.

http://dinosaurdracula.com/blog/nintendo-in-beethoven/

>>2500192
As an aside, this is the scene where the kids are too distracted by their toys to notice the villain provoking their dog outside. I love that, instead of playing with her actual St. Bernard, the little girl is playing with a St. Bernard plush.

I can't find any screenshots, but in the Julie Taymor's Titus, Demetrius and Chiron (IIRC) are briefly seen either playing or at least possessing Neo-Geo arcade cabinets. I can't speak to the intent but I think their inclusion (along with other relatively modern amusements) were supposed to indicate their depravity and lack of civility.

>>2500206
In a similar vein, Foot Clan kids are seen playing arcade games in a montage full of deviant/punk behavior in TMNT. Funnily enough, NARC ("Say NO to drugs!") gets the most explicit closeup before a Foot member offers new recruits cartons of cigarettes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh2MDHO8Bfg

Considering the format of the show, a Muppet Babies video game could be great

This movie a few but they were pretty obscure

Can't forget about the movie Beethoven and the Mario 3 scene.

>>2500165

Even in the theater I was sitting there trying to figure out how they were controlling the SoL with an Advantage.

Anyway, here's Jackie Chan trolling a handicapped child by giving him a Game Gear with no games in Rumble in the Bronx.

In Man on the Moon, Andy Kaufman is seen playing Ms. Pac-Man when he is informed of being cast in Taxi, which would have occurred in 1977-1978, several years before Ms. Pac-Man or even Pac-Man came to be. Space Invaders would have been more plausible.

Don't have a picture but i watched office spaced last night and noticed for the first time he has an n64 under his tv

TurboExpress was a major plot device in Enemy of the State., even though it was an unpopular console that had already been dead for years when the movie was released

>>2500267
>Even in the theater I was sitting there trying to figure out how they were controlling the SoL with an Advantage.

They plugged the Advantage into the mood slime, obviously. Ghost slime is capable of interpreting electronic signals and converting them to brain impulses for a statue.

It's not quite so bad anymore these days, but well into the 2000s any depiction of video games on television was still accompanied by Atari bloops and bleeps, even if they were playing like a PS2. Why is that?

there's a christmas episode of Roseanne that's basically a 25minute Super Nintendo commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB6Uj2RGhPU

>>2500327
The not-quite-right, not-quite-wrong belief that the average person/viewer was not well-versed in a "niche" hobby and either wouldn't recognize the authenticity or would more identify bleeps and bloops as video games (more modern gaming sounds could be easily confused with a movie). Copyright/licensing may have also played a role. It's comparable to a kid "watching cartoons" and hearing generic Looney Tunes-style music (and do dialog) coming from the TV, or "watching a movie" that consists of nothing but tire wheels screeching and gunshots ricocheting. They're stereotypes applied as shorthand, not meant to represent something specific--because what they're specifically watching (or playing) is rarely important to the scene.

There are countless examples of this, but I recall Spike either playing a PS2 or an X-Box on Buffy (or Angel), with Donkey Kong tunes and SFX coming out of the screen.

The kid in the movie Surf Ninjas could see into the future through a Sega Game Gear.

>>2500323

I mean the actual usage of the controls, as in what buttons did what. If you press left or right on the joystick, is she going to turn or strafe? Is A button "swing arm at building" and B "throw fireball from torch?" Did the turbo function work? That sort of thing.

If this movie had been made twenty years later they'd be using a 360 controller and I would've just assumed a Robot Alchemic Drive style setup. An Advantage, though? I'll always be curious. Maybe if he'd used a Power Pad too...

>>2500392
Serious answer: It was probably just a gag.

"Lore" answer: the Advantage probably didn't really do anything. Mood slime was demonstrated to animate inanimate objects and give them a will of their own--or rather, the will of the slime. Since the slime was "positively charged"--presumably by Ray and the other Ghostbusters--it was attuned to their will. Perhaps Ray thought the controller would provide a stronger link between his will and that of the slimed statue, and that, while any object would facilitate that link, a "controller" came to mind for Ray.

my favorite retro video game related sitcom episode (sorry no good youtube link) -

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbtcai_diffrent-strokes-5-01-shoot-out-at_fun

>>2500231
get out

>>2500418
the episode revolves around Arnold trying to beat Willis's high score in a fictional arcade game called "Space Sucker". many real retro arcade games can be seen in the background throughout the episode.

>>2500423
>You need to leave the thread because you posted something on-topic THAT I DON'T LIKE
>Also, I can't detect jokes

Steven Universe is pretty rife with retro references. Off the top of my head he has Cloud and Sanic figurines. He plays on an N64, and there was one episode with a Game Boy chiptune rave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMy1zO8m8sM

the black knight one is also in chubby's on boy meets world, but i can't find a pic.

