Every Videogame featured in the Movies & TV Shows

An ongoing compilation of everytime a videogame is shown being played by someone in the movies and tv shows. For crowded arcade scenes, only the videogame in focus is elegible. Fake or never released videogames are ruled out.

I'm pretty sure I might have missed more so let me know in the comments.

originally conceived as a tie-in game featured in The Last Starfighter (1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE4CQYs8IyA
featured in The Princess Bride (1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiBw8nxAwcg
parodied as Grand Racer in Jekyll & Hyde... Together Again (1982) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVg8HJep5Tw
featured in Step Up (2006)
per the movie's IMDb trivia is featured in The Offspring: Huck It (2000)
per the movie's IMDb trivia is featured in Kin (2018)
featured in Never Say Never Again (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVVOCtNX3mc
per the movie's IMDb trivia is featured in Querelle (1982)
featured in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ktoPd4iLYc
per the serie's IMDb trivia is featured in The Walking Dead (2010)
featured in House M.D. (2004)
"The game that Adam is playing on his PlayStation Portable is Frogger: Helmet Chaos (2005)"
featured in Hard To Hold (1984)
per the movie's IMDb trivia is featured in Knight Moves (1992)
featured in the Music Video "You Got Lucky" by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1982) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLpZWNyM0I
per the movie's IMDb trivia is featured in Firestarter (1984)
featured in Ferris Buellers Day Off (1986) and Bloodsport (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqquqPshrTY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIpKa9JttTw
per the movie's IMDb trivia is featured in The Break-Up (2005)
a modified version featured in Back to the Future II (1989) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWiiSNmujg
featured in Lost in Translation (2003) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4AI6Z5FZMY
featured in We Need to talk about Kevin (2011) https://images.static-bluray.com/reviews/5748_4.jpg
featured in Eddie Macon's Run (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwtZZSAAbq8
featured in The Color of Money (1986)
per the movie's IMDb trivia is featured in Box of Moonlight (1996)
featured in Paranormal Xperience 3D (2011) from the film's ImdB trivia: Belén's mobile phone is a Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and the racing game she's playing on campus is "Asphalt 6".
featured in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG519KJgwiw
featured in Airplane (1980) https://youtu.be/Kv1oUrlQLjg
featured in The Karate Kid (1984) https://youtu.be/f3qhPBCH5Jc
per the movie's IMDb trivia is featured in Assassin(s) (1997)
per the serie's IMDb trivia is featured in Dexter (2006)
featured in Lost in Translation (2003) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4AI6Z5FZMY
per the serie's IMDb trivia is featured in Rules of Engagement (2007)
featured in Aftersun (2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1WsTILYnvI (not the clip I was looking for but it checks out, sort of...)
featured in Cannonball Run II (1984) http://www.ataritimes.com/index.php?ArticleIDX=70
per the serie's IMDb trivia is featured in Dark Matter (2015)
per the movie's IMDb trivia is featured in Die Welle (2008)

MDK

featured in The X-Files (1993) as per IMDB's series trivia
per IMDb's movie trivia featured in Disturbia (2007) & In Their Skin (2012)
per the serie's IMDb trivia is featured in The Goldbergs (2013)
featured in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) https://evil-ed.de/images/Grafik_Reviews/chrischi/f1304-04.jpg
featured in The Big Bang Theory (2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6frDzsaTMA
per the movie's IMDb trivia is featured in Boyhood (2014)
per the movie's IMDb trivia featured in Hot Summer Nights (2017) and The Boys Club (1996)
featured in The Walking Dead (2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVN3lSbDnqM
featured in Night of the Comet (1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0HOZH2W8fU
featured in Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Imdb movie's trivia states that the game is being played | 10 minutes into the movie is featured in Mysterious Skin (2004)
featured in 8-bit Christmas (2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJJhZfX3ufU
early prototype featured in Hackers (1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATlszssL-eI
per the movie's IMDb trivia is featured in Troop Beverly Hills (1989)
featured in Never Say Never Again (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVVOCtNX3mc
featured in Louder than Bombs (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQGJYscP6k8
featured in The Sopranos (1999) "AJ is seen playing the game moments before the FBI begin their raid of the Soprano household"
per the movie's IMDb trivia is featured in Charlie Bartlett (2007)
featured in House of Cards (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJYLZagjxk
featured in The Big Bang Theory (2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmCPnCSGkz4 | featured in Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO7uGyGXxVk
featured in Fast X (2023), Dom's son and Mia are seen playing it

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