>>2500481
forgot pic

>>2500481
there's the side of it.

there's that episode of that 70s show where red and kelso are fucking with the pong "paddles". trying to make them bigger or smaller, i don't remember.

>>2500512
same episode

>>2500327
Because it's cheaper and most shows lack a decent budget.

>>2500514
Red and Kelso modding the Pong machine to have smaller paddles.

>>2500454
That's more of a Cloud by proxy.
One of the writers on the show, Ian Jones-Quartey, used to make a webcomic called RPG World that was a sorta parody of Square games.

Famicom controller in an episode of Samurai Pizza Cats.

>>2501701
PC Engine in another episode.

"Game Boy, chocolate cake..."

>>2500501
that was fucking awesome

Did the mods like delete my posts about Mario's age? Oh well.

Like I said, Nick Arcade is aggravating yet fun. The kids did astonishingly bad but it also had a lot of new games, like Sonic 2

>>2500454

Yeah, Steven owns a N64 and a NGC. He probably has some older consoles like a SNES assuming all his consoles are from his dad.

Of course, the Game Gear makes a prominent appearance in the movie Surf Ninjas.

>>2501162
Come on man, do you even into copryright laws? It's Cloud, but changed just enough to avoid a copyright lawsuit.

>>2502041

notsureifserious.jpg

>>2501864
>tfw got a gamegear and sadly I couldnt see the future on its screen

>>2500501
Smaller. Kelso was too good so he wanted to make it more challenging.

>>2501834
Apparently some of the Nickelodeon game shows were absolute nightmares to be on. I know Legend of the Hidden Temple put those kids through a lot, I think Nick Arcade did as well.

>>2502206
I know at the time I really wanted to be on Hidden Temple. I was CERTAIN I could do a better job assembling the silver monkey than those idgits.

>>2500327
Even today's shows like Breaking Bad have stupid shit like Jesse playing RAGE with a lightgun and pretending that Sonic 06 is a racing game. (I know it's not /vr/ related but I'm using it as an example.)
Television and movies will never get video games right because the people who make them somehow still think that nobody plays them. Just look at this shit right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZboyfaVLM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbS6erL0iI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2klLy8r8Ro

At least they got rid of the Atari sound effects.

>>2500165
In one scene from 'The Net', the main character tries to hide in a carousel building that, apparently, houses a Darkstalkers arcade cabinet.

>>2501162
Oh, so that's what he's up to nowadays.

>>2502041
Unlike, say, all the other examples that are explicitly what they are and not "just different enough." Claud is not what this thread is about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGSOJlW59wY

How does shit like this happen?

>>2500249
Nobody did, idiot. Read the fucking thread before posting.

>>2500454
Might as well throw Uncle Grandpa, Adventure Time, and Regular Show in too.

>>2501707
>Superscope also

>>2502302
>>2502302
God, now I remember that god-awful scene in that god-awful movie Grown-Ups where the kids are playing what amounts to cruise-liner homicide rampage simulator 2016

T2 has heaps of arcade machines in the mall sequence

Also blank check has a kid playing some flying game on a projector screen? Can't remember.

I remember a bunch of arcade cabinets in Robocop 2. One was a Data East cabinet.

Music videos too?

In first kid i remember him playing a virtual arcade version of quake 3.

This whole movie was an elaborate video game commercial.

His family was too poor for buying him games.

unreleased sega vr helmet is used in the spike lee movie 'clockers'
cant really find a good scene of it or dealing with some french guy babbling on tho

i guess a handheld wouldn't be persuasive enough to train kids to shoot drug dealers

>>2503035
They didn't even buy him that Gameboy, he stole it from a church.

To make tings more fucked this episode came out in like 2002.

Virtua Fighter 1 popped up during a scene of X-Files. They showed the screen and everything. I think Jack Black was in the episode

Mr. Do! can be seen in the background of The Max set, and even prominently featured in Screech's publicity shot despite no apparent connection between the character and the game.

>>2503035
No one beats Sub-Zero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tXcPc1uZXY

>>2500339

>fat Norman Reedus

Famicoms and such are a dime a dozen in anime, so here's some realtalk instead.

>>2500165
I don't have a screenshot of it, but remember the kid in What About Bob is playing Tetris on a Gameboy in one scene and I remember being impressed that he was actually playing, not just holding it like a prop.

>>2500206
That movie is fucking fantastic.

Kung Fury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72RqpItxd8M

>>2507891
Way too self-aware and ironic. Ugh.

>>2502340
I was wondering as well. I use to love that web comic.